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The Memphis News | almanac City Council Delays Nonprofit Alliance APRIL 5-11 Sales Tax Hike Votes To Hold Conference This week in Memphis history: Memphis City Council members The Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence delayed until their first meeting in July is holding its Eighth Annual Alliance for >>>>> 1993: U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Sr. was acquitted of final votes on an ordinance setting a late Nonprofit Excellence Conference on May all federal bank fraud charges in the dramatic con- summer or fall referendum on a citywide 1 at Temple Israel. clusion to his second trial on the charges in three sales tax hike and a resolution designating The conference will feature national years. The jury foreman read the not guilty verdicts what the revenue will be used for. nonprofit experts, who will speak on a on 18 counts and on the final count, Ford embraced The latest delay for both measures range of topics. his oldest son, Harold Ford Jr. Co-defendants Doug- means the city will be into the new fiscal The conference will cover Guidestar’s FORD las Beaty and Karl Schledwitz were also acquitted year that begins July 1 before the sales tax influence on charitable investments, of all charges by the jury in a case that began with the collapse of the hike would take effect if it is approved for understanding donor-advised funds, Butcher bank empire in 1983. the ballot and if city voters approve it on choosing foundation priorities, and how the ballot. to have tough conversations with founda- >>>>> 1973: Memphis Mayor Wyeth Chandler presented a city budget pro- The delay complicates plans to use tions. posal to the Memphis City Council totaling $121.7 million, a 14.6 percent $20 million of the estimated $47 million Keynote speaker Pat Brandes, execu- increase from the previous budget. in revenue from the half percent sales tax tive director of the Barr Foundation, will hike to roll back the city property tax rate speak on networking for nonprofits. The Memphis Hunter-Jumper Classic Horse Show opened at the by 20 cents. Shelby County Equestrian Center. Council member Shea Flinn, who proposed both measures, moved for the >>>>> 1968: An estimated 20,000 people held a silent march to City Hall delay the same day that city Finance Holiday Deli Opens four days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King’s Director Brian Collins told the council it Horn Lake Store widow and his children joined the march at Main and Beale Streets with might take 14 cents added to the current several thousand National Guardsmen lining both sides of Main with city property tax rate of $3.11 to generate Holiday Deli & Ham has opened its bayonets fixed. “How many men must die before we can have a free the same amount of revenue as the cur- fifth store – which also happens to be its and true and peaceful society?” she asked outside City Hall. “How long rent tax rate does. largest – in Horn Lake. will it take?” Source: “Hellhound On His Trail” by Hampton Sides. The 14 cents on the rate amounts The nearly 5,600-square-foot store to $14 million in lost revenue from the is located at 749 W. Goodman Road, and 1942: “The Courtship of Andy Hardy” starring Mickey Rooney was at recent property reappraisal in which it’s open seven days a week for breakfast, >>>>> Loew’s Palace movie theater while “Spooks Run Wild” with Bela Lugosi city and county government are dealing lunch and dinner. and the East End Kids played The Strand. for the first time with a reappraisal that It has a drive-thru and carry-out park- shows existing tax rates producing less ing, as well as free WiFi. revenue instead of more. Holiday Deli co-founder Trey Jordan
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said opening the store in Horn Lake repre- partisan dispute over whether to expand Trezevant Students Join the group undertaking the center, said the sented an attempt to grow the company’s Medicaid under the health law that Presi- Frayser Earth Day Cleanup next step is to assess how much renova- presence in the broader Memphis area. dent Barack Obama signed in 2010. tion the structure will need. Democrats wanted Medicaid expan- Trezevant High School students will The house, built in 1912, was home to sion, but Republican leaders said the state join members of Leadership Memphis’ the blues artist known as Memphis Slim can’t afford it. 2013 executive class to clean garbage as well as his family. A fallen tree heavily Mississippi Lawmakers and debris from a vacant lot in Frayser to damaged the small house and last year Finish 2013 Session celebrate Earth Day. was lifted out so repairs could begin. The joint effort will give Trezevant stu- In other action, the council approved The Mississippi Legislature has ended Memphis Farmers Market dents an opportunity to improve the local a planned development for the Casablan- its three-month session. Returns Downtown environment and foster pride in their ca restaurant at 2250 Central Ave. at New The House and Senate adjourned community. The cleanup also is part of York Street. The current building will be Thursday after finishing last-minute busi- It’s opening week for the Memphis Leadership Trezevant’s school-wide effort demolished for a new structure. ness, including confirmation of several Farmers Market, which returns for its new to improve academic success. The council also approved a Budget nominees to lead agencies and serve on season this Saturday at the Central Station Rent-A-Car business at Poplar Avenue and state regulatory boards. Pavilion. Racine Drive in East Memphis as well as a Lawmakers approved most of a $5.5 There will be music with JoJo Jefferies, used car lot and car wash at 1674 Delano billion budget for fiscal 2014. authors Paul and Angela Knipple sign- Council Approves Rehab Road in Frayser at the corner of Delano But, they will have to return for a ing their book “The World in a Skillet,” Of Memphis Slim House and North Watkins Street. special session before July 1 to keep the plus the usual – fresh flowers and greens, Medicaid program alive and to put money handmade goat cheese, salads, side The Memphis City Council approved into it. dishes, baked goods, local roasted coffee Tuesday, April 2, a special use permit for Many state agencies have to be reau- and more. converting the old Memphis Slim house Charter School Authorizer thorized every few years, and Medicaid Hours will be from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 1130 College St. at McLemore Avenue Bill Passes House Panel was up for review this session. and the farmers market is open Saturdays in Soulsville into a neighborhood arts The reauthorization failed amid a through October. center. Eric Robertson of Community Lift, A measure that would create a special
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panel to authorize charter school applica- that examined MLGW’s use of women- voting by the commission, defeating state national sales manager, with territory tions for failing schools is advancing in and minority-owned businesses. Sen. Jim Kyle. responsibilities in the Washington mar- the state Legislature. Registration will begin at 11:15 a.m., Kyle appeared to have the seven votes ket. A hospitality industry veteran, Pope The measure was approved on a voice with lunch running from 11:30 a.m. to 1 to become judge of the first ballot when has worked in hotel operations and sales vote in the House Budget Subcommit- p.m. The cost is $25 for NAWBO mem- Commissioner Walter Bailey changed management positions at several Mem- tee on Wednesday. The companion bill bers, $30 for nonmembers and $35 for his vote for attorney and former County phis-area properties. is awaiting a vote in the Senate Finance onsite registration. Commissioner Julian Bolton to Kyle. But Marshall Thompson has joined The Committee. when Bailey changed his vote for Kyle, Peabody Memphis as national sales Currently local school boards decide Commissioner Steve Mulroy changed his manager. whether to authorize a charter applica- vote for Kyle to an abstention, leaving Thompson will have territory respon- tion. There are 48 charter schools in Wine Bill Stalls in Senate Kyle one vote short. sibilities in the Washington, Maryland Tennessee. Finance Committee and Virginia markets. Under the new legislation, the nine- He comes to Memphis from Florida, member panel would be appointed by the Legislation to allow wine to be sold where he was director of sales and mar- governor and speakers of the House and in Tennessee supermarkets and conve- The Peabody Names keting at the International Palms Resort & Senate. nience stores has hit another road block. Additions, Promotions Conference Center in Orlando. Failing, or priority, schools would ap- Members of the Senate Finance Com- ply directly to the panel. There are about mittee voted 5-5 on Tuesday to keep the The Peabody Memphis has made a 80 failing schools. measure from advancing. The vote came few additions to and promotions within All other schools would follow the after House leaders said they didn’t want its sales department. AutoZone Announces normal process of applying to the school to reconsider the companion bill that Angus Blair, a long-time Peabody Marketing Vice President district, then the State Board of Education earlier failed by a single vote. associate, has been promoted to direc- if turned down. Republican Senate sponsor Bill Ketron tor of revenue management, where he is Albert Saltiel has joined AutoZone Inc. of Murfreesboro has said he wants to get charged with driving overall revenue and as senior vice president of marketing and the bill out of the committee in case the forecasting future business. customer satisfaction. situation changes in the House. Blair has worked at The Peabody Saltiel comes to the Memphis-based Rocketfuel Moves Into Both Republican and Democratic Memphis since 2003 and held manage- auto parts giant from Navistar Interna- New Office Space Senate members of the Republican-spon- ment positions in several departments. tional Corp., where he was chief market- sored bill said they didn’t see a need for Prissy Dulaney has been promoted to ing officer. The Memphis-based Web design com- it to advance if the House doesn’t plan to associate director of sales. Prior to joining He also has worked with Sony Elec- pany Rocketfuel has moved into a new bring it up again. The Peabody Memphis as sales manager tronics as general manager for marketing space at 88 Union Ave. in 2008, she held similar sales positions and with Ford Motor Co., where he held Rocketfuel packed, moved, unpacked at several other hotels and resorts in the multiple marketing roles. and settled in last week to the space on South. Saltiel will report to AutoZone chair- the seventh floor of 88 Union Ave. And al- Haslam: ‘Major Problem’ Donna Pope has been appointed man, president and CEO Bill Rhodes. ready, the company has launched several With Senate Nominees Bill new websites for clients. From an email the company sent to Republican Gov. Bill Haslam says he its distribution list this week: “We love our has a “major problem” with a bill seek- new office space and hope you will, too. ing to give state lawmakers the power to Feel free to drop by anytime during busi- select nominees to the U.S. Senate. ness hours to check it out.” The governor said he objects to elimi- nating primary elections to decide the Republican and Democratic nominees for the U.S. Senate. He told reporters on Baker Donelson Taps Biggs Monday in Nashville that he would “very For Economic Dev. Team strongly” consider a veto of the measure. The bill sponsored by Sen. Frank Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell Niceley of Strawberry Plains and fellow & Berkowitz PC has tapped attorney Lodie Republican Rep. Harry Brooks of Knox- Biggs to be the new chair of the firm’s ville has been put on hold until the final economic development team. Senate calendar. Biggs is a shareholder in the firm’s Niceley says the bill is an effort to Memphis office and frequently represents return to the system closer to the direct companies locating or expanding within appointments that were in place before Tennessee and other jurisdictions. He the adoption of the 17th Amendment to also helps companies in negotiating and the U.S. Constitution in 1913. securing tax and other economic devel- opment incentives for their investments in the community. As chair of the economic development Kathleen Gomes Named team, Biggs will oversee 21 attorneys Probate Court Judge across Baker Donelson’s 18 offices. Attorney Kathleen Gomes was ap- pointed Monday, April 1, by the Shelby County Commission as the new Probate Women Business Lunch Court judge. She will fill the vacancy cre- To be Held April 9 ated by the pending retirement of Judge Robert Benham. A panel of businesswomen will share Benham has delayed his retirement successes and challenges as part of a dis- pending his ongoing hearing on the cussion on “How to Get the Job Done as a custody of the children of slain Memphis Woman CEO” at the National Association Police officer Martoiya Lang. The hear- of Women Business Owners monthly lun- ing was under way at the Shelby County cheon of its Memphis chapter next week. Courthouse Monday as the commission The event will be held April 9 at the considered his replacement a block away. Friday at 7:00pm WKNO Chickasaw Country Club, 3395 Galloway Gomes will serve through August 2014 Friday at 7:30pm WKNO2 Ave. Following the discussion, a represen- when the winner of a full eight-year term tative from Memphis Light, Gas and Water in the August 2014 elections takes office. Sunday at 8:30am WKNO Division will present the results of a study Gomes won on the second round of www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 5
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Haslam Appropriates Funds The free clinic is held on the second chase itineraries to more than 97 destina- The concept includes such issues as For Cash Grants Plan Saturday of each month. tions in one transaction. food deserts and how elected bodies ap- Southwest has said it plans to offer proach planning differently in some parts Gov. Bill Haslam is rolling out his ap- Southwest service at Memphis Interna- of cities. propriations bill, which includes nearly tional Airport later this year. Agyeman’s keynote speech will be fol- $45 million to increase the amount of Trustmark Buys Branches “It’s a great interim solution, espe- lowed by a panel discussion on the Shelby grants available to companies looking to From SOUTHBank cially in Memphis, until we can introduce County Mid South Greenprint Initiative. invest in Tennessee. Southwest service later this year,” said The legislation allows the state to Trustmark National Bank has inked a Chris Mainz, a spokesman for the airline. provide Fast Track grants for retrofitting, branch purchase and assumption agree- Southwest acquired AirTran in May relocation, office upgrades or temporary ment to acquire two branches of SOUTH- 2011 in a $1 billion cash-and-stock deal. On Location Festival space for companies investing in Tennes- Bank to serve the Oxford, Miss., market. Set for Late April see. The agreement reflects the assump- The state has appropriated more than tion of about $11.8 million in deposit The 14th annual On Location: Mem- $200 million to the program over the last accounts and the purchase of branch Planning, Zoning Event phis International Film & Music Fest will three budget years and Haslam proposed offices. To Feature Agyeman be held at the end of the month. pouring another $80 million for last year It is subject to regulatory approval and After an opening night kick off at and this year. customary closing conditions. It is expect- The 23rd Mid-South Planning and the Malco Paradiso on April 25, the film ed to be completed during the summer. Zoning Institute at the University of Mem- portion of the festival will shift to Malco’s phis will feature a keynote address by Studio on the Square the next day. Dr. Julian Agyeman, professor and chair Films are scheduled through April 28, Access to Justice Committee of the Department of Urban and Envi- and this year is shaping up to be one of Hosts Free Legal Clinic Southwest, AirTran Network ronmental Police and Planning at Tufts the most diverse festivals ever, with films Integration Complete University in Boston. screening from artists based in Memphis The Access to Justice Committee will maps The April 19 conference from 9 a.m. and around the United States, as well as hold a free legal clinic April 13 at the Nearly two years after Southwest to 2:30 p.m. at the Fogelman Executive nearly a dozen countries. Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library from Airlines Co.’s acquisition of AirTran Hold- Conference Center is presented by the In addition to the films screening at 10 a.m. to noon. ings Inc., the Dallas-based airline has fully University of Memphis graduate program Studio on the Square, a variety of musi- Volunteer attorneys will provide free integrated the two networks for flights in City and Regional Planning. cians are scheduled to perform through- legal assistance on a range of subjects to beginning April 14. Agyeman first wrote about the con- out the weekend in the theater lobby and Maps should follow the style shown below. The colors are in screensclinic of participants. the Dixon The Hughes Saturday blue Legal. LocationsCurrently, that need customers can book AirTran cept of “just sustainability” 10 years ago at the neighboring Bayou Bar and Grill Clinic is a collaborative effort of the flights in and out of Memphis, but they’ll and since then has been involved in the Restaurant. Memphis Bar Association, Memphis Area still have to connect in other cities for discussion and movement that includes The festival’s Music Showcase events white circle; state boundaries are also shown in white. Legal Services Inc., the Community Legal Southwest flights. With the completion of sustainable development in high poverty will take place at Purple Haze near Beale Center and other nonprofit organizations. the network merger, customers can pur- and neglected urban areas. Street on April 26 and April 27.
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Associate Publisher & Executive Editor James Overstreet Measure aims to hold owners more accountable Managing Editor Lance Allan Wiedower or months, Memphis Mayor A C probably won’t give accurate information. Deputy Managing Editor andy meek Wharton Jr. and the Memphis City “These are the folks who want to Eric Smith Senior Reporter Council had delayed final votes on invest some money, trying to get a quick Banking/Financial Services/Accountants, Markets & Economy, F his proposal to require the registration of return,” he said. “It goes bad. They say Associate Editor Economic Development, Small Business Kate Simone 528-5279 | [email protected] property to make it easier for the city to to heck with it, let the city take care of it. find the owners of blighted property. We cannot get service of process on them Graphic Designer & Photo Editor Sometimes the council put off the now and there are no sanctions from not Brad Johnson vote. Other times Wharton did, as he telling us who you are. Even if they leave talked with real estate agents, property two days later, that piece of paper will Graphic Designer & Illustrator Emily Morrow owners and mortgage bankers critical of allow the judge to assess penalties and the provisions. sanctions.”
Senior Production Assistant When the council approved the ordi- And in that case, the judge could tell Sandy Youngblood nance on third and final reading Tuesday, the city to demolish the structure or take April 2, both sides of the discussion got other actions now hindered in the search Production Assistant something. for the real owner. Laurie Beck jennifer JOHNSON backer REPORTER The council amended a provision in Charles Tuggle, general counsel for the ordinance that would have required First Tennessee Bank, said a cursory look Pressman Health Care/Biotech, Transportation/Distribution/Logistics, Cedric Walsh Attorneys/Courts/Civil Litigation, Nonprofits the registration of all property. What is at a late version of the registry that was 528-8622 | [email protected] left is a registry of vacant and abandoned approved by the council appeared to be Pressman property where property taxes are delin- something he could live with. Pete Mitchell quent. But he also warned that trying to When code enforcement finds viola- hold mortgage companies accountable Pressman tions, the information in the registry is runs into a legal barrier that prevents the Robert SHANNON then used to hold owners accountable in companies from intervening on property
Administrative Specialist a legal process. conditions. Marsha Payne Most on the council agreed such a He and others from the financial sec- larger registry was too onerous and not tor said shortening the condemnation Senior Account Executive effective in and of itself in fighting blight, process and changing state laws would be Janice Jenkins DON WADE which Wharton has made a major initia- more effective in battling blight. SPORTS COLUMNIST tive of his administration. “I think it will create another bu- Account Executive reaucracy,” said Hunt Campbell of First Lucy Blackmon [email protected] The broader registry would have involved information on a property tax Alliance Bank. Advertising Director form with the Shelby County Assessor’s Steve Lockwood, head of the Frayser Don Fancher office responsible for keeping the updated Community Development Corp., also de- registry after city employees entered the fended the need for such a registry saying Business Development Manager information in a database. it has been effective in other cities with Patricia McKinney Council members questioned the the provisions. expense to the city and whether most tax- “I do think it will bring people to the Director of Marketing & Circulation Donna Waggener payers, in the case where their mortgage table,” he said. companies pay the taxes, would overlook Wharton’s early anti-blight efforts as Production/Distribution Manager the new part of the tax form and then find Memphis mayor involved a battery of at- John Buescher LANCE MURPHEY PHOTOGRAPHER themselves in violation. torneys in Memphis as well as other states “When the administration says this tracking the owners through a paper trail Controller Weekly features, spot news is not going to create a bureaucracy, that and documents listing addresses. Pam Mallett [email protected] is absolutely false,” said council member “The more difficult question is when
To reach our editorial department, e-mail: Jim Strickland, the most vocal critic of the you have a corporate entity – when you [email protected] or call: 901-523-1561 registry. “There are real solutions to this have something known as a servicer who Published by: problem. This isn’t one of them.” may be operating in 50 states and chang- THE DAILY NEWS PUBLISHING CO. After the council vote, Wharton said ing names. Once we mail them one time, 193 Jefferson Avenue Memphis, TN 38103 his target isn’t the mortgage companies or they have to file saying this is who you P.O. Box 3663 property owners fallen on hard times. come after when you want to come after Memphis, TN 38173-0663 Tel: 901.523.1561 “For the first time now we do have that piece of property,” Wharton said. “It’s Fax: 901.526.5813 some sanctions for those absentee prop- not a panacea but at least it opens the www.memphisdailynews.com The Daily News is supportive, including in some case being on the boards of, the following erty owners that do not register,” he said. door.” The Daily News is a general interest organizations: Literacy Mid-South, Grace St. newspaper covering business, law, Luke's Episcopal School, Wolf River Conservancy, “Once we find them now, we are able to Strickland – who, like Wharton, is an government, and real estate and Ronald McDonald House, Great Outdoors assess penalties that go on day for day for attorney – argued the door opens on a development throughout the Memphis University, Tennessee Wildlife Federation, Temple metropolitan area. Israel, St. Jude's, St George's Independent day. brick wall that will produce the name of a The Daily News, the successor of the Daily Schools, Shelby Residential & Vocational “We didn’t have that before. This mortgage company that can’t produce the Record, The Daily Court Reporter, and The Svcs, Shelby Farms Park, Calvary & The Arts, opens the door. These are not only people name of an owner without a subpoena. Daily Court News, was founded in 1886. Bridges, Boys & Girls Club of Greater Memphis, Binghampton Development Corporation, U of who walk away from their homes. They Strickland said anyone with a computer M Journalism Dept., Chickasaw Council Boy AUDIT PENDING Scouts, Memphis Leadership Foundation, Junior are investors and nine times out of 10 can get the name of a mortgage company. Achievement, Overton Park Conservancy, The that’s what we are talking about.” In his practice, Strickland said using a Cotton Museum and WKNO. And he added he expects those own- private investigator is what it takes to find ers walking away from a bad decision the owner responsible. www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 7
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government COMMUNITY Choose901 Lessons Learned Celebrates Memphis Police influenced by previous event to keep peace First Anniversary
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ne phrase has been popping up in the lo- cal social media world with increasingly Ofrequency over the past year. Choose901. It refers to a campaign led by the civic group City Leadership, and it’s designed to do exactly what the name says. The campaign’s social media streams offer a steady drip of positivity and good news about Memphis. Thursday, March 28, offered a typical example of what the group is about. Its Facebook page was populated with things like official word of a lease being signed to reopen the Hi-Tone music venue and an encouragement for Choose 901’s audience to attend the Heart of Memphis celebration at Tiger Lane over the weekend. Other days may see the campaign post videos of someone talking about what they like about Memphis, sharing upbeat news articles or Facebook and Twitter user statuses, among other things. What’s more, on April 2 the campaign cel- ebrated its first birthday with “Choose901 Day” at the Midtown Huey’s restaurant location at 1927 Madison Ave.
