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President Trump and Paul Ryan tried to
improve Obamacare. They failed.
Trump then tweeted, “ObamaCare will
explode and we will all get together and
piece together a great healthcare plan for
THE PEOPLE. Do not worry!”
But I do worry.
Trump is right when he says that Obamacare
will explode.
The law mandates benefits and offers
subsidies to more people. Insurers must
cover things like: birth control, alcohol
counseling, depression screening, diet
counseling, tobacco use screening, and
breastfeeding counseling.
Some people want those things, but mandating
them for everyone drives up costs. It
was folly to pretend it wouldn’t.
Insisting that lots of things be paid for
by someone else is a recipe for financial
explosion.
Medicare works that way, too.
When I first qualified for it, I was amazed
to find that no one even mentioned cost. It
was just, “Have this test!” “See this doctor!”
I liked it. It’s great not to think about costs.
But that’s why Medicare will explode, too.
There’s no way that, in its current form, it
will be around to fund younger people’s
care.
Someone else paying changes our
behavior. We don’t shop around. We don’t
ask, “Do I really need that test?” “Is there a
place where it’s cheaper?”
Hospitals and doctors don’t try very hard
to do things cheaply.
Imagine if you had “grocery insurance.”
You’d buy expensive foods; supermarkets
would never have sales. Everyone would
spend more.
Insurance coverage – third-party payment
– is revered by the media and socialists
[redundant?] but is a terrible way to
pay for things.
Today, 7 in 8 health care dollars are paid
by Medicare, Medicaid or private insurance
companies. Because there’s no real
health care market, costs rose 467 percent
over the last three decades.
By contrast, prices fell in the few medical
areas not covered by insurance, like plastic
surgery and LASIK eye care. Patients shop
around, forcing health providers to compete.
Obamacare pretended government controls
could accomplish the same thing, but
they couldn’t.
The sickest people were quickest to
sign up. Insurance companies then raised
rates to cover their costs. When regulators
objected, many insurers just quit Obamacare.
This month Humana announced it’ll
leave 11 states.
Voters will probably blame Republicans.
Insurance is meant for catastrophic
health events, surprises that cost more
than most people can afford. That does not
include birth control and diet counseling.
The solution is to reduce, not increase,
government’s control. We should buy medical
care the way we buy cars and computers
-- with our own money.
Our employers don’t pay for our food,
clothing and shelter; they shouldn’t pay for
our health care. They certainly shouldn’t
get a tax break for buying insurance while
individuals don’t.
Give tax deductions to people who buy
their own high-deductible insurance.
Give tax benefits to medical savings
accounts. [Obamacare penalizes them.]
Allow insurers to sell across state lines.
Current law forbids that, driving up costs
and leaving people with fewer choices.
What about the other “solution” – Bernie
Sanders’ proposal of single-payer health
care for all? Sanders claims other countries
“provide universal health care ... while
saving money.”
But that’s not true. Well, other countries
do spend less. But they get less.
What modern health care they do get,
they get because they freeload off our
innovation. Our free market provides most
of the world’s new medical devices and
medicines.
Also, “single-payer” care leads to rationing.
Britain’s official goal is to treat people
four months after diagnosis. Four months!
That’s only the “goal.” They don’t even
meet that standard. Bernie Sanders’ plan
has been tried, and it’s no cure.
If it were done to meet American expectations,
it would be ludicrously expensive.
In 2011, clueless progressives in Bernie’s
home state of Vermont voted in “universal
care.” But they quickly dumped it when
they figured out what it would cost.
It’s time to have government do less.
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In support of
Rep. Ann Wagner
To the Editor:
I am replying to Rev. Krista Taves’ opinion
in Letters to the Editor, West Newsmagazine,
March 22. 2017:
Rev. Taves expressed that Ann Wagner
does not do her job, avoids people and that
Ann does not model Christian values.
I just want you, Reverend, and everyone
else to know that Ann Wagner does model
Christian values for her constituents and
she does not avoid people, she attacks the
real problems they have. She helps her
constituents as Jesus would do. She really
cares. She is our advocate and does do her
job. She acts in love as a public servant and
a Christian should. And, I can give you a
real life example.
I was having trouble with Social Security
and Medicare enrollment for my husband,
getting the run around from a government
system that at times can be hard to maneuver.
I asked for Ann’s help by contacting her
using her website and she came through in
the clutch for my husband and I to attain
the benefits he deserved and I might add
quickly, for he has pre-existing conditions.
She really cares about the little guy. Just
like Jesus. I am sure she probably does this
for others, which takes a lot of time. I was
so desperate, not knowing where to turn
for help and she went way out of her way
to help us. She made our life better. And it
was during the holidays, she took the time
to move for us, to solve our problem, doing
her job.
I did not know her before contacting her
with my problem, but I am proud to say I
will campaign for her in the future, for she
really helps the people she represents with
their real problems. Isn’t that what we need
in our public officials?
She did what Jesus would do, one-onone,
and what we all need to do now in
our negative-filled world: Act with love to
solve problems, not with negativity toward
each other.
Jill Schwendemann
Why can’t we
protect ourselves?
To the Editor:
As we continue to wonder what the answer
is to the ever-increasing violence that grips
St. Louis City and County – of course, I am
referring to the MetroLink shooting – one
question that has not been dealt with lingers.
Why is it OK for criminals and thugs to
bring guns on board MetroLink, or for that
matter any place they please, but not OK for
law-abiding citizens to bring their gun on
board MetroLink, or anywhere they deem
necessary to protect themselves?
Last week, I was at a business in the
county, the notice on the door said “Gunfree
zone, do not bring a gun in this establishment,
even with a concealed carry
permit.” It’s time to change these signs to
read: “Do not bring your weapon into our
establishment to protect yourself if you
are a law-abiding citizen, with or without
a permit, but criminals it’s OK for you to
bring in your weapon!”
I know how this sounds, but think about it.
Why can’t we protect ourselves?
A liberal friend of mine, when he heard
this, told me that it would be like the Wild
Wild West, but it already is the Wild Wild
West, only the bad guys have the guns!
Soon, many of us will board MetroLink
to go to Cardinals games, will there be
an incident? The police already said they
cannot be everywhere and protect everyone.
If these thugs and criminals thought there
might be someone on the train or anywhere
else that might be able to fight back, don’t
you think they would think twice before
trying to rob and hurt or kill someone? Of
course, they would.
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun
is a good guy with a gun.
Dennis James
Keeping children safe
To the Editor:
I was astonished to hear from my grandchildren
who attend a Parkway elementary
school that they are still being told to have
a “password” between themselves and their
parents to be used in case a potential kidnapper
should approach them.
When my son was in the second grade,
he came home one day all excited about
learning about “kid codes.” He said, “Mom,
you and I should have a kid code so that if
someone tries to steal me I can ask them for
my kid code and if they can’t answer then I
will know not to go with them.” I said, “OK,
let’s make a kid code and try it out.”
He began to walk down our street and I
pulled alongside him in the family van and
spoke to him through the open window. He
smiled and asked, “What’s my kid code?” I
pulled him through the window and put him
on the seat and told him, “Don’t ever think
you are going to outsmart a bad guy.” We
came up with another plan.
Colleen Mathiesen
Regarding the
Chesterfield ice rink
To the Editor:
I have been reading with great interest
the various articles and letters to the editor
concerning the proposed Chesterfield Ice
Rink. There are good arguments to be made
both pro and con, and it is refreshing to see
a healthy debate among those affected by
the decision.
What is concerning, however, is the
involvement by parties who do not have a
legitimate reason to be involved. I am referring
to the Show-Me Institute. These outside
agitators are not Chesterfield residents and
thus will be neither helped nor harmed by
any decision. Instead, they meddle in local
affairs and complicate the decision. Their
agenda is not clear. As far as I can tell from
their website and actions, they exist purely
to insinuate themselves into local affairs
across the region.
Local decisions are just that – local. Chesterfield
can make good decisions without
the involvement of outside groups with
unclear motives.
Dave and Cindy Brussee
Dennis Prager revisited
To the Editor:
There seemed to be considerable angst
directed toward Mr. Prager for his column
describing how conservatives felt when
Obama was elected. There was also the
standard complaint about West Newsmagazine
not offering a balanced view, but they
did print those negative letters, didn’t they?
Now, this was a column that wasn’t overtly
disparaging of the left, but did point out a
number of differences regarding how the left
and right react to political situations. With
all the negative outpouring being directed at
Mr. Prager for stating simple, documented
facts, one has to ask the question:
Why were you people not writing in and
condemning these hateful, dangerous, distasteful
and property damaging acts of disobedience
by the left when they occurred?
One could interpret this absence of rebuke
to mean that it must be acceptable for the
left to destroy things or disrupt people’s
work and lives when upset about some situation,
but not for a conservative to simply
and peacefully describe his or her perspective
on similar situations.
How terribly sad and alarming. West
Newsmagazine, keep up the good work and
thanks for continuing those conservative
columnists’ articles.
Jon Schulte
Refugees and Michelle Malkin
To the Editor:
On Feb. 8, an article was published in
your newsmagazine: “Not all refugees are
welcome” by Michelle Malkin. I was quite
surprised that you will publish an article
that is so ignorant and so offensive not only
to refugees but to anyone who came to this
country from somewhere else.
I guess Ms. Malkin’s narrowed mind
doesn’t allow her to see the horrors that
many refugees have experienced. I guess
she will never know how is to live in a country
where your house has been destroyed,
your family was killed and the only way
to survive is to go to another country and
rebuild your life from zero.
She also doesn’t understand the revenue
generated by the millions in American dollars
that foreign students are bringing to this
country. Maybe she could ask Harvard or
Stanford universities for that information
and for their opinion on this issue.
And about the “117,000 slots for seasonal
agricultural workers,” it is a fact that
Americans do not want to work in the fields.
She can ask Trump’s sons about it. They
cannot find American workers to work in
their vineyards and they may have to hire
some of these foreign temporary workers.
The only applications they received so far
are from people in Asia, the Philippines and
other countries. Not one application from
an American.
Articles like this one do not educate the
public, they just create more division and
hatred.
The United States is a beautiful country.
It is beautiful because it is rich in traditions,
hope and diversity.
Ms. Malkin should be thankful that
people like her were not in office when her
parents wanted to emigrate here.
Ivette Geusz
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March 22 edition of West Newsmagazine,
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EDITORIAL
OBAMACARE FIGHT:
Unhealthy, un-wealthy, unwise
The healthcare fight was over before it
started.
Actually, to clarify, the health insurance
fight was over before it started. For the
last 100 years, American citizens have had
access to world-leading healthcare. That is
not what this discussion is about. This fight
is over how that care is paid for, and in
this country, at this time, that means health
insurance.
So why was the battle lost before the
combatants even took the field? Because
the entire discussion was framed around
what people would lose under a new program.
Obamacare became something that
was given to the people, and Trumpcare
was viewed as something that would take
away from the people. Every story led with
how many people might lose insurance or
lose tax subsidies under the Trump/Ryan
plan. This is the exact same scenario that
has played out with every entitlement
program ever foisted into the political
landscape. Once something is “given,” it
becomes nearly impossible to peel it away.
Paul Ryan was unable to make any compelling
argument to the contrary.
To be fair, the Trumpcare plan, as constructed
and proposed, was pretty awful.
It may have actually been a worse version
of Obamacare. The reason behind that
is because the argument made in the first
paragraphs of this editorial is well understood
by politicians of both parties, and
those politicians lack the political courage
to say what they are really thinking.
Both sides dislike Obamacare. Both
sides are aware that it has significant issues
that threaten its long-term viability. Neither
side, however, will come right out and say
what they truly believe because of political
repercussions.
This is why people hate Washington and
why Donald Trump is our president, by the
way. He at least appeared to have the courage
to say almost anything that was on his
mind.
Both sides of the political spectrum
acknowledge that our healthcare system,
caused in large part by our health insurance
system, is wildly overpriced. We pay as
much for administration as we do for care,
and that is absurd. We pay significantly
more per capita than any other nation in the
world. Obamacare did very little to address
this, and in many ways exasperated the
problem. This is all well known, and it is a
point of agreement.
Liberals believe that the way to fix this
problem is to have government manage
the healthcare system completely. They
believe that every person in this country
should have access to “free” healthcare
just like they have access to public education.
This is the single-payer argument and
it is a reasonable position. Conservatives,
on the other hand, believe that the healthcare
system should be market-driven and
less encumbered by regulation. Markets
drive down cost and increase quality every
time they are used, so long as the markets
have sufficient freedom to operate. This is
the private healthcare argument, and once
again it is a reasonable position.
What we ended up with, in both the
enacted version of Obamacare and the
proposed version of Trumpcare, was a
hybrid that combined the worst of both
concepts. Both are highly regulated, multiparticipant
programs that invariably drive
up the cost of administration. The result
is that we never have a discussion around
reducing actual costs of healthcare and
certainly never discuss improving the quality
of care. Instead, we have a discussion
of whose tax incentives are the best and
where those incentives are directed.
We ignore the fact that business owners,
who finance the vast majority of health
insurance in this country, are left out of
both sides of this equation. All because our
political system has lost the ability to have
a conversation.
As President Trump would say, “Sad!”
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working for Mike and
Karen Pence, who have
been married for 31
years despite the kind
of high-power, highdemand
career that has
derailed many other
Washington marriages.”
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columnist on Vice President
Mike Pence and the socalled
Billy Graham rule.
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and we all need to take
care of each other.”
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Manchester Police Chief Tim Walsh [left] and Patrolman Alex Berges present
Wonedwosen Wolde and his daughter, Ephrata Abdinoor, with Citizen Service
Citations. Ephrata accepted the award on behalf of her mother, Bruktawit
Woldeselase, who was unable to attend the ceremony.
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BALLWIN
Millennial marketing
The city of Ballwin is developing a promotional
video highlighting the community’s
advantages to businesses and others
who may want to consider relocating there.
Andy Hixson, who is in charge of the
city’s economic development efforts,
showed the approximately two-minute
video to the Board of Aldermen at its
March 27 meeting.
The video still is in the final editing process,
Hixson noted but should be ready for
posting on the city’s website and for other
possible uses by mid to late April.
Produced in-house, the video is the work
of “a group of very talented millennials”
who also have combined their interests and
efforts in creating the city’s new Ballwin
Life publication, Hixson said. Leading the
group are City Clerk Aby Johnson, Police
Officer Scott Stevens and Kirsten Hochstetler,
who handles communications for
the parks and recreation department.
“We’ve given them the tools they needed
and then have stood back and watched
them do their thing,” Hixson said.
Nominations for
Outstanding Senior sought
Ballwin is what it is today due, in part, to
the history, commitments and service that
outstanding senior citizens have contributed
over the years.
As the 2017 Ballwin Days celebration
approaches, nominations are being
sought for outstanding seniors, at least 75
years of age, who have resided in the city
of Ballwin for at least 25 years. Nominations
should explain how the candidate has
helped to make Ballwin a better place in
which to live.
The selected 2017 Outstanding Senior
Award recipient will be announced at Ballwin
Days and receive a gift certificate to a
Ballwin restaurant.
Send your nomination to: Outstanding
Senior 2017, c/o City of Ballwin, 14811
Manchester Road, Ballwin, MO 63011.
Nominations are due no later than May 1.
Pretty Baby contest
seeks entrants
Ballwin Days 2017 marks the 37th anniversary
of the festival’s Pretty Baby Contest.
Since the first contest in 1981, over 2,077
babies have been entered and more than
$75,485 has been raised for SSM Cardinal
Glennon Children’s Medical Center.
Think you know a pretty baby? Enter his
or her photo into the contest by submitting
a photo [5x7 or smaller] of your choice
via email by June 2 to prettybaby@ballwindays.com
or by first class mail by May
30 to: Pretty Baby Contest, Ballwin Government
Center, 14811 Manchester Road,
Ballwin, MO 63011. Enteries may also be
hand-delivered by May 30.
Entries must include the child’s name,
address, age and a valid phone number
where the parents of contest winners can
be reached on the afternoon of Sunday,
June 11.
The contest is open to children ages 3
years and younger and limited to the first
60 entries.
Each photo submitted will be displayed
in the Pretty Baby Booth throughout
Ballwin Days festival, June 9-11. Festival-goers
can place their monetary votes
for individual babies; each cent donated
accounts for one vote and special sponsor-donated
prizes will be awarded to the
top four winners on Sunday, June 11 at
6:30 p.m.
All proceeds are donated to SSM Cardinal
Glennon Children’s Medical Center.
Donation votes may be in the form of cash
or check. For additional information, visit
www.ballwindays.com
CHESTERFIELD
City adopts revised
snow removal policy
The city of Chesterfield will maintain its
policy of reimbursing some subdivisions
for snow removal but now will require
the issue be submitted each fall to the
City Council’s planning and public works
committee for a funding recommendation
before the council acts on the program.
The fact that some subdivisions are
eligible for reimbursement while others
are not sparked some discussion before
city councilmembers approved the policy
unanimously.
Making the difference on the reimbursement
issue is whether or not the streets are
gated. As explained by City Attorney Chris
Graville, the general public has access to
streets in ungated subdivisions and reimbursement
for snow removal and de-icing
can be considered as being in the public
interest. Because the general public does
not have access to gated subdivisions,
reimbursement for snow removal there is
viewed as using public funds for private
purposes, which state law forbids.
The program applies to non-gated, single
family residential and condominium developments.
Reimbursements are limited and
based on a formula of $40 per residential
unit or $4,500 per centerline mile of private
streets, whichever is larger.
Supplemental funding also can be made
available if a “severe season” occurs. The
policy defines a severe season as one during
which the city receives 30 or more inches
of snow as measured by the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration.
Safety Town
registration opens April 12
Safety Town is a nationally recognized
pre-school safety program that teaches 4-,
5- and 6-year-olds about a wide variety
of safety issues, including bicycle safety,
water safety, school bus safety and stranger
danger.
The program includes classroom activities,
as well as outside, hands-on activities
in a miniature Safety Town. The program
is hosted and staffed by the Chesterfield
Police Department in cooperation with
the Chesterfield Rotary, the Chesterfield
Kiwanis and the Parkway School District.
It is conducted for six, two-week sessions
during the summer months.
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terfield City Hall. Registration is $10 per
child and preference is given to Chesterfield
residents and those children who have not
previously attended a Safety Town session.
Spots available after the open registration
night can be reserved online at www.
chesterfield.mo.us.
Safety Town is one of the department’s
most popular programs. In addition to commissioned
police officers, the Safety Town
staff includes teen counselors from area
middle and high schools who assist the
officers in leading the program. All Safety
Town sessions for 2017 will be held at the
Parkway Early Learning Center, located at
14605 Clayton Road in Ballwin.
MANCHESTER
Honored for doing good
Police Chief Tim Walsh commended
a local family at the regular Manchester
Board of Aldermen meeting on March 20
for doing the right thing.
On Feb. 27, Goodwill Industries International,
Inc. employees Wonedwosen Wolde
and his wife, Bruktawit Woldeselase, who
emigrated from Ethiopia 16 years ago,
were organizing a recent donation at the
Goodwill store on Manchester Road when
they found an envelope with a photo I.D.
and $500 cash. Walsh said that, rather than
taking advantage of the situation and keeping
the money for themselves, the couple
“demonstrated a clear sense of honesty and
integrity and did the right thing” by notifying
both their supervisor and the Manchester
police.
Patrolman Alex Berges responded to the
call and tracked down the owner of the
money, who believed the money had been
lost. Wolde and Woldeselase declined to
accept the reward offered by the owner as
a thank you for their honesty.
On behalf of the police department,
Walsh presented Wolde and Woldeselase
with Citizen Service Citations for furthering
the police department’s mission of
protecting and serving the community. In
addition, the couple received two $25 gift
cards from Candicci’s as part of the Manchester
Police reward’s program given to
citizens caught doing good deeds.
Woldeselase was not present at the citation
presentation; however, the couple’s
daughter, Ephrata Abdinoor, a third-grader
at Hanna Woods Elementary, accepted the
citation on her mother’s behalf.
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The Gary Sinise Foundation and one of
its partnering businesses, Shubert Design
Furniture in Manchester, are scheduled
to receive the FBI Director’s Community
Leadership Award.
William Woods, special agent in charge
of the FBI St. Louis Division, announced
the awards March 20 at a ceremony held at
the Manchester store.
At a national ceremony at the FBI’s
Washington, D.C., headquarters on April
28, FBI Director James Comey will present
the awards to Sinise, Shubert and other
honorees selected by Bureau field offices
across the country.
Business owner and Clarkson Valley
resident Jim Shubert will accept the award
on behalf of the furniture operation and
actor Gary Sinise will receive the honor on
behalf of his foundation.
In announcing the awards, an FBI
news release said the two recipients have
worked closely for a single cause – “to
ensure the sacrifices of America’s defenders,
veterans and first responders are never
forgotten.”
The Gary Sinise Foundation is a national
nonprofit organization that creates and
supports a variety of efforts, including
its Restoring Independence Supporting
Empowerment [RISE] program that builds
specially adapted smart homes for individuals
severely wounded while serving their
nation or community.
Shubert Design Furniture began partnering
with the foundation in 2012. The company
donates interior design services and
furniture for each home. Shubert also serves
on the foundation’s Board of Directors.
ST. LOUIS
Celebrating the Arch’s
new grounds
CityArchRiver project partners will
commemorate the renovation and reimagining
of the Jefferson National Expansion
Memorial with Spring Into Your Park on
Saturday, April 8.
Throughout 2016, almost all of the park
areas opened to the public in stages. With
most of the park now open, area residents
are invited to celebrate the renovated
park with live music, Laclede’s Landing
food and drink vendors, kids activities,
lawn games and more. The celebration
runs from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Dignitaries and
CityArchRiver project leaders will speak
at 12:30 p.m. to officially open the newly
renovated grounds at the Gateway Arch.
