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Teen Read-In

Submitted by Bernadette Shinault-Davis, MPLIC
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012, 3:42pm
Teen Read-In
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Tigers Around Town: The First 25 Years

Submitted by Ashli Blow, Community Blogger
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012, 11:18am
Courtesy of University of Memphis Alumni Association

In celebration of The University of Memphis centennial year 100 unique tiger statues have been been put on display around The University’s campus or around town.

Made out of fiber glass the Bengal tiger figures each have a unique design and many of them were donated from sponsors in the Memphis community.Each tiger represents a highlighting point of each year.

We have the first 25 tigers in this slideshow, take a look...

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Free Small Business Class offered at Memphis Public Library

Submitted by Bernadette Shinault-Davis, MPLIC
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012, 10:28am

 Business Networking

This class is designed to help business owners understand networking as a form of advertising with a purpose. During the class, attendees will learn how to properly network and with whom to network.

Presenter: Beverly Anderson, Founder and President of the National Home-Based Business Chamber of Commerce.

Organization: Memphis Chapter SCORE

When: Thursday, February 23, 2012

Where: Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library 3rd floor

Time: 6:00 pm

For more information, call Business and Sciences Department 901-415-2734.

Information provided by Memphis Public Library and Information Center

 

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Book Whisperers

Submitted by Bernadette Shinault-Davis, MPLIC
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012, 4:24pm
Book Whisperers

This is not your ordinary book club. Book Whisperers focuses on the participants and their favorite books and stories and how those books impacted their life and personal development.

Book Whisperers will meet Wednesday, February 22 at Poplar-White Station Library, from 5:30 - 6:30 pm. Discuss and share experiences from your favorite children's book, favorite folk or fairy tale and enjoy hot cider and cookies. 

For more information, call 415-2777.

Information provided by Memphis Public Library and Information Center

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Get EnergySmart Workshops Schedule

Submitted by Bernadette Shinault-Davis, MPLIC
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012, 9:26am
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 Memphis Light Gas & Water, Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Memphis Public Library Get EnergySmart @ Your Library workshops continue at your community library.

Get EnergySmart @ Your Library is a two-hour workshop that offers practical tips and hands-on instructions on better ways to conserve energy. Attendees will leave Get EnergySmart sessions with a tote valued at $50 that includes gadgets and tools to complete simple do-it-yourself projects that will help you save money and energy.

Get EnergySmart workshops are free.

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Unified school district likely to be subdivided

Submitted by Kym Clark on Monday, February 20th, 3:14 pm

MEMPHIS, TN- (WMC-TV) – There are still, apparently, many details to be worked out by the people in charge of reinventing education, but it seems there's a clearer picture of what a unified school district might look like.

And that district isn't likely to be a single, super-district.

A recent Commercial Appeal headline reads "Unified Memphis-Shelby County schools to split into 6 sub-districts."

The newspaper claims the Transition Planning Commission, the group in charge or merging the Memphis and Shelby County districts, will soon approve and recommend one of two plans, both of which call for dividing the 150,000 students into six decision making sub-districts.

Two of those districts would be in the current Shelby County system and the other four would be in the city and each would have varying degrees of local autonomy.

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Protesters express outrage with Memphis Animal Shelter

Submitted by WMCTV Web Staff
Sunday, February 19th, 2012, 8:10pm

MEMPHIS, TN- (WMC-TV) - Animal activists took to the streets of Memphis Sunday to express their frustrations with the Memphis Animal Shelter.

Protesters covered the four corners of the Poplar and Highland intersection.  They are outraged over the kill rate at the shelter.

"I think there are too many animals that are needlessly killed," said protester Ona Cooper.

Some accused the shelter of singling out Pit Bulls or dogs that resemble them.

Cindy Sanders with Community Action for Animals said shelter employees notified city division leaders in January that the shelter animals were starving.  Sanders said when the complaint was not addressed by February, a shelter employee reported the problem to police.

"According to the vet records, they went in under normal weight conditions, and now when the charge was made, they were skin and bones," said Sanders.

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