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Vol. 15 No. 10 • May 23, 2018 

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RANDOM THOUGHTS 

This week, Mid Rivers Newsmagazine 

talks with Tom Shaw and 

his wife of 31 years, Kathy. Tom 

got his start in real estate in the 

late 1940s working for his father, 

Charles A. Shaw, who founded 

Shaw Realtors in 1922. By the late 

60s, Tom’s love for horses moved 

him west. The business of listing 

horse ranches and farms became a 

major company focus. In the ensuing 

years, thousands of acres were 

sold and developed into Beacon 

Hill, Forest Green Estates, Cheri 

Acres, Westbury Manor, Village 

of Green Trails, Christmas Valley, Shepard 

Ridge, Deepwoods and numerous others. 

Do you like things to be carefully planned 

or do you just like to go with the flow? 

Tom: Boy, oh boy, who ever gets anything 

done carefully planned? I guess you 

have to go with the flow. How do we ever 

get our own way? 

What’s a favorite memory from your 

youth or childhood? 

Tom: I was a catcher on so many baseball 

teams and you have to know everybody. 

Every high school kid has a weak spot 

when he picks up the bat, and it’s your job 

to tell the coach. It’s really interesting, 10 

or 15 years later you can run into someone 

and say, “I remember you, you did this 

in the box.” I caught for Clayton, Muny 

League, American Legion – all through 

the summer we had a lot of games. I had a 

cannon on my shoulder. I could pick guys 

off at second base. Back then, baseball was 

the big thing. Football wasn’t because too 

many people could get hurt. A lot of parents 

wouldn’t let their kids play football. 

What chance encounter changed your 

life forever? 

Tom: Kathy. She straightened my life out. 

Kathy: We met on a blind date. 

Tom: She was awfully nice and she 

hasn’t changed. She just was a good, good 

influence. That’s a nice thing for a guy to 

say about his wife, isn’t it? 

What’s the funniest thing you’ve done in 

your lifetime? 

Kathy: I can answer that one. We grew 

azaleas at our horse farm in Chesterfield, 

called Deepwoods. Azaleas everywhere! 

They were his pride and joy. Well, I walked 

out on the porch one day and I saw him out 

A Community Conversation 

Kathy and Tom Shaw 

there with a fly swatter and he’s batting at 

this bug – or what he thought was a bug – 

and this thing kept flying. He couldn’t hit it. 

It was a hummingbird. [Kathy laughs] He 

thought it was contaminating his flowers. 

Tom: Wait a minute, this is the office of a 

newspaper, isn’t it? Shhhh ... 

How did your profession change over the 

course of your career? 

Tom: There wasn’t a lot of roads out here. 

Hwy. 40 was a little highway but it carried 

a lot of traffic and that’s why it ended up 

so big now. 

Kathy: He sold real estate on horse back. 

Everything was rideable out here. 

Tom: I was selling every builder that 

wanted to come out this way. We had 

so much activity out here. People were 

coming out here to ride horses and to own 

horses. 

What always cheers you up when you 

think about it? 

Tom: Well, I spent a lot of time in my life 

with my kids – that’s an awful lot of it. [He 

laughs.] My horses were more important to 

me for a long time. 

Kathy: The truth comes out. He had as 

many as 22 horses at one point. 

Tom: But, you know, all my kids rode 

horses. Do you know what a cutting horse 

does? Horse and rider go into a big herd of 

cattle and you pick one calf and you drive 

him out and you can’t let him get back into 

that herd until you’re ready to let him back 

in. Debbie [daughter Debbie Shaw Franke] 

was Youth Activities World Champion cutting 

horse rider. As was my son, Tommy 

[Tom Shaw Jr.]. 

Kathy: If you play Trivial Pursuit, one of 

the cards says, “Who was the first female 

Youth Activities World Champion?” And 

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EDITORIAL 

Shift Happens 



As of this writing, St. Louis Cardinals 

infielder Matt Carpenter is hitting .164. 

That’s bad. Cards outfielder Dexter Fowler 

is hitting .154. That’s worse. A quarter of 

the season is now in the rearview mirror, 

so this can no longer be discounted as a 

small sample size. 

This is not, however, one of those columns 

where we just complain about the 

futility of professional athletes. We are not 

being naysayers. We come bearing solutions. 

Before we can offer that solution, we 

must define the larger problem. In the last 

decade, a terrible plague has taken over 

the national pastime. That plague has a 

name, the infield shift. That plague also 

has a face. Like most terrible things, the 

shift can be blamed on the Chicago Cubs 

and their manager, Joe Maddon. Sure, 

Maddon first started deploying the shift 

when he was with the Tampa Bay Rays 

but, since only like 200 people have ever 

seen the Rays actually play baseball in 

person, Maddon’s concept did not truly 

take off until he joined the Windy City’s 

Baby Bears club. 

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players to the left of second base and two 

players to the right of second base. When 

a batter is prone to hitting the baseball 

primarily to one side of the field, the shift 

deploys an extra infielder to that side of the 

field so that there are now three players on 

one side and a single player left on the other 

side of second base. Seems simple enough, 

but just like with tax policy or health care 

reform, there are massive unintended consequences. 

Baseball players decided that 

since they could not hit the ball through 

the shift, they would attempt to hit the 

ball over the shift. This theory gave rise 

to something known as the launch angle 

of a swing. When we were kids, this was 

known as taking a massive uppercut and 

was frowned upon. Why was it frowned 

upon? Because an uppercut swing is more 

likely to end in a swing-and-miss than a 

majestic, towering, home run. Back then, 

strikeouts were bad. 

Today, however, strikeouts are not 

bad – apparently. Due to the prevalence 

of the shift, the baseball intelligentsia has 

decided that a strikeout delivers an equivalent 

result to a ground ball or line drive 

or really anything that does not leave the 

park. It is an all or nothing philosophy that 

makes the overall game of baseball less 

interesting. The games take longer, fewer 

overall runs are scored, there are far more 

strikeouts and the brilliant defensive play 

has been largely removed from the game. 

The shift has to go. 

Major League Baseball, however, is 

unlikely to change the rules in order to 

Denying gravity 

To the Editor: 

It’s a simple principle. If you tax something, 

then you tend to get less of it. That’s 

why there’s such a high tax on cigarettes, 

for example – to dissuade the behavior. 

Conversely, if you subsidize something, 

then you get more of it. Hence, “tax incentives” 

to lure new businesses, build stadiums, 

etc. It encourages what you want to 

promote. And yet, governments somehow 

forget this truth when it’s inconvenient. 

In 2014, Seattle adopted a $15 per hour 

minimum wage law, to be phased in over 

the next several years. The number of lowwage 

jobs promptly dropped. In 2015, it 

declared a “state of emergency” in homelessness. 

Go figure. Who’d have thought? 

get the shift out of the game. So it is up 

to the players to make the shift meaningless, 

which brings us back to Carpenter and 

Fowler and our solution to the problem. 

Forgive the simplicity of this solution, but 

here it is: BUNT THE STUPID BASE- 

BALL! 

Players who bunt the ball against the 

shift reach base successfully more than 

60 percent of the time. Bunt the baseball. 

Why is this so hard? 

Is it because players are so proud that 

they feel as though bunting is somehow 

cheating? The defense is the one who 

changed the rules, and they are handing 

you a base hit. Bunt the baseball. 

Is it because professional, middle-ofthe-order 

hitters do not actually remember 

how to bunt? Practice bunting the baseball 

and then, bunt the baseball. Is it because 

bunting means that you will not get an 

extra base hit or a home run? When you 

are hitting less than .200, it might be time 

to take the pride argument down a notch. 

Bunt the baseball. 

Carpenter and Fowler are facing the shift 

in nearly half of their at bats this year. Do 

the math: full-time players average about 

600 at-bats per season, half of that means 

they will face the shift in 300 at-bats. Players 

successfully bunt against the shift 60 

percent of the time. That means the defense 

is handing you 180 base hits per season, 

though one would hope they would get rid 

of the shift long before that. 

Seriously guys, shift happens but you 

can stop it. Bunt the baseball. 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

Now, Seattle wants to fix its homeless 

problem with a new tax on large businesses, 

based on their number of employees, to 

“address” [read: subsidize] homelessness 

and build more affordable housing. Good 

intentions, bad idea. 

Predictably enough, its biggest employers, 

especially Amazon, are balking. 

