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In many divorces, the marital home is 

one of the most valuable assets. There are 

three general possibilities in what to do 

with the marital home in a divorce: 

1.) Spouse A keeps the house; 

2.) Spouse B keeps the house; or 

3.) The parties sell the house. 

In scenarios 1 and 2 above, the spouse 

not getting the martial home generally 

has to execute a deed after the divorce 

is over that awards their interest in the 

house to the other spouse. The transfer 

usually takes place through a Quit Claim 

Deed. 

The other issue is that unless the marital 

home is paid-off (which is often not 

the case), there is a mortgage. When a 

married couple owns a home together, the 

mortgage is almost always in both their 

names. Many wonder how important it 

is to have their name removed from the 

mortgage if they are not the party receiving 

the martial home. The truth is that it 

is almost always important for the party 

who is not receiving the home. 

Removing the other spouse’s name 

can typically be accomplished through 

the spouse who is keeping the house refinancing 

the mortgage to remove the other 

spouse’s name. If the spouse who is keeping 

the house has excellent credit, they 

might be able to assume the mortgage in 

their sole name. An assumption agreement 

is how one spouse can remove the 

other spouse’s name and not have to pay 

the refinancing costs and fees. 

Some parties, however, do not account 

for the mortgage in their divorce settlement 

paperwork at all. This can result in 

a scenario where the spouse not keeping 

the house discovers many years later that 

their name is still on the mortgage. They 

often discover this when they want to buy 

a house, vehicle, or other assets on their 

own. 

They then are informed that the income 

to debt ratio is too high. This may 

result in them not being able to get a loan 

at all. Or, in some cases, it might result 

in a higher interest rate than they would 

have been able to obtain. 

In a worse situation, the spouse keeping 

the house may not make all the mortgage 

payments. When the party who has 

the house does not pay the mortgage, it 

can hurt the other spouse’s credit rating 

or result in them being a part of foreclosure 

proceedings. 

For the above reasons, it often makes 

sense to talk to a lawyer about setting forth 

a deadline in the settlement paperwork by 

which the party keeping the house must 

remove the other spouse through a refinance 

or assumption. Otherwise, they 

have to sell the house. This helps protect 

the spouse who is not keeping the marital 

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STAR PARKER 

Police Reform and 

Personal Responsibility 

It is indeed rare, if not unprecedented, 

to see a highly diverse group of organizations 

such as the conservative Alliance 

Defending Freedom, the liberal American 

Civil Liberties Union, the libertarian Cato 

Institute and the Reason Foundation on the 

same page as the NAACP Legal Defense 

and Education Fund on the same issue. 

But it is happening as the U.S. Senate 

takes up police reform. The issue is a legal 

doctrine known as qualified immunity. 

These diverse organizations all agree that 

qualified immunity is bad law and should 

end. 

The discussion is particularly high-powered 

today because it stands at the center 

of police reform that many see is needed 

in the wake of incidents such as the murder 

of George Floyd by former police officer 

Derek Chauvin. 

The nation’s first major civil rights 

law, the Civil Rights Act of 1871, passed 

shortly after the Civil War, contains a provision 

known as Section 1983 that protects 

citizens from violation of their civil rights 

by government officials. It says that a government 

official who violates a citizen’s 

civil rights is liable and can be sued by the 

injured party. 

Thus stood the law, until a series of 

Supreme Court decisions from 1967 to 

1982 reinterpreted its application. 

A new standard, qualified immunity, was 

added saying that it must be shown that 

rights were violated per “clearly established 

law.” That is, there must be a previous 

case in which rights were violated the 

exact same way. 

So, if a citizen’s rights are violated but 

there is no previous case in which rights 

were violated in exactly that way, there is 

no protection. The government official is 

immune from liability. 

Although the law applies to violation of 

a citizen’s civil rights by any government 

official, the hot button today is violations 

by police. 

The qualified immunity doctrine makes 

establishing liability next to impossible, 

thus removing a serious deterrent against 

police violating civil rights in their law 

enforcement activities. 

Police leadership and unions argue that 

qualified immunity is essential for them to 

do their job. This is a tough and dangerous 

business, they say, and split-second 

law enforcement decisions must be made, 

often under great uncertainty, sometimes 

with life-and-death implications. 

But police officers being able to make 

deadly decisions, with no sense of personal 

responsibility and costs, leads to some of 

the horrors that we are seeing today. 

Derek Chauvin had 18 complaints 

against him before he committed his final 

deadly act against George Floyd. Had the 

incident, in all its gory and tragic details, 

not been captured on video by a young 

onlooker, the legal outcome likely would 

have been much different. 

