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issue in dispute. One party might feel as if they 

are unable to meet their reasonable needs without 

spousal support. They might claim the other 

spouse has the ability to help them. 

In 2017 the House Tax Bill proposed the removal 

of the alimony tax deduction. In contrast, 

the Tax Bill that was pending in the Senate still 

included the alimony tax deduction. 

However, the bill that ultimately made its 

way to the desk of President Trump was in line 

with the House Bill and eliminated the alimony 

tax deduction. This bill was signed into law by 

President Trump. 

Under the terms of bill, the alimony tax deduction 

will cease to exist for alimony (or spousal 

support or maintenance) awards entered after 

the end of 2018. The net effect is that there is a 

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laws and formulas in light of this new tax 

bill. It might be that many will not end up making 

any changes. 

Regardless, the impact on how divorce cases 

are litigated could be significant. Under this 

new tax law, payors of alimony/spousal maintenance 

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This will, in the eyes of same, result in a 

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Some think as well that family and divorce 

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scott rasmussen 

No charge for our 

first meeting! 

The president presses his 

advantage on immigration 

Last week, I noted that President Trump 

won the shutdown because he instinctively 

understood the strategic situation far better 

than Senate Democrats, establishment 

Republicans and his other beltway critics. 

He knew he had a stronger position than 

the Democrats and used that understanding 

to his advantage. 

Last week, in his state-of-the-union 

address, the president showed that he 

intends to press that advantage in ways 

that will help Republicans on Election Day. 

That was especially clear in his most memorable 

line, “Americans are dreamers, too.” 

“Many Americans find 

it inconceivable that we 

don’t have better border 

security to protect our 

nation against terrorists 

and criminals.” 

In just four words, a president not known 

for his eloquence turned years of Democratic 

branding and messaging against 

them. Trump brazenly and succinctly redefined 

the public imagery surrounding the 

term “dreamers” in a way that infuriated 

the political left. Topher Spiro of the liberal 

Center for American Progress, called 

it “intentionally divisive.” CNN reported 

that others thought the line “marginalized 

immigrants.” 

A more accurate description is that the 

president has effectively marginalized progressives 

in the immigration debate. 

He did so in a couple of ways. First, 

as Newt Gingrich noted, the president’s 

phrase “shifted the focus from a small 

group to the entire nation.” Politically, 

that’s a very astute move. 

Second, and more importantly, the president 

tapped into the nation’s deeply held 

belief in America as the land of opportunity. 

We see ourselves as a country where 

people are free to pursue their own dreams 

and make their own life choices. Most 

believe that Americans have the opportunity 

to work hard and create a better life for 

their children and grandchildren. 

We know it’s not perfect, but we want to 

make it better by creating more opportunities 

for everyone. 

In fact, it is this deeply held belief that 

makes us sympathetic toward those who 

were brought here illegally by their parents. 

We understand why parents would want 

to give their children the chance to live 

the American Dream and grow up in the 

land of opportunity. Many of us, myself 

included, are proud of the fact that so 

This busy Chesterfield executive wanted to give her dining room a 

facelift. All new but more casual furnishings were desired for 

entertaining. A distressed table with a wrought iron base was the first 

choice. Complimentary wood and iron are featured in the new light 

fixture, with glass shades that resemble candles. Upholstered chairs 

were chosen for comfort, with slipcovered host chairs to bring in her 

favorite color. A new area rug added more color, pattern and texture. 

On the matching buffet, candlestick lamps flank a golden starburst 

mirror and new shutters are softened by embroidered custom 

draperies, tied back with generous tassels. The client found a multimedia 

painting many that finished millions the of room people perfectly. from With all around the holidays 

approaching, this room is ready for long, lingering dinners with friends 

and family. the world think our country is the place to 

pursue their dreams. 

But for that to work, we need to insure 

that our nation truly is a land of opportunity 

for all. 

Seen in this context, the issue is not a 

technical question of how to address the 

legal status of the so-called “dreamers.” 

The real question is how can we insure that 

the American Dream is alive and well for 

all? 

For that question, border security must 

be part of the answer. Many Americans 

find it inconceivable that we don’t have 

better border security to protect our nation 

against terrorists and criminals. They can’t 

understand a political class that refuses 

to acknowledge the importance of such a 

basic value. 

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Founder and president of Rasmussen 

Reports, Scott Rasmussen is a political 

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author, public speaker and independent 

public opinion pollster. He is a frequent 

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other major media outlets. Rasmussen 

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of seven and considers the opportunity to 

emcee the 50th birthday of his childhood 

idol, hockey legend Gordie Howe, the 

most outstanding highlight of his career. 

He and his father founded the cable 

sports network ESPN, an entrepreneurial 

adventure that has been recounted in 

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

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To our Readers: 

Prior to each election, West Newsmagazine 

puts a moratorium on letters to the 

editor that relate to those election topics 

and candidates. We do so to ensure fairness 

to both sides of every issue. 

Our publication schedule is such that a 

letter submitted two issues prior to the election 

may not allow for rebuttal. Therefore, 

we will accept new election-related letters 

only until Wednesday, Feb. 28 [for the March 

7 issue]; rebuttals to those letters only will be 

accepted through Wednesday, March 14 [for 

publication in the March 21 issue]. 

Additionally, due to an increase in the 

number of letters received, we request that 

letters be kept within a 300-word maximum. 

Thank you for your understanding. 

Kate Uptergrove, editor 

For goodness sake 

To the Editor: 

If you are looking for heartwarming stories, 

I just got an email that might qualify. 

A handful of people, who were in college 

together more years ago than I care to think 

about, have kept in touch through the years. 

We do so now by group emails. One of us 

ended up living in Scotland and just sent 

this to the rest of us: 

“A note of Christmas cheer from thrifty 

Scotland – My wife noticed in the week 

after Christmas that our largest grocery 

store, Morrisons, had very nice, sliced 

turkey breast on sale. Marked down from 

$3 per pound or so to 12 cents per pound. 

Each package was carefully wrapped and 

sufficient for two people. She asked the 

clerk why such high quality turkey was 

almost free. ‘We have a lot of elderly 

customers, ma’am. It’s Christmas.’ All 

day-old bread in Scottish groceries also is 

given to charity. The world is sometimes 

better than we think.” 

Dick Lodge 

Response to ‘Looking forward in 

Wildwood’ 

To the Editor: 

Regarding “Looking forward in Wildwood” 

[West Newsmagazine, Jan. 24], I’m not sure 

what meetings Mr. Feuerstein attended in 

2017, but the Wildwood City Council was 

filled with needless drama, overspending and 

dysfunction. Just a quick review, yields: 

• Three months of wasted time spent on 

a special investigation due to a councilmember 

getting angry with residents about 

video taping a meeting. Not inclusive. 

• Councilmembers told residents they had 

plenty of volunteers but the city appointed 

the same Ward 8 resident to consecutive 

volunteer openings. Not inclusive. 

• The 10-year charter review changed 

the charter, without a vote of the people, 

to allow Mr. Feuerstein and our mayor 

the opportunity to add more money, some 

legal pitfalls and a consolidation of power 

to the electoral process in Wildwood. Not 

inclusive. FYI, it used to be against the 

rules for our mayor to publicly play favorites 

in elections. 

• $5,000 spent on a drainage ditch study, 

only to find out that it’s a worthless drainage 

ditch. One councilmember called that 

amount “peanuts.” 

• Velodroma – that’s an un-punny word 

for the city official’s backroom land deal to 

build a bicycle race track that 80 percent of 

the residents did not want. 

• The year ended with arguments, exaggerations, 

threats and insults over a zip 

line at Hidden Valley. That was a mess no 

matter what side you were on. 

There is an interesting choice of words 

progressives in Wildwood like to use when 

describing economic development. They use 

the phrase “economic development activity” 

as if “activity” is the goal. They don’t use 

words like “results,” “outcomes” or “growth.” 

I can tell you what will bring growth and 

results – vibrancy. We need a vibrant community 

with dozens and dozens of events 

and activities for families in order to draw 

Wildwood residents out of their homes and 

into the Town Center. We need a venue. 

We need a Village Green. 

The city is putting the cart in front of the 

horse. The progressives in Wildwood think 

meetings, brochures, fancy certifications 

and holding workshops will attract new 

businesses. Then, our residents will automatically 

flock to the new businesses our 

city officials picked for us. That is backwards. 

When our residents are connected, 

businesses will want to be a part of our 

community and we will be glad to support 

them. We will get results and growth that 

are sustainable and responsible. We won’t 

get caught reaching for ideas that residents 

don’t support. 

The progressives in Wildwood are claiming 

I want “empty storefronts” because I 

prefer investments in economic infrastructure 

versus economic development sales 

pitches. The free market will fill the storefronts, 

we just need to give the residents a 

reason to come to the market. We aren’t just 

competing with neighboring communities. 

In the information age, we are competing 

with the global economy online. Venues 

and vibrancy will get you off your screens. 

We have a lot of choices this April for 

Wildwood City Council because a lot of 

people recognize the problems at city hall 

and they want to step up and right the ship. 

[Editor’s note: letter writer is a candidate 

for the open Ward 8 council seat.] 

Niles Stephens 

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EDITORIAL 

Random Thoughts 

With a tip of our cap to longtime contributor 

Thomas Sowell, we offer the following 

random thoughts on the passing scene: 

President Trump claimed that his first 

State of the Union was the most watched 

in history. CNN’s Jake Tapper points to 

Deadline.com numbers that show it was 

the least watched in the last quarter century. 

One thing they both agree on? It 

easily more than doubled the number of 

viewers who tuned in for the Grammys. 

In other media news, Emmis Communications 

sold off all of its local radio 

properties last week. While the impact of 

the sale on the individual stations is not yet 

clear, people are understandably nervous. 

Emmis has been a fine steward of iconic 

St. Louis rock brand KSHE-95 for the last 

30-plus years. We hope the new owners 

respect that legacy and understand that 

their acquisition was built on the shoulders 

of giants. We wish everyone at the stations 

well going forward. 

The Nextdoor app is a fascinating view 

into modern living. In theory, it helps connect 

you to human beings in your direct 

vicinity. In practice, it is another way of 

digitizing humanity and making our neighbors 

feel further away than ever. 

This is being written just as the muchcontested 

House Intelligence Committee 

memo is being released. Our initial reaction? 

The contents do not rise to the level 

of the hype, but that would have been a 

nearly impossible hurdle to clear. That 

said, it should be incredibly difficult for 

the government of this country to spy on 

its own citizens. This memo certainly suggests 

that it is far easier than it should be, 

and that fact threatens to undermine our 

democracy. Attacking the rule of law in 

this country does the same thing. 

Is it baseball season yet? 

Most of the news surrounding tech giant 

Apple recently has leaned toward the negative. 

Despite that, it was able to squeeze 

out a quarterly profit of more than $20 

billion, the highest in company history. 

We think rumors of its demise may have 

been greatly exaggerated. Google also 

just recorded its 32nd consecutive quarter 

of more than 20 percent revenue growth. 

That is staggering. Google accounts for 90 

percent of all web searches. This internet 

thing might be for real. 

Last week, St. Louis County Councilmember 

Mark Harder [R-District 7] sat 

down with the “Politically Speaking” 

podcast team and acknowledged some 

“personality issues” within county government. 

Ya think? On Jan. 31, County Council 

Chairman Sam Page released a letter 

accusing County Executive Steve Stenger 

of “targeting members of the County 

Council with petty and baseless threats.” 

Stenger, later, dismissed the accusations as 

“election-year ankle-biting.” 

In West County, election-year anklebiting 

is turning Wildwood ugly. The latest 

evidence of this comes in the form of an 

audit. On Jan. 25, we reported online that 

Councilmember Glen DeHart [Ward 1] 

had called for, and the council approved, 

an audit of the 2011-2016 Founders Day 

[Celebrate Wildwood] events. Comments 

on our Facebook page were swift and 

pointed – as in pointing fingers at one 

side of Wildwood’s fractured city government. 

Reader Karen Kozlowski Sheeley 

commented, “This is nothing more than 

a political attack made on the part of the 

incumbents to distract you from the new 

class of candidates which have stepped 

forward to try to return sanity to the government 

of Wildwood.” Later, Councilmember 

Greg Stine [Ward 7] described the 

audit as “a cynical ploy.” With the municipal 

election less than two months away, it 

seems the mud-slinging has begun. 

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“Dilly, dilly!” 

– Everyone, admit it, 

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“It’s more difficult 

than you think.” 

– Irene Hasegawa, on the 

coordination required 

to curl a stone 

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ON THE COVER: St. Louis Curling 

Club members Eric Smith [left] and 

Darel Shelton. 

[Jessica Meszaros photo] 

The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Missouri was welcomed to Pearl Harbor 

on Jan. 26. Missouri is the fifth Navy ship to be named in honor of the state of Missouri. 

The last USS Missouri, the legendary battleship upon which Allied officers accepted 

the unconditional surrender of the Japanese at the end of World War II, saw action in 

World War II, the Korean War and the Persian Gulf War. The current 7,800-ton Missouri 

is 377-feet long, has a 34-foot beam and is capable of diving depths greater than 800 

feet with operating speeds in excess of 25 knots submerged. Missouri is designed with 

a nuclear reactor plant that will not require refueling during the planned life of the ship. 

West County Seventh-day Adventist Church Pastor Ken Olim with [from left] Jud Wickwire, 

vice president of operations for Adventist World Aviation; Wings of Hope CEO Bret 

Heinrich, and Richard Visscher, senior partner of ROV Consulting, Inc. pose in front of 

a Cessna 182 set to take off to Guyana on Jan. 30. Wickwire and Visscher will pilot the 

plane in a joint effort between Wings of Hope and AWA to further spread humanitarian 

efforts in the area. The plane was the subject of “Wings of Hope collaboration helps 

students soar toward STEM careers” in the Nov. 15 issue of West Newsmagazine.

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A water main break created a 

winter wonderland on Wetherburn 

Road in Ballwin on Feb. 2. 

daily, the heavy and awkward gear also 

requires at least two staff members for its 

set-up and take-down. 

“This is not only hard on the equipment 

but staff as well,” Bruer said in a memo 

recommending the purchase. The city’s 

2018 operating budget had earmarked 

$17,000 for the acquisition. 

With the new system, the volleyball net 

will be raised or lowered from the ceiling 

by activating a switch, much in the same 

manner as the multiple basketball nets in the 

gymnasium area are put in place or removed. 

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BALLWIN 

Ice, ice everywhere 

Despite an absence of snow, a small 

portion of northwest Ballwin took on the 

appearance of a winter wonderland early 

Friday, Feb. 2, thanks to a water main break 

that sent water shooting skyward as temperatures 

were well below freezing. 

The geyser quickly covered nearby lawns, 

a large segment of Wetherburn Road and 

nearby trees with ice thick enough to break 

off tree limbs. One tree in the front yard 

of a residence where the break occurred 

resembled a large ice sculpture. 

Missouri American Water workers and 

members of the Ballwin Public Works 

Department arrived on the scene to repair 

the main, remove broken tree limbs and 

clear as much ice as possible from the 

street and stormwater drain grates. 

The break occurred on the south side 

of Wetherburn Road just east of Clarkson 

Road. A portion of Wetherburn Road was 

closed due to the ice and the equipment 

brought in for the repairs and cleanup by 

Missouri American and Ballwin. 

Brian Russell, a Missouri American 

spokesman, said by late Friday morning 

repairs had been completed and service 

restored to the “small number” of customers 

affected by the break. 

Mental evaluation ordered for 

alleged Flamion assailant 

The man accused of shooting Ballwin 

Police Officer Michael Flamion will 

undergo a mental evaluation to determine 

if he is fit to stand trial. 

St. Louis County Circuit Court Judge 

Ellen Ribaudo has ordered the examination 

of Antonio Taylor, 33, who has been 

held in the St. Louis County jail since July 

8, 2016, when he was arrested soon after 

Flamion was shot. 

Taylor, a St. Louis resident with a lengthy 

criminal history, will be examined at the 

Metropolitan St. Louis Psychiatric Center 

on April 25. Ribaudo ordered that the examination 

report include opinions as to whether 

Taylor has a mental disease or defect, his 

ability to understand the proceedings 

against him and participate in his defense, 

and whether he should be held in a suitable 

hospital for treatment pending a court decision 

on his mental fitness to proceed. 

Due to the Ribaudo order, an earlierordered 

April trial date has been set aside 

and a counsel status hearing has been 

scheduled instead. Taylor’s legal counsel 

is from the public defender’s office. 

Taylor reportedly has complained that 

the public defender’s office is representing 

him without his consent and that he has 

been mistreated in the county jail. 

Flamion was shot from behind by a man 

he stopped for speeding on New Ballwin 

Road. Based on a description of the 

assailant’s car, police arrested Taylor in a 

Manchester residential area soon after the 

shooting. 

Flamion has undergone extensive rehabilitation 

but remains paralyzed from the 

neck down. 

Taylor faces charges of assaulting a 

police officer, armed criminal action, 

unlawful possession of a firearm and resisting 

arrest for a felony. 

