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DENNIS PRAGER<br />
Note to the Left: Four Years Ago,<br />
Conservatives Were Just as Depressed<br />
Here’s a news flash for Democrats and<br />
other Americans on the left: Four years ago,<br />
when Barack Obama was re-elected president,<br />
conservatives were just as depressed<br />
as you are now that Hillary Clinton lost<br />
and Donald Trump won.<br />
I describe this as news because this<br />
undoubtedly surprises many of you. You<br />
probably never gave a moment’s thought<br />
to how depressed conservatives were in<br />
2012. [Why would you? Unlike you, we<br />
shun hysteria.] But believe me – we were.<br />
Many of us believed that President<br />
Obama was doing great damage to America.<br />
Now we are convinced that he did more<br />
damage to America domestically, to America’s<br />
position the world and to the world<br />
at large than any other two-term president.<br />
He left office with racial tensions – many<br />
of which he exacerbated – greater than<br />
at any time since the civil rights era half<br />
a century ago. He left the world’s worst<br />
regimes – Iran, China, Russia, North Korea<br />
and radical Islamist terror groups – stronger<br />
and more aggressive than before he<br />
became president. Economic growth never<br />
rose above 3 percent, a first for a two-term<br />
president. He nearly doubled the national<br />
debt and had little to nothing to show for<br />
it. Obamacare hurt more people financially<br />
than it helped medically, including physicians.<br />
More people than ever are on government<br />
aid. The list is far longer than this.<br />
Moreover, just like most Democrats in<br />
2016, most Republicans in 2012 expected<br />
to win. The depression among conservatives<br />
was palpable. To cite only my own<br />
experience, I turned the television off on<br />
election night. It was too painful to watch.<br />
Instead, I played hearts on the computer<br />
and listened to Strauss’s “Death and Transfiguration”<br />
to lighten the mood.<br />
But why does the level of conservative<br />
despair four years ago come as a surprise<br />
to Americans on the left?<br />
First, unlike much of the left, most<br />
conservatives handle despair like mature<br />
adults. Most obviously, we didn’t riot. In<br />
fact, in America, rioting – not to mention<br />
shutting down highways and airports,<br />
taking over college offices and protesting at<br />
peoples’ homes – is a monopoly of the left.<br />
Nor did we allow our conservative<br />
children to take a day off from school to<br />
demonstrate. Nor did conservative teachers<br />
preach opposition to Obama in their<br />
classrooms. Nor did we print posters with<br />
the words “Not My President.” Nor did<br />
conservative clergy declare fast days.<br />
The second reason is that we know you,<br />
but you don’t know us.<br />
You read, listen to, watch, socialize with<br />
and study under leftists. Only if you are<br />
stuck with some immediate relatives who<br />
aren’t on the left do you encounter a nonleftist<br />
[let alone a non-leftist idea]. Therefore,<br />
there is no way you would know how<br />
painful it was for conservatives during that<br />
time. While liberals feel free to express their<br />
emotions and opinions to anyone, anywhere,<br />
any time, conservatives, especially those<br />
who voted for Trump, live like Marranos.<br />
The Marranos were Jews living in Spain<br />
or Portugal during the Spanish Inquisition<br />
in the 1400s who lived like Christians but<br />
secretly practiced Judaism. That is how<br />
most Trump voters have been forced to<br />
live. They live like most people and hide<br />
their identity as Trump voters, lest they<br />
lose their job, their business, their relatives,<br />
their friends and/or their good name.<br />
A gay professor writing in The Wall<br />
Street Journal recently echoed this analogy<br />
when he likened being in the closet<br />
as a Trump voter to being in the closet<br />
as a gay man when he was younger. He<br />
said: “I began having gay relationships at<br />
25 but remained closeted. I hated lying to<br />
people, but in the 1980s and ‘90s I feared<br />
that coming out would estrange me from<br />
family and damage my career. Similarly, I<br />
now find creative ways to avoid answering<br />
whether I voted for Donald Trump.<br />
This may be hard for some to believe, but<br />
watching protesters today call Trump supporters<br />
racists and bigots has been nearly<br />
as distressing as being told to ‘die in hell,<br />
[vulgarity]’ 30 years ago.”<br />
Finally, leftists lack self-awareness.<br />
They think they are the apotheosis of tolerance<br />
when in fact they are far less tolerant<br />
than most conservatives. They think they<br />
embody kindheartedness when in fact the<br />
further left you go, the greater the meanness.<br />
And they think they suffer uniquely<br />
when they lose a national election.<br />
Leftists’ pain is not one whit greater than<br />
that of conservatives four years ago. But<br />
many of them can’t handle pain nearly as<br />
well. If they could, they’d be grown-ups<br />
and no longer on the left.<br />
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Regarding Michelle Malkin<br />
To the Editor:<br />
Liked your choice of Michelle Malkin<br />
to replace Sowell. She, like our president,<br />
isn’t afraid to tell it like it is. She will be a<br />
good alternative to the fake St. Louis Post<br />
Dispatch news and editorials.<br />
Dan Marsh Sr.<br />
• • •<br />
To the Editor:<br />
Hooray for Michelle Malkin! Her insight<br />
into the situation in our great land of America<br />
concerning immigration is precise and<br />
accurate. I am grateful for her.<br />
She’s a keeper. I hope I will be able to<br />
read a column by her every week. She’s<br />
got her head on straight.<br />
Thank you so much. Good job, <strong>Mid</strong><br />
<strong>Rivers</strong> <strong>Newsmagazine</strong>.<br />
Barbara S. O’Connor<br />
• • •<br />
To the Editor,<br />
I just received the <strong>Mid</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong> <strong>Newsmagazine</strong><br />
and was very disappointed to read<br />
the editorial by Michelle Malkin, someone<br />
who, I am guessing, doesn’t even know a<br />
Muslim, but for some reason has to voice<br />
her opinion.<br />
In this very divided country of opinions,<br />
I do not think it is prudent for a newspaper<br />
to run such an editorial, further dividing<br />
the members of our society.<br />
As a 70-year-old white female, I have had<br />
the opportunity and privilege of knowing<br />
people from many countries, races, sexual<br />
persuasions, religions and ethnicities.<br />
Does Ms. Malkin even know that St.<br />
Louis is home to the largest Bosnian<br />
population in the country, half of whom<br />
are Muslim? Does she know that only half<br />
of Muslin women in the U.S. wear hijabs,<br />
which is a personal preference and not a<br />
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I sincerely hope you will print editorials<br />
that are less inflammatory and more inclusive<br />
of the views of your readers.<br />
Paddy Scott<br />
• • •<br />
To the Editor:<br />
This week’s replacement for Thomas<br />
Sowell [Michelle Malkin, <strong>Mid</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong><br />
<strong>Newsmagazine</strong>, Feb. 4] does not measure<br />
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I am accustomed to the thoughtful and<br />
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just leave the page blank.<br />
Gene Culver<br />
• • •<br />
I was very disappointed when I read<br />
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Thank you and I hope that she will be a<br />
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Walmart Stores Inc. has submitted an<br />
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zoning changes that would allow them to<br />
build a new grocery store after pulling out<br />
on plans for a similar store last July. The<br />
new Walmart Neighborhood Market grocery<br />
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Public hearings are planned on March 8<br />
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“I think they reduced the footprint of their<br />
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The store is smaller than Walmart Supercenters<br />
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Meanwhile, Zucker said also that he<br />
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“That area plan will more likely than not<br />
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O’FALLON<br />
City Council listens to<br />
funding ideas for road projects<br />
During its Feb. 9 council workshop, the<br />
O’Fallon City Council listened to why it<br />
should approve using special obligation<br />
bonds to cover $8 million in expenses<br />
related to issuing road bonds through 2020.<br />
Last year, the St. Charles County Road<br />
Board awarded O’Fallon five new grants<br />
for road projects:<br />
• West Elm Street Extension [west of Main<br />
Street]<br />
• Paul Renaud Boulevard Extension [east<br />
through Wentzville School District rightof-way<br />
to Sommers]<br />
• Hoff Road Widening [railroad track to<br />
Liberty Industrial Drive]<br />
• I-70 South Outer Road [Woodlawn to<br />
Hwy. K]<br />
• I-64 Outer Road Study [Hwy. DD to<br />
Route 364]<br />
Public Works Director Steve Bender<br />
said this would allow the city to finish<br />
more than $8 million worth of work by<br />
only investing $2.8 million. To cover the<br />
matching funds, Bender recommended the<br />
council approve a special obligation bond.<br />
This special obligation would be a notax-increase<br />
bond, and would allow the<br />
cost of issuing the bonds to be rolled into<br />
other bonds prepared this year.<br />
Councilmember John Haman Jr. [Ward<br />
3] questioned including the I-64 Outer<br />
Road Study.<br />
“In the past, when developments come<br />
in, they put in the improvements to benefit<br />
themselves. It looks like we’re planning<br />
the opposite; we’re gonna put the benefit<br />
in before they ever show up,” Haman said.<br />
“To me, it seems very premature when the<br />
landowner has no interest in doing anything<br />
with it right now or in the near future<br />
that we know of.”<br />
City Council reviews<br />
stormwater projects<br />
During an O’Fallon City Council workshop<br />
Feb. 9, Ben Von Harz, stormwater<br />
project manager, gave the council a brief<br />
overview of completed 2015 and 2016<br />
capital improvement projects and a list of<br />
those approved for funding in 20<strong>17</strong>.<br />
Von Harz said that citizens often say<br />
stormwater runoff issues are the city’s<br />
problems, but problems happen when<br />
developers or homeowners create improper<br />
grading, make landscape changes, add a<br />
pool or a shed or even a downspout.<br />
Lately, he said, there has been an increase<br />
in creek bank destabilization traced back<br />
to homeowners. A homeowner blows dead<br />
leaves, throws brush and dumps grass clippings<br />
from his yard to the creek bank, killing<br />
off the vegetation that lines the creek<br />
along his yard, which then contributes to<br />
the bank’s erosion.<br />
This year, city staff reviewed statements<br />
of qualification from nine engineering<br />
firms to design five projects in 20<strong>17</strong>. Staff<br />
members selected HR Green and TWM to<br />
provide design services. The projects are:<br />
• Peruque Creek Lift Station #2 – creek<br />
bank stabilization<br />
• Christina Marie – creek bank stabilization<br />
• Bramblett/Springhill – business floods<br />
during heavy rain<br />
• Boyer Street – homes flood during heavy<br />
rain<br />
• Dorchester – piping, grading and bank<br />
stabilization<br />
The five projects designed this year will<br />
move into construction in 2018 while five<br />
more projects will be designed in 2018 for<br />
construction in 2019:<br />
• Winghaven/Hawk Run – basements flood<br />
during heavy rain<br />
• Sundance Drive – yards not draining properly,<br />
then flooding<br />
• Carriage Hills – yards not draining properly,<br />
then flooding<br />
• Tahoe Court - yards not draining properly,<br />
then flooding<br />
• Ashford Place - small bank stabilization<br />
Expense-wise, the expected costs were<br />
$1.1 million for 2016, $2.7 million this year,<br />
$621,500 next year, $447,500 in 2019 and<br />
$21,000 in 2020 for a total of $4.9 million.<br />
ST. CHARLES COUNTY<br />
Fire destroys Bogey<br />
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A late evening fire burned most of the<br />
main structure at the 55-year-old Bogey<br />
Hills Country Club in St. Charles on Feb.<br />
16. While firefighters were able to rescue<br />
some members’ personal items from the<br />
club’s basement level, the building itself is<br />
a total loss.<br />
No one was hurt or killed in the blaze.