Companies can and do move or transfer 

operations elsewhere based on things like 

taxes. Even New York, that liberal bastion, 

has been trying lately to lure businesses 

by advertising new, lower tax rates. And 

yet Seattle still thinks it can simply ignore 

basic economics and force a contrary outcome 

because it wants one. Sure. ‘Cause 

that works so well whenever it’s tried. 

James R. Stein 

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ST. CHARLES COUNTY 

Corrections director named 

St. Charles County 

Executive Steve Ehlmann 

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confirmed by the St. 

Charles County Council 

Keen 

on May 14 and begins his new position on 

June 4. 

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in managing correctional facilities. 

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corrections for the Northampton County 

Department of Corrections in Easton, 

Pennsylvania, a facility with 267 staff 

members that holds up to 1,053 inmates. 

Before that, Keen served as warden for 

the Franklin County Jail in Chambersburg, 

Pennsylvania, and for the Bedford County 

Correctional Facility in Bedford, Pennsylvania. 

He began his career as a correctional 

officer in 2000 and is a member of numerous 

career associations. Presently, he is finishing 

a two-year term as president of the 

Pennsylvania Prison Warden’s Association. 

In his new role, Keen will manage the St. 

Charles County Corrections Department’s 

facility and a staff of 170. He will oversee 

the department’s three divisions: medical 

services, operations and security, and support 

services. The St. Charles County facility 

has the capacity for 506 inmates and 

houses federal and state prisoners, as well 

as those from local municipalities. 

Free flag disposal scheduled 

If you have a worn or damaged U.S. 

flag and don’t know where to dispose of 

it properly, the military veterans of St. 

Charles County Government can help. 

From 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Flag Day, Thursday, 

June 14, the county’s Veterans Best 

Practices Working Group hosts its annual 

flag collection for the public. The event 

takes place at a drive-by collection site, 

located at the corner of Monroe and 

Second streets in St. Charles between the 

County Administration and Corrections 

buildings. The flags collected will be 

properly disposed of at a ceremony later 

this year. 

Last year, the group collected over 1,000 

flags. 

“The flag is deeply meaningful to all our 

veterans,” says Dennis Wiss, chair of the 

Veterans Best Practices Working Group. 

“We are excited to honor the flag by providing 

this convenient service to the public 

and look forward to exceeding last year’s 

collection!” 

The Veterans Best Practices Working 

Group was established in 2014 after 

passage of an ordinance by the County 

Council. The group exists to “foster an 

employment-friendly environment for 

those who have served in the armed forces 

of the United States,” to encourage businesses 

in the community to develop veteran-friendly 

employment practices, and 

to inform veterans seeking employment 

of opportunities and benefits with county 

government. 

For more information, contact Wiss at 

(636) 949-7900, ext. 1893 or by email at 

dwiss@sccmo.org. 

South Point Prairie Road 

to close temporarily 

Weather permitting, the St. Charles 

County Highway Department will close a 

section of South Point Prairie Road starting 

Tuesday, May 29 to allow for removal 

and replacement of deteriorated culverts. 

The closure is expected to last between 

six and eight weeks. Traffic will be 

required to use detour routes around the 

closures while the culverts are replaced. 

Local traffic can access either side of the 

closure location, but no through traffic will 

be permitted. 

Signs notifying motorists of the closure 

and any necessary detour will be posted. 

This road project is part of a continuing 

effort by St. Charles County Government 

to improve the county’s road system for 

the safety of the traveling public. For more 

information about road projects underway 

in unincorporated St. Charles County, visit 

sccmo.org/road-projects. 

Lindenwood to offer Eagle 

Scout scholarships 

Lindenwood University recently 

announced scholarships for Scouts achieving 

the rank of Eagle. The scholarship is 

$5,000 per year and renewable for five 

years. Eagle Scout is the highest rank 

attainable in the Boy Scouts of America. 

There were 55,494 Eagle Scouts in 2017, 

including 762 in the Greater St. Louis 

Area Council. The path to Eagle requires 

Boy Scouts to earn at least 21 merit badges, 

serve in several troop leadership positions 

and display leadership by conducting a 

community service project. 

The Greater St. Louis Area Council, 

Boy Scouts of America recently elected 

Michael Shonrock, Lindenwood University 

system president, to its executive 

board of directors. 

“Lindenwood University has always been 

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Ronald Green, Scout executive/CEO of the 

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Help with recycling, 

spring cleaning 

The average home stores nearly 100 

pounds of hazardous materials, including 

cleaning supplies, paints, lawn care 

products and pesticides, according to St. 

Charles County officials. Improper disposal 

of these products – pouring down 

a drain, tossing in unacceptable trash 

receptacles, emptying into storm sewers or 

dumping on the ground – poses a community 

health risk. 

St. Charles County residents may safely 

dispose of Household Hazardous Waste 

[HHW] through the county’s Recycle 

Works locations. 

Residents may bring unwanted items 

like chemicals, automobile fluids, pesticides 

and oil-based paints [latex paints 

are not accepted] to the following Recycle 

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• West, 2110 East Pitman in Wentzville 

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O’Fallon, MoDOT drive toward I-70, Hwy. K improvements 

By JESSICA MESZAROS 

Already known as the largest city in St. 

Charles County, O’Fallon estimates a population 

of over 100,000 by the year 2025. 

The city’s current population, according to 

a 2016 U.S. Census report, is 86, 274. In 

1990, the city’s population was 18,443 and 

grew to 50, 901 by 2000. By 2010, the city 

had a population of 79,885. 

In response to its increasing population 

trend, the city is kicking off improvements 

on roads from T.R. Hughes Boulevard 

to Woodlawn Avenue, which includes 

the Hwy. K/Main Street interchange near 

Interstate 70. The developments are part of 

phase 1 of the I-70 Traffic Flow Improvements 

project, which also includes I-70 

outer road projects. 

“The entire interchange was probably 

fine when it was in development in the 

1960s, but for the current population, its 

current configuration ... is not sufficient,” 

Jeff Schuepfer, O’Fallon’s assistant city 

engineer, said. “This should allow for 

growth well into the future.” 

The project will improve the existing 

structure of I-70 and the Hwy. K/Main 

Street interchange, including improvements 

to multiple outer roads. The goal is 

to alleviate traffic and improve flow from 

T.R. Hughes Boulevard through Woodlawn 

Avenue on opposite ends of the interchange. 

The project is broken into two phases, 

with phase 1 dedicated to the area from 

T.R. Hughes to Hwy. K/Main Street, which 

is the largest portion of the project. Phase 

2 will focus on the area west of Hwy. K 

Interstate 70 passes over Hwy. K 

to Woodlawn Avenue. Both phases of the 

project will add a new eastbound one-way 

south outer road between Hwy. K/Main 

Street and Woodlawn and continuing to 

T.R. Hughes Boulevard. 

Phase 1 will include the construction 

of Terra Lane, also known as North Outer 

Road, which will be closed from June 

through August while making it a westbound-only 

road. The segment closest to 

Fort Zumwalt North Middle will be complete 

in time for the upcoming school year, 

officials say. However, all 2018 summer 

school activities and other events will be 

relocated to other schools or businesses in 

the area. 

Construction of a new south outer road, 

to be called Drennen Parkway, will be the 

first item of phase 1 to begin construction. 

“We’ve had our pre-construction meeting, 

and it’s really going to be up to them when 

they get started,” Schuepfer said in May. 

[Google Earth photo] 

“It should be very, very soon.” 

From there, other roads and areas will 

close accordingly. 

“Currently, there is no outer road there, 

so I think we’ll be in really good shape 

as far as not having any driver confusion,” 

Schuepfer said. “Hopefully, for drivers 

who are familiar with the area or commute 

through the area regularly, they should at 

least see the construction, be aware of it 

and obviously watch it as it develops to 

at least give them a heads up. The good 

thing is that, come day one, they’re not 

going to be shutting down roads that are 

currently being driven on. When they do 

move around to other phases of the project, 

then there will be a learning curve with 

road restrictions and whatnot. That’s going 

to take some time.” 

Also included in the construction will be 

the connection of Vice Street to Sonderen 

Loop Road for increased residential access 

and a travel alternative around Hwy. K. 

Due to the increase in one-way outer 

roads, Schuepfer said some traffic lights 

and existing intersections will be eliminated. 

At its May 10 meeting, the O’Fallon City 

Council voted 7-0 [with three councilmembers 

absent] in favor of a first reading for a 

standalone project involving the I-70 outer 

roads project, which would provide connectivity 

between the new south outer road 

and Sonderen/Veterans Memorial Parkway. 

