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    On Christmas, everybody eats at Brother Juniper’s

    “We feel like it’s part of our job, especially on Christmas Day of all days, to get up and give back the way we know how, which is with a good meal and some company,” said owner Patrick Koplin at the restaurant’s 25th annual holiday community meal. 

    By Aarron Fleming December 26, 2024
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    Celebration planned for 100-year anniversary of Tom Lee’s heroism

    This coming May will mark 100 years since the 1925 river rescue, when Tom Lee saved 32 people from the Mississippi River south of Memphis after their boat capsized.

    By Bill Dries December 30, 2024
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    Thanks to her role in ‘Mufasa,’ Pilar is a star

    Hollywood sound designer Watson Wu spent a week in Memphis in 2022 recording sounds at the zoo for “Mufasa: The Lion King.”

    By Jody Callahan December 30, 2024
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    Tigers AD remembers Marlon Dechausay, champion for student-athletes

    Memphis athletic director Ed Scott said he never imagined that on a work trip he’d lose his friend of 14 years. Tigers associate AD Marlon Dechausay suffered a heart attack while in Hawaii for the Maui Invitational. He died Dec. 4.

    By Frank Bonner II December 21, 2024
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    MASE celebrates football state championship win

    The Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering Phoenix football team brought home the Class 1A TSSAA High School BlueCross Bowl Football Championship, the first charter school to win the title, and had a parade to celebrate.

    By Patrick Lantrip December 21, 2024
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    GloRilla gives back to her alma mater Melrose High

    The rapper, whose real name is Gloria Woods, graduated from Orange Mound’s Melrose High in 2017. On Wednesday, Dec. 18, she returned with a $25,000 check towards a new media center for the school.

    By Julia Baker December 18, 2024
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    Team Max helps fill the stomachs of Memphis’ hungry people

    Aided by more than 130 volunteers, Team Max distributes 6,000 large food baskets to those in need, including 3,000 handed out on a chilly Saturday morning at the Mid-South Food Bank in South Memphis.

    By Jody Callahan December 14, 2024
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    Runners have robust showing at St. Jude Marathon

    Runners braved a chilly December morning to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

    By Patrick Lantrip December 07, 2024
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    St. Jude Memphis Marathon runners all had stories to tell

    An estimated 22,500 runners took part in Saturday’s St. Jude Memphis Marathon to raise money for the children’s hospital. Nearly every one of them had a story to tell about someone they know touched by illness.

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    By Jody Callahan December 08, 2024
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    Ready to run: Team meets for pasta, pride before St. Jude Memphis Marathon

    Southern College of Optometry’s 145-member team is ready to hit the pavement Saturday for the kids of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. But first, pasta. 

    By Aisling Mäki December 07, 2024
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    Calkins: The St. Jude Memphis Marathon isn’t just a race. It’s a lesson for us all.

    Some 22,500 people will be running through Downtown Memphis on Saturday. How did it happen? That’s a story worth telling all your friends.

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    By Geoff Calkins December 09, 2024
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    Hope ahead: St. Jude kicks off Marathon Weekend in Downtown Memphis

    Memphis will host 22,500 participants, including a record 1,800 patient family members, for this year’s St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend.

    By Aisling Mäki December 07, 2024
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    Memphians make the season bright with toy drive donations

    Thousands of residents are happy to give a present during Porter-Leath’s annual Tot Truck collection. But for Memphians who know what it’s like to grow up without toys, donating a gift is a chance to “return the favor.” 

    By Julia Baker December 05, 2024
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    Taste of community: Memphis cookbook will connect recipes to history

    Residents will a dash of neighborhood stories and a pinch of family recipes to create a cookbook that captures the “authentic voices” of South Memphis.

    By Julia Baker December 30, 2024
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    Grizzlies star Jaren Jackson Jr. gives $50K to National Civil Rights Museum

    For Giving Tuesday this year, Jaren Jackson Jr. went local with a gift in conjunction with his #MuchRequired philanthropy campaign, inspired by his grandmother.

    By Drew Hill December 03, 2024
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    Lions Clubs holiday pecans make a big community impact

    A holiday tradition as real as Christmas carols, the Lions Club pecans are available around town with the proceeds helping those in need with hearing and vision surgeries.

    By Michael Waddell December 08, 2024
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    Courtside change: How a mentorship program uses hoops for hope

    A Louisiana-based pastor changed the lives of 17 kids with tickets to a New Orleans Pelicans game. Now, he’s looking to do the same in Memphis. 

    By Julia Baker December 01, 2024
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    Stitch by stitch, stroke survivor finds ‘new beginning’ in quilting

    With a steady hand and a needle and thread, Rose Wheeler taught herself patience again. 

    By Laura Testino December 03, 2024
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    Idlewild’s bell tower will glow again, this time in two-tone LED light

    The switch will be flipped Dec. 4 at the church. “From that point forward, it will be a lit beacon of our hope — of Christ’s love — from the heart of Midtown,” Rev. David Powers said.

    By Jane Roberts December 03, 2024
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    Jazz workshop teaches more than music

    The Memphis Jazz Workshop instructs young cats (jazz artists) in the fundamentals of a hip musical genre that has a long, but little-known history in the home of blues and rock ‘n’ roll.

    By Jody Callahan December 01, 2024
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    At Memphis International, this Delta employee brings an air of joy

    Beverly Becton, 38-year employee of Delta Air Lines, lights up the gates at MEM with her customer shoutouts, including roses for birthdays and anniversaries, right down to the family pet. 

    By Jane Roberts December 03, 2024
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    Volunteers feed thousands in Pinch District on Thanksgiving Day

    First-time and veteran volunteers spent two days cooking and prepping enough food for more than 1,000 people during Westy’s annual mission to serve a Thanksgiving meal to Memphians in need.

    By Jody Callahan November 28, 2024
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    Calkins: He’s the pastor who survived the Harvest plane crash. A story of gratitude and grief.

    Kennon Vaughan has been told that the insurance company’s survivability expert concluded there was a zero percent chance anyone could have survived the plane crash. But he did. Here’s how he makes sense of his story. 

    By Geoff Calkins July 15, 2025
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    No mean feast: Leaders join to feed community for Thanksgiving

    The city and county are banding with Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church for its MemFeast event, where volunteers will deliver food boxes to 300 families across Memphis. 

    By Julia Baker November 26, 2024
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    Courtney, in voice that booms, out to build army of good

    His podcast, “An Army of Normal Folks,” with 19,000 subscribers, offers a weekly look at the good people are doing without government intervention. 

    By Jane Roberts November 25, 2024

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