National Park Service Rangers will perform
American musical styles through history
during the Mississippi River Musical
Expedition from 1-3 p.m.
To showcase the park’s transformation,
visitors will be able to participate in the
Discovery Map Challenge – a scavenger
hunt tour of the park highlighting its new
features and additions. Participants will
receive special memorabilia as prizes.
Discovery Map Challenge destinations
include the North Gateway elevated walkway,
Lewis and Clark Explorers’ Garden,
Riverwalk Pathways on the east slopes of
the park and more.
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Manchester Arts brings life into FOCUS
April 5, 2017
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By BONNIE KRUEGER
Art is everywhere. That was the lesson of
the fifth annual FOCUS Photo Exhibition,
a juried contest sponsored by Manchester
Arts.
Approximately 150 St. Louis-area residents,
with a keen eye for photography,
submitted 237 entries for the chance to
win their share of $1,700 in prize money –
and bragging rights, of course. Sometimes
those bragging rights were within the same
family.
New Haven resident Bill Coatney was
FOCUS 2017 winner Bill Coatney
a second-place winner [in the 50-plus
category] for his winning photo of bison,
appropriately named “Tatanka.” Bill
snapped the winning photograph with his
Canon 5DS R while he and his wife, Molly,
were vacationing in the Black Hills of
South Dakota, more specifically in Custer
State Park.
Molly also submitted a bison photo;
however, hers was taken closer to home
at Lone Elk Park. Shot with a Canon 40D
camera, Molly’s photo took home the competition’s
top prize: Best in Show. Simply
titled “Bison Feeding,” the photo earned
Molly $175. Bill’s photo
garnered him $100. With
Bill being considered the
more gifted photographer
of the married duo, Molly
decided a few years ago
that her goal was simple:
beat Bill. And in the past
two FOCUS exhibitions,
she has done just that.
“She has worked hard to
accomplish so much. I am
overjoyed at her success,”
Bill said. The Coatneys
admit that both of them
submitting bison photos was rather
random, especially since Bill has an
affinity for birds and birds in flight,
while Molly is partial to insects,
flowers and prairie dogs.
The Coatneys are not the only
family boasting multiple FOCUS
wins.
All four members of the Osman
family of Ladue submitted photos,
but only the two young sons were
victorious in the ages 5 to 13 category.
“We wanted to reinforce creativity
and thought having them enter
a favorite photo was a way of looking
at art through a different lens,”
explained Sherry Osman. “It was
wonderful that both our boys won in their
age group!”
Adam, almost 13, placed fourth for his
untitled self portrait, earning him $25. A
soft glow, reflected off the sea waters in
Egypt, created a unique effect for his selfie.
“Honestly, this was just purely luck. No
special trick on how I was able to make it
look good,” he admitted.
Ameer, who is 6 and in first grade, won
second place and $75 for his photograph
titled “Flowers from Sydney’s Botanic
Ameer Osman with his winning work: “Flowers from
Sydney’s Botanic Garden”
Garden,” which was taken during a family
trip to Australia. The photo of the water
lilies was taken with a cellphone.
“My brother and mom were taking lots of
pictures that day, so I asked if I could, too,”
he explained. “I took about 12 that day and
my mom helped me pick the best one for
the contest.”
Hope Allen, a junior at Parkway South
High, also placed second – twice! Allen
earned a second place ribbon in the ages
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Gate debate continues in Wildwood, vote postponed until late April
By MARY SHAPIRO
Wildwood’s City Council, on March
27, voted 13 to 1 to give a preliminary
reading to legislation allowing expanded
use of security gates at the entrance to a
subdivision, if the proposal meets certain
conditions. The council also voted 9 to 5
in favor of a proposal by Councilmember
Larry McGowen [Ward 1] to postpone a
final vote on the legislation until April 24.
Councilmember Ray Manton [Ward 2]
opposed the initial reading and the delayed
vote. Debra Smith McCutchen [Ward 5],
Jerry Porter [Ward 6], Greg Stine [Ward 7]
and Joe Garritano [Ward 8] also opposed
the delay. Councilmembers Sue Cullinane
[Ward 3] and Greg Alexander [Ward 6]
were absent.
At issue is an effort by residents of
Lafayette Crossing, a six-lot subdivision
off Hwy. 109 near Lafayette High, to
install security gates at the entrance to their
community. The city now prohibits – in all
but a few limited circumstances, such as
if a subdivision has two or fewer homes –
gated communities.
Fran Gragnani, of Scofield Valley Lane,
is among those who are opposed to the
proposed legislation that would allow the
gates. Gragnani, who lives in a 42-home
subdivision with three-acre lots, told the
council on March 27 that “gates are contrary
to Wildwood’s vision statement.”
“I haven’t seen enough evidence that
gates will really and truly increase security,”
she said. “Also, it would only take
75 percent of residents to authorize a gate.
I’d feel really bad if [I was in the minority]
and I was imposed on to pay for gates
and maintenance and had to worry about
the possible failure of a gate to open in an
emergency.”
Former Councilmember Jean Vedvig
echoed those concerns. “Our community
was designed to be inclusive, and not
having gates enhances the character of our
community,” she said.
Speaking to the concerns of Lafayette
Crossing residents, former councilmember
Tammy Shea insisted “there’s no statistical
support for residents’ security claims
– there’s no difference in crime levels
between subdivisions with and without
gates.”
She said gates would limit access by candidates
for elected offices making visits or
students trying to fundraise and protested
the idea of homes “walled off from each
other.”
“And any need for approval that’s less
than 100 percent will pit neighbor against
neighbor,” Shea said.
However, Lafayette Crossing resident
Steve Bell said that “we witness a daily
stream of traffic through our subdivision”
because homes in the subdivision border
Hwy. 109.
“It is not our intention to restrict the free
flow of traffic in the city of Wildwood but
limit transient traffic in our neighborhood,”
he said. “Continual traffic creates wear and
tear on the pavement [of private streets that
residents are responsible for maintaining].”
Bell added that traffic on Hwy. 109 has
increased significantly since the city’s 1995
incorporation – saying the traffic count is
approaching 20,000 vehicles daily – “and
will continue as street upgrades and new
subdivisions are approved.”
Bell said residents have been subjected
to, among other things, “hunters using the
subdivision as their private preserve – keep
in mind that two schools border our property
– daily sightseers stopping in front of
the homes to take pictures or venturing into
our yards with cameras, people coming to
our doors asking about stone or architectural
selections, transients found parked
in driveways with questionable motives,
overflow parking for Lafayette High
School activities, etc.”
“First responders have indicated that this
gate will not impact their access or timing
in the case of emergencies,” Bell said.
Jeff Tottleben, a trustee for the six-home
Wardenburg Farms subdivision off Wild
Horse Creek Road, called the gates request
“a private property rights issue,” to keep
unwanted traffic off properties.
“I don’t understand why six homeowners
who are unanimous in wanting a subdivision
gate can’t get one, but one person with
five buildings on their property has the
ability to get one,” Tottleben said.
McGowen asked for the final reading
delay, saying that some councilmembers
wouldn’t be able to attend the meeting
set for April 10. However, Stine objected
to the request, charging that he found it
“extremely cynical – it’s essentially agenda
gerrymandering.”
“If something’s important, councilmembers
need to be here to vote – don’t play
games,” Stine said.
McGowen countered that “no one’s gerrymandering
anything.”
“I made travel plans and a financial commitment
two years ago, long before this
request surfaced,” he said.

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In Defense of Legaleze
Law Matters
I recently
met with a
client. He had
been a business
broker. One
time I asked
him who did his
contract and
closing work.
He told me that he did. He told me
that he used form contracts on all of
his deals. I asked him where he got
them from, and he said he had picked
up a form from an office supply store
and had used that to draft his own
form. He told me that some of his
deals had values of over $500,000.
When I asked him why he didn't use
an attorney and get real contracts, he
said that attorneys use too many
words and made things too complicated.
Nobody understood what they
were saying anyway since they were
using big words.
In contrast, we were representing a
company once trying to borrow
money to purchase some equipment.
The bank asked for the company's
articles and bylaws. I hadn't written
them, and they were pretty sparse.
They did include a provision saying
that the company could do anything
permitted by law. But the corporate
documents did not specifically say
that they could engage in the business
for which they were buying the piece
of equipment. The bank told us that
they could not make the loan because
the corporate documents did not
specifically authorize that line of business.
I pointed out the provision
authorizing my client to do whatever
they wanted, but the bank said that
wasn't enough. To get the loan, we
had to amend the Articles. What a
pain!
I know that people want things to
be simple, but language precision is
important. Take the recent case in
Maine that was decided on what is
called the "Oxford comma." The
Oxford comma is the comma that
comes before the last item in a series
of three or for items before the "and"
or the "or". For example, "They had
dessert, ham and peas" could mean
that the ham and peas were the
dessert, which they certainly weren't.
The Maine legislature apparently
does not believe in Oxford commas.
As a result, their laws can be confusing.
In one case, the law was unclear
about whether certain employees
were due overtime pay. The district
court said no, but the appeals court
said yes. It could cost the company
$10,000,000.
I know that legal documents can
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be their saving grace. After all, you
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By JIM ERICKSON
The city of Chesterfield has approved
the rezoning of a nearly 2.7-acre property
near the levee trail in Chesterfield Valley to
permit its continued use by Breckenridge
Material Co.
Breckenridge has been using the site
in connection with its involvement in
the nearby Daniel Boone Missouri River
Bridge project and now wants to continue
its operations there.
The primary issue debated by the City
Council before approving the rezoning to
a planned industrial district was how best
to suppress dust from a gravel road leading
to the site.
City staff originally had recommended
paving the gravel road 100 feet on each
side of the levee to minimize gravel and
dirt being dragged onto the levee trail by
truck traffic. Dust suppression is another
issue and requirements for that should be
in addition to the paving requirement, a
staff memo maintained.
Breckenridge, at first, had agreed to the
200 total feet of paving but asked for time
to investigate dust control alternatives. In a
more recent letter to the city, the company
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rezoning for tract near levee trail
said it would acquire a truck to apply water
regularly to the entire road to resolve concerns
about dust. Doing so eliminates the
need for paving, the company said.
In addition, the company noted there
are uncertainties about possible levee
alterations that cloud the practicality of
the paving requirement. The fact the Federal
Emergency Management Agency is
responsible for the river side of the levee
while the Army Corps of Engineers and
Monarch-Chesterfield Levee District have
authority on the other side further muddies
the paving issue.
After discussing the merits of requiring
water applications to suppress dust, the
paving provision or mandating both, the
council approved an amendment to an
earlier motion to approve the rezoning.
The change omitted the paving requirement
but stipulates that water is applied
twice daily and within two hours after the
city requests an extra application. The city
will determine application needs based on
complaints and/or observations by city
staff.
The amended motion to approve passed
7-1 with Councilmember Barbara McGuinness
casting the only “no” vote.
Chesterfield selects compensation review firm
By JIM ERICKSON
The Chesterfield City Council has
approved a contract with a firm that will
analyze employee wages and benefits and
how they compare with similar jobs in both
the public and private sectors.
The contract with CBIZ won approval on
a 5-3 vote, with the minority questioning if
the $25,000 maximum expenditure was the
best use of taxpayer dollars even though
the price was well under the initial $35,000
estimate for the project.
The decision to conduct the study came
last fall, when the council omitted an
employee merit increase from the 2017
budget. Although the study did not gain
unanimous support then either, the majority
viewed the analysis as the best way to get
thorough, unbiased and transparent data to
determine what changes, if any, should be
made in the city’s compensation plan.
Chesterfield had not done such a study in
more than 15 years. In other years, council
decisions on compensation-related matters
have been based on city staff surveys of
nearby communities’ pay scales.
Councilmember Grant Tilman [Ward
2] observed a study is needed to ensure
the city’s salaries and benefits are up-todate,
although Councilmember Barbara
McGuinness [Ward 1] argued commonsense
decisions are better than spending
money on an outside analysis.
When it was noted that the recommendation
for the study had come from the council’s
Finance & Administration Committee, a
group Councilmember Tom DeCampi [Ward
4] now chairs, he quickly reminded the group
he was not a committee member when it
made that decision. The recommendation
actually came from an F&A Committee
meeting-of-the-whole during 2017 budget
deliberations, meaning the session was
open to all councilmembers. DeCampi participated
and opposed the study both times.
Joining DeCampi in opposing the CBIZ contract
were McGuinness and Councilmember
Nathan Roach [Ward 4].
Mayor Bob Nation, City Administrator
Mike Geisel and Finance Director Craig
White interviewed three firms selected as
finalists from seven that submitted proposals
for the study. White wrote in a memo
that CBIZ was selected due to its access to
industry data, proximity to Chesterfield and
its competitive price. CBIZ has headquarters
in Leawood, Kansas, but maintains a
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Eureka’s new disaster relief committee
organizes local, national volunteers
April 5, 2017
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Members of the Eureka Disaster Relief Committee [from left, front row] are Neva Bagwell,
Denise Kasten, Tim Schulte, Wes Sir, Matt Burner and Chris Hosley; [back row] Chris
Greenhagen, Brad Beebe, Steve Parker, Bob Liebmann, and Sue Charron.
[Photo courtesy of Wes Sir]
By JESSICA MESZAROS
It’s a timeless story of neighbors helping
other neighbors in need.
Since the December 2015 flooding in
Eureka that caused citywide damage to
businesses and residences, the community
has worked to recover and rebuild
what was lost. The city’s emergency
response force includes more than
200 CERT [Community Emergency
Response Team] participants. Volunteers
from all over the country participated in
the recovery efforts.
“Everybody jumped really quickly into
the flood remediation,” Alderman Wes
Sir [Ward 1] said. “I think we probably
had about 1,000 people helping throughout
all of Eureka. It was amazing to see
the amount of people that came out to
help.”
The city’s emergency response framework
emphasizes prevention, preparedness,
protection, response and mitigation.
According to concerned residents after
the 2015 flood – one component that
needed improvement was recovery.
“Recovery is after the water has receded
and the sandbags have been picked up,”
Sir said. “When the debris has been taken
out of the person’s house and now you
have to go in and put up new drywall
in, new flooring in, all that kind of stuff.
That’s the recovery part.”
The Eureka Disaster Relief Committee
officially formed in January 2017 to
organize and improve the city’s disaster
recovery efforts and is headed by Chairman
Tim Schulte and Vice Chairman
Denise Kasten, with Sir serving as secretary
and Brad Beebe serving as treasurer.
The committee was inspired after a
city hall meeting in January 2016, where
local residents gathered to express interest
in developing an official disaster
relief committee to expedite recovery
from the flooding and help with potential
future disasters.
Initial members of the organization
include the Eureka United Methodist
Church, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church,
Central Baptist Church, Most Sacred
Heart Catholic Church – St. Vincent de
Paul, Eureka-Pacific Elks Lodge #2644
and the Eureka Lions Club, all of which
provided volunteers or fundraising
efforts for local families after the 2015
flood.
According to Sir, one of the driving factors
behind creating the committee was
to increase communication among all
of the collaborating organizations and
volunteers to streamline future recovery
efforts.
“It’s to coordinate so that everybody
does what they would normally do but
everybody else also knows what they’re
doing so there isn’t duplication,” Sir said.
“We don’t want duplication with recovery
efforts because not only is it a waste of
time, but it’s a waste of money and other
resources.”
The group will work closely with Chief
Greg Brown and Chief Michael Wiegand
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A host of local dignitaries help the Flamions break ground on their new smart home.
By JIM ERICKSON
More than a few tears of happiness and
other emotions were shed in the crowd
of more than 200 people attending the
groundbreaking ceremony for wounded
Ballwin Police Officer Michael Flamion’s
custom-built home, scarcely a block away
from his police department’s headquarters.
The hour-long event had Flamion and his
wife, Sarah, smiling often as they acknowledged
the crowd’s frequent applause and
standing ovations, as well as accolades
from a parade of speakers.
Located on a 1.1-acre homesite on the
southwest corner of Holloway Road and
Stoddards Mill Drive, the new home will
contain just over 3,000 square feet and
feature an open living space design that
accommodates the paralyzed police officer’s
use of a wheelchair for mobility.
Included will be a variety of conveniences
that will enable Flamion to control operations
such as lighting, heating and air conditioning
and the home’s security system
with his smart phone and iPad.
The three-bedroom residence also
includes a three-car garage and will be built
on one level to facilitate movement from
one area to another. The design includes a
patio behind the home.
Flamion was paralyzed from the neck
down when he was shot by the driver of
a car he had stopped for a traffic
violation last July on New Ballwin
Road.
The Gary Sinise Foundation
announced plans last year to build
the home for Flamion as part of its
efforts to help veterans and first
responders seriously wounded in
the line of duty. The residence will
be the first in the nation built by the
foundation specifically for a police
officer or other first responder.
The foundation bears the name
of its founder, the acclaimed movie
and television actor best known for his role
of Lt. Dan in the Academy Award-winning
movie “Forrest Gump.”
Although Sinise was not at the groundbreaking,
other foundation representatives
attended and participated. Included were
Judy Otter, the foundation’s executive
director; Jim Shubert, a foundation board
member and owner of Shubert Design
Furniture in Manchester; Scott Schaeperkoetter,
director of operations for the foundation’s
R.I.S.E [Restoring Independence,
Supporting Empowerment] program; and
Chris Kuban, a foundation spokesman who
served as emcee for the event.
Otter said the goal is to have the
new home completed by Thanksgiving,
although weather conditions could affect
that timetable.
Perhaps one of the ceremony’s most
emotional moments came during remarks
by Ballwin Police Chief Kevin Scott. After
praising Ballwin as “the finest community
on the face of the earth,” Flamion for his
“unbelievable fortitude” and Shubert as “an
unbelievable man … friend and mentor.”
Scott declared, “Mike is our brother. He
belongs with us. He will never be alone.”
In his comments, Shubert observed,
“Never have I seen a community rally
around a first responder as the Ballwin
area has” with Flamion. The Clarkson
Valley resident said he first became familiar
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with the Ballwin police some 27 years ago
when he built a home in the nearby community
that Ballwin policed under contract.
After Flamion’s horrific
injury, he played a key
role in convincing the
Sinise Foundation board
to expand its efforts to
include first responders.
The foundation’s fundraising
efforts for the
smart home have gone
well, but “we can still use
some more cash,” Otter
said. Reaching that goal
includes a program that
enables contributors to
purchase a brick that will
be used for the base of a
flagpole at the residence.
Those donating to the program can add individualized
messages to the bricks they buy.
Anyone wanting more information about
the “buy-a-brick” program should contact
Hannah Hauserman, events coordinator at
the Gary Sinise Foundation, at (818) 432-
8975 or by email at hhauserman@garysinisefoundation.org.
Other contributions
can be sent to the foundation at P.O. Box
50008, Studio City, CA 91614-5001.
In addition to Flamion’s new residence,
the foundation also is modifying the Wentzville
home of Craig and Christine Tudor.
A Hazelwood police officer, Tudor was
paralyzed in a rollover accident last August
when his patrol car was hit by another vehicle
while he was responding to a call.
The Tudors attended the Flamion groundbreaking
ceremony.
Other speakers at the groundbreaking
included representatives of local and
national businesses and
organizations that have
partnered with the foundation
to provide in-kind
contributions and other
support for its home
building and modification
efforts.
Police vehicles and
the Patriot Guard Riders
escorted the Flamions’
customized minivan to
the homesite from a gathering
point at a nearby
business’ parking lot. The
Metro West Fire Protection District Riders group is a volunteer,
nonprofit organiza-
color guard
tion that ensures dignity and respect at
memorial services and other events honoring
military personnel, first responders and
honorably discharged veterans.
In his response, with his wife holding
the microphone for him, Flamion thanked
the foundation and other supporters for all
the help he has received. He added that he
now is dependent on Sarah for everything
and that the capabilities built into their new
home “will give her a break.”
Other participants included the Metro
West Fire Protection District color guard;
St. Louis County Police Chaplain Byron
Watson, who delivered the invocation;
and Megan Besler, who sang the national
anthem.
Wildwood seeks input for charter review
By MARY SHAPIRO
Wildwood City Councilmember Ed
Marshall [Ward 2], during a City Council
meeting on March 27, said the community
has just started the process of conducting
its latest 10-year review of its charter and
is soliciting public comments.
In April 2008, city voters adopted the
current charter, which serves to define the
form and structure of city government, the
responsibilities and authority of city officials,
and the basic procedures that govern
the administration of city affairs and officials’
conduct.
One of the current charter’s requirements
is that the city must conduct a formal
review of it at least every 10 years.
In January, Mayor Jim Bowlin and the
city council appointed an eight-member
Charter Review Commission with one representative
from each of the city’s wards.
The commission was charged with reviewing
the city’s charter and reporting its
findings to the council later this year. The
commission’s report may include recommended
modifications, which the council
will have to review and evaluate before
deciding whether or not to place any of the
recommended amendments on the April
2018 ballot. The charter can only be modified
by a vote of residents.
Marshall, selected to serve as commission’s
chair, said the group is inviting
residents to become involved in the review
process and welcomes any comments, suggestions
and proposals.
“We’ve already gotten a number of written
comments, and we’d love to have more
feedback,” he said. “Any input will be
gratefully appreciated.”
Those interested in more information
about the charter review process
and schedule of the commission’s meetings
can visit www.cityofwildwood.com.
Additionally, written comments can be
sent to City Clerk Amanda Foster, City of
Wildwood, 16860 Main Street, Wildwood,
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James Book developed a wound in
September 2015 that would not heal. But,
thanks to his wife, Kathleen, and her
“Googling” skills, he became a patient at
St. Luke’s Hospital’s Wound Care Center,
more than 60 miles away from their home
in Breese, Illinois.