The road will be built as a two-way road 

west of the Slumberland furniture store. A 

second reading by the council is slated for 

the May 24 council meeting. If the project 

is approved, construction would begin in 

2019. 

“Without that road, there would be no 

direct connection from the south outer 

road to the Veterans Memorial Parkway 

area,” Schuepfer said. The project also 

would provide better access to the highway 

going eastbound.” 

The project’s funding is a partnership 

between the city of O’Fallon, St. Charles 

County, the East-West Gateway Council of 

Governments and the Missouri Department 

of Transportation [MoDOT]. O’Fallon is 

contributing about $1.2 million to the project 

for phase 1. 

“The second phase is smaller,” Schuepfer 

said. “It’s still a couple million dollar project, 

but it is smaller and we don’t have any 

deferral funding assistance on that project. 

It’s pretty much just city and the county on 

that one.” 

Bids for the second phase will be sought 

in 2019. 

Lake Saint Louis residents ask city officials for help with ‘street creep’ 

By BRIAN FLINCHPAUGH 

In the last few months, Kathy Handing 

and her neighbors at the Townhomes 

at Prominence in Lake Saint Louis have 

been plagued by what appears to be street 

creep. Now, Handing and her neighbors 

are asking city officials for help. 

“Street creep” doesn’t refer to a particular 

individual who has a personality disorder 

and lives on a subdivision street. Creep 

refers to movement and, in this case, it has 

to do with the movement of street concrete, 

which expands during hot weather and 

contracts during cold weather. The result 

is concrete pushing driveway slabs into 

home foundations. 

The outcome can be devastating. 

“Our foundations are beginning to crack,” 

Handing told the city’s Board of Aldermen 

at its May 7 meeting. 

Alderman Gary Torlina [Ward 1] said he 

looked at four or five different villas’ basements 

and found half-inch or more cracks 

in foundation walls that could mean losses 

of $35,000 in property values. Other signs 

besides cracking that indicate street creep 

include the floor of a garage pulling away 

from a wall. 

The foundation cracks are a recent 

occurrence. “I saw it when I went down to 

get a ladder in the basement and that was 

like March,” Handing said of the cracks in 

her home’s foundation. “And it wasn’t as 

bad as it is now.” 

Hairline cracks also are starting to 

appear. 

What causes creep is a bit of an unknown. 

Derek Koestel, the city’s public works 

director, said perhaps poor concrete that 

was laid on subdivision streets throughout 

the county a few years ago may have 

contributed. Handing said the villas had 

four different builders over the years, with 

some going out of business during the 

recession and others taking over. 

“We’re kind of between a rock and a 

hard place because the summer heat is 

coming and it’s going to get much worse 

on our foundations if this isn’t fixed pretty 

quickly,” Handing said. 

She noted that, since 2004, the board has 

chosen not to pay for street creep damage 

while other nearby cities, particularly 

O’Fallon, has been helping their homeowners 

with repairs. She said she was 

asking the city for help. 

City Administrator Paul Markworth said 

the city does address street creep when it 

gets a report. 

“We go out right away and see what’s 

going on,” Markworth said. “If we think 

the concrete is moving, we go out and saw 

out the joints and put in additional fiberboard.” 

In a later interview, Handing said she 

and other residents still are trying to find 

out how many villas in the subdivision, 

located off Prospect Road are affected. 

Townhomes at Prominence has 22 buildings 

with 66 units. 

“The street creep issue is one that has to 

be fixed first before we start on our foundation 

problem,” Handing said. “None of it 

is covered by insurance, so it’s going to be 

up to the individuals to put out the money 

to do the work.” 

The number of homeowners identified 

with foundation issues can affect the 

cost of foundation repairs; more bids may 

lessen the cost for each individual. 

The board agreed to discuss the issue at 

its May 21 work session, which took place 

after presstime.





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When thinking about his police department, 

St. Charles County Executive Steve 

Ehlmann says he often looks out his office 

window. His office is in the old St. Charles 

County Courthouse and sits high above the 

Missouri River with a view of North St. 

Louis County. 

“I always use the window here as my 

prop and look across the river into St. 

Louis County. Our job, I’ve always said, is 

to duplicate all the successes we’ve seen 

over the years in St. Louis County but 

avoid the failures,” Ehlmann said. 

In the last few years, Ehlmann noted 

there have been failures – the 200 murders 

a year in the city of St. Louis, the Ferguson 

unrest, the controversy between Metro 

Link and St. Louis County police. 

“We’re trying to do things so the same 

sort of thing doesn’t happen out here,” he 

said. Every time you have a failure it lessens 

the confidence people have, he added. 

“I want people to be totally confident we’re 

doing everything we can to be sure everything 

is up-to-date in St. Charles County.” 

He views the advanced accreditation 

received by the St. Charles County Police 

Department from the Commission on 

Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies 

[CALEA] as extremely significant. 

“I think most people in St. Charles 

County think the police do a great job, we 

don’t ever want to ever give them a reason 

to think they don’t. We want to make sure 

that all the latest developments in modern 

policing are being used. We want to make 

sure our people are aware of those [and] 

that we’re doing everything we can do.” 

CALEA is a credentialing authority 

established through the joint efforts of law 

enforcement’s major executive associations. 

Tier II or advanced accreditation by CALEA 

means that the county’s police department 

has met its highest standards and will have 

to undergo continual reassessment. “This is 

the Cadillac,” Ehlmann said. 

CALEA establishes standards for policies 

and procedures that departments agree 

to voluntarily emulate. Those policies and 

procedures can affect an enormous number 

of issues such as pursuit, uniform standards, 

recruitment, the use of deadly force 

and mandatory training – to name a few. 

The accreditation offers the public an 

assurance that its police department meets 

highly professional standards. The St. 

Charles County Police department is now 

the eighth law enforcement agency in the 

St. Louis area and 13th in the state to hold 

the advanced accreditation. There are 657 

law enforcement agencies in Missouri. 



Ehlmann sees confidence for residents 

in ‘Cadillac’ of police accreditation 

“This is not [a case of] you get the award, 

put it on the wall and stop,” said Thomas R. 

Percich, the county’s CALEA accreditation 

manager. Percich said every year CALEA 

reviews 30 percent of the county’s standards 

to see if they are in compliance and 

every four years two CALEA assessors 

come to St. Charles County and check on 

that compliance in person. 

The CALEA assessors are not neighboring 

or nearby law enforcement professionals. 

“I’m a CALEA assessor and one of the 

questions they ask me if they are going to 

send me out is do you know anybody in the 

agency, have you interacted with anybody, 

have you ever lived there,” Percich said. 

CALEA accreditation isn’t easy or 

cheap. The county began the process three 

years ago. The initial accreditation fee 

was $11, 450, the county also paid $5,500 

for an initial onsite fee and annually pays 

$4,645 in accreditation fees. 

One of the issues facing St. Louis County 

that Ehlmann said he wants to avoid is the 

proliferation of police departments among 

St. Louis County’s 88 municipalities. 

“Some are big enough to have professional 

police departments, some shouldn’t be 

thinking about it,” Ehlmann said. 

In St. Charles County there are six major 

cities – Cottleville, Lake Saint Louis, 

O’Fallon, St. Charles, St. Peters and Wentzville 

– that are big enough to require and 

afford the type of training to have professional 

police departments and a few other 

cities that may be able to do that in the 

future if they get big enough, Ehlmann said. 

“Those smaller police departments over 

there [in St. Louis County], I can’t believe 

they have any of the training that our 

people have, yet they have twice the challenges,” 

Ehlmann said. 

A decade ago, Ehlmann said one of the 

things the county could do, despite the 

recession, was to encourage officers to 

further their college education by offering 

them a pay raise if they received a college 

degree. That has worked well, with 77 percent 

of county officers now having degrees 

compared to 68 percent of St. Louis County 

police officers and 45 percent of St. Louis 

City police officers. 

“The more training and education your 

people have, the less likely we’re going 

[to] end up in court defending the things 

that they do or the policies that we make,” 

Ehlmann said. 

Percich added that some lawsuits against 

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in memory of late Assistant City 

Administrator Tim Wilkinson. 

Wilkinson, passed away at age 

60 on March 21 following his 

retirement from the city. 

He was one of the founding members 

of the St. Peters Hockey Club Wilkinson 

and brought ice hockey to the area. 

