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Micro-totalitarianism
The political left has come up with a new
buzzword: “micro-aggression.”
Professors at the University of California-Berkeley
have been officially warned
against saying such things as “America is
the land of opportunity.” Why? Because
this is considered to be an act of “microaggression”
against minorities and women.
Supposedly it shows that you don’t take
their grievances seriously and are therefore
guilty of being aggressive toward them,
even if only on a micro scale.
You might think that this is just another
crazy idea from Berkeley. But the same
concept appears in a report from the flagship
campus of the University of Illinois-
Urbana. If you just sit in a room where all
the people are white, you are considered
to be guilty of “micro-aggression” against
people who are not white, who will supposedly
feel uncomfortable when they
enter such a room.
At the University of California-Los
Angeles, a professor who changed the
capitalization of the word “indigenous” to
lower case in a student’s dissertation was
accused of “micro-aggression,” apparently
because he preferred to follow the University
of Chicago Manual of Style, rather
than the student’s attempt to enhance the
importance of being indigenous.
When a group of UCLA law students
came to class wearing T-shirts with a picture
of one of their professors who had
organized an intramural softball game,
those T-shirts were protested as a manifestation
of “white privilege.” Why? Because
that professor had written a book critical of
affirmative action.
“Micro-aggression” protests have spread
to campuses from coast to coast – that is,
from California’s Berkeley and UCLA to
Harvard and Fordham on the east coast,
and including Oberlin and Illinois in the
midwest.
Academic administrators have all too
often taken the well-worn path of least
resistance, by regarding the most trivial, or
even silly, claims of victimhood with great
seriousness, even when that involved undermining
faculty members held in high esteem
by most of their students and by their professional
colleagues on campus and beyond.
The concept of “micro-aggression” is
just one of many tactics used to stifle differences
of opinion by declaring some
opinions to be “hate speech,” instead of
debating those differences in a marketplace
of ideas. To accuse people of aggression
for not marching in lockstep with political
correctness is to set the stage for justifying
real aggression against them.
This tactic reaches far beyond academia
and far beyond the United States. France’s
Jean-Paul Sartre has been credited – if that
is the word – with calling social conditions
he didn’t like “violence,” as a prelude to
justifying real violence as a response to
those conditions. Sartre’s American imitators
have used the same verbal tactic to
justify ghetto riots.
Word games are just one of the ways of
silencing politically incorrect ideas, instead
of debating them. Demands that various
conservative organizations be forced to
reveal the names of their donors are another
way of silencing ideas by intimidating
people who facilitate the spread of those
ideas. Whatever the rationale for wanting
those names, the implicit threat is retaliation.
This same tactic was used, decades ago,
by Southern segregationists who tried to
force black civil rights organizations to
reveal the names of their donors, in a situation
where retaliation might have included
violence as well as economic losses.
In a sense, the political left’s attempts
to silence ideas they cannot, or will not,
debate are a confession of intellectual
bankruptcy. But this is just one of the
left’s ever-increasing restrictions on other
people’s freedom to live their lives as they
see fit, rather than as their betters tell them.
Current attempts by the Obama administration
to force low-income housing to
be built in middle class and upscale communities
are on a par with forcing people
to buy the kind of health insurance the
government wants them to buy – Obamacare
– rather than leaving them free to
buy whatever suits their own situation and
preferences.
The left is not necessarily aiming at totalitarianism.
But their know-it-all mindset leads
repeatedly and pervasively in that direction,
even if by small steps, each of which might
be called “micro-totalitarianism.”
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problem until there is significant pain or deformity.
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Data, data, data
On June 1, key sections of the U.S.
Patriot Act expired. Namely, the bulk telephone
records collection known as section
215, that allows the government to collect
phone records on, well, everyone; the “lone
wolf” provision which enabled the government
to spy on a foreigner without proving
association with a specific terrorist group;
and the “roving wiretap” provision that
allows the government to issue a wiretap
on a person and all their means of communication,
rather than on a specific device.
This was not, however, a victory for
those concerned about government overreaching
into private data collection.
Two days later, Congress passed the
USA Freedom Act (aren’t we just the
best at naming things?). This act basically
restored all of the powers of the Patriot
Act, with the exception of the bulk telephony
data collection. Of course, that
doesn’t mean that the data is not still being
collected; it just means that now the NSA
has to ask for the information rather than
collecting it directly.
As citizens, we seem a bit confused as
to what we want our government to be
able to do with our data.
According to a Pew Research Center
survey conducted last month, a slight majority
(54 percent) disapprove of the government
collecting telephone and internet data.
A much wider majority, 74 percent, do not
think we should sacrifice our civil liberties
for safety. That being said, 49 percent
believe that stopping terrorism is more
important than protecting civil liberties.
Pew chooses to call this a “nuanced”
view on data collection. We tend to believe
it is a NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) kind
of view. Americans seem to think it is perfectly
fine to collect their neighbors’ data,
but keep your hands off my iPhone, Mr.
Government.
The reality, of course, is that the government’s
data collection is really just the tip
of the iceberg. Much of the information
from the preceding three paragraphs was
gleaned following internet research. Some
of that research was found on newspaper
websites that had an interesting feature to
them, bulk data collection.
Certainly you have seen this feature on
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a newspaper website, including on our
hometown stltoday.com. You click on a
headline and begin reading a story. A sentence
or two in, you are asked to complete
a survey question in order to continue reading
the article. Some of you readily answer
the question, others are turned off and click
away from the story. But do you know who
and what is behind this data collection?
For most websites, those survey questions
come from the mother of all data
collection agencies, Google. The feature is
called the Google Consumer Survey and it
works something like this: A brand pays a
fee to Google to have seemingly random
questions posed to a targeted audience.
Google partners with publishers to post
these survey questions and splits the fee
with the publisher. The current going rate
is about 10 cents per response, so every
time you answer that question Google and
the publishing partner each get a nickel
and the brand gets your answer. Your
data, your opinion, your knowledge, your
habits, have just been collected and sold
to an unidentified third party. And all you
wanted to do was read a story that you
thought you were getting for free.
