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October 10, 1997
Architects, builders and Home Depot will build six childrens playhouses for auction and raffling to support Court Appointed Special Advocates Architects, builders and Home Depot will build six childrens playhouses for auction and raffling to support Court Appointed Special Advocates. The houses will take shape Saturday at each Home Depot location. Two will be built at the Home Depot store near Wolfchase Galleria, and two will be built at the Riverdale and Horn Lake stores. Wolfchase Galleria will display the playhouses and take silent bids Oct. 12-26. Home Depot will build three houses, which will be raffled for donations to CASA. Architects from Askew, Nixon, Ferguson; Looney, Ricks, Kiss; and Williamson, Haizlip & Pounders will team with builders Walker Bradshaw Inc., Virgil Edwards and Swift Treadwell to build three houses that will be sold by silent auction. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded Girls Inc. a $200,000 grant to implement an adolescent risk behavior prevention program. The initiative is a national project to promote healthy behavior and prevent teen pregnancies among girls. Girls Inc. was one of four organizations in the United States to receive a grant under the initiative. Other recipients were Rapid City, S.D.; York, Pa.; and Madison, Wis. Gov. Don Sundquist is leading a Tennessee delegation in back-to-back conferences in Japan and Korea this week. Sundquist and about 65 delegates have been joined by six delegations from other Southeastern states. The meetings in Tokyo and Seoul are hosted by organization counterparts to the Southeast U.S./Japan Association and the Southeast U.S. Korea Economic Committee. Last years conference in Memphis drew about 600 business leaders and economic development officials to discuss trade, culture, technology and commerce. Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto was presented the 1997 Governors Award on Oct. 3 at the Mississippi Quality Awards program. Designed to recognize organizations that are outstanding examples of quality management, the Governors Award is the highest award offered in the state. Baptist-DeSoto was one of two recipients. The program uses Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria.
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