In 2012, he was inducted into St. Louis Amateur 

Hockey Hall of Fame. He also played an 

influential role in convincing city officials to 

add ice hockey rinks to the Rec-Plex. 

In early April, the St. Peters Board of 

Aldermen and city staff had discussed finding 

a way to honor Wilkinson. Rick Oloteo, 

the city’s recreation and cultural services 

On Monday, May 28, residents are 

invited to join local veterans, government 

officials and others in honoring those who 

have made the ultimate sacrifice for this 

nation. All programs are free. 

10 a.m. • Veterans Memorial at St. 

Peters City Centre 

The city of St. Peters hosts its Memorial 

Day program at 10 a.m. at the Veterans 

Memorial at St. Peters City Centre, 1 

St. Peters Centre Blvd. Rear Adm. Peter 

J. Clarke, U.S. Navy, is scheduled to be 

the guest speaker. The program also will 

include a special laying of a wreath, singing 

of the National Anthem and participation 

by veterans groups, including the 

Honor Guard. 

11 a.m. • Lake Saint Louis Veterans 

Memorial Park 

The city of Lake Saint Louis will host its 

Memorial Day service at 11 a.m. at Veterans 

Memorial Park, directly adjacent to 

the Lake Saint Louis City Hall and Police 

Department at the intersection of Interstate 

64/Hwy. 40 and Lake Saint Louis Boulevard. 

The one-hour ceremony will feature 

patriotic musical selections by the Choral 

Arts Singers along with participation by 

local Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the Daughters 

of the American Revolution and the 

Knights of Columbus. In keeping with the 

traditions of past ceremonies, the Air Force 

ROTC – Detachment 207 will join the VFW 

Post 10350 Color Guard in honoring the 



St. Peters to name Rec-Plex ice rink 

in honor of Tim Wilkinson 

manager, told the board at its April 26 work 

session that the staff’s suggestion was 

a vinyl decal bearing Wilkinson’s name 

embedded at center ice of Rink A 

at Rec-Plex South. Rink A draws 

most of the major crowds. 

In addition, staff suggested a 

plaque be installed in the main 

lobby of Rec-Plex South with a 

biography of Wilkinson, which 

would inform future residents 

as to why the city was honoring 

Wilkinson. The plaque and decal are to be 

unveiled at a ceremony in September. 

The board approved a motion by aldermen 

Michael Shea [Ward 3] and Dave 

Thomas [Ward 1] to move forward with the 

project. According to City Administrator 

Russ Batzel, no further action was needed 

by the board. 

Veterans to be celebrated throughout 

St. Charles County on Memorial Day 

nation’s flag. Lake Saint Louis resident and 

retried Lt. Col. Sharon K. Simpson, of the 

U.S. Air Force Nurses Corps, will deliver 

remarks entitled, “Who Folded Your Parachute?” 

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Walk 

The city of O’Fallon and the O’Fallon’s 

Veterans Commission will host a Memorial 

Day program at 11 a.m. at the Veterans 

Memorial Walk, 800 Veterans Memorial 

Parkway. Mayor Bill Hennessy will offer 

opening remarks. 

1 p.m. • St. Charles County Historic 

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and St. Charles City Veterans Commission 

will host a Memorial Day program at 1 

p.m. on the grounds of the St. Charles County 

Historic Courthouse/Executive Office Building, 

100 N. Third St. in St. Charles. The 

program includes music provided by the St. 

Charles Municipal Band, welcome addresses 

by St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann 

and St. Charles Mayor Sally Faith, a 

roll call of departed veterans, and presentation 

of colors and wreath-laying ceremonies. 

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First-ever St. Charles 

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The first St. Charles County-wide STEM 

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Francis Howell, Fort Zumwalt, City of St. 

Charles, and Orchard Farm school districts 

joined Wentzville School District students 

in grades K-8 to compete in small group 

design challenges. 

For the past four years, Wentzville has 

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which was precisely what we hoped would 

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this event grow each year.” 

Schack and Wentzville School District’s 

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A doodle from Abbie Chartrand, a seventh-grader at DuBray 

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Abbie Chartrand, a seventh-grader at Fort 

Zumwalt School District’s DuBray Middle, 

has been named the Missouri winner of the 

10th annual Doodle 4 Google contest. From 

200,000 submissions, Chartrand is one of 53 

state and territory winners selected to compete 

for the five finalist spots. 

The contest asked artists “What inspires 

you?” and Chartrand, an aspiring marine 

biologist, showed the judges an underwater 

world via artistic doodle. 

Chartrand’s doodle, titled “National Ocean 

Day, June 8, 2018,” shows a submarine submerged 

in bright blue water, surrounded by 

varying sizes and colors of fish and a snorkler 

snapping underwater photos of them. 

The word “Google” is cleverly spelled 

out within the doodle. 

“This is a doodle of an amazing underwater 

adventure that I’ve dreamed of since I 

was three,” a quote from Chartrand accompanying 

the entry said. “This inspires me 

because I’ve wanted to go to college to 

become a marine biologist since I was two, 

and this is what I imagine my daily adventures 

would be like.” 

Art teacher Tiffany Scraper incorporates 

the doodle contest with her students each 

year, either as a classroom or art club activity. 

“Abbie finished her drawing at home, 

and completed the additional requirements 

[a brief written statement and parent permission] 

to formally submit it to the competition,” 

Scraper said. 

Recently, Google representatives came 

to DuBray Middle to surprise Chartrand 

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By JONATHAN DUNCAN 

About midway through the 2018 season, 

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contender for a state tournament berth. 

On Monday, May 7, the Eagles completed 

that goal, thanks to a superb showing 

in the Class 2, Sectional 3 tournament 

at Norwoods Golf Club in Hannibal. 

O’Fallon Christian bested Palmyra by 13 

strokes [334 to 347] to win the first sectional 

championship in school history, and 

punch its ticket to state. 

“We’ve gone to state before but not since 

they added the sectionals in golf,” said 

O’Fallon Christian coach Pat Turner. 

In winning the sectional crown, O’Fallon 

Christian finished ahead of Palmyra, Macon 

and fourth-place Lutheran St. Charles. 

Three golfers finished individually in the 

top seven for the Eagles. Senior Matthew 

Hahs was fourth with a 79 as he finished 

seven shots over par. Senior Caleb Sandy 

shot an 80 and finished eight strokes over 

par. Sophomore Gunner Stugart was the 

Eagles third top finisher, coming in seventh 

with an 81 at nine shots over par. 

The scores were not quite as good as 

the group would have liked, but given the 

strength of the eight-team field, they were 

enough to keep the Eagles’ season going 

for another week. 

“I think if we can just play our game and 

go hole by hole, and shot by shot, we honestly 

have a really good chance at winning 

state and doing something that our school 

has never done before,” Hahs said. 

His coach agreed. 

“Looking at our team, I think we’ve 

surprised a lot of folks already. I think we 

have the potential and we’ll have a chance,” 

Turner said. 

On May 15, the Eagles made their first 

Class 2 tournament appearance, competing 

at Meadow Lake Acres in New Bloomfield 

against defending champion Bishop LeBlond, 

Palmyra, Mt. Vernon, South Harrison, 

Willow Springs, St. Pius X [Festus] and 

California. 

They were looking to make some history. 

And that’s exactly what they did – claiming 

second place with a team score of 655. In 

the individual standings, Stugart claimed 

fifth place with a score of 155 and Hahs 

tied for ninth with 160. 

St. Joseph’s Bishop LeBlond High took 

home the championship title, finishing 

with a score of 599. 

After winning the Class 2, District 5 

championship at Bear Creek Golf Club in 

April, the Eagles’ first crown in five years, 

Hahs described the team’s run as “amazing.” 

Noting the team’s talent, he said the 

season was panning out just like it was 

supposed to. 

Having four strong seniors in Hahs, 

Sandy, Ayers and Creelman helped – giving 

the Eagles stability and balance match after 

match. 

After sectionals, Turner cited his seniors’ 

ability to consistently drive the ball well and 

keep it on the course as major keys to getting 

solid scores each match. 

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especially our top three, can 

hit it long if it’s like 270 

yards, but we just try to have 

them get to the point of playing 

good golf,” Turner said. 

“We tell them that golf is a 

game of six inches and that’s 

between your ears.” 

The O’Fallon Christian Eagles after the Class 2, Sectional 3 

tournament at Norwoods Golf Club in Hannibal.

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Not for Sale: 



On the frontline in the fight against sex trafficking 

By JESSICA MESZAROS 

Local forces are working to bring sex trafficking 

to a halt across the country – and that 

includes the greater St. Louis area. 

