Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Boy Scouts of America, and the Mid-South Food Bank, will work together for the second year to help stamp out childhood hunger. The annual Professional Nursing Council’s Cereal Drive, helps to fill local food banks by donating boxes of healthy cereals. “These boxes of cereal will help feed breakfast to children in the Mid-South,” said Paula Dycus, Administrative Director of Professional Practice & Research at Le Bonheur. Dycus added more than 17 percent of the Tennessee state population lives in food insecure households, according to Feed America. Every box of cereal will help feed 10 children.

Le Bonheur pledges to collect 350,000 servings, that is approximately 35,000 boxes of cereal. Hospital staff, volunteers, and community members are invited to help Le Bonheur reach the goal.

Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region is celebrating National Women’s Health Week by offering some free services at its health center at 2430 Poplar Avenue, during National Women’s Health Week, May 13-17.

National Women’s Health Week is a weeklong national health observance designed to empower women to make their health a top priority. All women are encouraged to take the following simple steps for a longer, healthier and happier life:

• Get an annual checkup
• Schedule recommended preventive screenings
• Practice safe sex to prevent sexually transmitted infections
• Use birth control when appropriate to prevent unintended pregnancies.

PPGMR is proud to help women achieve these goals by offering the following free services in its health center at 2430 Poplar Avenue:

Memphis will celebrate National Train Day at the  Amtrak Central Station on Saturday, May 11th, with a  passenger train and kid's activities from 11am to 4 pm. "This celebration will be the biggest observance of National Train Day that Memphis has ever had," said William B. Strong, vice president of the Tennessee Association of Railroad Passengers.

A diesel locomotive train will be on display along with a coach and a sleeping car from Amtrak’s Chicago / Memphis / New Orleans Superliner passenger train, "The City of New Orleans." Strong said, “the train will give the public the opportunity to see and sample firsthand what a modern 21st century double-decker passenger train is really like,”

Travel experts will be available to answer questions about modern day passenger train travel and plans. Amtrak route schedules, timetables, and vacation guides will also be available to visitors.