New net system coming 

to The Pointe 

The city of Ballwin will install a ceilingmounted, 

retractable volleyball net system 

at The Pointe fitness and community center. 

Approval for the $14,795 purchase from 

Bulte Company, Inc., of St. Louis, came at 

the Jan. 22 meeting of the Ballwin Board of 

Aldermen. Bulte was the lower of two bids 

received for the project. 

According to Linda Bruer, Ballwin’s 

director of parks and recreation, the current 

manual volleyball set-up has become 

increasingly problematic due to the frequent 

need to put it in place and remove. 

With the differing and competing uses 

for The Pointe’s gymnasium floor area 

P&Z considers hotel 

rezoning request 

Plans to renovate the HBE Corp. building 

at 11318 Olive Blvd. into a Hilton Tapestry 

hotel are under review by the city of 

Creve Coeur’s Planning and Zoning Commission. 

The proposal includes a request 

to rezone the almost 10-acre site at the 

southwest corner of Olive Boulevard and 

Mosley Road from CB-Core Business District 

to PCD-Planned Commercial Development 

District. 

If approved, the developers will renovate 

the six-story, 180,000-square-foot building 

into a 260-room hotel featuring a restaurant, 

fitness room and outdoor swimming pool 

for hotel guests. The renovations would 

involve constructing a six-story addition to 

the east elevation for new service elevators 

and an approximately 1,929 square-foot 

addition in the back of the property for 

dining and seating. The developers also 

have proposed an open space feature on the 

property that will include a fountain, statuary, 

landscaping and seating. 

The proposal features several updates to 

the exterior of the building including covering 

portions of the existing brick with 

an EIFS material that simulates brick on 

the lower floors and a simulated aggregate 

finish on the upper floors. The developers 

plan to build a new entry canopy at the 

main entrance with additional landscaping 

throughout the property. 

In addition to the design quality of the 

site, P&Z is considering the impact on 

adjacent residential properties, pedestrian



and vehicular access, and parking associated 

with the various proposed uses. 

A second phase of the project would 

include constructing a freestanding restaurant 

and an approximately 20,000-squarefoot 

commercial and retail building. The 

specific designs for those additional buildings 

will be reviewed at a later date if the 

proposal is approved. 

P&Z began its review of the project on 

Oct. 23, 2017, and anticipates forwarding 

its recommendation to the City Council for 

its consideration on Monday, Feb. 12. 

EUREKA 

Half-percent sales tax 

placed on April 3 ballot 

Voters in the city of Eureka are being 

asked whether the city should impose a 

citywide sales tax at a rate of one-half of 

1 percent for the purpose of improving the 

public safety of the city. 

Officials and the official ballot language 

for the proposition, known as proposition 

E, indicate that the tax will be used for 

police facility and equipment costs as well 

as bridge and roadway infrastructure and 

flood control measures. 

A fact sheet prepared by the city states 

that the “Eureka Police Station was constructed 

over 35 years ago using largely 

residential building standards.” 

It goes on to say that “Police Department 

staffing has increased 400 percent” 

in keeping pace with the city’s population, 

“which has nearly tripled since the facility 

was built.” 

According to the fact sheet, an architect 

was hired to study the existing facility to 

determine if it could be economically 

repaired and improved. The decision was 

that a replacement building was the more 

feasible choice. 

In a memo to the Board of Aldermen, 

dated Jan. 16, Mayor Kevin Coffey, stated 

that three primary projects had been identified 

for Proposition E funding. 

“The first is a replacement police facility,” 

Coffey wrote. “The second is a new Allenton 

bridge for which cost estimates and design 

alternatives have been produced. The third 

are flood control measures, which pending 

the outcome of the Corps of Engineers study, 

will have a list of options and recommendations 

when funding becomes available.” 

Based on that information, Coffey 

requested that the board “authorize Proposition 

E as a one-half percent sales tax” on 

the April 3 ballot. 

If passed, the tax would go into effect on 

Oct. 1, 2018, and be subject to a 20-year 

expiration date, meaning it cannot be collected 

after Sept. 30, 2038. Revenue from 

the sales tax will be placed in a dedicated 

fund that will be audited annually and 

available for public review upon request. 

WEST COUNTY 

Looking for class of ‘68 members 

The Lafayette High Class of ‘68 is planning 

its 50th reunion and is seeking to 

locate as many of its members as possible. 

Class of ‘68 members are being asked to 

email Jan Lewis at jlewiscbad@gmail. 

com with their contact information [email, 

home address and/or phone number]. 

Members also can join the “Lafayette High 

School, Ellisville, Mo Class Of ’68” group 

on Facebook to stay apprised of reunion 

information. 

Resident named visiting 

Naval Academy professor 

John McManus, a West County resident 

and an award-winning professor, author 

and military historian, has been named to 

the Leo Shifrin Chair of Naval and Military 

History at the U.S. Naval Academy. 

The one-year visiting professorship 

begins in August. Endowed by the Viola 

S. Shifrin Trust in 1997, the position is 

awarded to naval and military historians 

who have distinguished themselves in their 

field of expertise. McManus has authored 

a number of books on military history, 

specializing in experiences of the modern 

American soldier in combat. 

McManus will retain his position as 

curators’ distinguished professor of U.S. 

military history at Missouri University of 

Science & Technology at Rolla during the 

one-year assignment at the Academy. 

MISSOURI 

Calling all artists 

The MOSAICS Fine Art Festival seeks 

entries for its 24th Annual Arts Festival 

event, Sept. 14-16 in Historic St. Charles. 

The 24th Annual MOSAICS Fine Art 

Festival is limited to approximately 100 

juried artists in varied media including 

painting, clay, sculpture, photography, 

print making, pastels, drawing, wood, 

jewelry, metalwork, glass, art to wear and 

mixed media. 

Applications are being accepted now 

through May 15. Juried artists will be notified 

no later than May 24 and booth fees 

will be due to the arts organization upon 

invitation and acceptance to the festival by 

June 30. 

Jury fees are $35; booth fees are $315 for 

a single booth and $415 for a corner booth. 

Double booths are available by special 

arrangement. Artists may apply online at 

zapplication.org/mosaics. 

Proceeds from MOSAICS provides 

support to community art education and 

activities for St. Louis area youth, including 

the Mentor Me school art program and 

exhibition and the Art for Youth Gallery 

program. 

The Family Business 

Law Matters 

My greatgreat-grandfather 

came 

from Bavaria in 

1860. After 

some conflicts 

between his 

farming and the 

Missouri River, 

he moved in about 1876 to Dallas 

where there wasn’t as much water. He 

found that pecan trees grew in sandy 

soil, so he bought some land with 

pecan trees. He dug up the sand and 

gravel and took it into town. Dallas at 

the time was a growing city with lots 

of building, so they needed lots of 

sand and gravel. The streets of downtown 

Dallas have a layer of asphalt 

over cobblestone that was laid on 

Vilbig Brothers sand and gravel. Our 

roots are deep. 

The family business survived to the 

third-generation. That’s kind of remarkable. 

Most businesses don’t survive 

the second generation. It even 

survived a family feud. When my 

grandfather died in 1976, my brother 

wanted to take over the business. He 

had a civil engineering degree and had 

worked in the company for a few 

years. The problem was that there was 

no plan in place. 

My grandmother survived my 

grandfather. I don’t know if my 

grandmother ever really liked the 

construction company. After my 

grandfather died, instead of working 

something out with my brother, she 

decided to just sell the equipment and 

close the business. 

The problem with my grandmother’s 

strategy was that she wasted 



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perhaps the most valuable company 

asset. Sure the dump trucks, bulldozers, 

and scrapers were worth 

something, but they were all used 

and beat up. The biggest asset of the 

company was the name and the 100 

years of goodwill in the community. 

She got nothing for that. It just 

evaporated. 

I don’t know why my grandfather 

didn’t have a succession plan or why 

my grandmother just liquidated a 

100-year-old family business. I’ll 

never know. It’s just sad. 

If you have a family business, you 

need to give some thought to what 

happens if you become incompetent 

or die. Is there a child involved? If 

not, are there key employees who 

could buy the business? There needs 

to be some sort of a plan. Otherwise, 

a lot of hard work and good will can 

just evaporate. And like I said, that’s 

just sad. 

Let’s get together if you want to 

talk about your options. For more, 

go to www.law-matters.net/media. 

 

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Romance and Adventure: Ste. Genevieve 

Have you been dreaming of getting away without having to 

go too far? Do you find yourself wishing for a cozy fireplace, 

a bottle of wine, and relaxing surroundings? Or maybe you’re 

craving fresh air, fine dining and some fun shopping? Quaint and 

charming Ste. Genevieve has just what you need to shake off that 

case of cabin fever! 

A traveler’s treasure less than an hour south of St. Louis, historic 

Ste. Genevieve is a favorite destination for a romantic weekend 

or a midweek getaway. With a pleasing array of downtown 

shops, art galleries and lovely bed-and-breakfast inns, combined 

with the allure of more than ten award-winning wineries and 

microbreweries in the county, Ste. Genevieve will surely capture 

your heart and awaken your sense of adventure. 

Well known for its French colonial tour sites, the compact historic 

district in Ste. Genevieve possesses some of the best examples of 

French ‘vertical log’ construction to be found anywhere. This fact 

has recently earned it a nod from the US Department of Interior 

as a future National Historic site to recognize and present the 

themes of early French and American settlement, architecture 

and culture. 

Sprinkled in among the historic 

sites are shops offering original art 

and photography, handmade pewter, 

European imports, unique jewelry, 

ladies’ fashions, heavenly scented 

candles and wine tasting. New shops 

and eateries recently opened on Main 

Street include E*Klek*Tix gallery, Rust 

Artisans, the Beanik Café, the Purple 

Finch and Belle Ever After, while the 

Dark Room and Queen Ann’s Lace 

opened on nearby Third Street, both 

situated between the Anvil Restaurant 

and the Old Brick House restaurant – 

which happen to house two of the oldest taverns in the state! 

After all that shopping and adventuring you will be glad to settle 

in to your lodging and Ste. Genevieve offers a great selection, 

ranging from modern hotels to some of the highest rated B & B’s 

in the Midwest, as well as guest house 

rentals and cabins. 

When you’re ready to sample the 

culinary scene, you will find local fare 

served up with a friendly smile and 

genuine Show-Me state pride. No less 

than six locally owned restaurants are 

within an easy walk of the downtown 

area, and you can stop in at the Welcome 

Center to peruse the menus if you wish. 

If you are planning a destination 

wedding or special event, the choices for 

event venues and unique photo sessions 

are endless. Historic gardens, churches, 

The spacious and inviting 

breakfast dining room at the 

Inn St. Gemme Beauvais 

A peek inside the European 

Entitlements shop on Main 

Street in Ste. Genevieve 

barns as well as reception venues and 

beautiful scenery are everywhere, and 

all set the stage for memories to last a 

lifetime. 

The Bequette-Ribault house, an excellent example of the early French style of vertical log construction 

“Whether you’re looking to escape the city for a romantic 

weekend at a bed-and-breakfast or planning a girlfriend’s getaway 

of shopping and winery-hopping, there’s something for everyone’s 

wish list,” says Ste. Genevieve’s tourism director Sandra Cabot. 

“Stop by the Welcome Center to get coupons or pick up a map, 

get a passport to our historic sites, learn about our wineries and 

festivals and just get oriented for your visit!” 

What are you waiting for - shake off that cabin fever and start 

planning your adventure in charming and historic Ste. Genevieve! 


5K Polar Bear Fun Run/Walk 


Fourth Friday Art Walk 

March 23, 2018 

Fourth Friday Art Walk 

Upcoming Events 

April 7 & 8, 2018 

Scottish Festival 

April 14, 2018 

200th Anniversary at the Felix Valle SHS 

April 14, 2018 

Night Glow 5K Fun Walk/Run 

For more information and links to lodging, 

attractions, dining, shopping and special events, 

find it all online at www.VisitSteGen.com 

or call for a free Visitor’s Guide 

at 800.373.7007 or 573.883.7097.





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Council votes to evaluate previous Wildwood event expenses 

By JESSICA MESZAROS 

At the Jan. 22 Wildwood City Council 

meeting, Councilmember Glenn DeHart 

[Ward 1] motioned that City Administrator 

Ryan Thomas retain the Schowalter & 

Jabouri accounting firm, located in Sunset 

Hills, to conduct an audit and review of 

expenses from 2011 to 2016 regarding 

the city’s annual Founders Day event, 

now known as Celebrate Wildwood. The 

motion passed 12-4 with councilmembers 

Tammy Shea [Ward 3], Ray Manton [Ward 

2], Don Bartoni [Ward 2] and Greg Stine 

[Ward 7] opposed. 

According to DeHart, the city had an 

ordinance in place from 2011 to 2016 that 

required the use of a citizen-led committee 

with members appointed by the mayor 

and approved by council vote to oversee 

event expenses. However, DeHart said no 

appointments were made to that committee 

until 2017, despite the presence of the 

ordinance. From 2011 to 2016, funds were 

expended without exact documentation of 

amounts or paid recipients. 

“I have personally reviewed some of the 

more recent expenditures during this time 

period, and have concluded that some 

appear questionable, particularly those 

expenditures related, directly or indirectly, 

to those who were running the event,” 

DeHart said at the Jan. 22 meeting. 

Currently, the ordinance requires that 

councilmembers approve all line item 

expenditures before authorizing funds. The 

audit will review over 499 individual purchases 

made during the nearly six-year span 

to determine if any outstanding or unaccounted 

costs need to be dissected by the 

city. DeHart stated that specific names or 

line items were not cited at the meeting or 

to the public for privacy reasons of involved 

individuals until the report is completed. 

The projected cost of the audit is about 

$4,500 and not to exceed $6,500. 

“Councilmember DeHart let the mayor 

know he wanted to bring up the item for 

the last [Jan. 22] agenda,” City Administrator 

Ryan Thomas said. “When it was 

placed, I was asked to find a firm and get 

an idea of how much it would cost so the 

council could have that information.” 

Some councilmembers questioned why 

the issue hadn’t been brought before the 

public works department first, as an annual 

analysis already is done by the city’s existing 

auditor, RubinBrown LLP. 

“I think the most troubling thing to me is, 

if we have an issue here, our auditor hasn’t 

caught this,” Councilmember Greg Stine 

[Ward 7] said. “I’ve served on a financial 

committee for a $100 million nonprofit, and 

if we had anything like this come up, our 

hair would be on end. I think part of this 

needs to be some sort of review by our auditor 

as well. I don’t take this lightly, but to 

me, that’s a second concern here. If there’s 

some kind of fiscal problem: one, we get to 

the bottom of it, and two, we need to find 

out what’s going on with the auditor.” 

The Wildwood city charter states the city 

council should provide for an independent 

audit of all city accounts at least annually, 

where Stine said the city regularly receives 

high marks in the quality of the material 

and numbers filed. 

“The fact that the council approved this 

motion without information or an explanation 

is very unprecedented,” Stine said. 

“We are a very conscientious council. We 

like to ask questions and have all the information 

first.” 

According to Mayor Jim Bowlin, the 

cumulative cost of the Founders Day and 

Celebrate Wildwood events from 2011 to 

2016 was $320,000 in taxpayer dollars. 

“Reviewing past expenditures will assure 

our residents that their tax dollars were 

spent appropriately,” Bowlin said. 

For other councilmembers, the audit’s 

sudden motion and approval at a council 

meeting without an explicitly stated reason 

is cause for concern. 

“The appropriate course should have 

been that a concern that would warrant 

an audit should have been clearly stated 

and justified, and then it could have been 

brought up for a vote,” Shea said. “I’d be 

shocked to think there are 499 line items, 

with that collection of years, listed in an 

expense report. I’m guessing that reference 

was made after looking at actual invoices, 

which we don’t receive.” 

According to Shea, the audit implies 

possible wrongdoing from previous event 

contributors and councilmembers without 

evidence. 

“To suggest there’s some failure, and 

that’s really what’s being suggested with 

this audit, it’s not on the people who participated 

in the Celebrate Wildwood event, 

but on the checks and balances throughout,” 

Shea said. 

The latest members to the Celebrate 

Wildwood Commission were appointed 

in June 2017 to assist with organizing and 

conducting the event. All event expenses 

also were under supervision of and subject 

to a council-approved budget. 

“It cuts across levels of alliances that 

have existed throughout the city where 

everyone, at some level, has participated in 

and outside the council,” Shea said. “To go 

back this late in the game and say there’s 

been mishandling of money, without any 

proof, is discouraging.” 

Other councilmembers at the Jan. 22 

meeting and beyond also cited suspicions 

regarding the upcoming April election. 

See AUDIT, page 12 

Wildwood City Council approves Hidden Valley zip line request 


On the evening of Jan. 22, the Wildwood 

City Council voted 13-3 in favor of 

a resolution granting approval of a conditional 

use permit [CUP] permitting the 

installation of a four-line ZipTour course at 

Hidden Valley Ski Resort, located near the 

terminus of Hidden Valley Drive, west of 

its Alt Road intersection. 

For some, the addition of the zip line is a 

chance to renew the resort and bring a new 

audience of people to the Wildwood area. 

For others, it’s a cause for concern. 