On April 11, after years of bipartisan 

discussion and about 180 co-sponsors, Rep. 

Ann Wagner [R-MO] and House Majority 

Leader Kevin McCarthy [R-CA] witnessed 

President Donald Trump sign the Allow 

States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking 

Act [FOSTA] into law. 

“This bill was born out of grit, gumption 

[and] a little grace from God,” Wagner said. 

“It’s probably the most significant anti-trafficking 

legislation to pass Congress in 20 

years.” 

The bill allows both federal and state prosecutors 

and attorneys general to pursue websites 

hosting sex-trafficking ads, while also 

helping to enable victims and state attorneys 

general to file lawsuits and shut down sexrelated 

areas of the internet that allow advertising 

related to sex-trafficking and sexual 

exploitation of adults and minors. The bill 

also amends the criminal code to add fines 

and prison terms for individuals “knowingly 

assisting, supporting or facilitating a violation” 

of the law and those “using a facility, or 

means of interstate or foreign commerce, to 

own, manage or operate a web service that 

promotes or facilitates prostitution.” 

“Congress never intended for the internet 

to become a red-light district,” Wagner said. 

“I’d very simply put it: if it’s a crime offline, 

then it’s a crime online. Period. 

“You have to be careful and self-aware 

when you’re on the internet. You never 

know when some predator is out there and 

is going to manipulate you, and before you 

know it, you’re roofied, raped and you wake 

up in Houston.” 

A recently passed law gives states the ability to fight online sex trafficking. [Shutterstock.com photo] 

It happens in St. Louis 

St. Louis is in the top 20 cities for the 

most reported sex trafficking calls in the 

country, according to the National Human 

Trafficking Hotline [2017 data]. 

“Sex trafficking is hiding in plain sight in 

our community,” Wagner said. “It’s in every 

cul-de-sac, every school district, every 

socio-economic background, every faith 

community.” 

Lindsey Ellis, director of operations at 

The Covering House, a local nonprofit that 

provides rehabilitation and outreach programs 

to children, adolescents and teenage 

victims of sex trafficking across the state, 

agrees. 

Ellis said The Covering House’s cases and 

referrals come from St. Louis city as well as 

St. Charles and St. Louis counties and surrounding 

counties. The organization has an 

ongoing wait list and recently received a 

17-acre property donation that would triple 

its current capacity. 

“Our girls are coming from all over,” Ellis 

said. “It crosses social classes, races and 

social economics.” 

For the past three years, the organization’s 

most common average referral age 

has been 15, with its youngest referral being 

a 7-year-old girl. 

She said she will “never forget” one of her 

first cases with The Covering House. 

“When this girl walked in the office, she 

reminded me of almost like a little anime 

doll,” Ellis said. “She was really cute and 

petite, and kind of dressed funky in that way 

with the bobby socks and the plaid skirt and 

the pigtails. She was very smart and, when 

you talked to her, it was clear that she was 

17, but she had this appearance of a doll. 

She had that presence and that innocence. 

She still loved life, which was really encouraging, 

but it was the reality of – here was 

this almost doll-like creature sitting in front 

of me, and we were having to process this 

horrific trafficking experience.” 

It happens on the web 

Although sex trafficking has existed since 

the profession of prostitution began, Ellis, 

like Wagner, said the internet has played a 

role in changing its present and future. 

FOSTA amends Section 230 of the Communications 

Decency Act [CDA], which 

originally was an internet freedom initiative. 

According to Wagner, Section 230 has 

been a roadblock to previous anti-trafficking 

efforts, including one notable St. Louis 

court case from 2010 and known as “M.A. 

v. Village Voice Media, LLC.” A girl, identified 

as M.A., was trafficked and sexually 

exploited on Backpage.com, an advertising 

and classifieds website accused of allowing 

users to post ads related to prostitution and 

human trafficking. The case asserted that 

the website had helped facilitate M.A.’s 

trafficking; however, the case was dismissed 

due, in part, to CDA protection. 

Eventually, Backpage.com was taken 

down. On April 6, 2018, the website was 

seized by the U.S. Department of Justice. 

Its CEO Carl Ferrer pled guilty to charges of 

facilitating prostitution and money laundering. 

To some extent, Wagner credits FOSTA. 

“Even before the president signed FOSTA 

into law, we shut down over 80 percent of 

the online sex trafficking trade,” Wagner 

said. “The Manhattan District Attorney’s 

Office sent me a quote a few weeks ago 

saying, ‘The online economy powering 

human trafficking in America is decimated.” 

Examples of trafficking websites that 

already have been shut down include 

Escorts in College, Erotic Review, Night 

Shift, Massage Troll and more. 

“Massage Troll was a big one in the St. 

Louis area,” Wagner said. 

According to Ellis, the internet has 

changed the recruitment or “grooming” of 

potential victims online with dating apps 

like PlentyofFish and social media sites like 

Facebook. The trafficking of a minor can 

occur via chatrooms, dating sites and social 

media with teens under the guise of a friendship 

or romance with victims realizing later 

the other individual is a perpetrator – but 

only after exchanging information, sending 

explicit personal or peer pictures or meeting 

in person. 

“When it’s something and there’s a 

demand for it, there’s a business for it,” 

Ellis said. “Our girls and our boys tell us 

that the internet makes it easy because there 

are always new outlets coming up. By the 

time we figure out one app, there’s another 

app popping up that we’ve never heard of. I 

was just talking with a detective and he said, 

‘OK, here’s the new Backpage.com.’” 

The National Center for Missing and 

Exploited Children [NCMEC] has reported 

an 846 percent increase in child sex trafficking 

reports in the last five years; 81 percent 

of those reports concerned online sex trafficking 

specifically. 

It happens between ‘friends’ 

Sometimes peer pressure from trusted 

individuals can coerce individuals into trafficking; 

sometimes it’s a perpetrator assuming 

the role of a trusted party, like a friend or 

romantic interest. 

“I’d say the majority of it is this sort of 

boyfriend-type relationship. But we are 

seeing more now where they’re using other 

15-, 16- or 17-year-olds, or other girls who 

can pass for that age, to go into these homeless 

shelters and befriend these teenagers, or 

they go online and befriend them, and then 

say, ‘It’s not that bad, I do it’ and they basically 

become their recruiters,” Ellis said. 

She said individuals also can be exploited 

by family members, friends or peers and, in 

some online instances, the initial trafficker 

isn’t physically present. Both scenarios can 

lead to instances of victim-blaming and 

misclassification by prosecutors and other 

agencies. 

“For example, families selling their kids 

for drug money are getting pooled for abuse, 

but not for trafficking,” Ellis said. 

According to Wagner, some traffickers 

use fliers advertising modeling jobs, babysitting 

positions or local parties to entice 

minors in public places like malls or movie 

theaters. 

“These predators don’t even have to go 

online, they’ll hang out in front of [stores] 

and hand out fliers to young girls, who move 

in packs,” Wagner said “They think they’re 

invincible by sheer force of numbers, but 

they walk out of one of these shops and 

there will be older boys handing out fliers 

to go party. They think, ‘We’ll go home, we 

won’t tell mom and dad, we’ll get dressed 

up and we’ll all go together and it will be 

OK.’ And then it’s not OK.” 

Ellis said about 10 to 15 percent of The 

Covering House’s members were held 

against their will through force; the other 85 

to 90 percent were coerced into exploitation. 

According to the Missouri Attorney General’s 

Office [AGO], traffickers often will 

look for individuals who are alone, have 

large amounts of free time before or after 

school, lack family support or are looking 

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I COVER STORY I 23 

SEX TRAFFICKING, from page 20 

for a loving relationship. 

“People think ‘You have to get away from 

the scary white van,’ but traffickers actually 

can come in looking like a friend instead, 

or a boyfriend,” Emily Russell, executive 

director of the AGO’s Human Trafficking 

Task Force, said. 

Ellis added that psychological manipulation 

by a friend, family member or romantic 

interest can stop victims from seeking help. 

“We ask a lot of questions like, ‘What’s 

the age difference between you and your 

boyfriend?’ That’s a common one. We also 

ask questions like, ‘How do you feel in the 

relationship? Do you ever feel like the relationship 

is complicated, but you don’t know 

why? Do you ever feel like you have to walk 

on eggshells? Do you ever feel like you’re 

in love with them but, at any time, it could 

go away?’ Just some questions that get them 

thinking about the relationship, and the 

healthy parts of a relationship. Especially 

when it’s a friend or another adult figure in 

their life, it can be hard for them to know 

what’s normal adolescence and what is 

something more extreme,” Ellis said. 