Personal responsibility must be the 

hallmark in a free country, whether we’re 

talking about obeying the law or enforcing 

it. When right and wrong become ambiguous, 

when personal responsibility becomes 

ambiguous, we see the chaos we are witnessing 

today. 

Police officers perform a vital function 

in our society. But what does law enforcement 

mean when law has no meaning? And 

law has no meaning if officers have free 

license to violate citizens’ civil rights. 

A creative solution has been proposed by 

the Cato Institute: Require police officers 

to carry liability insurance, like other professionals 

do. This would provide them the 

coverage they need. And those who are flagrant 

violators, like Derek Chauvin, would 

be priced out of the market. 

The only stalwart on the Supreme Court 

questioning the status quo on qualified 

immunity has been Clarence Thomas. 

Thomas is an originalist – read the law as 

written – and opposed to judicial activism. 

He has written that qualified immunity is 

“the sort of ‘freewheeling policy choice(s)’ 

that we have previously disclaimed the 

power to make.” 

Thomas has urged the court to take on 

and review this issue. “I continue to have 

strong doubts about our ... qualified immunity 

doctrine,” he wrote last year. 

Policing should be a local issue, not a 

national one. But civil rights is a national 

issue, and qualified immunity should be 

reformed. 

• • • 

Star Parker is president of the Center for 

Urban Renewal and Education and host of 

the weekly television show “Cure America 

with Star Parker.” 

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

Regarding ‘Curbside voting’ 

To the Editor: 

Sirs, as a poll worker in St. Charles 

County, I can understand Mr. Crozier’s 

concerns about curbside voting. At our 

polling place we have several people that 

vote curbside. 

In the ones that use the curbside voting 

method, all of them have someone drive 

them to the polling place. When they arrive, 

the person that brought them comes in to 

the polling place, waits in line and then 

tells the poll worker we have a curbside 

voter. Then, according to state election 

laws, two workers (one from each party) 

proceeds to the curbside where the voter is 

allowed to vote. 

This can also be accomplished by going 

to the Election Authority for absentee 

voting. 

Election Authority Director Kurt Bahr 

is doing everything possible to make sure 

everyone who wants to vote, does. 

Doug Beaver 

Regarding Star Parker 

I love what Star Parker has to said about 

the extreme liberals. It’s not just her opinion. 

She backs it up with data and facts. 

Thank you for running her editorial in 

every edition of your magazine. 

Bob Woods 

• • • 

In Star Parker’s April 21 column, she 

decried leaders of major corporations 

speaking out on social issues, specifically 

new laws restricting voting rights in Georgia. 

She goes on to say that CEOs should 

not take a public position on such issues 

and instead should solely focus on serving 

customers and increasing returns to 

shareholders, citing Milton Friedman circa 

1962. Now, nothing against Milton Friedman, 

he was a fine economist and many of 

his theories advanced political debate. Just 

as Friedman was supporting the merits of 

a more market-oriented economics compared 

to Keynes’ well-accepted theories of 

the day 60 years ago, debates still persist 

today between economists with diverse 

views such as Tyler Cowen and Austan 

Goolsbee – both are respectable academics 

and each will find their ideas more amenable 

to either side of the political divide. 

Since 1962, economic thought has 

evolved. In 2019, 182 CEOs of major corporations 

from oil and gas to defense to 

consulting and health care signed on to the 

Business Roundtable’s updated Statement 

on the Purpose of a Corporation, a short 

document that outlines five key principles 

including delivering value to customers, 

investing in employees, dealing fairly 

and ethically with suppliers, supporting 

the communities in which they work and 

finally, generating long-term value for 

shareholders. If we focus on the fourth 

point of the statement, it makes complete 

sense that a major employer in Georgia 

would advocate against policies that it 

deemed unfair and harmful to a large portion 

of its labor force. 

The CEOs who signed on to the statement 

were not coerced and they certainly 

are not all liberals, but they realize taking a 

broader view of their stakeholders is good 

for the long-term sustainability of their 

businesses. If their views were too far out 

of the mainstream, their boards of directors 

would rein them in; however in reviewing 

many of the big names on the list that I recognize, 

most still hold the top job. 

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Former Cottleville mayor Jim Hennessey (center) has been honored with a city trail in his name. 

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COTTLEVILLE 

Trail named in honor 

of former mayor 

The multi-use trail along the north side 

of Hwy. N, west of Weiss Road has been 

named the Jim Hennessey Trail in honor of 

Cottleville’s former mayor, who was first 

elected to that position in 2013. 

Hennessey, who did not seek reelection 

in 2021, served the city as mayor for eight 

years and served as an alderman for six 

years prior to that. 

