Natural products keep Aunt Key’s Apothecary fresh
Carla Worth started Aunt Key’s Apothecary in 2013 as an all-natural cleaning company. She’s since expanded to include a variety of all-natural products she makes by hand.
Carla Worth started Aunt Key’s Apothecary in 2013 as an all-natural cleaning company. She’s since expanded to include a variety of all-natural products she makes by hand.
The impact from ioby, an online crowdfunding platform, has been significant in Memphis with 203 projects funded since early 2014.
Facing chronic public and private disinvestment, Klondike Smokey City is taking development into its own hands in creating a neighborhood plan with University of Memphis students.
Once a month, Dr. Beverly Cleaves brings her endocrinology practice to the Klondike community. Her longstanding Friendship Feeding Program provides a medical clinic, clothes and food drive and a hot meal to North Memphis.
Memphis' first birthing center will provide pre and post-natal care, midwife-led birthing, mental health services, abortion services, care for sexually transmitted diseases and ongoing reproductive health education with an emphasis on serving pregnant women in impoverished communities.
Art therapy grows in popularity as a creative way to manage addiction recovery. Christian Brothers University, The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and The Oaks at La Paloma treatment facility are among the groups making use of the practice.
The appointment enables Dr. Alex Dopico to provide advice to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
The fund, which is the city’s only dedicated source of funding solely for CDCs, will help with revitalization efforts in blighted neighborhoods.
Recently, small business owners have banded together to brand the one-block area as the Flicker Street Arts District. However, that banner doesn’t mean that greater Memphis necessarily knows where Flicker Street is located.
With the closing of two schools over the past two years, much uncertainty remains around education in the Klondike Smokey City community.
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