“I feel this resort is a way of growing, 

and bringing new energy and communities 

into our area,” Wildwood resident and ski 

instructor Ana Johnson said. 

Recommendations from the planning 

& parks committee’s meeting on Jan. 2 

were upheld in the final vote, including the 

relocation and shortening of zip line 4. Its 

length has been shortened to about 1,500 

feet from an original distance of about 

2,600 feet. 

“It has some perks for us, too – with relocating 

the line and making it so people are 

closer to the lodge – but I think it showed 

that we were willing to work and compromise,” 

Jason Boyd, senior vice president 

of operations at Peak Resorts [the parent 

company of Hidden Valley Ski Resort], 

said. “We hope to get started [on construction] 

as soon as possible.” 

The ZipTour will operate from 9 a.m. to 

sunset and will remain open all 12 months 

of the year. 

According to Boyd, the next step will 

require submitting a drawing to Wildwood 

and St. Louis County for approval. 

Hopes are for construction to be complete 

by summer 2018. Peak Resorts CEO Tim 

Boyd stated in June 2017 that the lines 

would cost an estimated $2.5 million, but 

bring in annual revenue of $1 million. 

Many residents from adjacent subdivisions 

and supporters of Hidden Valley 

gathered on Jan. 22 to hear the vote. The 

most frequently voiced concern was noise 

from riders, machinery and cables. Residents 

in the nearby Radcliffe Place subdivision 

near the northern property line were 

especially concerned. 

However, a sound study commissioned 

by the city and conducted by McClure 

Engineering on Jan. 15 concluded that the 

zip line operation will increase noise levels 

by just three A-weighted decibels [dBA] 

above current background noises toward 

the north side of the property. Human 

screams could reach around 50 dBA near 

the property line, but the study determined 

that if the screams last for 15 minutes 

during a one-hour period, the sound at 

the residential property line would still be 

within the city’s noise code, not exceeding 

55 dBA during daytime hours. 

Some residents scrutinized the results 

of the study, claiming that readings were 

taken from the property line of a nearby 

vacant property and not the property line 

of the Hidden Valley resort, as dictated by 

the ordinance. 

According to Joe Vujnich, director of 

planning and public works, the data will be 

re-evaluated and updated for a more accurate 

report to be made public in the near 

future. 

“I can already hear the resort, and now 

I’ll hear things 12 months out of the year,” 

Radcliffe Place resident Patricia Fuller said. 

Along with noise concerns, one of the 

biggest disappointments cited by speakers 

throughout the evening was the CUP’s 

process. Specifically, residents cited the 

unverified claims that Hidden Valley’s 

financial situation was severe enough to 

justify closure, the quasi-judicial process 

of the Jan. 2 parks & planning committee 

meeting and disclosed emails referencing 

communications between Hidden Valley, 

See ZIP LINE, page 13

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The city of Manchester celebrated 

the grand opening of its new Parks, 

Recreation & Arts building with 

an open house on Sunday, Jan. 21. 

Over 200 area residents attended for 

a special tour of the new facility. 

Construction began after Labor 

Day 2016 and was projected to be 

completed in time for summer 2017 

programming; however, unforeseen 

delays changed the temporary occupancy 

date to Nov. 20. Since that 

date, the city has hosted a number 

of programs inside the 14,000-square-foot 

facility. 

The majority of the parks building is 

new construction, which was more costeffective 

than renovations. However, part 

of the original parks building was retained 

and houses the maintenance department 

and storage facilities. 

One of the biggest considerations for 

the new facility was making the structure 

earthquake-proof and having a basement 

that would serve as a shelter during severe 

weather and double as a control center for 

city employees should a cataclysmic event 

occur. Another key feature was providing 

access to indoor restrooms at all times. 

During normal operating hours, visitors 

will be able to access the restrooms from 

inside the building; after hours, visitors 

will have exterior access. 

Parks Director Eileen Collins said the 

old parks building had limitations and 

noted that, in order to serve the community 

better, the updated facility was much 

needed. 

One of the biggest perks of the new 

building is a 50-foot-by-40-foot multipurpose 

room that will be used for indoor 

programming. Because of this additional 

space, the city has added several new programs 

to its 2018 offerings. Among those 

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New parks building opens up 

community opportunities 

AUDIT, from page 11 

“I think this is a cynical ploy to make a 

political candidate look bad,” Stine said. 

“The ploy is the mayor, assisted by councilmember 

DeHart, and the candidate is John 

Gragnani.” 

Gragnani is running against DeHart for 

the Ward 1 council seat in April and also 

is a city founder and previous Celebrate 

Wildwood volunteer. 

According to DeHart, the issue doesn’t 

boil down to politics, but rather fiscal 

responsibility. 

“This is $300,000 of real taxpayer money, 

Manchester Munchkins was one of the first events to 

make use of the new parks building. 

new offerings are theater camps and programs, 

an inventors camp and a Crayola 

camp, all geared for youth. The city also is 

hosting babysitting, home alone and bully 

prevention programs. 

Recently, the city held its Manchester 

Munchkins event, for children ages 

2 to 5, in the new facility. The children 

enjoyed crafts, games, snacks and stories 

in an hour-long program that has additional 

dates scheduled through August. 

A complete list of upcoming activities is 

in the process of being finalized. Registration 

for residents begins Feb. 26 at the park 

office and March 1 for non-residents. Online 

registration begins March 1 for everyone. 

The multipurpose room also will allow 

space for before- and after-care for summer 

camps and for rentals by community members. 

Space can be rented for birthday or 

anniversary parties as well as baby or wedding 

showers. The multipurpose room can 

be rented in its entirety or as partitioned 

space. 

The building, which cost about $3.5 

million, was funded and paid for in full 

through the Parks and Stormwater Fund, 

which is a half-cent park and stormwater 

sales tax, and through a grant from 

St. Louis County’s Municipal Park Grant 

Commission. 

it’s not play money,” DeHart said. “I want 

to make it very clear that we have this ordinance 

going forward, because events like 

Celebrate Wildwood or the BBQ Bash are 

only going to get bigger.” 

Regarding suspicions of the audit being 

politically motivated, Bowlin said the priority 

is to double-check the use of event funds. 

“I think we should move past the politics 

and look at the real crux of the issue, which 

is to see if over $300,000 of our residents’ 

money was spent appropriately,” Bowlin 

said. “Period.” 

The results are scheduled to return to the 

council on March 12.





I NEWS I 13 

Ballwin’s P&Z commission to consider short-term rental legislation 

By JIM ERICKSON 

The Ballwin Board of Aldermen will 

ask the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission 

to review a proposed ordinance 

enabling residents to rent a portion or all of 

their homes for short-term periods. 

After considering and approving changes 

in a draft ordinance establishing rules and 

regulations for the rentals, the board, as 

required by law, now will forward the 

issue to the commission for further review, 

including a public hearing. 

The commission then will make its recommendation 

to the board for final consideration. 

Although the issue has been percolating 

for some time, aldermen first discussed it 

at length at a meeting early in January, a 

session that resulted in a request that City 

Attorney Bob Jones draft an ordinance to 

set rules governing the short-term rental 

process. 

Ballwin officials have been aware that 

some residents have been listing rooms in 

their homes, or their entire house, for shortterm 

rentals. And while current ordinances 

address the issue indirectly, the recent and 

growing popularity of websites specializing 

in listing such properties, has emphasized 

the need for a more specific approach. 

City officials have reported receiving 

some complaints about the short-term rentals 

but public comments at the early January 

meeting also suggest the practice has 

its supporters. 

Jones said his draft is patterned after an 

ordinance earlier approved in Ellisville. 

The Ballwin measure would allow shortterm 

rentals in a residence, subject to the 

property passing a city inspection and the 

permanent resident receiving a permit. 

The permanent resident also must live 

on the property a required number of 

days annually and maintain records of the 

rentals for a specified period. Parking for 

vehicles of the permanent resident and any 

overnight guests would be confined to the 

actual property and the abutting street. 

Among other things, the board discussed 

and approved revisions in the draft to eliminate 

a tax return as one of the documents 

required to establish that a property is an 

applicant’s primary residence and lowering 

the retention period for rental records 

from three years to two. 

The number of days a permanent resident 

must live on the property each year also was 

reduced from 275 [in the draft] to 180. 

Penalties for violating the ordinance can 

include fines and, for two or more violations 

within 180 days, revocation of the 

permit. 

The planning and zoning commission 

must hold a public hearing on the proposed 

ordinance because of its impact on existing 

zoning regulations. Plans are for the 

measure to be on the commission’s April 

meeting agenda. 

Pending a final resolution, Ballwin has 

placed a moratorium on enforcing existing 

city regulations affecting the rentals. 

City officials have noted that even if the 

ultimate decision is to allow short-term 

rentals, subdivision covenants forbidding 

the practice still will apply on properties in 

those areas, assuming the subdivisions opt 

to enforce such rules. 

ZIP LINE, from page 11 

City Administrator Ryan Thomas and 

Economic Development Director Julian 

Jacquin dating back to 2016 regarding 

economic expansion opportunities with 

Hidden Valley. 

“You have people who are angry at each 

other that didn’t have to land here, but 

[they] did land here, because from the 

get-go this was initiated poorly,” Wildwood 

resident Stacy Jackson said at the 

Jan. 22 meeting. 

According to Thomas, while the city did 

initiate conversation with Hidden Valley 

about hosting a Tough Mudder weekend, 

the city wasn’t informed of the resort’s 

formal zip line tour proposal until May 

2017, shortly before its official submittal 

to the city.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING 

City of Ellisville 

Notice is hereby given that the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Ellisville 

will hold a public hearing at the Ellisville City Hall, #1 Weis Avenue, on Wednesday, 

February 14, 2018, at 7:00 P.M. to consider a City-initiated petition for Text Amendments 

to Title IV, Land Use, pertaining to motor vehicle oriented business regulations. 

Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Ellisville will hold a public hearing 

at the Ellisville City Hall, #1 Weis Avenue, on Wednesday, February 21, 2018, at 7:00 

P.M. to consider a City-initiated petition for Text Amendments to Title IV, Land Use, 

pertaining to motor vehicle oriented business regulations. 

These public hearings are in compliance with Title IV, Land Use, of the Municipal Code 

of the City of Ellisville. 

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Ward 2 • Mary Ann Mastorakos 

Ward 3 • Randy Logan* 

Ward 3 • Michael Moore 

Ward 4 • William Lawson 

Ward 4 • Tom DiCampi* 

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Ward 1 • James Faron* 

Ward 2 • A.J. Wang 

Ward 3 • Robert Hoffman 

Ward 4 • Sue Baseley 

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Mick Cahill 

Cindy Pool 

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David L. Willson* 


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Ward 2 • Lindsey Butler* 

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Jeff Graves* 

Frank Venturella 

April Milne 

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Ward 1 • Glen DeHart* 

Ward 1 • John Gragnani 

Ward 2 • Ray Manton* 

Ward 2 • Tony Salvatore 

Ward 3 • Jim Baugus* 

Ward 3 • Kevin Dillard 

Ward 4 • Andrew Bolazina 

Ward 4 • Steve Taylor 

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Ward 6 • Brian Rull 

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Recent intense winds have caused 

downed streetlights in cities along Manchester 

Road, with the most recent failure 

occurring in Ellisville just west of Clarkson 

Road. The fallen lights, including three 

earlier failures in the Ballwin area, are the 

aesthetic streetlights located in the middle 

of the Manchester Road median. 

According to Ellisville City Manager 

Bill Schwer, the light standards’ collapse 

has been analyzed by an independent metallurgical 

engineer and determined to be 

the result of material fatigue that caused 

the poles to weaken and collapse. 

“We’ve had some strong winds lately, 

and cracks were basically forming in the 

bases,” Schwer said. He added that the 

presence of banners on the streetlights 

could have magnified the force of the 

winds on the bases of the poles. 

All of the aesthetic light poles in the 

impacted cities will be removed from their 

spots along the median and replaced with 

new poles. 

The original installation of the lights 

was funded by the Missouri Department 

of Transportation [MoDOT] as part of its 

Great Streets Initiative. The affected cities 

did not incur any cost with the original 

installation and, due to the nature of the 

failures, the city also will not be responsible 

for the new installations. 

“While the city is normally responsible 

for the maintenance of the lights, what’s 

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said. “That means the manufacturer will be 

footing the bill.” 

A tentative timeline for installation is not 

known, but a period not exceeding 90 days 

is hoped for, according to Schwer. About 27 

lights in Ellisville will need to be replaced. 

“We’re hoping it can be done as soon as 

possible,” Schwer said. 

Although the city’s decorative streetlights 

will be down, the existing highway 

lighting along Manchester Road will 

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businesses so as to not impede 

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Students shine in Spelling Bee 

Chesterfield Day School [CDS] held its 

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Jan. 24. 

Nineteen participants demonstrated not 

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but also their perseverance as they spelled 

their way through 11 rounds, resulting in 

a winner. Fifth grader Grant Klasing was 

the first place winner and fourth grader 

Kennedy Ituen placed second. Klasing will 

represent CDS at the local spelling bee at 

McKendree University in March. 

The 19 CDS students who participated 

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Lucy Black, Max Black, Kieran Creeth, 

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Most of us probably 

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Genius Hour is a program designed to 

let students find and explore their passions 

through independent projects. Part of the 

project’s research requires students to contact 

experts. Since Chen’s project involved 

research related to NASA, he reached out 

in hopes of talking to someone there. 

Chen’s teacher, Linda Griswold, said, 

“Alex’s questions were forwarded to an 

aerospace engineer at NASA in California. 

He was able to talk on the phone with 

the engineer for about 20 minutes. Alex 

was fascinated and took notes. It’s a great 

example of breaking down the classroom 

walls.” 

Chen said his project idea was to use 

aerospace and aeronautics to improve the 

world and find futuristic ideas. 

“I’ve always liked space and jobs that are 

associated with it,” Chen said. “I contacted 

NASA and I was really happy when they 

connected me to one of their aerospace 

engineers. It was really cool to speak to 

him. I got to ask him a lot of my questions. 

He asked me what I wanted to be when I 

grow up and I said an aerospace engineer.” 

Griswold tweeted about her class’ experience 

with their Genius Hour projects and 

tagged Genius Hour and A.J. Juliani in her 

tweet. Juliani is one of the masterminds 

behind Genius Hour. 

“He noticed the tweet, liked it, followed 

our classroom and responded ‘So cool!’ 

We were thrilled that he took the time to 

respond,” Griswold said. “[The students] 

were so excited…They were jumping up 

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On Jan. 18, fifth and sixth grade students 

from Twin Oaks Christian School gathered 

to present “Academic Snapshots” – brief 

presentations to parents and friends highlighting 

what they’ve learned so far this 

year. 

Students were given an opportunity to 

select a subject they were passionate about, 

decide on something from that class that 

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Twin Oaks students present their ‘Academic 

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most famous plays. 

The school said parents and students 

alike thoroughly enjoyed the presentations 

and declared the evening a success. 

Reusing at heart of school grant 

Four Rockwood middle schools are 

taking part in a St. Louis County Health 

Department grant project that will reduce 

the amount of plastic water bottles students 

recycle. 

Crestview, Selvidge, Rockwood Valley 

and LaSalle Springs have had some drinking 

fountains replaced with a combination 

of drinking fountain and water refilling stations. 

Students and staff can use their personal 

bottles instead of new, plastic water 

bottles. 

Rockwood Maintenance and Grounds 

Coordinator Bill Branson said, “The goal 

is to eliminate students’ bringing in capped 

plastic water bottles, which have to be 

recycled. This helps keep plastic bottles 

and caps out of landfills.” 

Schools also purchased reusable water 

bottles for students, which they can keep 

with them. Meanwhile, the water-filling 

stations are equipped with counters, which 

track how many times students refill bottles. 

Each one represents a water bottle that 

is not going to have to be recycled. 

Students are keeping track of how many 

plastic water bottles they made unnecessary. 

They are also seeing how many plastic 

water bottle caps they can collect. 

Branson said, “I think it’s good that 

our students can learn some conservation 

efforts and see practical applications to 

some of the efforts that exist.” 

LaSalle Springs administrators also will 

be distributing reusable bottles to students. 

“I hope they realize we can all save the 

world,” said LaSalle Springs Principal 

Debbie Brandt. “We are hoping they will 

use this as an opportunity to learn more 

about our environment and recycle, reduce, 

reuse.” 

Sixth-grade student Sydney Bailey said, 

“It’s good that we’re collecting so many 

bottle caps, but bad that they’re even out 

there. For the environment, we want to see 

how many caps we throw away and how 

we can reduce that.” 

“Students are really getting into this, and 

we’re all learning about what happens to 

plastic water bottles,” said another sixthgrade 

student, Aaliyah Barsh. “We hope to 

reduce, instead of recycle.” 

LaSalle Springs teacher and science 

department chair Mary Anne Moosmann 

said the caps collecting is not a contest, just 

a motivational activity. Just this semester, 

LaSalle students have collected more than 

12,200 plastic water bottle caps. 

“The project goal is to make students 

aware of how many single-serving plastic 

water bottles they were using,” she said. 