The reality is that your activities are far
from free. Data, you see, is the new world
currency. It is bought and sold in real time,
everywhere and by everyone. It is the
source of great opportunity and great consternation
(especially if you are a baseball
team, as it turns out). We are in uncharted
waters when it comes to which parts of our
lives should be accessible to the government
in order to thwart terrorism or accessible
to brands in order to peddle trinkets.
This much is sure, the act of collecting
our telephone and internet records in bulk
is not the traditional act of a “patriot,” and
making those records available only upon
asking private companies for them does
not increase our “freedom.”
Sooner rather than later, this remarkably
important debate needs to be elevated
above the political rancor of elected officials,
and needs to become a core issue
decided at the constitutional level. Our
society today stands at a crossroads of
liberty, and that crossroads passes directly
through all of our backyards.
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DARDENNE PRAIRIE
Aldermen approve board,
P&Z appointments
The Dardenne Prairie Board of Aldermen
now has its full complement of six
members with the appointment of Elliot
Stipes as a Ward 1 alderman.
Stipes was recommended to the board by
Mayor David Zucker, who previously held
the Ward 1 seat. He will serve until next
April, when the aldermanic term expires.
Stipes, of the 100 block of Derbyshire
Lane, is president, chief executive officer
and founder of Green Clean Commercial,
a national green commercial cleaning firm.
He also is president of the Villages of Bainbridge
Homeowners Association and has
lived in the city for 11.5 years.
The board also approved the appointment
of James J. Mutz and Thomas Shea
to fill two vacancies on the planning and
zoning commission. Mutz and Shea filed
the only applications for planning and
zoning commission seats.
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LAKE SAINT LOUIS
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development plan
Imo’s Pizza’s “square beyond compare”
may be coming to Lake Saint Louis,
although some residents near the proposed
location are worried about negative
impacts on their subdivision.
The Lake Saint Louis Board of Aldermen
delayed a decision at their June 16 meeting
on a change in a development plan and special
use permit that could clear the way for an
Imo’s restaurant along Hwy. N. If approved,
it would be the city’s first Imo’s restaurant.
The change would allow a 7,020-square
foot, four-unit retail building on a 1.77-
acre plot. The property is located on the
north side of Hwy. N, south of Pond Fort
Trail, west of Ronald Reagan Drive, and
east of Ridgeway Drive.
Board members, with the exception of
Mayor Kathy Schweikert, said they supported
the change despite objections by
nearby Sommers Landing subdivision residents;
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Subdivision residents said the restaurant
could disrupt their neighborhood.
“We do have a lot of concerns about
lighting issues, late nights and the hustle
and bustle of traffic,” said Michael Meatte,
a director with the Sommers Landing
Homeowners Association.
Nearby residents anticipated the location
would be the site of an office building
when they moved in, city officials said.
Tom Palitzsch, a broker and associate
owner of Thomas Realty Group LLC, representing
Hawk Ridge Investors LLC, the
developer proposing the new Imo’s, told
the board that the new retail space “would
be an asset to the community.”
Palitzsch said Hawk Ridge wants to work
with nearby residents and have agreed to a
less obtrusive design of the building and
cutting down on lighting. Other retail businesses
are locating nearby, he added.
“We feel this is a continuation of the Hwy.
N retail corridor that was created many years
ago,” Palitzsch said. “Traffic here is tremendous.
Nowhere else in Lake Saint Louis do we
have this traffic and that’s what drives retail.”
Retail property in the nearby Shoppes at
Hawk Ridge shopping center is available
but Imo’s officials prefer developing their
own property, which would be a $1.5 million
investment, Palitzsch said. Retail may be the
highest and best use of the property, he added.
The city’s planning and zoning commission
voted not to recommend the application
at its June 4 meeting. Steve Schertel, the
city’s community development director, has
said there is other retail property available.
“I just don’t like going back on how it
was zoned and changing the zoning after
residents purchased their homes,” Schweikert
said. “If we were in that same situation
we might have a different opinion if
it was behind our house.”
But the city’s six aldermen indicated they
tended to support the application, some
noting that the developer has gone out of
their way to accommodate nearby residents.
Alderman Gary Torlina (Ward 1) said
residents needed to check on surrounding
zoning when they buy a property and this
change may not have a severe effect on
their property values. “When do you draw
the line as to when you are going to rezone
something and not rezone something,” he
said. “I just don’t know where that line is.”
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less watchful eye on dilapidated old barns,
high grass or peeling paint on property
zoned agricultural.
The County Council is leaning toward
changes in the county’s property maintenance
code as it applies to rural and agricultural
property, after hearing a litany
of complaints at a work session in May.
Councilmembers and county officials are
expected to meet to come up with changes
in the code and in enforcement by county
inspectors.
Councilmember Joe Brazil (District 2)
called the work session because he said
he had received many “very severe complaints”
from residents about the county
Neighborhood Preservation Department’s
enforcement of the county’s property maintenance
code in rural areas.
Brazil said there may be a breakdown in
interpretation of the code and in its enforcement.
In all, more than 30 residents turned
out for the work session. Brazil asked four
property owners to discuss their property
issues with the department.
Dale Schaper, one of the residents, complained
about the short time he was given
in notices from the county to correct situations
at an old house. Others complained
about property being boarded up and personal
items being taken off their property.
Brazil questioned Art Genasci, director
of the department, about “sweeps” of
inspectors who drove through parts of the
county and issuing violation notices.
Genasci said inspectors had repeatedly
met with property owners and were applying
the code as written, particularly in dealing
with old structures that may fall down
and pose a safety threat.
Brazil was upset that residents complained
about receiving letters condemning old barns,
some of which were more than 100 years old.
“It’s wrong,” Brazil said. “They’re unsafe?
Unsafe to who – trespassers? That’s ludicrous.”
Councilmember Mike Klinghammer (District
6) said there was a need to rewrite the
violation notices that the county sends out.
Some residents agreed.
“If you’re going to check on us, you
need to check on everybody in the county,”
Jacob Schwede, who, along with Allen
and Dennis Schwede, outlined the letters
they had received for taking down structures
and an old barn on their farm along
Schwede Road. The barn was built in 1872.
But Wayne Anthony, director of the
county’s Community Development Department,
said the “rub” often comes with the
increased urbanization of the county where
other nearby property owners don’t see a
falling- down barn as “beneficial to their
property values.”