In the proclamation establishing the 

name of the trail it is noted that Hennessey’s 

length of service to the city of 

Cottleville includes the completion of 

the City Municipal Building; McAuley’s 

Playground, which is the city’s first allinclusive 

playground; completion of the 

Hwy. N reconstruction; the establishment 

of Great Rivers Greenway trails throughout 

the city and many other road and park 

improvements. 

O’FALLON 

Apartment rezoning tabled again 

Concerns from nearby residents have 

made a 99-unit apartment development 

proposed for a location near the intersection 

of Hwy. K and Route 364 controversial 

and resulted in a pause from its developer. 

The development, located adjacent to 

the existing Pheasant Pointe single-family 

home subdivision, would include two 

27-unit buildings, three 15-unit buildings, 

a clubhouse and a pool. 

The development would be named 

“Highway K Apartments.” 

At its April 22 meeting, the O’Fallon City 

Council was scheduled to vote on legislation 

(Bill No. 7302), sponsored by Ward 2 

council members Tom “Duke” Herweck 

and Lisa Thompson to authorize the rezoning 

of the proposed 7.07-acre apartment 

site. However, at the request of the developer, 

ILI Communities, the public hearing, 

second reading and vote were tabled until 

the May 13 council meeting. 

Pheasant Pointe residents have opposed 

this development via statements made in 

numerous emails, citizen comments and 

statements during public hearings. Objections 

include belief that the narrow land 

parcel is insufficient for such a large apartment 

complex, the intersection at Hwy. 

K would be too busy and dangerous, and 

property values in Pheasant Pointe would 

decline. 

ILI Communities previously developed 

the Altair brand, including Altair at the 

Preserve on Phoenix Parkway in Winghaven, 

and Altair at the Heights in Richmond 

Heights. 

City recognized as ‘most livable’ 

According to a 2020 Gallup survey, 

almost one in two Americans (48%, to be 

exact) prefer to live in a town or rural area – 

up from 39% in 2018. And while 27% still 

say that they want to live in a city, almost 

two-thirds of that group (16%) prefer a 

small city to a big one. 

Armed with this information, financial 

technology company SmartAsset compared 

almost 300 cities with populations 

between 65,000 and 100,000 to identify 

and rank the nation’s most livable small 

cities for 2021 – and the winner is … 

O’Fallon, Missouri. 

To develop its list, the company analyzed 

data from 291 cities across the following 

metrics: concentration of entertainment 

establishments, restaurants, bars and 

healthcare establishments, Gini coefficient 

(a measure of income inequality), home 

affordability, housing costs as a percentage 

of median income, percentage of residents 

below the poverty line, unemployment 

rate percentage of residents without health 

insurance and average commute time. 

The Midwest ranked high among those 

surveyed with eight of the top 10 cities 

being located in midwestern states. In 

fact, coming in at No. 7 was the city of St. 

Charles. 

According to Smart Asset, here’s how 

O’Fallon faired in specific survey categories: 

The city ranked 11th for low income 

inequality, with a Gini coefficient of 0.36. 

It ranked 30th for its relatively low proportion 

of residents living below the poverty 

line, at 4.0%. Median housing costs equal 

just 16.93% of median household income 

in O’Fallon, ranking 19th for that metric in 

the study overall. 

Smart Asset assessed St. Charles as 

having median housing costs amounting 

to 16.33% of median household income, 

ranking 15th in the study. Additionally, St. 

Charles has the 39th-highest concentration 

of healthcare establishments at the county 

level (13.44%) and the 55th-lowest, as 

of December 2020, unemployment rate 

(4.7%) – both top quintile rankings. 

Shred-It Day scheduled 

in mid-May 

O’Fallon’s Environmental Services 

Department is offering a Shred-It Day 

from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, May 15 at 

the Environmental Services building, 1550 

Progress West Lane. 

Documents should be placed in cardboard 

bankers’ boxes, or cardboard boxes 

of a similar size, and dropped off at the 

drive-through event. Boxes should not be 

too heavy to lift or filled to overflowing. 

The service is free for residents for up to 

five bankers-sized boxes. Additional boxes 

will be accepted for a cost of $5 per box 

for any over the limit. Additionally, nonresidents 

can drop off their paper for shredding 

for a cost of $5 per box. 

Residents must bring photo identification 

showing O’Fallon residency and all 

trash customers must have their account 

in good standing in order to receive the 

free services. All of the material will be 

shredded including the boxes if they are 

not wanted back. The event is indoors, so 

it will be rain or shine. 

If you can tear it, then you can shred it 

with this complimentary service. It is OK 

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clips. Computer discs and hanging file rods 

are not permitted. 

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Boulevard/I-70 roundabout project. 