“We’re hoping to get rid of those singleserving 

bottles. I hope kids will reuse over 

and over, and help create something other 

than a throw-away society.” 

LaSalle Springs students demonstrate the 

water refilling station that they hope will make 

single-serving plastic water bottles and caps 

unnecessary. 

Poetry contest seeks entries 

The St. Louis Poetry Center now is 

accepting submissions for the 2018 Beverly 

Hopkins Memorial Poetry Contest. 

Winners receive cash prizes and a complimentary 

chapbook featuring their poems. 

Additionally, winners will read their works 

at an awards ceremony at The Focal Point 

in Maplewood on May 20. 

Eligible poets must be high school students 

living within 100 miles of St. Louis. 

Poets may submit up to three poems that 

have not previously won any awards. 

Poems already published in a high school 

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Submitted poems must include the 

author’s name and email address on each 

poem. A separate document with the poet’s 

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address, high school, grade, teacher’s 

name [if he or she encouraged or assigned 

the poems], and titles of submitted poems 

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There is no entry fee; however, the contest 

deadline is March 1. 

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Center, Hopkins High School Poetry Contest, 

PO Box 300167, St. Louis, MO 63130. 

Poems and author information sheets 

should be attached as separate word documents. 

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A public hearing is scheduled before the Board of Adjustments of the City of Ballwin 

on February 21st, 2017 at the Donald “Red” Loehr Police and Court Center, 300 

Park Dr. Ballwin, MO 63011, at 7:00 P.M. 

Petition number 1BA18, an appeal from Steve Huffamn for a variance to front yard 

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lowing graduation. 

Peebles’ goal was to work where she 

would have an impact on the community 

and “police work just seemed to fit,” she 

said. 

At the STEM event, both Rock and Peebles 

wore their uniforms and had with them 

their regular tools of the trade, including 

handcuffs, a taser, a semi-automatic pistol 

and bullet-proof vest. As a detective, Ovca 

was dressed in street clothes. 

Learning hands-on 

A person wouldn’t need to be a scientist, 

technology expert, engineer or mathematician 

to be a police officer but the presentation 

and demonstrations by the three 

women left no doubt that having a good 

grasp of STEM disciplines is important in 

today’s law enforcement world. 

The lidar, originally an acronym for 

“light detection and ranging” but now an 

accepted word, is the high-tech replacement 

for yesterday’s radar speed limit 

enforcement equipment. Understanding 

how the hand-held device works calls for 

familiarity with lasers and mathematics. 

Ovca explained the electrical and physiological 

aspects of the taser, designed to 

temporarily incapacitate a person rather 

than using the potentially deadly force of 

a firearm. After making sure everyone was 

behind her, Rock fired the taser at a boardmounted 

human silhouette. 

Use of an alternate light source device 

for illuminating materials not easily spotted 

in regular lighting situations also was 

explained as one of the tools in crime scene 

work. 

Collection of fingerprints from a variety 

of surfaces was demonstrated before the 26 

participants donned latex gloves to try their 

hands at the skill. After the hands-on practice, 

several of the attendees became illustrations 

of how easily the fine, black powder 

used for finding prints on the white tabletop 

could wind up on faces, necks or arms. 

Ballwin Police Officer Tabitha Peebles shows a group of 

STEM event participants how the department’s lidar speed 

measuring device operates. 

Participants also learned about DNA 

evidence and some of the ways it can be 

gathered for analysis; how and why gunshot 

residue is collected; and the technique 

used for lifting a boot, shoe or tire print at 

a crime scene. In addition, Ovca told how a 

crowbar or other device used for a break-in 

can be identified by capturing the distinctive 

markings the tool leaves behind. 

After police dispatcher Abbacchi told 

about the department’s communications 

center, which receives 911 emergency 

calls and dispatches officers for both Ballwin 

and Manchester, the group visited the 

operation. A brief stop at the lock-up where 

those arrested can be held for a short period 

was on the agenda as well. 

Attending the event because his daughter 

was one of the participants, Scott sat quietly 

in the back of the room during most 

of the two-hour session. Clearly comfortable 

with being on the sidelines while 

the three women conducted the event, he 

participated only to drive the car used for 

demonstrating the lidar’s operation. 

Moving the participants outdoors, Rock 

and Peebles described the technology that 

surrounds them in their patrol cars, focusing 

on the computer and communications 

gear that can send and retrieve information 

rapidly. The cargo area of two departmental 

SUVs used both for patrol duties and as 

crime scene vehicles is filled with equipment 

important for finding evidence. 

Both Ovca and Scott told West Newsmagazine 

that the STEM event was the 

first of what is expected to be an ongoing 

series that will be expanded to include sessions 

for boys as well as girls and for high 

school as well as middle school students. 

Although many, but not all, of the first 

event’s participants came from Rockwood’s 

Selvidge Middle, Parkway School 

officials also have indicated their interest 

in having that district’s students involved. 

Emma Naes, an eighth-grader at Selvidge, 

said she enjoyed the session, identifying 

the lidar and taser demonstrations as 

especially interesting. 

Autumn Brinkley, a homeschooled 

sixth-grade student 

from House Springs, said she 

found the event interesting 

and has thought about working 

in law enforcement. 

Selvidge eighth-grader Jennifer 

Liu said she, too, has an 

interest in law enforcement 

and was impressed by the 

responsibilities police officers 

have. Noting she was 

particularly interested in the 

communications capabilities 

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Local teen embarks on mission to help others through dance 

By ELLEN LAMPE 

At just 15 years old, Flynn Kehm is 

wise beyond her years. The freshman at 

Rockwood Summit High founded her own 

organization more than four years ago, 

embarking on a mission of spreading joy 

and opportunity for others to do something 

they love. 

The organization is called Born To 

Dance. It seeks to provide underprivileged 

and disabled individuals with dance attire, 

free of charge. 

“I started [Born To Dance] in fifth grade. 

As I got older and started to mature, I realized 

that there are people in the world that 

aren’t as fortunate,” Flynn explained. 

Flynn’s passion for dance led her to 

another passion – helping others. 

“I wanted to connect the world through 

dance. There are other people who love to 

dance but don’t have the opportunity or the 

money,” Flynn said. 

children. It is Flynn’s hope that the donated 

items will restore a sense of normalcy and 

happiness for the youth of Puerto Rico, 

giving them the opportunity to dance and 

smile amid hardship. 

The January donation event was made 

possible, in part, by a generous donation 

made in the name of Natalie Timm. Timm 

was a talented member of Eureka High’s 

dance team who truly loved the sport and 

had a kind heart. 

“She got in a car accident and passed 

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away,” Flynn said. “An anonymous person 

made a donation in her name to carry on 

her good heart and remember her.” 

During the drive, Timm’s parents made 

a surprise visit to see Flynn and her fellow 

volunteers. They didn’t come emptyhanded, 

either; they donated some of 

Timm’s old dance outfits to the drive. 

“There wasn’t a dry eye in there,” Bonny 

said, of the touching moment. 

The event also was supported by a 

Disney Summer of Service grant through 

Youth Service America. 

“I’m humbled to be one of 270 young 

leaders across the country awarded this 

grant to organize projects to help make 

their communities healthier, greener and 

stronger,” Flynn said. 

On Pointe Dance, which donated close to 

$6,000 in new items to the drive, is accepting 

donations for Born To Dance year-round. 

For more information about the Born 

To Dance organization, visit www.borntodance.org. 

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Flynn Kehm [second from left] and volunteers 

collect donations. 

A main pillar of Born To Dance is seeking 

to give others a means to dance, even 

in the darkest of times. In light of that, Flynn’s 

organization hosted a donation drive 

to benefit youth and families in Puerto 

Rico who have been devastated by Hurricane 

Maria. 

“I do two donation drives a year. It’s a lot 

of work, but I love doing it,” Flynn said. 

The drive, which took place on Saturday, 

Jan. 27 at On Pointe Dance, was a great 

success. Close to $10,000 in donations of 

new and gently used dance attire and other 

accessories were collected, and the donations 

still are coming in, Flynn’s mother, 

Bonny, said. 

“It was a great drive. It was quite something,” 

Bonny said. “[Flynn’s] first drive 

was 4 or 5 years ago and started with just 

one donation. It’s grown from there.” 

It has grown, to say the least. The organization 

has expanded beyond dance, as it 

recently has begun collecting figure skating 

donations as well. 

The donations from the drive will be sent 

to a school for performing arts in Puerto 

Rico in hopes of easing the psychological 

toll the hurricane has had on families and 

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From St. Louis to New York, Just 

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Volunteers with the St. Louis JFK chapter help 

with Winter Homeless Outreach on Jan. 13. 

[From left, back row] Gwen, Sadhana, Vrisha, 

Julia, Anna and Pranav; [front row] Aishva, 

Preston and Shreya. 

[Photo by Meghana Bharadwaj] 

From age 10, Wildwood resident 

Meghana Bharadwaj has had a passion for 

human rights – ignited by annual family 

trips to India where she witnessed people 

of all ages struggle with food and poverty. 

For those people and more across the 

world, Bharadwaj took a stand and created 

her own nonprofit. 

Just for Kidz [jfkorg.org] is built upon 

the goal of supporting underprivileged 

people worldwide through activism and 

service. The 501[c]3 organization currently 

has three chapters – one in St. Louis, one 

in New York City and one in Ithaca, New 

York. It is run by students in high schools 

and colleges, including the local chapter 

at Lafayette High, from which Bharadwaj 

graduated. 

Bharadwaj currently is a human rights 

major at Columbia University in New York, 

but she spent her freshman year at Cornell 

University in Ithaca. 

The organization tackled its first project 

in 2010, raising $1,200 dollars to change 

the asbestos-filled roof of Dheenabandu 

Ashram, an orphanage in Walajapet, India. 

Each project term since, JFK selects an 

under-recognized but deserving, youthbenefiting 

facility and fundraises for a 

major project. The organization’s most 

recent project was in Arusha, Tanzania, 

in a collaboration with the Good Hope 

Orphanage to build a secondary school for 

about 700 orphans. 

“There’s so much more work to do, and 

so many more people to help,” Bharadwaj 

said. “I’m just happy to do my part, because 

I think we owe it to the communities, and I 

owe it to other young people to be able to 

activate them and get them engaged.” 

JFK strives to connect youth with 

humanitarian opportunities and projects 

pertaining to topics like poverty, homelessness 

and children’s rights. The organization’s 

executive team and national board 

has around 15 people, with about 20 to 30 

people in each chapter. 

Locally, it has worked with Angels’ 

Arms St. Louis to help foster siblings 

stay together, and, on Jan. 13, with Winter 

Homeless Outreach where members of the 

St. Louis chapter delivered blankets, coats, 

clothing and hygiene kits to Youth Emergency 

Services in St. Louis City. 

The Cornell University JFK chapter 

spearheaded a program called Stack the 

Snacks. Bharadwaj and her colleagues 

created in-classroom food pantries that 

provided healthy breakfast food options to 

children. The organization won a $2,000 

grant in April 2017 to launch a pilot version 

of the program at Beverley J. Martin 

Elementary in Ithaca. The pilot supplied 

the in-class pantries for about a month, 

with the remaining funds going toward 

awareness materials. 

JFK’s programs aren’t “one size fits all,” 

Bharadwaj said. Each program is tailored 

to fit the needs of those receiving the services 

through direct communication with 

the people and communities in need. 

“Before we do anything, my first thing 

is to always talk to community members,” 

Bharadwaj said. “I always approach them 

first before we get experts involved, who 

might have worked in a specific department 

for years, but also might be more on 

the academia side and know more about 

the technical aspects than what’s happening 

on the ground.” 

One of the organization’s goals for 2018 

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with future sights set on cities like Baltimore, 

Maryland. According to Bharadwaj, 

the organization already has been in touch 

with officials in the Ferguson-Florissant 

School District about expanding Stack the 

Snacks locally. 

“We’re going to bring that program 

in there, and tailor it to the needs of that 

district,” Bharadwaj said. “We want Stack 

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youth in need. Maybe breakfast isn’t the 

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need, or maybe something else is still missing 

from the programs they already have.” 

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Members of Parkway West’s all-decades team at the Longhorns’ 50th anniversary celebration. 

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By WARREN MAYES 

Celebrating 50 years 

of excellence 

When Parkway West celebrated 50 years 

of basketball recently, one of the big highlights 

was the naming of an all-decades 

team. 

“It was an amazing celebration,” Parkway 

West boys basketball coach John 

Wright said. “We had about 100 varsity 

basketball alumni in attendance.” 

Wright said the response to the event was 

positive and that the alumni in attendance, 

“expressed a lot of gratitude and really 

appreciated the event.” 

The first coach of the boys program, 

Mike Pratte, was honored. Pratte began his 

illustrious Longhorns career when Parkway 

West opened for the 1968-69 school 

year. 

“Coach Pratte’s teams were aggressive, 

fundamentally sound and very successful,” 

Wright said. 

Pratte was the head coach for 20 years. 

His varsity teams had an overall record of 

317-197. He was named the Class 4 Coach 

of the Year for the 1985-86 season when 

the Longhorns finished third in the state. 

Pratte was inducted into the Missouri Basketball 

Coaches Hall of Fame in 2008. 

As part of the 50-year celebration, the 

1968-69 team was recognized. Dennis Jaskowiak 

and student assistant Dan Jones 

from that first team were in attendance. 

The 1968-69 team played its first game 

against Priory on Dec. 6, 1968, and posted 

a season record of 12-9. 

Coach Bill Sodemann also was honored 

for his contributions to the basketball program. 

Sodemann took the Longhorns’ reins 

in 1988. He retired from education in 2007. 

Sodemann’s teams had an overall record 

of 381-214 in his 22 years as the head 

coach. His teams were crowned conference 

champions six times and won four 

district titles. In 1991, in his third year, he 

led the only Parkway team, boys or girls, 

to a state basketball title. He was named 

the Missouri Class 4 Coach of the Year in 

1991. In 2011, he was inducted into the 

Missouri Basketball Coaches Association 

Hall of Fame. 

Also honored was coach Rich Rogers, 

who has been a coach in the Parkway West 

boys basketball program for all 50 years. 

Members of the Parkway West boys basketball 

all-decades team are Dennis Nolte 

[1970], Tom Webb [1971], Jeff Miller 

[1973], Steve Litzau [1974], Chris Burwell 

[1975], Jeff Sanders [1976], Mark Larson 

[1977], Greg Ryan [1982], Kris Stange 

[1982], Byron Lewis [1986], Cedric 

Reynolds [1986], Scott Gabbert [1988], 

Evan Pedersen [1988], Scott Highmark 

[1991], Terrence Floyd [1991], Jeremy 

Rollo [1992], Andy Jones [1994], Mark 

Bini [1997], Yundra Rowsley [1999], Gary 

Morrow [2002], Chip Sodemann [2002], 

Calvin Williams [2002], Tim Guerin 

[2004], Saadiq Grant [2004], Eddie White 

[2006], Jerry Pankey [2009], Patrick Sodemann 

[2010], Larry Toomey [2011], Jake 

Socha [2014] and Wyatt Yess [2017]. 

“We had two alumni games with a retro 

and a modern version,” Wright said. “We 

decorated our small gym, which hosted an 

alumni game lunch as well as a place to display 

memorabilia.” He noted that both games 

were successful and added, “I want to thank 

our program parents Linda Gieseking and 

Kate Gansen for organizing the lunch.” 

After the ceremony, Parkway West 

played Parkway Central. The Longhorns 

fell 44-35. 

“We had a better outing than the first time 

but came up short,” Wright said. 

The day closed after the game; however, 

an alumni social and reception at The 

Shack was well attended, Wright said. 

“It was an amazing day for Longhorn 

basketball,” he said. 

High school wrestling 

The Lafayette Lancers recently won the 

47th Winnetonka Invitational. The Lancers 

finished first in the 28-team field with 340 

points. Park Hill came in second with 331 

points. Staley was third at 312. 

Lafayette had three matmen win championships. 

Jayden Carson won at 113. Cameron 

Wegener was first at 145. Anthony 

Michaels won at 152. 

Coming in second was Jaylen Carson 

at 120 and Cortez Woods at 220. Austin 

Wegener finished fourth at 195. 

• • • 

Eureka’s Kyle Dickhaus came in at 182. 

Dickhaus won at state last year. His teammates, 

Ryan Lester at 126 and Matt Gentry 

at 195, finished third. 

• • • 

CBC finished second in the team standings 

at the 12-team Oak Park-River Forest 

Invitational in Illinois. The Cadets produced 

four champions: senior Cevion Severado 

at 113, senior Malik Johnson at 126, 

sophomore Joshua Saunders at 138 and 

senior D.J. Shannon at 170. 

High school girls basketball 

The defending Class 4 state champion 

Incarnate Word Academy Red Knights 

recently played in the Mercer Academy 

Classic in Louisville, Kentucky. 

Incarnate Word met Mercer County, the 

Associated Press No. 1-ranked girls basketball 

team in Kentucky, and dropped a 

tough 63-60 decision. The Red Knights 

led 58-52 with just less than two minutes 

to play but could not close out Mercer 

County. Incarnate Word had 31 turnovers 

in the loss. 

