In-person and virtual events offered for MLK Days of Service during pandemic
MLK Days of Service making changes due to pandemic By WMC Action News 5 Staff | January 18, 2021 at 5:41 AM CST - Updated January 18 at 8:14 AM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Memphians plan to continue the tradition of honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday by volunteering for MLK Days of Service. There are in-person and virtual events this year because of the pandemic.
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Monday, a couple of in-person events include the Memphis River Parks Partnership. They’ve invited volunteers to clean up Cobblestone Landing.
Memphis Tilth has also invited people to come out to their Chelsea Avenue location and help with community garden work. Both organizations have asked volunteers to wear masks and stay socially distanced.
Volunteer Memphis’ 5th annual MLK Days of Service is now open for registration
In-person and virtual volunteers are needed January 14-18 for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Days of Service.
Credit: Volunteer Memphis Published: 8:41 PM CST January 7, 2021 Updated: 8:52 PM CST January 7, 2021
MEMPHIS, Tenn Volunteer Memphis is calling for in-person and virtual volunteers to register for its fifth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Days of Service January 14 to 18. Anyone interested can sign-up online using the Volunteer Memphis website at volunteermemphis.org.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Volunteer Memphis is asking that all volunteers adhere to guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by wearing a mask, maintaining social distancing, and following additional guidelines set by their local health departments when volunteering.
Police investigating $50K worth of artifacts stolen from Memphis River Museum
Police investigating thefts from Mud Island museum By Janice Broach | January 5, 2021 at 10:22 PM CST - Updated January 5 at 10:22 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Curators at the Mississippi River Museum on Mud Island want to find tens of thousands of dollars worth of artifacts that were apparently stolen last year.
The theft at the museum on Mud Island happened in October but is just now coming to light in a police report we obtained.
According to the report, $50,000 worth of artifacts were stolen.
“I just think it’s preposterous that somebody would steal treasures like that,” said Lee Millar.
The 901: How a Tom Lee Park revamp could transform Downtown Memphis Ryan Poe, Memphis Commercial Appeal
Good Thursday morning from Memphis, which is getting some unseasonably warm weather today. This morning, we re looking at Christian Brothers University s expansion plans and at how South Memphis residents could buy back the block. But first.
After a post-mediation redesign, the long-awaited $60 million redevelopment of the Downtown Memphis park overlooking the Mississippi River is finally underway.
Marking the start of what could be a more than two-year redevelopment of Tom Lee Park, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland broke ground on the project yesterday at Cutbank Bluff, our Corinne Kennedy reports. The bluff will be redesigned as a gateway connecting the park with South Main, with a walkway stretching across Riverside Drive and crisscrossing up the bluff to Vance Avenue, near Old Dominick Distillery.
Memphis River Parks Partnership CEO says Tom Lee Park renovations have been long-awaited
Tom Lee Park redevelopment now underway By WMC Action News 5 Staff | December 9, 2020 at 5:23 PM CST - Updated December 9 at 5:41 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A plan three years in the making to redevelop Tom Lee Park kicked off Wednesday.
Dozens of city leaders and Memphis River Parks Partnership (MRPP) Visionaries gathered for the virtual groundbreaking of the $60 million renovations for Tom Lee Park.
Memphis River Parks Partnership President and CEO Carol Coletta says this has been a long time coming.
âOnce we complete it in 2023, we will have for Memphis, 18 blocks of transformed riverfront in less than five years,â Coletta said.