Photo: Lance Murphey The celebration lasted at Huey’s from open Memphis Police used lessons learned in 1998 to deal with a Ku Klux Klan rally and counter-protestors over the weekend. until close, and in honor of Choose901 turning 1, The rally came after the Memphis City Council renamed three Confederate-themed city parks. Huey’s premiered a Choose901 T-shirt that will be on sale for the public. John Carroll, executive director of City Lead- bill dries | The Memphis News What happened in 1998 was cases a reference to the Memphis City ership, pointed to Richard Florida, a professor police dispersed a large crowd of Council’s decision in February to re- and urban researcher who’s written multiple onlookers within a block of the Klan name three Confederate-themed parks books about the so-called “creative class,” as an group that rallied on the steps of the including Nathan Bedford Forrest Park. impetus for the Choose901 project. hat happened 15 years ago courthouse. Police used nightsticks Like the 1998 rally, there were also “His theory is the only way to change a city outside the Shelby County and pepper spray after several counter references to the federal holiday hon- is to talent-cluster as many young professionals WCourthouse between the demonstrators climbed over a police oring slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin together as possible, make sure they’re connected seated figures of justice and wisdom barrier. Several windows at the 100 Luther King Jr. into the community, that they become friends, informed much of what happened N. Main building and other buildings Chief Administrative Officer have places to exhibit their passions and make a Saturday, March 30, when a different were shattered as some of the counter George Little as well as Memphis difference,” Carroll said. “And then you basically Ku Klux Klan group, the American demonstrators scattered. Mayor A C Wharton Jr. were up early kind of hold on for dear life and see how many of Knights, came to Memphis and ral- Armstrong was among the plain- Saturday to check in on the prepara- them stay in your city. lied at the other southern entrance to clothes police officers working in the tions around the courthouse as well “What we’re trying to do is help brand our city the courthouse – between the seated crowd for the 1998 rally. as the “Heart of Memphis” activities at to this demographic so that they know this is an figures of authority and liberty. There was no alternative to the the Mid-South Fairgrounds. amazing city for them to invest in and enjoy their The result was an overwhelming Klan rally in 1998. Instead those local Meanwhile, lines of sheriff's lives.” police presence, a police strategy that civil rights groups condemning the deputies and police officers in riot gear Carroll said some of his group’s own internal allowed counter protestors to only get Klan rally called on citizens to ignore greeted those who made it past the research showed that college seniors didn’t tend as close as two blocks from the Klan it without an alternative activity. It security check point at Fourth Street to associate Memphis with the idea of being a group and alternatives to a counter created a vacuum filled by the coun- leading into the counter protesters place where they could have fun or where there protest at the Mid-South Fairgrounds. ter demonstrators who breached the area two blocks from the Klan rally. were many personal and professional opportuni- “Downtown is a very complex area police barricade. At first there were less than 50 ties. to secure. You look at the size of the Fifteen years later, a different Klan people in the area and the few there “But both of those things just aren’t true,” area that we had to secure and you group, the Loyal White Knights of the were snapping pictures of officers Carroll said. “And we’re trying to rebrand Mem- look at what happened in ’98 – we Ku Klux Klan, brought a group of 60 in riot gear on the other side of the phis to that possibility. Choose901 is a campaign learned from that – allowing protes- that included the neo-Nazi group chain-link fence and on the north targeted to 21- to 27-year-olds who are looking tors to be in such close proximity of “National Socialist Movement” and side of Adams Avenue in front of the to invest in and enjoy their lives. We want those each other,” Memphis Police Director claimed to have members of Aryan Na- Magevney House. Armstrong moved people to move here. We want to show off how Toney Armstrong said after the day’s tions as well. plastic orange and white traffic barrels much fun you can have and that you can enjoy events Downtown. “We looked at this With a police truck directly in front in front of the seams of the fences as living here.” thing and turned it every which way of them and a camera in the truck bed Memphis Fire Department crews filled Choose901 currently has a staff of 10, all of we could to try to accommodate every- recording the rally, much of what the the barrels with water. whom work for City Leadership. body. The plan that we came up with speakers had to say was not audible Closer to the 1:30 p.m. scheduled The driving force of the group’s campaign is was the most efficient plan. You see except for frequent chants of “white start of the rally, the crowd within the something Downtown Memphis Commission the results of it. There are no injuries. power.” area began to grow to what Armstrong President Paul Morris recently sounded off about There is no property damage.” What was audible was in most later estimated was 1,200 people. to The Daily News. See From the Blog, Page 3. 8 April 5-11, 2013 www.thememphisnews.com
REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT
MAAR hosts its 2013 residential Housing Huddle real estate summit andy meek | The Memphis News Dr. Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors, speaks about trends in the real es- tate market at the 2013 emphis Area Association of Residential Real Estate Realtors president Regina Hub- Summit at the German- M bard got an unabashed re- town Performing Arts sponse from the crowd at the Germantown Centre. Performing Arts Centre during the real estate group’s 2013 Residential Real Estate year over year by the end Summit. of 2013. Hubbard, who has been a major con- Among Yun’s predic- tributor to the local real estate industry tions for the near future for almost two decades, said things are that will have an effect looking up for Memphis and the broader on the local real estate Memphis region when it comes to residen- and financial industries: tial real estate. he expects inflation to And when she did, a loud “woo hoo!” tick “noticeably higher” echoed through the auditorium. in 2015. That’s because at Indeed, a more subdued version of that some point, the Federal response pervaded the rest of the summit’s Reserve is expected to speakers, the featured speaker of which pull out the liquidity it’s was Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the pumped into the system National Association of Realtors. to support the economy, The Tuesday, April 2, event was spon- at which time safe haven sored in part by The Daily News, along Photo: Lance Murphey investments would be with Community Mortgage, Wells Fargo more attractive and Home Mortgage, the Tennessee Housing sale. When someone buys a home in an bers for Shelby County showed a flat interest rates would start to rise. Development Agency and the law firm of area, for example, they may spend money February compared to the same month in Yun doesn’t see that rise starting to Fearnley, Martin & McDonald PLLC. at restaurants near where they live, go to 2012. Shelby County homebuilders filed happen much this year, but he thinks it “The market has clearly turned for events in the area, pay for remodeling, 70 permits in February averaging 3,142 will in 2014. Why? the better,” Yun said. “Memphis, though, repairs and more. square feet and $222,975, according to real “One reason is good, and that’s be- is about a step slower than the rest of the Don Caylor, president of the Memphis estate information company Chandler cause the economy is growing,” he said. country. But Memphis entered the down- Area Home Builders Association, said this Reports, www.chandlerreports.com. That “Businesses are flush with cash.” turn about a step behind the rest of the year the organization is expecting bet- compared to 72 permits filed in Febru- Using a football analogy to illustrate country, too.” ter than a 20 percent increase in building ary 2012, averaging 3,520 square feet and the position of the American economy, To underscore the lift that residential starts. $294,109. though, Yun said America “has not kicked real estate can bring to the economy, Hub- Which is welcome news and puts firm- Nevertheless, MAHBA executive direc- a field goal” in years, while China is scor- bard noted that the economic multiplier ly in the rearview mirror the double-digit tor Don Glays said at the time – like Caylor ing touchdown after touchdown. The good effect of the sale of a $127,000 home is slump local homebuilders saw between is predicting – that the association is still news, he added, is that at least things are more than $45,000, the latter figure includ- 2005 and 2009. optimistic its members will see a double- moving in the right direction at the mo- ing money from costs related to the home The most recent home permit num- digit performance increase collectively ment.
HEALTH CARE & BIOTECH MED Reduces Some Employee Hours
JENNIFER JOHNSON BACKER | The Memphis News
he Regional Medical Center at local chapter of the union that represents in any funding, there is concern that the The Tennessee Hospital Association Memphis is reducing the hours of workers in the transportation and telem- hospital system could be hard hit by Gov. released a statement that said, “Tennes- Temployees who work in transporta- etry departments, said the union is also Bill Haslam’s decision not to immediately see hospitals are disappointed Governor tion, telemetry and its call center to meet carefully monitoring a possible move to participate in the federal Medicaid expan- Haslam could not get the information he its 2013 budget goals. 12-hour shifts for housekeeping staff. sion program. Haslam joins 18 other Re- needs from CMS (Centers for Medicare Angie Herron Golding, the director of “Cutting the hours of housekeeping at publican governors who also have rejected and Medicaid Services) to move forward communications and marketing for The a public hospital could be disastrous,” he the expansion. with coverage of the expansion popula- MED said staffing levels are determined by said. “I think you get more bang for your Without the expansion, the hospital tion.” department and the reduced hours are the buck when you reduce the salary of some- system could lose payments it receives The association said it supports the result of areas “significantly over budget.” one who is making six figures than workers for its high volume of uncompensated governor’s decision to ask CMS to allow No positions will be eliminated and there who are making $20,000 to $25,000 a year.” care, without any additional Medicaid him to buy private insurance through the has not been any reduction of hours or The MED is considering a move to revenue. The MED had net allowances of health insurance exchange for those who staff as an overall organization, she said. staffing plans for housekeeping that could $119.2 million in uncollectible accounts would be eligible under the expansion. It’s The MED declined to provide an estimate better adjust with volume changes, Herron for the 12-month period ended June 30, still not clear if President Barack Obama’s of how many workers will be impacted by Golding said. The MED has not made a 2012, compared to net allowances of $88.5 administration will permit states who have the cuts. decision on whether to move to 12-hour million in uncollectible accounts for the requested this option, including Arkansas Chad Johnson, executive director of shifts, which is common in health care set- same period a year earlier, according to the and Ohio, to use federal Medicaid expan- American Federation of State, County, tings. While the cuts are driven by internal hospital system’s 2012 and 2011 audited sion funds to pay the premiums of private and Municipal Employees Local 1733, the budget goals at The MED and not a decline financial statements. insurance for low-income residents. www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 9 Money&Markets Extra
The world is demanding more food worked out to about 12 acres per person flowing into the agriculture and rural Where are the opportunities? by the day, as the global population of arable land. sectors, and that should stimulate some In looking at this agricultural sector, continues to swell. That creates an We’re now closing in on 7 billion opportunities for those companies that we’re looking at farm income and what Feed the investment opportunity, says Randy people on the planet, and that works out can parlay that into earnings growth. the farmers spend money on. One of Insider Bateman. He runs Huntington’s Situs to about 1.5 acres per person. You may We know that our demographics are our largest holdings is a company called Q&A Trust mutual fund. It owns stakes in say that doesn’t mathematically work going to be slowing, we know that we Cabela’s (CAB). They sell outdoor world several companies whose profits stand out, but we’ve seen an erosion in arable have a large debt overhang. One of the equipment, firearms, fishing equipment to benefit from stronger demand for farm properties over the past decades. ways we can get through our problems and clothing. We also like Tractor Supply Title: Chief investment officer food. The fund has a five-star rating from Every year, we see a reduction in arable is through growth, and I think one of the Co. (TSCO). They’re opening a number of Huntington Morningstar. land. So there’s going to be a reduction best ways we can find that growth is of new units across the rural landscape. in supply capabilities. At the same time, through exports Also Lindsay (LNN): The drought we had What he suggests: Why agriculture? we’re seeing an increase in demand. It’s kind of funny, if you look 20 years in the Midwest the past year stimulated a Consider stocks I like to look at things that are pretty ago, all the emerging nations were cutting lot of demand for their irrigation products. tied to agriculture basic, and supply and demand goes That sounds pretty dire. their interest rates and their currencies And Terra Nitrogen (TNH). It has a back to the basics of economics. There We know there are going to be so they could sell things overseas to the great dividend yield, and it makes fertilizer is a dynamic change underway in the technological advances, productivity developed nations. Now we have the that is going to be used to try to enhance agriculture business, and it’s got legs. enhancements that will enable us to meet exact opposite: All the developed nations that productivity that we’re going to need We know that the world population is the needs of a growing population. But in are cutting their currencies so they can in order to meet growing demand. Randy Bateman growing very rapidly: In 1960, there were the meantime, we know that there’s huge start to export to the emerging nations 3 billion people on the planet, and that opportunity. There will be more money that have those favorable demographics. Answers edited for content and clarity. AP
BEHIND THE BRAND SODASTREAM (SODA) Understanding utilities Fizzy Utility stocks are surprisingly energetic When lawmakers struck a budget this year. The Dow Jones utility average is compromise that didn’t hike dividend up 13 percent, compared with the 9 percent taxes as much as had been feared, riser rise of the broader market. investors began buying utility stocks early Electric and gas companies are known this year. Mother Nature also helped. for offering solid dividends, consistent but Cold late-winter weather also increased unspectacular profits, and a service that demand for electricity and natural gas. customers need in good times and bad. Although electrifying returns might not Because of that, their stocks usually beat continue, low interest rates are likely to the market in an economic downturn but not prompt investors to stick with utilities for when the market soars. their dividend payments. SodaStream International puts variety, as well as soft drinks. the do-it-yourself in soda and The soda-making machines Lighting up The 15 stocks in the Dow Jones utility average have helped it climb 13 percent this year, but the other fizzy drinks. offer a cheaper alternative to average is roughly 8 percent below its peak in December 2007. The company was founded in buying bottled and carbonated 1991 and went public in 2010. It drinks, and they also cut down on Thursday’s YTD P/E Dividend makes home beverage carbon- waste. That’s made them a hot Ticker ratio* yield close change ation systems that can convert item with many consumers and CenterPoint Energy CNP $23.94 24% 25 3.5% regular water into the sparkling helped SodaStream ink deals to get the machines on more store NiSource NI 29.62 19 21 3.2 Thursday’s close: $48.38 shelves around the world. AES AES 12.53 17 lost money 1.3 Although it’s still a fairly new Exelon EXC 34.72 17 25 6.0 Price-earnings ratio: 22 market, SodaStream is cashing in (trailing 12 mos.) Dominion Resources D 59.49 15 112 3.8 on growing interest in the do-it- 52-week price range yourself soda trend. PG&E PCG 46.14 15 25 3.9 $28 54 Last year, the company’s NextEra Energy NEE 79.23 15 15 3.3 revenue swelled 51 percent from a American Electric Power AEP 48.66 14 19 3.9 YTD stock change: 8% year earlier to $436.3 million, while Public Service Ent. Grp. PEG 34.55 13 14 4.2 YTD S&P 500 change: 10% net income leapt nearly 60 percent to $43.9 million. Williams Cos. WMB 36.88 13 27 3.7 Market value: $987 million All told, the company sold 3.5 Duke Energy DUK 71.79 13 23 4.3 2012 revenue: $436 million million soda makers in 2012. Dow Jones utility average 13 Its shareholders also have Edison Int'l EIX 50.01 11 lost money 2.7 Avg. broker rating: some reason to feel effervescent. Southern SO 47.23 10 18 4.1 SELL HOLD BUY SodaStream’s stock is up 8 percent this year and has more Consolidated Edison ED 61.23 10 16 4.0 than doubled since its IPO. FirstEnergy FE 43.03 3 23 5.1
Source: FactSet * based on trailing 12 months’ results Jonathan Fahey, Jenni Sohn • AP Source: FactSet Data through April 4 Alex Veiga, Jenni Sohn • AP
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Disconnecting LOGISTICS Equals Richer Life
Ray’s Take Every time you go out to lunch you see it: ev- eryone’s smart phones are right there on the table, ready for texting, talking, checking emails, or some quick research. What happened to simply staying connected to the ones right there in front of you? Mobile phones, Internet connections and televi- sion cable bills are eating up an increasing amount of our paychecks. Are the rewards actually worth that substantial – and growing – investment? Many families are shelling out $200, $300 or substantially more each month to maintain all these electronic connections, which means there are many opportunities to cut costs. Have you ray & dana Brandon compared rays of wisdom your mobile plan with the actual number of minutes you use? You may not be using nearly as much as you’re paying for.