While many referrals and survivors of 

exploitation are females, experiences in 

trafficking aren’t limited by gender or 

sexual orientation. 

“There have been a few studies done that 

show that domestic minor sex trafficking is 

comprised of, sort of, 50-50 with boys and 

girls,” Russell said. “We also know that the 

LGBT community is at a much higher risk 

because they get pushed out for their beliefs. 

As time goes on and we identify these things 

more, we might also see it more in our own 

communities. These are youths and teens 

who don’t feel accepted where they’re at, so 

they reach out and start to form unhealthy 

relationships, and sometimes they’re forced 

out to the point where they’re literally homeless. 

Then, they’re in this position where they 

refer to [trafficking] as ‘survival sex,’ but it’s 

still an adult taking advantage of a youth.” 

Recently The Covering House extended 

its services to male survivors. 

leaving,” Rhoades said. “The unknown can 

force people to stay in really crappy situations 

because you don’t know if it’s worse 

on the other side. I think I got to a point 

where I knew, 100 percent inside my soul, 

that I was going to die.” 

Rhoades said leaving her traffickers was 

a daily epiphany made difficult by a variety 

of factors. 

“I faced a lot of judgment and unhelpful 

things from service providers, from 

law enforcement, from other people in the 

community, from my family,” Rhoades 

said. “Every day, I had to say again, ‘I’m 

not going back.’” 

Rhoades said a lack of public awareness 

and stigmas, such as “trafficking victims are 

criminals and prostitutes,” still exist today. 

“The day-in and day-out struggle, once 

you have been so egregiously abused and 

violated and raped and harmed, is that it’s 

so hard to put the pieces of your life back 

together,” Wagner said. But that’s exactly 

what Rhoades did. 

In addition to earning a master’s degree 

in social work from the Brown School 

at Washington University in St. Louis, 

Rhoades also helped to create Missouri’s 

Safe at Home bill, which provides free post 

office boxes to trafficking survivors so traffickers 

cannot locate them. Rhoades has 

trained hotel staff to identify instances of 

commercial sex trafficking and worked with 

local police departments to train officers and 

other staff members. 

“I really wanted to identify what resources 

there were in the St. Louis community and 

how they were working and not working; 

then, try to fill the gap,” Rhoades said. 

Healing Action opened its doors to 10 

survivors in 2015 and has served a total of 

71 clients since. Many of its staff members 

are sex trafficking survivors. 

See SEX TRAFFICKING, page 30 

It’s hard to escape 

Katie Rhoades, founder and executive 

director of Healing Action, said a common 

phrase is “I just didn’t know anyone who 

got out.” 

Rhoades created Healing Action to provide 

services and programs to survivors of 

commercialized sex exploitation – services 

that didn’t exist for her. 

After previous untreated trauma and 

addictions to drugs and alcohol, Rhoades 

was lured into sex trafficking and taken 

to California at age 19. She was promised 

a better life. In 2002, at age 21, Rhoades 

escaped to a rehabilitation center. 

“The last moment for me was when the 

fear of staying got bigger than the fear of

24 I HEALTH I 





The longer couples are together, the farther apart they may become in terms 

of financial knowledge and skills. 

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By LISA RUSSELL 

Five healthy habits identified as 

keys to a significantly longer life 

People who practice five lifestyle habits 

during adulthood can live well over a 

decade longer than those who do not, 

according to a new Harvard University 

study. Eating a nutritious diet, exercising 

regularly, keeping body weight within 

healthy limits, drinking in moderation, and 

not smoking are the five life-extending factors 

identified in the study, the first comprehensive 

analysis of its kind conducted 

in the U.S. 

Americans’ average life expectancy of 

79.3 years is shorter than that of almost all 

other industrialized countries, ranking 31st 

in the world in 2015. To examine how lifestyle 

factors can directly impact longevity, 

the Harvard researchers looked at about 

three decades of data from about 79,000 

women and more than 44,000 men who participated 

in two large, longitudinal studies. 

At age 50, the women who had the 

healthiest lifestyles – meaning they followed 

all five low-risk factors – could 

expect to live until age 93, 14 years longer 

than women who adopted none of them. 

Among 50-year-old men, those who had 

the healthiest lifestyles could expect to 

live until age 87, 12 years longer than their 

least-healthy counterparts. 

Overall, compared with those who didn’t 

follow any of the healthy lifestyle habits, 

men and women who followed all five 

were 74 percent less likely to die from any 

cause during the study period. In particular, 

they were 65 percent less likely to die of 

cancer and 82 percent less likely to die of 

cardiovascular disease. 

Although the researchers also found that 

following at least some of the five healthy 

habits reduced their risk of earlier death to 

a lesser extent, the combination of all five 

was associated with the most additional 

years of life. However, only 8 percent of 

American adults were achieving that goal 

as of 2006, the study authors noted. Being 

overweight or obese was the primary 

obstacle to meeting the five healthy lifestyle 

objectives, they said. The study was 

recently published online in Circulation. 

When it comes to finances, 

couples often grow apart 

In many relationships, one partner – 

traditionally the man – has at some point 

taken over the lead role in managing 

household finances. This has resulted in 

a large number of adults, many of them 

women, who have almost no knowledge 

about basic money management, such as 

how long it will take to pay off a debt, the 

effects of compound interest and inflation, 

or how to calculate for savings based on 

future needs. 

A team of researchers from the University 

of Texas at Austin and the University 

of Colorado-Boulder recently explored 

the reasons behind this. They conducted 

a study of about 200 married people who 

reported sharing financial resources with 

their partners. They studied participants’ 

responses to test-type questions measuring 

their financial skills, and analyzed them 

based on whether or not they reported 

having responsibility for 62 separate 

financial “behaviors.” They also looked at 

how the participants’ financial know-how 

developed – or failed to develop – based on 

the length of their relationships. 

The researchers found that, as couples 

mature together, they often grow far apart 

in their level of interest and skill in handling 

money. Their research showed that 

although couples usually begin their relationships 

with fairly equal knowledge 

about finances, once they assign the role 

of “household CFO” to one partner, those 

knowledge paths diverge. The partner 

responsible for money-related decisions 

grows in financial knowledge over time, 

while the other partner’s financial ability 

and interest stagnates. The longer couples 

stay together, and the more responsibilities 

the household CFO takes over, the wider 

that knowledge divide becomes. 

“We interpret our findings to say that 

the assignment of financial responsibility 

causes the two members of the couple to 

go on different trajectories for a lifetime,” 

said lead researcher Adrian F. Ward of UT 

Austin’s McCombs School of Business. 

Although such specialization between partners 

is natural and in many cases practical, 

the researchers said, it causes problems 

for those who have turned the financial 

management role completely over to their 

partners. 

When researchers asked them to make 

financial decisions or even read new financial 

information independently, the “non- 

CFO” partners in the study often could 

not. And after a divorce, or when the financially 

knowledgeable partner dies, those in 

similar situations are suddenly forced into 

the financial driver’s seat, unprepared to 

assume financial control over their lives, 

Ward said. Because current statistics show 

that between 80 and 90 percent of married 

women will at some point be solely 

responsible for their own finances for one 

of those two reasons, their relative lack of 

financial literacy has major negative consequences. 

The study was recently published 

in the Journal of Consumer Research. 

On the calendar 

BJC offers free Know Your Numbers 

health screenings from 7:30-9:30 a.m. on 

Wednesday, May 30 at Progress West Hospital, 

2 Progress Point Parkway in O’Fallon. 

This health screening for adults will include 

lung function check, blood pressure check, 

cholesterol lipid panel and glucose measurements, 

body composition analysis and 

body mass index [BMI]. Participants should 

fast for at least 10 hours prior to screening. 

Advance registration is required online at 

bjcstcharlescounty.org/Events. 

• • • 

A free Beat the Pack! Smoking Cessation 

program is offered from 5:30-7 p.m. 

on Thursdays beginning June 7 and continuing 

through June 28 at Barnes-Jewish 

St. Peters Hospital, 10 Hospital Drive in St. 

Peters [Medical Office Building 1, Suite 

117]. Sessions will offer information and 

resources to help smokers kick the habit for 

good. Registration is required by visiting 

bjcstcharlescounty.org/Events. 

