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Electrolux Names Construction Contractor

Submitted by John Phelps, Community Blogger

Friday, December 30th, 2011, 9:10pm

Electrolux today named WG Yates & Sons Construction as its general contractor for the construction of its new North American Cooking Products manufacturing center in Memphis. Yates will be responsible for the management of the $80 million construction project.

In addition, the company announced that more than 50 percent of the $80 million construction spend would go to Memphis-area firms, with a minimum of 15 percent going to minority and women-owned area businesses. Electrolux originally committed to spend $30 million with local firms, and this represents a 50 percent increase in local spending. The company has already spent $5 million with 10 other local firms.

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2011 Singing Christmas Tree Broadcast

Submitted by John Phelps, Community Blogger

Friday, December 23rd, 2011, 9:16pm

If you missed Bellevue Baptist Singing Christmas Tree this year, Action News 5 is giving you two chances to see it! WMC-TV 5 will be broadcasting the yearly Christmas classic on Christmas Eve, Saturday December 24 at 1:00 p.m., and also on Christmas Day, Sunday December 25 at noon.

This is a one-hour version of the Singing Christmas Tree that features many of the musical highlights of the program.

Image provided by Bellevue Baptist Church.

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FCA Fundraiser Lets You Get The Shirt Off U.S. Goalie's Back

Submitted by Tim Van Horn, Meteorologist

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011, 11:43pm

FCA Fundraiser Lets You Get The Shirt Off U.S. Goalie's Back

Supporters of a new Fellowship of Christian Athletes fundraiser have a chance to own what many soccer fans around the world would love to have, an autographed Tim Howard jersey.

Howard, firmly entrenched as the number one goalkeeper for the U.S.

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Former Ole Miss Chancellor hospitalized

Submitted by Michael Phillips

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011, 6:20pm

Right now retired Ole Miss Chancellor Robert Khayat in recovering in an Oxford hospital.

Khayat was admitted Monday.

There is not word yet what the 73 year old attorney and former pro football player is being treated for...but officials said Khayat is improving.

He retired from Ole Miss in 2009 for nearly 14 years.

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2012 Rose Parade "Donate Life Float" To Honor Mid-Southerner

Submitted by Joe Birch, Anchor

Thursday, December 15th, 2011, 9:39pm

2012 Rose Parade "Donate Life Float" To Honor Mid-Southerner

A young man named Michael Gilmore should be planning to celebrate the holidays with his family in Helena West Helena, AR this week. Instead, the 24 year old's image will be a part of the 2012 Rose Parade's "Donate Life Float" as it rolls through Pasadena, CA on January 2, 2012.

The Mid-Southerner is one of 72 people whose portraits will be featured on the float, honoring those who donated vital organs, tissue or eyes so that countless others might have life.

The young man was full of promise, a 2004 honors graduate of West Helena High School where he had played football, ran track and participated in the JROTC. After high school, Michael enrolled at Phillips Community College where he earned his Associates Degree and began dreaming of a career.

Jerlene Gilmore completes her son Michael Gilmore's "Floragraph" image that will appear on the 2012 Rose Parade's "Donate Life Float" on Monday, January 2, 2012

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St. Agnes-St. Dominic Coaching Legend Faces Toughest Fight Yet

Submitted by Joe Birch, Anchor

Thursday, December 8th, 2011, 3:36pm

St. Agnes-St. Dominic Coaching Legend Faces Toughest Fight Yet

If you've entered the gymnasium on the East Memphis campus of St. Agnes Academy and St. Dominic School, you have walked into the world where James W. Mathis has devoted nearly all of his working life.

Mathis, 77, has served as a coach on the staff of the private Catholic schools located on Walnut Grove Road at Mendenhall since 1962.

"Some of his original players came to drink coffee with him at Panera Bread at Laurelwood this week and I felt like I was in the presence of a rock star," said Jay Mathis, the coach's son who followed in his father's footsteps.

"Six week ago, Coach Mathis was bench pressing 260 pounds, " said Jim Lassandrello, Athletic Director of St. Agnes-St. Dominic, "but now he's in a wheelchair. It's shaken all of us."

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Bellevue's The Majesty of Christmas: "An Irish Christmas"

Submitted by John Phelps, Community Blogger

Sunday, December 4th, 2011, 3:49pm

Bellevue's The Majesty of Christmas: "An Irish Christmas"

Special guests Keith and Kristyn Getty will join the Bellevue Choir and Orchestra for this year’s celebration of The Majesty of Christmas. Favorites at Bellevue, the Gettys return to premiere their new Christmas CD and will bring an expanded band with them. The Getty's music is used in churches worldwide and they have written songs such as "In Christ Alone", "The Power Of The Cross", and "Come, People Of The Risen King."

The evening will be a blend of Christmas favorites, traditional carols, and new music written by Keith, Kristyn, and their team. Combine their band and awe-inspiring music with over 200 voices of the Bellevue Choir and the magnificent Bellevue Orchestra, and it will be an evening you will not want to miss.

Sunday, December 18 at 6:00 p.m. in the Worship Center at Bellevue Baptist Church

Information and image provided by Bellevue Baptist Church.

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