While Internet connectivity at home has become Memphis News File Photo: Lance Murphey almost a necessity, have you considered using this FedEx Corp. founder Fred Smith has been placed among an elite group of chief executives by the business system for telephone calls from your home using magazine Barron’s. He was part of a group assembled for a recent cover story titled “World’s Best CEOs.” VoIP technologies, some of which are free? This could dramatically reduce the number of minutes your cell phone eats up. You can also use your high- speed Internet to stream much of the programming on television instead of paying hefty cable bills. However, the other costs of super-connectivity should concern you, too. Face-to-face communica- Lofty Company tions provide you with much more information than any email ever can. It’s no wonder people often FedEx founder included among Barron’s list of ‘World’s Best CEOs’ misunderstand the tone of an email. They have no access to the facial expressions and body language that speak volumes. At least with your cell phone, ANDY MEEK | The Memphis News see the big picture and the details si- changes in the way consumers want you can gain some information from vocal intona- multaneously,” Waddell said. “FedEx to enjoy TV content. tion. When the human component is missing it’s requires mastery of both disciplines, FedEx, meanwhile, has respond- easy to get the wrong message. and his leadership effortlessly fuses ed to macroeconomic forces and When you spend time engaged in-person, you or creating the overnight them together. Fred also brings a other business concerns by under- learn more about the other person as well as about package-delivery business paternal nature to his relationship taking a broad restructuring that yourself. Your growth in understanding leads to Ffour decades ago, and for with the thousands of employees includes reorganizing staff, consoli- more fulfilling relationships – in business and in everything his company has done at FedEx, which creates a very loyal dating facilities and buying more your personal life. What you learn could enrich your since, FedEx Corp. founder Fred and dedicated culture.” fuel-efficient aircraft. life in more ways than one. Isn’t that worth the extra Smith has been placed among an Duncan-Williams Inc. president The company is looking to cut effort? elite group of chief executives by the Duncan Williams called Smith a annual costs $1.7 billion by 2016 business magazine Barron’s. “visionary” and “a great leader.” with buyouts that will reduce its Smith joins others like Ama- Bank of Bartlett president Harold workforce by at least 10 percent by Dana’s Take zon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, Berkshire Byrd said that although he and May 2014. The restructuring will, The Nielson Company claims that American Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet and Smith are near the same age, Byrd among other things, help compen- teens are on average sending an extraordinary Google CEO Larry Page. The group regards Smith as a hero. sate for consumers who have opted 2,779 text messages a month – each. was assembled for the cover story “Nothing was the same after for cheaper and slower shipping I would venture that if parents socked away and of the March 25 edition of Barron’s, FedEx,” Byrd said. “Fred has glob- services. invested the money we might have spent on phones titled, “World’s Best CEOs.” ally influenced every individual and In early February, a number of and data plans for our children, we could save a The article lists “why” along business for the better.” FedEx officers and managing direc- year’s college tuition for each child. with each CEO’s name and then Barron’s notes how the global tors accepted voluntary buyouts. Where teens and driving are involved, the other spells out the reasoning behind economic slump has been a drag on Thousands more were notified of potential savings is far more precious: your child’s each addition to the list. According the company’s global air network their eligibility on Feb. 15, accord- life. If we, as adults, can’t refrain from calling and to Barron’s, Smith, whose company but that FedEx Ground is on a tear ing to Alan B. Graf Jr., executive vice texting while driving, can we realistically expect a became the first in the early 1970s to at the moment. Moreover, FedEx is president and chief financial officer teen to have that kind of restraint? offer overnight delivery in the U.S., adapting, a quality that links all the of FedEx. If you’ve ever heard a kid’s phone pinging with “continues to innovate in the indus- CEOs across the diverse industries Smith has been open about that texts every 30 seconds while they try to complete try he created 42 years ago.” on the Barron’s list. process and walked investors and homework, you’ve seen the other cost of phones – When informed of Smith’s inclu- Most of the CEOs on the list are the analyst community through its distraction. sion on the Barron’s list, a handful of pushing full speed ahead on disrupt- purpose and the way it will unfold. Next time you’re looking for budget cuts, cut the Memphis business leaders who also ing their own businesses before The work never stops, and FedEx cord on kids’ cell phones. are heavily involved in local civic ef- someone else does it for them. continues to grow. FedEx Ground cial offers that may be too good to be true. forts were generally effusive in their Page’s Google, for example, has in late March broke ground for two Ray Brandon is a certified financial planner and praise of the FedEx chief. changed from a search engine-based new facilities in California, in San CEO of Brandon Financial Planning (www.bran- One of them is David Waddell, company to a more diversified en- Francisco and Fresno. donplanning.com). His wife, Dana, has a bachelor’s president and CEO of investment terprise that’s now at the vanguard They’re part of the company’s degree in finance and is a licensed clinical social firm Waddell & Associates, who said of Internet search, mobile devices, nationwide network expansion plan, worker. Contact Ray Brandon at raybrandon@bran- Smith is rare among CEOs in that cloud computing and more. which has seen 11 major hubs added donplanning.com. he’s capable of both strategic and Also on the list is Les Moonves, since 2005 as well as 500 other facili- tactical leadership. the CEO of CBS, which like all TV ties expanded or relocated around “Fred has the unique ability to companies is dealing with broad the country. www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 11
SPORTS BUSINESS LAW & THE COURTS Local Pro Bono Redbirds Put Focus On Hotline Makes Past, Present in 2013 Access Inroads BILL DRIES | The Memphis News
BILL DRIES | The Memphis News bills as “Bird Watching.” Goldberg said history. Watkins links the fire to one of the Redbirds will have fireworks after baseball’s many team curses. n the first three months of 2013, nearly every Saturday home game and block The last game ever played at 800 Tennesseans have called a toll free parties with a live band in the plaza Russwood was an exhibition game Ihotline for pro bono legal assistance, he last time the Leftfield Loonies before Friday home games. between the Chicago White Sox and the which is only about 100 fewer inquiries were heard from in Memphis, The team is also making a new effort Cleveland Indians. Indians star Rocky than the state’s online pro bono website Tleftfield was near Early Maxwell to get more fans out for weekday home Colavito walked in the sixth inning averaged over the same period. Boulevard and Central Avenue at the games, especially on Tuesdays, which and while he was on first base, Indians Both methods of seeking legal help are Mid-South Fairgrounds and they were have been branded “Twosdays” with manager Joe Gordon walked from the part of efforts by the Tennessee Supreme loony for the Memphis Chicks baseball connected promotions. dugout and told Colavito he had been Court Access to Justice Commission to team. “If somebody hits a ground-rule traded to Detroit effective immediately. improve access to free legal assistance. But one of the retro promotions the double and you’re a twin you get in for The ballpark burned that night. And Tennessee is the first state to offer Memphis Redbirds have on the summer free, things like that,” Goldberg said. One of the earliest teams to play both options. calendar for the 2013 baseball season “We’re trying to think of things we there, before it was called Russwood, “This is what everybody refers to as that opens next week is a commemora- can offer our fans during the week. was called the Turtles, possibly because the connectivity problem,” said Memphis tion of the past wave of fans for a past It’s no mystery that we do have some of the slope of the field. Watkins found attorney George T. “Buck” Lewis, chair- baseball franchise. smaller crowds on weekdays. a 1908 baseball guide that described man of the commission. “You have your “We found pictures back in the “If you want a foul ball, you get a the field as a “turtleback field” meaning resources usually in the bigger cities where Chicks days of the Leftfield Loonies. So better chance during a weekday game. it was sloped from the center to better most of the lawyers are located. But the we’re doing a Leftfield Loonies T-shirt Regardless, when we’re home it’s going drain water. people in the urban areas that because of giveaway in August,” said Adam Gold- to be great baseball.” Meanwhile, the Tim McCarver brand illness or jobs or family responsibilities berg, marketing director of the Redbirds, Memphis has a baseball lineage that that once adorned the team’s Mid-South can’t get to a lawyer’s office, they can’t get who were scheduled to open their 2013 goes back to the 19th century. Fairgrounds home could surface there to the legal clinic, they have trouble find- season Thursday, April 4, at AutoZone The history of baseball in Memphis again. ing help. … We’ve got counties where there Park. is recounted from the Turtles to the McCarver, a broadcaster and former is maybe one lawyer or two lawyers and The team will also give away Mem- Redbirds in the 2012 book “Baseball in St. Louis Cardinals catcher as well as they’re buried in criminal cases.” phis Chicks hats during the season to Memphis” by Clarence Watkins. The Memphis native (and who is report- With funding from Memphis-based honor 1970s era Chicks pitcher Charlie book can be found at Tiger Book Store edly the model for the metal cutout of International Paper Co. and the Tennessee Lea who played in the majors for the near the University of Memphis cam- the catcher facing Lea in the ballpark’s Commission on Continuing Legal Educa- Montreal Expos and Minnesota Twins. pus. plaza), is among those working with the tion and Specialization, the toll free line at Lea returned to the city after his playing Watkins, a native Memphian, even administration of Memphis Mayor A 1-888-aLEGALz or 1-888-253-4259 opened days and died in 2011. traces the Memphis game to the 19th C Wharton Jr. on a fairgrounds master in January. Lea’s unique profile as a pitcher is century at long-forgotten fields named plan. International Paper put up the major- reportedly the model for the metal cut- Olympic, Citizen, Cycle and Chickasaw The tentative plans include a set of ity of the money with a $75,000 contribu- out of a pitcher featured in the ballpark’s parks before settling in at Red Elm Bot- baseball fields on the Southern Avenue tion and the commission tapped a special plaza area at Third Street and Union tom. side of the property on what is now the fund paid by lawyers. Avenue. Red Elm Bottom became Red Elm parking lot of the Mid-South Coliseum. “Lawyers procrastinate all the time Fans who like to soak up the atmo- Park in 1896 with a wooden ballpark For more on the Redbirds, includ- and when they don’t get their (continu- sphere of baseball’s start each spring that was renamed Russwood Park in ing a look at the St. Louis Cardinals’ ing legal education) in time, they have to can came to AutoZone Park last week for 1915. Russwood burned Easter weekend potential purchase of the franchise, see pay late fees,” Lewis said. “So some of the a promotion the AAA baseball franchise 1960, a pivotal event in Memphis sports the related story on Page 28. money is coming from late fees.”
Best Practices for the Fundraising ‘Ask’ – Part Two
Fundraising provides nonprofits you and explore how you would like to be future. You will also want to cover what Be very clear and specific when asking: with the money they need to deliver on involved.” All you want from the conversa- specifically you are raising money for and “Jesse, I would like for you to make a gift their missions. When you ask others to tion is a time to meet. If Jesse says, “Oh, how the money will be used. to All In For Children. Would you be willing join you in giving you become part of the we don’t have to meet. Be prepared to com- to contribute $___?” nonprofit’s success team. Put me down for $100,” municate using emotion Pause after you ask for the gift. Do not In part one of this series we discussed you can respond with, “I and facts. Talk about what rush to fill the silence. Give Jesse time to how to prepare to solicit a gift. In this understand. Would you the organization means respond, for he will. If he says “yes,” thank column we cover setting the appointment make some time for me to you and why you are him and ask how he would like to make and what to say when asking. just the same? You might involved. his gift. If he says “no,” ask what would Here’s what we believe: asking for a want to give even more During the solicita- be the right amount at this time. If Jesse gift should be done in person whenever after we talk!” Keep the tion be sure to ask for a says this is not the right time, ask what possible. Make an appointment to talk conversation light, but MEL & Pearl shaw specific, reasonable and would be a good time. with your colleague, family member or get that appointment. FUNdraising Good Times challenging gift. Know the Regardless of the outcome, thank him friend about giving. As you prepare amount you will ask for. for his time. After the meeting, send a Let’s use an example of asking Jesse for your meeting, make sure you have It shouldn’t be too small an amount, nor thank you note. You can do it! Your non- for a gift. “Jesse, would you have time to brochures or online information you can too large. Remember to talk about the gift profit depends on you. meet with me about All In For Children? share. you made. If your gift is similar to what I am committed to working with them Practice your presentation. You will you would like your prospect to give, state Mel and Pearl Shaw are the authors of to raise money for their new programs want to talk about the organization’s his- the amount you gave and why. “The Fundraisers Guide to Soliciting Gifts” and I want to share that information with tory, current activities and vision for the Always remember to make the ask. now available at Amazon.com. 12 April 5-11, 2013 www.thememphisnews.com
ENTREPRENEURSHIP LaunchYourCity Benefits From Trip
ANDY MEEK | The Memphis News
community,” Schaffer said. “We are not Visit to San Francisco yields myriad lessons for city’s startup community taking equity in companies or requiring that they fly on us. We are providing sup- he group from works. Tentatively scheduled Francisco. port to the startup community and hoping LaunchYourCity for May is a hackathon that “We’re going to leverage these connec- to earn their loyalty, so that when they Tthat traveled to San will serve the new logistics tions we just made and local supply chain grow, we grow with them.” Francisco in March has accelerator, which LaunchY- experts,” Fowlkes said. “The people in San LaunchYourCity focuses its efforts on returned, refreshed and re- ourCity is putting together Francisco are on board, and now we need three areas: growing entrepreneurs and invigorated, ready to carry along with the Memphis to get Memphis on board.” their ideas, accelerating startup companies out what was the hoped- Bioworks Foundation. Beyond that, some of the talks between and building the ecosystem of support for goal of the trip: “There was a lot of inter- the Memphis crowd and the San Francisco resources. The West Coast trip was focused Take the lessons est in that,” said LaunchY- folks may result in some out-of-towners on the third of those goals – on learning learned and use them to ourCity co-president Andre flying in for the Memphis in May World new ways to grow the ecosystem of sup- help Memphis’ startup Fowlkes of the still-forming Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, port resources for Memphis. community scale new accelerator, one of many ele- which also happens to be around the “What we were able to accomplish was heights. ments of what’s happening time six companies are graduating out of make some in-roads in the investment LaunchYourCity is the in Memphis that was shared LaunchYourCity’s Seed Hatchery accelera- community to, first of all, get validation apex at the top of a pyra- with the investment com- tor. that our methodology and our efforts are mid comprised of entities munity on the trip. “Many Sponsors of the trip included American sound,” Fowlkes said. “When we started that focus on assembling people said we ought to do a Airlines, a-m ventures, FedEx, the Marston talking about the accelerators, what we’re mentors, accelerating hackathon. That we should Group and Baker, Donelson, Bearman, doing as far as bringing information companies, grooming get the best developers in Caldwell & Berkowitz PC. technology into the medical field and now women entrepreneurs and the country in a room with Aleda Schaffer, strategic partnerships looking at logistics, they were very inter- other similar purposes. some of the best supply chain manager for startups and small business ested in what we were doing here. And it’s Some of its representatives Image: Shutterstock professionals in the country, with American Airlines, said the airline already led to some great talks with some arranged the group’s first- put the big IT problems on a offers travel grants for select companies to angel investors from the San Francisco ever trip to the West Coast to go where they board, give them a couple of days, and see pitch to investors or to meet with a poten- area. All in all, it was a great trip. Totally haven’t gone before, which is the center of what happens. So we decided to do that.” tial new customer. worth the investment. We’re already look- Startup Inc. – Silicon Valley. Right now, a dual hackathon is sched- “It’s our goal to become the preferred ing at the next one as well as other places Tangible results already are in the uled, one in Memphis and one in San airline of entrepreneurs and the startup we need to be traveling to.”
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Presented by nonprofit sector Social Suds Brings Services To Soulsville
BILL DRIES | The Memphis News Are you working
ith a bubble machine on the realities of running a nonprofit. And one of more hours and roof, the new South Memphis the realities, he said, is a great tendency to WAlliance laundromat and re- play it safe when it comes to ideas. source center opened Wednesday, April 3, “One nonprofit comes up with an idea making less money? at 1044 S. Bellevue Blvd. and everybody else does the exact same What is being called “Social Suds” is an thing,” he said. overhaul of an old laundromat at the loca- With his novel idea, Milton got funding Mastering the Rockefeller Habits™ tion on the eastern boundary of the Souls- from the Assisi Foundation as well as U.S. ™ ville neighborhood combined with small Department of Housing and Urban De- Four Decisions Executive Workshop meeting areas and space for social services velopment through the city’s Housing and agencies to offer access to their services. Community Development division. The SMA offices are just across a small parking lot. Alliance executive director Reginald Milton came up with what at first FOR CEOS, ENTREPRENEURS, AND YOUR seems an unorthodox combination as he LEADERSHIP TEAMS watched from his offices as people came Did your company’s revenue and pro ts grow substantially to wash and dry clothes in the laundromat. last year? What are you doing differently this year? When the laundromat closed and there were plans to locate a nightclub there, the alliance bought it and he began rounding Rise above mediocrity! Invest a day with your leadership team and up the money for the project. We have a wonderful nation join the exceptional company of more than 20,000 executives who “The poor are busy people. They are but we are too focused have attended this workshop and working all the time,” Milton explained. experienced results. “They don’t have free time. Don’t stop on critical care. You have FREE them and say, ‘I need to stop you to pro- a heart attack, you could All participants will receive a copy of SPEND A DAY WITH US AND Mastering the Rockefeller Habits vide services.’” not have a heart attack in YOU WILL GAIN: But a laundromat involves about a half a better country. But when hour of wait time and Milton estimated “ 1. An understanding of the Four Decisions (Mastering the it comes to trying to help those who don’t have washers and dryers Rockefeller Habits): People, Strategy, Execution and Cash. where they live would visit a laundromat you get away from that 2. Simple actionable execution tools to improve your business an average of 32 times a year providing the McDonald’s cheeseburger, repetition needed to make prevention type we can’t do that. We’re not results right away. services work. there.” 3. An executable, quarterly plan for the next quarter and the “We have a wonderful nation but we balance of 2013, built with your team. are too focused on critical care. You have – Reginald Milton Executive director, South Memphis Alliance 4. A Team Talent Review that identi es your A, B and C a heart attack, you could not have a heart attack in a better country,” he said. “But performers, and speci c “next step” actions. when it comes to trying to help you get away from that McDonald’s cheeseburger, we can’t do that. We’re not there.” And Milton reached out to other Sponsored by Workshop presenter: The South Memphis Alliance specifi- nonprofits to become part of the services Michael Synk cally works in the area with foster children offered. On the steel folding tables of the In-Synk Aligning Strategies, Actions and Goals as well as young mothers and families with laundromat were copies of the book “Won- mentoring services and access to social der,” by R. J Palacio, signifying Literacy services. In that role, Milton said there are Mid-South is part of the effort across a times when he realizes there isn’t much the number of social issues. specific help he offers can help reverse the The book has been selected by the Reserve Today! harm already done. organization as its 2013 book of choice. http://MRHWorkshopMemphis.eventbrite.com “We try to do our very best work. But Literacy Mid-South executive director we get people we can’t help and we know Kevin Dean acknowledged the pitfalls of When & Where it,” he said. “I’m trying to teach a mother nonprofits including the challenge of sus- Thursday, April 25, 2013 how to do her checkbook when her boy- taining programs once they are launched. Holiday Inn-University of Memphis friend is beating her up when she goes “You get something started and it Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality Management home. Really, am I helping her? And I know doesn’t last,” he said. “Another thing that 3700 Central Avenue, Memphis, TN 38111 it.” organizations struggle with is meeting Milton approached the Assisi Founda- people where they are.” Your Time tion of Memphis Inc. with a draft of his Social Suds is the first of several pieces Doors open 8:00 a.m. Workshop plan written out and not expecting to get of a plan to gear services and the efforts from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Connect with Us the funding. more toward prevention as Soulsville Lunch provided. rebuilds. Across Bellevue, the site of an old “A small project could be a pain to Workshop Questions a city if it’s not working right,” he said, dairy plant has been cleared of the 1930s- For details, contact Michael Synk acknowledging a risk. “The scandal of it era structure for future construction of the at 901.488.8172 or email For additional MRH Workshop dates: failing would be terrible and it made me SMA Center of Families and Children. The at [email protected]. http://gazelles.com/mrh_workshops.html take a step back.” alliance is about to launch a capital cam- Milton has been outspoken about the paign to raise the funds for the building. 14 April 5-11, 2013 www.thememphisnews.com
AIRLINES Sammons Outlines Airport Strategic Plan
BILL DRIES | The Memphis News The empty look and feel of the Memphis International Airport terminal is a chal- lenge Jack Sammons he chairman of the Memphis- says he will address in Shelby County Airport Author- a new strategic plan for passenger service. T ity board got a view of just how devastating passenger air service cuts by Delta Air Lines have been to the airport cauldron of public this past Easter as his Delta flight landed in outrage at already Memphis. high airfares that “We were the only passenger plane went even higher as at the airport,” Jack Sammons said of his the level of air service arrival Sunday at 5 p.m. in a line of FedEx dropped. jets. “The comments from the passengers Sammons said he looking out the window burned an impres- intends to be more sion on me. It was like they had gone to the open about the good zoo and all the animals had gone. It really and bad develop- just got all over me.” ments to come. Sammons related the experience Tues- And he added day, April 2, as he talked at the Memphis Tuesday that the level Rotary Club about more aggressive efforts of Delta service “may to improve passenger service at the airport well get worse.” in an “era of change” nationally for airports “These angry cus- and airlines. Memphis News File Photo: Bob Bayne tomers are not strang- “It embarrassed me,” Sammons said. ers. They are not “We’ve got to find a new path.” in house who wakes up every morning Memphis. Sammons said communications just faces in the crowd. These people are Sammons, who became chairman of thinking about how am I going to get more is one of the areas airport leaders have our family members. They’re our friends. the Airport Authority board in January, said planes coming into Memphis with afford- handled poorly. They’re our coworkers,” said Sammons, he plans to hire an air service officer. able fares.” As Delta service has been cut the last a former Memphis City Council member “Competition is the obvious answer. The air services position is part of a two years, Sammons’ predecessor as board and city chief administrative officer. “In But it’s not easy to develop,” Sammons told “strategic plan” Sammons is unveiling that chairman, Arnold Perl, emphasized Delta’s all my years of public office, I’ve never the group of 100 at the University Club. includes a public information officer to loyalty to Memphis. He also challenged encountered an issue that hits people’s “I’m convinced this is not enough and deliver a more realistic message about the critics of Delta. buttons like frequent and affordable air plan to hire a permanent air service officer ups and downs of air travel into and out of It didn’t go over well, stoking a growing service.” www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 15
health care & biotech Christ Community Adds
To Services With Clinic JENNIFER JOHNSON BACKER | The Memphis News
Women’s health center in Midtown will allow organization to help more Memphians in need
ast year, Christ Community Health late July or early August and will provide Hill, Orange Mound, Binghampton, South those issues.” Services delivered 652 Memphis gynecological and obstetrics services to Memphis, Frayser and Midtown. The faith- Leatherwood said Christ Community Lbabies. women. About 90 percent of Christ Com- based medical provider provided health Health Services received a large donation Even with that patient volume, the munity Health’s patients live below the care services – including adult, newborn to help support the operations of the new faith-based medical organization had poverty level. and pediatric care – and dental care to Midtown health center. The clinic will to turn away about 180 patients daily Shantelle Leatherwood, practice ad- nearly 54,000 area residents in 2012. The accept TennCare, Medicare, Medicaid and because the organization’s facilities are ministrator for Christ Community Health, new Midtown women’s clinic will have the private insurance. Patients who do not stretched beyond capacity. says the new center will provide compre- capacity to treat about 4,200 patients each have insurance and qualify can pay on a In 2011, the infant mortality rate for hensive prenatal and obstetrics care that year. sliding scale. Shelby County was 9.6 per 1,000 live births, meets the psychological, physical health The Midtown women’s health center Christ Community Health will also a 35 percent decline since 2003 when the and social needs of the patients it serves. will be a collaborative effort between Fam- continue operating its Broad Street Health rate was 14.9, the highest rate in a decade. The new health center is partnering ilies Matter, Neighborhood Christian Life Center, which also is in Midtown. Despite the decline, Shelby County’s with other community groups to provide Choices and Christ Community Health. In spring 2014, the faith-based medical infant mortality rate is still well above the women with housing and career assis- Leatherwood said many of the orga- provider also will open a 19,000-square- national rate target established by the tance, parenting education, and behav- nization’s clients are dealing with mental foot medical center, dental clinic and Centers for Disease Control and Preven- ioral health services. and social issues that can become over- pharmacy in Frayser. A private donor tion through Healthy People 2020, which is “We found those factors are a great whelming during pregnancy, and that can provided funds to purchase the 4-acre six deaths per 1,000 live births. predictor of infant mortality,” Leather- endanger the health of the unborn baby. property, and federal government also To combat those figures, Christ Com- wood said. “Our hope is to provide many “These are often much more than just provided a $4.8 million grant. munity Health is opening a 4,000-square- of those services at the clinic so they don’t the physical issues,” she said. “Nothing is going to change unless we foot women’s health center in Midtown have to go other places to receive those “We want to help them deal with the change the mindset and culture,” Leather- near the intersection of Poplar Avenue and services.” social and mental issues that are impact- wood said. “We are strategically position- North Hollywood Street. Christ Community Health Services also ing them and to make sure we are giving ing ourselves to be a positive response to The new center is expected to open in has other health care centers in Hickory them the encouragement to overcome the community.”
