The South Main Association meeting is tonight at Hollywood Disco. The general manager of the Cook Convention Center will speak. Free hors d’ouevres courtesy of the Disco, cash bar for beer and wine. Meeting starts at 6 PM.<\/p>\n
Most likely I’ll make an appearance there, but will probably not stay for the whole program… I’m going to be running around Downtown handing a few people guest wristbands to our BBQ booth, and inquiring about guest wristbands for other team booths. Will probably swing through the Saucer, the Goose, and Bardog at some point… maybe a stop at Circa too since our team members have a deal on beer there this week.<\/p>\n
A non-profit called Tickets for Troops<\/a> will hold a fundraiser at the Memphis Zoo on June 18. This organization welcomes back returning troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and provides them with tickets to family-friendly events to make them feel comfortable at home. Since the organization’s founding last December, they’ve sent 31 families to Grizzlies games, Tigers games, concerts, Redbirds games, etc. and there are another 600 families in the Mid-South who could use their support. So, they’re inviting you to their fundraiser at the Zoo, with great food, fine wine and spirits, exceptional cigars, and the Jeremy Schrader Jazz Band. Tickets are available on their website.<\/p>\n There’s a bake sale at the Residence Inn at Main and Monroe this Friday, May 15, from 10 AM until 2 PM. If I remember the banner correctly as I walked by last night, it’s in support of Make-a-Wish. So stop by and grab some goodies on your lunch break or on your way to BBQ Fest.<\/p>\n All right, we’re approaching crunch time for BBQ… got a request for people sending me announcements to blog… unless time is of the essence, please hold them until Sunday. If you send them now they’re almost sure to fall through the cracks, as I will have my hands full with BBQ blog posts and photo uploads to the team’s gallery.<\/p>\n Time to get back to work and troubleshoot some database connection issues… ready for tomorrow to get here so the fun can begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The South Main Association meeting is tonight at Hollywood Disco. The general manager of the Cook Convention Center will speak. Free hors d’ouevres courtesy of the Disco, cash bar for beer and wine. Meeting starts at 6 PM. Most likely I’ll make an appearance there, but will probably not stay for the whole program… I’m … Continue reading “Tue update: SMA meeting tonight, Tickets for Troops, bake sale, and more”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3710,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}