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Firefighters from multiple districts battled this blaze at Bogey Hills Country Club, Feb. 16-<strong>17</strong>.<br />
Firefighters from Central County Fire<br />
& Rescue, Cottleville, O’Fallon and St.<br />
Charles fire protection districts responded<br />
to the blaze, which was reported just<br />
before midnight.<br />
Central County Assistant Chief Gary<br />
Donovan said the fire likely started at the<br />
rear of the structure but the exact cause<br />
was still under investigation on Feb. <strong>17</strong>.<br />
The fire quickly grew to three alarms.<br />
Donovan said the age of the building<br />
played a major role in the incident. The<br />
building dates back to 1926, when construction<br />
favored lots of timber and heavy,<br />
wooden beams for support.<br />
Angel Walters Likens, the club’s general<br />
manager, said several upcoming weddings<br />
were scheduled and she is working<br />
with the affected couples to make other<br />
arrangements. She posted publicly to<br />
Facebook early on Feb. <strong>17</strong>, “I am crushed<br />
but know that God will lead me. Thank<br />
you to everyone for all your support.”<br />
The Walters Family has owned the club<br />
since 1962.<br />
Building code updates draw<br />
ire of councilmembers<br />
A normally routine matter of approving<br />
an update of the international building<br />
codes that regulate construction in the<br />
county drew the ire of St. Charles County<br />
councilmembers who said changes may be<br />
costly to residents.<br />
Councilmembers Joe Cronin [District<br />
1], Joe Brazil [District 2] and Mike<br />
Klinghammer [District 6] voted against a<br />
bill amending the county building codes<br />
to bring them up to date with the 2015<br />
international building codes. Councilmember<br />
Mike Elam [District 3] voted for it.<br />
Councilmember Dave Hammond [District<br />
5], Terry Hollander [District 5] and John<br />
White [District 7] were absent. Elam, who<br />
is also chairman of the council, scheduled a<br />
council work session on Feb. 27 to discuss<br />
questions and issues that councilmembers<br />
have with the amended code.<br />
County Executive Steve Ehlmann and<br />
Jennifer George, the county’s assistant<br />
director of administration, said staff would<br />
be willing to work closely with the council<br />
to answer questions.<br />
Ehlmann said that a recent newspaper<br />
article noted that building code changes<br />
under review in St. Louis County are similar<br />
to ones in the county ordinance. “The<br />
criticism over there is that it’s too lenient,<br />
the criticism here is that it’s too tough.”<br />
Ehlmann said.<br />
Work may begin in March<br />
on county’s newest park<br />
The design is done and construction may<br />
begin soon on St. Charles County’s newest<br />
park after the award of a construction contract<br />
on Feb. 13.<br />
The County Council approved a $6.82<br />
million contract to C. Rallo Contracting<br />
Co., Inc. for development of the 120-acre<br />
park property, bordered by Pitman Hill and<br />
Kisker roads, that the county bought for $6<br />
million in 2014. Plans call for the county<br />
to intensively develop about 90 acres of<br />
what was formerly known as the Sammelmann<br />
Farm and Homestead.<br />
Construction could begin in March.<br />
The park is expected to be ready to open<br />
in early 2018, said Parks and Recreation<br />
Director Bettie Yahn-Kramer.<br />
The work will include an off-leash dog<br />
park, two lakes, a large, inclusive playground,<br />
walking and biking trails, three<br />
rentable shelters, a fishing dock, multiple<br />
walking trails that cross streams and a walk<br />
that extends across the bridge. A walking<br />
and bicycle trail near Pitman Hill Road<br />
will cross Baltic Creek.<br />
The property, because of its rolling terrain<br />
that required extensive earth-moving,<br />
floodway areas and underground pipelines,<br />
presented design challenges. The idea was<br />
to stay within $9 million for park development,<br />
Yahn-Kramer said. She said the<br />
county is pleased that the construction bid<br />
came in at $6.92 million.<br />
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Could apartments be coming?<br />
TriStar Companies to purchase land from Meadows at Lake Saint Louis<br />
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By BRIAN FLINCHPAUGH<br />
The owner of the Meadows at Lake Saint<br />
Louis is expected to announce a plan to<br />
develop apartments on 8 acres of property<br />
at the shopping center.<br />
Representatives of Cohen Equities, the<br />
New York-based firm that acquired the<br />
shopping center in 2014, were at first<br />
close-mouthed about details of the proposal<br />
when they came before the city’s<br />
Board of Aldermen on Feb. 6.<br />
But on Feb. 10, the firm announced it<br />
had entered a contract with TriStar Companies<br />
to sell 8 acres on the southeast portion<br />
of the property for “an integrated residential<br />
community.” Plans may be submitted<br />
to the city in two to three weeks.<br />
Travis Burrows, director of retail asset<br />
management for Cohen Equities, told<br />
aldermen at their Feb. 6 work session that<br />
the company entered into a contract with<br />
“a very reputable local residential developer<br />
to build apartments on a portion of the<br />
Meadows site.”<br />
But he said he would not divulge the<br />
name of the developer then because of a<br />
confidentiality agreement. He said the<br />
The Meadows at Lake Saint Louis<br />
apartments would be built on several lots<br />
near a retention pond and seasonal outdoor<br />
ice skating rink.<br />
Construction cannot happen without<br />
amending zoning for the Meadows. City<br />
Administrator Paul Markworth said the site<br />
is now zoned highway commercial and the<br />
city is researching whether it should create<br />
an overlay district to allow the apartments<br />
or carve out a piece of property and zone<br />
it residential or planned unit development.<br />
Markworth and Burrows said representatives<br />
from Cohen and the developers<br />
wanted to come before aldermen to get their<br />
input before launching into the project.<br />
The open-air, 344,201-square-foot<br />
Meadows at Lake Saint Louis sits on the<br />
north side of Interstate 64 at Lake Saint<br />
Louis Boulevard. It has more than 30<br />
shops and restaurants. According to the<br />
Cohen Equities website, nearly 93,000<br />
residents live within five miles of the shopping<br />
center, and the adjacent Interstate 64<br />
corridor’s average daily traffic count is<br />
more than 46,000 vehicles.<br />
Burrows said he did not discuss specific<br />
apartment plans with the developer. However,<br />
he said the addition could include<br />
about 140 apartments. He also said that the<br />
developer suggested having less density<br />
than normal apartment complexes, taller<br />
buildings and pedestrian access to the<br />
nearby shopping center.<br />
The board looked at a brief city staff presentation<br />
with an explanation of different<br />
apartment styles that included photographs<br />
of apartments considered suburban and<br />
others considered urban, similar to a city<br />
or main street.<br />
The aldermens’ responses were generally<br />
favorable, although several had differing<br />
opinions on the type of development they<br />
favored. Alderman Gary Turner [Ward 1]<br />
favored a more urban development that<br />
may generate more foot traffic. Alderman<br />
Karen Vennard [Ward 2] said she favored<br />
the suburban style of development.<br />
Alderman Joe Pellerito [Ward 3] and<br />
Mayor Karen Schweikert said they liked<br />
the urban setting similar to what they see<br />
in downtown St. Charles on South Main<br />
Street. “What makes that so dynamic is the<br />
people walking around,” Pellerito said.<br />
They agreed that apartments may be the<br />
spark the Meadows needs. “I want to see<br />
the Meadows thrive,” Schweikert said. “I<br />
think this residential component is a great<br />
edition to the Meadows.” Turner said<br />
aldermen may have “some reservations;<br />
we all have our own opinions but want to<br />
see you guys take off.”<br />
“I want to see the Meadows thrive,” Schweikert<br />
said. “I think this residential component<br />
is a great edition to the Meadows.”<br />
Turner said aldermen may have “some<br />
reservations; we all have our own opinions<br />
but want to see you guys take off.”<br />
See MEADOWS, page 16<br />
Warfighter Advance teaches alternate ways to combat post-traumatic stress<br />
By JIM ERICKSON<br />
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens and Navy<br />
Cmdr. Mary Neal Vieten have never met,<br />
but they share a common viewpoint: The<br />
U.S. military does many things right, but<br />
when it comes to preparing its personnel<br />
for reintegration into civilian life, well, not<br />
so much.<br />
Greitens’ observations formed the basis<br />
for The Mission Continues [TMC], a St.<br />
Louis-based nonprofit created to assist<br />
servicemen and women with re-entry into<br />
civilian life. TMC’s approach is to encourage<br />
veterans to participate in community<br />
projects, serving others as a way to regain<br />
their strength and rebuild their personal<br />
relationships and sense of purpose.<br />
Vieten, a board-certified clinical psychologist,<br />
made a similar conclusion, but<br />
took a somewhat different approach. Now<br />
the executive director of a privately funded<br />
program, Warfighter Advance, whose<br />
objective is to get “war fighters” – a term<br />
she often opts to use instead of “veterans”<br />
– on a path for resuming life in an environment<br />
much different from the often traumatic<br />
and horrific one they were trained to<br />
deal with in the military.<br />
Warfighter Advance eschews the use of<br />
drugs to treat post-traumatic stress, a condition<br />
Vieten views not as a “disorder,” but<br />
a nonetheless very real and normal human<br />
reaction, and one not limited to those with<br />
a military background.<br />
Vieten, who served on active duty for<br />
10 years and had two deployments as part<br />
of her ongoing service with the Naval<br />
Reserve, was the featured speaker at a<br />
recent Lake Saint Louis workshop on healing<br />
post-traumatic stress.<br />
During the daylong session, she talked<br />