Book’s wound began as a small area
of celluitis below his right
ankle that resembled a boomerang,
he said. Celluitis is a
common, yet potentially serious
bacterial skin infection.
He initially went to a wound
center in his area for treatment,
but a small spot at the
bottom of the original wound
formed a blister and refused
to heal.
“I thought the wound center
[at St. Luke’s] was wonderful;
I really enjoyed it,” Book
said. He was a patient there
from December 2015 until
February and visited both the
old and new centers.
In December 2016, St.
Luke’s opened its new hyperbaric
wound center in its
Outpatient Center Building
B, a $40 million, five-story,
106,000-square-foot structure.
“There’s lots of room in the new one. In
the old one, if you had three people in the
bathroom at the same time, you couldn’t
turn around. It’s too bad the new one didn’t
open sooner when I was there,” Book said.
The wound care center is across Hwy.
141 from the hospital’s main campus. It
has a state-of-the-art hyperbaric oxygen
therapy [HBOT] room outfitted with three
hyperbaric chambers and five examination
rooms, one of which is equipped to
accommodate a patient on a stretcher or in
a motorized wheelchair.
HBOT is a medical procedure in which
patients are placed under increased atmospheric
pressure while breathing 100
percent oxygen. Air has only 21 percent
oxygen. HBOT is effective for a number of
medical and surgical conditions, either as
a primary or secondary treatment supplementing
wound care, antibiotics or surgery.
Medical Center Director Dr. Sion Levy
said, “For people who are older and have
medical problems, we are here for them.
For example, they may have a small injury,
a bump or a burn, that is chronic, or hard
to heal.” He emphasized that insurance
“almost universally covers” hyperbaric
oxygen therapy, the primary service
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offered in the wound care center.
At the center, people can get treatment
for diabetic wounds, pressure sores, nonhealing
burns, wounds due to poor circulation,
animal bites, failing skin grafts,
surgical and trauma wounds, and skin irritations.
Levy said the wound center also is
the place to come when someone has radiation
injuries, such as in a tooth, section of
skin or intestine.
One of three new hyperbaric oxygen chambers ready to treat
patients at the new St. Luke’s Hospital Wound Care Center.
In an emergency setting, the wound care
center helps with referral patients who
suffer from carbon monoxide poisoning,
crush and diving injuries, or who need
limb salvage.
Book said part of the reason for coming
to St. Luke’s was the care he received.
“I liked the way Dr. Levy talked to me,
that he was concerned about me,” Book
said. “He checked me for diabetes; he sent
me to a vascular surgeon, who checked my
circulation; and in February, he sent me to
a plastic surgeon.”
Book said the plastic surgeon removed
a quarter-sized spot of dead skin from his
foot; then, in April of last year, Levy put
him on 21-week treatment regimen that
finally healed his ankle.
Along with opening Building B, St.
Luke’s launched, in December, the public
part of a $40 million Advancing Excellence
with Exceptional Care capital campaign.
Early donations raised almost $32
million, or about 79 percent of the goal.
“Our campaign has concluded its quiet
phase with nearly 100 gifts and pledges
already received, including eight gifts of
$1 million and above,” St. Luke’s Board
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An unexpected journey: Local church vandalized, left without power
By BONNIE KRUEGER
The worship team of The Journey
Church-West County in Manchester
arrived on campus in the early morning
hours of March 19 only to discover that the
building was without power. After further
investigation, the team realized that the
buildings on either side of their campus
were fully powered and the culprit of their
power loss was vandalism.
Copper was stolen from the building,
as evident by the plastic debris found on
church property. Rallying quickly, church
administration made the swift, albeit challenging,
decision to hold services, as usual,
that morning.
Communicating through texts, emails
and social media, the unique circumstances
were shared with church members.
Attendance only dipped about 20 percent,
a decline that also could be attributed to
spring break vacations.
“We had to modify our morning a bit, but
in the grand scheme of things, it was all a
minor inconvenience,” shared Lead Pastor
Scott Hickox. The Journey used batteryoperated
candles and creative seating to
maximize lighting and voice amplification.
They modified their usual electronic
check-in for the kids’ ministry and sang
their worship songs to acoustic guitars.
Hickox saw God’s provision in all of it.
“About 50 percent of the time, our sermons
in West County are video feed as a
satellite location,” he explained. “That
weekend, I was scheduled to preach live,
which was certainly providential.”
The message scheduled for that day was
“Jesus is better.” Emilie Nevins-Carter, the
church’s events and operations manager,
reflected on its appropriateness in light of
the unexpected circumstances.
“What it boils down to is that church is
not about the fanfare – the lights, sound,
worship bravado. It is about Jesus. This put
our focus back where it truly belonged.”
“Brothers and sisters around the world
worship like this all time; without live
feed—no electricity, no band and no fanfare,”
Hickox added. “The simplicity of
the service was refreshing as our voices
filled the sanctuary in worship to our God
who graciously pours out his mercies on all
of us, including those who vandalized our
property.”
According to Manchester Police, the
incident is still under investigation. An
identical vandalism occurred at the end of
2016 in Chesterfield. Manchester Police
urge residents with any information to call
the department at (636) 227-1410 and ask
to speak to a detective.
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Chair Gene Toombs said. “This is a testament
to the generosity of our community
and our donors’ commitment to St. Luke’s’
continued excellence in healthcare.”
Since the public phase began, St. Luke’s
has raised an additional $6.2 million, totaling
$36.8 million, or 92 percent of the goal.
The centerpiece of the funds raised support
the construction of the new outpatient
building, Building B, and the services
housed within – such as the wound care
center and St. Luke’s Nutrition Wellness
and Diabetes Center, as well as the
expansion of physical therapy and cardiac
rehabilitation services. Funds raised also
support purchasing new equipment for the
hospital and the hospital’s endowment.
St. Luke’s President and CEO Christine
Candio noted that, although the hospital
prides itself on its independent status, it is
“really a network of care, covering 26 locations
of care.”
“The dedication of our new outpatient
services building is a significant event
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our region,” she said. “As our community
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care and services possible. Through funds
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to St. Louis County Police
By JIM MERKEL
In times of endless rains – such as
heavy flooding or major natural disasters
– canines recovered by the St. Louis
County Police Department will find a
comfortable place to rest in a mobile
animal shelter brought by one of his
human police pals.
But its price tag may be too much
for the always-tight police budget. So
five groups dedicated to helping dogs
raised $22,000 in donations and grants
for the St. Louis County Police and the
County Office of Emergency Management.
Those groups are Three Rivers
Kennel Club, North Arkansas Kennel
Club, Edwardsville Illinois Kennel Club,
Labrador Retriever Club and American
Kennel Club Reunite, the nation’s largest
nonprofit pet identification and recovery
service.
According to a news release, the pet
disaster relief trailers provide shelter for
animals during the first three days after a
disaster declaration. They provide animal
care items including crates and carriers,
AKC Reunite microchips and an AKC
Reunite universal microchip scanner,
bowls, collars and leashes as well as fans,
lighting and generators, cleaning supplies
and maintenance items.
Once AKC Reunite gets the paperwork
from St. Louis County, it can start preparing
the trailer for delivery to St. Louis
County said Tessa Johnson, a spokeswoman
for American Kennel Club Reunite.
Also in Missouri, the group has donated
a trailer to the Boone County Office of
Emergency Management.
The contribution was one of a number of
gifts the county police receive from time to
time to help in its mission.
“We are very fortunate that we enjoy the
support of the communities that we serve,”
said Officer Benjamin Granda, a county
police spokesman.
Another similar gift came in January
from the American Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals. That group
gave $6,500 in cash to help maintain and
care for the new mobile animal shelter;
however, the St. Louis County Council
must approve an ordinance accepting the
gift.
Continuing the canine theme in donations,
dog lover Patti Abbott gave $15,000
earlier this year to buy and train a new service
dog.
The gifts often equate to thousands of
dollars, but some are less. The amount
doesn’t matter to the recipients, county
officials say.
In February, an Elks Club and Elks
Ladies Club each donated $50 to support
the county police DARE unit.
“No matter if that support comes in the
form of a small blue ribbon, a handshake or
a financial donation, it is all greatly appreciated
by everyone at the St. Louis County
Police Department,” Granda said.
County Police Chief Jon Belmar said
gifts from the public are especially important.
“We don’t ask for those kinds of things.
People just feel that they want to help,”
Belmar said. “It does not go unnoticed by
our police officers.”
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By JIM ERICKSON
The Ballwin Board of Aldermen
approved two ordinances to implement
changes it earlier had discussed
but delayed action on a third measure
reducing the number of construction jobs
requiring an escrow deposit.
Receiving unanimous approval were
ordinances giving city department heads
and the city administrator greater authority
to approve purchases and flexibility
in how bids are sought, as well as changing
provisions in Ballwin’s sewer lateral
repair program.
The board’s finance and administration
committee earlier had reviewed the
issues and made recommendations to the
full board, which, in turn, made some
revisions and asked City Attorney Bob
Jones to prepare ordinances to implement
all the changes.
Under the new purchasing authorities,
department heads will be able to
approve purchases of budgeted goods
and services costing up to $3,000. The
city administrator now has authority
to approve budgeted purchases up to
$15,000. In those situations, bids must
be solicited from at least three vendors
unless multiple sources are not available.
Aldermen must approve purchases
more than $15,000 and the city must
advertise for bids when goods and services
cost an estimated $10,000 or more.
The ordinance reaffirms that advertisements
can be in any local newspaper of
general circulation and/or via an online
bidding site or trade publication.
Other provisions address sole source
vendor situations, cooperative purchasing
plans such as those administered by
the state and St. Louis County and repairs
or purchases in emergencies. Changes in
the sewer lateral program include a $150
application fee to help offset administrative
costs and authorization for the city
to seek a sole source vendor to handle
all repairs. Both revisions are designed
to make available funds go farther and
reduce the backlog of repair jobs without
raising the property tax assessment for
the program.
On a third ordinance proposal, Alderman
Jimmy Terbrock [Ward 1] questioned
what he viewed as an overly broad
category of “structural repairs” being
eliminated from the list of construction
jobs requiring an escrow deposit from a
contractor until work is completed and
inspected.
After discussion, board consensus was
to hold the ordinance for later action after
Jones considers alternative wording.
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discussion with Brown shortly before the
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of an additional recovery committee for
the city.
“The fire department and other emergency
management teams, they don’t
have that [recovery], because they’re not
equipped to do that,” Sir said.
The committee will function alongside
the fire and police departments and work
collaboratively to respond to local dangers.
Chairman Schulte will give the official
order and division of volunteer tasks.
“The volunteers will then be told that
there’s a disaster either pending or happening
and that we need to jump into
action,” Sir said.
Sir said recent events spurred the
group to ready its preparedness, like the
Perry County tornado on Feb. 28.
“After the tornado in Perryville, I sent
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Eureka was hit last night like Perryville,
would we be ready?’” Sir said. “I think
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The committee is growing and still
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from participating organizations,
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According to Sir, volunteers and other
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to possible disasters, from fires to
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“If there are any other training programs
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Sir said the committee is not just tied
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“They’re neighbors of ours,” Sir said.
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Chesterfield resident works to
change lives at Logos School
By JULIE HAUSER
From his first interaction with a group of
teens at Logos School in Olivette, it was
clear that Chesterfield resident Earnest
Hart isn’t a typical student mentor.
During that first encounter, he gave
each student a soft plastic swimming pool
noodle and told them to start whacking each
other with them. The energetic noodling
icebreaker lasted about a minute before the
students, some of whom rarely smiled, dissolved
into laughter, and the stage was set
for the beginning of a remarkable relationship
that is changing lives.
The nonprofit Logos School is a non-traditional
school whose mission is to inspire
hope, build self-confidence and turn struggles
into strengths. Hart began working
there last fall.
As the first outside mentor ever engaged
as a consultant by Logos to work with students
who come from communities across
the St. Louis region, Hart was tasked with
helping to fulfill the school’s mission. In
recent months, in addition to working to
build the students’ self-confidence, he has
been building their self-respect and their
respect for others. His is an innovative and
fun program that’s transforming the teens
who participate.
Earnest Hart [center] with Logos School students
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during her sessions with Hart and starting
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unique way this new mentor is connecting
with her and the other students as he works
with groups of four to six at a time, twice a
week, for two hours per session.
“His last name totally represents him
because he is all heart,” said Stebelman.
“There’s no pressure here; he’s tough but
also funny, laid back and encouraging, and
he gives positive feedback that makes you
feel good.”
A former world kickboxing champion
who escaped the perilous streets of his own
childhood, Hart’s personal background
makes him uniquely qualified to help the
students at Logos, who are all considered
“at-risk.”
Hart grew up in downtown St. Louis’
housing projects, where at an early age,
he learned to dive into a cast iron bathtub
for protection when gunfire erupted on the
street. A small kid, his father told him if
he didn’t learn how to protect himself, he
would be dead before turning 15. So, over
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Craig Elementary fourth-grader Eric Lipsutz showing off one of the prizes he
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Three-time Pi Champion
attends Craig Elementary
Craig Elementary fourth-grader Eric
Lipsutz recently was crowned a three-time
champion in Pi Pizzeria’s annual Pi Day
contest on March 14 in the Delmar Loop.
Pi is a mathematical constant, the ratio of
a circle’s circumference to its diameter,
approximated as 3.14159.
Eric and his twin brother, Sam, are highly
gifted in math and science and one or both
boys have entered the contest since first
grade. This year, Sam took a break from
competition to support Eric.
Competing against about five other kids,
Eric recited the value of Pi out to 479 digits,
which bested his win last year by 59 digits.
Amazingly, the young math wizard only
began preparing a few weeks before the
event. So what is his secret?
“It’s really no big deal,” he said. “I learn
five places and then I add five more. I put
those together and then move on to five
more. I just commit those to memory as I
go.”
He is not planning to rest on his laurels
for next year’s competition though.
“I heard there is a boy, Ben, who I will
be competing against who can go out over
600 values,” Eric explained. “So I’ve
already been working a little bit and have
learned another 50 digits. I will have even
more motivation for next year.”
Besides the trophy he earned, Eric
received a hat, a T-shirt and a generous
Pi Pizzeria gift card that bought the twins,
their older brother, Jay, and mom, Dana, a
victory meal.
Dairy grant brings
smoothies to two schools
Two local schools are teaming up with
local farmers in their efforts to build a
healthier student body. Fairway Elementary
in Rockwood and Oak Brook Elementary
in Parkway were two of 31 Missouri
schools awarded Dollars for Dairy grants
to encourage students to choose nutrientrich
dairy foods during school meals. The
award, funded by local dairy farmers, is
provided through St. Louis District Dairy
Council, a nonprofit nutrition education
organization. Fairway Elementary offers a
Second Chance Program, including a variety
of student smoothie options. Oak Brook
Elementary is adding yogurt parfaits to
breakfast menus, setting up smoothie stations
in the cafeteria and moving breakfast
service from the cafeteria to the classrooms.
The 2016-2017 school year marks the
fifth one that Missouri schools have the
opportunity to enhance students’ health via
the program. A total of 135 local schools
submitted proposals aimed at boosting student
dairy consumption.
Semifinalists compete in
Missouri National Geography Bee
More than 20 area students in fourth
through eighth grades qualified to compete
in the semifinal round of the 2017 Missouri
National Geographic State Bee, held at the
University of Missouri on March 31. They
are [in alphabetical order by school name]:
Zeina Daboul, Al-Salam Day School;
John Moore, Ascension School; Kieran
Thomas, Crestview Middle; Cole Kampschroeder,
Holy Infant; Rachel Esser,
Incarnate Word Parish; Jake Hausler, Mary
Institute and Saint Louis Country Day;
Jack Brophy, Selvidge Middle; Daniel
Grad, Parkway Northeast Middle; Samin
Shovik, Parkway South Middle; Daniel
Faust, Parkway Southwest Middle; Hrishi
Mucherla, Parkway West Middle; Sasha
Tripathi, Pierremont Elementary; Elizabeth
Scheidt, Rockwood South Middle;
Logan Donnelly, Rossman School; Charles
Leighton, St. Clare Of Assisi Elementary;
David Boylan, St. John’s Lutheran; Wyatt
Lewis, Saint Louis Priory; Andy Ngala, St.
Mark’s Lutheran; Meredith Claire Douglas,
Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School; Casey
Hays, Wildwood Middle; and Emaline
Little, Woerther Elementary.
Competitions took place to determine
individual school champions and semifinal
qualifiers. Those qualifiers then took tests,
which were submitted to the National Geographic
Society. The society invited up to
100 of the top-scoring students in the 50
states, the District of Columbia, Department
of Defense Dependents Schools and
U.S. territories to compete in the state bees.
Each state champion will receive $100,
the National Geographic Concise Atlas
of the World, Fourth Edition and a trip to
Washington, D.C., to represent their state,
territory or school in the National Geographic
Bee Championship, to be held at
National Geographic Society Headquarters,
May 14-17.
The national champion will receive a
$50,000 college scholarship, a lifetime
membership in the society, including a
subscription to National Geographic magazine
and an all-expenses-paid Lindblad
Expedition to the Galápagos Islands aboard
the new National Geographic Endeavour II.
Travel for the trip is provided by Lindblad
Expeditions and National Geographic.
Festival of Foods
tradition continues
The 18th Annual Festival of Foods Silent
Auction and Foodapalooza will be held on
Monday, April 10 at Parkway South High
from 6-7:30 p.m. Attendees can sample
food from approximately 25 West County
restaurants. Enjoy pastas, sandwiches,
salads, desserts and beverages, just to name
a few. Additionally, there are silent auction
items available for bid, including photography,
spas, private tours, adult beverage
tastings, hair products and services. Love
sports? Cardinals starting pitcher Adam
Wainwright autographed and donated a
special item.
All proceeds benefit the 2018 graduating
class. Over four years, parents raise funds
to host a graduation night lock-in party
that keeps the students safe and drug- and
alcohol-free.
“This is the biggest class fundraiser and
a Patriot tradition that the south area community
has come to love,” organizers said.
The event is open to the public.
Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the
door. Advance tickets can be purchased at
the Parkway South High Bookstore or by
contacting Julie at tjmocker@gmail.com.
Scholarships available for
high school seniors
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who live in the Parkway, Rockwood and
Valley Park school districts and meet
financial eligibility guidelines. The nonprofit
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seniors in their post-secondary educational
pursuits. Applications can be downloaded
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on need and identified through a competitive
process. Candidates must demonstrate
a significant financial need and merit based
on academic achievement and/or character.
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be awarded. Scholarships can be used at
professional trade schools, community colleges
or four-year institutions.
Last year, Circle Of Concern awarded
$57,000 in scholarships to 17 high school
seniors from its service area. The scholarship
program is in its 47th year and has
awarded more than $1 million to more than
600 students in West County.
For more information about Circle Of
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call (636) 861-2623.
SSD salutes Parkway,
Rockwood staff members
Several Parkway and Rockwood
employees, and one Rockwood student,
were honored by the Special School District
[SSD] at its annual Salutes Banquet.
In Parkway, Jennifer Proffitt, district
coordinator, and Central High physical
education teachers, Sue Keller and Terri
O’Leary, were honored with the Special
Ambassador Award, the highest recognition
given by SSD and presented to community
members who demonstrate an
extraordinary commitment to SSD students
and staff. In Rockwood, recipients
included Marquette High student Poorva
Sheth; Dr. Meg Brooks, Chesterfield Elementary
principal; and Gregg Cleveland,
Eureka High athletic director.
Parkway teachers Joe Matschiner, North
High; Elizabeth Rock, South High; and
Melanie Schweizer from Rockwood’s
Marquette High received the Key to the
Classroom Award. They were selected for
their creative approaches to student learning,
innovative programming and student
success.
Three Rockwood teachers were honored
with the Building Block Award for their
contributions to the lives of SSD students,
including Rich Brzenk, Eureka High; and
Tracy Brown and Diane Leeper, Green
Pines Elementary. Elisa Chamov, a paraprofessional
at Craig Elementary in Parkway,
also was recognized with the Building
Block Award.
Young Parkway
scientist wins first place
The Academy of Science - St. Louis
announced the top students who participated
in the Academy of Science - St.
Louis Science Fair - Honors Division event
on March 4.
Parkway Central High’s Jessica Sun, a​
senior, won first place in the competition.
High school students who have completed
collegiate-level research in their
classrooms and labs can participate. The ​
event​ took place at the Missouri Botanical
Garden.
Sun will be recognized at the 2017
Academy of Science – St. Louis Outstanding
Scientists Awards Dinner at the Chase
Park Plaza Hotel on April 6. As first place
winner, Sun receives a $3,000 scholarship.
In addition, she is qualified to compete
at the Intel International Science & Engineering
Fair in May and will receive an
all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles for
the event.
Parkway had one finalist, senior Aditya
Gokhale, from Parkway North High who
will receive a $1,000 scholarship.
More than 60 MDs, Ph.D.s and professionals
with exceptional engineering/technology
expertise served as honors division
judges.
Cain named Parkway
North principal
Superintendent Keith
Marty announced that
Tori Cain has been
named principal at Parkway
North High, effective
July 1. The board of
education voted unanimously
in support of the
recommendation.
Cain
Marty said, “We’re very pleased to have
a smooth transition at North High, with
Tori serving as assistant principal there for
the past four years. She has already displayed
outstanding leadership skills and a
very child-centered approach to her work.”
Cain earned a bachelor’s degree in biology
and general science from the University
of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. She received
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the University of Arkansas; a specialist’s
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the University of Missouri-Kansas City;
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forward to working together as a team to
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excellence of Parkway North High School,”
Cain said.
Cain replaces Jenny Marquart, who
is retiring after 17 years as North High’s
principal.
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Winning robotics teams bring STEM
message to Board of Education
By JESSICA MESZAROS
A student-led presentation
about robotics in the Rockwood
School District was
delivered to a full crowd at
the March 23 Board of Education
meeting.