The Red Knights won their second game 

in the showcase – a 51-46 win over No. 

3-ranked Sacred Heart [Kentucky]. Junior 

Rickie Woltman added 14 points and finished 

off her double-double with 10 rebounds. 

High school boys basketball 

The Chaminade Red Devils bagged their 

second consecutive championship in the 

Chick-fil-A Classic at Belleville East. 

Chaminade defeated Belleville West 

81-77 in overtime. 

Senior Jericole Hellems, a North Carolina 

State recruit who scored 19 points, 

was voted the tournament’s Most Valuable 

Player. But it was senior Jadis White 

who nailed down the victory with two free 

throws, putting the Red Devils ahead by 

See SPORTS BRIEFS, page 26



Parkway South’s Kirsten Votava 

returns, swims well for Patriots 


Kirsten Votava swam as a freshman for 

the Parkway South Patriots. Then, she took 

two years off from swimming on the team. 

But she didn’t want to graduate and let 

her last chance to swim as a Patriot go 

down the drain. 

Votava, who was partially homeschooled 

during her sophomore and junior 

years, said she “returned to Parkway South 

because I knew I would regret not swimming 

high school my senior year.” 

“I did not swim high school my sophomore 

and junior year because I was 

part-time at Parkway South and parttime 

home-schooled,” Votava explained. 

“Homeschooling helped me by giving me 

a flexible schedule, [but] I was unable to 

swim because I was not taking enough 

credit hours at Parkway. 

“I missed high school swimming mainly 

because of my awesome teammates and 

my coach, Sara Gerth. They are what made 

practices so enjoyable.” 

So, Votava came back to swim for the 

Patriots. 

“High school swimming is so important 

because it teaches you to swim for more 

than just yourself,” Votava said. “It teaches 

you how to be a good teammate, good 

example and a good encourager.” 

Gerth said it was tough to lose Votava 

for two years, “but I also wanted her to do 

what was best for her.” Coach and swimmer 

stayed in contact, and when the time 

was right, Gerth helped Votava return. 

“I work in counseling and so would see 

her coming in to talk to her counselor about 

her schedule,” Gerth said. “It was there 

Votava 

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that she told me she was officially enrolled 

in enough classes to be able to compete in 

high school. 

“I was obviously very excited about this 

... because she is fast, but also because 

she has a ton of integrity and would bring 

[those traits] to our team culture.” 

When she was a freshman on the team, 

Gerth realized Votava was going to be a 

good swimmer. 

“She swam great for us her freshman 

year, placing ninth in the 50 free and sixth 

in the 100 free at state,” Gerth said. “She 

was always a key player on our relays.” 

Votava remembers that time with fondness. 

“My freshman year marks the point 

of falling in love with the sport of swimming,” 

Votava said. “High school swimming 

taught me how fun it was to work 

your butt off in practice and then, see the 

results in meets. The amazing friendships 

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Three Rockwood citizens have filed their candidacy for three positions on 

the Rockwood Board of Education as part of the upcoming April election. 

Because the number of candidates filing is equal to the number of open 

positions, Rockwood will not hold a School Board election on April 3, 

2018, as pursuant in Missouri Statute 115.124. 

The two Board candidates, in order of filing, for the three-year terms are 

Ms. Tamara Jo Rhomberg and Ms. Jaime Bayes. One Rockwood citizen, 

Mr. Matt Doell, filed for the remaining one-year 

term that was left vacant when Board Director 

Mr. Herman Kriegshauser passed away while 

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at the School Board’s reorganization meeting 

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I developed on the team helped me decide 

that I wanted to swim in college.” 

Gerth said Votava “continued to improve 

her sophomore and junior year at Parkway 

Swim Club, and really came into herself 

as a swimmer, understanding her strengths 

and weaknesses and honing in on the 

details of what could make her faster.” 

“I first got involved with club swimming 

when I was 13 years old,” said Votava, 

adding that she “wanted summer league to 

continue the whole year.” 

Votava had success in club swimming. 

She made the finals at spring sectionals in 

2017 while on Parkway Swim Club. She 

qualified for winter junior nationals while 

competing with the Clayton Shaw Park 

Swim Club. 

“Clayton Shaw Park Swim Club has provided 

quality swimming by personalizing 

many of the practices to individual needs,” 

Votava said. “The coach, Dave McCrary, 

has worked with my strokes and sprinting 

and built upon my base knowledge.” 

Votava’s main events are the 50 freestyle, 

100 freestyle and 100 butterfly. 

“Lately, I have been adding the 100 backstroke 

into the mix,” Votava said. 

According to Gerth, Votava has fit right 

in with the team. 

“She makes everyone work harder and 

strive to get better, especially those that 

train with her and swim on relays with her,” 

Gerth said. “She is incredibly dedicated 

and is a great team player. She’s also very 

humble, which you don’t always get from 

top level athletes.” 

SPORTS BRIEFS, from page 24 

four points with 3.8 seconds left. 

“First and foremost, when you talk about 

Belleville West, they’re tough, they’re 

scrappy, they’ve got good players at every 

single position,” Chaminade coach Frank 

Bennett said. “Then, on top of that, they’re 

well-coached. So when you’re going into 

a ballgame against them, you have to play 

your ‘A’ game. 

“Our guys did a pretty good job of weathering 

the storm, being in a hostile environment 

where you don’t have very much fan 

support. That’s what you want, though. 

You want to test them to see how good your 

guys are and how they respond.” 

In overtime, Chaminade built a 77-73 

lead, but West junior Jaylin Mosby made 

a free throw to trim the gap to 77-74 with 

2:38 left on the clock. 

Hellems fouled out with 1:40 to play 

as he battled for a rebound after a missed 

free throw by sophomore Luke Kasubke 

[16 points]. EJ Liddell made a free throw 

to make it 77-75. Gladson then scored to 

It’s been a good senior campaign for 

Votava. 

“Kirsten is a sprinter,” Gerth said. 

“Though, she can swim well in any event 

you put her in. She has already achieved 

so much this season. She has qualified 

for state in four events. She won both her 

events at the Kirkwood Invite. She won 

both her events at the City of Roses Invite 

in Cape Girardeau. She was also named the 

meet MVP as voted on by coaches. 

“She has been a part of all three of our 

state qualifying relays [200 Medley, 200 

freestyle and 400 freestyle]. I can’t wait to 

watch her at state.” 

Votava also is happy with her season. 

“This season has been going well so far. 

I have been relatively close to my best 

times,” she said. “It has been an amazing 

season full of learning about how to push 

my swimming to the next level by doubling 

up high school practices with club practices, 

eating healthy and working out on 

my own. This has also added the struggle 

of time management and being able to put 

my academics above my swimming. 

“My expectations for state are to beat one 

or two of Parkway South’s school records.” 

Gerth has equally high hopes for Votava 

at state. 

“I expect to see Kirsten be top three at 

state in whatever two events she chooses 

to swim,” Gerth said. “I wouldn’t be surprised 

at all to see her as state champion 

in one or two events. I also expect her to 

greatly contribute to the success of our 

relays.” 

The state meet is Feb. 16-17 at the Rec- 

Plex in St. Peters. 

put the Red Devils ahead 79-75, but junior 

Marcellus Romious countered for the 

Maroons, closing the gap to 79-77 with 

1:17 remaining. 

Red Devils junior Keyyaun Batchman 

[21 points] missed two free throws with 

46.6 seconds left. Liddell missed a shot in 

the lane and Chaminade called a timeout 

with 3.8 seconds left. 

White was fouled before inbounding the 

ball, then smoothly sank both free throws 

to settle the matter. 

“We kept it together, especially when 

Jericole fouled out,” Bennett said. “That’s 

a time when you can hang your head. It’s 

even a testimony to Jericole. When the 

foul was called, he came out and he was 

the [best supporter of the] five guys on the 

court. He was screaming, clapping, doing 

all that stuff.” 

Last season, Chaminade defeated Althoff 

97-94 to win the championship as Hellems 

erupted for 47 points. 

Joining Hellems, who had 71 points and 

27 rebounds, on the all-tournament team 

was Kasubke.



Lafayette’s Wegener sets sights on 

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When Cameron Wegener came to wrestle 

at Lafayette, he wanted to make varsity 

and a name for himself. He can check off 

both of those goals. 

The Lancers begins the two-day district 

competition Friday, Feb. 9 at Lindbergh 

High. They are one of 16 

teams competing in Class 

4 District 1. 

Wegener, a senior in 

his fourth year on varsity 

who wrestles at 145 

pounds, topped 150 wins 

in January in his Lancers’ 

career. 

“It’s amazing just 

being on the team to me,” 

Wegener said. “I never 

thought about 100 wins, 

so it’s cool that I’d get 

that far.” 

Wegener hopes he has 

more wins in store. 

“I’m not finished,” 

Wegener 

Wegener said. “I could get to 175 when it’s 

all done. That would be really awesome. 

That would be third highest in team history.” 

The school record is 192 wins. 

Coach Jonathan Sumner is impressed 

with what Wegener has accomplished thus 

far. 

“Earning 150 victories in our lineup is a 

big deal,” Sumner said. “Just to crack the 

lineup as a freshmen has been a difficult 

task over the years, and then to win 150 

matches in a tough schedule is an amazing 

accomplishment. It shows how tough and 

hard-working of a young man Cam is.” 

When Wegener came out for the sport as 

a freshman, he saw the possibility he could 

earn a spot on the varsity roster, and he did 

just that. 

“It was just kind of surreal,” Wegener 

said. “I was proud. I was thinking, ‘I’m 

actually this good to be wrestling with the 

big kids now.’” 

Wegener noted that, in Little League 

wrestling, he did not have even a glimpse 

of what was to come in high school. 

“I wasn’t really that good,” Wegener 

acknowledged. “In my eighth grade year 

going into my freshman year, I started 

working with coach Sumner. That’s when 

my wrestling really took off. That’s when 

I felt like I could be good wrestler. Coach 

Sumner is a huge reason for my success.” 

Getting Wegener into the program and 

learning was essential, Sumner said. He 

also was better than he said he was. 

“We knew Cam had the potential to be 

great,” Wegener said. “He came in with a 

great skill set and we saw a bright future 

for him. His hard work has led him to 

where he is now as a senior.” 

Working to get better is something on 

which Wegener thrives. 

“It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of 

hours in the wrestling room,” Wegener 

said. “When you’re in 

the middle of the mat, 

there’s nobody else to 

rely on. It’s just you and 

the other guy. You can’t 

point fingers. It’s all on 

you if you win or lose.” 

Wegener qualified for 

state both as a freshman 

and sophomore, finishing 

in the top eight – one 

match from finishing 

with a state medal. 

It all came together for 

Wegener as a junior when 

he placed fourth in state 

at 132. Finally getting 

that medal drove him all 

that much more to do better in his last campaign 

as a senior Lancer. 

In addition to being a standout athlete, 

Wegener, a team captain this season, has 

become a role model for his younger team 

members. 

“Cam is a lead by example kind of guy,” 

Sumner said. “He is constantly taking care 

of business and doing the right things and 

other kids look up to him. When you have 

been to the state tournament every year you 

have been in high school, naturally kids are 

looking at you for leadership. He has done 

a good job of showing our younger kids 

what it takes.” 

Wegener has set high hopes and expectations 

for himself. 

“I really expect myself to win state this 

year at 145,” Wegener said. “My main 

competition will be from Josh Steele 

of Park Hill and Corey Wait of Francis 

Howell I think.” 

After high school, Wegener said he may 

wrestle in college. 

“I’m still thinking on it,” Wegener said. 

“One school is Colorado School of Mines 

in Denver. Maybe Missouri S & T. I want 

to study engineering.” 

Sumner fully supports Wegener wrestling 

at the next level, but admits he will 

miss having Wegener around. 

“Cam is a great young man. Our whole 

coaching staff enjoys being around him,” 

Sumner said. “We look forward to a great 

finish from him this season and, most 

importantly, seeing him grow into a great 

man who will pursue his life goals.” 

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Annual Heart Fair promotes 

cardiovascular health 

As a service to the community during 

American Heart Month in February, BJC 

Missouri Baptist Medical Center will hold 

its annual Heart Fair on Saturday, Feb. 24. 

The free event runs from 8:30 a.m.-1:30 

p.m. at the hospital’s campus, located at 

3015 N. Ballas Road. 

The Heart Fair will include a number of 

health screenings available at no cost to 

attendees, including blood pressure, cholesterol, 

glucose level, BMI and body composition 

measurement. For those identified 

through these tests as being at high risk for 

heart disease, stroke or diabetes, Missouri 

Baptist will provide follow-up services 

at several points during the year, focused 

on assisting those individuals with health 

management and lifestyle changes as well 

as connecting them to necessary medical 

resources to help them lower their risk. 

In addition to screenings, the familyfriendly 

event will include live hearthealthy 

cooking demonstrations and free 

food samples from Dierbergs; exercise 

classes including yoga and Tai Chi; health 

presentations by physicians, and a number 

of interactive activities for families and 

kids. A blood donation drive to benefit the 

American Red Cross also will be held. 

Advanced registration for the Heart Fair, 

as well as for the free health screenings, is 

recommended by visiting missouribaptist. 

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CDC declares flu epidemic, issues 

updated treatment guidelines 

This year’s nasty flu season recently 

prompted the U.S. Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention [CDC] to declare 

a nationwide epidemic. Unfortunately, flu 

statistics show Missouri to be the hardesthit 

state in the country, with more than 

40,000 cases reported so far. In St. Louis 

County, the flu definitely has reached widespread 

levels – for the week ending Jan. 14 

alone, 1,074 cases were reported countywide, 

although that number was down 

slightly from the 1,282 cases reported 

during the first week in January. 

According to both the CDC and local lab 

test results, influenza A – more specifically, 

the A[H3N2] virus – has been the predominant 

strain circulating this season. In the past, 

this strain has been associated with more hospitalizations 

and deaths than other subtypes 

of the flu, especially in young children and 

those over age 65. At the same time, vaccine 

effectiveness against H3N2 has proven to be 

lower compared to other flu strains. 

For those reasons, the CDC stated, the 

use of antiviral medications for treatment of 

influenza is extremely important this year. 

These medications, called neuraminidase 

inhibitors, include Oseltamivir [Tamiflu], 

Zanamivir [Relenza], Laninamivir [Inavir] 

and Peramivir [Rapivab]. 

They are most effective in treating and 

reducing serious complications from the 

flu when started soon after symptoms 

begin – within 36 to 48 hours, if possible. 

However, data from previous flu seasons 

suggests that these medications have not 

been fully utilized in outpatients and hospitalized 

patients with influenza. Therefore, 

the CDC recommended that all patients in 

high-risk categories should be started on 

an antiviral medication as soon as possible 

after they become ill, even before 

test results confirming the flu are available. 

Although the medications work best when 

started within two days of the onset of flu 

symptoms, they still can be of some help 

when started later in the illness, which may 

last for two weeks or more. 

Migraine surgery may 

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Those who suffer from migraine headaches 

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symptoms: severe throbbing or pulsating 

pain, generally on just one side of 

the head, which is often accompanied by 

nausea, vomiting and extreme sensitivity 

to light and sound. Over the past several 

years, migraine surgery has been available 

as a potential treatment for people 

whose severe migraines don’t respond 

well to medications. Developed by plastic 

surgeons who noticed that some migraine 

patients had fewer headaches after undergoing 

cosmetic forehead lifts, migraine 

surgery uses one of several techniques to 

relieve pressure on the nerves that trigger 

migraines. 

A new study, published recently in the 

journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 

® , used a pain survey called the Pain 

Self-Efficacy Questionnaire [PSEQ] to 

evaluate the effectiveness of migraine 

surgical procedures. It provides information 

not only on pain scores, but also on 

functional disability and ability to cope 

with pain when performing normal daily 

activities. 

The study included 90 patients who 

underwent migraine surgery between 

2013 and 2015. Before and after surgery, 

patients were evaluated with a standard 

migraine questionnaire [the Migraine 

Headache Inventory, or MHI] and with 

the PSEQ. Before surgery, the patients 

had generally “extremely poor” PSEQ 

scores, indicating a high level of disability. 

One year after migraine surgery, however, 

the patients showed an extremely 

large improvement of 112 percent in average 

PSEQ scores, much higher than previous 

studies of patients with other types of 

chronic pain. 

“The [study] results show that migraine 

surgery can lead to dramatic improvements 

in functioning and coping ability, even in 

patients who are very disabled before surgery,” 

said Dr. William G. Austen Jr., of 

Massachusetts General Hospital, who performed 

the migraine surgeries in the study 

patients. 

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in compliance with Title IV, Land Use, of the Municipal Code of the City of Ellisville.

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2103 Penta Drive • High Ridge 

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HIGH & DRY Foundation Repair is a family-owned business serving the greater St. Louis area 

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have more than 25 years of business experience. They and their trained, courteous and reliable 

crew live in the community they service, specializing in West County. They want their customers 

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and precise appointment times for each customer. Their trustworthy staff provides high quality 

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14583 Manchester Road • Manchester • (636) 394-5710 

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Presleys Glass is a family-owned and -operated, full-service glass company located in Pacific. 