Councilmember David Hammond (District
4), a former county building official,
offered to draft some written suggestions
for code changes.
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St. Peters Mayor Len Pagano said that
“shaming” banks or individuals may be the
only alternative the city has in dealing with
abandoned houses that are falling apart
and prompting complaints from neighbors.
The city’s Board of Aldermen went public
with their complaints at its May 28 work session
about the stumbling blocks in its way
involving seven vacant properties within the
city. Pagano said he has asked for help from
the Missouri General Assembly for cities
dealing with often crumbling houses.
“Our legislators could give us the right to
bulldoze some these down,” Pagano said.
Existing laws limit a city’s ability to deal
with properties that aren’t being maintained
or have not been occupied for a long period
of time. Yet aldermen and city officials have
been criticized for not doing enough – a practice
that Pagano said is unfair. City officials
and aldermen are trying to deal with the properties,
he said, but have found their hands tied.
“As long as taxes are paid on it (a property),
it’s not abandoned,” Pagano said. “That’s one
of the craziest things I’ve heard in my life. If
you pay the taxes in the city on something and
let it go to pot there is nothing you can do.”
Pagano said his idea is to post signs in
front of the properties identifying the banks
or financial institutions who own them to
shame them. But identifying the owners of
properties is at the heart of the problem.
Russ Batzel, the city’s director of transportation
and development services, told
aldermen that the city has been trying to deal
with the seven properties, some for five or six
years. He said finding the real owner would
allow the city to take stronger legal action.
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Abandoned properties cause concern, complaints in St. Peters
One of seven abandoned properties in St. Peters.
(Mid Rivers Newsmagazine photos)
Batzel said that when the city wants to
send a letter to the property owners, they
often find that the people who are registered
See ABANDONED HOMES, page 24
Union, nonunion labor clash over
O’Fallon police station, court house
By JESSICA MESZAROS
Discussion of utilizing a project labor
agreement (PLA) in the construction of
O’Fallon’s recently approved $28 million
police station and court house caused an
abundance of people, some clad in matching
orange shirts, to appear at the City
Council’s June 11 meeting.
A PLA is a multi-employer, multi-union,
pre-hire agreement for construction on
private and public work projects. PLAs
ensure that all contractors and subcontractors
on a project comply with the terms of
a union-only agreement.
O’Fallon residents, business owners and
IBEW Local 1 members along with state
representatives and senators came foward
to express their feelings for and against an
ordinance, sponsored by Councilmember
Bob Howell (Ward 4), in favor of the PLA.
“I’m Local 1 for a reason,” O’Fallon
resident David Farhat said. “I’ve lived
here since 1991. My family is active in the
community, and we chose to come out and
support Prop. 1 and show our support for
PLAs. PLAs encourage local involvement.
Organized labor has supported you, now
please support us.”
While the PLA is touted as a mechanism
for easing the worries of individuals on the
projects, the factors behind those agreements
have elevated concern in some.
“Over 70 percent of Missouri’s workforce
chooses to be nonunion,” Rep. Rob
Vescovo (R-Distrcit 112), said. “PLAs are
extortion. They are a legal form of extortion,
but still extortion.”
As Michele Roberts-Bauer, president of
Associated Builders and Contractors, Heart
of America Chapter explained, nonunion
workers participating on PLA projects
would be required to pay into benefits packets
that they then could not use because they
“wouldn’t be part of the union.”
“We have great safety training, they (nonunion
workers) are great professionals,” Roberts-Bauer
said. “I believe they all deserve
equal access to bid on those projects.”
This is not a new issue. In 2014, a $4
million firehouse in the north side of the
O’Fallon Fire Protection District was constructed
with the use of a PLA.
“The firehouse is beautiful,” Bill Laughlin,
O’Fallon Fire Board president, said in a
phone interview. “Everything worked really
smoothly. The project came in $360,000
under budget and around two weeks early.”
Howell said that on-time and under
It was standing room only at the June 11 O’Fallon City Council meeting.
budget is not out of the ordinary.
“Never in the state of Missouri has a PLA
come in over budget or over deadline for
completion,” Howell said.
Howell had previously held a workshop
session at the council’s May 14 meeting to
explain the basic definition of a PLA and
its possible benefits should the majority (it
requires a four-sevenths or 57.14 percent)
vote in favor of the agreement.
“Basically, when you go into a PLA, it
provides high-quality and timely work,”
Howell said. “The work is timely, and
there’s no striking or work stoppages, and
it saves taxpayers money. It’s the biggest
bang for the buck for taxpayers.”
Several nonunion organizations and other
small businesses in the O’Fallon community
agreed that a PLA would prevent them
from bidding on the justice center.
“What a slanderous thing it is to build a
justice system on the basis of discrimination,”
Tim Branham, of Branham Electric, said.
In a long and controversial meeting,
there was plenty of contention on both
sides of the issue – and even the councilmembers
were divided.
“I’m going to vote with the majority of
people in the community,” Councilmember
Jeff Schwentker (Ward 4) said. “That’s
why I was voted in. Whatever the majority
of people want is what I want to support.”
But determining exactly what the majority
wants will be the challenge. The council’s
final vote on the on the use of a PLA is
expected at the council’s meeting on June 25.

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There may be fewer homeless people in
St. Charles, Lincoln and Warren counties
in 2015 than in recent years but the issue
hasn’t disappeared as the economy has
improved.
Homeless people, literally and figuratively,
may not be out of the woods yet,
said Dottie Kastigar, family initiatives
program manager with the Community
Council of St. Charles County. The council
works with social service agencies, foundations,
churches and other organizations
including local governments from the tricounty
area.
Every year at the end of January, Kastigar
helps to coordinate what has become
an annual “point in time” homeless count.
It is a “one-day snapshot” of homelessness
in the tri-county area, Kastinger said of the
recently released data.
Teams of volunteers canvased the three
counties, visiting shelters, motels, outdoor
camping areas and other locations, and
checking on individuals, families and children
to identify sheltered and unsheltered
persons. Similar counts are held throughout
the country with the findings ultimately
reported to the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development.
This year, 803 people were identified
as homeless, either living in a shelter or
unsheltered, in the tri-county area. That
number is down from 896 last year and
continues a decline that began in 2012
when 1,023 tri-county residents were
found to be homeless.