about the weeklong retreats she directs,<br />
designed for both former and active duty<br />
military personnel. The agenda focuses<br />
on confidence-building, outdoor activities<br />
and group discussion in a relaxed and<br />
positive environment. Techniques for selfmanagement<br />
of symptoms, stressors and<br />
responses are emphasized.<br />
The program has been developed in partnership<br />
with the International Society for<br />
Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry and is<br />
offered at no cost to participants. Travel<br />
costs to and from the program site in Nanjemoy,<br />
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Vieten and her team have provided intervention<br />
services to more than 900 veterans<br />
since the concept was launched in 2003.<br />
The program’s approach challenges what<br />
many may accept as conventional wisdom,<br />
Dr. Mary Neal Vieten conducts a session of Warfighter Advance in Lake Saint Louis.<br />
including the TV advertising-enforced<br />
belief that there’s a pill for whatever ails<br />
you. Vieten’s concern is that drugs affecting<br />
the brain can come with their own set of<br />
issues, such as potential addiction and a host<br />
of other potentially harmful side effects.<br />
What is normal?<br />
The brain is an organ with many mysteries<br />
and unknowns still surrounding it,<br />
the Navy psychologist noted. On the other<br />
hand, the human mind is an idea, or what<br />
professionals in the field call a construct.<br />
To state with confidence whether and how<br />
the mind can be influenced positively and<br />
predictably by medicating the brain is<br />
simply not logical, she believes.<br />
Placing the term “disorder” with posttraumatic<br />
stress puts a label – one often<br />
viewed in negative terms – on something<br />
that is indeed normal. The issue is more<br />
one of defining and understanding what<br />
normal is and why normal should not be<br />
equated with comfortable.<br />
Grief, for example, is a normal human<br />
reaction in many circumstances and should<br />
not automatically be viewed as depression,<br />
which our society often tells us must be<br />
treated with a pill of one kind or another.<br />
Similarly, the physiological responses<br />
associated with panic attacks are the same<br />
as those that accompany the normal fight/<br />
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St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann<br />
says he loves his job but an opportunity<br />
may be knocking.<br />
Ehlmann is among 31 applicants<br />
seeking to replace Missouri<br />
Supreme Court Judge<br />
Richard B. Teitelman, who<br />
passed away last year. The list<br />
also includes former state representatives,<br />
a former Missouri<br />
Republican Party Chairman<br />
and several prominent attorneys.<br />
Ehlmann<br />
An Appellate Judicial Commission,<br />
whose members are elected by the Missouri<br />
Bar Association, will interview the<br />
applicants, starting Feb. 28 at the Supreme<br />
Court Building in Jefferson City. The commission<br />
will select three nominees who<br />
will be forwarded to Gov. Eric Greitens for<br />
consideration.<br />
<strong>Mid</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong> <strong>Newsmagazine</strong> asked why he<br />
applied.<br />
“Do you really have to ask that question?”<br />
Ehlmann said in interview on Feb. 8. “It’s<br />
the Missouri Supreme Court. It’s an opportunity<br />
to serve the people of the entire state,<br />
not just St. Charles County.”<br />
Ehlmann, 66, also served as a state representative,<br />
state senator and as a circuit<br />
judge in the 11th Judicial Circuit, which<br />
includes St. Charles County. He said he<br />
didn’t have aspirations to be a high court<br />
judge – until now.<br />
“I never thought about it until a Republican<br />
governor was elected and a Supreme<br />
Court judge unfortunately died,” Ehlmann<br />
said. “Rick Teitelman was a great person.”<br />
Ehlmann said he is perfectly happy with<br />
his job and may run again for county executive<br />
when his term comes up in 2018. “I<br />
find it very rewarding but I just think this<br />
in an opportunity that I wanted to throw<br />
my hat in the ring and again offer my service,”<br />
he said. “It’s a very important position<br />
to fill.”<br />
He said his experiences in all<br />
three branches of government<br />
may qualify him to be at least<br />
considered.<br />
Ehlmann was elected as<br />
county executive in 2006. He<br />
was a member of the Missouri<br />
House of Representatives from<br />
1989 to 1993 and a state senator<br />
from 1993 to 2001. He was an<br />
associate circuit judge from 2001 to 2003<br />
and circuit judge in 2003.<br />
“As a circuit judge, you’re a trial judge,”<br />
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my time sentencing criminals; it was very<br />
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a clear opinion are required, he noted.<br />
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I think it served me well on the bench and<br />
I think it served me well in this job here.”<br />
Ehlmann said his applying is not a big<br />
deal unless he’s selected as a finalist. He<br />
said he had several people call him to see<br />
if he was interested in applying.<br />
“At first, I didn’t think I was,” he said.<br />
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On Feb. 9, the O’Fallon City Council,<br />
during its council workshop, heard various<br />
scenarios and chose one without a vote as<br />
the best way to spend money budgeted for<br />
the city’s concrete program this year.<br />
The city’s public works department proposed<br />
spending $3.5 million for concrete<br />
road repair plus some escrow work in the<br />
Springhurst and Countryshire subdivisions,<br />
and reserving $400,000 for incoming work<br />
orders, concrete slab and joint repair, and<br />
other miscellaneous repairs. All funds<br />
will be spent on concrete street repair, not<br />
asphalt. There will also be no sidewalk or<br />
curb work except as required by the Americans<br />
with Disabilities Act.<br />
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O’Fallon City Council chooses plan<br />
for $3.5 million in concrete work<br />
Brookhollow subdivision<br />
Tony Friedman, senior project manager,<br />
presented data to the council. Streets are<br />
divided into segments between intersections.<br />
There are four types of street repairs<br />
– low PCI segments, work order segments,<br />
plus segments and mill/fill segments.<br />
Low PCI segments are concrete segments<br />
that are rated 74 or below on the<br />
2013 O’Fallon Street Pavement Condition<br />
Index. The PCI is a numerical scale<br />
ranging from 0 [worst] to 100 [best] that<br />
indicates pavement condition, based on<br />
city-collected data. There are currently <strong>17</strong>7<br />
low PCI segments [under 70] across the<br />
city, which equals 5,200 concrete slabs.<br />
Replacing them would cost $6.<strong>22</strong> million.<br />
Work order segments are street segments<br />
that have open work orders in the city’s<br />
computer system for concrete repairs.<br />
There are 162 such streets in O’Fallon,<br />
with 1,200 slabs to replace that would cost<br />
$1.36 million. As of mid-December, open<br />
work order dates ranged from one to 641<br />
days.<br />
Plus segments are located near work<br />
order segments. Street crews found that<br />
in many instances, the work order repairs<br />
were minimal compared to adjacent slabs<br />
on the same street or in the same subdivision.<br />
Fixes to these nearby slabs prevent<br />
calls from homeowners who ask, “Why<br />
didn’t you repair the next street over while<br />
you were in our subdivision?” There are 89<br />
such streets in O’Fallon, with about 2,900<br />
slabs to be replaced that would cost $3.47<br />
million.<br />
Mill/fill segments are segments which<br />
have had partial depth asphalt repairs done<br />
on failing concrete joints. The city began<br />
this sort of repair in 2011. These segments<br />
are organized by neighborhood and would<br />
need to be replaced with new slabs. There<br />
are 58 subdivisions with some kind of<br />
mill/fill repairs, and six subdivisions have<br />
been mandated this year by the council –<br />
Annabrook, Brookhollow, Bryan Valley,<br />
Cherrywood Park, Prairie Village and<br />
Royallsprings – with a total of 3,800 slabs<br />
to be replaced. The price tag for mill/fill<br />
work in the mandated subdivisions would<br />
be $745,000 while the entire mill/fill cost<br />
would total $4.54 million.<br />
Total cost for all concrete repairs would<br />
be $15.6 million, Friedman said. He outlined<br />
six possible repair scenarios for the<br />
council, each affecting about 3,000 slabs.<br />
Scenario five would fix <strong>17</strong>2 of the Low<br />
PCI [51 percent], work order [28 percent]<br />
and mill/fill [21 percent] streets, and completely<br />
repair streets in the six mandated<br />
neighborhoods with mill/fill streets. It<br />
would raise the PCI to 65 from 26, complete<br />
120 work orders and reduce the longest<br />
open work order time to 60 days from<br />
641 days.<br />
After the presentation, almost all councilmembers<br />
and Mayor Bill Hennessy<br />
chose scenario five, but with some tweaking.<br />
They requested the department lower<br />
the PCI percentage and raise that of the<br />
work order segments to reduce the work<br />
order backlog for city staff.<br />
The council wanted to make sure public<br />
works will take advantage of the concrete<br />
formula approved by the pavement consortium<br />
O’Fallon leads. City Engineer Wade<br />
Montgomery assured the council that they<br />
will use the approved formula.<br />
Friedman requested some extra lead<br />
time, weather permitting, for street crews<br />
to mark the segments in the six mandated<br />
neighborhoods to replace slabs and to mark<br />
the work order streets in advance of the<br />
city’s contractor starting work on March 1.<br />
The council approved.<br />
Transmap has re-rated all of the city’s<br />
street within the last two weeks and the<br />
new PCI values will be available in April,<br />
Friedman said. Councilmember Jon Haman<br />
Jr. [Ward 3] strongly urged the council to<br />
have Transmap return every two or three<br />
years to rate the city’s streets.