GOVERNMENT Council Ups Ante in Auto Inspections Standoff
BILL DRIES | The Memphis News
ity funding of auto emissions the state has told them the state won’t state. It was officials with the state Depart- And he said an environmental fee inspections is still due to run out assume responsibility for the auto inspec- ment of Environment and Conservation would likely be challenged in court. Con June 30, the end of the current tions for at least a year, probably two. Until announcing the state’s decision. But coun- Flinn has met with Shelby County fiscal year at City Hall. then, the auto inspections would apply cil members were angry at Shelby County Commissioners on the issue several times And Memphis City Council members only to Memphis vehicle owners and not Mayor Mark Luttrell over the decision. to talk about a two-year transition period are considering several options, including those across the entire county. “We ought to be fired if we go back to that so far most of the commission have simply ending the inspections. The pos- Shelby County Chief Administrative our districts and tell the people that we expressed little if any interest in. sible move comes after Shelby County gov- Officer Harvey Kennedy said last month it allowed Mayor Luttrell and the state of “If the County Commission would do ernment leaders announced last month wasn’t a deal between the county and the Tennessee and all of these other deal cut- the right thing, the highest probability ters to hold Memphis hostage for another of the greatest success for the citizens of two years,” said Harold Collins. “We should Memphis is for the County Commission be fired if we agree with this.” to assume the financial liability, contract Council member Lee Harris said he is with the city to continue providing it just Tim Finnell exploring some kind of environmental fee the same way we are now for a two-year Jim Horobetz that might apply to all in Shelby County or period,” he said. only to those car owners outside Memphis. If that doesn’t happen, the political “I don’t want to be imprudent. But I standoff could intensify. It was a year ago also don’t want to be a punk,” Harris said. this month that the council voted to end How Will Healthcare Reform Affect Your Business? “My gut is I would like to do something as all funding for auto emissions inspections soon as possible.” after June 30. The level of anger among To fully understand, contact us to perform an Actuarially Certified The other possibility he is exploring is a council members this week indicated the council decision to just end auto emissions votes aren’t there to reverse the decision. inspections immediately. Council member “I think we need to strike as soon as ACA Strategic Impact Analysis Shea Flinn counseled against that, saying possible,” Harris said, which could mean it could cost the entire county in economic some kind of proposal or further council development efforts. discussion at the April 16 council session. 901.259.7999 “That is a very bad way to do it,” Flinn “At the very least we need to put a lot of [email protected] said, citing federal air quality standards. “If pressure on those county officials includ- it happens that way then you make up for ing Mayor Luttrell that just will not support www.groupbenefitsllc.com the lack of automotive inspections. It goes a measure of fairness,” he added. “If we’re to stationary sources, which is businesses.” challenged in court, so be it.” 16 April 5-11, 2013 www.thememphisnews.com
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basketball Grizzlies Guard Conley Proving Adept at Stealing the Show
DON WADE | Special to The Memphis News
he question came at Lionel Hollins Team’s all-time steals Tayshaun Prince. and-night-out punishment of the NBA as a compliment, the way many As for the game-winner … season. The results showed in his game- Tquestions after dramatic victories leader showing his “Conley made a great shot,” said Spurs winning drive. do. coach Gregg Popovich. “A lot of times in “A year or two ago I might have fallen,” The Grizzlies had just beaten the San other talents by serv- the NBA that’s what does it, decisions Conley said. “I might have been tripped Antonio Spurs, 92-90, at a rowdy FedEx- down the stretch.” up and not able to stay on my feet and not Forum on a driving layup by point guard ing as a leader on the Also, decisions made in the fire. concentrate on finishing at the rim.” Mike Conley for the team’s 50th win – ty- court and providing Which is the only way to describe Hollins’ Instead, when Conley “saw a gap,” ing the franchise record. So the coach was insistence on sticking with the 2007 first- he darted through and past Spurs guard asked to explain his team’s “resiliency.” late game heroics round draft pick amid literally years of Danny Green, taking the contact and “I don’t want to give our team any criticism. When the Grizzlies came within yet still lofting the ball high off the glass ‘extra credit.’ That’s competitive sports,” a game of the Western Conference Finals with his left hand (his strong hand) and Hollins said. “If you’re a competitor, you’re 0.6 seconds left. In fact, with 30.7 seconds two years ago, people realized Conley was through the net for the winning basket. always fighting back. If you’re a winner, to play, the Grizz were still down 3 when a “legitimate” NBA point guard. In its way, it was a perfect illustration and you have a winning attitude, that’s guard Jerryd Bayless, who scored 8 of his Now, in the post-Rudy Gay Era, Conley of how Conley got from there to here. He what you do.” 17 points in the fourth quarter, started is recognized as a complete offensive has been taking contact from the naysay- And Conley is the perfect example. His driving left. commodity – playmaker and scorer – as ers since the start. franchise-record streak of making at least “They load so much to one side of the well as a specialist at the art of the steal. “He has gotten stronger and he has one steal in 64 consecutive games also court, so I just tried to bait them,” Bayless “He’s definitely in the top 10 (point just gotten better,” Hollins said. ended this night and he cared not one bit. explained. guards),” said the Spurs’ Tony Parker, who Give an assist, too, to Bayless. Hollins “I’m happy with stealing the game and When the Spurs took the bait, Bayless ought to know. often plays the two guards together now not the ball,” Conley said, grinning. kicked the ball back out to Conley for a “He becomes a better player every even though the original plan was for And yes, this was a stolen victory – wide-open 3. He knocked it down (Conley year,” Popovich said. “He is more confi- Bayless to back up Conley at the point. even though the Spurs were without Tim scored a team-high 23 points) and the dent. He has expanded his game.” Bayless has proven a natural and aggres- Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Kawhi Leon- score was tied, 90-90. Conley worked hard to gain strength sive scorer and plays with an oversized ard. The Grizzlies’ only lead of the second “That 3-pointer was more important over the offseason to better absorb the chip on his shoulder; he was averaging half came when Conley hit that layup with than the game-winner,” said the Grizz’s possession-by-possession and night-in- 17.2 points and 4.0 assists over his last six
Vance Albitz of the Redbirds: A True Web Gem
Occasionally, the brilliance of and women wearing both baseball After playing four years at UC-San an idea is captured in its name. So it is gloves on their hands and guns on their Diego and going undrafted, Albitz with “Gloves 4 Troops,” the brainchild hips. Another shows a solider holding played two seasons of Independent of Memphis Redbirds infielder Vance his glove up and standing on a field of League baseball. Albitz. … white, surrounded by snow. There are He was a Lincoln Saltdog. In Ne- Back in November, Albitz read THE PRESS BOX pictures of the collection process, of braska. It was only slightly less remote about a deployed solider who said the DON WADE Albitz’s father, Phil, repairing the strings than playing left field in the mountains one thing he really wished he had from on a glove; of the stacks of gloves about of Afghanistan. back home was a baseball and a glove. and money for shipping, saying if there to be boxed and shipped (Albitz ran out And then a low-level Cardinals’ farm Normalcy – always the goal for soldiers was money left over use it to buy more of storage room at his parents’ house); team, the Batavia Muckdogs, had a rash in harm’s way – was a game of catch. gloves. Rawlings Sports Goods gave and of a postcard from a sergeant, of injuries to infielders at the end of the Albitz understood because as far back him a good deal, Albitz said, and the replete with a smiley face: 2011 season. They signed him. as he can remember, holidays at home Redbirds’ parent St. Louis Cardinals col- “Hey Vance, thanks for the baseball “I was playing well at the right time,” in Torrance, Calif., meant him, his older lected donations at their Winter Warm- gear. My guys snatched them up quick. he said. “I don’t want to say I got lucky, brother and father playing catch and up and helped put the word out. You’re the best, SSG Price, US Army.” but I sort of did.” having a little informal BP. Before long, Albitz’s “Gloves 4 Said Albitz: “The single best part of Now you might say he has passed “My mom’s even out there running Troops” had become a full-fledged this has been how grateful the soldiers it on. Vance Albitz: baseball’s soldier of around,” Albitz said. movement. have been. In terms of myself, my whole fortune. At first Albitz, 25, just wanted to Albitz had to halt the project, albeit family and friends back home, my girl- send a couple of used gloves – let a few temporarily, when he reported to spring friend, we all worked on it and hung out.” Don Wade is a native of Kansas City soldiers know that somebody cared. training. But by that time he had collect- If you want to contribute, Albitz says and a former feature writer for The But the idea took off and, yes, Facebook ed and sent almost 2,000 gloves to mili- by all means collect all the gloves you Kansas City Star and sports reporter for and Twitter were “huge,” Albitz said, tary bases – many of them in Afghani- can – “baby-sit them” – and check the The Commercial Appeal. His column ap- in spreading the message. Suddenly, stan. His website, www.gloves4troops. website in October for further instruc- pears weekly in The Daily News and The people were sending Albitz new gloves com, is full of pictures. One shows men tions. Meantime, Albitz has a job to do. Memphis News. www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 17
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games through the victory over the Spurs. “When (Conley) was in there with J.B., J.B. was doing all the work and Mike was just waiting for an open shot,” Hollins said. “It allows Mike to rest.” The Grizzlies still want more pro- tection for Conley and to that end they have signed veteran combo guard Keyon Dooling, who has come out of retirement. Dooling was to join the Grizzlies on their three-game road trip to the West Coast, which began with a win Wednesday at Portland. The Grizzlies are now 11-3 when Con- ley scores 20 or more points and teams are finding Conley and Bayless difficult to guard in tandem and Conley is finding he can be both the point guard who delivers the ball to Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph and the point guard who scores clutch baskets. “We needed another scorer on the perimeter,” Conley said with a shrug, sounding like just another office worker willing to take on more responsibility. “I knew once we traded Rudy, I would have to be that guy.”
Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins talks with guard Mike Conley, who has stepped up his game this season. His latest achieve- ment – scoring the tying and go-ahead baskets in a win over San Antonio. AP Photo: Danny Johnston 18 April 5-11, 2013 www.thememphisnews.com
COVER STORy
then Coping with Martin Luther King Jr.’s &now assassination 45 years later
AP Photo: Charles Kelly Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his last public appearance at the Mason Temple in Mem- phis on April 3, 1968. The following day he was assassinated on his motel balcony. Many in Memphis remember that day – and understand how it affected the city and its citizens.
Story by BILL DRIES
Jay Bailey pictured marching bands and floats when his mother told him he was going on a march. “We thought of it as a parade,” said Bailey, who was 6 years old in March 1968. “We thought of it as something fun.” The march, which took place March 28 of that year, from Clay- born Temple to City Hall by striking sanitation workers and black political leaders ended in violence. Bailey’s mother is Elsie Bailey, re- tired principal of Booker T. Washington High School and in 1968 the treasurer of the Memphis branch NAACP. His father is Shelby County Commissioner Walter Bailey, who at the time was an attorney active in a different part of the civil rights movement. “I can vividly remember when the windows started caving in,” the younger Bailey recalled of a chaotic world in which he was looking Jup at everything, from people fleeing to police officers pursuing www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 19
them to the tall build- ings on both sides of Main Street. “I can still smell the tear gas and hear those sounds as if it happened yesterday.” Forty-five years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968, Bailey is like many Memphians 50 and older with a kalei- doscope of impressions about the events of that spring that affect their view of what the city was and what it is today. “At that time, Mem- phis really was, in my opinion, at the forefront of social change,” he said. “Although we certainly were not a Berkley, Calif., or one of the cities that had breached the barriers where the black power movement was heavy, we still had some really major players here.” AP Photo: Gene Herrick Jack Sammons was I recall seeing the National Guard. A huge crowd fills the square in front of Memphis City Hall during a mass march in a bit older, a seventh They had tanks and half tracks. memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after his April 4, 1968, assassination. grader at St. Michael It looked like we were going to Catholic School in East World War III right down Summer Hall instead of the mayor greeting them front of the march – he had run to the back Memphis, with a view with bayonets,” he said of the effort by a looking for us. He walked up to that young of the city from the Avenue. In seventh grade that’s council that had its own divisions 25 years Guardsmen and pushed the bayonet out of other side of the racial pretty impressionable. My kids after the saga of 1968. her face and told the guard, ‘Don’t do that, “ “I felt rather profoundly that the coun- son.’ That’s when they found the car to get divide. hear these stories and they look “Memphis was a at me sometimes like it was cil at that time was a dysfunctional family. us in and take us out of there.” focal point,” Sammons exaggerated. But that was real.” Most of us really didn’t know each other Somewhere nearby, King himself had said as he recalled be- outside the confines of City Hall,” he said. been hustled into the back seat of another ing aware of the strike – Jack Sammons “You can’t hope that things get better in stranger’s car who happened to be driving and the larger issues City Council this community.” across Gayoso at Main Street just as the it raised. “As seventh So Sammons held a council retreat in march disintegrated. graders, we probably Atlanta and took the ensuing political heat “I have trouble understanding why our had no concept of the for the trip. current city mayor and why some others global ramifications of what was hap- same chambers, behind the same rostrum “My theory was you had to get them far who are in leadership positions are so pas- pening in our own backyard. But it was and occupy the same office space at the enough away because you were going to sive. I just don’t understand it,” Bailey said. a provocative time for young people like same City Hall that the council of 1968 piss them off if you talked about real chal- “Certainly they know the history of this myself to just question what the hell is go- used in its fateful deliberations that year. lenges,” he said. “I felt like if we could get city. They’ve been around. They’ve seen ing on here.” That council, the first of the mayor- them far enough away they couldn’t turn some of the same things I’ve seen but they And then King was shot. council form of government in Memphis, around and drive home.” see it through rose colored glasses.” “I recall seeing the National Guard,” had just taken office six weeks before the Jay Bailey has never held elected office Sammons said the assassination and Sammons said. “They had tanks and half strike began in February 1968. although he did run in the 1980s for the its legacy are still with the city. tracks. It looked like we were going to In his 2012 autobiography, Lewis Memphis City Schools board. His view “We are still paying a price perhaps World War III right down Summer Avenue. Donelson, one of the members of the of the city’s politics today against the certainly more so than Dallas is with the In seventh grade that’s pretty impression- 1968 City Council, wrote of how the three backdrop of the city in 1968 is an outsider’s JFK assassination,” he said. “That part of able. My kids hear these stories and they black members and three of the 10 white perspective. It has been formed since his town in many ways has become hallowed look at me sometimes like it was exagger- members came to the conclusion that the childhood from being around his father ground. It’s provided a teaching laboratory ated. But that was real.” council would have to mediate the labor and his uncle, retired Circuit Court Judge for generations to come. I think Memphis For Janis Fullilove, then a student at the dispute. And then they realized just as D’Army Bailey, whose own activism was has been wise to build on that rather than University of Memphis and active in the quickly that the strike was more than just a more informed by the student movement to run away from it.” movement, there were already forces keep- labor dispute. of the 1960s as opposed to the NAACP For Bailey, the assassination wasn’t a ing black and white citizens apart even Of the immediate aftermath of King’s experience or even that of King’s Southern matter of an assassin from someplace else before the windows on Main Street started assassination, Donelson wrote, “The city Christian Leadership Conference. catching up to his target from someplace breaking and the National Guard came to was in shock and racial feelings escalated. “We certainly believed in civil disobe- else in Memphis. It is inseparable from the town that spring. The strike and its bitter fruit exposed the dience, but it wasn’t necessarily the Martin problems the city had at the time, which “Memphis was such a segregated city depth and breadth of white racism in Luther King version,” Jay Bailey said of his prompted the strike that prompted King to at the time. … I couldn’t go to my prom Memphis.” family. “My orientation was more radical, come to Memphis against the initial advice because the prom was in the evening,” Still ahead was a bitter hospital strike more militant than most of the people who of most of his inner circle. she said, citing curfews much more rigidly that broke along racial lines as well as the were from Memphis and who were of my “I think that Memphis is on the cusp enforced in black sections of the city than beating death of Elton Hayes, an Or- age group.” of being able to be a great city,” Bailey in the white parts. “There was such a great ange Mound teenager, by a group of law Contributing to that orientation was said. “But we haven’t crossed the line yet divide between blacks and whites at that enforcement officers, their trial and their the violent end of the 1968 march when and part of the reason we haven’t crossed time that as you think back on it, it was in- acquittal. Bailey looked up to see Gwen Kyles, who the line is we still have not gotten beyond credulous that we even maintained some Sammons as council chairman in 1993 had been trying to lead him and her own 1968. It’s like we’re stuck in a time warp. form of civility after the assassination of actually welcomed sanitation workers who son of about the same age out of the chaos. We’re still arguing about consolidating the Dr. King.” staged the 1968 strike to City Hall as guests “There was this young Guardsmen who school system. We’re still arguing about Fullilove and Sammons would go on to of the city. put a bayonet to the throat of Gwen Kyles,” win election to City Council, and sit in the “This time they were greeted at City Bailey said. “My dad, who had been at the See King, PAGE 31 20 April 5-11, 2013 www.thememphisnews.com
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GAMING INDUSTRY House Money
ANDY MEEK | The Memphis News
Caesars Entertainment goes bold with new $1 million weekly giveaway
ike the gamblers who pace their floors, pull their levers and hover Lover their betting tables hoping for a payday, sometimes casino companies feel compelled to make uncommonly big bets of their own. Starting Saturday, April 6, Caesars Entertainment will do just that, when the company releases the name of the first Photo: Courtesy of Caesars Entertainment winner of $1 million to kick off one of the Caesars Entertainment kicked off a weekly $1 million giveaway at its threeT unica casinos at a recent Memphis Grizzlies game when richest casino promotions in history. illusionist Rob Lake made an armored truck appear out of thin air. It’s being described as one of the rich- est promotions of all time because the Harrah’s, Horseshoe and Tunica Road- Same for the Saturday after that. And billion. following Saturday, April 13, Caesars is house casinos in Tunica to award another the Saturday after that. One million dol- But Barber said last year the market drawing another name from entries at its $1 million. lars awarded each week, with no end date finished barely above $800 million in rev- for now. enue, meaning it’s seen more than $400 “We said if we’re going to make a million in revenue evaporate in recent statement, let’s make a statement like years. we’ve never made before,” said R. Scott “It was literally to the point where we Barber, Caesars Mid-South regional said, ‘We’ve got to try something new,’” president. Barber explained. The “statement” he referred to is “We’ve got to do something that can Caesars’ nationwide promotion “Million- jumpstart visitation and hopefully stimu- Nursing Job Fair aire Maker,” powered by Caesars’ Total late some revenue growth back in the Rewards program. marketplace.” April 10 • 8am- 5 pm Barber said that over the years, the Caesars preceded the promotion with gaming company’s promotions seemed a splashy event that took place in Down- to keep getting increasingly complicated town Memphis. “and frankly even confused some of us on Prior to the March 29 Memphis Griz- As a result of our continued growth to better serve our patient occasion.” zlies game, illusionist Rob Lake per- population, we currently have nursing opportunities in several areas. So Caesars wanted to make this one formed a feat on FedExForum’s outdoor Join us for a Nursing Job Fair on April 10, from 8 am - 5 pm, at simple. plaza. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, 2200 Children’s To be eligible to win, Total Rewards As a crowd of onlookers watched, he Way, Nashville, TN 37232. Interviews and offers to be made members have to swipe their Total made an armored truck appear out of on the day of the event to qualified nurses. Rewards card at a Total Rewards center thin air. at the company’s Harrah’s, Horseshoe or The point being that Caesars is mak- Roadhouse casinos in Tunica once during ing millionaires out of thin air, so it makes sense to do the same for the vessel that Current openings include: the week between 4 a.m. Sunday and 8:30 p.m. the following Saturday. delivers the cash. • Adult Emergency Services • Orthopaedic Unit Guests are entered again by playing “This is an actual guaranteed win • Burn Unit • Renal Dialysis with their Total Rewards card at those promotion,” Barber said. “It’s highly • Cardiovascular Step Down • Surgical Intensive Care Unit unusual and by far the largest promotion • Clinical Staffing Resources (SICU) casinos. • Hematology/Oncology • Transplant and General And then they wait to see if they’ll be we’ve ever run in the history of our entire • Inpatient Charge Nurses Surgery transformed into newly minted million- company.” • Myelosuppression • Trauma aires. Caesars marketing vice president Jesse • Neuro ICU • VUH Float Pool The promotion is, for Caesars, a bet Keaveny said customers don’t need to be not unlike the kind its hardiest players present to win. might undertake. “We designed this as a very simplistic To apply or learn more, visit vu.edu/nursejobs The scale of the $1 million giveaway offering,” Keaveny said. “So there are no promotion is such that Caesars hopes to gimmicks. It’s not a chance to win, it’s an Vanderbilt University is committed to principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action. attract new customers to the brand and actual winner each week.” bring back existing customers more often The company is offering to pay out the than they might otherwise play, according winnings as a lump sum or as $200,000 a to Barber. year for five years. We are Vanderbilt. Join Us. And he has some numbers to under- Caesars owns three of the nine casinos score the context. in the immediate Tunica area. Also as part Nashville, Tennessee The economic slump hit Tunica’s of the contest, the announcement of each temples of luck hard. The area’s casino week’s winner will be simulcast among market finished 2007 pulling in about $1.2 the three casinos. www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 21
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DOWNTOWN Lendermon Discusses Riverfront Access
BILL DRIES | The Memphis News
Riverfront Development president shares thoughts on WKNO-TV program “Behind the Headlines”
iverside Drive could work well if it who doesn’t think the Bluffwalk is abso- An enduring controversy not so easily Mud Island works very well for an events lost a lane of automobile traffic in lutely wonderful.” resolved is what to do with the riverfront venue, like the dragon boat races that Reach direction, says the president The initial opposition to the Bluffwalk Promenade, the area designated for were held there this past year,” he said. of the Riverfront Development Corp. included someone who camped out in a public use in perpetuity on Front Street “They are coming back this year. We hear But on-street parking on Riverside, magnolia tree. by the heirs of the founders of Memphis. about the Jimmy Buffett concert, but the also recommended by urban planner Jeff “Fortunately she was in one of the Lendermon is convinced any plan for the most people ever on Mud Island was for Speck last month, is another matter. promenade will likely be settled in court. the dragon boat races last year. It totally “I think traffic-wise, you could make And he doesn’t think the area is quite filled the space up. Riverside Drive two lanes and not cause ripe for a development plan yet anyway. “We have a number of large events a hardship on Downtown Memphis,” “I think you’re getting ready in the like that this year. We’re trying to book Benny Lendermon said on the WKNO- next two or three years to see the whole every weekend.” TV program “Behind The Headlines.” dynamics of the riverfront changing,” Long term, Lendermon said the island “I’m not sure you could put parallel Lendermon said. park needs more than a “paint up or fix parking along there … even though we “All of a sudden the promenade area up.” need parking there desperately. … Most I think you’re getting ready will look quite different to some people “Change the way it works. … Going in Memphians can’t parallel park. Half of in the next two or three who see it as it is today and not what it and dropping a million or two dollars, in Memphians probably never have paral- years to see the whole could be. I would certainly suggest to my opinion, won’t solve the problem,” he lel parked in their lives. Especially in this anyone don’t rush any decision on the said. city, parallel parking is a challenge. It just dynamics of the riverfront promenade. Its day is not here yet. Its day That includes a system of water takes so long.” changing. All of a sudden will be here.” taxis that the development corporation The program, hosted by Eric Barnes, the promenade area will Meanwhile, Mud Island River Park recently secured a federal grant to begin publisher of The Daily News, can be seen “ opens for the season on April 13. planning for. look quite different to some on The Daily News Video, www.memphis- people who see it as it is The park is among the riverfront areas It’s one way and probably the least dailynews.com. under the jurisdiction of the Riverfront expensive way of improving access to the Lendermon talked of controversies of today and not what it could Development Corp. river park, a barrier to development plans the Beale Street Landing project as well be...Its day is not here yet. The RDC operates those areas for the on the island since the park opened in as the nearby Cobblestones as something Its day will be here.” city of Memphis under a contract similar July of 1981. that “comes with the territory.” to the agreements the city has with the Another way is either a passenger or – Benny Lendermon He added that he learned a few things President, Riverfront Development Corp. Overton Park Conservancy and the Mem- auto bridge or both across the Wolf River from the controversy over construction of phis Zoo. Harbor that would have to open to ac- the Bluffwalk in the 1990s. At the time, he In the case of Mud Island, the city pro- commodate water traffic in the harbor. was city Public Works director. vides $500,000 in public funding, which “Everybody thinks they could build “One lesson is never have a public magnolia trees that wasn’t going to be was the city’s level of funding in 1999 that bridge for $5 million to $10 million,” meeting where they serve alcohol. You cut,” he said. when the agreement was made. Lendermon said. have to leave out through the back door,” “Our biggest problem is people Lendermon is preparing to announce “And every time they go to an engi- Lendermon said. “During that process wanting to cut down those trees that we a slate of concerts for the Mud Island Am- neer and an engineer looks at it, it’s $30 I lost several close friends. But after it’s actually left up there because they block phitheater for the third consecutive year million plus. … We’d love to have one built, all of a sudden people see how it views. It’s an interesting dynamic of what under the RDC. but we just don’t think we can afford $30 works. … I don’t think there’s anybody people want one day versus another.” “We’ve zeroed in on the fact that million.”