• • • 

An American Red Cross community 

blood drive is from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday, 

June 9 at Culvers St. Charles, 2750 

Muegge Road. Register for an appointment 

time online at www.redcrossblood.org or 

by phone at (800) 733-2767. 

• • • 

BJC hosts A Day of Play from 10 a.m.-2 

p.m. on Saturday, June 16 at the Siteman 

Cancer Center, 150 Entrance Way in St. 

Peters. This family-focused event will feature 

activities, information and fun for all 

ages, including a bounce house, art station, 

rescue trucks and free health screenings. 

Admission is free.



BEHIND THE WHEEL 

Road rage safety tips 

As more drivers, and potentially more 

young drivers, head out onto area roads 

this summer, it’s important to know how 

to prevent and diffuse dangerous road rage 

situations. 

Krav Maga Worldwide suggests the following 

tips for dealing with 

and preventing aggressive 

behavior: 

Be the bigger person. If 

a driver seems to be getting 

aggressive, do what you can 

to defuse the situation. For 

example, if someone is tailgating 

you, move over to the 

next lane. If someone begins 

to yell at you from a vehicle, 

don’t acknowledge the behavior; keep your 

distance. Avoid adding fuel to the fire by 

yelling back or staring at the abusive driver. 

Admit your mistake. If you commit a 

driving error, acknowledge your mistake 

and apologize whenever possible. 

Don’t be a tough guy. If a road rage 

incident takes place and an angry driver 

exits their vehicle looking for a fight, 

immediately lock your doors and call 911. 

You also can call 911 to report dangerous 

and aggressive drivers. Make sure to note 

the vehicle’s license plate number and in 

which direction they are heading. 

Learn basic protection skills. Sometimes 

doing your part and attempting to 

defuse an aggressive driver doesn’t work. 

It’s important for your safety 

that you equip yourself with 

basic self-defense skills as 

well as verbal and body language 

skills that can be helpful 

in deterring assailants in 

road rage situations. 

Give yourself time. The 

most common reason people 

get road rage is stress – and 

rushing to get to a destination 

on time is a key stressor. Give yourself an 

extra 5 to 10 minutes every trip to ensure 

you arrive safe and sound. 

Breathe. Driving can be a stressful situation 

and cause even the calmest person to 

tense up at times. Remember to breathe. 

You can’t control traffic or other drivers, 

but you can do your part in keeping the 

road safe and your anger in check. When 

frustration threatens, take 10 deep breaths 

and drive on safely. 

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 

A “Pen and Paint” Art Exhibit, a collaboration 

among writers and artists, is 

now open through June 24 at the St. Peters 

Cultural Arts Centre, 1 St. Peters Centre 

Blvd. The Oak Leaf Artist Guild’s paintings 

are interpretations of written works 

from the Saturday Writers group. The 

paintings are displayed along with their 

accompanied written works. For more 

information, call (636) 397-6903, ext. 

1624, or visit stpetersmo.net/arts. 

BENEFITS 

A Trivia Night is at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 

8 at Dardenne Prairie City Hall, 2032 Hanley 

Road in Dardenne Prairie. Benefiting the 

Parks and Recreation programs and events. 

There will be raffle items, a 50/50 raffle and 

cash prizes. Attendees can bring in outside 

food and beverage. Tables of eight. For more 

information, visit dardenneprairie.org. 

• • • 

The O’Fallon Kiwanis Club’s 16th 

Annual Golf Tournament is on Friday, 

June 22 at the Falls Golf Course, 1170 Turtle 

Creek Drive in O’Fallon. All proceeds will 

be donated to high school graduates for college 

funding support and to local charities. 

The cost is $100 per person and includes 

golf, a cart, prizes, refreshments, lunch and 

dinner, and a silent auction. For more information, 

contact Rachel at stlrachel@aol. 

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FAMILY & KIDS 

The Veterans Memorial Program is 

from noon-3 p.m. on Sunday, May 27 at 

St. Charles Memorial Gardens, 3950 West 

Clay St. in St. Charles. This event is free, 

family-friendly and open to the public. 

Includes children’s activities, military 

vehicle displays and a memorial service. 

Visit Baue.com/Vet for more information. 

• • • 

RSC 1-Mile Challenge Run is from 7-8 

p.m. on Friday, June 1 at Renaud Spirit 

Center, 2650 Tri Sports Circle in O’Fallon. 

This family-friendly obstacle run starts with 

a 1-mile run followed by a series of obstacles 

including an army crawl, tire run and a 

bale climb. The race features a separate set 

of obstacles for kids and adults. Enjoy the 

Party on the Lawn and free entertainment 

for the whole family. Day-of registration is 

accepted, but price will increase. For more 

information, call (636) 474-2REC. 

• • • 

Family Fun Day is from 8:30 a.m.-1 

p.m. on Saturday, June 2 at 370 Lakeside 

Park, 1000 Lakeside Park Drive in St. 

Peters. Events and activities include the St. 

Peters Police Rangers Fishing Derby, Kite 

Festival, a bounce house, a boat display 

and lots of giveaways. Free water, sports 

drinks and hot dogs available. Register 

online at stpetersmo.net/rec-connect, by 

phone at (636) 939-2386 ext. 1400, or in 

person at the St. Peters Rec-Plex, located 

at 5200 Mexico Road. 

• • • 

Youth Activity Park Lock-Ins are from 

6 p.m.-6 a.m. on Saturdays, June 2, July 7 

and Aug. 4 at 7801 Hwy. N in Dardenne 

Prairie. Area youth ages 12-18 are invited 

to skate, scoot, ride and play all night. This 

round-the-clock event includes a pizza 

party at midnight. Cost is $25; registration 

is required. Participants must have a 

helmet and a parent-signed waiver on file 

at the park. To register, call (636) 949-7535 

or visit http://bit.ly/2eOatM2. 

• • • 

The 2nd Annual Bike Safety Rodeo is 

from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, June 9 at 

the Youth Activity Park, 7801 Hwy. N in 

Dardenne Prairie. Children ages 4-15 will 

learn bike control, handling skills, hand 

signals and balance. A simulated street 

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I EVENTS I 27 

14th Annual Missouri 

River Irish Fest 

Held Friday, May 25 through 

Sunday, May 27 at Frontier Park, 222 

S. Riverside Drive in Saint Charles, the 

Missouri River Irish Fest is the largest 

free Irish festival in the Midwest. It’s a 

weekend filled with live music on the 

Shamrocks Stage, crafts, food, beverages, 

activities celebrating the Irish 

culture and, for the young’uns, a Wee 

Folks Pot O’ Gold Playground. Festival 

hours: Friday, 5-11 p.m.; Saturday, 10 

a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 

For details, visit moriveririshfest.com. 

two-way intersection, passing an emergency 

vehicle, encountering animal crossings 

and riding near parked cars. The event 

is free. Registration is requested, but walkups 

are welcome. To register, call (636) 

949-7535 or visit http://bit.ly/2K4bCO0. 

• • • 

Tire Rack Street Survival ® Teen Driving 

School is from 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Saturdays, 

June 9, July 7, Sept. 22 and Oct. 27 

at Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway in 

St. Charles. Students will complete a classroom 

session and then learn how to manage 

everyday driving hazards, obstacles and 

challenges on an advanced driving course 

[course open to licensed and permitted 

drivers ages 15-21]. More information can 

be found at streetsurvival.org. 

FESTIVALS & CONCERTS 

The Sunset Fridays Concert Series, 

sponsored, in part, by Mid Rivers Newsmagazine, 

is from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Fridays now 

through Aug. 10 at 370 Lakeside Park, 1000 

Lakeside Park Drive in St. Peters. Friends 

and families can come to the Corporate 

Pavilion to watch the sunset and enjoy live 

music. Dinner and drinks may be brought [no 

glass] or purchased. For more information or 

a full list of upcoming concerts, visit stpetersmo.net/sunset-fridays.aspx. 

• • • 

The Meadows SummerFest is from June 

7-Aug. 23 at The Meadows Lake St. Louis, 

20 Meadows Circle Drive. Music, food and 

entertainment. Attendees are encouraged 

to bring their lawn chairs and beverages. 

Concerts include: Trixie Delight [June 7], 

Whiskey Morning [June 21], Fanfare [July 

12], Vote for Pedro [July 26] and Dance 

Floor Riot [Aug. 23]. For more information, 

visit themeadowsatlsl.com. 