Team members from four
local high schools, along
with robotics head coach
Brian Reed and Partners in
Education Coordinator Kim
Litzau, explained to board
members and attendees that
six local teams received
state-qualifier status at the
FIRST Tech Challenge on March 4 at Missouri
University of Science and Technology
[Rolla].
Those qualifying teams included the
Baryons, Gluons and Luxons from Marquette
High, the Bosons and Quarks from
Eureka High and the Kaons from Lafayette
High. Overall, 10 local teams collectively
won over two dozen major awards at the
event.
“All of the teams that advanced to state
had to perform at a certain level, earn so
many points and be ranked at a certain level
throughout the whole season,” Reed said.
“That’s actually a pretty cool thing because
six of our 10 teams went through to state.”
The competition allows teams of up to 15
members from grades seven through 12 to
design, build, program and operate robots in
one-to-one challenges. Teams are made up
of not just engineers, but also programmers,
photographers and even marketers that help
with team merchandise and networking.
The Luxons from Marquette High
“There are a plethora of students involved,”
Reed said.
Patricia Denn, from the Lafayette High
Fremons, was a dean’s list semi-finalist and
Josephine Schmaltz, from the Eureka High
Quarks, received finalist status. An official
Dean’s List winner will be announced at the
FTC World Championship on April 28 in St.
Louis.
Before the meeting, the teams showed
off some their robots. During the presentation,
they spoke about the highlights of the
season, including addressing the stereotypes
of robotics and science, technology,
engineering and math [STEM] courses.
“One of the highlights that really paid
off for me was going around to different
schools and speaking to different organizations
... what we focused on was the stigma
that women in STEM isn’t really a common
thing,” Kaons team captain Akhil Devulapalli
said. “We wanted to erase that stigma
that robotics is just for boys.”
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More Chromebooks slated for
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Parkway School District’s Board of Education
unanimously has approved moving
forward with the Pulse Project to put more
Chromebooks in the hands of students for
the 2017-2018 school year.
Jason Rooks, the district’s director of
technology and innovation, told the board
that a goal of the Pulse Project is to support
creating personalized learning opportunities
for students. Those opportunities are to be
accomplished through professional development
for teachers and the procurement of
more technology tools for students.
In fall 2016, elementary classrooms in
grades three through five were given a
Chromebook for every student. In grades
kindergarten through second, the ratio of
students to Chromebooks is two to one.
The devices are kept in the classroom and
the feedback from teachers and students is
extremely positive, Rooks said.
For the 2017-2018 school year, the Pulse
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of Chromebooks to students in kindergarten
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elementary schools and in grades six to
eight in its middle schools. Students in
grades four through eight will be allowed
to take Chromebooks home.
Plans call for an additional cost to Parkway
families in the form of a technology
fee for insurance to cover the Chromebooks.
“Where we are going is not about the
devices, it is about student opportunities
for personalized learning and choice,”
Rooks said. “The device is just a piece to
support these opportunities.”
The Board of Education still has to
approve the equipment and service agreements
needed to successfully implement
the Pulse Project. Included are the
Chromebooks, their carrying cases, device
insurance, data analytics and content protection
software, and staff development
opportunities, Rooks said.
“I love what you’re doing,” Board President
Chris Jacob said. “What our kids need
is driving this technology – a priority is to
identify students without devices at home
and address that.”
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14-20 age category for her self-portrait
titled “Chrysophilist” and in the People’s
Choice category for another self-portrait,
“Natural Introspection.” She won $100 in
each category.
Using a special app on her smart phone,
combined with her Canon camera, Allen
was able to take the photo, while also being
the one in front of the camera. She said
she drew inspiration from similar photographs
and wants to inspire others through
her work. Through “Chrysophilist,” Allen
said she challenges people to “look beyond
the gold and glittery things in life.” In
“Natural Introspection,” she encourages
the observer to reflect and connect to their
inner selves. Motivated by unexpected
wins in her first-ever FOCUS competition,
Allen is considering the pursuit of photography
in post-secondary education.
In addition to the awards given in various
age-specific categories, some photographers
earned honors as the People’s
Choice, Mayor’s Choice and Best in Show.
FOCUS 2017 was judged by Heather Bennett
and Jennifer Colten, lecturers in the
photography department at Washington
University.
Funding for the cash prizes was made
possible through additional support by
sponsors, including the city of Manchester
Adam Osman with his winning self portrait
and the Regional Arts Commission, West
Newsmagazine and Manchester United
Methodist Church, who hosted the exhibit
and awards ceremony.
“This is one of my favorite events of the
year, especially meeting so many young
photographers who are entering their first
competition,” shared Kat Douglas, recreation
and arts specialist for the city of
Manchester. “They are so proud to see their
work displayed in the show and that’s what
Manchester Arts is all about – inspiring
engagement in, and appreciation for, the
arts.”
Winning entries are on display through
May 26, in a special FOCUS 2017 Awards
Exhibit, in the second-floor Courtroom
Gallery at the Manchester Police Facility,
200 Highlands Blvd. The gallery is open
from 9 a.m.-8 p.m., seven days a week.

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attentive, working with their peers and listening
– we are getting good feedback.”
Boyd-Fenger, along with Associate
Head of School Lou Reuss, M.A.T,
engaged Hart’s services after he was
recommended by a board member and
carefully vetted. Reuss personally trained
with Hart to become more familiar with
his techniques and the key lessons he
could impart to Logos students. Reuss’
goal was to gauge if the match-up would
be a good one.
“Earnest connected with the kids right
away, and vice versa,” Reuss said. “He
began the conversation by discussing
the pros and cons of his struggles as a
young man growing up, instantly connecting
with kids who had struggles in their
own history and still have struggles today.
Then, he took things to a physical level
and got the kids moving around with basic
martial arts movements that he showed
them as a way to loosen up.”
The life lessons Hart introduced right at
the start – in between jabs and sidekicks
– are punctuated with a healthy dose of
self-depreciating humor and seem to
resonate with the students: Show respect
for each other; listen to what people are
saying and listen to their response; don’t
interrupt anyone; wait your turn to speak,
and understand that knowing how to be
respectful and handle communications
will impact success in life.
The first session, and those that have
followed, proved dynamic to watch, as
administrators and teachers got to see kids
who hadn’t previously been physical suddenly
smiling and moving around with
Hart and other students; barriers between
the kids slowly, but surely, began to recede.
Brendon Bay, 18, who has participated
in several sessions with Hart, considers
the martial arts program like being part
of a family that he and the other students
have joined. He said that he’s learning
how to have better self-control, become
more disciplined, and how to treat women,
and feels refreshed mentally. Even Brendan
Hanneken, 16, who has only participated
in a couple of sessions, but would
like to attend more, describes Hart as
encouraging and someone who is there to
help make sure if a kid is knocked down,
he or she gets back up again.
Teacher Ellie Rosenblatt cites Hart’s
ability to connect with the students as a
contributing factor to the positive reaction
the kids have, and the positive changes
they are witnessing in the kids.
“He does an amazing job, talking to
them, not at them,” she said. “His ability
to teach social skills and life skills is helping
the students be prepared, whether it’s
during social conflicts or should they find
themselves in a dangerous situation.”
Hart also is pleased to see the impact
his work is already having.
“Working with kids is the most special
thing I do in my life,” Hart said. “The
common denominator is that all kids need
self-confidence, and it is important for
them to develop it while they are young. I
tell them, ‘We’re going to work to become
the best people we can be.’”
While the Logos administrators don’t
have a lot of data about these sessions yet
because the relationship is still pretty new,
they do have visual results in the changed
attitudes of the students who’ve had the
opportunity to participate. And they are
starting to see a decrease in some of the
negative behaviors they had seen in the
kids before Hart got involved at Logos.
“Over the longer term, through data
collection and analysis, we hope to see a
direct correlation between time they spend
in sessions with Earnest and improved
coping skills among the kids,” said Boyd-
Fenger. “While we’ve been fortunate that
a generous donor is making it possible for
us to work with Earnest this year, we will
need a grant for this great work to continue
for the long haul.”
“Part of our mission is to give kids the
tools they need to help them be successful,”
she added. “I think that what Earnest
does matches our mission.”
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It will take longer to reopen the Dillard’s
at Chesterfield Mall than previously
believed. The store is now scheduled to
open in August, said Libbey Tucker, Chesterfield’s
assistant city administrator.
Dillard’s closed last September after a
water main break flooded sections of its
three levels. Previously, the target date
to reopen was February. Tucker added
that, “There is no work currently occurring
to renovate the building from water
damage.”
A Dillard’s customer service representative
said she had no information about
the store’s status and Madison Marquette,
the company that owns the mall, did not
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briefs
By WARREN MAYES
Chesterfield’s Luke Kunin is now
a professional hockey player
After Wisconsin’s season ended, the
Badgers’ captain agreed to a three-year,
entry-level contract with the Minnesota
Wild, the NHL club that drafted him in the
first round in 2016.
Kunin, a 19-year-old sophomore, now
plays for the Iowa Wild in Des Moines,
Minnesota’s American Hockey League
affiliate. That’s where Kunin will play the
rest of the year – including 12 regularseason
games – after signing an amateur
tryout contract.
Kunin led the Badgers in goal-scoring in
both of his collegiate seasons. He signed
a standard three-year, entry-level deal with
the Wild that will start next season. It pays
the rookie maximum $925,000 per year
plus performance bonuses at the NHL level
and $70,000 annually in the minors.
“We all thought it was the right decision,”
Kunin said. “I feel like I’m ready to make
the jump. I’m just excited to get going here
with my pro career. I’ve been thinking about
it for a while. It’s tough to leave Wisconsin,
but I’m looking forward to the future.”
Kunin’s departure was not unexpected
by the Badgers, whose season ended with
a double-overtime loss to Penn State in the
Big Ten Conference championship game.
“I think it’s a great thing for him because
I think he’s ready for it,” Head Coach Tony
Granato said. “He’s worked hard for it. I
think the part we’ve got to remember is
his loyalty and his commitment to us really
is something that we should appreciate
and be thankful that he gave us all he did,
because last year, he had the opportunity
to potentially sign and not come back. He
came back, gave us everything he had and
now, he’s ready for that next challenge.”
Kunin led Wisconsin with 22 goals this
season after scoring 19 as a freshman. He
was named a second-team All-Big Ten
pick after a 38-point sophomore campaign
in which the Badgers made a 12-victory
improvement over the previous year.
High school racquetball
The Missouri all-state racquetball teams
were recently named. Teams are voted on
by the league’s coaches.
2017 boys first team all-state: Lukas
Bell, Lindbergh; John Dowell, Kirkwood;
Mark Duffie and Jason Sauer, Parkway
West; and Chris Schulze and James Storgion,
SLUH. Doubles: Joe Boyce and
Roman Visintine, SLUH.
2017 girls first team all-state: Bella Bertarelli,
Lindbergh; Sam Coleman, Nerinx
Hall; Allison Darmody, Cor Jesu; Elyse
Duffie, Amber Hayes, Katy Moran and
Erin Slutsky, Parkway West; and Alice
Reider, Kirkwood. Doubles: Natalie Bell
and Jessie Le, Lindbergh.
Second team boys: Carlos Ayala, Matthew
Hayes and Jacob Sullivan, SLUH;
Ian Bjorn, Lindbergh; and Alec Dickison
and Evan Riganti, Vianney. Doubles:
Andrew Deadwyler and Will Meyer, Parkway
West.
Second team girls:
Madelon Belaska and Bridget Turney,
Notre Dame; Nicki Horn, Nerinx Hall;
Kate Keuss, Grace Matthes and Maggie
Porterfield, Cor Jesu. Doubles: Natalie
Bianchino and Jenna Mikitin, Ursuline.
Honorable mention boys: Kyle Anderson,
Daniel Barrett and Blake Selm,
Parkway West; Adam Delaney, Lafayette;
Adam Gordon, De Smet Jesuit; Adam
Hanson, SLUH; Nick Tzianos, Lindbergh;
Sam Visintine, Vianney; Ian Wolf, Kirkwood;
and John Yeager, Chaminade. Doubles:
Jimmy Halfmann and Will Theodore,
Lindbergh.
Honorable mention girls: Jillian Bommarito,
Maggie McClanahan, Molly
McClanahan and Emily Shaper, Lindbergh;
Sidney Burke, Cor Jesu; Sarah
Lovett and Esther Plants, Kirkwood; and
Kelly Maeda, Lafayette. Doubles: Claire
Lux and Anna Messina, Cor Jesu.
2017 MOHSRA Sportsmanship Award
recipients: The MOHSRA Sportsmanship
Award is awarded to the girl and boy who
best represents the ideals of sportsmanship.
The award is voted on by all of the league’s
coaches. Coaches may not vote for their
own players; they must select someone
from another school. The recipients were
Sam Coleman, Nerinx Hall; Elyse Duffie,
Parkway West; John Dowell and Alice
Reider, Kirkwood; Bridget Turney, Notre
Dame; and Ian Bjorn, Lindbergh.
High school hockey
The high school hockey season ended
recently. Here are the award winners from
the Mid-States Club Hockey Association.
In the Challenge Cup, the game MVP
went to CBC’s Jack Caruso. In the Wickenheiser
Cup, the MVP went to Westminster
Christian Academy’s Jason Kelley. In the
Founders Cup, the MVP went to Wentzville
Holt’s Tyler Davis.
Rich Palo earned Referee of the Year.
Jason Walker of Edwardsville earned
Coach of the Year.
Dan Rupp of Duchesne earned The Harrison
Award.
Two athletes earned scholarships, the
Wickenheiser Scholarship went to Luke
Horn of Eureka and the Kreigshauser
Scholarship went to Jeffrey Au of Priory.
College women’s golf
Southern Illinois
University senior
Brooke Cusumano
recently was named
the Missouri Valley
Conference Co-Golfer
of the Week for her
performance in the
Cusumano
Bradley Spring Break
Invite in Dallas.
Cusumano finished tied for fourth with
Wichita State’s Taryn Torgerson, her fellow
Golfer of the Week; both shot eight-strokes
over par. In the final round, the Westminster
Christian Academy graduate went onestroke
under par through her final six holes
to help propel her to an eighth-straight
top-10 finish and her fourth top-five of
the season. She shot a 72 in the opening
round and 76 in the second. Cusumano and
Torgerson tied for third in the event in par 4
scoring at 4.16 strokes per hole. The Saluki
senior carded five birdies, the fourth most
at the tournament.
This is the third time this season and the
fifth time in her career that Cusumano has
been named as the Golfer of the Week.
College baseball
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Missouri State third baseman Jake Burger
Missouri Valley Conference Player of the
Week Award, the CBC graduate’s fourth
MVC Player of the Week honor. Burger
picked up the same citation on three separate
occasions in 2016.
Burger led the Missouri State offense
with three homers, seven RBIs and a
1.000 slugging percentage in four total
games to win the honor. The Chesterfield
native went 5-for-14 [.357] for the
week and powered up to go deep three
times in the Bears’ series win against
Minnesota in Minneapolis, including
the third multi-homer game of his MSU
career in the deciding contest. Burger
also matched a career best with five
runs batted-in in the 12-3 win, after
clubbing the longest home run [421
feet] in U.S. Bank Stadium history in
Friday’s opener.
After turning in an All-American sophomore
season in 2016, Burger is off to
another fast start this season. He has hits
in 13 of MSU’s 15 games to date. He
has reached base safely via a hit, walk or
hit-by-pitch in all 15 contests and has an
MVC-high seven long balls so far this
season. Burger has heated up to hit .429
[9-for-21] with five of his homers and 11
RBIs in his last six contests.
College women’s basketball
Sydney Stipanovich was named to the
second team all-Ivy League to cap her
career at the University of Pennsylvania.
The 6-foot-3 senior center, a St. Joseph’s
Academy graduate, was chosen as a second
team All-Ivy honoree following the conclusion
of the 2016-17 regular season. The
Quaker captain has been one of the greatest
to ever don the Red and Blue. She averaged
11 points per game and 8.5 rebounds
per game during her senior year.
Stipanovich will forever be known as the
greatest shot blocker in Ivy League history as
she stands atop the conference as the all-time
leader with 315 blocks – more than any men
or women’s player in Ancient Eight History.
She recorded 53 blocked shots on the season
and averaged 1.9 blocked shots per game to
rank third in the conference in the category.
Penn fell in the first round of the NCAA
tournament. Penn was up on Texas A&M
by 21 points early in the final quarter of the
first-round game at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion
but the Aggies roared all the way back
to defeat the Quakers 63-61. Stipanovich
scored a team-high 20 points.
Stipanovich was the first player in Ivy
League History to win two Player of the
Year awards.
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By WARREN MAYES
Mike Williams got the surprise of his life
for doing something he likes – coaching
racquetball.
Williams, head coach of Parkway West’s
boys racquetball program,
recently was named the
recipient of the 2016 U.S.
Olympic Committee and
USA Racquetball Developmental
Coach of the
Year Award.
Knowing several
of the previous winners,
Williams said, “I
never thought I would
be included in the same
conversation with Coach
Joe Koestner of SLUH,
a legend in Missouri
high school racquetball
and recent inductee into
the Missouri Sports Hall
of Fame; coach Jan Hanneke, of Visitation
Academy; and coach Ken Luecke of
De Smet Jesuit. These are all friends and
mentors who have been instrumental in
the growth of high school racquetball for
decades. So, this award is an honor and a
surprise.”
Williams received the award at a ceremony
at the Nationals Tournament; however,
he did not speak at the ceremony
though “there are several people who need
to be recognized.” He acknowledged the
team’s parent board, comprised of Mary
Harper, Page Andersen, Katy Moran, Steve
Slutzky and Brendan Wood; former members,
Leslie Haupt, Kim Stewart, Janice
Dolezal and Mike O’Neil; and girls coach
Tim Duffie.
“Our girls coach Tim Duffie is the person
I consider the co-coach of the year with
myself. We started coaching together about
eight years ago with Parkway West and
have been through a lot together through
the years. The girls rocked this year,” Williams
said.
Williams also wanted to recognize Allan
Dougherty and Rob Harper. “They were
instrumental in helping with the boys
whenever I requested their assistance,” he
said.
There was one more person Williams
said deserved kudos as well. “I have to say
that none of this would have been possible
without the support of my loving wife,
Kathy. She has been so supportive of what I
do with the Parkway program. She attends
matches and tournaments whenever possible,
lets me bounce ideas off her [and]
provides positive feedback.
Parkway West coach Mike Williams
“There is no way I could do any of this
without her support.”
Williams started playing racquetball
in 2000. He began coaching the Parkway
West boys’ team in late 2011. It is something
he truly enjoys.
“When we start practice
at the beginning of the
year [August], I always
look forward to seeing
what degree of improvement
that each player
will experience over the
next six months,” Williams
said. “That degree
is totally in relation to the
amount of time that he or
she wants to spend on the
court honing [his or her]
skills. It is a given that
each player will progress
at [his or her] own speed,
but I always see progress
and improvement.”
The teams did show improvement
throughout the season. The boys finished
second in the state tournament while the
girls won state for the second consecutive
year.
“If you asked before the season started
where I thought we would wind up, and
looking at our schedule, I would have predicted
that we would be playing SLUH for
the regular season championship in February
with both teams being 9-0,” Williams
said. “We did play SLUH in February and
both of our teams were 9-0. We played well,
but they played better and won. I hope we
learned from the loss and can come back
next year a bit stronger and wiser.”
The area’s racquetball competition is
good, but it might be an unknown to many
high school sports fans.
“The participation in the St. Louis area
by high schoolers is unusually high compared
to the rest of the nation,” Williams
said. This past season, there were close to
600 students participating in the league.
“Whenever I mention that to people outside
the sport, they are amazed.”
Having the national tournament in St.
Louis is good for the sport, he said.
“We are blessed to be one of the two hotbeds
for juniors racquetball in the country,
the other being Portland,” Williams said.
“Since we alternate the Nationals Tournament
between Portland and St. Louis every
other year, it affords our players the chance
to travel and experience other places in this
country that they may not otherwise have
the opportunity to do.”
He encourages athletes to come out and
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CBC defenseman Jones stellar in four consecutive championships
By WARREN MAYES
Ben Jones is more than the answer to a
CBC hockey trivia question.
Sure, Jones did something that now
only can be tied, he played for four years
and significantly contributed to helping
CBC win four Challenge Cup championships.
But CBC Coach John Jost said Jones
is more than a hockey player.
“He is a very good student that represents
CBC and our hockey program at the highest
level,” Jost said. “Ben is as quality of
an individual that we have ever had come
through our program.”
The Cadets defeated Saint Louis University
High 4-1 in the 46th Annual Mid-
States Club Hockey Association Challenge
Cup final at Scottrade Center. The win
allowed CBC to claim its fourth consecutive
crown in Mid-States’ top game and the
victory left an impact on Jones.
“It is truly special and something that I
will forever cherish,” Jones said. “From
the very beginning of the season, the idea
of winning four and making history was
in the back of our heads but we kept it in
the back of our heads and focused on each
game, one at a time.”
That victory made Jones unique in CBC
Jones
hockey lore as the only Cadet to play
on four championship teams. The Cadets
captured the Challenge Cup Crown for the
12th time in the last 17 years and finished
23-5 this season. The Cadets won 96 of 100
games over the previous three seasons. So,
there is pressure on every CBC team to
keep it up. Jones believed that helped the
team this season.
“There was a lot of added pressure to this
team but I believe that pressure is what
pushed us to work hard and get the job
done,” Jones said.
CBC bounced back against a tough
Edwardsville team in the semifinals. The
Tigers handed the Cadets two of their
losses during the regular season but in the
semifinals, the Cadets turned it up a notch,
winning the two-game series.