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health care & biotech Cestaro: Lab Will Be First of its Kind jennifer johnson baker | The Memphis News
riMetis president Phil Cestaro He also negotiated the sale of Site- He estimates that local companies took a year off after he resigned works to Oracle Corp., where Cestaro are exporting $3 million to $5 million Tfrom Nashville-based SCRI Global remained as director of life sciences prod- annually because the city does not have a Services at the Sarah Cannon Research uct development until he joined SCRI facility for pre-clinical research that meets Institute in 2011, where he was president. Global Services. FDA requirements. “I didn’t know how much time I was “I love building things and seeing Cestaro says the lab is a tremendous going to take off, I just knew I was going “I love building things and things grow,” Cestaro said. “I don’t get the opportunity to recruit local companies to enjoy life and my family,” he said. “It seeing things grow. I don’t Sunday night blues. This fits right into and those elsewhere in the nation when was the best decision I ever made.” get the Sunday night blues. what I love doing.” the lab opens in May. After a careful search, Cestaro took the This fits right into what I It’s been a long time since Cestaro While there are other pre-clinical re- helm of Memphis-based TriMetis about a love doing.” worked as an accountant, but he credits search facilities in academia in the region, year ago. his early days working for Blockbuster for there are a limited number of research The for-profit research company, the – Phil Cestaro sparking his entrepreneurial drive. labs that operate on a contract basis like “President, TriMetis first of its kind in Tennessee, will operate “At that time, they were buying com- TriMetis, he said. the Memphis Specialized Laboratory, a panies all over the place and I got to learn Companies can pay TriMetis a fee to $22 million, 26,000-square-foot facility a ton,” he said. “… It was that excitement conduct research using the facility’s clini- designed for pre-clinical research. that really gave me the interest and got cal workers, but they also can rent space Pre-clinical research is one of the profit organization that launched the new my creative juices going to do that type of and bring their own workers. He estimates earliest phases of the U.S. Food and Drug TriMetis research facility. work.” the lab will employ 40 to 50 employees Administration-approval process before While he started as a public accoun- Cestaro says he sees TriMetis as the when it’s fully operational. Because the pharmaceuticals and medical devices tant, Cestaro has built an expertise in perfect opportunity to take what started lab has strict security to protect intellec- can move forward in the development startup companies and clinical research as a request from the biomedical commu- tual property and to meet the FDA’s rules pipeline. consulting. nity and to turn it into a viable business. and regulations, Cestaro isn’t able to share In addition to his role as president of As chief operating officer of Siteworks The company came about to fill what information about the companies that TriMetis, Cestaro also is vice president Solutions, he grew the company from Cestaro calls a hole in Memphis’ phar- will be using the facilities when the doors of life sciences and biomedical at the a startup to a life sciences consulting maceutical and medical device research open in May. Memphis Bioworks Foundation, a non- company. industry. “When pharmaceutical and medical device companies have an idea and it’s at a stage where it’s more than a thought, we will work with that company to set a plan,” he said. AGRICULTURE TriMetis is also more than a laboratory for pre-clinical research. Cestaro wants to use his consulting background to help small and medium-sized businesses make Ag Boom Fuels Agricenter Expansions their ideas a reality. TriMetis will offer consulting in advisory, quality and regula- tory work for startup companies. andy meek | The Memphis News Startup companies frequently struggle to find capital to grow their businesses. TriMetis is unique in that the company will also fund some startup companies Bayer CropScience and Helena Chemical to invest total of $20 million through Innova, an early-stage investor that focuses on companies in the biosci- griculture is a promising business, ment included Shelby County Mayor ity to provide new technologies that will ences, technology and AgBio fields in especially considering the rapidly Mark Luttrell and Memphis Mayor A C propel farming’s future and give grow- Tennessee. Agrowing worldwide demand for Wharton Jr. ers more choices,” said Mike Gilbert, “The capital isn’t everywhere,” Cestaro food and fiber products by a ballooning The Bayer and Helena investments Bayer’s head of global breeding and trait said. “You can’t finance a business with international population. are not requiring public funding, and development. all debt anymore, and the money you are That’s the backdrop for construction they put Agricenter even further along Helena, meanwhile, is planning a getting from angel investors is much less.” that’s set to begin soon on a state-of-the- toward becoming a major agribusiness $2.2 million expansion of its Agricenter The funding for the $22 million art greenhouse and research laboratory hub, with extensive infrastructure to presence. The primary expansion will specialized TriMetis specialized labora- at Agricenter International. support the activity there. be the addition of an 8,500-square-foot tory is through a combination of public Bayer CropScience and Helena Bayer is building a $17 million green- lab used for product development and and private funding, including a state of Chemical are making investments total- house, which is expected to be finished testing. The company has 33 employees Tennessee grant, Federal New Market Tax ing almost $20 million in their respective early next year. at the facility and expects to add 20 more Credits, and local bank financing through facilities at the East Memphis center. It will feature 40,000 square feet of by 2017. First Tennessee, Memphis Bioworks Foun- Agricenter International, which sits growing space, and by incorporating Helena also is adding a 2,500-square- dation equity contributions and local next to Shelby Farms Park at Walnut automation into the design, the green- foot storage building. The two new philanthropy. Grove Road and Germantown Parkway, house will result in a 40 percent reduc- buildings will be built on a 1.5-acre Cestaro said that funding and the is the world’s largest urban farm and tion annually in natural gas and electric- parcel that Helena recently leased. continued support from the Memphis research facility. ity consumption. The existing lab and two large rooms Bioworks Foundation has been crucial to It’s another major step forward for Bayer has leased space from Agricen- used for training will be turned into establishing a network and recruiting tal- Agricenter, where about 30 businesses ter since 1992. It’s the leading cottonseed additional office space. A new training ent for TriMetis. have offices, most of which focus on company globally, and once finished, its facility will be built in the area now used He said it’s rare to be able to run a conducting research on cotton, soybeans Memphis greenhouse will allow the com- for shipping and storage. startup with so much support, which has and other crops grown on the Shelby pany to increase the number of traits Among other changes, the current allowed him to develop a business plan County-owned land. for cotton varieties in U.S. and global parking lot will be resurfaced, there will quickly and creatively. Executives from Bayer CropScience markets. be fresh paint for the entire facility and “If you want to be handed a book that and Helena Chemical were on hand at Al Balducchi, who oversees the Mem- additional landscaping. tells you how to do your job, then the the Agricenter Monday, April 1, to give a phis site for Bayer, said the expanded Collierville-based Helena Chemical is startup industry is not for you,” he said. sneak peek at the plans for both facili- facility “will be unique in its scale and a national distributor of crop production “But if you want to figure out what that ties. global reach.” inputs. It has had facilities at Agricenter book looks like, then this is the perfect job Officials on hand for the announce- “As a result, we will improve our abil- for almost 20 years. for you.” www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 23
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1520 union ave. nience by providing an additional Memphis, TN 38104 point of access for patients in the Panther Properties Buys Midtown and Downtown area.” Sale Amount: $1.3 million Sale Date: March 20, 2013 5.1 acres in east memphis Two Cordova Apartments Buyer: Baptist Memorial Medical Group Inc. Sale Amount: $4.8 million ERIC SMITH | The Memphis News Seller: Barbara Y. Newell, Ann Sale Date: March 25, 2013 Morse Woodliff, Frances Peake Buyer: Highwoods Realty LP Morse, Joseph Clinton Droke Jr., Seller: Robert F. Fogelman, Trustee
N Houston Levee Rd Levee Houston N James Clyde Droke, John William of the Robert F. Fogelman Revoca- Droke, Harvey L. Carter, Trustee ble Trust Dated September 14, 1989 of the Jane R. Carter Revocable Details: Highwoods Realty LP has Trust (under Trust Agreement bought two parcels of East Mem- dated October 13, 2000) and Joann phis land totaling about 5.1 acres Fallingwater Ln McKinley and Rodney A. McKinley, that will be used for International Co-Trustees of the Joann McKinley Paper’s headquarters expansion. Trust (under Trust Agreement dated The partnership, an affiliate April 14, 2006) of Raleigh, N.C.-based Highwoods Details: Baptist Memorial Medical Properties Inc., paid $4.8 million Group Inc. has paid $1.3 million for for part of two parcels from Robert the former U.S. Postal Service loca- F. Fogelman, Trustee of the Robert Pisgah Rd Cordova tion at 1520 Union Ave. in Midtown. F. Fogelman Revocable Trust Dated Apartments The group, an affiliate of Bap- September 14, 1989. The sale closed tist Memorial Health Care Corp., March 25. bought the 11,470-square-foot facil- Highwoods last week signed a 2350 and 2323 N. Houston Levee Road • Memphis, TN 38016 ity March 20 from a host of sellers. deal in which the real estate invest- They are listed as Barbara Y. ment trust will deliver a $56.1 mil- 2350 N. houston levee road Newell, Ann Morse Woodliff, Fran- lion build-to-suit tower for Mem- Memphis, TN 38016 ces Peake Morse, Joseph Clinton phis-based International Paper next 2323 N. houston levee road Droke Jr., James Clyde Droke, John to its campus. Memphis, TN 38016 William Droke, Harvey L. Carter, Highwoods will develop a Trustee of the Jane R. Carter Revo- 241,000-square-foot, nine-story Sale Amounts: $23.8 million; $21 million cable Trust (under Trust Agreement Class A office building with struc- Sale Date: March 22, 2013 dated October 13, 2000) and Joann tured parking. That new building Buyers: Panther Memphis/Villas LLC; Panther Memphis/Carrington LLC McKinley and Rodney A. McKinley, will sit directly across the street Sellers: Houston Levee East LLC; Houston Levee West LLC Co-Trustees of the Joann McKinley from International Paper’s world Loan Amounts: $18.6 million; $15.3 million Trust (under Trust Agreement dated headquarters and main campus, Loan Dates: March 22, 2013 April 14, 2006). and construction is expected to Maturity Date: April 6, 2023 Jason Little, executive vice presi- start in the fourth quarter, with Lenders: Redwood Commercial Mortgage Corp. dent and chief operating officer for completion by the end of the second Details: Woburn, Mass.-based Panther Properties Investment LLC has bought Baptist, was quoted in the Memphis quarter of 2015. a pair of Cordova apartment complexes – the Villas at Grays Creek and the Car- Business Journal as saying, “The The sale included two parcels. rington at Houston Levee – for a combined $44.8 million. purchase of this site demonstrates The first was part of 9.4-acre vacant Operating as Panther Memphis/Villas LLC, the private equity Class A multifam- the continued commitment of Bap- property on the east side of Inter- ily investor and developer paid $23.8 million for the 238-unit Villas at Grays Creek tist Memorial Health Care to our national Place, north of Poplar. The at 2350 N. Houston Levee Road. It bought the property – whose alternate address is community. This location will allow entire parcel has a 2013 appraised 10107 Havanese Lane – March 22 from Houston Levee East LLC. Baptist to enhance patient conve- value of $5.9 million. 24 April 5-11, 2013 www.thememphisnews.com
‘Keep The memphis Law Talk Keyhole Clean’ In a Paul Greenberg column I met the Bankruptcy Lawyer word “mitteleuropaish” for the first time. Green- berg (winner of a Pulitzer in 1969) was discussing a recently released book, “Kafka: The Office Writings.” He wrote, “A combination attorney, actuary and all- Michael Coury Joins around bureaucrat, (Kafka) seems to have carried out his duties with a combination of mitteleuro- paisch flair and German efficiency.” Since first reading Kafka in college in 1973, I’ve been a hopeless devotee Glankler Brown of all things Kafkaesque. In a short stretch I read richard j. alley | Special to The Memphis News everything written by and most everything written about him. On reading Greenberg’s piece, I made Memphis attorney moves to firm after almost joining it in 2001 a note to order the book VIC FLEMING of which he wrote. And to I SWEAR look up that long word. t’s been a long time Bartlett, as mentor. At About.com I found coming, but Michael In 1992, Coury joined that “In September 1914, … German Chancel- ICoury has made the Humphreys Dunlap Wellford lor Bethmann Hollweg created the ‘September move to Glankler Brown Acuff & Stanton before Programme’ which, … set out a grandiose plan for PLLC. eventually signing on with Waring Cox. Europe [to] be enacted if Germany was totally suc- The attorney, whose practice is in bankruptcy In the nearly 33 years cessful in the war. A system called ‘Mitteleuropa’ and creditors’ rights law, since Coury received his would be created, an economic and customs union business reorganizations, law degree, the largest and of central European lands that would be led by workouts, and business most profound change in Germany …. “… Mitteleuropa would include Ger- and commercial litigation, the practice of bankruptcy man domination of Luxembourg, Belgium and their nearly made the switch law has been in the realm Channel Ports, the Baltic and Poland from Russia, when previous firm Waring of technology, which he has and possibly parts of France.” Per another source, Cox disbanded in 2001. embraced wholeheartedly. this word A client conflict kept His wife, Cyndi, is a “has that from happening, how- computer consultant as well I Swear Crossword political, ever, and he stayed with the and “she’s usually able to try geograph- Fleming’s weekly puzzle Page 31 firm that would become to keep me on the cutting ic and Butler, Snow, O’Mara, edge.” cultural Stevens & Cannada PLLC. When he first began, meaning,” denoting both a location and the concept When an opportunity with clients were “more depen- of German domination. Glankler Brown became dent on local counsel to do But back to the gist of the talented Greenberg’s available last month, he the heavy lifting.” On the essay. “Franz Kafka,” he wrote, “who prefigured the moved his office across business bankruptcy side, existential angst of so much of modern literature, Poplar Avenue in East in some respects, he has also turns out to be Franz Kafka the bureaucrat Memphis. seen practices become more who wrote ‘Measures for Preventing Accidents from “The idea of coming regional in scope. Wood-Planing Machines’ and ‘Accident Prevention to Glankler is not a new coury “Part of this, I think, is in Quarries’.” one,” Coury said. “If things technology driven because Although educated in law, Kafka did not practice worked out right 12 years you can now file pleadings law as such in his employment at the Workman’s ago, I would have come here.” electronically over the Internet,” he Accident Insurance Institute. “The myth is that Kaf- Coury was raised in Memphis said. ka the artist was drained of time and energy by the and attended Rhodes College, where “And so, as long as you meet the demands of his day job,” Greenberg writes. He infers he graduated in 1977 with a degree in requirements of getting admitted to that Kafka was “a hard-working, realistic reformer, political science – and a fervent inter- Even when you become a court in another district, or having (whose) workaday world would seem the opposite est in the law. adept in a particular area local counsel there, you can do a of the nightmarish, surreal, illogical atmosphere he “While I was at Rhodes I took a of law, I think most of lot of work here in Memphis even summoned up in his allegories….” constitutional law class and I think though the case might be, say, in To which I would reply, “Perhaps.” I’m currently that was one of the things that got me the lawyers I know enjoy Delaware.” rereading “Conversations with Kakfa” by Gustav interested,” he said. practicing law because... Such changes, and the inherent Janouch, a poet who, in his late teens supposedly “They had some practicing every case is a little bit fluctuation and evolution of the legal spent a great deal of time in Kafka’s company and, lawyers that were part-time faculty “ profession, and the challenges that different and the clients via a fantastic memory, wrote a whole book about that would come and lecture, and it are a little bit different poses, are the reason the 57-year-old was just something I always had an Coury considered a move of firms what he learned. I don’t have the space to discuss and the problems that it in detail, but Janouch describes Kafka’s work sur- interest in.” instead of a move to retirement. roundings sufficiently to conjure up several images Laughing, he added that a sibling come up are different.” “Even when you become adept in a particular area of law, I think most in his novels and stories. And the types of cases rivalry also may have contributed to – Michael Coury he dealt with – people seeking remuneration after his three decades-long career. of the lawyers I know enjoy practicing industrial accidents – involved the confusion and “Truthfully, part of it was that law because, even though the subject lack of understanding in common folk that pervade I had a brother that was two years matter may be similar in your case Kafka’s oeuvre. I’ll conclude with this quote that older and was going to be a doctor, load, every case is a little bit different Janouch puts in Kafka’s mouth: and I decided I wanted to be different and the clients are a little bit different “Life is as infinitely great and profound as the from him,” Coury said. “One thing led to another and he and the problems that come up are different,” he said. immensity of the stars above us. One can only look After attending Vanderbilt Law ended up hiring me to be lawyer for School, he returned home to take a the trustee on that particular case,” Coury is a Fellow with the Ameri- at it through the narrow keyhole of one’s personal position with the now-defunct law Coury said. “It was the very first client can College of Bankruptcy and is the experience. But through it one perceives more firm of Laughlin, Halle, Gibson & I brought in on my own as a lawyer.” director of the Tennessee chapter of than one can see. So above all one must keep the McBride. He began cutting his teeth on the Turnaround Management As- keyhole clean.” Early in Coury’s career, he was bankruptcy law with that case that sociation. Vic Fleming is a district court judge in Little sent to attend a hearing on a bank- ended up being a rather large one at He is a past director of the Mid- Rock, Ark. Contact him at [email protected]. ruptcy case presided over by Judge the time, he said, and he still consid- South Commercial Law Institute and Freeman Marr. ers Marr, now a municipal judge in the Memphis Bar Association. www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 25
Memphis STANDOUT Bass Striking Right Chord as Curb Institute Director
RICHARD J. ALLEY | Special to The Memphis News Memphis for their respective pursuits and far since 2010. As such, Bass is charged programs. She is an audiologist now with with setting programming, administration St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and of the Institute, developing and promot- he received his master’s in jazz guitar from ing music events at the school and in the ohn Bass earned a Ph.D. in musicology Memphis before pursuing his doctorate. community. He also works with students from the University of Memphis. While working on that advanced – not through the classroom, but through J Specifically, the degree is focused degree, Bass began teaching guitar as the school’s Fellowships Initiative, explain- on 16th century music compared to mod- an adjunct professor at Rhodes College, ing that “fellowships are student experi- ern jazz pedagogy and how musicians then which doesn’t offer a degree in music, per ences that connect classroom learning might have been taught improvisation. se, yet in the liberal arts tradition students with real-world experience.” Bass oversees Where does one go with such a degree? can graduate with a Bachelor of Arts and a fellows working in research, outreach and Bass has taken it across Midtown to major, or emphasis, in music. recording. Rhodes College where he is the director “I started the modern incarnation of He has cultivated the Institute’s com- of the Mike Curb Institute for Music. The the jazz program here (at Rhodes); there munity partners, including the Levitt Shell, Curb Institute was established to preserve wasn’t a band or combos or anything when Crosstown Arts, the Blues Foundation, Stax and promote the distinct music traditions I got here,” Bass said. “The first semester I Music Academy and the Soulsville Founda- of the South, as well as research its effect was here, I literally just put up a flyer say- tion, Germantown Performing Arts Center on history, economy and social systems. ing, ‘Does anybody want to play jazz?’” and the Memphis chapter of the National What better place than Memphis, the When the Curb Institute was endowed bass Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. genesis of so much in popular music? And by Mike Curb – legendary songwriter, Nearby Cypress Middle School falls what better place for a musician from producer, record company owner and poli- into the Rhodes College Learning Corri- Mobile, Ala.? tician – in 2006, Rhodes and Bass were just semblance of a big band, and then some dor and has been adopted by the college. Bass’ father was a physician by trade beginning to broaden the scope of music smaller groups.” Rhodes students, through the Curb Insti- and also an after-hours banjo player, so instruction at the college. Still working as an adjunct, Bass wrote tute, run an after-school guitar club at the Bass grew up with music in his ears and, Nine students had responded to that grants for the Curb Institute to bring in na- middle school. eventually, a guitar in his hands. first call for musicians in 2004 at a time tional artists such as Ellis Marsalis, pianist “We have a group of five students right After a typical adolescence spent play- when it wasn’t even offered in the curricu- father of Wynton and Branford, for shows now who go over two times a week to teach ing in garage bands around town, Bass lum. and mini-residencies visiting classes and guitar lessons and mentor and just be took the not-so-typical turn of seriously “Second year, we got it put on the putting on clinics. present,” Bass said. studying jazz. His high school band direc- books as a class and started to build it “This was one of the first, big scale con- Bass and his wife have two children, tor suggested the University of Southern from there,” Bass said. “Over the course certs we did,” Bass said. Ella and Nate, both being raised in the Mississippi, where Bass majored in jazz of the years, it started to get momentum Such initiative and dedication helped musical tradition. Bass said Memphis and guitar. and to grow organically. It built to the propel him into the position as the Insti- Rhodes are a perfect fit for him and his He and his wife, Johnnie, considered point within a few years where we had the tute’s first and only full-time director so family.
