Verizon Hosts Emergency Planning Seminar

Submitted by Jerica Phillips, JCFN Social Marketing Coordinator

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010, 9:35pm

*Action News 5 received the following press release to our news desk*

VERIZON HOSTS EMERGENCY PLANNING SEMINAR FOR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS
The Verizon Preparedness Planning Summit to help business owners get ready for the unexpected

Verizon Wireless is teaming up with the Shelby County Office of Preparedness, the Greater Memphis Chamber and the Memphis Business Journal to offer small business owners a one-day summit on how to prepare their businesses for unexpected disasters and emergencies. The Verizon Preparedness Planning Summit will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 31 at the Holiday Inn on the University of Memphis campus, located at 3700 Central Ave.
The summit will include several workshops throughout the day, and keynote speaker Andrew Mitchell of the U.S.

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Memphis Black Arts Alliance presents "Smoldering Fires"

Submitted by Jerica Phillips, JCFN Social Marketing Coordinator

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010, 9:25pm

*Action News 5 received the following press release to our news desk*

Memphis Black Arts Alliance’s Arts-A-Fire Youth Theater Troupe will present the second play in their 2010-2011 season on September 17-19. “Smoldering Fires,” is a drama by African American author and playwright Kermit Frazier. Through the story of two unlikely friends, the play applies the ideals and struggles of the civil rights movement to contemporary life. Show times are 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, September 17-18 and 3 p.m. on Sunday, September 19 at Evergreen Theatre. Tickets are $15, $12 for MBAA members and $10 for children under 14 and groups of 10 or more.

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Victims claim unknown vandals are throwing rocks from overpass

Submitted by WMCTV Web Staff

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010, 5:45pm

By Jamel Major - bio | email

MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - Several victims have come forward claiming they could have been killed when someone threw rocks at their cars from a Midtown overpass.

Tuesday, Chessie Peavy was still assessing the damage done to her car after a huge rock came crashing into it over the weekend. Peavy was thankful her child wasn't in the back seat when the rock crashed through.

"My daughter normally sits on this side of the car, and had that piece of concrete gone for that window...she could've been seriously injured," she said.

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New Memphis City Saver on sale NOW

Submitted by Tammy Phillips on Tuesday, August 17th, 10:33 am

The NEW Memphis City Saver is now on sale. Mid-South elementary schools, middle schools and high schools sale the 400-page coupon books as a way to raise money for their schools. Students sale the books for $25.

This year's coupon book contains more than $14,000 in savings from local restaurants, services and attractions. The coupons are valid now and expire December 31, 2011.

To learn more about this year's Memphis City Saver, just click here.

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Show us your weekend!

Submitted by Jason Plank, WMCTV.com

Friday, August 13th, 2010, 3:54pm

What is going on this weekend in Your Neighborhood? Let us know by sending us a picture or video to my5@wmctv.com.

Or, upload your video or pictures directly to our website by clicking here.

You might see what you send us on an Action News 5 newscast, or on this website!

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Rhodes College: "Among the Best Undergraduate Institutions"

Submitted by Jerica Phillips, JCFN Social Marketing Coordinator

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010, 9:54pm

*Action News 5 received the following press release to our news desk*

Rhodes Featured in The Princeton Review’s “Best 373 Colleges” Guide

Rhodes College is one of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the college in the new 2011 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 373 Colleges. The Rhodes campus also was rated one of the 20 most beautiful in the country.

Only about 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges and two Canadian colleges are profiled in the book, which is The Princeton Review’s flagship college guide.

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Father Coyne to Speak at CBU

Submitted by Jerica Phillips, JCFN Social Marketing Coordinator

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010, 9:49pm

*Action News 5 received the following press release to our news desk*

Father Coyne - Director Emeritus of the Vatican Observatory
and Renowned Astronomer to Speak at CBU

Memphis- Father George V. Coyne, S.J., Director Emeritus of the Vatican Observatory and current President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, will present “The Dance of the Fertile Universe: Chance and Destiny Embrace” on Friday, October 1 at 7:00 p.m. in the University Theater at Christian Brothers University (CBU).

Coyne has been active in promoting the dialogue between science and religion in the continuing debate about the religious implications of scientific evolution. Coyne’s lecture will continue this dialogue. “Did we come about by chance or by necessity in the evolving universe? The first thing to be said is that the problem is not formulated correctly” stated Coyne.

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