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Union Furniture makes homes beautiful from the floor up. Whether looking to furnish an entire 

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Victor Shade Company is proudly celebrating its 110th year as a family-owned and -operated 

St. Louis Company. The company’s goal is to provide custom-made shades, shutters and blinds 

with superior customer service. As a Hunter Douglas Gallery Dealer, Victor Shade is able to offer 

customers a full range of products and options to satisfy even the most discerning taste. Visit Victor 

Shade’s newly redesigned showroom to see, touch and feel full-size products. Victor Shade also 

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Local resident celebrates 110th birthday 

By JIM MERKEL 

When Lucy Hamm was born, Theodore 

Roosevelt was president. She was in her 

20s during the Depression. A resident of 

Brooking Park Assisted Living in Chesterfield, 

she celebrated her 110th birthday on 

Jan. 30. 

Hamm says she’s not as active as she 

was before she moved to Brooking Park 

from the Tower Grove Manor retirement 

apartments in St. Louis late in 2015. But 

she still keeps busy. 

“Up until October of 2015, she was completely 

independent,” said Janice Hamm, 

Lucy’s daughter-in-law. “But she still does 

everything she possibly can.” 

What’s Lucy’s secret to living so long? 

“I guess the good Lord thought I was 

good,” she said. But others have different 

ideas. 

Janice said Lucy credited her long life to 

hard work. She worked at shoe companies 

and retired at 72. 

She’s the only one of her parents’ 13 

children to live so long, Janice said of 

her mother-in-law. She added that part of 

the secret to Lucy’s long life likely is a 

good basic diet when she was young and 

poor. But Lucy’s granddaughter, Debbie 

Meyer, offered a different story. “When I 

was younger, she used to say ‘A beer a day, 

every day but Sunday,’” Meyer said. 

Lucy was born on Jan. 30, 1908, in Cairo, 

Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi 

and the Ohio rivers. 

“I remember we was poor. My dad had 

a brick yard,” she said. Lucy was the first 

person in her family to go to high school. 

After she married, she moved to Missouri. 

Hamm 

“My husband didn’t have a job, so we 

just came up here for him to get a job,” she 

said. “I didn’t like [St. Louis] at first, but I 

finally got used to it.” 

During World War II, Lucy was in 

charge of an inspection department at a 

small arms factory. She and her husband 

had two children, seven grandchildren, 11 

great-grandchildren and one great-greatgrandchild. 

When you live to be 110, you witness 

a lot of history and, when you like to be 

involved, you experience a lot of it, too. 

“So many times when you’re talking, she 

comes up with something you didn’t know 

before,” Janice said. 

While at Tower Grove Manor, people 

started calling her the sheriff, because she 

was involved with everything. She still is 

involved in a lot of things. “Don’t forget, 

I’m still working. I’m playing bingo,” 

Hamm said, wearing a tin toy badge. And 

the sheriff has no desire to stop. 


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level center court. The event will feature 

information from a variety of health and 

wellness experts, a blood drive sponsored 

by the American Red Cross, free food samples 

and live music. For more information, 

visit chesterfield-mall.com. 

• • • 

Cholesterol and glucose wellness 

screenings are available from 7-10:30 

a.m. on Friday, Feb. 16 at the St. Luke’s 

Hospital Resource Center, 101 St. Luke’s 

Center Drive in Chesterfield. Screenings 

including cholesterol and glucose measurement; 

a one-on-one consultation with a 

registered nurse/health coach also includes 

blood pressure and body composition measurements. 

The fee for all screenings is 

$20; a minimum 10-hour fast and advance 

appointments are required. Register online 

at stlukes-stl.com. 

• • • 

Area residents are encouraged to participate 

in an American Red Cross blood 

drive from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 

23 at St. Luke’s Hospital’s Institute for 

Health Education, 222 S. Woods Mill Road 

in Chesterfield [North Medical Office 

Building, Level 2]. To register for an 

appointment time, visit redcrossblood.org 

and enter the sponsor code SAINTLUKES 

or call 314-658-2090. 

• • • 

St. Luke’s Hospital holds its annual 

Spirit of Women Day of Dance event 

from 9 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Feb. 24 at 

the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Conference 

Center, 16625 Swingley Ridge Road 

in Chesterfield. Join the largest dance party 

in St. Louis while learning fun ways to stay 

healthy, including Zumba and other dance 

fitness demonstrations. Enjoy a morning 

of dance, music, health screenings and 

shopping, along with half-price massage 

sales. Attendance is free, but registration is 

required by visiting www.stlukes-stl.com. 

For more information, call (314) 205-6706. 

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About 25 percent of American adults are 

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sitting in a chair at work and then heading 

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A sedentary lifestyle leads to greater risk 

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as it eventually causes the heart muscle 

to shrink and its vessels to stiffen. But if 

inactive middle-aged women and men get 

up and get moving with an aerobic workout 

routine, they can reduce or even reverse 

that risk, a new study shows. 

Scientists randomly assigned a group of 

more than 50 sedentary people between 

the ages of 45 and 64 either to an aerobic 

training program, which involved doing 

high- and moderate-intensity exercise at 

least four days a week, or to a yoga, balance 

and strength training program three 

days a week. The participants exercised 

consistently for two years. The researchers 

conducted tests to assess heart function 

both before and after the study period. 

They found that the participants who did 

regular aerobic exercise showed significant 

improvements in how their bodies used 

oxygen, and also had less cardiac stiffness, 

two key indicators of a healthier heart. Cardiac 

stiffness and oxygen usage remained 

unchanged among those who did the yoga, 

balance and strength training program. 

“We found what we believe to be the 

optimal dose of the right kind of exercise, 

which is four to five times a week, and the 

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behavior can be improved,” said the 

study’s lead author Dr. Benjamin Levine, a 

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Although making a two-year commitment 

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The negative effects of a sedentary lifestlyle 

on heart health can be overcome by older 

adults, a new study shows. 

Commercially available tests that claim to 

measure the rate of physical aging may not 

provide reliable results, a recent analysis 

found. 

challenge for many, Levine said he recommends 

making regular exercise of any type 

a priority. The optimal weekly program, he 

added, would include at least one hour of 

an exercise such as tennis, cycling, running 

or brisk walking; one aerobic session 

that includes interval training; two or three 

days of moderate-intensity exercise; and at 

least one strength training session. “That’s 

my prescription for life,” he said. The 

study was published in the American Heart 

Association’s journal Circulation. 

No accurate test of aging 

Whether it’s by taking a simple online 

quiz or spending hundreds of dollars on 

chromosome or blood testing, many people 

passing through midlife into their senior 

years are attempting to find out whether 

they are aging faster or slower than their 

actual ages would suggest. Unfortunately, 

though, a recent analysis of these tests 

shows that those tests may not provide 

accurate information. 

A head-to-head comparison of different 

measures of aging in the body, including 

blood and chromosome tests like those 

being sold commercially, has found that 

they significantly disagree on the aging 

speed of the person being tested. This comparison 

was based on a lifetime study of 

about 1,000 Dunedin, New Zealand residents 

who have been studied extensively 

from birth to age 38. Working with data 

from that study, researchers from Duke 

University found contradictory results 

among biological measures used to predict 

the participants’ rate of aging from age 26 

to 38. 

For comparisons, the researchers looked 

at physical markers of aging collected 

from the Dunedin study group, including 

balance, grip, motor coordination, physical 

limitations, cognitive function and decline, 

self-reported health and facial aging as 

judged by others. The research team also 

examined genetic tests of the participants 

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An analysis of physiological measures, 

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studied performed well enough to accurately 

predict aging rate, the researchers 

concluded. Belsky said the search will 

continue for accurate tests of aging. As scientists 

focus on finding new treatments to 

slow the aging process, “we’d like to know 

in less than 30 years whether the treatment 

works,” he added. The study findings were 

published last November in the American 

Journal of Epidemiology. 

A regular regimen of facial 

exercises may help older 

women look a few years 

younger. 

Facelift workout 

The anti-aging benefits of exercise also 

apply above the neck, according to new 

research conducted at Northwestern University. 

Researchers found that women who 

did a 30-minute facial exercise program, 

either daily or every other day, looked an 

average of three years younger after completing 

20 weeks of exercises. The study, 

published in JAMA Dermatology, was the 

first scientific effort to test the effects of 

facial exercise on appearance. 

As the face ages, loss of skin elasticity 

occurs along with thinning of the fat 

pads between the skin and facial muscles, 

causing it to lose its youthful fullness and 

begin to droop. “But if muscle underneath 

becomes bigger, the skin has more stuffing 

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appears to make the shape of the face more 

full,” said senior study author Emily Poon, 

an assistant research professor in dermatology 

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the ages of 40 and 65, received training to 

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for 30 minutes per day for the first 

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of raters both before and after the study 

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Participants also reported 

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“Now there is evidence that 

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On the calendar 

A Today’s Grandparents class is 

offered from 6:30-9 p.m. on Tuesday, 

Feb. 13 at Missouri Baptist Medical 

Center, 3023 N. Ballas Road, in Suite 

400 of Building D. This two-hour class 

serves as an update for grandparentsto-be, 

and focuses on current trends in 

infant care as well as tips on local and 

distant grandparenting. Discussion time 

and a tour of the hospital’s OB division 

are included. Cost is $20 per person; registration 

is required for each grandparent 

attending. Register online at https:// 

classes-events.bjc.org/wlp2/. For more 

information, call (314) 996-5433. 

• • • 

An AARP Smart Driver Course is 

from 9 a.m.-1 p.m on Wednesday, Feb. 14. 

at the St. Luke’s Hospital North Medical 

Building, 232 S. Woods Mill Road 

in Chesterfield. 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 nonmembers. 

To register, call (314) 780-8465. 

• • • 

Join an orthopedic physician for Knee 

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discussion about minimally invasive knee 

replacement surgery and other treatment 

options for arthritic knees. The free session 

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at St. Luke’s Hospital, 232 S. Woods Mill 

Road in Chesterfield, in the third floor conference 

room on the main level. Register 

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PLACES 

Brewer’s Flooring is celebrating its 

35th year in business. The store, located at 

6 Meramec Valley Plaza in Valley Park, is 

locally owned and operated by the Brewer 

family and specializes in the service and 

installation of residential and commercial 

flooring. 

• • • 

Chesterfield Mall recently underwent 

an extensive lighting upgrade throughout 

most of its common areas and retail spaces, 

earning over $98,000 in incentives from 

the Ameren Missouri BizSavers 

program. It is estimated that the 

upgrade will save the mall nearly 

$93,000 on its yearly energy 

statement. The mall worked with 

Villa Lighting and the Biz Savers 

program to upgrade its HID, CFL 

and metal halide lighting to LED 

lighting. 

• • • 

The fifth location of Seoul 

Taco, a Korean-Mexican fastcasual 

restaurant, now is open 

in Chesterfield at 46 Four Seasons 

Shopping Center. Chef/Owner David 

Choi’s menu showcases the recipes and 

flavors of his Korean-American upbringing 

in Chesterfield and features Koreaninfluenced 

tacos, quesadillas, burritos and 

nachos. 

• • • 

St. Louis County Library has been 

ranked as a four-star library in the Library 

Journal Index of Public Library Service 

for the fourth consecutive year. SLCL is 

the only library in the St. Louis area to be 

included in this year’s index, and one of six 

in the state of Missouri. The rank of four 

stars indicates a high per capita use in four 

major areas of library service: library visits, 

circulation, program attendance and public 

internet computer use. To create the index, 

public libraries are compared to others with 

similar annual expenditures and ranked 

accordingly. 

Interior of the new Seoul Taco in Chesterfield 

• • • 

Parents as Teachers National Center 

announced a gift of $100,000 from BJC 

HealthCare to establish the Susan and 

Steven Lipstein Show Me Strong Families 

Fund. BJC HealthCare made the gift 

on behalf of Susan and Steven Lipstein to 

honor Steven’s retirement as chief executive 

officer of BJC HealthCare and to 

honor Susan’s service as a certified Parents 

as Teachers parent educator in the Clayton 

School District. The gift will establish a 

fund in perpetuity to improve the health, 

academic achievement and overall wellbeing 

of children in St. Louis. 

PEOPLE 

The Missouri Foundation 

for Health has 

named DiAnne Mueller, 

CEO of Saint Louis 

Crisis Nursery, as the 

Mueller 

2017 recipient of the Dr. 

Corinne Walentik Leadership in Health 

Award. Mueller has served as CEO of the 

Crisis Nursery for more than 23 years and 

has dedicated her professional life to preventing 

child abuse and helping marginalized 

people live healthier lives. The Saint 

Louis Crisis Nursery provides emergency 

intervention, respite care and support to 

families in crisis through short-term care 

for young children, crisis resolution and 

advocacy. 

• • • 

Denny Mertz, a 

Chesterfield farmer and 

resident, has received 

the 2017 St. Louis Agribusiness 

Club Member 

of the Year award for his 

Mertz 

agricultural advocacy, 

education and promotion efforts. Mertz 

recently concluded an eight-year term on 

the board of directors of the Missouri Farm 

Bureau and is a past president and current 

board member of the Agricultural Leadership 

of Tomorrow Foundation. Mertz’s 

ancestors settled in the Chesterfield region 

in the 1840s. 

• • • 

Susan G. Komen Missouri recently 

announced the appointment of Suzanne 

Fontaine as the organization’s 

next executive 

director. Most recently, 

Fontaine was director of 

events and marketing for 

St. Louis Children’s Hospital 

Foundation, where Fontaine 

she and her team raised 

more than $3.5 million in charitable contributions 

annually. Fontaine earned her Master 

of Arts degree in communication from the 

University of Missouri and her Bachelor of 

Arts degree in communication from the University 

of Tulsa. 

NETWORKING AND EVENTS 

The Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce’s 

Business After Hours is from 5-7 

p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8 at Sports Fusion, 

140 Long Road in Chesterfield. The event 

is free for members and $15 for guests. For 

more information, call (636) 532-3399 or 

email info@chesterfieldmochamber.com. 

• • • 

The Creve Coeur Chamber of Commerce’s 

Coffee Connection event is from 

8-9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 9 at Brown Smith 

Wallace, 6 CityPlace Drive in Creve Coeur. 

The event is free to attend. Contact Nancy 

Gray at (314) 569-3536 to register and for 

more information. 

• • • 

A Business Roundtable is from 7:30-9 

a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15 at Midwest Bank 

Centre, 500 Chesterfield Center in Chesterfield. 

The featured speaker is Jeff Greene 

from Chick-fil-A. For more information, 

call (636) 532-3399 or email info@chesterfieldmochamber.com. 

• • • 

The West County Chamber of Commerce’s 

Government Affairs & Transportation 

Forum is from 7:30-9 a.m. on 

Friday, Feb. 16 at the St. Louis County 

Police Department, Office of Emergency 

Management, 1150 Hanna Road in Ballwin. 

The event is free and open to the public; 

complimentary breakfast. Features updates 

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Looking for a way to eat well and socialize 

during Lent? Get hooked on multiple 

fish frys going on in the West County area. 

Fish frys at the following locations will be 

available on Fridays throughout Lent: 

American Legion Post 208, 225 Old 

Sulphur Spring Road in Manchester from 

4-7:30 p.m. For more information, call 

(636) 391-9424. 

• • • 

American Legion Post 397, 934 Rue De 

La Banque in Creve Coeur from 11 a.m.-2 

p.m. and 4:30-8 p.m. Among the menu 

items are catfish, cod, shrimp, chicken 

tenders and grilled cheese sandwiches. For 

more information, call (314) 872-3186. 

• • • 

Big Chief Roadhouse, 17352 Manchester 

Road in Wildwood from 5-10 p.m. Beerbattered 

cod will return from last year’s 

event, along with fried cod sandwiches and 

other entree items. Side items such as cole 

slaw, hush puppies, chips and fries also are 

available. Visit bigchiefstl.com for more 

information or call (636) 458-3200. 

• • • 

Christ Prince of Peace Parish, 415 

Weidman Road in Manchester from 4:45- 

7:30 p.m. Fried cod, baked tilapia, grilled 

shrimp, cheese pizza and more. For details, 

visit christprinceofpeace.com. 

• • • 

Holy Infant Catholic Church, 627 

Dennison Drive in Ballwin from 4:30-8 

p.m. Deep fried grouper, plank, baked 

salmon, fried cod, baked tilapia and shrimp 

are featured. There are light dinners, sides 

and children’s dinners available, too. For 

details, visit holyinfantballwin.org. 

• • • 

Incarnate Word Knights of Columbus, 

13416 Olive Blvd. in Chesterfield from 4-7 

p.m. Fried cod, fried shrimp, baked tilapia 

fillets, shrimp and cod gumbo, fried shrimp 

po’boy sandwiches and more. Bulk orders 

and online payments for most of the menu 

items also will be accepted this year. Meals 

will be held in the Lower Church Hall. For 

details, visit iwknights.com. 

• • • 

Sacred Heart Parish, 12 Ann Ave. in 

Valley Park from 4-7:30 p.m. Fried cod, 

shrimp and baked tilapia are among some 

of the menu items. For details, visit sacredheartvp.org 

or call (636) 225-5268. 