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Predictability Small-Business Spotlight When I was a very young man many, many years ago, I remember being fascinated by the information on the bottom New School Media Creates Funk of the McDonald’s hamburgers signage. Of course, I didn’t know about the word signage back then. I just knew McDonald’s had really RICHARD J. ALLEY | Special to The Memphis News cool signs with golden arches and big red and white words. The words at the bottom of the sign intrigued me most. Before I tell you about those words, let me n 2007, Sean Faust and business freely admit that partner Brad Ellis came together I often overthink Iwith Memphis music icon Doug things now and Easley to create a company offering full- overthought service audio and video recording and things as a child. mixing services. It’s what future Both Faust and Easley had recording writers frequently studios that burned in 2005 and New do. We observe School Media is the Phoenix that has chris cRouch risen from those ashes. SMART STUFF the world around 4 WORK us and try to “We had all the ingredients,” Easley figure things out said of their new project. And indeed they do. Easley has re- – even McDonald’s hamburger signs. corded music heavyweights from Sonic Anyhow, back then, the bottom of the Youth and Wilco to Jack White, Loretta McDonald’s sign would give you information Lynn and Jeff Buckley. on how many hamburgers were sold. For Photo: Lance Murphey Faust earned degrees in theater and example, the sign might say, “Over 100 mil- The team of New School Media includes Adam Woodard, from left, Brad Ellis, documentary film production from Sean T. Faust, Brian Wurzburg and Doug Easley. lion sold.” Later they gave you the headcount Syracuse University, has more than on people served instead of hamburgers 15 years of experience and grew up wanted was something kind of funky dio seen on the Victory website is an sold. That took a bit of the fun out of it for me running sound with his father, saying and Memphis, and Doug was a good fit introduction to what the company and because I liked mentally picturing big stacks that his Saturday mornings were full for that because he’s kind of funky and its mission are, and is the sort of project of hamburgers more than mentally picturing of cables and amplifiers as opposed to Memphis. So we scratched that out and the New School Media team takes to crowds of people. However, to me, the most cartoons. Ellis is a writer and director that was a pretty collaborative effort heart. interesting question about the message on with 10 feature films under his belt, from our film side and our music side.” “That’s a good example of things the bottom of the sign was: How are they including “Act One,” which claimed Best The team has worked on the up- we really enjoy doing,” Faust said. “It’s a selling so many hamburgers when the ham- Narrative Feature, Hometown Award in coming Antenna Club documentary, the company profile, but it takes a different burgers they sell are not very good? I mean the 2005 Indie Memphis Film Festival. score and sound design for Alan Spear- approach.” come on – the burgers my dad cooked in the The studio is a 3,300-square-foot man’s viral “As I Am” documentary, a Easley has recorded numerous backyard were much better. Why couldn’t complex swathed in grass cloth walls, Myla Smith music video and the ongo- bands. While he concedes that the this huge company with so much money, swag lamps, retro seating and origi- ing video production of Sun Studio Ses- proliferation of home recording via an power and so-called expertise in the world of nal Lamar Sorrento artwork. To take a sions, a weekly music program shown Apple computer and expensive software hamburgers figure out how to cook a ham- tour of the facility is to walk through a on PBS affiliates across the country. can get the job done, it is Easley’s years burger any better than my dad with limited museum of vintage styles and scenery, Branding and training videos have of experience and gifted ear that make resources in our backyard? I am paraphras- ending in a top of the line, 5.1 audio been produced for the likes of General the venture worthwhile for any artist ing of course; I would not have known the mixing suite, something more akin Electric, ServiceMaster, Hilton Hotels, looking to record. word expertise at that age either. to mission control at NASA with dim Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and “A lot of bands haven’t even seen this I couldn’t figure it out, so I eventually filed lighting punctuated by bright LEDs and the Regional Medical Center at Mem- place and most of the time when they the issue in my memory banks and moved computer monitors. phis, what Woodard calls “the sausage do come in they love it, just the vibe of on to trying to figure out why “Crest was The advantage of a fine-tuned work.” it,” Woodard said. “Every musician I’ve such an effective decay preventive denti- mix of the auditory and visual under “We love doing this creative stuff, ever brought in here, they just fall in frice when used in a conscientiously applied one roof is best explained by creative but obviously we’ve got to pay the bills, love with the place.” program of oral hygiene and regular profes- director Adam Woodard, who recounts too,” Faust said. When it comes to video shoots and sional dental care” and if things actually went the producers of the popular wrestling “We make the sausage nobody production for their corporate clients, better with Coke. I apparently paid way too documentary “Memphis Heat” coming wants to see us make,” added Woodard, their advantage is a network of freelanc- much attention to advertising in my wonder to New School Media (nsmedia.com). “but it keeps the lights on and gives ers and subcontractors at hand, allow- years. And then I had children. “Sean had done scores for film us the opportunity to do a lot more ing them to scale up or down depending Parents deal with so much unpredictabil- before, and they came to us needing a creative stuff.” on the clients’ needs so that overhead ity that they begin to hunger for predictabil- soundtrack,” Woodard said. “What they A video for Victory Bicycle Stu- and costs are kept as low as possible. ity – nay I say long for it! And McDonalds was highly predictable. They may not offer the best burger around, but they offer the most predictable burger around. And everything else about McDonalds was highly predict- able. If you deserve a break today – all you have to do is get out and get away – to Mc- Donalds. Raising kids is enough of a mystery. Parents are willing to pay for demystification, especially at dinnertime after a challeng- ing day at work or when traveling with their children. All this leads me to believe that it might be a good idea to rethink your business model and determine which elements of your business need to be unique and which need to be highly predictable. In a relatively chaotic environment, the marketing power of predictability might be worth carefully considering. www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 27
Newsmakers Real-Time Sumner-Winter Joins CBU in New Post Marketing We live in a digital world where kate simone | The Memphis News we’ve grown accustomed to real-time com- munication with one another, including with the brands we patronize. Now there is a grow- ing expectation of real-time response from companies large and small. It’s time to become Wendy Sumner-Winter has been appointed director of stewardship more nimble and proactive – communicating and donor engagement at Christian Brothers University. In the newly cre- at the same pace as your customers. ated position, Sumner-Winter will oversee planning, strategy develop- Thankfully real time doesn’t necessar- ment and implementation of initiatives. ily mean instantaneous, but it does mean quick enough to be relevant. Consider Oreo’s Work experience: Most recently, I why their gift is needed, how it is be- response to the blackout during this year’s was a coordinator of alumni and con- ing used and the impact that it has. Super Bowl. Shortly after the Superdome fell stituents relations at the University of Faculty, students and the community dark, the Oreo brand Memphis. In addition, I serve as a con- at large, too, need to know about our tweeted “You can still tributing editor of The Pinch, the inter- needs and successes. We will create dunk in the dark,” national literary and arts journal, am more streamlined reporting and man- which was retweeted on the editorial board of Orphan Press agement which will, in turn, help us in- 10,000 times in a mere Books, and have been a lecturer at crease the efficiency and effectiveness hour. The University of Memphis and owner/ of our fundraising operations. SUMNER-WINTER For real-time mar- curator of the Midtown Artist Market keting strategies to Gallery. What do you consider your greatest Albert Saltiel has joined Au- be effective, establish accomplishment? My daughter is my toZone Inc. as senior vice presi- a framework within Lori turner- Family: My husband, Kalki Winter, greatest achievement. She came to my dent, marketing. Saltiel most which your social me- wilson owns eScape Landscape Solutions, an husband and me from the foster care guerrilla sales recently served as chief market- dia managers have the environmentally friendly landscape de- system, with a myriad of special needs. and marketing ing officer at Navistar Interna- freedom to operate. sign and consulting firm. We have one To see her thriving, talking, reading, tional Corp. and has also held Consider the types of content appropriate to daughter, Virginia Grace, who is a first laughing makes me very proud. marketing roles at Sony Elec- deploy, establish guidelines accordingly, and grader at Peabody Elementary. tronics and Ford Motor Co. then ensure your administrators are empow- If you could give one piece of advice ered to make real-time decisions “off book.” What are your goals in your new po- to young people, what would it be? Rabbi Micah Greenstein, The Oreo example went viral because the sition? I want to refine how we stew- The best advice I can give to anyone, senior rabbi at Temple Israel, message was deployed within a few minutes of ard the gifts that have been given and young or old, is to cultivate your own has been named among Amer- the blackout. will be given to the university. Donors curiosity. Curiosity is the foundation of ica’s Top 50 Rabbis for 2013 by While it may sound counterintuitive, suc- need to be able to see very clearly so many things ... . The Daily Beast. Greenstein has cessful real-time marketing requires significant served Temple Israel since 1991. advanced planning. If you simply shoot from He served as assistant then as- the hip, you’ll likely see greatly diminished sociate before being named se- results. nior rabbi in 2000. If you run an area restaurant, part of your real-time marketing planning is determining Knox Phillips and David for which day parts you’re going to focus your Porter have jointly won the efforts. If lunch presents an opportunity for Governor’s Arts Award for arts growth, then you may focus your real-time leadership from Tennessee Gov. marketing efforts on 10 a.m. to noon each day Bill Haslam. Phillips and Porter – watching popular social media platforms for are chairmen emeriti of The Memphis & Shelby County Film users talking about their lunch plans online. If and Television Commission. they’re inquiring about where to eat or com- menting about their intent to visit a competing Maria Teresa Blanco Lens- restaurant, message them real time with an ing has been awarded Christian invitation to visit your restaurant with special Brothers University’s 2013 R. VIP treatment (e.g., dining at the Chef’s table, Craig Blackman Outstanding or a new dessert for which you’re seeking their Graduate Engineering Alumni feedback). Award. Lensing is vice presi- It’s naturally more efficient to market dent with AT&T’s Signature Cli- where prospective buyers already are, versus ent Group, handling engineer- trying to drive them elsewhere to see your ing, sales and operations for message. Similarly, in the social media arena, Fortune 100 companies. it’s easier to engage consumers about topics that are already top of mind such as holidays, First Horizon National the Oscars or the Final Four. Corp. has been named among A perfect example of this was Universal the 2013 Top 50 Companies for Music’s email campaign deployed right after Executive Women by the Na- the Olympics, highlighting music used in the tional Association for Female Closing Ceremonies available for digital down- Executives. The association load. This strategy, called “Newsjacking” by honored First Horizon for men- some, only works if your audience is interested toring and emerging leader pro- in the event you’re aligning your brand with grams, resource groups, per- and if you can find an authentic way to connect formance management system it to your business without seeming desperate. and educational opportunities. The formula for a successful real-time mar- keting strategy is simple: establish guidelines, Kelley & Associates Ad- empower your team, and determine where vertising Inc. has won three and when you’re likely to generate the greatest awards in the Best of NAMA response for your time investment. competition, hosted by the Lori Turner-Wilson is an award-winning Midsouth chapter of the Na- columnist and CEO/Founder of RedRover Sales tional Agri-Marketing Associa- & Marketing, www.redrovercompany.com. tion, for its work with Helena Chemical Co. 28 April 5-11, 2013 www.thememphisnews.com
SPORTS Cardinals Weigh Buying Redbirds don wade | Special to The Memphis News “Our payment (on the bonds) is less than the interest that is accruing, so our bal- ance goes up each year.” Wharton’s statement confirmed there he St. Louis Cardinals are showing had been ongoing discussions about the renewed interest in purchasing the “future of the Redbirds and AutoZone TMemphis Redbirds, but any deal Park” and called the ballpark a “critical that would transfer ownership of the team asset because of its strategic location and AutoZone Park from the nonprofit Downtown. (It) continues to attract pri- Redbirds Foundation almost certainly vate and public investment and comple- would require “city involvement,” founda- ments the work we are doing with Beale tion president Ray Pohlman said Thurs- Street, which is now owned by the city, day, April 4. and FedExForum.” The Wall Street Journal reported Said Pohlman: “What Mr. Dewitt had Thursday morning that talks were serious to say to the Wall Street Journal and what and quoted Cardinals chairman William Mayor Wharton said is certainly encour- DeWitt Jr. as saying, “The city of Memphis aging from the foundation’s perspective.” is Cardinal country. We’ve been there The possibility of the Cardinals buying since this park opened and we hope this its Triple-A affiliate heated up Wednesday transaction would keep us there for many when members of the organization were years to come.” Memphis News File Photo: Lance Murphey in Memphis for a typical preseason walk- Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. re- The St. Louis Cardinals are showing interest in purchasing the Memphis Redbirds and through. Rob Fischer, a sports talk show leased a statement Wednesday night say- AutoZone Park, but any deal would almost certainly require city involvement. host at WHBQ-AM/FM, tweeted that the ing there was “no definitive agreement.” Cardinals were close to reaching a deal to A city purchase of AutoZone Park would already were defaulted on or converted to lion. The Wall Street Journal reported that buy the Redbirds. require a vote of the Memphis City Coun- game-by-game rentals. the proposed deal with the Cardinals is Wharton’s statement also said the city cil. So, any agreement with the Cardinals “That’s a significant revenue stream,” being brokered by Fundamental Advisors. would “exercise the required due dili- could still be a ways off. said Pohlman, noting that the second-lev- “It’s important that we recapitalize gence as we reach a decision as to how “A lot of baseball still has to be el suites lease for $38,000 a year and the the Redbirds in a right-sized manner,” the city can protect its interest and this played,” Pohlman said. media-level suites for $45,000 a year. foundation treasurer John Pontius told critical asset.” Discussions with the Cardinals go AutoZone Park opened at Third and The Daily News a year ago. “The Redbirds Pohlman said interest from the Cardi- back at least six years and one component Union in 2000. The stadium was funded were obligated on a tremendous amount nals will give the deal a better chance to that could frame the timing of talks is that by $72 million in bonds. In 2009, the of debt that was used to build the ballpark work than if the interest was from another when the ballpark opened in 2000 the 47 foundation defaulted on a bond payment. and it was just in excess of what a Triple-A big-league club, adding, “It will be easier suites were put on 15-year lease agree- About a year later Fundamental Advisors, baseball team could carry.” politically because it’s the Cardinals. They ments. Those leases are up at the end a New York-based private equity firm, In a recent email, Pontius confirmed sell more tickets in Memphis than any of the 2014 season, except for a few that bought the bonds for a reported $24 mil- that financial challenges remain, saying, market other than St. Louis.”