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Centennial Greenway to link St. Charles, St. Louis counties<br />
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BY BRIAN FLINCHPAUGH<br />
The public recently got a look at plans<br />
for two new bicycle and pedestrian bridges<br />
that will allow thousands of trail users<br />
to cross busy highways safely and add<br />
another link to a greenway connecting St.<br />
Louis and St. Charles counties.<br />
The standing-room-only open house at<br />
the St. Charles County Heritage Museum<br />
on Feb. 9 included details about the soonto-be-built<br />
bicycle and pedestrian bridges<br />
over Route 364 and Hwy. 94 in the city of<br />
St. Charles.<br />
The bridges are another phase of extending<br />
the Centennial Greenway, which will<br />
connect Heritage Park and the Katy Trail<br />
State Park to thousands of residents in St.<br />
Charles County. The complete Centennial<br />
Greenway eventually may stretch from<br />
central St. Charles County through western<br />
St. Louis County, east to Forest Park<br />
in St. Louis.<br />
Construction could begin in March on a<br />
one-mile extension of the existing 2.2-mile<br />
Centennial Greenway in the county, beginning<br />
just east of the Heritage Museum. It’s<br />
expected to be finished in 2018. The paved<br />
greenway extension will stretch north and<br />
cross both Route 364 and Hwy. 94 where<br />
it will connect with Old Hwy. 94 near<br />
Muegge Road.<br />
The new route will provide connections<br />
to Laurel, Schaefer and Wapelhorst parks;<br />
the McClay Branch of the St. Charles City-<br />
County Library; Francis Howell North<br />
High and Henderson Elementary – all less<br />
than two miles from the bridges.<br />
The Centennial Greenway is one of 16<br />
greenway areas being developed by Great<br />
<strong>Rivers</strong> Greenway, the public parks district<br />
formed to create an interconnecting system<br />
of trails, greenways and parks throughout<br />
the greater St. Louis region.<br />
Area voters approved a sales tax in 2000<br />
to create “The River Ring” trail system<br />
along major streams and rivers in the area.<br />
“It [the Centennial Greenway] will eventually<br />
be what I call a cross-county connector,”<br />
said Susan Trautman, executive<br />
director for Great <strong>Rivers</strong> Greenway.<br />
In St. Charles County, the existing<br />
Centennial Greenway stretches from the<br />
Katy Trail near the Page Avenue extension<br />
[Route 364] to the Heritage Museum.<br />
Included is a direct connection to the<br />
paved Creve Coeur Connector trail that<br />
crosses the Missouri River and links up<br />
with the paved trails and other attractions<br />
in Creve Coeur Park in St. Louis County.<br />
While progress is on the<br />
horizon, Trautman said<br />
completing the greenway<br />
may take some time Decisions<br />
have to be made on<br />
whether rights-of-way can<br />
be acquired from public<br />
agencies or if the agency<br />
has to acquire it. She also<br />
said Greenway projects in<br />
St. Charles County may be<br />
slowed because of a lack of<br />
money. Only the 1/10-cent<br />
sale tax established in 2000<br />
is in effect in the county.<br />
In 2013, St. Louis<br />
City and County voters<br />
approved a 3/16-cent<br />
increase for projects there.<br />
She said St. Charles County<br />
could place a similar measure<br />
on the ballot for more funding. “But I<br />
don’t know what the tolerance for that is,”<br />
she added.<br />
County residents, along with St. Charles<br />
City and County officials, gathered at<br />
the open house were enthusiastic about<br />
the plans they heard. The extension and<br />
bridges were praised by Saint Charles<br />
Mayor Sally Faith and County Executive<br />
Great <strong>Rivers</strong> Greenway trail system<br />
Steve Ehlmann.<br />
Great <strong>Rivers</strong> Greenway officials expect<br />
that the new bridges will be used extensively.<br />
Trautman said when a bicycle and<br />
pedestrian bridge was built across Interstate<br />
44 in south St. Louis County, ridership<br />
went from 200,000 annually to more<br />
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One reservation voiced was against the<br />
apartments having a look that is radically<br />
different from the existing shopping center.<br />
In general, the aldermen preferred staying<br />
with brick rather than vinyl siding, Turner<br />
said.<br />
Burrows said the new apartments “have<br />
to fit with the Meadows.”<br />
“We don’t want our [apartment] residents<br />
to feel trapped; we don’t want it to look<br />
like there is just another set of houses next<br />
to us. We want to be one center,” he said.<br />
Schweikert and other city officials say<br />
residents have already indicated that they<br />
view the Meadows as the city’s “center”<br />
and a community gathering place. Those<br />
opinions were voiced in a survey and at<br />
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flight/freeze reaction humans experience<br />
when threatened.<br />
Psychiatric diagnoses are not pinpointed<br />
by science, as is the case with a virus, bacteria<br />
or cancer cell, Vieten said. Instead<br />
they are determined by identifying clusters<br />
of symptoms. However, there are no objective<br />
tests or consistent measures involved<br />
and what one doctor interprets as significant<br />
may be viewed differently by another.<br />
Theoretically, a person describing his/her<br />
situation to five different doctors could<br />
wind up with as many different diagnoses<br />
and a range of “drug cocktails” for treating<br />
them.<br />
“Tell whatever story you want and the<br />
[healthcare] provider decides what’s wrong<br />
with you,” Vieten said. While Vieten is outspoken,<br />
she is obviously not alone in her<br />
views. “What we are talking about here is<br />
information that’s readily accessible in the<br />
public domain. It’s not about Dr. V. saying<br />
this or saying that. The focus should not be<br />
about me, but about the issue – the illusion<br />
of mental illness and drugging without fully<br />
informed consent.”<br />
Angela Peacock, 37, of St. Charles,<br />
served almost seven years with the U.S.<br />
Army, including a deployment to Baghdad.<br />
She also attended the Lake Saint Louis<br />
workshop.<br />
After leaving the military, Peacock noted<br />
that she was given medications without<br />
receiving complete information on their<br />
side effects or other alternative approaches.<br />
A year ago, when she decided to discontinue<br />
the drugs after 13 years, she said “it was like<br />
waking up from a nightmare.”<br />
Her research on veterans with experiences<br />
similar to hers has convinced Peacock<br />
that “there’s an epidemic out there.”<br />
She said she had read about Vieten and her<br />
work before attending the workshop and<br />
hopes to follow in her footsteps. She anticipates<br />
graduating from Washington University<br />
in St. Louis this spring and plans to<br />
work toward a graduate degree.<br />
While Vieten rejects a reliance on drugs<br />
for treating perceived mental issues, she<br />
warned that no one should simply decide<br />
to stop taking them cold turkey. If a person<br />
is on one or more such drugs, withdrawal<br />
must be carefully supervised to avoid<br />
unpredictable consequences.<br />
“I am not trying to take on all of pharmacology,”<br />
Vieten said. “What I am trying to<br />
do is emphasize the importance of a patient<br />
giving fully informed consent before being<br />
handed a prescription.”<br />
There are alternatives<br />
Alternatives to drugs are emphasized<br />
at Warfighter Advance and include interventions<br />
that are free, if not always easy.<br />
Included are:<br />
• Exercise, listed first because of its effectiveness,<br />
Vieten said.<br />
• Decreasing central nervous system stimulants<br />
such as caffeine and nicotine.<br />
• Sleep hygiene and dream management.<br />
• Skills for dealing with panic/anxiety attacks.<br />
• A proper, regular diet.<br />
• Relaxation, breathing techniques and meditation.<br />
• Emphasizing the importance of a daily routine,<br />
staying busy.<br />
• Returning to, or increasing, spiritual practices.<br />
In an analysis of six treatment protocols<br />
used for patients with various symptoms<br />
considered to be mental disorders, a wellknown<br />
and highly regarded psychologist<br />
found that all were successful. What was<br />
shown to have the biggest impact on positive<br />
results was the relationship the doctor<br />
had with the patient, Vieten observed.<br />
The study served to underline an adage<br />
Vieten referred to frequently during the<br />
workshop: “The only cure for an injury to<br />
humanity is humanity.”<br />
ongoing effort to develop the city’s comprehensive<br />
plan.<br />
The city is concerned about the viability<br />
of the Meadows because it is a major<br />
source of sales tax revenue. It faces stiff<br />
completion from shopping centers and<br />
outlet malls in St. Louis and St. Charles<br />
counties. The Cohen Equities website lists<br />
90,528 square feet of vacant space at the<br />
center.<br />
Markworth cautioned that the city is<br />
working with attorneys and the board may<br />
have to pass enabling ordinances to establish<br />
an overlay district. Passing any ordinance<br />
may happen this spring; however,<br />
Marworth cautioned that there is work to<br />
be done.<br />
“There are a lot of moving parts that have<br />
to come together,” Markworth said. “We<br />
will make it happen.”