“After they beat us 6-1 earlier in the playoffs
[in pool play] we were embarrassed,”
Jones said. “We knew they would be a
tough team to beat and we came together
as a team and played our best team defense
all year. After sweeping them, we had a lot
of momentum and took it to Scottrade.”
That set up a showdown with archrival
SLUH, which defeated CBC in two of
three regular-season games. The Junior
Billikens were the No. 1 seed for the first
time in the Challenge Cup.
“I would not have wanted [to face]
anyone else,” Jones said. “The CBC versus
SLUH games are the ones we look forward
to and the rivalry has only increased over
the years. Everyone was saying they were
the favorites and we wanted to have the
opportunity to prove people wrong on the
big stage.”
The difference in the game, Jones said,
was CBC capitalizing on offensive chances
and keeping a player high in both zones.
“The high guy shut down shots from the
high slot resulting in fewer scoring chances
for SLUH,” Jones said.
It’s been a fun four years for Jones. He
had a good freshman season and, over his
career, he said he worked to get better.
“I have improved and I love being a
defenseman,” Jones said. “I love to be
physical and in their faces to the point that
it gets the players off their game.”
Jones also played for U-18 St. Louis
Junior Blues and the Bantam Major Junior
Blues, U-16 Junior Blues.
“Playing on those teams has helped me
develop into the hockey player I am today
because of the amount of practices and
games I’ve played with them,” Jones said.
He said he plans to try to play junior hockey
in the North American Hockey League.
The win capped off a solid season for
Jones and his teammates and it was special
for other reasons.
“Before the game, we wore shirts that
said, ‘We PLAY for CBC. We WIN for Jim,
Ginny and Liz.’ Jim and Ginny were the
foundation that held CBC hockey together
for so long and loved it more than anything.
Liz was the heart and soul of CBC and a
second mom to many kids on the team this
year.”
Liz Kosciolek was the dean’s secretary
at CBC. She passed away Jan. 16. Jim and
Ginny are Jost’s parents, who passed away
in 2016.
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By JESSICA MESZAROS
Dividing one’s time between a career
and charitable endeavors can be a difficult
balancing act, especially for young adults.
But one organization in the area is giving
young volunteers exactly that opportunity.
Big Kids for Whole Kids [BKWK] is a
committee of local volunteers that meets
quarterly to discuss local fundraising
efforts. The group is an extension of Whole
Kids Outreach [WKO], a charity headquartered
in Ellington, Missouri. BKWK was
formed in August 2016 by a group of WKO
volunteers who wanted to expand the organization’s
local outreach and help young
adults get reinvested in charity work.
“We want to get the word out and show
that you don’t need a lot of money to make
a difference,” said BKWK committee
member Kate Bergamini. “You just need
time, and no amount is too small.”
The group got its start when Anna
Bergamini, who is a BKWK committee
member and WKO associate camp director,
invited friends to her home for refreshments
and the opportunity to learn about
WKO’s efforts.
“I originally put the post on Facebook,
and now we probably have about 15 people
that routinely show up all the time,” Anna
said. “I didn’t know what to expect. I just
told them about Whole Kids Outreach, and
they took it from there.”
WKO is a nonprofit, faith-based service
organization formed in 1999 that strives to
address the rural health crisis in southeast
Missouri through the use of summer camps,
charitable auctions and other programs.
Kate and Anna initially got involved
with WKO in early childhood through the
Brian Askren, from Chaminade College Prep, with Whole Kids Outreach campers.
[Photo courtesy Whole Kids Outreach]
efforts of their parents, Marianne and Bob
Bergamini, who served on the nonprofit’s
original development board.
“I’ve watched my parents raise funds,
host parties and get people involved for the
past 20 years,” Anna said. “I decided that it
was my turn.”
According to BKWK committee member
Tim O’Brien, the group seeks to re-engage
young adults in charity work through activism
instead of donations. “We all kind
of ran into that weird gap when you’re a
couple years out of college, you don’t have
a lot of money to contribute, but you have
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For some kids, making homemade slime
and craft stick towers isn’t just a temporary
distraction. It’s a crafty introduction
to basic chemistry and an early lesson in
engineering and architecture.
Crafts are a long-standing summer camp
tradition. In addition to forming teambuilding
skills and fostering creativity,
some crafts can teach children valuable life
skills in a way that’s more hands-on than a
textbook lesson.
For students with a passion for science,
technology, engineering and math [STEM],
crafts can serve to jumpstart valuable lessons
outside the school environment. According
to Project Lead the Way, a program used by
local schools to inspire transformative learning,
crafts also can help prevent students
from losing “the equivalent of two months of
grade-level math and reading skills.”
Science
Summer camp is usually an outdoor
experience, which means campers are literally
surrounded by lessons in science and
biology in all directions. Science lessons
can be as simple as making a Discovery Jar
of local plants or exploring constellations
on a clear night. In addition to outdoor
activities, crafts like homemade slime combine
fun with a sneaky chemistry lesson.
Slime kits can be purchased at many local
craft stores or can be made from scratch
by mixing glue and gradual amounts of
liquid starch. Kids can customize their
experiments with food coloring and glitter.
For older campers, adding powdered black
iron oxide creates “living” slime that can
be manipulated with a magnet.
Technology
Summer camp is usually seen as a
chance to step away from technology.
An example of a STEM craft that emphasizes
engineering and architecture.
However, when it comes to STEM skills,
educational mobile apps can serve as
inspiration for crafty creativity. According
to Project Lead the Way, apps like Scratch
and Scratch Jr. provide elementary and
middle school students with interactive
stories, games and animations to explore.
For older kids, apps like App Inventor
allows young enthusiasts to invent their
own app, and DroidScript allows aspiring
code writers of any age and experience
level to learn basic Javascript used for
creating Android and Apple apps.
Engineering
It’s easy for kids to build small structures
that highlight engineering skills
without the use of toxic or dangerous
components. Kids can build a variety of
easy and harmless structures from craft
sticks, clothespins, rubber bands and clips.
Crafts that showcase engineering might
also serve a functional purpose by teaching
kids to work with their hands. Craft
stick catapults and harmonicas require
only craft sticks and rubber bands, and
can be used as lessons about basic construction
and physics.
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“Make new friends, but
keep the old,” isn’t just a rule
for Girl Scouts to follow. The
advice extends to kids of all
ages, especially with a variety
of camps and new friends
on the horizon this summer.
Summer camp is a prime
opportunity for kids to
expand their social circle outside
of the typical classroom
environment.
“When students have the
opportunity to interact formally
through controlled and
collaborative interactions in
the classroom, there’s benefit
to that, but informal connections
are also incredibly
beneficial for kids,” Jennifer
Stanfill, director of Parkway’s Choice Programs,
said.
But for some kids, it can be difficult
to step outside their comfort zones and
master the technique of expanding their
circles. Below are tips from local guidance
counselors and school staff members that
campers of all ages can keep in mind when
making new acquaintances this summer:
Keep it natural
It can be intimidating to take that first
step into a camp environment and getting
up the nerve to meet new people. But the
best advice for students is to be themselves
and don’t try to “put up a front.” Also, it’s
helpful if mom and dad don’t try to help.
“Most socialization should happen naturally
and, as kids get older, it should be less
and less coached and forced and arranged,”
Todd Minichiello, Rockwood’s coordinator
of prevention and guidance services, said.
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While kids range from extroverted to
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“It’s normal to have some anxiety when
making friends, going to a new place and
meeting new people,” Minichiello said.
“That stress is universal, which means that
there are a lot of kids that think they’re the
only shy one. In reality, everyone that gets
off that bus on the first day is a little shy.”
According to Stanfill, the presence of a
theme at camp can inspire some campers
to make friends simply by bonding over
a similar interest. However, experiencing
a diverse camping environment also provides
tangible benefits and plenty of opportunities
to socialize.
“I think the greatest benefit is that you
meet people that are like you and you meet
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Summer school vs. Summer camp,
tips for navigating all options
By JESSICA MESZAROS
Local and national options for summer
schools and summer camps are extensive
and diverse.
But with a variety of subjects and interests
to choose from, the proposition of
choosing one over the other can be daunting.
Although each child’s educational
experience is highly personal, some basic
recommendations and tips can make the
hunt easier.
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intendent of supervision of schools, said.
“Or sometimes in the case of remediation,
it helps students master some of the skills
that they weren’t able to during the school
year.”
In contrast, summer camps tend to
offer more social, recreational activities
centered on a theme. Depending on the
institution, academic lessons also may be
in the mix.
“Even the programs we offer here in
Rockwood that are camp-like, we still
have academic content
built into those,” Counts
said. “It just looks a little
bit different. It’s not as
focused on mastery of
skills, but on the extension
of learning.”
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Know the difference
Although becoming more similar in
the past decade, there are some basic differences
between summer schools and
summer camps. Summer school is usually
designed to help kids retain knowledge or
get a jump start on future lessons.
“Summer school is really designed to
help kids maintain academic skills,” Dr.
Lisa Counts, Rockwood’s assistant super-
Ask for help
When considering
whether to enroll your
child in a summer school
or summer camp, remember
each child is unique.
Ongoing discussion about
a child’s needs and wants
can help determine what experience will
be the most suitable experience.
“I think the key for parents is to just
keep their conversations going with their
child and their child’s teachers and counselors,”
Todd Minichiello, Rockwood’s
coordinator of prevention and guidance
service, said. “Maybe a child struggles
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academically in a certain area over the
school year, or maybe they’re someone
who just wants to have their interest
sparked in a certain area and wants an
extension of learning.’”
Teachers and counselors often can provide
feedback that no one else can.
Do your research
According to Minichiello, it’s never too
early to start researching summer opportunities.
After talking about what type of program
or programs best meet the family’s
needs, it’s time to sit down with a guide,
such as this issue of West Newsmagazine
or the summer camp directory found in
the Feb. 15 issue of West Newsmagazine
and online.
Armed with this guide, parents can
reach out to camp staff members to learn
more about the logistics of each specific
camp.
Know your child’s limits
While parents never want their child to
experience “summer slide,” every child
has a limit.
Choosing several programs of shorter
lengths can allow a child to be involved in
a variety of experiences, while still having
some time to just be a kid on break.
“This generation of kids tends to be
over-scheduled,” Minichiello said. “I’ve
been a coach and a counselor and a teacher
for a long time, and I’ve always encouraged
parents to look at the whole summer
and just make sure there are gaps in the
summer scheduling for the child to have
down time to do nothing and to make their
own recreation.”
According to Counts, over-scheduled
children who don’t have any unstructured
time can show traits like impatience and
agitation. While some kids might enjoy
being busy for the whole summer, a full
schedule without down time isn’t beneficial
for everyone.
“The bottom line for kids of all ages, in
elementary, middle and high school, is that
summer learning and summer experiences
need to be fun,” Counts said. “I believe
strongly that kids need some unstructured
time, and obviously working parents need
to look at their schedule and decide what
works for their families.”
Consider the end goal
Summer experiences can and should
be a balance of work and play. And, they
absolutely should be about the child.
“The biggest part is to know your individual
child, look for signs of over-scheduling
through tiredness or crankiness, and
just remember that the summer should
at least have some time for kids to have
some choice and a voice in how they want
to engage in activities,” Counts said.
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Math
Math activities aren’t just limited to flash
cards. One of the easiest ways to engage
campers, or kids at home this summer, is
to create a craft that focuses on counting,
sorting or organization. Math Scavenger
Hunts are a popular way to get kids to
explore their environment. Ask kids to find
math-related items in the world around
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the hunt could include a percentage, a bar
graph, a fraction, a polygon, a price with
dollars and cents, a line longer than two
inches, a number greater than one million
and so on. The scavenger hunt can
be adjusted depending on the math lesson
and be done both indoors and outdoors.
Baking is another activity that gradually
teaches kids mathematical vocabulary and
measurement skills all while working with
various ingredients that can turn chemistry
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of apps like Facetime and Snapchat might
also encourage shyer campers to make
connections knowing that future communication
with new friends is a feasible option.
“As kids get older and [social media
use] becomes appropriate,” Schulte said,
“I think social media keeps them in touch
with that other person, [it] allows for those
communications to stay current.”
FRIENDS, from page 38
Keep it positive
Summer camp provides a wonderful
opportunity for students to navigate new
places and meet new people, but it also can
be overwhelming for some kids. According
to Minichiello, a trick for coping with
any anxiousness that might occur is to turn
apprehension into positive energy and promote
a change in mindset.
“If I know my child is going to be a little
shy at camp, instead of saying, ‘Don’t be
shy,’ I might say, ‘There’s going to be a lot
of shy kids at camp today,’ and ‘Can you be
a leader for those kids by introducing yourself
and making sure they feel welcome?
[Can you let them] know you’re there for
them and be a friend?’” Minichiello said.
Keep it social
Gone are the days of letters and longdistance
phone calls. Keeping in touch
with new friends after camp ends has never
been easier, thanks to the prevalence of
social media.
According to Parkway North High counselor
Erin Schulte, the use of social media
can help kids stay in contact with friends
from school and camp. The convenience
Keep it open
Just because students make new friends
doesn’t mean their old friends need to
be put on a shelf; the important thing to
remember is that within their circle of
friends, there’s room for many.
“If you’re worried about balance, just let
the people in your life know that they are
important to you,” Schulte said.
Acknowledging the presence of old
friends while remaining open to new
friendships will help kids expand their
circle of friends without others feeling left
out or jealous.
“I think friendships, in general, are just
making the people you’re with and the
people you’re friends with feel appreciated
and important,” Schulte said. “While
you’re at camp and you’re making new
friends, be with them and enjoy that, but
if you miss your friends from home, tell
them ‘this would have been so funny if you
were there.’”
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Sweet spring desserts
When the scent of fresh blooms begins
to fill the air, it’s a sure sign that spring
has sprung. It’s the perfect time of year to
gather loved ones for a leisurely meal, then
linger over dessert as you enjoy this season
of refreshment.
No dessert menu is complete without an
array of treats, and these creamy, homemade
Blueberry Key Lime Cheesecake
Bars are the perfect way to put a sweet
finishing touch on your celebrations. Or
go for a crowd pleaser with this Cherry
Cheesecake Lush Dessert and its smooth,
velvety texture and plump, juicy cherries.
The secret ingredient in each of these
desserts is GMO-free Lucky Leaf Fruit
Fillings, which contain no high-fructose
corn syrup.
Blueberry Key Lime Cheesecake Bars
Recipe courtesy of Inside BruCrew Life blog
Prep time: 25 minutes
Cook time: 45 minutes
Servings: 24
Ingredients
Nonstick cooking spray
30 vanilla cream-filled cookies
1/4 cup butter, melted
3 packages [8 ounces each] cream
cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup sour cream
1/3 cup key lime juice
1 tablespoon key lime zest
1/4 cup flour
3 eggs
green gel food coloring [optional]
1 can [21 ounces] Lucky Leaf Blueberry
Pie Filling, divided
1 container [8 ounces] whipped topping,
thawed
key lime slices [optional]
Directions
1. Place baking sheet on bottom rack of
oven. Fill halfway with water. Heat oven to
325º F. Line 9-by-13-inch pan with foil and
spray with nonstick spray.
2. Using food processor, pulse cookies
until crumbly. Stir together crumbs and
butter. Press evenly into bottom of prepared
pan.
3. Beat cream cheese until creamy. Add
sugar and sour cream, and beat again until
smooth. Add key lime juice, zest and flour,
and beat until mixed thoroughly. Add eggs,
one at a time, and beat gently after each.
Add green food coloring to cheesecake
mixture, if desired.
4. Spread cheesecake batter evenly over
crust in pan. Add 1 cup of blueberry pie
filling over top of cheesecake. Use butter
knife to gently swirl pie filling into cheesecake.
Do not let knife go through to crust.
5. Place pan on oven rack above tray of
water. Bake 45-48 minutes. Remove immediately
and place on wire rack for 1 hour
then place in refrigerator until completely
chilled.
6. Cut into 24 squares and serve with
whipped topping, remaining pie filling and
key lime wedges.
• • •
Cherry Cheesecake Lush Dessert
Recipe courtesy of Lemon Tree Dwelling blog
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 15 minutes
Servings: 12
Ingredients
1 cup vanilla wafer crumbs
1 cup finely chopped pecans
1 cup butter, melted
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
16 ounces whipped topping, divided
2 small boxes [3.4 ounces] cheesecakeflavored
pudding
3 cups milk
1 can [21 ounces] Lucky Leaf Cherry
Pie Filling
1/2 cup chopped pecans
4. In separate mixing bowl, combine
cream cheese, powdered sugar
and 1-1/2 cups whipped topping.
Mix until smooth; spread evenly
over cooled crust.
5. Combine cheesecake pudding
mix, milk and 1-1/2 cups whipped
topping, and mix until smooth.
Spread evenly over cream cheese
layer in pan.
6. Top with pie filling, remaining
whipped topping and chopped
pecans.
• • •
And for the younger set ...
Baby Chick Cupcakes
Prep time: 30 minutes
Servings: 24
Ingredients
1 package [12 ounces] white chocolate
bark or coating wafers
1 cup [2 sticks] butter, softened
2 teaspoons McCormick Pure Vanilla
Extract
1 box [16 ounces] confectioners’ sugar
1 jar [7 ounces] marshmallow creme
1 teaspoon Sunflower food color
from McCormick Color from Nature Food
Colors
3 tablespoons milk
48 unfrosted mini yellow cupcakes
sprinkles or Nature Food Colors
Directions
1. Make broken egg shell pieces by melting
the white chocolate as directed on
package. Spread on large foil-lined baking
sheet to 1/4-inch thickness. Refrigerate
about 10 minutes, or until firm. Break into
small, irregular pieces. Set aside.
2. Bake mini cupcakes, using your favorite
box mix
3. While the cupcakes bake and cool,
make the marshmallow crème frosting. In
large bowl, beat butter with electric mixer
on medium speed until light and fluffy.
Add vanilla; mix well. Gradually beat in
confectioners’ sugar, beating until well
blended after each addition, frequently
scraping sides and bottom of bowl. Beat in
marshmallow creme until well blended. In
small bowl, stir food color into milk until
dissolved. Add colored milk to frosting;
beat until light and fluffy. Stir in additional
milk, as needed, to reach desired consistency.
4. Decorate cupcakes by spooning frosting
into large pastry bag fitted with large
round tip. Pipe two dollops of frosting on
top of each other on each cupcake to form
a baby chick. Use sprinkles to create eyes
and a beak, or tint remaining frosting with
food colors to pipe on eyes and a beak.
Place coating wafer pieces around
bottom of baby chick to resemble broken
egg shell.
– Family Features
Directions
1. Heat oven to 350º F.
2. In medium mixing bowl, combine
vanilla wafer crumbs, finely chopped
pecans and butter.
3. Press into 9-by-13-inch baking pan;
bake 15 minutes. Remove from oven and
cool.

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A low level of “good” cholesterol may be a risk factor for having a heart attack
at a younger age, a new study shows.
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Bringing doctors’ drug
company payments to light
While a majority of U.S. adults visit
a doctor who receives payments from
drug and medical device companies, few
patients are aware that such payments
exist, according to a new Drexel University
study conducted jointly with Stanford
and Harvard universities. About 65 percent
of those surveyed for the study had
visited a doctor within the last year who
had received payments or gifts from those
companies, while just 5 percent of them
knew that their doctor had received such
payments.
Among respondents who saw certain
types of specialists, the likelihood of those
doctors’ having received payments was
even higher. For example, orthopedic
surgeons visited by 85 percent of those
surveyed had received payments, and
obstetrician/gynecologists seen by 77 percent
of survey respondents had received
payments.
The nationwide study included a representative
sample of more than 3,500 adults
whose doctors were linked to data from
Open Payments, a government website
set up under a “sunshine” provision of the
Affordable Care Act that reports pharmaceutical
and device industry payments to
physicians. Its intent is to make such payment
information publicly available and
transparent to patients.
“These findings tell us that if you thought
that your doctor was not receiving any
money from industry, you’re most likely
mistaken,” said Genevieve Pham-Kanter,
Ph.D., an assistant professor in Drexel’s
Dornsife School of Public Health. “Patients
should be aware of the incentives that their
physicians face that may lead them to not
always act in their patients’ best interest.
And the more informed patients are about
their providers and options for care, the
better decisions they can make.”
Low “good” cholesterol common
in young heart attack patients
A high level of “bad” cholesterol, or LDL-
C, has long been considered a risk factor
for heart attacks and strokes, because it
indicates that arteries may be clogged with
dangerous deposits called plaque. However,
a recent small study found that men
under the age of 45, and women under 50,
who suffer heart attacks are far more likely
to have abnormally low HDL-C, or “good”
cholesterol, than elevated bad cholesterol.
In the bloodstream, HDL-C acts like a
scavenger, scouring the arteries to get rid
of excess fat and bad cholesterol, reduce
inflammation and prevent blood clots.
For that reason, healthy levels of HDL-C
[defined as above 40 mg/dL in men and
above 50 mg/dL in women] may be protective
against heart attacks.
In this study, researchers at Harvard
Medical School reviewed billing data
and medical records at two large medical
centers, and identified 813 younger
men and women who had been treated for
heart attacks over the past 16 years. The
patients’ average age was 48; 38 percent
were women.
“In this study of younger heart attack
patients, low HDL-C was the most
common abnormality, seen in approximately
90 percent of the men and 75 percent
of the women,” said Bradley Collins,
a fourth-year student at Harvard and the
study’s lead author. “This finding suggests
that low HDL-C should be considered a
marker of increased heart attack risk in
younger patients particularly.”