• • • 

St. Alban Roe, 2001 Shepard Road in 

Wildwood from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Dinner 

dates are Feb. 23, March 2, March 9 and 

March 16. For more information and menu 

details, visit stalbanroe.org or call (636) 

458-2977. 

• • • 

St. Bridget of Kildare, 223 W. Union St. 

in Pacific, 4:30-7 p.m. Fried catfish, cod, 

shrimp, baked tilapia, spaghetti, cole slaw 

and desserts. For more information, visit 

sbkparish.org or call (636) 271-3993. 

• • • 

St. Joseph Parish, 567 Saint Joseph 

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For details and menu options, call (636) 

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Creve Coeur club offers would-be athletes chance to 

‘sweep, slide, throw’ in Olympic-style 


Of all the sports set to grace television 

screens as part of the upcoming 2018 

Winter Olympics, only one of them has the 

distinction of being known as “chess on 

ice.” That sport involves a sheet of ice, a 

polished stone weighing about 40 pounds 

and brooms. 

It’s also called “The Roaring Game” 

because of the sound made by the stones as 

they move down the ice. But you probably 

know it simply as “curling.” 

“Curling is often referred to as ‘chess on 

ice’ because there is a lot of 

strategy involved but, unlike 

chess, things don’t always 

go as you plan in curling,” 

curler Flannery Allison said. 

The sport began as a form 

of documented recreation 

in 16th century Scotland. 

Today, it has a notable local 

following with participants 

from West County, St. 

Charles County and even 

small towns in Illinois gathering 

at the Creve Coeur Ice 

Arena each week. 

The St. Louis Curling Club [SLCC] 

began in 2010 when founder Nancy Rogers 

gathered about 10 members at an arena in 

Fairview Heights, Illinois. Its current roster 

consists of about 70 competing curlers. Its 

new home, off Olde Cabin Road in Creve 

Coeur, is the result of one woman’s determination. 

“... around 2012, the Fairview Heights 

ice rink there closed,” explained current 

president Becca Walters. “It was built on 

top of a mine and started to collapse.” 

Walters, who curled in Seattle for about 

eight years before relocating to St. Louis, 

added that she began looking for a St. 

Louis home for the curling club “before I 

even moved here, and Creve Coeur said we 

could use their ice to curl.” But between 

the rink collapse and the relocation, a 

14-month hiatus occurred. 

According to curler Joe VanArtsdalen, 

the club managed to officially reform at 

its new Creve Coeur location around 2014, 

thus missing the rush of interest from the 

Vancouver and Sochi Winter Olympics. 

Not so this year. 

When curlers take to the ice in 

PyeongChang for the XXIII Winter Olympic 

Games [Feb. 9-25], the club will be 

open and offering lessons. 

“We were around in 

2014, but this is our first 

Olympic season as an 

official club,” VanArtsdalen 

said. “So this 

is a really fun time for 

people to really get into 

curling.” 

Curling debuted as a 

medal sport in the 1998 

Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan. 

As of 2017, about 1.5 million people curl 

in 33 different countries, according to the 

St. Louis Curling Club. 

The game involves players using strength 

and dexterity to slide stones on a sheet of 

ice toward a target area. The team’s captain, 

also known as the skip, offers advice 

on where and how to aim the stone. Teams 

take turns sliding the stones, which can 

range in weight from 38 to 44 pounds, 

down the ice and toward a circular target 

known as the house. Points are scored for 

the stones resting closest to the center of 

the house. The objective is to score the 

highest number of points. 

Each time a curler throws the stone, two 

sweepers accompany it and sweep the ice 

as the stone moves down the sheet, thus 

altering factors like direction, friction and 

speed without directly touching the stone. 

“It’s more difficult than you think,” curler 

Irene Hasegawa said. “It surprises people, 

but you can also learn how to play just by 

watching the game.” 

According to curler Jim Winslade, the 

sport is based highly on elements of accuracy, 

precision and communication among 

team members. The sport also has an element 

of unpredictability that keeps players 

on their toes. 

Curling shoes feature sleek discs 

to help players slide on the ice. 

Curlers Darel Shelton and Irene Hasegawa sweep a stone as it curls down 

the ice. 

[Jessica Meszaros photos] 

Unlike other sports, curling doesn’t have 

set positions, meaning players have to be 

proficient at sweeping the ice and throwing 

stones. 

“One of the most common misconceptions 

[comes when] people ask ‘what 

position do you play?’ They ask, ‘Are 

you a sweeper?’ or ‘Do you throw stones?’ 

Everyone throws two stones and gets to 

sweep, and the skip’s job is incredibly 

important,” VanArtsdalen said. 

According to Walters, the club already 

has seen a spike in membership since relocating 

to the Creve Coeur location. 

“When I started with the club around 

three-and-a-half years ago, they only had 

about 15 members and only had one set of 

stones that someone had given us a loan to 

buy, and we were renting another set from 

Wisconsin,” Walters said. “We now have 

two sets of children stones and five sets 

of adult ones, so we can have five games 

going at once.” 

Due to local interest, the club is holding 

multiple classes and events in the coming 

weeks for those who would like to test their 

knack for curling. The Learn to Curl events 

will take place at the Creve Coeur 

Ice Arena through March 

with additional events 

possible in April 

depending on popularity. 

The goal is 

to teach the basics 

of the game, 

including stone 

delivery, sweeping, 

strategy and 

scoring. Participants 

also will take 

part in a short game. 

“We are expecting a big turnout,” Steve 

Young, SLCC vice president, said. “We 

already have people signed up for sessions 

going into early March.” 

There are over 15,000 curlers in over 135 

clubs in the United States. SLCC’s members 

span a variety of ages, backgrounds 

and skill levels. According to Winslade, a 

lot of members have between zero to three 

years of experience. 

“We do lose members from time to time, 

but we’ve also attracted a lot of new people 

that have just jumped in with both feet and 

have never curled before and find that they 

like it, and away they go,” Winslade said. 

Allison added, “As far as St. Louis goes, 

there’s a pretty wide variety of curlers. 

Especially in our leagues, a lot of people 

have never curled before. For most people, 

it’s ‘I saw this on the Olympics and I want 

to try it.’ That is 90 percent of people.” 

With continued growth, the club is hoping 

to be able to secure its own dedicated ice. 

The Creve Coeur Ice Arena, which usually 

is used for events like hockey, is not 

regulated for curling due to elements like 

its slightly bowl-shaped structure. The club 

also has to go out prior to practices and 

leagues to make their own marks on the 

ice, something that would not be necessary 

with dedicated curling ice. 

“Our biggest challenge is working with 

the ruts created by hockey skates and 

figure skates,” Young said. “Zambonis can 

sometimes do the job, but any ridges and 

valleys in the ice are still enough to make 

the stone curl in funny ways.” 

According to Allison, the hardest part of 

the club’s current and ongoing search for 

an ice facility is finding a structure that 

meets regulation measurements, including 

a length of at least 190 feet. 

“It’s very specific and that’s the issue,” 

Allison said. “Warehouses tend to be very 

big, but that’s not really an issue for our 

club outside of the financial side. 

Bigger buildings are more 

expensive, but we’re 

still actively searching 

for a





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building.” 

So far, the club has raised just shy of 

$50,000 for the dedicated ice fund thanks 

to trivia nights, individual donations and 

bonspiels, the curling version of a tournament. 

On Jan. 27-28, the club hosted the 

2nd Annual Winter Classic Bonspiel at 

Waltham Curling Club in Triumph, Illinois. 

Seven teams from St. Louis joined curlers 

from Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Oklahoma, 

Ohio and Texas for the event. An additional 

$5,000 was fundraised toward the 

dedicated ice fund goal of $165,000. 

The St. Louis Curling Club also participates 

in an annual spring ‘friendly’ bonspiel 

with other local teams. Proceeds from that 

event also go toward the dedicated fund. 

The 2018 Waltham Friendly takes place 

from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on Saturday, March 17 

at the Waltham Curling Club. 

The club hopes to be in a new facility 

sometime in 2018. Goals for the proposed 

facility include hosting weekend curling, a 

youth program, wheelchair curling, adult 

leagues, open practice times and corporate 

rentals. 

people to come curl.” 

Individuals planning to attend the organization’s 

Learn to Curl events should 

dress warmly and wear rubber-soled shoes. 

All other equipment will be provided by 

the St. Louis Curling Club. 

“We don’t expect any experience,” Allison 

said. “We supply all of the equipment, 

and it’s basically a two-hour rundown of 

the sport. They go from knowing nothing 

to playing a game at the end.” 

“I’d love to see even more players, and 

older individuals, continue to get into curling 

as well,” Winslade said. “You don’t 

need to be 25 and a superb athlete 

to enjoy curling.” 

Reservations for the Learn to 

Curl events can be booked on the 

St. Louis Curling Club’s Facebook 

page and its website [stlouiscurlingclub.org]. 

The cost is 

$25 per person; reservations are 

not required but strongly recommended. 

“We always tell people to try it, 

and to come out and curl with us,” 

Allison said. “We don’t turn people 

away.” 

[Left to right] Curlers Zach Folk, Dylan Smith, Kalen 

Smith and Steve Young get the stones ready on the ice 

prior to a game. 

[Left to right] Curlers Michael Allison and Eric 

Smith sweep a stone as it curls down the ice. 

“We would love a facility with men’s 

and women’s locker rooms and also have 

a kitchen for bonspiels so people don’t 

have to just bring crockpots,” Young said. 

“We’d love to also have a liquor license 

because it’s a tradition that the winning 

team buys the losing team their first round. 

It’s a very social sport, and because some 

people come from pretty far, we’d love to 

have the means to continue that tradition.” 

The new facility also would continue to 

expand the club’s new high school league, 

which started in spring 2017 and includes 

Cor Jesu Academy, Nerinx Hall High and 

Visitation Academy. 

“Having that larger facility would also 

allow us to increase our membership 

opportunities, and would also allow us to 

curl more than once a week,” Young said. 

“Saturday is a difficult time for a lot of

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The St. Louis Civic Orchestra performs 

at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 17 in the William 

D. Purser Center on the campus of 

Logan University, 1851 Schoettler Road in 

Chesterfield. For tickets and more information, 

visit stlco.org. 

BENEFITS 

A Fat Friday Cajun Dinner is from 6-10 

p.m. on Friday, Feb. 9 at Incarnate Word 

Parish, 13416 Olive Blvd. in Chesterfield. 

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Columbus Developmental Center at Cardinal 

Glennon Children’s Hospital. Tickets 

are $30 and include dinner, two drinks 

[beer or wine] and live music. 

• • • 

The Hope Is Where The Heart Is 

Gala is from 5:30-9 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 

10 at The Chase Park Plaza, 212 N. Kingshighway. 

Live music by Mirage. Individual 

tickets are $200 starting Feb. 1. To 

buy tickets, visit wingsofhope.ngo/gala or 

call (636) 537-1302. 

• • • 

A Valentine’s Sweetheart Concert by 

the Gateway City Big Band is from 2-4 

p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 11 at the Chesterfield 

Community Theatre at the Chesterfield 

Family YMCA, 16464 Burkhardt Place. 

Proceeds benefit the YMCA annual campaign. 

Tickets are a minimum donation of 

$15 in advance or $20 at the door. Contact 

the Y welcome center for group rates for 

10 or more. Tickets are available online 

at gwrymca.org/chesterfield, at the Y and 

by calling (636) 532-3100. 

• • • 

The Arya Foundation hosts “The Golden 

Gala Dinner and Fundraiser” from 5-8 

p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 17 at the Maryland 

Heights Community Center, 2300 McKelvey 

Road in Maryland Heights. This 

fundraiser includes dinner, performances, 

activities and silent auction. For more 

information or to purchase tickets, visit 

TheAryaFoundation.org/fundraiser. 

• • • 

A Pancake and Sausage Supper is 

from 3-7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 17 at 

Bethel United Methodist Church, 17500 

Manchester Road, just west of Wildwood 

Middle School in Wildwood. The cost is 

$8 for adults, $4 for children ages 5-12, 

and free for children under 5. Sausage and 

homemade scrapple available for sale; preorder 

and receive a discount. To order, call 

the church at (636) 458-2255. 

• • • 

The eighth annual Got Heart Trivia 

Night, hosted by the Gateway Chapter of 

the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association, 

is held at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 17 

at Mercy Hospital Von Gontard Conference 

Center, 615 S. New Ballas Road in 

St. Louis. Tables of 10 are $150. Soda is 

included; alcohol and snacks are welcome. 

Proceeds benefit AED/CPR education and 

AED placement in the Gateway area. For 

tickets, call Linda at (314) 443-1011 or 

email gatewaychapterofscaa@yahoo.com. 

FAMILY & KIDS 

An African American Author & Illustrator 

Scavenger Hunt is now through 

Feb. 28 at Daniel Boone Branch Library, 

300 Clarkson Road in Ellisville. All ages 

can celebrate Black History Month with a 

scavenger hunt. The event takes place on 

the lower level. For more information, call 

(314) 994-3300 or visit slcl.org. 

• • • 

Grandparent Classes are from 6:30- 

8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8 at St. Luke’s 

Hospital Conference Room [third floor], 

232 S. Woods Mill Road in Chesterfield. 

This class for expectant grandparents 

reviews current hospital care for mother 

and baby, infant safety information and 

tips on being helpful as grandparents. A 

tour of the birthing suites is included. Cost 

is $20 per couple/person. To register, visit 

stlukes-stl.com. For more information, call 

(314) 205-6906. 

• • • 

A Daddy Daughter Dance is 

from 6-8:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 

Feb. 9 and 10 at Ballwin Golf Course, 333 

Holloway Road in Ballwin. Enjoy music, 

dancing, crafts, hors d’oeuvres and an ice 

cream bar. For more information and to 

register, visit ballwin.mo.us. 

• • • 

A Sibling Class for 3-8 year olds is from 

9:30-11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 10 at St. 

Luke’s Hospital Institute for Health Education, 

222 S. Woods Mill Road in Chesterfield. 

Siblings will learn about being a big 

brother or sister through games, stories and 

videos. Children should bring a favorite 

teddy bear or doll. Cost is $15. To register, 

visit stlukes-stl.com. For more information, 

call (314) 205-6906. 

• • • 

Baby Play Time is at 10 a.m. on 

Wednesday, Feb. 14 at Samuel C. Sachs 

Branch, 16400 Burkhardt Place in Chesterfield. 

Moms and dads can let their babies 

explore the world through sensory play in 

a relaxed group setting. Ages 0-24 months. 

Registration required. For more information, 

call (314) 994-3300 or visit slcl.org. 

HEALTH & FITNESS 

TITLE Boxing Club of Ballwin offers 

free boxing classes for nurses during 

the month of February, in honor of Nurse 

Appreciation Month, at 14944 Manchester 

Road in Ballwin. Call (626) 220-1087 or 

visit titleboxingclub.com/ballwin-mo for 

class times or more information. 

• • • 

Relaxation Techniques 101 is from 

6:30-8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8 at St. 

Luke’s Outpatient Center [Desloge], 

Building A, 121 St. Luke’s Center Drive 

in Chesterfield. Learn how to ease pain, 

fatigue, insomnia and other stress-related 

symptoms through relaxation, breathing, 

mindfulness meditations, music, humor 

and more. To register for this free class, 

visit stlukes-stl.com. For more information, 

call (314) 542-4848. 

• • • 

Mommies in Motion is from 6-7 p.m. 

on Tuesdays and Thursdays now through 

Feb. 27 at St. Luke’s Outpatient Center 

[Desloge], 121 St. Luke’s Center Drive 

in Chesterfield. Mommies in Motion is 

an eight-week exercise program designed 

to address the fitness needs of pregnant 

women. For more information and to register, 

call (314) 205-6906. 

• • • 

Gateway to Health 2018 Wellness 

Expo is from 1-7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 

12 at Chesterfield Mall. Event features 

expert advice from healthcare specialists, 

an American Red Cross blood drive, food 

from StackHouse Pub & Grill and live 

music. 

• • • 

Sweet Success: A Diabetes Management 

Action Plan is from 1-2:30 

p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 13 at St. Luke’s Hospital 

Institute for Health Education, 222 

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class, taught by a dietitian and certified 

diabetes educator, covers basic diabetes 

concepts, American Diabetes Association 

guidelines and self-management strategies. 

Resources are provided. To register 

for this free class, visit stlukes-stl.com or 

call (314) 542-4848. 

• • • 

A WomenHeart ® Support Group meeting 

is from 2:30-3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 

13 at St. Luke’s Outpatient Center, Building 

A, 121 St. Luke’s Center Drive in 

Chesterfield. This is a free support group 

and education program for women who 

are at risk for heart disease. For topics and 

additional times, visit stlukes-stl.com. 

• • • 

Cholesterol and Glucose Wellness 

Screenings are available from 7-10:30 a.m. 

on Friday, Feb. 16 at St. Luke’s Resource 

Center, 101 St. Luke’s Center Drive in 

Chesterfield. A one-on-one consultation 

with a registered nurse/health coach 

includes blood pressure and body composition 

measurement. A 10-12 hour fast and 

advanced appointments are required. Cost 

is $20. To register, visit stlukes-stl.com. For 

more information, call (314) 542- 4848. 