The count and numbers that the council
continues to compile throughout the year
point to good news as far as homelessness
locally, but the data also raise warning
flags.
“We have noticed an improving trend
in homelessness. Our homeless numbers
have been dropping since 2012,” Kastigar
said. “It’s kind of lag with the economy
and that was our peak year.”
Kastigar said the reduction in homelessness,
by 10 percent in the last year
and 21 percent since 2012, is mostly
through the rapid rehousing of individuals
and families by agencies, churches
and other groups.
“We’ve gotten good at rapid rehousing,
literally fast-tracking them into an apartment,
getting them into a place as quick as
we can,” Kastigar said.
The council’s research has found that
about 70 percent of the persons who
received rapid rehousing stayed there for
at least six months. The average stay in
permanent supportive housing is two to
three years.
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homelessness in tri-county area
People need housing stability before
many health and education issues can be
addressed, Kastigar said. She said there
remains a shortage of affordable rental
housing and landlords to work with housing
providers in the area. There also is no
county funding to help poor adults other
than brief assistance, according to the
Community Council.
To better coordinate aid efforts by social
service agencies, churches and other providers,
the council has been working to
develop a new community information
sharing system.
Some of that information indicates that
persons and families between ages 18-24
were the fastest growing segments of the
homeless population in the tri-county area,
according to this year’s count.
“We’re seeing a bump with the 18 to 24
age group,” Kastigar said. “I think it’s more
like 18 to 30 – those early forming families
and individuals are really struggling to get
a foothold on the economy. They’ve stayed
constant while overall improvements are
occurring.”
The count also shows that many homeless
can move in with friends or family
and don’t end up in the street, or in motels
or apartments. In January, 934 people
were identified as “doubled up,” either
staying with a family member, friend
or someone else. That’s an increase
from 733 in 2014, but down from totals
of more than 1,000 persons each year
between 2011 and 2013.
“We’re seeing high doubling numbers,
which is our early warning system,” Kastigar
said. “So our families are not out of
the woods.”
They have found somewhere to sleep, in
a basement or on a couch, Kastigar said,
but she doesn’t see those doubled-up numbers
coming down.
The number of households staying in
and out of area motels dropped from 314
in 2013 to 160 in 2015, but the number is
still significant, Kastigar said.
She added that many St. Charles
County residents don’t realize that homelessness
remains a significant issue in a
county that is one of the most prosperous
in Missouri.
“Awareness is a constant challenge in a
community like this because it (homelessness)
is not as visible,” Kastigar said.
Another sign of poverty creeping up
can be seen in the numbers of children
enrolled in free student lunch programs
in area elementary schools, she said. The
homeless count turned up 437 sheltered
and unsheltered children in the threecounty
area in January this year, the highest
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A TALE OF TWO COUNTIES
Ferguson Commission visits
St. Charles County to share ideas
By BRIAN FLINCHPAUGH
bflinchpaugh@newsmagazinenetwork.com
St. Charles County officials recently
gave the Ferguson Commission a long list
of programs and collaborations that have
worked well at times in dealing primarily
with children’s issues similar to those in
North St. Louis County. And St. Charles
County Executive Steve Ehlmann also
offered an opinion on why he’s hopeful
that some of the issues facing St. Louis
County may not cross the Missouri River
into St. Charles County.
The commission, formed by Missouri
Gov. Jay Nixon, is examining the social
and economic issues that may have contributed
to the unrest in Ferguson and surrounding
communities following the death
of Michael Brown, who was shot by a Ferguson
police officer. The goal is to issue a
report to the governor this fall.
“If we can assist in finding
solutions for our neighbors in
North County, we want to help.”
– BRUCE SOWATSKY
On June 8, at a meeting at St. Charles
High, the commission met with St. Charles
County representatives to gather input on
issues like children’s well-being and citizen
and law enforcement relations.
The Rev. Starsky Wilson, commission
co-chair, said St. Charles County ranks
high in dealing with issues involving children’s
welfare. But the county – like the
rest of the St. Louis region and nation –
still faces major challenges.
“Twenty-five percent of the population
of the region faces a number of negative
trends when it comes to the investment in
the future, even here in St. Charles,” Wilson
said. “One in five youth in Missouri live in
poverty, two in five African-American children
still live in poverty in this state.”
St. Charles County officials who spoke discussed
what they are doing to confront those
trends, ranging from providing opportunities
for police to interact with the public and
schoolchildren, to trying to limit the number
of young people entering the juvenile detention
system, to improving academic achievement,
to combatting heroin addiction.
St. Charles Mayor Sally Faith said city
police officers routinely visit schools and
have “coffee with a cop” meetings where
residents meet and talk with officers.
St. Charles School District Superintendent
Jeff Marion outlined his district’s efforts to
close the “achievement gap” through a standards-based
grading system that helps to
pinpoint students with academic problems,
a truancy program and a program involving
the community to help identify hunger and
other issues for individual students.
“If you want a good school district you
have to have a good community; if you
want a good community you have to have
a good school district,” Marion said.
Craig Leavell, executive director of the
Boys & Girls Club of St. Charles, said
that organization, which has centers in St.
Charles and in the St. Peters-O’Fallon area,
serves 1,500 youth, ages 6-18. The club
provides not only sports but a reading program
and served 32,000 hot meals last year.
“We’re more than just a swim and gym
club,” Leavell said.
Like others in attendance, Bruce
Sowatsky, executive director of the county
Community and Children’s Resource
Board, said his organizations wants “to be
part of the solution.”
“If we can assist in finding solutions for
our neighbors in North County, we want to
help,” Sowatsky said.
For his part, Ehlmann spoke about
the differences between St. Louis and
St. Charles counties, particularly in the
number of municipalities each contain and
the amount of available resources each
municipality has for programs such as
school resource officers among others.
“I tell (St. Louis) Mayor (Francis) Slay
and (St. Louis) County Executive (Steve)
Stenger that my office is closer to Ferguson
than theirs,” Ehlmann said. His office is in
the 110-year-old county court house on a
bluff overlooking the Missouri River in St.
Charles. “We spend a lot of time looking out
the window and thinking how we can duplicate
the success of St. Louis County and how
can we avoid some of their problems.”