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April 4 Election: Local candidates, issues<br />
By BRIAN FLINCHPAUGH<br />
Three mayors in the county’s largest<br />
municipalities face opposition in their<br />
reelection bids in April and a longtime<br />
board member and current president of<br />
the Francis Howell Board of Education is<br />
not seeking reelection. Candidate filing for<br />
municipal offices and school boards in the<br />
county closed on Jan. <strong>17</strong>.<br />
O’Fallon Mayor Bill Hennessy,<br />
Dardenne Prairie Mayor David Zucker and<br />
Lake Saint Louis Mayor Kathy Schweikert<br />
all have opponents in their bids for reelection.<br />
Cottleville Mayor Mike Hennessey is<br />
unopposed.<br />
Meanwhile, Mark Lafata, the sometimes<br />
controversial, longtime member of the<br />
Francis Howell Board of Education, did not<br />
file for another three-year term. Lafata, first<br />
elected to the board in 2001, is the current<br />
president of the school board and also served<br />
as board president from 2004 to 2008.<br />
Hennessy, who has served as O’Fallon’s<br />
mayor since 2009, faces a challenge from<br />
Alderman Bob Howell for a third four-year<br />
term.<br />
Zucker was chosen in April 2015 to fill<br />
out the term of former Mayor Pam Fogarty.<br />
He is facing opposition for a four-year term<br />
from Harold “Sonny” Wilson.<br />
Schweikert, named alderman to succeed<br />
the late Ralph Sidebottom and elected in<br />
April 2015 to fill out Sidebottom’s remaining<br />
two years of his four-year term, is<br />
opposed by Eric Oman, who she defeated<br />
in 2015. Weldon Spring Mayor Donald D.<br />
Licklider is opposed by Jeff Bush.<br />
O’Fallon voters will decided contested<br />
aldermanic races in three of the city’s five<br />
city wards. In Ward 1, incumbent Dave<br />
Hinman, Arnie C. [AC] Dienoff and Jimmy<br />
Loveless are the candidates; incumbent<br />
Rose Mack is unopposed in Ward 2; Stacey<br />
Decker, Reid Cranmer and incumbent John<br />
J. Haman Jr. are the Ward 3 candidates; Jeff<br />
Kuehn and Dave Goewert are the Ward 4<br />
candidates; and incumbent Mike Pheney is<br />
unopposed in Ward 5.<br />
In Cottleville, John Stiles and Joel Harper<br />
are the Ward 1 candidates and Robert “Bob”<br />
Voter registration ends March 8<br />
The deadline is Wednesday, March<br />
8 for St. Charles County voters to<br />
register to vote in the April 4 general<br />
election that will decide who will be<br />
the next mayors of several cities and<br />
school board members in local school<br />
districts.<br />
Voters can register at the county’s<br />
Election Authority office at 397 Turner<br />
Blvd. in St. Peters from 8 a.m.-4 p.m.<br />
Monday through Friday. The authority<br />
will be closed on Feb. 20 for President’s<br />
Day. Contact the authority’s office at<br />
(636) 949-7550 for more information.<br />
Voters also can register at Missouri<br />
Department of Motor Vehicles or Division<br />
of Family Services offices, or on<br />
the Missouri Secretary of State’s website<br />
at www.sos.mo.gov.<br />
Ronkoski and Serall Chezem are the Ward<br />
2 candidates. The incumbents in three<br />
wards in Lake Saint Louis and Dardenne<br />
Prairie are unopposed. Gerry Baker and<br />
Phil Martiszus are the Ward 3 aldermanic<br />
candidates in Weldon Spring.<br />
In two school district races, five candidates<br />
are vying for three seats on the<br />
Francis Howell Board of Education.<br />
Incumbents Rene Cope and Mike Sommer<br />
along with Mary Lange, Patrick Lane and<br />
Stephen Johnson are the candidates.<br />
Nine candidates are seeking three full<br />
three-year terms, and six candidates are<br />
seeking one seat with a one-year term on<br />
the Fort Zumwalt Board of Education.<br />
The nine candidates are incumbents John<br />
Callahan, Louie Gilbert and Craig Stephen<br />
Moore and Arnie C. [AC] Dienoff, Jim<br />
Pepper, Tom Hobday, Jim Combs, Ryan<br />
Dean Ozinga, and Erica Powers. The six<br />
candidates for the one-year term seat are<br />
Tommy George Jr., Diane Harlow, Earl J.<br />
Draper Jr. Sarah Drake Harashe, Garvis M.<br />
Pollard and Genelle Speed-Hale.<br />
Voters will also vote on involuntary<br />
annexation proposals for mostly small<br />
plots of land in Lake Saint Louis and<br />
Dardenne Prairie.<br />
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“When we put out a questionnaire or<br />
survey for a new park area, what do people<br />
want? First on the list, without a doubt,<br />
consistently over the 15 years I have been<br />
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Wiegner said he has 13 bicycles that<br />
often are used by his grandchildren now. “I<br />
try to get them to ride with me,” he said.<br />
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Freshman orator flexes<br />
Constitutional knowledge<br />
Uma Upamaka knows the Constitution<br />
of the United States – and she has the skills<br />
to hold her own in competitions focused on<br />
its central concepts.<br />
Upamaka, a freshman at Francis Howell<br />
North, qualified for the state finals of the<br />
American Legion Oratorical [ALO] contest.<br />
She’s won ALO competitions since<br />
December, starting with a contest in St.<br />
Charles. Then she won a district level<br />
Do you know a teacher who has made<br />
a positive difference in the lives of many<br />
students or made all the difference in the<br />
life of a single student?<br />
Maybe you are a student or the parent of<br />
a student whose teacher consistently goes<br />
the extra mile to make learning meaningful,<br />
effective, interesting and enjoyable.<br />
If so, you know a teacher who is an<br />
ideal candidate for the <strong>Mid</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong> <strong>Newsmagazine</strong><br />
Teacher of the Year award – and<br />
we would like to hear from you.<br />
Created to recognize excellence in education,<br />
the Teacher of the Year award is<br />
presented annually to one area teacher who<br />
has made a positive difference in the life of<br />
a student in the community, young or old.<br />
Eligible teachers include preschool,<br />
elementary school, high school and college/university<br />
teachers in the <strong>Mid</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong><br />
<strong>Newsmagazine</strong> mailing area. Nominations<br />
are open to educators at both public and<br />
private schools. Nominating a teacher for<br />
the award is easy. Simply explain in 200<br />
event, allowing her to move on to a Zone<br />
Competition in Hannibal in January and<br />
advanced to the Final Four in Jefferson<br />
City on Feb. 18.<br />
Upamaka’s speech and debate coach,<br />
Randy Pierce, said she is “very adept at<br />
focusing on new concepts for extended<br />
periods of time.” Pierce said she has “a<br />
natural tendency to think carefully” and is<br />
“exceptionally poised for someone her age.”<br />
“The ALO contest requires all speeches<br />
to focus on the U.S. Constitution in whatever<br />
fashion each student chooses,” said<br />
Pierce. Upamaka pinpoints the first three<br />
words of the preamble, “We the People.”<br />
All contestants are required to give an<br />
extemporaneous speech, with only five<br />
minutes to prepare, on an amendment<br />
chosen by random selection.<br />
ALO competitions began in 1938. Participants<br />
can earn college scholarships<br />
through the program. Upamaka is guaranteed<br />
at least $1,400 by qualifying for state<br />
finals. The winner of the state competition<br />
goes on to nationals. First place earns an<br />
$18,000 scholarship; second and third<br />
place winners also earn scholarships.<br />
Local students make<br />
Teen Talent Semifinals<br />
The Seventh Annual St. Louis Teen<br />
Talent Competition has narrowed down<br />
the list of semifinal acts to include students<br />
from Francis Howell North and Fort Zumwalt<br />
North high schools.<br />
Rebekah Apicello, who attends Francis<br />
Howell North, will dance with St. Louis<br />
Ballet School. Robyne Sieh, who attends<br />
Fort Zumwalt North, will play piano. The<br />
girls are among more than 40 acts chosen<br />
from 94 in the preliminary round. Acts<br />
include singers, musicians, baton twirlers,<br />
acrobatic gymnasts, dancers, color guard<br />
and musical theatre performers.<br />
The semifinal rounds, which are closed<br />
to the public, take place March 4 at Missouri<br />
Baptist University.<br />
Finals, which are open to the public, are<br />
April 8 at The Fabulous Fox. More than<br />
$30,000 in scholarships and prizes will be<br />
awarded and students are eligible for scholarships<br />
from Lindenwood University, Webster<br />
University, University of Missouri-St.<br />
Louis and Southeast Missouri State University.<br />
Free general admission tickets for<br />
the finals will be available starting March<br />
5 through Metrotix and The Fox box office.<br />
Do you know an A+ teacher?<br />
Nominations being sought for <strong>Mid</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong> <strong>Newsmagazine</strong>’s Teacher of the Year award<br />
or fewer words why you believe a teacher<br />
should be recognized as the West St. Louis<br />
County Teacher of the Year and submit<br />
your nomination online at www.midriversnewsmagazine.com<br />
no later than Monday,<br />
April 10. Submissions should outline specific<br />
experiences or special qualities that<br />
make the nominee an outstanding teacher.<br />
Entries will be reviewed by a panel of<br />
judges representing the Teacher of the Year<br />
program sponsors, which in addition to<br />
<strong>Mid</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong> <strong>Newsmagazine</strong> include Busey<br />
Howell of Fame<br />
nominations sought<br />
The Francis Howell School District is<br />
accepting nominations for its 20<strong>17</strong> Howell<br />
of Fame Award program.<br />
The Howell of Fame awards recognize<br />
excellence of character, performance and<br />
service of those who serve the district as<br />
employees, volunteers or patrons.<br />
Any current or former employee, volunteer<br />
or resident of the district can be nominated<br />
for a Howell of Fame Award.<br />
Only current or former employees or<br />
residents of the district may nominate<br />
someone for the award. Nominations are<br />
not admissible from current students, by<br />
groups or for past Howell of Fame winners.<br />
Honorees are chosen based on the nomination,<br />
so care should be taken to explain<br />
contributions to district students that go<br />
above and beyond the nominee’s assigned<br />
work.<br />
Ten winners will be chosen by a selection<br />
