{"id":27697,"date":"2024-03-21T08:59:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=27697"},"modified":"2024-03-21T11:28:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T16:28:31","slug":"thursday-update-301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/21\/thursday-update-301\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

The second article I’ve published since returning to Medium is now online: 9 Kind Things You Can Do for Your Homeless Friend (and 3 that seem kind, but really aren’t).<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Loflin Yard is having a crawfish boil this Sunday at noon. The cook is Glaze Hardage who does the awesome Saturday boils at Max\u2019s Sports Bar. $13 a pound. Live music by the Grassfire Bluegrass Band.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Megan Thee Stallion brings her Hot Girl Summer Tour with special guest GloRilla to FedExForum May 30. Tickets go on sale Friday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

West Memphis Dispensary seeks a bartender\/receptionist<\/a>. I bet that\u2019d be an interesting job.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

River Inn of Harbor Town seeks front desk agents and housekeepers<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In other River Inn news, the Terrace restaurant is launching a seasonal menu<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Grizzlies took a 137-116 loss at Golden State last night. TANK TANK TANK<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Today is International Tiramisu Day<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Memphis 901 FC seeks a marketing director<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The University of Memphis has hired a few people in an attempt to bolster its NIL efforts<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

Kinfolk has opened on Harbor Town Square and the CA has a gallery<\/a>. The restaurant is Chef Cole Jeanes’ creation, once in the former Puck Food Hall at 409 S. Main. Biscuit sandwiches are the things to get there, although they also have a yummy-looking steak and eggs plate.<\/p>\r\n

Gary Topper performs at the Cossitt Library Friday evening from 6:30 to 7:30 in its Five Fridays of Jazz series.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0There will be a Walkin’ in Memphis Celebration for World Down Syndrome Day<\/a> this evening at 6 PM. The walk will start at the I-55 bridge and end at Beale Street Landing.<\/p>\r\n

Last night during chapel at the Union Mission, our lead pastor shared more details of the men’s drug & alcohol recovery program at the facility. It is free and it starts with a 30-day stay on the second floor of the Mission at Poplar near Danny Thomas. Then participants move for six months out to a facility in northeast Shelby County, described as being a fun outdoor playground for adults that is perfect for keeping their minds off booze and drugs.<\/p>\r\n

After participants graduate, they can live at a Mission-operated facility near Poplar and Tillman for up to a year. Facility residents have to pay rent, which is a couple hundred bucks a month, and past participants told me you get your own room with a TV. Participants have to go get a job in the community and are required to save 60% of their income. At the end of the year, they often discover that they have enough to pay cash for a vehicle or for a down payment on a house.<\/p>\r\n

Sounds like a fabulous program, especially for the price. Let me repeat something I mentioned in the past, though – the program uses the Bible as its textbook, not AA’s twelve steps and Big Book. If you’re not on board with Christian principles – accepting Jesus as your savior, repenting for your sins, and so forth – I don’t know how successful you’d be in this program.<\/p>\r\n

That’ll wrap it up for today’s post. Welcome to all the people in town for March Madness. Go get you some Gus’s chicken or some Central BBQ while you’re here. Be sure to check out A. Schwab’s on Beale Street. Don’t leave valuables in plain sight in your cars.<\/p>\r\n

Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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