St. Charles County and its seven municipalities
all have some nice neighborhoods
and expensive housing, and some
low-income neighborhoods. Looking at
a map developed by the East-West Gateway
Council of Governments that shows
the location of affordable housing in the
region, Ehlmann said the red dots that
indicate expensive housing are all over
St. Charles County, but they are almost all
in the western and middle portions of St.
Louis County.
“I’m very hopeful in the future that
because we have the dispersion of lowincome
people around the county, we
won’t have the problems that we are looking
at (in St. Louis County),” he said.
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Francis Howell Central
makes first-ever girls soccer
Final Four appearance
Francis Howell Central midfielder Caitlyn
Eddy was filled with emotions after
watching her team fall to perennial power
St. Theresa’s in the Class 4 championship
game at Blue Springs South High on June 6.
Eddy and her teammates did not want to
have their magical season end on such a
sour note, but the run to the title game was
a special one as the Spartans made their
first girls soccer Final Four appearance in
the school’s 19-year history.
“It was so hard to see it end that way after
all the work we had put into the season, but if I
had it to do all over again I would gladly want
another year with this group,” Eddy said.
Howell Central fell behind 3-0 in the first
half against the Stars, but even with that deficit
the Spartans stayed poised and confident.
“After we gave up that first goal we kind
of settled in and at halftime we were committed
to playing the best we could in small
sections of the second half so it wouldn’t
get away from us,” Howell Central coach
Derek Phillips said.
Freshman midfielder Bailey Beeler gave
Central a chance with a goal in the 45th
minute to cut the lead to 3-1. But a minute
later, Alyssa Seitzer responded for St. Theresa’s
with a goal and the Stars, who beat St.
Joseph’s in the semifinals, added two more
goals to claim their fifth state championship.
“After that goal that made it 4-1 – they
scored like three goals in about a 12-minute
span and they are such a good and experienced
team that there wasn’t much we
could do about it,” Phillips said.
A day earlier (June 7), things went decidedly
better for Howell Central as the Spartans
slipped past Lee’s Summit 2-1 to earn
their first shot at the Class 4 title match.
Eddy, who is bound for the University of
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The 2015 Howell Central girls soccer team made the school’s first-ever appearance in the Final
Four, bringing home a second place trophy.
Arkansas-Little Rock, scored the game-winning
goal for Central in the 25th minute of
play on an awkward, less-than-perfect kick.
Central grabbed the lead in the fifth
minute on a hard Emma Farley strike from
the center of the box. That got Howell
Central riding high early, but Lees Summit’s
Sarah Burnham got the equalizer in
the 21st minute to tie it at 1-1.
That’s when Howell Central keeper Sydney
Chalcraft once again showed her mettle as
turned in several big saves in the second half
to keep Lee’s Summit out of the net.
According to Eddy, the team’s 18-0 start
gave them reason to believe this could be a
magical season for the Spartans.
“Our goals are always win districts and
try to build from there and of course getting
state is the ultimate dream but it was the
18-0 start that really got us to think maybe it
could be a special year,” Eddy said.”
Although Howell Central ended its school
year just as the team was starting its playoff
run, Phillips noted that the school’s support
for the program was tremendous all season.
“Our kids, during the school year, gave us
tremendous support and were really behind
the girls all through the season,” Phillips said.
“This run to state just shows that if they come
together and put in the hard work, special
seasons like this can happen.”
Eddy, midfielder Lauren Nosal, midfielder
Sam Patton, and defender Rachel
Schreyer are the only seniors to graduate
from the 2015 club.
Farley, midfielder Abbie Rademacher
and Chalcraft will be back next year, and
with them in the mix, the Spartans should
be a force once again.
For Eddy, the best part of the state run
was being able to have it happen in her
senior season.
“I don’t think I could have asked for a better
experience for my senior year from coaches,
my teammates and the school support,” Eddy
said. “It was absolutely amazing.”
Boy Scouts learn
disaster readiness
Boy Scouts, adult leaders and parents
from Troop 968 recently graduated from
the local TEEN Community Emergency
Response Team (CERT) program.
The troop, which is chartered through the
Morning Star Church in Dardenne Prairie,
successfully searched, rescued, triaged and
transported all victims to the designated medical
area after participating in an emergency
drill, putting their skills to the test by assisting
victims of a tornado and high winds.
TEEN CERT provides students with a
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as well as terrorism and team organization.
The program focuses on self, family,
community and school, allowing the Scouts
to build decision-making and problemsolving
skills and strategies to help them
make informed decisions regarding readiness,
response and recovery and mitigation
efforts to reduce loss of life and property.
As TEEN CERT participants, the Scouts
also can apply for the Emergency Preparedness
BSA Award and have the opportunity
to earn several merit badges.
Students honored at SCC
For Tylor Berry, passing the High School
Equivalency Test (HiSET) meant opening
the door to his future.
“I decided I would go back (to school)
and make things right this time,” Berry said.
On June 10, Berry was honored with 83
other students during a recognition ceremony
for the Adult Education and Literacy program
at St. Charles Community College. Berry
was among 56 students who were recognized
for receiving their HiSET credentials.
“It is worth it to see how proud my
great-grandmother and mother are,” Berry
said. “It’s not about what you have, but the
struggle you went through to obtain what
you wanted.”
For Berry, passing the HiSET exam
means that he can now pursue a wide variety
of career opportunities.
“I think I would like to be a biologist.
Animals intrigue me – everything from
migrating patterns to behavior,” Berry
said. “I’m specifically interested in marine
biology, but I’ve never seen the ocean. This
career would help me with both.”
In addition, 27 students also were
acknowledged for their achievement,
improvement and attendance in the English
as a Second Language program; included
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becoming U.S. citizens.
Getting creative with STEM
In the Francis Howell School District,
students are learning more about science,
technology, engineering and mathematics
through Destination Imagination. The program
is known for adding a creative element
to all the great things about STEM.
