Calkins: Dancing with scissors. How one Memphian is changing the city one snip at a time.
Greater Memphis Chamber's Ted Townsend (left) looks on with Terri Bosby (center) as she superivises her 50th ribbon cutting of the year at Rumble Boxing June 9. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
Terri Bosby has presided over 50 ribbon-cuttings for the Greater Memphis Chamber this year, or more than two a week. At a difficult time in Memphis, Bosby is reminding us what determination and enthusiasm can do.
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