education School Board Restructure Next for Court
BILL DRIES | The Memphis News Judge Samuel “Hardy” Mays will rule on the Shelby County Commission’s plan to appoint six new school board members to take office Sept. 1
ll sides in the federal lawsuit over sion will use in the 2014 county elections. board’s response, which was filed Monday. hires after the schools merger takes effect the schools merger will be get- The difference is so no two incumbent School board attorney Valerie Speak- must live within Shelby County. Memphis Ating together soon to talk about school board members are in the same man wrote that “none of the parties could City Schools have no residency require- the Shelby County Commission’s plan to district. That would shorten someone’s have know the full extent to which having ment. The commission also voted down restructure the countywide school board. elected term of office, which might lead to a large school board could have slowed the on third and final reading an August ballot A trio of court filings before and after even more litigation. decision making regarding issues critical to question that would have put to voters do- the Easter weekend set the stage for a As the sides prepare to meet, two of the the transfer of administration.” ing away with the residency requirement decision to come by Judge Samuel “Hardy” parties want Mays to delay the restructur- She also argues that the 23-member in the county charter. Mays of the U.S. District Court for the ing until county voters pick the six new school board established in the 2011 Commissioner Terry Roland, the spon- Western District of Tennessee on the com- members in the August 2014 county gen- consent decree agreed to by all sides in sor of the measure, said he intends to seek mission’s plan to appoint six new school eral elections. the lawsuit and approved by Mays “has af- state legislation that would abolish the board members to take office Sept. 1. Countywide school board members fected the board’s ability to make decisions residency requirement included in the That is when the school board is sched- approved a resolution last month asking expeditiously.” county’s 1986 home rule charter. uled to go from its current 23 members to Mays to delay the move to a 13-member The commission’s attorneys sent for- “You’re telling the people that you don’t seven members. The six appointees would board until the county general elections. mal notice of the commission plan to the trust them,” Roland said. “It ain’t going to join the seven board members elected in Suburban leaders filed their response court Thursday, March 28. be hard to get this reversed up in Nash- 2012. The 13-district restructuring was Friday, including a copy of the countywide Meanwhile, Shelby County Commis- ville.” permitted by Mays in a 2011 consent de- school board’s resolution. sioners gave final approval Monday, April Commissioner Walter Bailey countered cree agreed to by all sides in the case. “The municipalities support the 1, to an exemption to the county govern- that he didn’t believe there was a public A majority of commissioners initially resolution of the board of education for ment residency requirement for Memphis clamor to vote on the county’s residency backed it as a way of using the same set of the reasons stated therein and oppose the City Schools teachers and other school requirement. district lines for the County Commission county commission’s resolution on the system employees. “These are the desires of a handful of and the school board. But the district lines same grounds,” reads the motion by at- It grandfathers in current MCS employ- commissioners,” he said as he added out- approved last month by the commission torney Tom Cates. ees who don’t live in Shelby County. But it of-state county employees want to “receive differ from the district lines the commis- The suburban response beat the school leaves intact the requirement that all new the benefits, without the deterrent.” www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 29
community Federally Funded Safeways Crime Program Goes for Long Haul
bill dries | The Memphis News Ridge Middle School. And in 2009 it had of the overall Blue CRUSH strategy police Safeways,” Ledbetter said. “We imagine a reputation as “one of the worst apart- have been using since 2006. Safeways is a there will be those that choose not to join. ment complexes in the city of Memphis, part of the broader Operation Safe Com- At that point, it will probably be a lot easier certainly Hickory Hill,” said police Major munity anti-crime strategy pursued by a to serve warrants or find where the lesser hen Pierce Ledbetter, the CEO Charles E. Newell. coalition of law enforcement and commu- elements want to live.” of LEDIC Management, signed Newell said police are often hampered nity groups that also dates back to 2006. The apartment managers sign memo- W up his company’s Autumn because some apartment managers find With $450,000 in funding from the randums of agreement with the Safeways Ridge apartment complex for the federally it easier to continue getting the rent paid Plough Foundation over three years and program that can lead to a Safeways funded Safeways anti-crime initiative in regularly by drug dealers who use the com- another $150,000 from the city’s Mem- designation with a sign that Ledbetter 2009, he was nervous. plexes as a base for operations that brings phis Gun Down Initiative, the Safeways said he hopes will become like the “good And his apprehension was soon borne crime from the outside into the apartment program is becoming a self-sustaining housekeeping seal” for apartments. Each out as residents in the crime-ridden apart- complexes. nonprofit operation. The kickoff includes memorandum is tailored to particular ment complex reacted to the new regime “Only a few people were the problem,” 15 Memphis apartment complexes that crime conditions or problems within a of police cameras and stricter regulations Newell said of Autumn Ridge. will become part of the program. The 15 complex and tactics to be used. on trespassers and unannounced visitors. Over the life of the Autumn Ridge pilot are across three of the city’s best-known “Everything is finally in place,” said “The first experiences were some of the project reported crimes are down 80 per- and largest apartment management firms Safeways executive director Julaine K. most nerve rattling for us when residents cent from where they were when the effort including LEDIC, ALCO Management and Harris. turned in their notices to leave. And those kicked off in March 2009. Makowsky, Ringel and Greenberg. The goal isn’t to turn the complexes that were choosing to leave were in some Newell and Ledbetter looked back last The complexes are in the University of into upscale communities with upscale cases the best paying residents,” Ledbetter week on the origins of the crime-fighting Memphis area, Frayser, Whitehaven and rents. It is to keep the apartments afford- said. “What we soon found out was they approach at the apartment complexes that Southeast Memphis. able but make them safe. were running businesses out of their apart- jumped out in crime statistics as hotbeds “We believe that in a matter of three to “We also find that those people that ments. They weren’t just living there.” for crime both brought into the complexes five years it will only be those few proper- seek out the apartment complexes that Autumn Ridge is next to the Ridge- and that originated within the complexes. ties that will be conspicuous by absence want to live in a safe place, want to live way Station police precinct and Hickory The focus on crime statistics was part when you don’t see that they are part of there for a long time,” Ledbetter said. happenings
Visit methodisthealth.org. conjunction with Memphis Area Association of Realtors’ fair housing month, Thursday, In-Synk and The Daily News will host a Leadership Methodist North Hospital will hold a hip- April 11, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at German- and knee-replacement information class on town Country Club, 1780 Kimbrough Road. Lunch & Learn about Daniel Pink’s book “To Sell is Human: Wednesday, April 10, from 11 a.m. to noon at The panel will discuss the do’s and don’ts of the hospital’s Total Joint Center, 3960 New working with international clients. The event is »The Surprising Truth About Moving Others” Friday, April Covington Pike. R.S.V.P. at 516-5639. open to the public, but registration is required. Cost is $18. Visit maar.org/fairhousingmonth 5, from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Triumph Bank board The Rotary Club of Memphis East will meet to R.S.V.P. Wednesday, April 10, at noon at The Racquet room, 5699 Poplar Ave. Cost is $20. Register at in- Club of Memphis, 5111 Sanderlin Ave. First Memphis Botanic Garden will hold a Roots Horizon Corp. president and CEO Bryan Jordan Garden Party happy hour Friday, April 11, from synksellhuman.eventbrite.com. will speak. Cost is $17. R.S.V.P. to Lee Hughes at 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the garden, 750 [email protected]. Cherry Road. Cost is free for Roots members, $5 for MBG members and $10 for nonmem- Kiwanis Club of Memphis will meet Wednes- bers. Visit memphisbotanicgarden.com. day, April 10, from noon to 1 p.m. at The » Community food and more. Visit evergreen-montessori.org University Club of Memphis, 1346 Central Ave. Rhodes College will host a Civil War Sesqui- or call 324-4159. Dixon Gallery & Gardens will hold a wild- Memphis in May President and CEO Jim Holt centennial Series lecture titled “Walt Whit- flower plant sale Friday, April 5, and Saturday, will discuss plans for the 2013 festival. Cost is man’s Civil War” Thursday, April 11, at 7 p.m. in The Memphis Chapter International As- April 6, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Catmur $18 for nonmembers. Hardie Auditorium of Palmer Hall on campus, sociation of Administrative Professionals Horticulture Building and west parking lot at 2000 North Parkway. Cost is free. Visit rhodes. will meet Monday, April 8, at 6 p.m. at Memphis Dixon, 4339 Park Ave. Plants will include more The Project Management Institute Mem- edu. Marriott East, 5795 Poplar Ave. Tammie Vogel than 600 varieties well suited for the Mid- phis chapter will meet Wednesday, April 10, of International Paper will present “Where Do South climate. Visit dixon.org. from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at DoubleTree Hotel, I Fit? Admins in a Team Environment.” Cost is 5069 Sanderlin Ave. [SPEAKER INFO] Regis- » the arts $22. R.S.V.P. to [email protected] Memphis Health Center will hold a reno- tration, which includes dinner, begins at 5:45 Theatre Memphis will present A.R. Gurney’s vation kickoff and reception Friday, April 5, or 752-6213. p.m. Cost is $15 in advance or $20 at the door. “Sylvia” Friday, April 5, through April 21 on from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. at its Rossville location, Register at pmimemphis.org. the theater’s Next Stage, 630 Perkins Road 4940 Hwy. 57. The mission of the center is National Association of Women Business Extended. Visit theatrememphis.org for times to improve community health for Shelby and Owners Memphis chapter will meet Tuesday, National Hispanic Professional Organiza- and tickets. Fayette county residents. Call 261-7303. April 9, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Chickasaw tion-Memphis will meet Thursday, April 11, Country Club, 3935 Galloway Ave. A panel of from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Hilton Mem- Germantown Performing Arts Centre will Memphis Botanic Garden will hold Girls Night businesswomen will discuss “How to Get the phis, 939 Ridge Lake Blvd. Meri Armour, CEO host a Germantown chorus youth concert, Out Friday, April 5, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Job Done as a Woman CEO.” Cost is $25 for of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, will speak. “The Spirit of American Music,” Friday, April the garden, 750 Cherry Road. Attendees can NAWBO members, $30 for nonmembers and Cost is free for members and $20 for non- 5, at 7 p.m. at GPAC, 1801 Exeter Road. Buy sample hors d’oeuvres and plant-infused cock- $35 at the door. Visit nawbomemphis.org. members. R.S.V.P. to [email protected] or tickets at gpacweb.com or 751-7500. tails, create recycled art and jewelry, and shop 466-6476. for Earth-friendly gifts, jewelry and decor. Cost Memphis Rotary Club will meet Tuesday, April Memphis City Schools will hold ArtsFest 2013 is $20 for members and $25 for nonmembers. 9, at noon at the University Club of Memphis, The Memphis chapter of the American Pay- Saturday, April 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Visit memphisbotanicgarden.com. 1346 Central Ave. University of Memphis head roll Association will host a half-day seminar Board of Education, 2597 Avery Ave. ArtsFest football coach Justin Fuente will speak. Cost Thursday, April 11, at 11:30 a.m. at Holiday features student works of visual art and live Cooper-Young Community Farmers Market is $18. R.S.V.P. to Taylor Hughes at taylor@ Inn University of Memphis, 3700 Poplar Ave. theater, dance, band, choir and orchestra will kick off its spring/summer 2013 season memphisrotary.org. Speakers include Judith Bookman, assistant performances. Cost is free. Visit mcsk12.net/ with a crawfish boil Saturday, April 6, from 10 director of ConcernEAP; Jenny Kiesewetter, artsfest for details. a.m. to 1 p.m. at 1000 S. Cooper St. Tickets are Methodist North Hospital will hold a stroke managing member at Kiesewetter Law Firm; $13. Visit cycfarmersmarket.org. support group meeting for survivors and care- and Patrick Saino of McDonnell Insurance The Booksellers at Laurelwood will host givers Tuesday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in day room Group. Cost is $90 for members and $100 for Stephen Starritt and Jeremy Stanfill as part of Evergreen Montessori School will host one at HealthSouth Rehabilitation, 4100 Austin nonmembers. Register at memphisapa.org. its Spring Bistro Music Series Saturday, April Evergreen Rocks Saturday, April 6, from 2 p.m. Peay Highway. Methodist North case manage- 6, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the bookstore, 387 to 5 p.m. at the school, 751 N. Trezevant St. The ment director Connie Nahhas will present “The Women’s Council of Realtors will hold Perkins Road Extended. Visit thebooksellersat- event will include tour of the school, live music, Affordable Care Act and What It Means to Me.” a cultural diversity panel and luncheon in laurelwood.com. 30 April 5-11, 2013 www.thememphisnews.com www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 31
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Jackson, Tennessee 38305 Tri-Star Lending Group, its successors of Tennessee, filed a tax lien against the 6 of Arlington Subdivision, a plat Foreclosure Notices The HB 3588 letter was mailed to and assigns; and the undersigned, Defendant, Bobby J. Morgan, recorded of which appears of record in Plat the borrower(s) pursuant to Tennessee Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., having in the Register’s Office of Madison Book 1, Page 7, Register’s Office of Madison County Code Annotated 35-5-117. This sale is been appointed Successor Trustee. County, Tennessee, at Book L53, Page Madison County, Tennessee; runs subject to all matters shown on any ap- NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby 851. Any interest in the property held thence North with the West line of NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE plicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; given that the entire indebtedness has by the State of Tennessee, by virtue Lot No. 4 a distance of 155.7 feet to WHEREAS, default has occurred in the any restrictive covenants, easements, or been declared due and payable; and of the aforementioned tax lien is both an iron pin in the South margin of a performance of the covenants, terms, setback lines that may be applicable; that an agent of Wilson & Associates, junior and inferior to the interests held 15 foot alley; runs thence North 89 and conditions of a Deed of Trust Note any statutory rights of redemption of any P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by virtue by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Provided, degrees 00 minutes 30 seconds West dated March 27, 2007, and the Deed of governmental agency, state or federal; of the power, duty, and authority vested however, that the State of Tennessee, with the South margin of said alley a Trust of even date securing the same, any prior liens or encumbrances as well in and imposed upon said Successor pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated distance of 52 feet to an iron pin at recorded April 5, 2007, at Book T1794, as any priority created by a fixture -fil Trustee will, on April 18, 2013 on or §67-1-133, shall have one hundred and the Northeast corner of Lot no. 6 in Page 1564 in Office of the Register of ing; and to any matter that an accurate about 11:00 A.M., at the Madison twenty (120) days from the date of the said subdivision; runs thence South Deeds for Madison County, Tennessee, survey of the premises might disclose. County Courthouse, Jackson, Tennes‑ sale within which to redeem the property with the East line of said Lot No. 6 a executed by Enrico Dowdy and Donna In addition, the following parties may see, offer for sale certain property here- by virtue of its tax lien(s) herein by pay- distance of 156.6 feet to an iron pin Dowdy, conveying certain property there- claim an interest in the above-referenced inafter described to the highest bidder ment of the actual amount paid by the in the North margin of West Grand in described to Preferred Escrow and property: Enrico Dowdy; Donna Dowdy; FOR CASH, free from the statutory right purchaser at the foreclosure sale, plus Avenue a distance of 52 feet to the Title as Trustee for Mortgage Electronic Unifund CCR Partners of redemption, homestead, dower, and any amount in excess of the expenses point of beginning. Being Lot No. Registration Systems Inc., as nominee The sale held pursuant to this Notice all other exemptions which are expressly necessarily incurred in connection with 5, Block 6 of Arlington Subdivision, for Ohio Savings Bank, its successors may be rescinded at the Successor waived in the Deed of Trust, said property such property, less the income from platted as aforesaid. and assigns; and the undersigned, Trustee’s option at any time. The right being real estate situated in Madison such property, plus a reasonable rental ALSO KNOWN AS: 219 West Grand Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., having is reserved to adjourn the day of the County, Tennessee, and being more value of such property. As required by Street, Jackson, Tennessee 38301 been appointed Successor Trustee. sale to another day, time, and place particularly described as follows: law, the State of Tennessee has been The HB 3588 letter was mailed to NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby certain without further publication, upon Being Lot 5, Section I, Woodside given timely notice of this action. the borrower(s) pursuant to Tennessee given that the entire indebtedness has announcement at the time and place Estates, a plat of which appears of On or about February 2, 2010, the State Code Annotated 35-5-117. This sale is been declared due and payable; and for the sale set forth above. W&A No. record in Plat Book 4, Page 225, of Tennessee filed a tax lien against the subject to all matters shown on any ap- that an agent of Wilson & Associates, 700‑201295 Register’s Office of Madison County, Defendant, Bobby J. Morgan, recorded plicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by virtue DATED March 15, 2013 Tennessee. in the Register’s Office of Madison any restrictive covenants, easements, or of the power, duty, and authority vested WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C., ALSO KNOWN AS: 338 Moize Cut Off County, Tennessee, at Book L53, Page setback lines that may be applicable; in and imposed upon said Successor Successor Trustee Road, Jackson, Tennessee 38305 868. Any interest in the property held any statutory rights of redemption of any Trustee will, on April 18, 2013 on or FOR SALE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW. The HB 3588 letter was mailed to by the State of Tennessee by virtue governmental agency, state or federal; about 11:00 A.M., at the Madison MYFIR.COM and WWW.REALTYTRAC. the borrower(s) pursuant to Tennessee of the aforementioned tax lien is both any prior liens or encumbrances as County Courthouse, Jackson, Tennes‑ COM Code Annotated 35-5-117. This sale is junior and inferior to the interests held well as any priority created by a fixture see, offer for sale certain property here- Mar. 22, 29, Apr. 5, 2013 Fin11476 subject to all matters shown on any ap- by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Provided, filing; and to any matter that an accurate inafter described to the highest bidder plicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; however, that the State of Tennessee, survey of the premises might disclose. FOR CASH, free from the statutory right NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE any restrictive covenants, easements, or pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated In addition, the following parties may of redemption, homestead, dower, and WHEREAS, default has occurred setback lines that may be applicable; §67-1-133, shall have one hundred and claim an interest in the above-referenced all other exemptions which are expressly in the performance of the covenants, any statutory rights of redemption of any twenty (120) days from the date of the property: Kim March waived in the Deed of Trust, said property terms, and conditions of a Deed of governmental agency, state or federal; sale within which to redeem the property The sale held pursuant to this Notice being real estate situated in Madison Trust Note dated March 5, 2007, and any prior liens or encumbrances as well by virtue of its tax lien(s) herein by pay- may be rescinded at the Successor County, Tennessee, and being more the Deed of Trust of even date securing as any priority created by a fixture filing; ment of the actual amount paid by the Trustee’s option at any time. The right particularly described as follows: the same, recorded March 6, 2007, and to any matter that an accurate survey purchaser at the foreclosure sale, plus is reserved to adjourn the day of the Lying and being in Madison County, at Book T1791, Page 1284 in Office of the premises might disclose. In addi- any amount in excess of the expenses sale to another day, time, and place Tennessee, and more particularly of the Register of Deeds for Madison tion, the following parties may claim an necessarily incurred in connection with certain without further publication, upon described as follows: County, Tennessee, executed by Bobby interest in the above-referenced prop- such property, less the income from announcement at the time and place Being Lot Number 1114, Sections X Morgan and Bridgett Morgan, convey- erty: Bobby Morgan; Bridgett Morgan; such property, plus a reasonable rental for the sale set forth above. W&A No. and XI, Walnut Trace Subdivision II, ing certain property therein described Tennessee Department of Revenue; value of such property. As required by 1286‑163780 plat of which appears of record in Plat to McCormack & Maroney, P.L.C. as First Bank Branch‑01; Union Planters law, the State of Tennessee has been DATED March 21, 2013 Book 9, Page 210, Register’s Office Trustee for Mortgage Electronic Regis- National Bank; Fidelity Federal Savings given timely notice of this action. WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C., of Madison County, Tennessee. tration Systems, Inc., as nominee for and Loan Association of Tennessee The sale held pursuant to this Notice Successor Trustee ALSO KNOWN AS: 160 Fawn Ridge, Pinnacle Financial Corporation D/B/A On or about February 1, 2010, the State may be rescinded at the Successor FOR SALE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW. Trustee’s option at any time. The right MYFIR.COM and WWW.REALTYTRAC. is reserved to adjourn the day of the COM sale to another day, time, and place Mar. 29, Apr. 5, 12, 2013 Fin11483 certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE for the sale set forth above. W&A No. WHEREAS, default has occurred in the 931‑199194 performance of the covenants, terms, DATED March 15, 2013 and conditions of a Deed of Trust Note WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C., dated August 1, 2003, and the Deed of Successor Trustee Trust of even date securing the same, re- FOR SALE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW. corded August 1, 2003, at Book T1504, MYFIR.COM and WWW.REALTYTRAC. Page 937 in Office of the Register of t reach ev COM Deeds for Madison County, Tennessee, on’ er Mar. 22, 29, Apr. 5, 2013 Fin11477 executed by Kimberly A. Stello, convey- d yb ing certain property therein described e od NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE to R. Bradley Siegler, Jackson, TN, as W y WHEREAS, default has occurred in the Trustee for Administrator of the Small performance of the covenants, terms, Business Administration, an agency of and conditions of a Deed of Trust Note the Government of the United States of dated November 30, 2004, and the America; and the undersigned, Wilson Deed of Trust of even date securing the & Associates, P.L.L.C., having been same, recorded December 6, 2004, at appointed Successor Trustee. Book T1632, Page 660 in Office of the NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby Register of Deeds for Madison County, given that the entire indebtedness has Tennessee, executed by Kim March, con- been declared due and payable; and veying certain property therein described that an agent of Wilson & Associates, to Arnold M. Weiss, Esq., Shelby County P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by virtue as Trustee for Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.; of the power, duty, and authority vested and the undersigned, Wilson & Associ- in and imposed upon said Successor ates, P.L.L.C., having been appointed Trustee will, on May 2, 2013 on or about Successor Trustee. 11:00 A.M., at the Madison County NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby Courthouse, Jackson, Tennessee, of- given that the entire indebtedness has fer for sale certain property hereinafter been declared due and payable; and described to the highest bidder FOR that an agent of Wilson & Associates, CASH, free from the statutory right of P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by virtue redemption, homestead, dower, and all Just a whole lot of somebodies. of the power, duty, and authority vested other exemptions which are expressly in and imposed upon said Successor waived in the Deed of Trust, said property Trustee will, on April 25, 2013 on or being real estate situated in Madison We think you’ll agree – there’s not a more about 11:00 A.M., at the Madison County, Tennessee, and being more powerful advertising vehicle for reaching County Courthouse, Jackson, Ten‑ particularly described as follows: the city’s professional community. nessee, offer for sale certain property Beginning at a found iron pin in the hereinafter described to the highest Northeastern margin of Woodgrove bidder FOR CASH, free from the statu- Drive, said point being the Southeast tory right of redemption, homestead, corner of Lot Number 2, Section I, dower, and all other exemptions which Ramblewood East, a plat of record are expressly waived in the Deed of in Plat Book 5, Page 302, in the Trust, said property being real estate Register’s Office, Madison County, situated in Madison County, Tennessee, Tennessee; thence North 31 degrees and being more particularly described 10 minutes 21 seconds East with as follows: the East margin of Lot 2 a distance Lying and being in Madison County, of 312.48 feet to a found iron pin in Tennessee, and more particularly the Northeast corner of Lot 2; thence described as follow, to‑wit: North 88 degrees 03 minutes 34 sec‑ Beginning at an iron pin in the North onds East a distance of 41.81 feet to a Visit TheMemphisNews.com or call 683.NEWS margin of West Grand Avenue at the found iron pin in the Northwest corner Southwest corner of Lot No. 4, Block of Lot 7; thence South 04 degrees www.thememphisnews.com AprilApril 5 5-11,- 11, 2013 3333