The program encourages teams of learners
to have fun and take risks, to focus
and frame challenges while incorporating
STEM, the arts and service learning. Participants
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problem-solving process. Teams then get
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At Bryan Middle, the Xceteras team made
it to the D.I. Global Finals, held in Knoxville,
Tennessee. Xceteras team members included
Vivian Worobec, Grace Juan, Colin Spies
and Ainslee Harkins from Bryan Middle, as
well as Sean Reardon and Carmen Brown
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“This experience was truly an educational
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In addition, D.I. sponsor Dave Spies and
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Fort Zumwalt receives incentive
check for lighting project
At the June 15 Fort Zumwalt Board of
Education meeting, Ameren UE and Lockheed-Martin
presented the district with a
check for more than $151,000 as an incentive
for energy conservation measures
undertaken at its six schools.
Lockheed-Martin administers the
Ameren BizSavers Program, which provides
cash incentives for completing
energy efficient measures. The district’s
improvements to interior and exterior
lighting at Dardenne, Hawthorn, Mount
Hope, Rock Creek and Twin Chimneys
elementary schools and at North High, are
the latest to qualify for the incentives.
The district has replaced outmoded lighting
fixtures with higher efficiency equipment
and added occupancy sensors to turn
off interior lights in vacant areas. This is
the second incentive awarded to Fort Zumwalt
as it works to update outmoded lighting
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p.m., 4:15 p.m. and 7 p.m.; and on Saturday,
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• • •
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The Axe Women bring to life the craft of
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Saturday, July 4 at 2:30 p.m., 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
• • •
In between extreme sports, families can
check out the festivals’ always popular
Kids’ Zone.
The Kids’ Zone occupies an entire baseball
field and is dedicated to keeping kids happy
with activities such as face painting and games
for the little ones, inflatables, giant checkers
and patriotic crafts and coloring. Parents with
tiny festival goers will appreciate the Kids’
Zone diaper changing stations.
All activities are free and the kids will
have a blast in the Kids’ Zone from noon-
9:45 p.m. on Friday, July 3 and from
noon-9 p.m. on Saturday, July 4.
• • •
Kids looking for a bit more excitement
can head, with parental permission, to the
Krazy Kidz Jump where, with harnesses
and guidelines to keep them safe, they can
bungee jump on trampoline-style stations.
The cost is $5 per jump on Friday, July 3
from noon-9 p.m. and on Saturday, July 4
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Parking and accessibility
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ABANDONED HOMES, from page 10
as owners really no longer own the property.
He said banks or other institutions that
own those properties refuse to change the
registration but do provide a post office box
where tax bills are sent. A third party company,
often in Texas or California, pays the
bill and the property is kept off the books of
the bank or company that really owns them.
Batzel and City Administrator Bill Charnisky
said the city can address health and safety
issues such as the presence of rats, swimming
pools, high grass or structural integrity, but
cannot deal with “cosmetic issues.”
The city adds a lien for grass cutting to
the property’s tax bill to get repaid, but
the city has limited authority to go onto
private property, Charnisky said.
City officials are expected to ask local
legislators once again to support some legislation
to deal with the issue. But Charnisky
said past efforts to get a legislative remedy
to more easily identify owners and deal with
them directly had been stymied because of
lack of support from rural legislators. Outstate
legislators say their residents fear that
giving local governments more authority
may prompt attempts to take down old barns
or infringe on their property rights.
City Attorney Randy Weber said the city
faces a number of “competing issues” in
dealing with the homes. Much of the problem
stems from the economic downturn,
particularly around 2008, and few banks or
financial institutions took back the titles to
foreclosed properties. Instead, they set up
shell companies to hide their ownership of
property, Weber said.
Weber questioned whether the city had
enough money or perhaps the authority in
some cases to use public money to purchase
private property. Condemning property
means essentially the city would buy it
after a condemnation proceeding and then
fix it up and sell it. He said he wasn’t sure
the city would want to do that.
Many of the aldermen said they also
were frustrated by complaints from neighboring
residents. Alderman Judy Bateman
(Ward 2) suggested that the state legislature
should consider legislation that would
only apply to urban areas.
Alderman Donald Aytes (Ward 4) pointed
out another problem with the presumably
abandoned properties, noting that one home
has a hole in its back wall, an example of poor
or nonexistent maintenance by its owners.
“It’s become a squirrel house,” Aytes said.
Alderman Patrick Barclay (Ward 4) said
because the city owns the rights-of-way
along city streets, it could put up a sign such
as Pagano suggested. But Barclay’s sign
would include the names and telephone numbers
of local legislators with the admonition
to call them to “ask them to help us help you.”
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ART
“The Big Bloom” will be exhibited
through July 6 at The Cultural Arts Centre
located inside St. Peters City Hall. For more
information, visit www.stpetersmo.net.
• • •
A Black & White All Media Art Show
and Competition is July 10-Sept. 8 at the
the Cultural Arts Centre located inside St.
Peters City Hall. Works submitted must be
black and white; however, artist creativity
may be applied. Download exhibitor registration
form online at www.stpetersmo.net.
An opening reception is on Friday, July 10
from 6-8 p.m.
• • •
“Apron Strings: Ties to the Past and
The Sum of Many Parts: Quiltmakers in
Contemporary America” is open through
Friday, July 10 at the Foundry Art Centre.
Visit www.foundryartcentre.org
• • •
Circus!, an all-media juried art exhibition
runs July 17-Aug. 28 and features work celebrating
the tradition and spirit of the circus.
For more information, visit www.foundryartcentre.org
or call 255-0270.
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Community Events
The Cornerstone United Methodist
Church golf scramble is at 1:30 p.m. on
Sunday, July 19 at the St. Peters Golf
Course, 200 Salt Lick Road. The $40 per
person registration fee, along with the
names and numbers of your team, are due
to Dawn Gerard in the Cornerstone office
no later than Sunday, June 28. Registration
forms are available online at www.
umcornerstone.org/coming-up.
• • •
The St. Charles County Chapter of 100
Women Who Care host a networking
meeting at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Monday, July 20 at Morning Star Church,
1600 Feise Road in Dardenne Prairie. The
presenting nonprofits are The Child Center,
Sparrow’s Nest and Connection for Success.
For more information, visit www.
facebook.com/100wwcstc.
FOURTH OF JULY
O’Fallon celebrates America’s birthday
with fireworks and music at the Heritage &
Freedom Fest, held July 2-4 at the Ozzie
Smith Sports Complex on T.R. Hughes
Boulevard. For additional information, see
the complete O’Fallon Heritage & Freedom
Fest special section on pages 17-23.
