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Downtown board navigates pandemic to help Raw Girls

By , Special to The Daily Memphian Updated: March 26, 2020 11:40 AM CT | Published: March 26, 2020 4:00 AM CT
<strong>Raw Girls owners Hannah Pickle (left) and her spouse, Amy Pickle, have received a $30,000 grant from a Downtown Memphis Commission affiliate board to help open its fourth location, in Peabody Place Downtown. They're shown Wednesday, March 25, at their Midtown location at 242 S. Cooper.</strong> (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Raw Girls owners Hannah Pickle (left) and her spouse, Amy Pickle, have received a $30,000 grant from a Downtown Memphis Commission affiliate board to help open its fourth location, in Peabody Place Downtown. They're shown Wednesday, March 25, at their Midtown location at 242 S. Cooper. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Members of a Downtown Memphis Commission board used a teleconference to keep their social distance and to approve a $30,000 grant to bring the healthy food business to Peabody Place. 

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Tom Bailey

Tom Bailey

Tom Bailey retired in January as a business reporter at The Daily Memphian, and after 40 years in journalism. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He has lived in Midtown for 36 years.


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