committee. Honorees will be acknowledged<br />
on May 1 at Francis Howell High.<br />
Nominations may be submitted online<br />
or by completing a nomination form. All<br />
nominations are due by 4 p.m. on March<br />
28. For details, visit www.fhsdschools.org.<br />
St. Johns Bank accepting<br />
scholarship applications<br />
St. Johns Bank is accepting applications<br />
for its Excellence Scholarship Program.<br />
Seniors who attend high school in the Pat-<br />
Bank–O’Fallon, Dream Play Recreation,<br />
SuperCuts in O’Fallon and Streets of St.<br />
Charles, and Sylvan Learning Center.<br />
The winning teacher will receive a<br />
prize package that includes a new iPad,<br />
gift certificates, a special event at school,<br />
and special feature recognition in a future<br />
issue of <strong>Mid</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong> <strong>Newsmagazine</strong>.<br />
Help us applaud a deserving teacher,<br />
and submit your nomination by Monday,<br />
April 10. All entries will become the property<br />
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tonville, St. Charles, Fort Zumwalt and<br />
Francis Howell districts are encouraged to<br />
apply.<br />
Three recipients will each be awarded<br />
a $1,000 scholarship toward a college<br />
education. High school seniors must plan<br />
to attend college as a full-time student at<br />
a community college or a four-year college<br />
or university in Missouri, Illinois or<br />
Kansas, with intent to major in banking,<br />
finance or business.<br />
The Excellence Scholarship application is<br />
available online at www.stjohnsbank.com.<br />
Interested seniors also can pick up an application<br />
at any branch of St. Johns Bank.<br />
Completed applications are due by April<br />
3 and should be mailed to St. Johns Bank,<br />
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For more information about the St. Johns<br />
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visit www.stjohnsbank.com, or call Laurie<br />
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Cuivre River Electric<br />
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Cuivre River Electric Cooperative<br />
invites high school juniors to participate in<br />
its 49th Annual Youth Tour Essay Contest<br />
for the opportunity to participate in a conference<br />
in Washington, D.C.<br />
The essay contest is open to juniors who<br />
live in St. Charles County. Students must<br />
write on the theme, “My Favorite Cooperative<br />
Principle.” The competition is open<br />
through March 10.<br />
To enter, students must submit an application<br />
and a 500- to 1,000-word essay on<br />
the outlined theme.<br />
Students may enter independently or<br />
through school. Finalists are chosen from<br />
the top 12 scores on the composition. In<br />
April, finalists take a cooperative knowledge<br />
quiz and read their essays at the<br />
Cuivre River Youth Tour Banquet. Six students<br />
are chosen from the finalists as Youth<br />
Tour delegates to the National Youth Tour<br />
Conference in Washington, D.C., June<br />
9-15. Six students will receive $500 scholarships<br />
to the college or university of their<br />
choice.<br />
Submissions should be delivered or<br />
mailed to Cuivre River offices in Troy or<br />
Lake Saint Louis. By March 10. For additional<br />
details, visit www.cuivre.com<br />
Scholarship opportunity<br />
available with Women<br />
Legislators of Missouri<br />
Women Legislators of Missouri [WLM]<br />
invites young women who are high school<br />
seniors to apply for their scholarship program.<br />
One student from each Missouri<br />
congressional district is chosen to receive<br />
a $500 college scholarship.<br />
The WLM Caucus created the program<br />
to provide assistance to students based<br />
on leadership, academics and community<br />
service. Eligible students must complete<br />
an application and a 500-word essay to<br />
answer the question, “If you were a state<br />
legislator, what would you hope to accomplish<br />
and why?”<br />
The application can be downloaded at<br />
www.house.mo.gov/downloads/wlsa20<strong>17</strong>.<br />
pdf. The deadline for submissions is Thursday,<br />
March 9.<br />
Mail applications to Rep. Patricia Pike,<br />
Missouri State Capitol, 201 West Capitol<br />
Ave., Jefferson City, MO 65101 or submit<br />
via email to patricia.pike@house.mo.gov<br />
with the subject line: WLM Essay Contest.<br />
Students chosen as U.S.<br />
Presidential Scholars Candidates<br />
The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program,<br />
founded in 1964, recognizes<br />
distinguished graduating high school<br />
seniors. Each year, up to 161 students<br />
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of the highest honors.<br />
The 20<strong>17</strong> Candidates list includes three<br />
students from districts in St. Charles<br />
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Howell wrestlers win Kyle<br />
Thrasher Memorial Tournament<br />
Winning the recent Kyle Thrasher<br />
Memorial Tournament at home was a<br />
tremendous bump to the Francis Howell<br />
Vikings’ wrestling team in preparation for<br />
post-season action.<br />
Howell, which finished second to Timberland<br />
in the GAC Championship Tournament,<br />
made sure no visitors would<br />
leave their house with the top prize, as the<br />
Vikings beat 36 visiting clubs to claim the<br />
20th Annual Thrasher Tournament Championship.<br />
“It was a real nice win for us to have six<br />
or seven top guys, because the bigger the<br />
tournament, the more depth the tournament<br />
has in the number of teams and the better<br />
we can do,” Francis Howell coach Kevin<br />
Stroh said.<br />
The title was the first in six seasons for<br />
Howell, as the Vikings won by a point over<br />
Whitfield. O’Fallon, Lafayette and defending<br />
champ Jefferson City rounded out the<br />
top five finishers of the 37-team field.<br />
Howell was led by three champions in<br />
the tournament. Senior Tyler Kreith won at<br />
120 pounds, senior Dylan Komperda prevailed<br />
at 182 pounds and junior Jack Flynn<br />
won the title at 195 pounds.<br />
By far the best part of the tournament for<br />
the Vikings was being able to share the victory<br />
with assistant coach Derek Thrasher,<br />
former coach Thrasher’s son, who is on the<br />
Vikings staff.<br />
“It’s his second year on our staff, so it<br />
was real special for him to win the tournament<br />
that was named after his dad,” Stroh<br />
said.<br />
Other area winners in the tournament<br />
included Holt’s Carter Smith at 106 pounds.<br />
Smith won an overtime bout. Anthony<br />
Pisciotta, a two-time state medalist from<br />
Timberland, claimed a title at 113 pounds.<br />
Hollander helps Eagles soar<br />
Eight years after leaving St. Charles West<br />
and after spending seven years at Lindenwood<br />
University as an assistant basketball<br />
coach, Hall of Fame coach Terry Hollander<br />
has returned to his coaching roots and<br />
loves every bit of it.<br />
Hollander now coaches at O’Fallon<br />
Christian and under his leadership, the<br />
Eagles have soared to an 11-9<br />
start and a respectable third<br />
place showing in the Archdiocesan<br />
Athletic Conference heading<br />
into the final week of the regular<br />
season.<br />
“We have played really well<br />
the last month or so,” Hollander<br />
said. “At Christmas, we were Hollander<br />
3-4 and had <strong>17</strong> days off and after<br />
the Christmas Tournament, we won eight<br />
of our last 11 and have played really well.<br />
Things are going in the right direction.”<br />
Perhaps the most pivotal game in that<br />
stretch was a 61-53 victory at St. Charles<br />
West that brought a flood of mixed emotions,<br />
as it was Hollander’s first visit back<br />
to the school where he spent 30 years<br />
on the bench and had some of the finest<br />
moments of his career.<br />
Add coaching and winning a game<br />
against nephew and current St. Charles<br />
West coach Pat Steinhoff to that and Hollander<br />
definitely had a lot of conflicting<br />
emotions on what ended up being a very<br />
special evening.<br />
“There were aspects of it that were difficult,<br />
what with the relationship with the<br />
school and relatives there and the whole<br />
night,” said Hollander, who coached more<br />
than 300 games at West. “It was the first<br />
time I ever coached from the visitors’ side<br />
there, but once they throw the ball up and<br />
the game starts, your focus is all on the<br />
game.”<br />
Follmer, Jones make<br />
history for Liberty High<br />
There were few expectations for anyone<br />
playing football at Liberty High when the<br />
Wentzville area school began its program<br />
four years ago.<br />
Thanks to senior players Nick Follmer<br />
and Brian Jones, the chance to play college<br />
football is no longer a dream, but a definite<br />
possibility for future players.<br />
Follmer and Jones both signed to play<br />
football and continue their education at<br />
the collegiate level during National Signing<br />
Day three weeks ago. For both, it is the<br />
realization of a lot of hard work and dedication<br />
coming to fruition.<br />
“It’s a surreal feeling for me and everybody<br />
that signed,” Follmer said.<br />
“Obviously, being the first D-1<br />
that signed is pretty cool and<br />
coach [McMillen] feels that I’ve<br />
set an example for all the younger<br />
kids in the program.”<br />
Hockey was Follmer’s first<br />
sports love, but he realized<br />
around eighth grade that his older<br />
brothers were a lot better at it<br />
– that led him, at the urging of his father,<br />
John, to try football.<br />
After playing his freshman and sophomore<br />
years, Follmer, who by then was<br />
about 6-3 and 280 pounds, started to catch<br />
the attention of college coaches, having<br />
attended the University of Missouri Scouting<br />
Combine that summer.<br />
Follmer is slated to play an offensive<br />
tackle spot at Central Michigan this fall.<br />
Jones, who starred the past four years<br />
at Liberty as the Eagles’ top wide receiver,<br />
will be looking to get playing time as a<br />
tight end at Division-II Washburn University<br />
in Kansas.<br />
“There is going to be a difference in<br />
blocking defensive ends that are bigger<br />
than me instead of blocking corners that are<br />
smaller than me, but I think I can handle<br />
the adjustment,” Jones said. “I’m looking<br />
forward to the opportunity. It’s a blessing.”<br />
Nick Follmer and Brian Jones are the<br />
first players from Liberty High ever to sign<br />
football letters of intent.