• • •
O’Fallon also is the site of the Chamber
of Commerce’s 31st Annual USATF Certified
Firecracker Run on July 4 at River
City Rascals Ballpark, 900 T.R. Hughes
Blvd. Race day registration begins at 6
a.m. The event features both a 10K and a
5K run; both begin at 7 a.m. In addition, a
1-mile fun run for all ages begins at 8 a.m.
• • •
Historic Saint Charles celebrates Riverfest
2015 in Frontier Park off South
Riverside Drive. The celebration on July
2-4 includes two days of fireworks in the
evening and three days of food, carnival
rides, a children’s crafts area and live
music along the banks of the Missouri
River. Festival hours are from 5-10:30 p.m.
on July 2, and from noon-10:30 p.m. on
July 3 and 4. Fireworks take place on July
3 and 4 at 9:20 p.m. The annual Riverfest
parade begins at 10 a.m. July 4 and steps
off from Blanchette Park, culminating on
Main Street. Due to Fifth Street Gateway
construction, festival goers are advised to
use alternate travel routes, which can be
found online at www.historicstcharles.com
along with detailed concert information.
• • •
Wentzville’s Fourth of July Celebration
is on July 4 from 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
in Progress Park off Meyer Road. The
celebration includes inflatables with face
painting open from 5-8:45 p.m. and live
music from 6-9 p.m. Progress Pool offers
free swimming from noon- 5 p.m. as pool
capacity allows. Fireworks conclude the
event at 9:05 p.m. Additionally, the city’s
Fourth of July Parade is from 10 a.m.-noon
on Pearce Boulevard. This year’s theme is
United We Stand – Proudly We Serve.
• • •
Lake Saint Louis’ festivities begin at 9
a.m. with a performance by the Lake Saint
Louis Water Ski Club. Fireworks will begin
in the evening after dark over the lake.
Spectators can view the show from either
side of the Lake Saint Louis dam or from a
boat on the lake. The event is sponsored by
the Lake Saint Louis Ambassadors Club.
• • •
Weldon Spring’s Independence Day
Celebration will be on Saturday, July
4. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. in Independence
Park, 5401 Independence Road.
A variety of family-friendly activities
will be offered, including inflatables and
bounce houses, a petting zoo, magician,
face painting, live music, and various food
vendors from local restaurants and organizations.
The event culminates with fireworks
at 9:15 p.m. Attendees arriving for
the fireworks only are advised to arrive no
later than 8:30 p.m. for parking purposes.
LIVE PERFORMANCES
Each week on Tuesday, the city of O'Fallon
hosts Jammin’ Outdoor Concerts from
6:30-9 p.m. at 308 Civic Park Drive. Upcoming
performances include O'Fallon Community
Concerts and Jazz Bands (June 23),
Joe Dirt and The Dirty Boys (July 7), Trilogy
(July 14), El Scorcho (July 21), O'Fallon
Community Concerts and Jazz Bands (July
28), Shameless (Aug. 4), Stray Bullet (Aug.
11), Butchwax and the Hollywoods (Aug. 18)
and NashVegas (Aug. 25). Food trucks are
on site, and admission and parking are free.
For more information, call 379-5614.
• • •
The St. Peters Cultural Arts Centre, 1
St. Peters Centre Blvd., hosts The Tony
Viviano Show at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug.
28 featuring songs made popular by Tony
Bennett and Lady Gaga, Bobby Darin,
Frank Sinatra and more. Tickets are $13
in advance/$18 at the door and can be purchased
at the Cultural Arts Centre.
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THE BATTLEGROUNDS: It’s time to get muddy
On Sunday, July 19 from 8:30 a.m.-5
p.m., The Battlegrounds in Wright City will
host the Mud Run Guide’s first annual
Summer Splash, sponsored by Mid Rivers
Newsmagazine. Deemed the “lollapalooza
of mud runs”, the day includes three 5K
fun runs, including a family-friendly wave
for participants age 8 and older.
“We are so excited to welcome families
and children to The Battlegrounds for the
very first time in our history,” said The
Battlegrounds’ owner Carl Bolm. “Our
runs only allow 18-year-olds and older to
participate, so this is a great opportunity
for literally everyone to test themselves
on our course. In the past, children were
always at our races as spectators. They
only got to watch their loved ones while
they patiently waited for them to complete
the run. Now they will get to enjoy
The Battlegrounds firsthand.”
The Battlegrounds, located at 950
State Hwy. 00 in Wright City, next to Cedar
Lake Cellars winery and event venue, St.
Louis’ largest permanent mud run obstacle
course, and Mud Run Guide is the
world’s largest website for obstacle and
adventure events. So, its not surprising
that the two should get together.
On tap for Summer Splash are:
• At 8:30 a.m., an Obstacle Course
Racing World Championships’ qualifying
wave for competitors age 13 and
older. The top 25 men and women from
this wave will be allowed to participate
at the world championships to be held
Oct. 17-18 in Ohio.
• At 9 a.m., an open adult wave for
participants age 18 and older.
• At 10 .m., a family-friendly wave for
participants age 8 and older. Children
under age 14 must be accompanied
by an adult throughout the course, and
those age 12 and under must have
their own life jacket to wear on waterrelated
obstacles.
Other activities include: a family foam
fest fun area for all ages from 10 a.m.-1
p.m.; an obstacle challenge at the
Gauntlet at noon, which consists of six
lanes of varying difficulties situated over
an 8-foot deep water pit; live music and
contests for best mud run costumes;
and additional obstacle challenges.
On-course wine tasting for those 21
years of age and older also will take place.
The Battlegrounds has plenty of amenities
including free parking and gear
check, as well as on-site showers for
mud run participants.
The entry fee is $60 before July 18 or
$75 on the day of the race. Non-racer
admission for the family foam fest fun
is $10 per person; children under age
8 are free. For more information, call
(314) 569-3005, ext. 114 or visit www.
thebattlegrounds.com.