The researchers said their results show
that low HDL-C levels in younger patients
should prompt their physicians to recommend
preventive measures, including
lifestyle changes, improved control of
glucose and blood pressure, and use of
medications to lower LDL-C. Combining
all these measures together can lead
to significant improvement in overall cardiovascular
health, Collins said. HDL-C
is considered a “modifiable” risk factor
for heart disease – meaning adults can
potentially increase their HDL-C by giving
up smoking, maintaining a healthy weight,
being more physically active, and eating
more fruit and vegetables while avoiding
unhealthy fats. The study was presented at
the American College of Cardiology’s 66th
Annual Scientific Session in March.
Opioids and kids
Use of opioids by young people, both
accidental and otherwise, resulted in more
than 188,000 calls to U.S. Poison Control
Centers from January 2000 through
December 2015, averaging one call every
45 minutes, according to a newly published
study.
Overall, most of the opioid exposures
leading to those calls occurred among
children younger than five years of age
[60 percent], followed by teenagers [30
percent]. The medications which prompted
the most calls were hydrocodone [29 percent],
oxycodone [18 percent] and codeine
[17 percent].
The reason for, and the severity of, the
children’s exposures varied by age. Among
young kids, the vast majority of the drugs
were accidentally ingested, tended to have
less serious outcomes and were able to be
managed at home. Among teenagers, on
the other hand, more than two-thirds of
the exposures were intentional. Teens also
were more likely to be admitted to a hospital
and to experience serious outcomes than
younger children. An especially alarming
statistic the researchers noted was the
more than 50 percent increase in the rate
of suspected opioid-related suicides among
teenagers during the 16-year study period.
One piece of good news is that the
number of exposures to most prescription
opioids has been steadily declining
in recent years. However, a notable
exception as far as calls to poison control
centers are concerned is buprenorphine, a
narcotic medication primarily used to treat
people for addiction to heroin and other
opioids. While exposures to most opioids
have declined, pediatric buprenorphine
Calls to U.S. Poison Control Centers involving
kids taking opioids averaged one every 45
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exposures have risen, which is concerning
given that nearly half of those exposures
result in hospital admissions.
“As physicians, we need to find a balance
between making sure that we are helping
our patients manage their pain and making
sure we don’t prescribe more or stronger
medication than they need,” said Dr. Gary
Smith, the study’s senior author and director
of the Center for Injury Research and
Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital,
which conducted the study. “While overall
rates of exposure to opioids among
children are going down, they are still too
high. We need to continue to examine our
prescription practices and to increase education
to parents about safe ways to store
these medications at home to keep them
out of the hands of children.” Parents also
need to be aware of keeping the drugs safe
from teens, Smith added, given that 70
percent of teenagers who use opioids without
a prescription get them from family or
friends.
• • •
Abuse of opioid medications among
adolescents, especially boys, is more
likely after they have been prescribed the
medicine by a doctor first, according to an
analysis published in the current issue of
Pediatrics. Researchers from the University
of Michigan looked at data from the
university’s Monitoring the Future study, a
cross-sectional, nationally representative
sample of U.S. high school seniors who
attended both public and private schools
over about a 40-year period, from 1976
through 2015.
Among adolescents who reported both
medical use of prescription opioids and
non-medical use of the drugs – termed
NUPO – medical opioid use before starting
NUPO was the most common pattern,
with one-third of those teens saying they
used leftover medications from their own
previous prescriptions. Using prescription
opioids for medical reasons was generally
more common among girls. NUPO differed
little by sex, although the correlation
between medical and non-medical use was
found to be much stronger for boys than
girls.
The researchers posed a number of possible
reasons for this based on past studies.
First, they said, NUPO is directly related
to the availability of prescription opioids,
and male users are more likely to get the
drugs from their peers, while female users
are more likely to obtain them from family
members. Second, boys have been shown
to be more likely to use prescription opioids
non-medically to get high, whereas
girls are more likely to use them for physical
pain relief.
The study also showed a decline in nonmedical
use of opioids over the later years
of the study, coinciding with declines in
medical use. The researchers expressed
hope that both declines are due to greater
vigilance by doctors in prescribing opioids
to adolescents, but also said more research
is needed to examine the relationship
between medical use of prescription opioids
and their abuse over the entire lifespan.
On the calendar
Learn how to conquer your knee pain
at a free presentation on Tuesday, April
18 from 6-7 p.m. at Des Peres Hospital’s
MyNewSelf Education Room, 2315
Dougherty Ferry Road in St. Louis. The
presentation by an orthopedic physician
includes information on surgical and
non-surgical options to treat chronic knee
problems. Register online at www.despereshopital.com
or call (877) 228-3638.
• • •
A free information session on nonsurgical
weight loss options is offered on
Wednesday, April 19 from 7:30-8:30 p.m.
at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital,
1020 N. Mason Road in Creve Coeur, in
Medical Office Building 3. Join a Washington
University gastroenterologist to
learn about a new intragastric balloon
device that is inserted into the stomach
through a minimally invasive endoscopic
procedure. The presentation also covers
two other non-surgical options, endoscopic
sleeve gastroplasty and aspiration therapy.
Registration for the session is required.
For information about the procedures and
to register, visit www.barnesjewishwestcounty.org.
More details are also available
by calling (314) 542-9378.
• • •
Living a Healthy Life, a free six-week
program developed by Stanford University’s
Patient Education Research Center,
begins on Thursday, April 20, and continues
each subsequent Thursday through
May 25, from 10 a.m.-noon at St. Luke’s
Hospital, 232 S. Woods Mill Road in Chesterfield.
The course, which will be held in
the third floor conference room in the hospital’s
main building, addresses chronic
diseases such as heart disease, arthritis,
diabetes, asthma and others. The program
is facilitated by a health educator from the
St. Louis County Department of Public
Health. Register online at www.stlukes-stl.
com or call (314) 542-4848.
• • •
The Red Cross sponsors a Community
Blood Drive on Wednesday, April
26 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the St. Luke’s
Hospital Insitute for Health Education, 222
S. Woods Mill Road in Chesterfield. To
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Rep. Ann Wagner, rallying residents
share thoughts on health care reform
West County residents rally in advance of the AHCA vote.
By JIM ERICKSON
Participants in a recent West County
rally opposing the Trump Administration’s
American Health Care Act [AHCA] likely
were pleased when the legislation was
pulled last month before a vote on it was
held in the U.S. House.
Facing the prospect the measure would
be defeated, House leaders withdrew
the bill, leaving the Affordable Care Act
[ACA], commonly known as Obamacare,
in place, at least for the time being.
As for what comes next on the health
care front, opinions and predictions run the
gamut.
Rep. Ann Wagner, whose Second Congressional
District includes the West County
area, said, “I remain committed to repealing
and replacing Obamacare with a solution
that will provide quality healthcare, not just
health coverage, to all Americans.”
Wagner’s West County office, just east
of Manchester, was the site originally
announced for a rally voicing support for
the ACA and opposition to the proposed
AHCA. However, leaders from the sponsoring
Missouri Health Care for All organization
moved the gathering site to the
parking lot of the United Food and Commercial
Workers Local 655, a short walk
from the Weidman/Manchester intersection
where visibility of the rally to passersby
was greater.
Those participating included David and
Rhonda Banford, of Chesterfield, who
said they have personal experience with
the ACA. “We signed up for coverage
at healthcare.gov,” David recalled. “I’m
retired and I think it’s fair to say we would
be bankrupt now without it.” Rhonda was
diagnosed with breast cancer and injections
after her expensive treatments cost
$18,000 each, he explained.
“The point is that the injections also were
covered due to the minimum standards
our policy had to meet,” he said. “Those
minimum standards are really important
because when people like us sign up they
never know what they might have to deal
with later on.”
Rally participant Karen Cloyd, of Wildwood,
said, “Obamacare isn’t perfect,
but why couldn’t we have spent the past
seven or more years working to improve
it? Instead, all we heard was ‘repeal, repeal,
repeal.’”
In a statement provided to West Newsmagazine,
Wagner also addressed the
shortcomings of the ACA.
“From skyrocketing premiums to soaring
taxes and canceled plans, Missouri families
are suffering each day under the death
spiral of Obamacare,” Wagner wrote. “It is
time to get this right – we must provide a
more affordable, patient-centered healthcare
system where each and every American,
from seniors to young women to the
disabled, can choose the best healthcare
coverage based on their individual needs.”
The President, meanwhile, has said he
plans to move on to other priorities on his
agenda but also has been quoted as saying
he’s open to compromise.
Some members of the Republican Party,
including Ohio Gov. John Kasich who
dueled with Trump for the party’s 2016
presidential nomination, strongly agreed
a compromise is needed. Kasich has said
the president should work with “constructive”
Democrats to forge a health care solution
and that he [Kasich] plans to follow
the same strategy.
Rally participant Kathleen Quain, of
Manchester, noted that the U.S. “is one
of the few Western countries that doesn’t
have some type of universal health care
program.”
“I think it’s smart to have a policy that
keeps hospitals open and available to
people because it’s an investment in our
country’s future,” she said.

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Sound sleep
Starting in middle age, most adults get
far less deep sleep, or “slow-wave” sleep,
which is extremely important for memory
consolidation. Scientists believe that this
steep decline in deep sleep contributes to
age-related memory loss. New research conducted
at Northwestern University recently
showed that gentle sound stimulation, such
as the rush of a waterfall, which is synchronized
with brain waves, can enhance deep
sleep in older adults, improving their recall
ability.
During deep sleep, brain wave oscillations
slow down to about one per second,
compared to about 10 per second while a
person is awake. The Northwestern study
used a new approach, an algorithm that can
read an individual’s brain waves in real time
and deliver the sound during the rising portion
of slow-wave oscillations. In the study,
13 participants aged 60 and older received
one night of slow-wave acoustic stimulation
and one night of “sham” stimulation, which
was identical to the acoustic one, but participants
did not hear any noise during sleep.
Those in both groups took a memory test at
night and another the next morning. Recall
ability after the sham stimulation generally
improved on the morning test by a few
percentage points; but among those who
received the acoustic stimulation, memory
improvements were three times greater.
After the sound stimulation, the older participants’
slow waves also increased during
sleep.
“This is an innovative, simple and safe
non-medication approach that may help
improve brain health,” said Dr. Phyllis Zee,
the study’s senior author and a professor
of neurology at Northwestern’s Feinberg
School of Medicine. “This is a potential tool
for enhancing memory in older populations
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sleep can improve seniors’ memory skills,
according to a new study.
and attenuating normal age-related memory
decline.”
The researchers’ eventual goal is to
develop sound stimulation technology that
can be used in the home. The study results
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Hormone therapy updates
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replacement therapy are noteworthy for
seniors of both sexes. First, studies involving
men ages 65 and older with low testosterone,
which have been ongoing at
12 different sites across the U.S. – known
as the “T Trials”– recently reported that a
year of supplemental testosterone treatment
improved mens’ bone density and corrected
anemia of both known and unknown causes.
However, men who had the hormone treatment
also showed an increased volume of
coronary artery plaque, a significant risk
factor for heart disease. The study showed
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cognitive functions, another recently studied
area.
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well below the average for healthy younger
men. They were randomly selected to
receive either testosterone gel applied to the
skin or a placebo gel daily, and their testosterone
was measured at one, two, three, six,
nine and 12 months. They were also closely
monitored during the study for prostate and
cardiovascular problems [men considered
to be at high risk for prostate cancer and
cardiovascular disease were excluded from
the study for safety reasons].
Results of the T Trials previously reported
in 2016 included testosterone’s impact
on low sexual function, difficulties with
mobility, and fatigue or low energy. Overall,
treatment with supplemental testosterone
was found to improve sexual function as
measured by the men’s scores on three standard
questionnaires. Having testosterone
treatment did not significantly affect men’s
walking ability, but did improve overall
walking speed and distance compared with
men who received a placebo. The treatment
did not significantly affect fatigue symptoms,
but did have some modest positive
effects on mood.
Results of the current T Trials research
appeared in the Journal of the American
Medical Association and JAMA Internal
Medicine.
• • •
For older women, hormone replacement
therapy to relieve menopausal symptoms
has been a controversial topic for years,
as different studies have associated it both
with health benefits and potential risks,
including cancer and stroke. Fear about
those risks has led to a dramatic decline
in the number of women using hormone
replacement therapy over the past 15 years.
But a new study conducted at the Cedars-
Sinai Medical Center showed that women
using hormone replacement therapy had a
significantly lower risk of death along with
lower levels of atherosclerosis [the buildup
of plaque in heart arteries] compared to
women not using hormone therapy.
The new study analyzed information from
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coronary calcium scan, a CT scan that measures
the amount of calcium in the heart’s
arteries, at Cedars-Sinai between 1998 and
2012. Higher levels of calcium indicate a
buildup of arterial plaque, which increases
heart attack and stroke risk.
After accounting for women’s ages,
coronary calcium scores and cardiovascular
risk factors including diabetes, high
blood pressure and high cholesterol, the
study found that women using hormone
replacement therapy were 30 percent less
likely to die than those not on hormone
therapy. Women using hormone replacement
therapy were also 20 percent more
likely to have a coronary calcium score
of zero – the lowest possible score, which
indicates a low probability of having a
heart attack – and 36 percent less likely to
have a coronary calcium score above 399,
which indicates severe atherosclerosis and
high heart attack risk.
According to the research team, those
results are evidence that estrogen replacement
therapy, sometimes along with
progesterone or similar hormone therapies,
may help improve women’s heart
health and overall survival. “With proper
screening and proper follow-up, from a
cardiovascular standpoint, I believe it is
beneficial to take hormone replacement
therapy,” said Dr. Yoav Arnson, a scientist
at Cedars-Sinai and the study’s lead author.
“Our results confirm and enhance previous
work in terms of showing lower atherosclerosis.
In addition, we’ve shown very
clear survival benefits of using hormone
replacement therapy.”
Estrogen is believed to protect women’s
heart health; their rate of heart disease
increases dramatically after menopause,
when estrogen levels fall rapidly. By
replacing the natural estrogen lost during
menopause, hormone replacement therapy
could help women regain its cardiovascular
benefits, Arnson said, adding that women
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linked to increased frailty – characterized
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to become frail within three years compared
with people who took fewer than five. People
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risk of near-term frailty compared to the nonpolypharmacy
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frailty and other negative effects of unnecessary,
avoidable polypharmacy,” said study
co-author Kai-Uwe Saum, Ph.D. The study
was published in the Journal of the American
Geriatrics Society.
Tough talk
A recent study conducted at Yale University
found that even when older adults plan
ahead for end-of-life medical decisions,
their preferences are often not communicated
to the loved ones they have designated
to carry out those decisions.
Yale researcher Dr. Terri Fried and her colleagues
interviewed 350 veterans, 55 years
of age or older, and separately interviewed
the individuals who had been designated as
surrogates to carry out the veterans’ medical
decisions when they no longer had the
ability to do so. To measure the surrogates’
knowledge, the researchers asked whether
the patient would prefer treatment even if
that treatment would leave the patient in
severe pain or severely impaired.
The researchers found that more than 40
percent of the veterans and their surrogates
agreed that advance care planning either had
not been done, through a living will or health
care proxy, or that the surrogates were not
clear about what the veterans’ wishes were –
just 20 percent of surrogates could articulate
those wishes. That number was only slightly
higher even when both the veterans and their
surrogates agreed that they had previously
talked about those decisions.
The interview data strongly suggest
that designated surrogates must be more
involved in the decision-making process,
according to Fried. “You can’t assume
advanced care planning achieves the goal of
making sure the surrogate understands what
the patient wants. Planning needs to include
a facilitated discussion between the patient
and the surrogate to make sure they are
hearing each other and talking about things
that are important to the patient,” she said.
Fried and her colleagues are planning a
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using materials tailored to the patient, and
also will assess the impact of conducting
motivational interviews. The Yale study
was published in the Journal of the American
Geriatrics Society.
On the calendar
Practical Tips for Day-to-Day Home
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assistance for those caring for an elderly
loved one, is on Tuesday, April 11 from
1-2:30 p.m. at Missouri Baptist Medical
Center, 3015 North Ballas Road, in Auditorium
2. Health care professionals, including
a registered nurse, physical therapist and
occupational therapist, will provide helpful
advice about daily home care. To register,
call (314) 996-5433.
• • •
An AARP Smart Driver Course is
offered on Wednesday, April 12 from 9
a.m.-1 p.m. at St. Luke’s Hospital, 222
S. Woods Mill Road in Chesterfield in the
North Medical Building. The course covers
safe driving strategies, information about
the effects of medications on driving, how
to prevent driver distractions, proper use of
new technologies and more. The cost is $15
for AARP members and $20 for non-members.
Register by calling (314) 780-8465.
• • •
The second annual Celebrating Art
for Senior Engagement [CASE] Festival
takes place April 20-30, with events
at several locations in West County and
throughout the St. Louis area. Presented
by nonprofit organization Maturity and
Its Muse, CASEfest will feature arts
events, dance, music and other programs
designed to promote positive, productive
aging through the arts and is the only
area-wide festival dedicated to the region’s
older adult population. The majority of
events are free; however, some may have a
modest cost or require preregistration. An
up-to-date CASEfest event listing can be
found online at www.maturityanditsmuse.
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PEOPLE
Denise Niemann
was named executive
director of The Sheridan
at Chesterfield, a
91-unit assisted living
and memory care
community under
construction at 16300
Justus Post Road in Niemann
Chesterfield. Niemann has more than 15
years experience in managing the daily
operations of progressive retirement communities.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in
humanistic studies from St. Mary’s College
of Notre Dame [Indiana].
• • •
Shari Wynn, vice
president of Chesterfield-based
Gershman
Mortgage,
was awarded the St.
Charles County Women’s
Council of REAL-
TORS Affiliate of the
Year award. Wynn has
Wynn
been with Gershman Mortgage since 1985.
• • •
Mickes O’Toole law firm, located in
Town & Country, announced the appointment
of Vincent D. Reese as managing
partner. Former founder and managing
partner, Thomas A. Mickes, is now firm
chairman.
• • •
Orthopaedic surgeon Jacob M.
Buchowski, M.D. was recently appointed
to the American Academy of Orthopaedic
Surgeons Board of Directors. Buchowski,
whose hospital affiliation includes Barnes-
Jewish West County Hospital, is a professor
of orthopaedic and neurological surgery at
Washington University School of Medicine.
He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees
in molecular biophysics and biochemistry
from Yale University
and attended Johns
Hopkins University
School of Medicine,
where he completed
his orthopaedic surgery
residency. He
served as administrative
chief resident at
Buchowski
Johns Hopkins Hospital. Following his
residency, Buchowski completed a spine
surgery fellowship with the department of
orthopaedic surgery at Washington University
School of Medicine.
• • •
Cecilia Pascual-
Garrido, M.D. has
joined Washington
University Orthopedics
as an assistant
professor. Clinically,
Pascual-Garrido specializes
in surgical
preservation of the
Pascual-Garrido
hip including the treatment of hip dysplasia,
hip FAI [impingement] and hip
osteoarthritis at both Barnes-Jewish West
County Hospital and Barnes-Jewish Hospital
in the Center for Advanced Medicine.
She earned her medical degree from René
Favaloro Medical University in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, and completed a post-doc
fellowship in cartilage restoration at Rush
University Medical Center in Chicago. She
also completed a clinical fellowship at the
Hospital for Special Surgery in New York,
and was a team physicians for the New
York Knicks and the New York Mets.
• • •
WestRock Company
promoted Chesterfield
resident Kathe Arbogast
to director of IT
Applications.
Arbogast
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Coldwell Banker Gundaker’s Chesterfield/Wildwood
office recently raised
$27,000 at its second annual music trivia
night benefiting Ronald McDonald House
charities.
• • •
Chesterfield-based consulting firm
Experience on Demand announced the
appointment of Doug Groves, Pat Knoerle-
Jordan and David Straub as partners.
• • •
Dierbergs Markets recently donated
$75,000 toward Operation Food Search’s
capital campaign to assist in ending food
insecurity problems in the greater St. Louis
region.
• • •
Crushed Red recently opened its fourth
St. Louis area location at 1684 Clarkson
Road in Chesterfield.
• • •
The city of Creve Coeur received a AAA
bond rating, the highest rating possible, from
S&P Global Ratings. The rating reflects the
city’s economy, budgetary flexibility with
high reserves and low debt burden.
NETWORKING AND EVENTS
A First Thursday Coffee is held on
April 6 from 7:30-9 a.m. at Edward Jones,
15455 Conway Road, Suite 120 in Chesterfield.
The event is free for chamber
members and $15 for guests. For more
information, call (636) 532-3399 or email
info@chesterfieldmochamber.com.
• • •
A First Friday Coffee is held on April
7 from 7:30-9 a.m. at Extra Space Storage,
10 Strecker Road in Ellisville. Members
and non-members are welcome to attend.
Contact Deb Pinson at (636) 230-9900
or dpinson@westcountychamber.com for
more information.
• • •
The West St. Louis County Working
Warriors veteran’s group meeting is on
Wednesday, April 12 from 9-10 a.m. at
Lucky’s Market, 15830 Fountain Plaza
Drive in Ellisville. Members and non-members
are welcome at this free networking
event. Register online at www.westcountychamber.com
or call Deb Pinson at (636)
230-9900 for more information.
• • •
A West County Young Professionals
meeting takes place on Wednesday, April
12 from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at Walnut Grill,
1386 Clarkson-Clayton Shopping Center
in Ellisville. Members and their guests
are welcome. There is no fee, individuals
pay for their own lunch. Register online at
www.westcountychamber.com or call Deb
Pinson at (636) 230-9900 for more information.
• • •
The West County Chamber of Commerce
hosts a Business After Hours networking
event in conjunction with Wind Down
Thursday STL on Thursday, April 13 from
4:30-6:30 p.m. at Fox and Hound, 17416
Chesterfield Airport Road in Chesterfield.
Members and non-members are welcome.
Hot appetizers will be provided; attendees
pay for their own drinks. Pre-registration is
not required.