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“Our three core values are love, integrity and commitment to excellence,” said<br />
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A league of volunteers work to restore St. Charles County homes<br />
BY BRIAN FLINCHPAUGH<br />
Sometimes it’s the seemingly small gesture<br />
that can make life more bearable.<br />
Ruth Bartholomew knows that.<br />
Bartholomew, 63, lives in a mobile home<br />
park in O’Fallon. She doesn’t have much<br />
money and has a disability that makes it<br />
difficult to take a shower. But not anymore.<br />
“I would have to climb over the edge of<br />
the tub to get in and out,” Bartholomew<br />
explained. Then, she found Steve Collier<br />
and a group of volunteers from Restore St.<br />
Charles. They retrofitted Bartholomew’s<br />
bathroom with a zero entry [low threshold]<br />
shower. The work was finished around<br />
Christmas.<br />
“Now I no longer have to do that,” she<br />
said. But it was more than just the work<br />
that made an impact on Bartholomew. It<br />
was their attitude.<br />
“They were so cheerful,” Bartholomew<br />
said. Collier also helped her with other<br />
needs, putting her in touch with other community<br />
organizations. “Oh gosh, they made<br />
me feel so good even though I couldn’t<br />
afford to do this. They never made me feel<br />
like I was a second-class citizen for it. You<br />
wouldn’t believe how many ‘no’s’ I heard<br />
and turn-downs and attitudes before I got<br />
ahold of them.<br />
“They made a difference every day for<br />
me taking a shower or not. They made my<br />
life so much more comfortable.”<br />
Volunteers from Restore St. Charles work to complete a home repair project.<br />
A DECADE OF CARE<br />
Making a difference by making lives<br />
more comfortable is what Restore St.<br />
Charles is about, said Collier. Since 2007,<br />
the faith-based organization has been<br />
trying to meet the real needs of St. Charles<br />
County residents by doing home repair<br />
projects that many residents otherwise<br />
can’t afford. Collier, the group’s president,<br />
said the work is usually completed on the<br />
third Saturday of the month.<br />
Typically, Collier develops a list of<br />
projects at five or six locations. Then, an<br />
email is sent to a cadre of 100-120 potential<br />
volunteers. Usually about 30 show<br />
up at Dardenne Presbyterian Church in<br />
Dardenne Prairie. They enjoy a continental<br />
breakfast, attend a safety and project briefing,<br />
and sign liability forms before going<br />
to the job sites. Each project has a project<br />
manager.<br />
“One of our mottos is restoring lives,<br />
restoring homes,” said Collier. When they<br />
can do a project, it’s often deeply appreciated.<br />
“People cry,” he said. “They are so<br />
grateful that somebody is going to help<br />
them. A lot of these folks will call various<br />
places and they won’t even get a return<br />
call.”<br />
The work can be simple or complex – a<br />
ramp to allow wheel chair access into a<br />
home, replacing rotting floors or toilets,<br />
installing siding or a water heater, painting<br />
walls, fixing windows, or cutting down tree<br />
limbs.<br />
“We do what Christ asks us to do. We<br />
view ourselves as being the hands and feet<br />
of Christ for these people,” Collier said.<br />
What is unique about those volunteers<br />
is not only their commitment but also<br />
their longevity. There are many churches<br />
and civic organizations that do wonderful<br />
work in the community, but perhaps not<br />
for as long as Restore St. Charles has, said<br />
Alexis Jaeger, who administers community<br />
development block grants for the city<br />
of O’Fallon. O’Fallon often refers home<br />
repair projects to Collier.<br />
“At least in my experience, they<br />
[other volunteer home repair organizations]<br />
may be out there and I may just<br />
not be aware of them, so I can’t blanket<br />
say they don’t exist,” Jaeger said. “But<br />
Steve is just the most consistent. I know,<br />
weather permitting, they [Restore St.<br />
Charles] are out there the third Saturday<br />
of every month.”<br />
Home repairs are a significant issue for<br />
many residents, because a lack of repairs<br />
can lead to poor living conditions that in<br />
turn lead to public health issues, prompting<br />
evictions or fines. Cities also want housing<br />
stock to be maintained, and can issue citations<br />
requiring repairs. Federal community<br />
block grant funding can help residents fund<br />
home repairs if they qualify. But not every<br />
resident meets funding eligibility requirements.<br />
Some also can’t afford to hire professional<br />
contractors.<br />
If a resident’s income is at or below 80<br />
percent of the median income of St. Charles<br />
County, they may be able to qualify for<br />
help, Jaeger said. “If they are slightly over<br />
that, our hands are tied as far as helping<br />
them,” she said. So Jaeger puts them in<br />
touch with Collier. “My goal is to assist<br />
residents and, if I can’t do it, I want to put<br />
them in touch with organizations that either<br />
can or continue to refer those homeowners<br />
to help find them a solution.”<br />
She said Restore St. Charles has the<br />
right mix of skill sets among its volunteers<br />
to really be of service. And she said those<br />
volunteers provide “immeasurable value to<br />
our community.”<br />
WITH HANDS AND HEART<br />
Todd Barnes, executive director for<br />
the St. Charles Community Council, an<br />
umbrella organization for county nonprofit<br />
organizations and agencies, agrees.<br />
“They certainly have found a good niche<br />
and carved out that opportunity [to help]<br />
and have a funding source that has allowed<br />
them to do that through volunteer work,”<br />
Barnes said. “There are several churches<br />
that have that outreach, but it’s hit and<br />
miss.”<br />
Restore St. Charles has its roots in a<br />
group of six volunteers who did volunteer<br />
work for years with an organization in St.<br />
Louis, providing home repair services to<br />
widows, orphans and invalids.<br />
“As we were going down there we would<br />
say, ‘You know, there are probably some<br />
folks in St. Charles County that could use<br />
some help also,’” Collier said.<br />
The beginnings for Restore St. Charles<br />
came out of a mission conference at<br />
Dardenne Presbyterian Church. Collier<br />
said they talked to city officials and members<br />
of the St. Louis group they had been<br />
helping. He said he was worried about
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having enough worksites for volunteers<br />
to keep them involved. They were thinking<br />
about helping people in mobile home<br />
parks.<br />
“I was sitting there thinking about that<br />
and I get a telephone call from this guy<br />
in St. Louis saying, ‘we were down here<br />
thinking about what you guys are doing,’”<br />
Collier said. “‘Have you ever thought<br />
about doing some work on mobile homes?’<br />
And I said, ‘well, yeah.’”<br />
About 80 percent of the projects the<br />
group does these days are in county<br />
mobile home parks. Cities and social service<br />
organizations such as Sts. Joachim<br />
and Ann Care Service, the O’Fallon<br />
Rotary Club, the Community Council and<br />
churches often provide referrals. But Collier<br />
said the group can’t take everyone.<br />
Sometimes they don’t have the expertise<br />
or resources to do the work. Sometimes<br />
he has to say no because the repairs are<br />
too extensive or won’t work. And there<br />
are other issues. “We worked on one roof<br />
and a guy fell through,” Collier said. “My<br />
insurance guy says, ‘no, you don’t do<br />
roofs anymore.’”<br />
The repairs often are made at little or no<br />
cost to residents.<br />
“There are two things we ask of people<br />
when we are going to work with them – one<br />
is, if they are capable, we would like them<br />
to work alongside us on that project and also<br />
work on another project in the future,” Collier<br />
said. “The other thing we ask, if they are<br />
capable, that they also provide some funds<br />
for the materials we use. Frankly, 98 to 99<br />
percent of the people can’t do either. An<br />
awful lot of folks are disabled and they can’t<br />
work alongside of us.”<br />
Sometimes volunteers come upon a<br />
resident who wants to talk to them – to the<br />
point that work doesn’t get done.<br />
“If there is a person [who] wants to stand<br />
and talk to you, talk to them,” Collier said.<br />
“Because that relationship is just as important<br />
as anything else we’re doing. So don’t<br />
ever shortchange people.”<br />
There also are unexpected surprises –<br />
homes where hoarding takes place that has<br />
to be removed, homes that are dirty and<br />
unkempt, people who sometimes don’t say<br />
thank you but who expect much.<br />
“You take down a smoke detector and the<br />
roaches fall on your head,” Collier said.<br />
Still, the group said they have 248 volunteers<br />
giving an average of six hours a<br />
month, which totaled more than 1,488 volunteer<br />
hours in 2016. Many help for years.<br />
Collier tells about finally talking someone<br />
into volunteering.<br />
“He goes on his first job and says, ‘I<br />
went there thinking I’m going to go and<br />
be a blessing to this person,’” Collier said.<br />
“Then he adds, ‘You know what? I was the<br />
one who received the blessing.’”<br />
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THE NEED CONTINUES<br />
Operating a volunteer organization isn’t<br />
easy. While the group receives support from<br />
Dardenne Prairie Presbyterian and Christ’s<br />
Church on Mexico Road along with donations<br />
from volunteers and some discounts<br />
on materials, it’s difficult to stay solvent.<br />
In 2015 and 2016, the group operated<br />
in the red. In 2015, they had an income<br />
of $7,711 and expenses of $20,575. In<br />
2016, they had an income of $6,391 and<br />
expenses of $10,968. Collier said the<br />
group is seeking 501(c)3 status as a nonprofit<br />
organization, which may encourage<br />
fundraising, something that hasn’t been<br />
done so far.<br />
Restore St. Charles entered 20<strong>17</strong> with<br />
less than $2,500 in the bank.<br />
“My philosophy has been that the Lord<br />
provides for us,” Collier said. “But as I<br />
look at it maybe the Lord provides for us<br />
by coming through with people who support<br />
us on a fundraising basis.”<br />
The group also is recruiting more volunteers<br />
and works with companies, cities and<br />
civic organizations when their employees<br />
do volunteer projects. There will be work<br />
for them.<br />
Collier and other social service providers<br />
said poverty isn’t as pervasive in St.<br />
Charles County as in other places in the<br />
St. Louis region. Barnes said poverty in<br />
a prosperous county can remain “largely<br />
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hidden” compared to other areas.<br />
Just under 900 people were counted as<br />
homeless last year in the county as part of<br />
an annual homeless count conducted in<br />
January by the Community Council, compared<br />
to about 1,300 in the city of St. Louis<br />
and 450 in St. Louis County, he said. Figures<br />
for 20<strong>17</strong> are not available yet.<br />
Karen Grant, director of development<br />
for Sts. Joachim and Ann Care Service,<br />
perhaps the largest social service agency in<br />
the county, said seniors particularly need<br />
help in maintaining their housing so they<br />
can “age in place” and not end up in a nursing<br />
home.<br />
Sandy Pratte, coordinator for Sts.<br />
Joachim and Ann’s repairing homes/<br />
restoring homes program, said her agency<br />
doesn’t have to rely on Restore St. Charles<br />
to help with repairs, but sometimes she<br />
refers people to them.<br />
“They [her employees] are so busy,” she<br />
said. The need for help with home repairs<br />
remains in St. Charles, Lincoln and Warren<br />
counties, she added, particularly in mobile<br />
home parks.<br />
“It’s a sad thing, but mobile home parks<br />
will sell less-than-livable mobile homes to<br />
people with low incomes and then, when<br />
they get them in, they say, ‘you have to fix<br />
them up,’” Pratte said.<br />
And so the need for volunteers, funds<br />
and restoration continues.<br />
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survey conducted by Orlando Health found<br />
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nationwide survey of more than 1,000<br />
women found that the average age women<br />
believe they should begin getting heart<br />
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“Women can begin developing atherosclerosis<br />
– plaque in their arteries – in their<br />
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appropriate life changes as early as possible,”<br />