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Augusta Wine Company, comprised of
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shop, Leopard Boutique, with a ribboncutting
in May. The store is located at 1650 Class awards for particular vintages. Both
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Beale Street, Suite 150 in the Streets of St. events consisted of two-day blind tastings
Charles. OPO Startups, located in the former conducted by professional wine evaluators.
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Joy Wojczyk always has had a passion for baking culinary
treats.
After creating wedding and cupcake cakes for friends
and family, she took her passion to the next level and
opened her own shop – Cupcake Amore.
Nestled off Hwy. K, Cupcake Amore offers a plethora
of flavors from which to choose. Customers can tantalize
their taste buds with Oreo Truffle, which features chocolate
cake, an Oreo truffle filling and a vanilla buttercream
frosting, or Salted Caramel, which combines mocha cake
with a salted caramel filling and is frosted with a salted
caramel buttercream. Other flavors include Turtle, Peanut
Butter Cup, Chocolate Chip, Eiffel Tower, Velvet Rouge,
Raspberry Cheesecake and Crème de la Crème.
For those customers on special diets, Cupcake Amore
also offers gluten-free, egg-free and vegan cupcakes.
While the everyday cupcakes are enough to keep customers
returning for more, Wojczyk also likes to give each season
a special kick – and her customers even more reasons to fall
in love. Summer flavors include S’mores, Maple Bacon (who
doesn’t love bacon?), Cotton Candy (because it wouldn’t be
summer without it), Apple Pie and Banana Cream Pie.
“We do pie flavors in July, because you’re thinking picnics
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that,” Wojczyk said.
What makes Cupcake Amore cupcakes taste so good is
the love Wojczyk puts into each and every treat. Her cake
is her own recipe perfected over time, and her icing is made
in-house. Let’s be honest – the test of a really good cupcake is
the icing and Wojczyk’s icing takes the cake. It’s smooth and
creamy, big on flavor and not too sweet. Simple perfection is
found in buttercream, which is often infused with additional
flavors that enhance the moist, flavor-filled cakes.
“I try always to make something better,” Wojczyk said.
“So, some of the cupcake flavors have evolved over the last
two years, because I’ve found a better way or tastier way.”
In addition to the wide variety of flavors – both in icing
and cakes – Wojczyk welcomes her customers to a storefront
that boasts a European café feel. The intimate area features
pink and black wallpaper, black chairs and tables and
incorporates many Parisian elements throughout the space.
“I just wanted (the shop) to be a place where (customers)
would like to stay and hang out … girlfriends coming in,
moms bringing their daughters, dads bringing their daughters,
and so on,” Wojczyk said.
If sitting and relaxing isn’t enough, customers can rent
the café and party rooms for wedding showers, bridal
showers and other fun events. Wojczyk also hosts birthday
parties for children of all ages. Attendees are treated
to games, entertainment and different themed decorations
such as “Big Hero Six,” “Frozen” and Disney princesses.
During parties, guests decorate two cupcakes – one for
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Two of Cupcake Amore’s customer favorites are its Red Velvet
and Turtle cupcakes.
eating at the party and one for taking home.
Open for less than two years, Cupcake Amore has been
well-received by its customers and the O’Fallon community.
“Weekly, we get feedback from customers saying that they
have driven somewhere else for cupcakes and that ours are
better, that they like our icing better,” Wojczyk said.
But for Wojczyk, the accolades for her cupcakes aren’t
what make the hard work worthwhile. For her, it’s about
giving back to the community and building relationships
with her customers.
“Making people smile,” she said, “is the the biggest benefit
right now.”
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Real estate showcase
Showcase Inventory Sale-Priced, Open for
Viewing at Fischer’s Wyndgate Oaks
Summer is definitely the best time to visit Wyndgate,
a vibrant O’Fallon community located on Highway
N. just west of I/64/40, to fully appreciate its resort
lifestyle. Youngsters swarm the playground and parks;
neighbors gather at the swim complex, pavilion, and
picnic area; activity abounds on the sports court and
hiking/biking trails; and nature lovers bask in the beauty
of the lake and 55 acres of common ground.
All of this warm-weather fun is immediately available
to the purchaser of Fischer & Frichtel’s gorgeous
new Showcase Inventory in Wyndgate Oaks, one of
several villages in the popular residential development.
The move-in-ready “Durham II” is a 2388-squarefoot,
three-bedroom ranch from the builder’s upscale
Heritage Collection and has been furnished for display
purposes, giving its future owners a sense of the luxury
they’ll enjoy year-round.
With its handsome brick elevation, architectural
shingles, and 3-car garage, the Durham II’s curb appeal
is irresistible. There’s no need to waste sunny days
establishing the lawn either; the prime cul-de-sac
homesite is irrigated, landscaped, and fully sodded.
Inside, wood flooring and soaring 10-foot ceilings add
glamour throughout the primary living areas, and the
layout flows freely from the great room to the breakfast
room, island kitchen, and hearth room, which has a
floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace surround and beautiful
views of the rear yard and woods beyond. The custom
kitchen features 42-inch maple cabinetry, granite
countertops, crown
molding, and built-in
stainless Whirlpool appliances.
Off the foyer is a large study, and a private hall leads
to the master retreat and spacious secondary bedrooms.
A window bay floods the master bedroom with natural
light, and a room-size walk-in closet adjoins the opulent
master bath.
The Durham II is sale-priced at $525,000, and
community sales manager Jim Horton notes that the
walk-out lower level can be finished for additional
entertainment and bedroom space.
Wyndgate Oaks presents homebuyers with an
incredible variety of ownership options – four
distinctive Fischer product lines, each grouped in a
separate enclave within the village. Only 12 open
homesites remain in the Heritage section, where prices
start from $399,900.
Fischer recently acquired 38 additional sites, 25 of
which are located on a cul-de-sac surrounded by deep
Fischer’s Durham II ranch-style Showcase home at Wyndgate Oaks in O’Fallon
woods and designated for the sophisticated Estate
Collection, priced from $443,900. Ranging up to over
an acre in size, the other 13 settings are clustered around
a loop street and feature the Classic Collection, starting
from $359,900.
In The Reserve, purchasers choose from three
spectacularly wooded custom sites which vary from 2.5
to 5-plus acres, and Fischer’s top-of-the-line Signature
designs, starting in the upper $800s.
One more reason to visit Wyndgate Oaks now:
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