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Kate Spade store opening

Kate Spade store opening

The new Kate Spade store in Saddle Creek is expected to open this week.

Right now, a sign outside the boutique says the shop will open Tuesday.

Kate Spade sells handbags, shoes and accessories.

The only other Kate Spade Store in the state of Tennessee is in Nashville.

"Free Food Friday"

"Free Food Friday"

It's "Free Food Friday" at Action News 5. We teamed up with the Midtown Lennys and Curbside Casseroles in east Memphis to raise money for the Mid-South Food Bank.

What will your office do to raise money for the Mid-South Food Bank?

On "Free Food Friday",  we ask our staff to join us for a FREE lunch in exhange for a donation to the Mid-South Food Bank.  It's the second year for the fundraiser at Action News 5.  Staffers were treated to turkey, ham, dressing, green breans, pyramid potatoes, salad, pecan pie, apple pie and much more from Curbside Casseroles Lennys provided turkey, ham, tuna and even chicken salad sandwiches with all the fixin's, chips, cookies and drinks.  The food was delicious!

Phone numbers for county offices change

Phone numbers for county offices change

Shelby County Government agencies, including the Mayor’s Office and Sheriff’s Office, have new telephone numbers.

All county agency offices at the Criminal Justice Center and the Vasco Smith, Jr. Administration Building, 160 North Main, now have new telephone numbers beginning with “222.”

The “222” numbers replaced several telephone exchanges that begin with 545, 377, 379, 544 and others.  Most new numbers with prefix “222” also have four new digits assigned to them.

For several months, people who call the old county government numbers will get a recording for the new numbers.

The new “222” telephone numbers are also being used at the Shelby County Health Department offices on Jefferson.  The Shelby County Corrections Center and other administrative offices on Mullins Station Road will have new telephone numbers in the next few months.

Business volunteers to help families in need

Business volunteers to help families in need

Reynolds, Bone & Griesbeck, a Memphis-based CPA firm, assisted AGAPE Child & Family Services, Inc. last Friday with their Families in Transition program.  The FIT program serves homeless, pregnant women and their children by providing housing and life skills training for up to 2 years as they learn to live on their own.  30 RBG employees cleaned and painted 5 new apartment units in preparation for new families entering the FIT program.  “We are so excited to be giving back to our Memphis community by partnering with AGAPE on this project” shared Kelly Summons, RBG’s leader on this project.

First Horizon National selects new chair

First Horizon National selects new chair

The First Horizon National Corporation board of directors has selected their new chairman.  Bryan Jordan, current CEO of the company, will succeed Mike Rose on January 1, 2012.

Rose, 69, will retire from the First Horizon board in April, just after he reaches the board's mandatory retirement age of 70. Rose has served as a director since 1984 and as chairman since January 2007.

Change coming in Kroger's coupon policy

Change coming in Kroger's coupon policy

Kroger's new coupon policy -- to be posted in all stores by Oct. 15 -- earned both a "Yea!" and a "Huh?" from one local coupon enthusiast.

Shana Moland, author of the website and blog My Memphis Mommy, said she's confused about Kroger's policy change on the use of print-at-home Internet coupons.

She said she noticed one of Kroger's stores had already posted the change, which states that Kroger will honor only two Internet coupons per manufacturer per day. The measure is designed to curb coupon counterfeiting.

The Internet coupon portion of the policy, as released to Action News 5, reads as follows:

Internet Coupon Restrictions /PAH Coupons

Special Olympics gold medalist heads to Mid-South

Loretta Claiborne will be the guest speaker for The Arc Mid-South’s 16th Annual “Achieve Beyond Expectation” Benefit Gala, designated to raise funds for the agency’s crucial work for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).  On Saturday, October 15th at Hilton Memphis, The Arc Mid-South will roll out the red carpet for the event as the agency welcomes Claiborne to the Mid-South to testify how she “Achieves Beyond Expectation.”