Arts, conservation converge Sunday
ArtsMemphis and Ducks Unlimited will host a Conservation Through Art Family Day, 2-5 p.m. Sunday at Shelby Farms Visitor Center.
The free event sponsored by Baptist Memorial Health Care will include f ishing, conservation games, duck- calling lessons, working- dog demonstrations and performances by Voices of the South, Watoto Memphis and Prizm Ensemble. Activity booths will be set up by the National Ornamental Metal Museum, the Orpheum theater, New Ballet Ensemble and School and Theatre Memphis.
Conservation Through Art is designed to raise awareness for arts and area conservation efforts. For information about Family Day, visit conservationthroughart.org. residents, the beleaguered Shelby County Juvenile Court plans to open a reform planning meeting to the public Thursday.
Committee A, a group of mostly court and county officials, has been meeting behind closed doors at the Shelby County Juvenile Court since June, in response to the U. S. Department of Justice’s publicly released findings against the court for due process violations and racial disparities. The committee is headed by Bill Powell, the county’s criminal justice coordinator, and is working to organize improvements.
The committee is moving its next meeting, slated for 4 p.m. Thursday, to the Memphis City Schools Board of Education’s auditorium at 2597 Avery. One hour will be allotted for public comments or questions.
Michael Bourne had his bond set at $100,000, and he remained jailed late Tuesday. He is due back in court Nov. 28.
Bourne was previously due in court on Oct. 4, but failed to show, saying he had oral surgery. When officials found out that he was at his home, police arrested him. His previous bond of $10,000 was revoked, and Bourne has been jailed since that arrest.
Bourne, 38, was indicted earlier this year on theft and forgery charges involving a half- dozen checks totaling $ 18,115 deposited in a Regions Bank account last year. He also was indicted on theft charges for writing two other bad checks, one for $535.01 another for $5,663, in 2010.
Bourne, once partnered with financially troubled developer Rusty Hyneman, made millions in real estate and other investments, but filed bankruptcy last year. as rare as reports of Bigfoot in the Mid-South: This week’s screening of a new Sasquatch thriller that featured Sam “The Medicine Man” Bielich in a supporting role was canceled due to lack of interest.
Bielich was a Memphis celebrity for much of the 1980s as the “Medicine Man,” a self-styled cheerleader in loincloth and warrior headdress who roused crowds at college and professional sporting events. Now based in Los Angeles and acting under the name Sam Ayers, Bielich had hoped to garner enough advance ticket sales to support a screening Tuesday night at the Malco Cordova Cinema of his new movie, “Bigfoot County,” a “Blair Witch”style found-footage horror movie about a lethal Sasquatch.
Publicized through news reports and social media, the local screening required that 97 tickets be sold in advance. However, fewer than 25 were scooped up by the deadline, causing the cancellation of the event.
Fans of Bigfoot and/or Bielich needn’t fret, however: The movie is scheduled to arrive on DVD on Dec. 11.
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