• • •
The Women of West County [WOW]
winery social event takes place on Saturday,
April 15 from 11:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
at Chandler Hill Vineyards, 596 Defiance
Road in Defiance. Members and nonmembers
are welcome to attend. Registration
fee yet to be determined, contact Deb
Pinson at (636) 230-9900 or dpinson@
westcountychamber.com for more information.
• • •
The Parkway Alumni Association hosts
a PAA All-District Networking Event on
Wednesday, April 19 from 6-8 p.m. at Total
Wine & More, 1781 Clarkson Road in
Chesterfield. Complimentary wine tasting,
soda and water also provided. The event
is free to all Parkway alumni, but RSVP
is required. For more information and to
register, contact Leah McCoy at leah@
parkwayalumni.org.
• • •
Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce
holds its 27th Annual Golf Tournament
on Monday, April 25 at Persimmon Woods
Golf Club, 6401 Weldon Springs Road in
St. Charles. Registration begins at 10:30
a.m., followed by lunch at 11 a.m. and a
shotgun start at 12:30 p.m. Cocktails and
dinner, awards, silent auction and raffle
drawings take place at 6 p.m. $200 per
person; $780 per foursome without green/
tee sponsorship and $1,000 per foursome
with green/tee sponsorship. For more
information, call (636) 532-3399 or email
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By JIM MERKEL
Workers at some St. Louis County facilities
may not notice it, but the person who
keeps their floors and bathrooms clean
comes from no ordinary cleaning service.
The work is done by workers for MERS/
Missouri Goodwill Industries, an organization
that provides various employment
and training programs for the disabled and
others who are in need. Among the places
where MERS Goodwill has provided janitorial
services are the West County and
South County government centers. The St.
Louis County Council is now considering
approving a one-year contract for MERS
Goodwill to provide services at those centers
for a total of $49,904.
Altogether, MERS Goodwill has 31 contracts
to provide janitorial service around
the St. Louis area. Out of 216 janitors in
the program, 60 percent have a documented
disability. The cleaning services is
a lesser known part of an operation that is
best known for its retail thrift stores. The
organization, said President and CEO
David Kutchback, does much more.
Last year, MERS Goodwill served more
than 63,000 people, many of whom had
various disabilities, such as autism or a
brain injury.
It’s important for a person with a disability
to say ‘I’m a worker,’” Kutchback
said. Often, that’s more important than the
paycheck.
Job coaches help the workers to become
solid employees who take pride in what
they do. “We have a very high customer
satisfaction rate,” Kutchback said.
In surveys, more than 95 percent of clients
said they were happy with the MERS
Goodwill workers.
“St. Louis County has, since 2013, contracted
with MERS Goodwill to provide
janitorial services at a variety of countyowned
buildings,” said David Wrone, a
spokesman for St. Louis County. “We’re
pleased with the quality of MERS Goodwill’s
work.”
Monarch to study tax
reduction plan
By JIM ERICKSON
The Monarch Fire Protection District will
study the possibility of lowering its property
tax levy and instituting steps to charge a fee
for ambulance calls.
Monarch Board Treasurer Robin Harris
raised the concepts at the board’s March
21 meeting, but cautioned that much study
remains before any decision is made. Fellow
directors Rick Gans and Jane Cunningham
agreed the plan merited further review.
No timetable was set for studying the idea
and possibly acting on it. Harris noted that
the board ultimately could decide the issue
or submit a proposal to voters.
“There are a number of questions and possibilities
we need to look into before we do
anything,” he said.
Monarch currently does not charge fees
for ambulance calls involving district residents
but does bill those from outside its
boundaries, such as out-of-town shoppers
and non-residents involved in traffic accidents
while in Monarch territory.
Many other area fire protection districts
already charge for ambulance calls, a service
usually covered by health insurance.
Medically related emergencies constitute
about 80 percent of the calls received in the
district, Harris said.
“We wouldn’t expect a fee system to pay
all the costs involved in answering ambulance
calls, but it can help,” Harris observed.
He added that the new income stream could
enable the district to lower the property tax
levy providing revenue for its ambulance
fund.
Another possibility the district may
explore is merging its general fund and
ambulance fund, Harris said. Monarch’s
general fund and the tax levy for it are much
larger than other funds designated for ambulance
services, pension expenditures and
dispatch services that are provided by the
Central County Emergency 911 call center.

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New-home sales up
despite rise in rates
Kevin Weaks
Americans responded to higher mortgage
rates by snapping up new homes at
the fastest pace since July 2016, reports the
U.S. Commerce Department. New-home
sales rose 6.1 percent month-over-month.
That pace is nearly 13 percent higher than
February of last year, a positive sign for the
housing market that demand is robust at
the start of the spring home-buying season.
Some buyers may look to lock-in their
purchases, concerned that mortgage rates
will rise, possibly hurting affordability.
According to Zillow.com, the rate on
30-year, fixed-rate home loans in St. Louis
this past week hovered around 4 percent. If
the pace of Fed increases accelerates, however,
rising mortgage rates could become
a concern.
On the other hand, they could encourage
potential homebuyers to act sooner than
later, further stimulating the market.
Here’s what’s new in new homes:
Fischer & Frichtel’s support of March
for Babies now in full swing
As Platinum Sponsor of the March of
Dimes’ 2017 March for Babies–St. Louis,
which takes place April 29 in Forest Park,
Fischer & Frichtel carpenters have created
a “Dream Playhouse.”
The playhouse is “on tour” for viewing
in various Fischer communities and will
be raffled off to the public. Tickets may be
purchased online through May 1 at $5 per
ticket or five tickets for $20, with all proceeds
going to the March of Dimes.
The playhouse will be on display in The
Manors of Provence in St. Charles from
April 6-12; in the Reserve at Brook Hill,
also in St. Charles, from April 13-28; and
at the “March for Babies” site in Forest
Park on April 29.
The winning raffle ticket will be drawn
and announced at Fischer & Frichtel’s
corporate headquarters on May 2. For
complete details on the playhouse and
opportunities to donate to the March for
Babies, visit any Fischer & Frichtel neighborhood
or the company website, www.
fandfhomes.com.
Designed with Fischer’s noteworthy
attention to architectural detail, the playhouse
would be a tasteful addition to the
play area of any fashionable home, including
those located in the builder’s upscale
West County communities.
In Wildwood, the Estates at Deer Hollow
nears closeout off of Hwy. 100, just minutes
from Wildwood Town Center. This
lushly wooded community offers minimum
3-acre homesites and the builder’s
Estate Collection, based from $423,900.
Also off of Hwy. 100, Wakefield
Forest is a private oasis of just seven
homesites ranging from three to 12-plus
acres. This wooded haven features seven
Estate designs, starting from $599,900.
Under development just north of Conway
Road, Warwick on White Road is Fischer’s
newest offering in Chesterfield and now
open for sales. Estate plans in this viewpacked
enclave are preview priced from
the mid-$650s.
Prospective buyers are encouraged to
call (314) 570-5113 for an appointment.
Spring is one of the most spectacular
times to see two additional Fischer neighborhoods:
The Manors of Pevely Farms,
adjacent to the Pevely Farm Golf Club
in Eureka, with one-plus-acre homesites
and starting prices from $589,900; and
Village View of St. Albans, low-maintenance,
detached luxury villa homes from
$419,900.
For information on the Dream Playhouse,
raffle tickets and or to see these
exceptional communities, visit www.
fandfhomes.com.
Villas at Renaissance Crossing now open
Bridgewater, St. Louis’ luxury villa
homebuilder, announces the opening of
The Villas at Renaissance Crossing in
Wentzville with an open house on Saturday,
April 1 and pre-construction pricing available
to the first three firm contracts.
This community of 20 homesites offers
Bridgewater’s portfolio of luxury villa
floor plans, featuring elegant stone and
brick elevations. Both free-standing and
attached homesites are available and many
will support a three-car garage option.
Prices start at $219,990 for attached and
$239,990 for free-standing.
From Wentzville Parkway, take West
Pearce Boulevard west approximately
1.3 miles and turn right on Giotto Court.
For questions or more information, contact
Jane Felkel at (636) 299-8444 or janefelkel@bridgewatercommunities.com;
or
visit Bridgewater at www.bridgewatercommunities.com.
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local
Events
BENEFITS
The Breast Trivia Night Ever is at 6
p.m. on Friday, April 7 at Beyond Broadway,
112 Sidney Street in St. Louis. Tables
of eight people are $400 and include open
bar [wine, beer and mixed drinks], full
dinner buffet, eight rounds of trivia, raffle,
silent auction and more. Proceeds benefit
Gateway to Hope – A Breast Cancer
Lifeline. Visit www.gthstl.org/event/4thannual-breast-trivia-night-ever
for more
information or to register.
• • •
The 18th Annual Festival of Foods
silent auction and Food-a-palooza is from
6-7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 10 at Parkway
South High, 801 Hanna Road in Manchester.
Attendees can sample food from
approximately 25 West County restaurants.
Silent auction items include photography,
spas, private tour and adult beverage tastings
and hair products and services. This
event is open to the public. Tickets are $10
in advance or $12 at the door. Advance
tickets can be purchased at Parkway South
High at the book store or by contacting
Julie at tjmocker@gmail.com.
• • •
The Ladies’ Auxiliary Bunch for
Bunco Fundraiser is at 6:15 p.m. on
Friday, April 21 at St. Joseph Parish Center,
567 St. Joseph Lane in Manchester. There
will be wine, soda, tea, lemonade, snacks
and desserts, a silent auction, three winner
prizes and attendance prizes. Cost is $15
per player. For reservations, contact Stephanie
at (314) 540-7100 or jsjc2@hotmail.
com – put BUNCO in subject.
• • •
The 10th Annual Jim Hart Celebrity
Golf Classic is on Sunday, April 23 and
Monday, April 24 at Legends Golf Club,
625 Legends Parkway, Eureka. This twoday
event features a Celebrity Dinner
Party to kick-off the festivities on Sunday
evening. On Monday, the course opens to
players from around the area who will be
joined by celebrities who will be paired up
with each foursome. For details, contact
Amy Moore at (314) 276-5078 or email at
amoore@sunnyhillinc.org.
The Ascension Knights of Columbus
16th Annual Charity Golf Tournament
is at noon on Monday, May 1 at The Landings
at Spirit Golf Club, 180 N. Eatherton
Road in Chesterfield. Fees run $150
per player, $600 per foursome until 4/15,
which includes lunch, golf, on-course
beverages, dinner and silent and live auctions.
To register, mail payment [checks
made out to Knights of Columbus Council
#11139] and foursome names to: Charlie
Wunderlich, 15531 Summer Lake Drive,
Chesterfield, Missouri 63017 or call (636)
623-3646.
• • •
Upscale Resale is from 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
on Friday, May 5 and from 8 a.m.-noon on
Saturday, May 6 at Green Trails Church,
14237 Ladue Road in Chesterfield. There
will be a huge selection of gently used
antiques, household items, women’s
accessories, books, toys, children’s
clothes up to 4T and much more.
• • •
NAMIWalks St. Louis is at 8 a.m. on
Saturday, May 6 at Central Park - Chesterfield
Amphitheatre, 631 Veterans Place
Drive in Chesterfield. Join the movement
to raise awareness of mental illness and
raise funds for NAMI’s mission to help
individuals and families right here in our
region. For details or to register, visit www.
namiwalks.org.
• • •
St. Louis Community College Run
for Rescue is at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday,
May 6 at Living Word Church, 17315
Manchester Road in Wildwood. Run for
Rescue is a 5K Fun Run/Walk benefitting
Stray Rescue, St. Louis [www.strayrescue.
org ]. All participants receive T-shirts and
finisher medals. Entry before Race Day is
$30 and Race Day Entry is $35. St. Louis
Community College students and students
age 18 and under are $20. For details,
email dsweet@stlcc.edu or call (636)
422-2207.
• • •
The St. Clare of Assisi Parish Golf
Tournament is at 11 a.m. on Saturday,
May 20 at Aberdeen Golf Course, Highway
44 and Lewis Road in Eureka. Registration
and luncheon is at 11:30 a.m., with
a shotgun start at 12:45 p.m. Registration
fee includes lunch, golf, cart, prizes, dinner
and more. Everyone is welcome.
EGG HUNTS FOR ALL
An Adult Egg Hunt is at 7:30 p.m. on
Friday, April 7 at Schroeder Park, 359 Old
Meramec Station Road in Ballwin. All participants
must be over the age of 21 and
should bring their own beverages, snacks
and flashlights. All are invited to stay
afterward for a bonfire. Pre-registration is
required and can be done online at www.
ballwin.mo.us.
• • •
Treats Unleashed will host a Pet Egg
Hunt at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday,
April 8 at Ladue Crossing Shopping Center,
8861 Ladue Road in St. Louis. Bunny
ears, Easter finery, fancy Easter bonnets
welcome, but not required. There will be
thousands of Easter eggs, filled with a treat
or prize, ‘hidden’ on the lawn for pets to
find. To register online now, visit treatsunleashed.com.
• • •
The city of Eureka’s annual Youth Easter
Egg Hunt is at 11 a.m. on April 8. Registration
begins at 10 a.m. Separate hunts
will be held for each age group from ages
1 to 10. All hunts will be held at Drewel
Park with parking available at the William
F. Bud Weber Community Center. A
free lunch will be provided to participants,
along with the chance to take pictures with
the Easter Bunny. Admission is free with
the donation of a nonperishable food item
for local charities.
• • •
The Ellisville Department of Parks and
Recreation hosts an Easter Egg Scramble
for children ages 1-9 at 10 a.m. on Saturday,
April 8 at 225 Kiefer Creek Road
in Ellisville. This event is free to attend.
Mr. and Mrs. Bunny will be available for
photos after the scramble, so don’t forget
to bring cameras.
• • •
Equine-Assisted Therapy’s Ninth
Annual Egg Hunt is at 11 a.m. on Saturday,
April 8 at Longview Farm Park, 13525
Clayton Road in Town & Country for kids
ages 2-12. Price is $10/hunter. Participants
must bring their baskets; prizes from
the EAT Country Store. Proceeds benefit
Equine-Assisted Therapy. Visit www.
eatherapy.org.
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Don’t miss meeting the Easter bunny at the
Ballwin Youth Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 15
at 1 p.m..
[City of Ballwin photo]
The city of Eureka’s annual Adult
Easter Egg Hunt is at 7 p.m. on April 8
at the Legion Park Pavilion. Prizes contributed
from local businesses. Admission is
free with the donation of a nonperishable
food item for local charities.
• • •
The Seventh Annual Doggie Easter
Egg Hunt is at noon on Saturday, April
8 at Fox Creek Veterinary Hospital,
18962 Route 100 in Wildwood. All proceeds
go to Open Door Animal Sanctuary.
For details, visit www.facebook.com/
events/1818933391657130/.
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A Flashlight Egg Hunt is from 7-9
p.m. on Tuesday, April 11 at Schroeder
Park, 359 Old Meramec Station Road in
Manchester for ages 10-14. Participants
must bring a flashlight and basket. Dinner,
games and egg hunting are featured. Rain
or shine event. For details, visit www.manchestermo.gov.
• • •
The Get Hopping Egg Hunt is at 10 a.m.
on Saturday, April 15 at Des Peres Park,
12325 Manchester Road in Des Peres. Children
ages 3-6 will be able to participate. Bring
a camera to snap a picture with the Easter
Bunny. This event is presented with the help
of Boy Scout Troop 313 and the sponsorship
of Great Southern Bank. This event is free
and reservations are not required.
• • •
The Ballwin Youth Egg Hunt is at 1 p.m.
on Saturday, April 15 at Vlasis Park, 300
Park Drive for ages 2-7. Bring a camera for
pictures with the Easter Bunny. Admission
is free; reservations not required.
• • •
An Underwater Egg Hunt is at 7:30
p.m. on Saturday, April 15 at The Pointe
at Ballwin Commons, 1 Ballwin Commons
Circle. The event features candy and
other prizes as kids, ages 7-14, hunt for
eggs in the water. Stick around afterward
for a late-night swim. Pre-registration is
required and can be done online at www.
ballwin.mo.us.
• • •
Meet the Easter Bunny now through
Saturday, April 15 in Center Court. Monday-Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and
Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Visiting
the Easter Bunny is always free. For details
about Fast Pass and available photo packages,
visit www.shopwestcountycenter.
com. Since Fido and Fluffy are part of the
family, you can bring them, too, during
Pet Nights, Tuesdays, March 28, April 4
& April 11 in Center Court from 6-9 p.m.
Furry friends [dogs and cats only] attending
Pet Night must be leashed at all times.
Pet photos with the Bunny will only be
taken during scheduled Pet Nights. Please
park in the garage off Ballas Road and use
the mall entrance next to Macy’s.
Living Word Church will celebrate
Easter with services at 9 and 10:30 a.m.
on Sunday, April 16, with an Easter Egg
Hunt at 10:15 a.m. between services for
children [age birth - fifth grade] at 17315
Manchester Road in Wildwood. Sunday
School [for preschoolers-5th grade] and
childcare is available for ages 2 and under
at all worship services. For details, visit
www.livingwordumc.org.
FAMILY & KIDS
Eureka’s annual Arbor Day Celebration
is from 10 a.m.-noon on April 8 in
Drewel Park. Free trees will be distributed
to residents, one per family, in exchange
for a nonperishable food item.
• • •
Tons of Trucks is from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
on Saturday, April 8 at the parking lot of
Target, 15025 Manchester Road in Ballwin.
The parking lot will be filled with trucks
and other vehicles of all shapes and sizes.
There will be a siren-free quiet hour from
1-2 p.m. The event is free and open to the
public. Registration is not required.
• • •
Safety Town Open House is from 6-8
p.m. on Wednesday, April 12 at Chesterfield
City Hall, 690 Chesterfield Parkway
West. Safety Town is a nationally-recognized
preschool safety program, which
teaches 4-, 5- and 6-year-olds about a wide
variety of safety issues. For details, contact
Officer Chadwick Meyer at (636) 537-
3000 or cmeyer@chesterfield.mo.us.
• • •
Stargazing Night at Fussner Field is at
7:45 p.m. on Thursday, April 20 at Fussner
Field, 910 Hazel Falls Drive in Manchester.
Volunteers of the St. Louis Astronomical
Society [SLAS] will be there. This program
is free and children are welcome but
must be accompanied by adults. Restrooms
are not available at this location. Register
at www.activityreg.com.
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Pastors Don Everts, Chris Macky,
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636-532-3486
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8:30 a.m. - Traditional Service
9:45 a.m. Spiritual Formation Classes for all ages
11:00 a.m.
Traditional & Contemporary Services
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Green Trails Church
United Methodist
314-469-6740
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Sunday School 9 am
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Local families open their homes and hearts to adoption
By DEANNE LEBLANC
In America, there are more than 135,000
children adopted every year. This number
includes children adopted from foster care,
domestic agencies, domestic private agencies
and internationally.
In Missouri, an estimated 11,000 children
need to find forever homes. Within the
foster care system, adoption rates are climbing.
There are more than 550,000 children
and youth in foster care in the United States.
While it is not always the goal for the child to
be adopted while in foster care, many foster
children do need permanent homes. Out of
the 550,000 children currently in foster care,
about 230,000 need to be adopted.
The Mitchell Family
“We have always felt called to adopt and
started the process to adopt from China in
2008, but that turned out to not be a great
fit for us due to cost and the waiting period,”
Amanda Mitchell said.
After watching ‘A Place to Call Home,’
a news segment on foster care focused
around two brothers, the Mitchell family
was moved to action. Amanda said as she
was watching the show, she was thinking
to herself that it was something her family
should do. Then her son Jaxon said, “Mom,
they could come live with us.”
Last year, the family officially adopted
Nastassia, who was the first child the Mitchell’s
fostered. They are currently fostering
another teenage girl, as well.
“I was surprised by how ‘good’ the foster
kids we’ve come into contact with have
been. Books, movies and TV tend to portray
them as ‘bad apples’ with tons of issues.
While there are definitely tough times to
work through, it’s more about the emotions
rather than things like drinking, drugs and
fighting. I was also surprised at how quickly
the connection was made between us all.
We love Nastassia like she’s our biological
The Mitchell Family [from left]: Lucas, 13, Adam, Amanda and
Nastassia, 17, and Jaxon, 11.
daughter,” Mitchell said.
The feeling is obviously mutual. Nastassia’s
eyes lit up as she talked about what it is
like to finally have a family.
“Being with parents that treat you like their
own, like they birthed you … it’s crazy and
it’s amazing. We have so much in common
and we adapted to each other very fast,” she
said. “This is the most support I’ve had in
my entire life. Sometimes I don’t express
my excitement because I’m not used to
being able to. I usually keep everything in,
but I’m with a family who is actually going
to listen and talk to me. It’s something I’m
still getting used to.”
Even things that most parents don’t think
twice about, like checking in and making
sure their child is doing homework, caused
a little friction because Nastassia was not
prepared for the change.
“It’s what we do,” Amanda said with a
smile. But Nastassia said, “I’m used to
going home, doing my homework and no
one caring if I did it or not. Having someone
checking on me was something I had
to adjust to.”
Making constant adjustments is an integral
part of the foster care and adoptive
process, as the Mitchell family is learning.
Each day can bring another opportunity for
a teachable moment and not always for the
children.
“I am much more patient with all the kids
now that Nastassia is part of our family. I’m
very aware of the words I say and how they
will be interpreted. I look for the underlying
cause behind the outburst. I’m willing
to let go of the small things that aren’t so
important but used to feel like a big deal,”
Amanda said.
All of the parental love and mutual respect
is being returned in big ways.
“This is the second time I’ve ever called
anyone mom and dad. It would be weird to
call anyone else that,” Nastassia said. “I was
taken out of my home when I was 3 and the
lady that adopted us was
the only person I’ve ever
called ‘mom’ before. It
doesn’t feel weird. This
feels normal.”