• • • 

Choice: Chronic Disease Self-Management 

is at 10 a.m. on Fridays from Feb. 

16 through March 23 at Samuel C. Sachs 

Branch, 16400 Burkhardt Place in Chesterfield. 

A community-based program which 

assists participants in maintaining quality 

of life when faced with chronic medical 

conditions, the CDSMP is provided in 

two-and-a-half hour sessions, once a week 

for six weeks. For more information, call 

(314) 994-3300 or visit slcl.org. 

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Choice: Making Money Work for You 

is at 10 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 9 at Samuel 

C. Sachs Branch, 16400 Burkhardt Place 

in Chesterfield. Discover how setting and 

keeping financial goals can work for you. 

Topics to be covered include budgeting, 

credit awareness, saving and investing. For 

more information, call (314) 994-3300 or 

visit slcl.org. 

• • • 

L’École Culinaire offers Public Cooking 

Classes at 9811 S. Forty Drive in St. 

Louis. Vegetable and Fruit Carving is from 

9-11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 10. Fundamentals 

of Cake Sculpting and Design is from 

8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 3 and 

Sunday, March 4. Reservations are available 

at L’Ecole.edu. For more information, 

contact Julia Bishop-Cross at julia@prcatalyst.com 

or (314) 681-2094. 

• • • 

African American Read-In is at 1 p.m. 

on Saturday, Feb. 10 at Daniel Boone 

Branch, 300 Clarkson Road in Ellisville. 

The event is for all ages and takes place in 

Meeting Room 1. For more information, 

call (314) 994-3300 or visit slcl.org. 

• • • 

The Lafayette Older Adults Program 

meets from 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on 

the second and fourth Mondays of the 

month at the Ballwin Golf Course, 333 

Holloway Road in Ballwin. The program 

is for people 55 and older and consists of 

social time, speakers and performances. 

After lunch, members gather to play bingo 

or cards. Coffee, soda and dessert are provided, 

but participants must bring their 

own sack lunch. 

• • • 

“Is the Internet Rewiring Our Kids 

Brains?” is at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15 

at The St. Austin School, 1809 Des Peres 

Road in St. Louis. Sr. Marysia Weber, physician 

certified by the American Board of 

Psychiatry/Neurology, will talk about how 

cell phones and video games are rewiring 

the brains of young people and what parents 

can do to help guide their young children 

and teens toward healthy intellectual, 

emotional and spiritual development. For 

more information, visit SaintAustinSchool. 

org. or call (314) 580-2802. 

• • • 

History Club: Slavery in Missouri: 

A Brief History is at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 

Feb. 20 at Samuel C. Sachs Branch, 16400 

Burkhardt Place in Chesterfield. The class, 

for adults, will discuss political, social 

and cultural developments related to the 

institution, highlight numerous enslaved 

Missourians who fought for freedom and 

education for the African American community 

and explain emancipation at the 

end of the Civil War. Registration required. 

For more information, call (314) 994-3300 

or visit slcl.org. 

• • • 

Spring Dance Classes are offered on 

weekday evenings from Feb. 22 through 

April 30 at Bluebird Park, 225 Kiefer 

Creek Road in Ellisville. These classes are 

all beginner level and no partner is necessary. 

For specific times and class descriptions, 

visit ellisville.mo.us. 

• • • 

An Essential Chain Saw Skills for 

Safety class is from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on 

Saturday, Feb. 24 at Wildwood City Hall, 

16860 Main St. This class focuses on 

safety as well as productivity with a chain 

saw and is designed specifically to meet 

the needs of the area’s resident chain saw 

users. For more information, call (636) 

207-80000 and ask for Greg. To register, 

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Their concerts are given in both traditional 

and non-traditional venues such as 

The Missouri History Museum, the World 

Chess Hall of Fame and even a few local 

breweries. 

Clarinetist Dana Hotle is CPSTL’s executive 

director and a Manchester resident. 

In her words, “Every Chamber Project concert 

is different. Each has a unique theme 

that genuinely reflects today’s sensibilities, 

issues and ideas. All the music is woven 

together from that [theme]. Each selection 

can offer a different mix of musicians and 

instruments on one program. 

“We play the classics, modern works we 

love and commissions by local composers! 

We try to include a female composer 

on every program and strive to expand the 

scope of the art form to include stories, 

composers and artists beyond the traditional 

European male cannon. Of course, 

we love and perform Beethoven and all 

those guys, but through our themes, we 

connect them to today’s society to make 

them relative to what’s happening.” 

CPSTL began with a desire to leave 

behind the concert hall and take great 

music to the people. 

“We’re a grassroots organization that 

began with a handful of professionals 

yearning to try something different with 

the music we love,” Holte explained. “We 

had zero money, no experience producing 

concerts and no marketing experience – but 

we had passion, a good idea and incredible 

work ethic. 

“Most importantly, we had musicians 

who were willing to play for less than 

industry rates for a few years while we 

worked on building funding. We are now 

a fully fledged performing organization. 

The group has expanded from just three or 

four [musicians] 10 years ago, to over 20 

local artists. A concert may employ up to 

10 musicians.” 

CPSTL members enjoy a special connection 

with their audiences. Kathy Lawton 

Brown, of Radio Arts Foundation-Saint 

Louis [107.3 FM] describes CPSTL as 

“passionate about what they do.” 

“Their programming is fresh and innovative,” 

Brown said. “They also love 

audience input. Because of this close 

communication, they have an exceedingly 

loyal following.” 

Violinist and Creve Coeur resident Kyle 

Lombard enjoys being a member of CPSTL 

and said “it adds many dynamic and fruitful 

experiences to each season!” 

“The challenge of commissioning and 

performing new work is always exciting, 

and Dana does an excellent job finding 

hidden gems,” Lombard added. “Our audiences 

never need to worry about complacent 

or mundane programming, that’s for 

certain. As performers, a fresh approach 

to standards, old and new, is crucial for 

renewed excitement toward our craft.” 

CPSTL has introduced a whole new generation 

of concert-goers to great music. 

“I believe our biggest sense of accomplishment 

is the community we’ve created 

through intimate music making. Our fans 

and our musicians are a diverse and welcoming 

group,” Hotle said. “For many, we 

are the first classical music concert they’ve 

ever experienced – and they keep returning 

for more.” 

CPSTL will perform “ORIGINS” at 7 

p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 11 at The Schlafly 

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FEB 10 Architect/Designer 

res to apply@wildwoodELC.com; Upgrade, Clean / Stain 

FEB 10 


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FEB 24 

FEB 24 

Just west (UNCHANGED) 

of Wildwood Middle School Wendy’s is now hiring Crew 

Since 1982, no money up front Call 314-426-8833 

Adults $8, Child $4, under age 5 free Members and Shift Supervisors! warranty, insured, free estimates info@ mplandscapingstl.com 

MAR 09 

MAR 09 

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05/18 

MAR 16 

Call to Pre-order & Save 636-458-2255 Including Ballwin, St. Charles, 

636-337-7733 

MAR 23 

MAR 23 

Chesterfield and St. Peters 

M I E N E R 

FAMILY GENEALOGY Apply online at 

SPECIALIZE IN 

APR O6 LANDSCAPING 

APR 06 

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DAMAGE CONTROL 

I am looking for any children 

Expert CAULKING APPLICATION APR 13 Retaining Walls • Patios • Pruning 

from a Clifford Garrett or Sheila 

- CATEGORY • HEADING CUSTODIAL POSITIONS - • PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE APR for 20 Chainsaw Work APR • Seasonal 20 Clean up 

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Honeysuckle Removal 

Please call Janeen at: 

for Rockwood School District showers, tubs, windows, doors & Friendly service with attention to detail 

40 hours/week 

trim. STOP the LEAKS & DAMAGE. MAY 04 

MAY 04 

573-247-9294 

To apply please go to: 

Also Carpentry & Deck Repair 

MAY 18 Call Tom 636.938.9874 

MAY 18 

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MAY 25 www.mienerlandscaping.com 

FLOORING 

EEOC 

636-795-2627 

JUN 08 

PAINTING 

JUN 08 

JUN 15 

GARY SMITH 

JUN 22 

JUN 22 

CARPET REPAIRS 

Restretching, reseaming 

& patching. No job too 

small. Free estimates. 

(314) 892-1003 

Come create a flower arrangement 

for your special valentine 

Costs from $20-$30 per session. 

A variety of supplies will be available. 

Silk Flower Classes: Feb 

13, one day only. Fresh Flower 

Classes: Feb 12, one day only. 

Classes are from 1pm-4pm at 

283 Ridge Trail Dr., Chesterfield. 

Experienced designer, call 314- 

434-0873 by Jan 28. 

Piano For Sale - Kawai -- Beautiful 

Baby Grand Piano - damaged 

- $1200.00. In Chesterfield. 

Call 636-394-3094 

HIRING 

The Donut Palace 

Overnight Full or PT • Will Train 

Full or PT Fryer/Decorator & 

PT Early Morning Counter Help 

Call Ann/Kelly 636.527.2227 

HELP WANTED 

PART-TIME EVENING CLEANER 

Manchester & Wildwood, MO 

• Mon-Fri - Evenings (4-5 hrs 

per night) • Ballwin & Ellisville 

MWF (3.5 hrs per night) • $10 

hr. • Clear Police Background 

Check Required • Extra money 

in your pocket • Must be 21+ 

years old For information: 

Contact 888-645-1505 (Toll Free) 

COMPASSIONATE CAREGIVERS 

NEEDED!! VISITING ANGELS hiring 

for Chest/WW/Ballwin $12 

/hr; ($13 CNAs) FT & PT positions; 

Flexible Schedules; Days & 

Overnts; Pick Up Extra Hrs; 1 yr 

Exp reqd; Pers Care, Housekeep, 

Meal Prep, Transp, etc; Apply at 

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JUL 06 

Total Bathroom Remodeling JUL 20 

Cabinetry•Plumbing•Electrical 

21 Years Experience 

JUL 27 

AUG 10 

AUG 17 

AUG 24 

HOME IMPROVEMENT 

LINDSEY'S CUSTOM 

PAINTING & CONSTRUCTION 

For any and all home repairs 

or updates that you may need! 

Commercial and Residential 

Interior and exterior painting, 

landscaping, power-washing, 

siding, dry wall, flooring, decks, 

deck staining, retaining walls 

(block, tie & concrete) 

For a free estimate call: 

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INTERIOR DESIGN 

AFFORDABLE DECORATING SPECIALIST 

• Furniture Placement 

• Decorative Object Arrangement 

• Fabric & Paint Selection 

• Floor Covering Options 

• Artwork Presentation 

• Window Treatment Ideas 

Call Sue 314-993-8954 

PAINTING & REPAIR 

Interior Painting • Wallpaper 

Dry Wall 

JUL 06 

• Crown Molding & Trim 

- 25 years 

JUL 

Experience 

20 

- 

Fully Insured • Owner/Operator 

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AUG 10 

AUG 24 

PAINTING 

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Call for Free estimates 

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Dennis Skelton 636.699.8307 

KEVIN'S PAINT SERVICE 

Professional & Expert interior/ 

exterior painting, drywall & ceiling 

repair, and powerwashing. 

30 years painting experience. 

Low rates and Free Estimates. 

Call Kevin at 636-322-9784. 

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PAINTING CO. 

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Painting 

Drywall Repair • Taping 

Powerwashing • Wallpaper Stripping 

Top Quality Work • FREE Estimates 

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PET CARE 

CONVENIENT 

Dog Grooming 

Full service grooming 

in your home... 

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All Services Available 

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Ask about discounts for rescues! 

Call for appointment 

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PLUMBING 

GVM PLUMBING 

Can't beat my prices! 

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• ANYTHING IN PLUMBING • 

Good Prices! Basement 

bathrooms, small repairs & code 

violations repaired. Fast Service. 

Certified, licensed plumber - not 

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LICENSED PLUMBER 

Available for all plumbing needs. 

No job too small. Free estimates. 

25 years experience. 

Senior citizen discount. 24 hours. 

Call 314-808-4611 

REAL ESTATE 

I BUY HOMES 

ALL CASH - AS-IS 

I have been buying and selling 

for over 30 years. 

$ $ 

No obligation. 

No commission. 

No fixing up. 

It doesn't cost to find out 

how much you can get. 

Must ask for 

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314-496-5822 

Berkshire Hathaway Select Prop. 

Office: 636-394-2424 

ROOFING 

ROOFING 

Kirkwood Roofing 

Insurance Specialist 

All types of Roofing 

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Topping, Trimming, Removal 

Landscaping, and Pruning. 

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Tree & Brush Removal • Pruning • Dead-Wooding 

Deep Root Fertilization • Stump Grinding • Cabling 

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Clean Up. Work to include bush 

trimming, clean up and haul 

away of trimmings from my 

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Foundation Repair LLC 

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52 I PRIME REAL ESTATE I 



@WESTNEWSMAG 


Home prices surge 

along with demand 

Kevin Weaks 

A Special Advertorial Section 

Master 

Craftsmen 

Coming 3.7.18 

According to a report last week from the 

U.S. Commerce Department, new home 

sales have surged 14.1 percent from one 

year ago. A strong labor market, which 

is near full employment, has unleashed 

demand for housing that has not been 

matched with an increase in supply. 

The report showed sales of previously 

owned homes declined 3.6 percent last 

month as the inventory of houses dropped 

to a record low. A six-month supply is 

viewed as a healthy balance between 

supply and demand. 

Here’s what’s new in new homes: 

Warwick on White Road grand-opens 

Warwick on White Road, Fischer & 

Frichtel’s much-anticipated luxury haven 

in the heart of Chesterfield, is grand opening 

now. 

Arranged around a single cul-de-sac 

street, the private 10-home community is 

situated in an established, residential area 

just north of Conway Road and features 

a select portfolio of ranch, 1.5-story and 

two-story designs from the home builder’s 

high-end Estate Collection. 

Warwick’s ridgetop homesites average 

one-third acre in size, allowing for 

standard three-car garages, and offer a 

choice of in-grade, walkout and lookout 

sites. Starting from the mid-$600’s, the 

various Estate plans encompass 2,081 to 

3,840 square feet and are lavished with the 

premium interior/exterior amenities that 

homebuyers in this price range have come 

to expect. 

Making its grand entrance is the Wyndham 

display, one of Fischer’s most popular 

l.5-story designs. In addition to Warwick’s 

numerous price-included features, this 

magnificent, four-bedroom residence 

showcases a variety of the options available 

to purchasers. Among the custom 

highlights are an alternate hearth room 

arrangement with stone-to-ceiling fireplace, 

an expansive step-up bonus room on 

the upper level, staggered 42-inch Shakerstyle 

cabinetry and an oversize work island 

in the gourmet kitchen. 

“When designing their homes, owners 

are assisted every step of the way by the 

professional consultants of Fischer’s 

Home Center,” community sales manager 

John Fister explained. 

Buyers hoping for prompt occupancy 

will want to see the Arlington II ranch, 

available for immediate purchase and 

scheduled for spring completion. Set on a 

prime walkout site and loaded with deluxe 

amenities, this open-concept home is being 

constructed with an optional, finished 

lower level that includes a recreation room, 

fourth bedroom and full bath, bringing 

the home’s total living space to more than 

4,000 square feet. 

Warwick on White Road offers direct 

access to Interstate 64 and Route 141 and is 

served by award-winning Parkway schools. 

Fischer & Frichtel also will be unveiling 

brand-new displays in The Villages 

at Brightleaf in nearby Wildwood on 

the weekend of Feb. 10-11. For photos, 

directions and complete information on 

both of these communities, visit www. 

fandfhomes.com. 

Hardesty Homes uncorks Grand 

Reserve luxury cottages 

Hardesty Homes has announced a new 

vintage of luxury cottages conveniently 

located in Chesterfield. 

Labeled Grand Reserve, Hardesty’s 

newest community features the builder’s 

popular Cottage Home series with names 

like “Chardonnay,” “Merlot” and “Sangria” 

and starting from the mid-$500’s. The 

homes range in size from 1,732 to 2,640 

square feet. Three-car garages are available 

on select homesites. 

Grand Reserve will consist of 37 singlefamily 

homes that are loaded with standard 

luxury features including stone and brick 

front elevations, irrigation systems, security 

systems, 9-foot and 11-foot ceilings on 

most plans and granite kitchen countertops 

just to name a few. An in-house architect 

is available for custom changes, said Lori 

Finley, sales and marketing manager. 

“Because we are primarily a custom 

home builder, we will personalize our 

homes to our customers’ wishes considering 

their family’s specific needs,” Hardesty 

said. “My name is not only on the door of 

the office, but also on every home we build. 

I’m proud of what we do.” 

While the sales trailer recently opened, 

“we have already had five sales by word 

of mouth,” Finley said. “The location is 

fantastic – on Olive Boulevard about threequarters 

of a mile east of I-64.” 

For more information about Grand 

Reserve, call (636) 541-5166 or contact 

Finley at lfinley@hardestyhomes.com.

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• Also available for Rent 

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