said Dr. Carolina Demori, a cardiologist<br />
at the Orlando Health Heart Institute.<br />
The guidelines recommend that, beginning<br />
at age 20, women and their doctors<br />
should begin monitoring weight and body<br />
mass index [BMI], blood pressure, cholesterol<br />
and glucose levels and waist circumference,<br />
all of which are directly associated<br />
with heart health and can be controlled to<br />
minimize the risk of heart disease. Young<br />
women may also want to talk with their<br />
doctors about an electrocardiogram [EKG]<br />
or other tests to uncover any existing heart<br />
conditions.<br />
“Often women are so busy taking care of<br />
others that they don’t take control of their<br />
own health …women cannot wait until<br />
they’re 40 to start paying attention to their<br />
risk factors,” Demori said.<br />
Topping the list for<br />
hospital readmissions<br />
According to the National Institutes of<br />
Health, sepsis – a dangerous condition<br />
that arises when the body’s response to<br />
an infection injures its own tissues and<br />
organs – is the leading killer of hospital<br />
inpatients, accounting for the deaths of<br />
between 28 and 50 percent of the more<br />
than 1 million patients who develop it in<br />
U.S. hospitals each year. Sepsis also tops<br />
the list of causes for hospital readmission<br />
following discharge, leading to more return<br />
hospital visits than any of the four medical<br />
conditions tracked by the federal government<br />
to measure quality of care, according<br />
to recent research conducted by a team<br />
at the University of Pittsburgh School of<br />
Medicine and the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare<br />
System.<br />
“Many people think infections and sepsis<br />
are short-term illnesses and that once<br />
patients are discharged from the hospital,<br />
they are better,” said senior author Sachin<br />
Yende, M.D., M.S., associate professor at<br />
the Pittsburgh School of Medicine and vice<br />
president of critical care at the VA Pittsburgh.<br />
“But all research to date shows that<br />
sepsis has serious, lingering consequences,<br />
and patients continue to have problems<br />
well after they are discharged.”<br />
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid<br />
Services currently monitors readmissions<br />
for four medical conditions: heart<br />
attack, heart failure, chronic obstructive<br />
pulmonary disease [COPD] and pneumonia.<br />
Yende’s team analyzed data from the<br />
2013 Nationwide Readmissions Database,<br />
which comprises 49 percent of U.S. inpatients,<br />
for those four conditions and for<br />
sepsis. Their analysis showed that sepsis<br />
far outpaced the government-monitored<br />
conditions as the reason patients returned<br />
to the hospital – it accounted for 12.2<br />
percent of readmissions, followed by 6.7<br />
percent for heart failure, 5 percent for<br />
pneumonia, 4.6 percent for COPD and 1.3<br />
percent for heart attack.<br />
The findings, published in the Journal of<br />
the American Medical Association, highlight<br />
the need for new medical interventions<br />
aimed at improving outcomes and<br />
reducing readmissions for sepsis, Yende<br />
said.<br />
Laundry pod hazard<br />
Parents of young children should think<br />
twice before purchasing single-use laundry<br />
detergent pods, according to a new study<br />
published online in JAMA Ophthalmology.<br />
The research found that between 2012 and<br />
2015, chemical burns to the eye associated<br />
with the small pods increased more than<br />
30-fold among preschool-aged children in<br />
the U.S.<br />
During the study, a research team from<br />
Johns Hopkins University examined data<br />
obtained by the U.S. Product Safety Commission<br />
for eye injuries which resulted in<br />
chemical burns or conjunctivitis among<br />
children between the ages of 3 and 4. They<br />
found that the number of chemical burns<br />
associated with laundry detergent pods<br />
increased from 12 instances in 2012 to 480<br />
in 2015. The percentage of all chemical<br />
injuries to the eye associated with laundry<br />
pods rose from 0.8 percent in 2012 to 26<br />
percent in 2015.<br />
The children’s injuries most often<br />
occurred while they were handling the<br />
pods and the contents squirted into one or<br />
both of their eyes, or when the pod contents<br />
leaked onto their hands and a burn<br />
resulted from hand-eye contact. Reports<br />
of other laundry pod-related injuries,<br />
including poisoning and choking, have<br />
also increased. The researchers suggested<br />
that this may be partially due to the<br />
pods’ colorful packaging and “candy-like<br />
appearance.”<br />
“These data suggest that the role of laundry<br />
detergent pods in eye injuries among<br />
preschool-aged children is growing. As<br />
with most injuries in this age group, these<br />
burns occurred almost exclusively in the<br />
home. In addition to proper storage and<br />
use of these devices, prevention strategies<br />
might include redesigning packaging<br />
to reduce the attractiveness of these<br />
products to young children and improving<br />
their strength and durability,” the study’s<br />
authors wrote.<br />
Explaining enteroviruses<br />
Researchers at Washington University’s<br />
School of Medicine in St. Louis recently<br />
completed a study that helps to explain<br />
how enterovirus infections enter the body.<br />
Enteroviruses, which cause millions of illnesses<br />
every year, can cause respiratory,<br />
gastrointestinal or flulike symptoms. The<br />
viruses often run their course fairly quickly<br />
in older children and adults, but they can<br />
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including inflammation in the brain or<br />
heart, paralysis or even death. They are<br />
especially dangerous to infants in hospital<br />
neonatal intensive care units, where<br />
fatality rates from enterovirus infections<br />
may approach 20 percent. Currently, little<br />
is known about how the viruses cross the<br />
intestine, their main point of entry into the<br />
body.<br />
Working with researchers from the Uni-
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be dropped off between 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m.<br />
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The <strong>17</strong>th Annual Legacy Ball is at 5:30<br />
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TREE House of Greater St. Louis is<br />
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p.m. on Saturday, March 11 at the Foundry<br />
Art Centre, 520 North Main Center, St.<br />
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call the park information hotline at (636)<br />
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Center Stage Theatre holds open auditions<br />
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at 7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday,<br />
March 7-8 in the Donald D. Shook Fine<br />
Arts Building, Room 110, on the St.<br />
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“Heathers, the Musical” is at 7:30 p.m.<br />
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Based on the 1988 movie, “Heathers” is<br />
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“Peter and the Starcatcher” is from<br />
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For details, visit www.ofallon.mo.us.<br />
• • •<br />
Lindenwood Theater presents “42nd<br />
Street” at 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 12 at<br />
209 S. Kingshighway in St. Charles. For<br />
tickets or more information, visit www.lindenwood.edu.<br />
• • •<br />
Young People’s Theatre performs “Disney’s<br />
The Little Mermaid” at 7 p.m. Fridays,<br />
March <strong>17</strong> and 24; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.<br />
Saturdays, March 18 and 25; and 2 p.m.<br />
Sundays, March 19 and 26, in the Donald<br />
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AWARDS AND HONORS<br />
Right at Home of St. Charles has<br />
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• • •<br />
The Western St. Charles County Chamber<br />
of Commerce bestowed its annual<br />
awards at its Celebration Ball on Saturday,<br />
Feb. 18. The following businesses, organizations<br />
and individuals were recognized as<br />
award winners: Large Business of the Year<br />
– Poage Chevrolet; Small Business of the<br />
Year – Pinot’s Palette; Above & Beyond<br />
Business of the Year – Alter’d Décor &<br />
More; Chamber New Business of the Year<br />
– Lake St. Louis Neighbors; Chamber Volunteer<br />
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Awards – Andrews Academy; Most Likely<br />
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Unterreiner; Most Chamber Spirit – Jill<br />
Ruggeri; Gives the Best Advice – Angie<br />
Harness; and Most Community Spirit –<br />
Master Y Kim’s World Class Tae Kwon Do.<br />
• • •<br />
The Greater St. Charles Chamber of<br />
Commerce will honor its 2016 Citizen of<br />
the Year, Dr. Bernard DuBray, as well<br />
as Lifetime Distinguished Service Award<br />
recipients, Phyllis A. Schneider, Dennis<br />
Hahn, Bruce Sowatsky and Patrick<br />
Sweeney at its 2016 Year in Celebration on<br />
Friday, Feb. 24 from 6-10 p.m. at Ameristar<br />
Casino in St. Charles.<br />
PEOPLE<br />
Providence Bank has promoted Dave<br />
Eads to vice president, mortgage banking<br />
market manager. Eads joined Providence<br />
Bank in June 2015 as a mortgage banking<br />
officer. He has over 30 years of banking<br />
experience. His office is located at the<br />
Lake Saint Louis Banking Center, 460<br />
Hawk Ridge Trail.<br />
• • •<br />
Barnes-Jewish St.<br />
Peters Hospital and<br />
Progress West Hospital<br />
named Elizabeth<br />
Lawson as vice president<br />
of finance, effective<br />
March 5.<br />
As vice president<br />
of finance for Barnes-<br />
Lawson<br />
Jewish St. Peters and<br />
Progress West hospitals, Lawson’s duties<br />
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Hair Saloon – St. Peters recently held<br />
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hand were family and friends of owner<br />
Scott Kaiser, St. Peters Mayor Len Pagano,<br />
representatives of the city, and board members<br />
and ambassadors with the Greater St.<br />
Charles County Chamber of Commerce.<br />
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NETWORKING AND EVENTS<br />
A ribbon-cutting ceremony for Heartland<br />
Women’s Healthcare, 1603 Wentzville<br />
Parkway, Suite 123 in Wentzville, is<br />
on Thursday, Feb. 23 from 11 a.m-noon.<br />
All are welcome to attend.<br />
• • •<br />
A ribbon-cutting and networking night<br />
takes place on Thursday, Feb. 23 from 5-7<br />
p.m. at the new location of Wentzville<br />
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Attendees can view class schedules,<br />
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For additional information and to RSVP,<br />
call (636) 327-6914 or email info@westernstchalrescountychamber.com.<br />
• • •<br />
“STOP Heroin,” a breakfast lecture<br />
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Pointe Addiction Treatment Center,<br />
is on Friday, Feb. 24 at CenterPointe<br />
Hospital, 4801 Weldon Spring Parkway<br />
in St. Charles. Registration begins at<br />
7:30 a.m., followed by a lecture featuring<br />
Lisa Cassidy and Kyle Gaines of the St.<br />
Charles County Ambulance District from<br />
8-9:30 a.m. An open house at the treatment<br />
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• • •<br />
The Western St. Charles Chamber of<br />
Commerce hosts Lunch and Leads on<br />
Monday, Feb. 27 from noon-1 p.m at<br />
Rizzo’s Bar and Grill, 1155 Wentzville<br />
Parkway in Wentzville. Members and nonmembers<br />
are welcome. There is no fee,<br />
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com.<br />
• • •<br />
United Services for Children sponsors its<br />
ninth annual In Cahoots Trivia Night at 6<br />
p.m. [doors open at 5:30 p.m.] on Saturday,<br />
March 4 at the Knights of Columbus Hall,<br />
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for a table of eight or $250 for a table of 10.<br />
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for a minimal charge. Outside snacks welcome;<br />
no outside liquor allowed. For more<br />
information or to register, contact Diane<br />
Wolferding (636) 926-2700, ext. 101 or<br />
dwolferding@unitedsrvcs.org.<br />
• • •<br />
Jerry Kelly Heating & Air Conditioning<br />
holds a ribbon-cutting ceremony<br />
on Wednesday, March 8 from 8-9 a.m. to<br />
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at 4631 N. St. Peters Parkway in St. Peters.<br />
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at (636) 327-6914 or email wendy@<br />
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• • •<br />
A Young Professionals of St. Charles<br />
County meeting takes place on Wednesday,<br />
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