The Mitchells have one
suggestion for anyone
thinking about fostering.
“I would highly encourage
anyone who is even
slightly interested in
becoming a foster parent
or adopting from foster
care to take the free
classes that St. Charles
County offers. The county
wants you to be successful.
The Loudon Family [from left]: Samuel, 12, Lily, 18, Bo, 12, Gina, John, Lydia, 21, and Jack, 15.
They will bend over backwards to help you
when you need it,” Amanda said. “There are
numerous resources available. We made a
supportive network of friends in the foster
class. We rely on them and they are invaluable
to us as people that truly understand the
struggles and triumphs we have.”
The Loudon Family
John Loudon, a former resident of Chesterfield
and state senator from 2000-2008,
devoted much of his time in the senate
rewriting Missouri’s adoption laws, including
the liberalization of the Missouri version
of the federal Special Needs Adoption
Tax Credit.
Through the credit, adoptive families of
special needs children, including orphans,
either domestic or foreign, were offered
$10,000 in federal tax credits. Missouri
is the only state that allows an additional
$10,000 in tax credits; however, in 2013 the
senate ruled to allow the credit for in-state
adoptions only.
The tax credit is intended to help cover
adoption costs, like home visits and legal
fees, and is limited to $10,000 per child.
However, many adoptive families argue
that this credit does not get paid until years
later and some families do not qualify if they
make over a certain income level.
Loudon and his wife, Gina, know the surprises
and blessings that come with adoption,
not only from a political aspect but from a
personal one. Going through the adoption
of his own son highlighted issues that John
became more vocal about politically.
“I was always passionate about adoption
as a beautiful thing and had pushed to liberalize
the tax credit. As we started our own
adoption process and realized how families
had to lay out $20,000 or more and wait
years to get fully reimbursed, I certainly felt
the frustration more acutely. As a lawmaker
who is an adoptive parent, me pushing for
the legislative change was harder to deny
by those who had opposed me. Politicians
can be human. Who knew?” John joked.
After traveling around the world to adopt,
even looking into a Russian adoption [a
practice that Russia has now banned], the
Loudens felt called to adopt a baby with
Down’s syndrome. More than 90 percent of
babies with Down’s syndrome are aborted.
They adopted their son, Sammy, in 2005.
“We explored international adoption and
ultimately found our Sammy in Florida.
It was surprising to have to travel halfway
across the country, but it was worth
it,” John said. “It seems crazy that [adoption]
can be so expensive. But it is also
sad that there is so little awareness of the
creative funding available for couples willing
to adopt a child. Missouri remains, to
my knowledge, the only state that matches
the $10,000 federal Special Needs Adoption
Tax Credit with another $10,000 credit.
Most people think of special needs as being
limited to developmental or physical disability,
but that is not the case.”
John shared how adoption has changed
his family for the better. “It has thoroughly
enriched our lives. We wanted the birth
mother to have a ‘happy-ending, birth
mother story’ to share with others in hopes
more mothers would choose life. We are
great friends now and even vacation together.
Seeing this immigrant mother build a successful
new life and rejoice that her child
has a full life with four doting siblings to
spoil him is immensely rewarding,” he said.
The Read Family
After a long year of waiting, the Read
family brought their son and brother home
this February. Kim Read shared some of
the frustrations with the preliminary procedures.
“The amount of paperwork that international
adoption requires is staggering. It is
very personal and the home study portion
requires knowing your entire physical and
mental health background, family history,
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were raised. When we started this process,
we thought we would be able to go faster
than the 10- to 12-month average, but it just
wasn’t possible,” she said.
However, Kim said the path to finding
their son has been full of beautiful moments
and is the very reason why they adopted
internationally.
After hearing the story of a friend who
adopted from China, they learned startling
facts that changed the direction of their
future.
“Children who are institutionalized in
China are often neglected and malnourished,
but when given the opportunity of family and
a loving home, they thrive. We learned that
the infant rooms in the Chinese orphanages
are silent because the babies have learned
that no one comes if they cry. Also, any
physical or mental difference, no matter how
minor or correctable, is not culturally acceptable
and may cause an infant or toddler to be
abandoned,” Kim said.
She said she believes that the state taking
away the tax credit for international adoption
compounds these problems.
“There is a global orphan crisis,” Kim said.
“The initial cost of adoption is so high, it
can prevent caring families from providing
a loving home to an orphan. International
adoptions can cost $30,000 to $40,000, an
amount that is needed sometimes over a 12-
to 18-month period of time. Any tax credit
helps make adoption a reality for more
families, which helps more orphans.”
The pivotal moment for the Read family
came after reading about a specific boy in
the same orphanage as their friend’s son. He
was described as kind, gentle and helpful.
“Rob and I fell in love with him from his
description and felt strongly that a boy who
could show such kindness and concern for
others, while being in the most desperate of
situations, had to be our son,” Kim said.
The family has been back from China for
less than a month, but Kim said they already
love their son more than they can express.
They are currently teaching him English and
his siblings are helping him learn the language
and adjust to his new home.
The Harlow Family
After struggling to get pregnant for six
years, Diane and Terry felt a pull toward
international adoption, following the adoption
of a child from China by a family
member. But two months into the process,
they found out they were pregnant.
“As my pregnancy progressed, my heart
was often drawn back to the little one in
China that I had dreamed would be part of
our family. After our precious son, Trenton,
was born, the discussion once again
returned to adoption. In August 2005, we
chose to start our adoption. Seven months
later, we were on a plane to China, eagerly
anticipating the day we would
hold our daughter, Tessa, in our
arms,” Diane said.
Diane and Terry adopted
Tessa from Nanning, China, in
2006 and went back in 2009 and
adopted Tiana from Kunming,
China, but their family was not
complete.
Years later, they heard about a
boy in the same orphanage where
they had adopted Tessa and his
story made them begin the adoption
process again. Not long after
hearing his story, they also heard
about a little girl in Maoming,
China, – a child that the orphanage
thought would be perfect for
the Harlow family. The Harlows
went to China in 2016 and brought
Truett and Taryn home together.
“The most surprising part of our adoptions
has been how quickly we could give our
hearts to each child,” Diane said. “Within
moments of our first meeting, we were completely
smitten with these amazing children.
I was their mamma and I would forever be
changed because they were a part of my life.”
But Diane also is careful to point out the
reality of adoption.
“Parents need to remember that adoption
is hard. These children are coming from a
place of significant trauma,” she said. “The
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The Harlow Family [from left, front row]: Truett 3, Taryn
2, Diane, Tiana 7, and Terry; [back row] Tessa 12, Trenton
12, and Tanner 18. [Not pictured is daughter Taylor Harlow
Gilliam, 23.]
moment they are handed to you can be very
difficult for the children. Many people try to
glamorize the ‘gotcha day’ but it is a time of
extreme loss for these children.”
In the middle of that grief are parents who
are full of love and selflessness who want
the best for all of the kids.
“I won’t say I am a better mom [because
of adoption], but I have found that I don’t
sweat the small stuff as much as I did before.
With seven children, you learn to laugh a lot
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• • •
Des Peres Cinema Series: Outdoor
Movie at the Lodge is from 7-9:30 p.m. on
Friday, April 21 at the outdoor pool parking
lot, 1050 Des Peres Road. Enjoy a family
movie. Bring food and drinks or buy concessions
at the event [no glass]. Popcorn,
candy and bottled/canned drinks will be
available for purchase; cash only. Tickets
can be purchased at The Lodge Front Desk.
For details, visit www.desperesmo.org.
• • •
A Movie in the Park is from 7:30-9
p.m. on Saturday, April 22 at Vlasis Park,
300 Park Drive in Ballwin. Families can
bring blankets, snacks and start the baseball
season with “Field of Dreams.” Light
concessions will be available to purchase
[cash only]. Admission is free, no registration
required.
• • •
Town & Country Crossing is celebrating
Earth Day by hosting its annual catch and
release Fishing Derby from 9:30-10:30
a.m. on Saturday, April 22 at Hwy. 141
and Woods Mill Road. Children ages 4-15
years can participate in the Fishing Derby
by pre-registering at (636) 220- 7827. All
participants must bring their own poles and
bait. Prizes will be awarded for smallest
fish, largest fish, first fish and more.
• • •
A Family Campout is at 4:30 p.m. on
Saturday, April 29 at Ferris Park, 500 New
Ballwin Road in Ballwin. Families can
play games, roast marshmallows and more.
Fee is per person and includes a hot dog
dinner, s’mores and a light breakfast. Children
ages 2 and under are free. For details
or to register, visit www.ballwin.mo.us.
LIVE PERFORMANCES
The Gospel of Mark Comes Alive at
6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 11 at St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church of Des Peres, 12345
Manchester Road. For details, visit Concordia
Seminary’s website at www.csl.edu/
thegospelofmark.
• • •
Balaban’s will partner with Opera Theatre
St. Louis in their Tastings program at
7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18 at Balaban’s
larger part room, 1772 Clarkson Road in
Chesterfield. Designed as an introduction
to opera with a unique culinary twist, Tickets
cost $20 per person on the OTSL website,
www.opera-stl.org.
SIXTY-PLUS
Lunch and Bingo is from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
on Wednesdays, April 5 and 19, and May 3
at The Pointe at Ballwin Commons, 1 Ballwin
Commons Circle. The event features
lunch, fun, Bingo and prizes. The group
will play six rounds of Bingo followed by
lunch and dessert and then play six more.
For more information or to register, visit
www.ballwin.mo.us.
• • •
Lafayette Older Adults will meet on the
second and fourth Mondays of the month
through May 8 at Ballwin Golf Course, 333
Holloway Road in Ballwin. Adults ages 55
and older can gather to make new friends,
hear great speakers, go on exciting day
drips or play bingo. Coffee, tea, soda and
desserts are all provided. The only requirements
are a sack lunch and $2 to pay at
each meeting.
• • •
The Fourth Annual Senior Sampler is
from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Friday, April 7 at
the West County Family YMCA, 16464
Burkhardt Place in Chesterfield. Participants
will have opportunities to receive
free health-related screenings and services.
Park at Central Park [Lydia Hill Drive and
Veterans Place Drive] for shuttle service.
This event is free to the public and does not
require registration. For a complete list of
vendors, visit www.chesterfield.mo.us and
search “Senior Sampler.” For details about
the event, call (636) 537-4000.
• • •
Caregivers Support Group will meet
from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Thursday, April
13 at The Pointe at Ballwin Commons, 1
Ballwin Commons Circle. The group is not
a psychotherapy group but provides a caring
and safe environment to share experiences
and to interact with other caregivers. The
meeting is open to the public. For details,
email caregiversgroup@outlook.com.
SPECIAL INTEREST
PRYMAL Lifestyle Fitness Program
is from 9-10 a.m. on Saturdays beginning
April 8 at Bluebird Park, 225 Kiefer Creek
Road in Ellisville. PRYMAL is a full-body
workout designed to build muscle and burn
fat in the quickest way possible. The cost is
$150 for an eight-week session. For details,
visit www.ellisville.mo.us.
• • •
A vocational fair is on Saturday, April 8
at the St. Louis County Library Headquarters,
1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd. in St. Louis.
Meet representatives from area trade
schools, academies, community colleges
and unions. Attendees enter for a chance
to win a $50 Visa gift card. Registration
required. For details, visit www.slcl.org.
• • •
The Ballwin’s Annual Mountain Bike
Race will take place at 9 a.m. on Sunday,
April 9 in Castlewood State Park, 1401
Kiefer Creek Road in Ballwin. The course
is divided into categories based on experi-
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the time and ‘young work power,’ as we
interpret it,” he said.
Although WKO has a small presence in
St. Louis, the goal of BKWK is to raise
awareness through local fundraisers.
“Because [Ellington] is so remote, it’s
about two hours south of St. Louis, they
really don’t have a clear, visible representation
up here,” O’Brien said. “So it’s hard
to raise awareness with people who don’t
know about it originally.”
The Big Kids for Whole Kids group puts
on its own fundraising events, separate
from, but still benefiting, WKO. A toy drive
that brought in over 300 toys for the WKO
Christmas store was followed in February
with a Mardi Gras party at Urban Chestnut
Brewing Company. That event raised about
$2,500 for Whole Kids Outreach.
“I had a bunch of friends that I invited
to the Mardi Gras party, and they said they
had been trying to find a way to get more
involved, and asked me to let them know
what they could do next,” O’Brien said.
“They said they’d donate 20 or 30 bucks for
a beer or wine tasting. It’s just something
our generation does.”
The organization is aimed at adults in
their 20s to 30s.
The organization’s next event will be the
First Annual Whole Kids Outreach Crawfish
Boil on April 22 at the St. Louis Wine
Market, located in Chesterfield Valley.
That event will feature food, live music, a
silent auction and a wine and beer tasting.
The cost is $30 per person and attendees
are encouraged to register online for the
event in order to provide an accurate head
count. All proceeds from the event will go
toward Whole Kids Outreach.
“I think a lot of us were raised to want to
give back, and from grade school to high
school, there’s a lot of volunteering that we
end up doing,” O’Brien said. “Once you
graduate high school or college, you’re
kind of left in this lull where you’re trying
to get your life and career started, but you
want to be involved and find a community.
That’s why Big Kids for Whole Kids is
such a fun group.”
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By SUZANNE CORBETT
Striking a successful balance makes
a winning menu. Just ask Bishop’s Post
General Manager Dan Kaveney, whose
executive chef has combined homestyle
classics with contemporary flavors, creating
innovative dishes with a touch of
old-school style.
“We’ve always had traditional dishes
like our shrimp and grits as well as
newer, eclectic seasonal specialties such
as our Roasted Bone Out Chicken with
bordelaise and chimichurri sauce,” said
Kaveney. “Our menu is divided into two
separate categories; Bishop’s Classics
and Seafood and Seasonal specials.”
Bishop’s Classics feature those timehonored
recipes like Fried Chicken – the
recipes grandma cooked back in the day,
but with a spin. Consider the twist given
to the slow Roasted Meatloaf, a mixture of
beef, veal and bacon, that’s finished with
a wild mushroom ragu and plated as a full
Bishop’s Post
meal with smashed potatoes and a vegetable.
“We also make all our own soups and
our salads are amazing,” said Kaveney.
“We have lots of different salad options,
such as the Crab Cake Salad that takes
two lump meat crab cakes, tops them with
tomatoes, greens and a lemon aioli.”
Don’t be surprised if you catch the scent
of wood smoke while dining. It’s a sign the
smoker is filled with Bishop’s Post’s signature
smoked specialties – St. Louis Style
Ribs, Bacon Wrapped Shrimp and the
menu stand out, Smoked Missouri Trout.
More tempting surprises are found off the
menu. Look for the chef’s daily features,
such as Friday’s Fresh Catch or Saturday
night’s Prime Rib served with real Yorkshire
Pudding – a savory popover that’s a
retro culinary treat seldom seen on menus.
The new spring menu is about to rollout,
bringing more attention to the Seafood
and Seasonal section with the addition of
fresh oysters and steamed mussels. Don’t
overlook Bishop’s Post’s most popular
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Easter Sunday Brunch: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
plates – seared Jumbo Sea Scallops and its
Prime Handcut Filet, a generous 8-ounce
cut of tenderloin draped with cognac peppercorn
sauce.
As the weather warms, expect the return
of Bishop’s Post’s signature Carprese
Salad, featuring heirloom tomatoes and
homegrown herbs harvested straight from
the chef’s garden located just down the
hill from the kitchen. The chef takes special
care to make sure everything from the
garden is picked at optimum flavor. That
same TLC and quality control is given to
every menu item. Every plate that leaves
the kitchen gets the chef’s blessing.
In addition to fresh greens from the
garden, spring’s arrival signals the opening
of Bishop’s Post’s patio.
“People know us for our patio,” said
Kaveney noting how the patio has been
nominated by St. Louis Magazine as a
“best patio.”
Far from the usual run-of-the-mill sidewalk
patio, Bishop’s Post’s patio is more
an oasis, lushly landscaped
with a waterfall. Design
elements that have made it
one of the most sought after
restaurant patios on which
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cocktails, such as the Orange Cosmo, to
an extensive wine list.
“We have a 200 bottle wine selection
[and the bottles] are very affordably
priced,” said Kaveney. “We also have a
good selection of wine by glass.”
On or off the patio and beyond the regular
menu, it’s recommended to keep connected
to Bishop’s Post via social media
for the latest news on special events, such
as themed dinners, featured entertainment
and holiday buffets.
Later this month, is Bishop’s Post’s lavishly
planned Easter buffet, which, not
unlike the entire Bishop’s Post menu, will
have what you’re craving – an amazing
diversity of choices traditionally inspired
for contemporary tastes.
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Call Ann/Kelly 636.527.2227
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and Visa.
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ERIC'S ELECTRIC
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Licensed, Bonded and Insured:
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Finish Basement •
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Room Additions
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APR 20
• Decks • Painting • Tile
periods. High School Diploma
all. Emergency calls & back-up
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or equivalent, basic math and
generators. No job too small.
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JUN 08
Excavating/Underground
JUN 08
For any and all home repairs JUN 15
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AUG 17
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I-70 study to provide vision for 40-mile corridor
By BRIAN FLINCHPAUGH
Its unveiling was modest – a few people
along with local public transportation
officials gathered in the Normandy City
Hall on March 30, viewing charts and
maps on which a few posted sticky notes
with written comments.
But this quiet first public
meeting on the restart of the
Interstate 70 corridor belies
its significance. Over the
next year, St. Charles and
St. Louis county municipal
and county government
officials and the area’s three
major transportation agencies
will be developing what some say
is a vision for the future of one of the
area’s major transportation routes.
The Envision I-70 Planning and Environmental
Linkages Study is expected to
look at a variety of transportation, economic,
environmental and safety issues
along a 40-mile long, half-mile wide corridor.
The corridor extends from Wentzville
to downtown St. Louis.
‘We want to get a vision for the whole
corridor and have a plan so when municipalities
want to do something, businesses
want to come in and do something – an
intersection or section of highway – we
have a plan for the entire corridor,” said
Laura Ellen, a Missouri Department of
Transportation [MoDOT] planner helping
to coordinate the study.
For a while, the study looked dead. The
study was shut down in 2014 because
MoDOT lacked of funding.
MoDOT and the East-West
Gateway Council of Governments
came up with
$1.5 million to resurrect
the study in last December.
St. Charles County
Executive Steve Ehlmann
and other area officials
pushed hard for its resurrection.
Ellen said the result, at the end of
this year, will include recommendations
for breaking the corridor into sections.
“That’s one of the key outcomes of the
study,” Ellen said, “to know what sections
we can build so we can start developing
further projects as the funding becomes
available.”
Ehlmann and others have said the study
is critical because the Trump administration
has signaled that additional federal
money may be available for infrastructure
projects that are “shovel ready.”
EVENTS, from page 62
ence. For details and to register, visit www.
ballwin.mo.us.
• • •
The Garden Society of Wildwood will
meet at 10 a.m. on Monday, April 10 at The
Shack restaurant, 14810 Clayton Road in
Chesterfield. Betty Struckhoff, a Missouri
Botanical Gardens master gardener and a
member of “The Wild Ones,” will speak on
recognizing native plants and adding them
to a landscape. For details, contact Fran
Komar at fkomar@wildblue.net.
• • •
A Vintage Baseball Game and Jersey
Exhibit will be displayed from 10 a.m.-3
p.m. on Saturday, April 22 at the Tappmeyer
Homestead in Millennium Park, 2
Barnes West Drive in Creve Coeur. The
collection features mascots and artwork
inspired by animals of land and sea. Beginning
at 11 a.m., two local vintage baseball
teams will play using 1870s rules. The
exhibit is available by appointment April
17-21 by contacting TappemeyerHomestead@gmail.com.
• • •
The Parkway Alumni Association’s
All-District Networking Event is from
6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 19 at Total
Wine & More, 1781 Clarkson Road in
Chesterfield. Total Wine will host a free
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tasting at 6 p.m. Soda and water will be
provided. This event is for all Parkway
alumni. RSVP at bit.ly/aprilnetworking.
• • •
The Arch Rival Roller Derby, a women’s
flat-track roller derby league, has its
next event at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April
22 at Midwest Sport Hockey at Queeny
Park. The women are ranked eighth internationally
by the Women’s Flat Track
Derby Association. Learn more at archrivalrollerderby.com.
• • •
A Writing Workshop for non-fiction/
self-help books is from noon-4 p.m. on
Friday, April 28 at Walnut Grill, 1386
Clarkson Clayton Center in Ellisville.
The workshop will include brainstorming,
group feedback and time to begin writing.
Participants need to bring three nonfiction
books, laptops and notebooks. For
tickets or details, visit www.eventbrite.
com.
• • •
The Ballwin Police Department will host
a shred event from 9-11 a.m. on Saturday,
April 29 on the east lot of the Ballwin
Target Store, 15025 Manchester Road.
Bring sensitive documents to be shredded
on-site. There is one shredding truck for
this event, so it will be first-come, firstserved.
Shredded material is limited to four
average size containers.
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Contact number: 636-675-7356
PIANO & KEYBOARD LESSONS
with improvising from a fake
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Call 636-821-3099.
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No job too small. Free estimates.
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Senior citizen discount. 24 hours.
Call 314-808-4611
• ANYTHING IN PLUMBING •
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violations repaired. Fast Service.
Certified, licensed plumber - not
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Complete Tree Service
Tree & Brush Removal • Pruning • Dead-Wooding
Deep Root Fertilization • Stump Grinding • Cabling
Storm Clean-Up • Plant Healthcare
Cary Semsar - ISA Board
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DORSEY TREE SERVICE
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stumps removed. Bucket truck
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In business for 30 years.
Call 314-355-5115
TREE SERVICES
GET 'ER DONE TREE SERVICE
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pruning and stump
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WINDOW CLEANING
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