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04 minutes 17 seconds East with West line 415 feet to pin, Jordan’s any restrictive covenants, easements, or announcement at the time and place Related Info the West margin of Lot 7 a distance Northeast corner; thence Westerly setback lines that may be applicable; any for the sale set forth above. W&A No. of 208.72 feet to a found iron pin in along Jordan’s North line 500 feet to statutory rights of redemption of any gov- 1286‑230591 Also read our daily edition, The Daily the Southwest corner of Lot 7 and in a new stake; thence South along a ernmental agency, state or federal; any DATED January 25, 2013 News, in print or online every business the Northern margin of Lot 4; thence new line through Jordan’s tract 1000 prior liens or encumbrances as well as any WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C., day for public notices for Memphis & South 48 degrees 37 minutes 37 feet to the margin of Sanderson Road; priority created by a fixture filing; and to Successor Trustee Shelby County. seconds West with the Northwestern thence East along said road 420 feet any matter that an accurate survey of the FOR SALE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW. Go to www.memphisdailynews.com or margin of Lot 4 a distance of 188.72 to the point of beginning, containing premises might disclose. In addition, the MYFIR.COM and WWW.REALTYTRAC. call 683.NEWS for more information. feet to a found iron pin in the Eastern 10 acres, more or less. following parties may claim an interest COM margin of Woodgrove Drive, said point ALSO KNOWN AS: 240 Sanderson in the above-referenced property: Andy Mar. 29, Apr. 5, 12, 2013 Fin11484 also being the Northwestern corner Road, Mercer, Tennessee 38392 Bechtel; Davida Bechtel; Mortgage of Lot 4, thence in a Northwesterly The HB 3588 letter was mailed to Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. direction following a curve to the left the borrower(s) pursuant to Tennessee as nominee for SunTrust Mortgage, of the Eastern margin of Woodgrove Code Annotated 35-5-117. This sale is Inc.; Andy Bechtel; Davida Bechtel Foreclosure Notices Drive having a radius of 329.60 feet subject to all matters shown on any ap- The sale held pursuant to this Notice a distance of 100.40 feet to the point plicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; may be rescinded at the Successor Tipton County created by a fixture filing; and to any of beginning. Being Lot Number 3 in any restrictive covenants, easements, or Trustee’s option at any time. The right matter that an accurate survey of the Section I of the aforesaid platted setback lines that may be applicable; any is reserved to adjourn the day of the premises might disclose. In addition, the subdivision. statutory rights of redemption of any gov- sale to another day, time, and place NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE`S following parties may claim an interest ALSO KNOWN AS: 23 Woodgrove ernmental agency, state or federal; any certain without further publication, upon SALE in the above-referenced property: Shawn Drive, Jackson, Tennessee 38305 prior liens or encumbrances as well as announcement at the time and place Sale at public auction will be on Harrison, Michael Shawn Harrison, The HB 3588 letter was mailed to any priority created by a fixture filing; and for the sale set forth above. W&A No. April 18, 2013 at 12:00 PM local If the United States has any lien or the borrower(s) pursuant to Tennessee to any matter that an accurate survey of 931‑233220 time, at the front of the Tipton County claimed lien on the property, notice Code Annotated 35-5-117. This sale is the premises might disclose. In addition, DATED March 29, 2013 Courthouse in Covington, Tennessee required by 26 U.S.C. § 7425(b) to be subject to all matters shown on any ap- the following parties may claim an inter- WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C., located in Covington, Tipton County, given to the United States has been plicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; est in the above-referenced property: Successor Trustee Tennessee, pursuant to Deed of Trust timely given. The sale of the land de- any restrictive covenants, easements, or Rhonda Robertson; Gary Robertson FOR SALE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW. executed by Shawn Harrison, to Heritage scribed above will be subject to the right setback lines that may be applicable; The sale held pursuant to this Notice MYFIR.COM and WWW.REALTYTRAC. Closing Services LLC , Dukes H. Bras- of the United States to redeem the land any statutory rights of redemption of any may be rescinded at the Successor COM field, Trustee, as trustee for Mortgage as provided for in 26 U.S.C. § 7425(d) governmental agency, state or federal; Trustee’s option at any time. The right Apr. 5, 12, 19, 2013 Fin11488 Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., (1).] any prior liens or encumbrances as well is reserved to adjourn the day of the acting solely as nominee for Decision If the State of Tennessee has any as any priority created by a fixture filing; sale to another day, time, and place One Mortgage Company, LLC on 14th lien or claimed lien on the property, and to any matter that an accurate survey certain without further publication, upon day of December, 2006 in REC Book notice required by § 67-1-1433(b)(1) of the premises might disclose. In addi- announcement at the time and place Foreclosure Notices 1316, Page 305 at Instrument Number of the Tennessee Code to be given to tion, the following parties may claim an for the sale set forth above. W&A No. Shelby County 97535, in the Office of the Register of the state of Tennessee has been timely interest in the above-referenced prop- 1286‑153615 Tipton County, Tennessee; conducted given. The sale of the land described erty: Kimberly A. Stello; United States DATED April 3, 2013 by York Trustee Services, LLC, having above will be subject to the right of the Small Business Administration; Ronald WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C., NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE been appointed Substitute or Succes- state of Tennessee to redeem the land Stello and Carol A. Stello; Discover Successor Trustee WHEREAS, default has occurred in the sor Trustee. Default has occurred in the as provided for in § 67-1-1433(c)(1) of Bank, issuer of Discover Card; Unifund FOR SALE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW. performance of the covenants, terms, performance of the covenants, terms, the Tennessee Code.] CCR Partners; Union Planters National MYFIR.COM and WWW.REALTYTRAC. and conditions of a Deed of Trust Note and conditions of said Deed of Trust All right of equity of redemption, statu- Bank COM dated December 30, 2003, and the and the entire indebtedness has been tory and otherwise, and homestead are The sale held pursuant to this Notice Apr. 5, 12, 19, 2013 Fin11487 Deed of Trust of even date securing the declared due and payable. expressly waived in said Deed of Trust. may be rescinded at the Successor same, recorded January 22, 2004, as Party Entitled to Enforce the Debt: The undersigned will sell and convey Trustee’s option at any time. The right NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Instrument No. 04012914 in Office of Deutsche Bank National Trust Company only as Substitute Trustee. is reserved to adjourn the day of the WHEREAS, default has occurred in the Register of Deeds for Shelby County, as Trustee for MSAC 2007-SEA1 The right is reserved to adjourn the sale to another day, time, and place the performance of the covenants, Tennessee, executed by James M. Os- The following real estate located in day of the sale to another day, time, and certain without further publication, upon terms, and conditions of a Deed of born, II and Elizabeth Howard Osborn, Tipton County, Tennessee, will be sold place certain without further publication, announcement at the time and place Trust Note dated May 4, 2007, and conveying certain property therein de- to the highest call bidder: upon announcement at the time and for the sale set forth above. W&A No. the Deed of Trust of even date secur- scribed to Arnold M. Weiss, Esq., Shelby Described property located in Tipton place for the sale set forth above. If the 1612‑231029 ing the same, recorded May 7, 2007, County as Trustee for Wells Fargo Home County, Tennessee, to wit: highest bidder cannot pay the bid within DATED March 27, 2013 at Book T1798, Page 33 in Office of Mortgage, Inc.; and the undersigned, Lot 1, Cromwell`s Leigh`s Chapel twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C., the Register of Deeds for Madison Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., having Subdivision, as shown on plat of Re- next highest bidder, at their highest bid, Successor Trustee County, Tennessee, executed by Andy been appointed Successor Trustee. cord in Plat Cabinet H, Slide 259, in will be deemed the successful bidder. FOR SALE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW. Bechtel, Davida Bechtel, Andy Bechtel NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby the Register`s Office of Tipton County, This property is being sold with the MYFIR.COM and WWW.REALTYTRAC. and Davida Bechtel, conveying certain given that the entire indebtedness has Tennessee, to which plat reference is express reservation that the sale is COM property therein described to Larry A. been declared due and payable; and made for a more particular descrip- subject to confirmation by the lender or Apr. 5, 12, 19, 2013 Fin11486 Weissman, a resident of Shelby County that an agent of Wilson & Associates, tion of said property. Being the same trustee. This sale may be rescinded by as Trustee for Mortgage Electronic P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by virtue property conveyed to Royce and Mildred the Substitute Trustee at any time. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee of the power, duty, and authority vested Cromwell by Deed Book 326, Page 83, THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A DEBT WHEREAS, default has occurred for SunTrust Mortgage, Inc., its succes- in and imposed upon said Successor on 03/07/1972 at the Register`s Of- COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO in the performance of the covenants, sors and assigns; and the undersigned, Trustee will, on April 19, 2013 on or fice of Tipton County Tennessee. Being COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION terms, and conditions of a Deed of Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., having about 12:00 P.M., at the Shelby County the same property conveyed to Shawn OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT Trust Note dated December 3, 2003, been appointed Successor Trustee. Courthouse, Memphis, Tennessee, offer Harrison by Deed at Book 1265, Page PURPOSE. and the Deed of Trust of even date NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby for sale certain property hereinafter de- 518, on 03/22/2006, at the Register`s York Trustee Services, LLC, securing the same, recorded December given that the entire indebtedness has scribed to the highest bidder FOR CASH, Office of Tipton County Tennessee. Substitute Trustee 16, 2003, at Book T1543, Page 660 been declared due and payable; and free from the statutory right of redemp- Street Address: 1861 Leigh’s Chapel File No: TN-87000003-12 and modified on March 2, 2004, at that an agent of Wilson & Associates, tion, homestead, dower, and all other Road, Covington, TN 38019 Mar. 29, Apr. 5, 12, 2013 Fin11478 Book T1561, Page 59 and modified on P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by exemptions which are expressly waived Parcel Number: 18.30.02 September 24, 2004, at Book T1615, virtue of the power, duty, and authority in the Deed of Trust, said property being Current Owner(s) of Property: Shawn Page 721 in Office of the Register of vested in and imposed upon said Suc- real estate situated in Shelby County, Harrison Misc. Notices Deeds for Madison County, Tennessee, cessor Trustee will, on May 2, 2013 on Tennessee, and being more particularly Other Interested Parties: Shawn Har- executed by Rhonda Robertson and Gary or about 11:00 A.M., at the Madison described as follows: rison, Michael Shawn Harrison, Shelby County Robertson, conveying certain property County Courthouse, Jackson, Ten‑ Lot 157, Final Plat, Phase IIB, Wolf‑ The street address of the above therein described to Allen E. Schwartz, nessee, offer for sale certain property chase Farms of Bartlett Subdivision, described property is believed to be Esq as Trustee for Mortgage Electronic hereinafter described to the highest as shown on Plat of record in Plat 1861 Leigh’s Chapel Road, Covington, NOTICE OF SALE Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee bidder FOR CASH, free from the statu- Book 196, Page 9 in the Register’s TN 38019, but such address is not PODS of Memphis, LLC hereby publishes for Transland Financial Services, Inc., tory right of redemption, homestead, Office of Shelby County, Tennessee, a part of the legal description of the notice, as required Tennessee Self- its successors and assigns; and the dower, and all other exemptions which to which reference is hereby made property sold herein and in the event of Service Storage Facility Act (TN Stat. undersigned, Wilson & Associates, are expressly waived in the Deed of for a more particular description of any discrepancy, the legal description 66-31-101- 66-31-107) of a public sale P.L.L.C., having been appointed Suc- Trust, said property being real estate said property. herein shall control. of the property listed below to satisfy a cessor Trustee. situated in Madison County, Tennessee, ALSO KNOWN AS: 8222 East Old SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) landlords lien. All sales are for cash to NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby and being more particularly described Brownsville Road, Arlington, Tennes‑ RIGHTS IN POSSESSION. the highest bidder and are considered given that the entire indebtedness has as follows: see 38002‑7501 If applicable, the HB 3588 letter was final PODS of Memphis, LLC reserves the been declared due and payable; and Beginning on a stake in the South The HB 3588 letter was mailed to mailed to the borrower(s) pursuant to right to reject any bids Auction is to be that an agent of Wilson & Associates, margin of Cedar Lane and in the East the borrower(s) pursuant to Tennessee Tennessee Code Annotated 35-5-117. located at: 3409 Democrat Road Mem- P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by virtue margin of Southside Drive (formerly Code Annotated 35-5-117. This sale is This sale is subject to all matters shown phis TN 38118 and will be held Tuesday, of the power, duty, and authority vested known as Annie Avenue), said begin‑ subject to all matters shown on any ap- on any applicable recorded plat; any April 10th, 2013 at 2:00 P.M. in and imposed upon said Successor ning point being 24 feet East of the plicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, CUSTOMER CONTAINER# Trustee will, on May 2, 2013 on or about Northeast corner of W.C. Latham’s any restrictive covenants, easements, or easements, or setback lines that may McCarty, Beth 1154B3 Contents include 11:00 A.M., at the Madison County lot, formerly Claiborne, runs thence setback lines that may be applicable; any be applicable; any statutory rights but not limited to: Household items, Courthouse, Jackson, Tennessee, of- South 86 1/2 degrees East with the statutory rights of redemption of any gov- of redemption of any governmental books, exercise equipment, stereo fer for sale certain property hereinafter South margin of Cedar Lane 70 feet ernmental agency, state or federal; any agency, state or federal; any prior liens equipment and more. described to the highest bidder FOR to a stake; thence South 230 feet prior liens or encumbrances as well as or encumbrances as well as any priority Mar. 30, Apr. 6, 2013 Min11479 CASH, free from the statutory right of to a stake; thence North 86 1/2 any priority created by a fixture filing; and redemption, homestead, dower, and all degrees West 70 feet to a stake in to any matter that an accurate survey of other exemptions which are expressly the East margin of Southside Drive; the premises might disclose. In addition, waived in the Deed of Trust, said property thence North with the East margin the following parties may claim an inter- being real estate situated in Madison of Southside Drive 230 feet to the est in the above-referenced property: County, Tennessee, and being more South margin of Cedar Lane, the point James M. Osborn, II; Elizabeth Howard particularly described as follows: of beginning. Osborn; Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.; Wells Beginning at a pin in the North mar‑ ALSO KNOWN AS: 198 Harts Bridge Fargo Bank, N.A. The Memphis News gin of Sanderson Road, being the Road, Jackson, Tennessee 38301 The sale held pursuant to this Notice Southeast corner of a 21 acre tract The HB 3588 letter was mailed to may be rescinded at the Successor transferred to Jordan on September the borrower(s) pursuant to Tennessee Trustee’s option at any time. The right 26, 1997; thence North 470 feet to Code Annotated 35-5-117. This sale is is reserved to adjourn the day of the 3 a pin, being Harris’ Northwest corner; subject to all matters shown on any ap- sale to another day, time, and place Call 68 -NEWS then continuing North along Moore’s plicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; certain without further publication, upon 34 April 5-11, 2013 www.thememphisnews.com
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Not All in Memphis Memphis is Home Has Changed From ’68 Of the Blues – Literally
Last week we discussed Baptist leaders have raised more than $1.5 million n a rainy Saturday there that we can get past them? Memorial Health Care and their collabora- toward a future construction cost of $2.5 when 13 blocks of The answer isn’t to be found in tive community efforts, like Baptist Opera- million. Of that $1.5 million, $1.25 million Downtown Mem- public safety measures that seal off tion Outreach. This week let us highlight the has come from blues fans around the world. phis were sur- vast sections of our city for a group of Memphis-based organization dedicated to The goal is to garner local support and raise rounded by police 60 extremists. preserving our blues music history, support- the remaining $1 million within the next six with no cars, trucks It is also true that there probably ing blues education, and ensuring the future months, so construction can begin. Final orO people on foot allowed, you didn’t wasn’t any opportunity for discus- of this uniquely American art design planning is already under have to look very far to find remind- sion to be found in a rally whose form: The Blues Foundation. way, so the grand opening can ers of the spring of 1968. trappings were designed by the Klan Known as the “Home of coincide with the 35th Blues The young law enforcement of- and police to intimidate. the Blues,” it is only fitting that Music Awards in May 2014. The police department’s obli- ficers in riot gear with helmets and Memphis is the official interna- Getting engaged with the shields who became the image of the gation was to protect the safety of tional headquarters for blues Blues Foundation is easy. city’s response to the Ku Klux Klan citizens and property. And they did music. Founded in 1980, The Become a member or attend rally at the Shelby County Court- that. Blues Foundation has more one of their events. This year, house were too young to know the But much of the precautions than 4,500 individual members Jeremy Park the 34th Blues Music Awards feel of the city 45 years ago. were a reaction to what happened 15 and 200 affiliated local blues giving back takes place Thursday, May 9, at Around them were signs of the years ago. societies representing another the Cook Convention Center. new city built almost on top of the And trying to enforce the idea of 50,000 fans and professionals around the As the biggest night in blues music, artists city we were all those years ago – never again is when walls go up and world. The Foundation is focused on the and fans will travel from around the world almost. order and safety become excuses for past, present and future of the music genre. to convene here in Memphis for a recep- Old buildings with bricked-in a retreat from an imperative reality. It It preserves the rich history through its tion, auction, dinner, and awards show that windows and sealed doorways are on wasn’t the intent but it was a result. Blues Hall of Fame and HART Fund, which will feature more than 20 performances by its fringes. You can’t get to 1968 from It is that type of retreat that much nominees during the course of the evening. here but in other ways it is still there. of our city was engaged in 45 years provides financial assistance to blues artists That brings us to where we are as ago this month when the civil rights facing medical hardships. The Founda- This affords a fun way to enjoy world-class a city and a depressing concept: that movement came to Memphis – not tion ensures a bright future by support- entertainment and also help their efforts. 45 years after the sanitation work- on the way to somewhere else, but ing a number of education initiatives and Another way to help is through contribu- ers strike ripped away the phony to hold a mirror up to both sides of school programs. Then it celebrates current tions or volunteerism, like helping them veneer of racial progress built on an identity many of us didn’t want achievement with its signature honors, like staff and produce the events, or consider the premise of side by side separa- to see. the International Blues Challenge in Febru- in-kind donations of professional services tion, some believe we still have to be With the passage of a lot of time, ary and the Blues Music Awards each May. for daily business operations or for building separated and controlled. We have to we are different. These events are the biggest and most pres- the Blues Hall of Fame. Learn more about be watched. We are better. But we are also like tigious showcases in the blues world and The Blues Foundation and the 34th Blues We have to ask: Are we building those who lived in that city of 1968 take place here in Memphis, contributing Music Awards by visiting www.blues.org or another veneer that prevents us from that bears the same name but hardly more than $5 million to the local economy by contacting Jay Sieleman, president and having the discussions that should seems the same. each year. CEO, at [email protected] or 527-2583. be the legacy of Memphis in 1968? What are we not seeing that we Now The Blues Foundation is poised to Jeremy Park, director of the Lipscomb Pitts If we can’t take the risk of being should be looking for and talking make an even larger mark on the Memphis Breakfast Club, can be reached at jeremyp@ together to talk about the issues that about? economy. It is currently in the midst of its lpinsurance.com and followed on Twitter (@ have remained, endured and in some The story of that struggle and Raise the Roof! Campaign to build the Blues lpbreakfastclub) and Facebook (facebook. cases grown since 1968, what hope is those moments is being written. Hall of Fame. In the past year, Foundation com/lpbreakfastclub).
Single-Handed Success Story
SINGULAR PERFORMANCE. the Society of Entrepreneurs at age 44, is not how they handle success, but how The White Station Class of 1966, the sharing the rarefied air of folks like Kem- they handle failure – when he taught year ahead of mine, had two Academy mons Wilson and Fred Smith. them, demonstrably, about character Award winners –one you’ve heard of and A little boy who realized that the and integrity, about others instead of self one you haven’t. kids in that neighborhood had nothing – he was telling and teaching what he That was some class. Physicist, MEMPHASIS to look up to but the smokestack of the was told and taught by his single mother. gray matter repository and best-selling dan conaway abandoned Firestone factory and noth- Way to go, Shubert, way to go. author, Alan Lightman, was in it. Federal ing to look forward to beyond a street The 2010 census tells us that there judge and arbiter of public education’s school fraternity, fun, funny and so full of corner, and then did something about it are about 67,000 Memphis kids under future in Shelby County, Hardy Mays, life her personality filled rooms. And she so compelling that it elevated lives and 18 living in a single mother household, a was in it. John Vergos, former coura- wasn’t little girl cute, she was grown-up expectations and inspired a movie. total of 111,810 kids without both mom geous city council maverick and scion good looking. When most of us went off A little boy who volunteered to and dad at home. “Undefeated” is about to Rendezvous rib royalty, was in it. to college, she was getting married and coach the chronically hapless Manas- all of them, black and white, and the dif- Academy Award-winning actress, Kathy having a baby. When we were starting sas High School football team for six ference love, support and understanding Bates, was in it. careers, getting married and having years, brought a whole staff of volunteer can make, even against great odds. And Linda Shubert was in it. babies, her husband had already walked coaches with him, and took that team to It’s about Bill, and Bill looks just like Kathy won her Academy Award for out and left Linda with a little boy to the state playoffs, took the players from his momma. her performance in “Misery.” Linda gave raise all by herself. self-loathing to self-respect, and took I’m a Memphian, and “Undefeated” is birth to “Undefeated,” the current Acad- A little boy who grew up to start a the story to the Academy Awards. a movie about us. emy Award winner for documentaries. lumber business in a falling-down build- That little boy Linda raised is Bill Dan Conaway is a lifelong Mem- Kathy was acting, Linda was dealing with ing in an all-but-forgotten North Mem- Courtney, and Bill Courtney is one phian, longtime adman and aspiring the hard reality of a single mother. phis neighborhood, and then made it mother of a man. When he told his team, local character in a city known for them. Linda was the sweetheart of my high so successful that he’ll be inducted into repeatedly, that the measure of people Email [email protected]. www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 35
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