• • • 

Free Big Band Performances at 

Mid Rivers Mall are from 6:30-8:30 

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p.m. one Friday a month, now through 

September. Performances: Silver Wings 

[June 8], Fanfare [July 13], The Alley Kats 

[Aug. 10] and The Charlie Mann Trio [Sept. 

7]. The concert dates coincide with Free 

Summer Senior Days, from 11:30 a.m.-2 

p.m., also at the Mall. For more information, 

visit ShopMidRiversMall.com. 

• • • 

The 2018 Beale Street Concert Series 

is from 6-8 p.m. on the second Wednesday 

of each month on Beale Street, between 

Nichols and Lombard in St. Charles. Various 

Streets of St. Charles restaurants will 

be serving food and refreshments. Guests 

are encouraged to bring lawn chairs for the 

performance. Performances: Joe Dirt [June 

13], Superjam [July 11], The Yacht Rockers 

[Aug. 8], Marquise Knox [Sept. 12] and Dr. 

Zhivegas [Oct. 10]. Visit streetsofstcharles. 

com for more information. 

• • • 

The Dardenne Prairie Summer 

Concert Series is from 6-9 p.m. on the 

third Friday of each month now through 

August at City Hall Park, 2032 Hanley 

Road in Dardenne Prairie. Attendees are 

encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets. 

Concessions available for purchase. 

Performers: FanFare [June 15], Butch 

Wax and the Hollywoods [July 20] and Dr. 

Zhivegas [Aug. 17]. For more information, 

visit dardenneprairie.org/summer-concert. 

• • • 

The SCC Outdoor Summer Movie 

Series and Food Truck Frolic is from 

5-9 p.m. on Fridays now through Sept. 21 

at St. Charles Community College, 4601 

Mid Rivers Mall Drive in Cottleville. Food 

Truck Frolic will take place in the college’s 

Red Parking Lot, and the Movie Series will 

be shown on the lawn outside the Technology 

Building. Movies: “Sherlock Gnomes” 

[June 22], “Sing” [July 20], “The Incredibles” 

[Aug. 24] and “Incredibles 2” [Sept. 

21]. Movie titles are subject to change. Bring 

blankets, chairs and food. Free popcorn provided; 

snacks and beverages available for 

purchase. For more information, visit foodtruckfrolic.com 

or call (636) 922-8473. 

• • • 

The 4th annual St. Charles LGBTQIA+ 

Pride Festival presented by Procter & 

Gamble will be held from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. 

on Saturday, June 16 at Frontier Park, 500 

S. Riverside Drive in St. Charles. Entertainment, 

education and an opportunity 

for allies and LGBTQIA+ community to 

celebrate and share resources. The event 

is free and family-friendly. For more information, 

visit pridestcharles.org or contact 

Beth Finder at (636) 344-0134. 

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Festivities include a facility tour; interactive 

contest; informational booths featuring 

animal health, grooming and pet training; 

registration to join the volunteer team; and 

a special adoption rate for dogs and cats 

age 6 months or older. 

• • • 

American Legion Post 313 sponsors an 

ITPA and MSTPA sanctioned Truck and 

Tractor Pull at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 8 at 

Lone Wolf Park, 2 Main St. in Old Town 

St. Peters. Gates open at 3 p.m. Tractors 

and trucks in a variety of models will 

be featured. Food and beer garden tents. 

Tickets are $17 per person; free for kids 

12 and under. There is a free Hartland 

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p.m. on Saturday, June 9. 

• • • 

“Lila, Life of a Missouri Slave” is at 

1:15 and 3:15 p.m. on Sundays, June 10, 

July 8, Aug. 12, Sept. 9 and Oct. 14 in the 

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Angela da Silva will portray the life of 

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when her quest for freedom could no longer 

be ignored. For more information about the 

program or tours, call (636) 798-2237. 

• • • 

Day Trip: German Hermann is from 

8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Friday, June 15 

and begins at St. Peters City Hall, 1 St. 

Peters Centre Blvd. in St. Peters. Visit the 

Deutschheim State Historic Site in Hermann, 

Missouri, and enjoy a German lunch 

at the Hermann Wurst Haus. Cost is $95 and 

includes transportation, admissions, lunch 

and gratuities. Tour involves walking. For 

more information or to register, call (636) 

939-2386, ext. 1400 or visit stpetersmo.net. 

• • • 

The Rookies & Rock Stars Triathlon 

is at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 17 at St. 

Peters Rec-Plex, 5200 Mexico Road in 

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• • • 

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“Several of our women have said they’ve 

been to therapists and other agencies and 

they can’t talk freely about their experiences 

on the streets because someone gets 

upset or someone doesn’t know how to 

handle it,” Rhoades said. “Here, they’re 

free to be able to talk about that and we’re 

not shaming. A lot of times we’re like, 

‘You know, been there.’” 

The FBI estimates that human trafficking 

generates $9.5 billion in the U.S. annually. 

According to the Department of Justice 

and NCMEC, a trafficker can make around 

$150,000 to $200,000 and exploit an average 

of four to six victims at one time. Most victims 

receive marginal or no money, but, 

from those who do, FOSTA has come 

under fire. 

“Does [FOSTA] hinder women 

who are in the sex trade by pure, free 

choice?” Rhoades asked. “Probably 

... [but] I tend to choose the less fortunate’s 

rights over those who are 

making a fully informed choice.” 

When getting justice for victims 

over age 18, force, fraud or coercion 

must be proven. 

“You can get a case where you can 

clearly see someone is doing something 

against their will, but sometimes 

that can be really challenging to move 

through the criminal justice system, so it 

ends up being charged as neglect or sexual 

assault,” Russell said. “There’s never really 

been a, ‘Hey, check this box for sex-trafficking.’ 

There are people looking for ways to 

do that, but it’s a constant challenge.” 

Another challenge is similar to the one 

faced by minors – adults being unwillingly 

pulled into trafficking through social media 

or dating applications. 

“I was made aware of a case out of Arkansas 

several years ago where a woman was 

just a few months away from getting her 

Ph.D. in neuroscience and was lured away 

by a human trafficker because it came in the 

form of a romantic partner,” Russell said. 

How you can help 

When it comes to public intervention, 

AGO training videos, available online at 

makemofree.com, instruct witnesses to 

document the situation, identify marks and 

vehicle details, and reach out to law enforcement 

or 911 if the situation appears urgent. 

“If something doesn’t look right, I think 

trusting your gut is a big part of making that 

report,” Russell said. 

According to the AGO Human Trafficking 

Unit, potential victims of sex trafficking 

may sometimes avoid making eye contact, 

will wear clothes or outfits that don’t match 

the season, work odd or inconsistent hours, 

display hyper-vigilance, a distrust of law 

enforcement, anxiety and paranoia. 

Russell suggested that a good way to help 



President Donal Trump, with Rep. Ann Wagner 

[center], signs FOSTA into law. [White House photo] 

is by working with accredited organizations 

or coalitions that aid survivors. Coalitions 

nearby include the National Council of 

Jewish Women’s Human Trafficking Committee, 

the St. Charles Coalition Against 

Human Trafficking, the St. Louis Rescue 

and Restore Coalition and Human Trafficking 

Collaborative Network. 

Wagner said another way to help is to support 

FOSTA legislation at the state level. 

“Missouri is already taking it up in the 

House and Senate,” Wagner said. “From 

Texas to Florida to Washington State, there 

are legislative bodies that will be taking up 

FOSTA, because most sex trafficking is 

prosecuted at the state and local level.” 

While the National Human Trafficking 

Hotline ranks Missouri 16th in the 

country for reported sex trafficking calls, 

Russell said the statistic may be “a good 

thing because it also means our citizens are 

becoming more educated on this topic and 

are making those calls.” 

“They’re reporting it, so it might actually 

be a good sign that we are coming to the 

table and taking this problem seriously in 

our state,” Russell said. 

Legislation like FOSTA and increased 

public awareness also could spur more 

reported cases. 

“The more resources law enforcement 

and the prosecuting offices have, the more 

they’re going to be able to prosecute cases,” 

Rhoades said. “I don’t see the incident 

number going down, I foresee them going 

up, but not necessarily because more incidents 

are going on. I believe those instances 

have been going on since prostitution.” 

Wagner said that while it’s not possible to 

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like FOSTA can make a difference. 

“We’ll get them,” Wagner said. “There’s 

more to be done, but we will never stop, we 

will stay vigilant and we’re grateful for the 

impact that this is having.” 

• • • 

The National Human Trafficking 

Resource Center can be reached at (888) 

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