The commission awarded the contract 

at their monthly meeting on Wednesday, 

April 7. Gershenson Construction 

Company submitted the lowest bid in the 

amount of $2,956,107.23. 

Gershenson Construction Company 

will replace traffic signals at Veterans 

Memorial Drive and the eastbound I-70 

ramps and their intersections with Lake 

St. Louis Boulevard with a single roundabout. 

Construction is anticipated to start 

May 2021. 

MoDOT partnered with the city of Lake 

Saint Louis for this cost-share project. The 

entire project is expected to be completed 

by summer 2022. Additional information 

regarding timelines and impacts to traffic 

will be released prior to the start of construction. 

Motorists are encouraged to sign up for 

project updates by visiting MoDOT’s webpage: 

modot.org/lake-saint-louis-boulevardroundabout. 

The latest construction 

impacts can also be found on the Lake 

Saint Louis webpage at lakesaintlouis.com. 

ST. PETERS 

City turns waste into ‘gold’ 

The St. Peters’ Earth Centre combines 

biosolids from wastewater with the yard





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waste into a biosolids compost known as 

“Gold Grow.” The result is a high-quality, 

nationally certified Class A product that is 

constantly tested for safety. 

As a natural fertilizer it can aid the 

growth of plants long into the growing 

season. 

Gold Grow compost and double-ground 

mulch are available for sale at the lowest 

rates for Resident Privilege Card holders 

for up to 10 cubic yards of product per 

household, per calendar year. This amount 

equals five pickup truck loads of product 

(compost and mulch combined); however, 

Gold Grow is also avalable by the 5-gallon 

bucket for just $1 per bucket. 

Both products are available at the Earth 

Centre, located at 115 Ecology Drive. 

Learn more about product availability 

and Earth Centre hours at stpetersmo.net/ 

GoldGrow. 

ST. CHARLES 

Rides return to Main Street 

The St. Charles Trolley is back. Service 

is available from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Fridays, 

Saturdays and Sundays. Riders can also 

track the trolley on their phones by downloading 

the ‘Ride Saint Charles’ app or by 

visiting stcharlestrolley.com for a full list 

of stops. 

MISSOURI 

Health survey seeks 

community participation 

BJC HealthCare, Mercy, SSM Health, 

St. Luke’s Hospital and Shriners Hospitals 

for Children are joining forces to conduct 

a survey as part of the St. Louis Metropolitan 

Area Health Systems Community 

Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). All 

residents in the community are encouraged 

to participate. 

The community health needs assessment 

is conducted every three years to identify 

strategies to address the region’s top health 

and social needs. Results will be used by 

the area health systems to guide efforts to 

address the most critical needs. 

The anonymous online survey contains 

questions about health challenges, access 

to health care, and social determinants of 

health including financial status, neighborhood 

environment and social support 

networks. Questions are based primarily 

on the perception and opinion of the 

public. 

The survey is expected to take no more 

than 10 minutes to complete and will be 

available through June 30. All community 

members are welcomed and encouraged to 

complete the survey electronically at surveymonkey.com/r/CHNAstl. 

The timeframe for publication of the 

results of this CHNA will vary by hospital, 

ranging between 6-20 months. 

Free suicide prevention training 

An hour of your time could save a life. 

The University of Missouri Extension is 

offering free one-hour suicide prevention 

training sessions online in May. 

QPR Gatekeeper Training helps participants 

“question, persuade and refer” 

someone who may be suicidal, says MU 

Extension health and safety specialist 

Karen Funkenbusch. QPR was created in 

1995 by clinical psychologist Paul Quinnett 

as an emergency mental health intervention 

for suicidal persons. 

The free sessions, presented via Zoom, will 

help anyone who wants to know the warning 

signs of suicide, how to offer help and how 

to get help to save a life, Funkenbusch says. 

Participants learn to be “gatekeepers” who 

can recognize when a person might be in a 

suicide crisis and know how to respond. 

“A gatekeeper can be anyone,” Funkenbusch 

said. “We can all save lives. Signs of 

crisis are all around us. The QPR hourlong 

training empowers people to recognize 

those signs and make a positive difference.” 

At the end of the training, attendees 

receive two-year certification. 

Dates and times: 

• Tuesday, May 11, Noon-1 p.m. 

• Thursday, May 13, Noon-1 p.m. 

• Tuesday, May 18, 6-7 p.m. 

• Thursday, May 20, Noon-1 p.m. 

• Tuesday, May 25, 6-7 p.m. 

Register at extension.missouri.edu/ 

events/qpr-gatekeeper-training-via-zoom. 

Historic planes to storm 

into Missouri 

Show-Me, a B-25 Bomber made famous 

by the Doolittle Raiders, will fly into Spirit 

of St. Louis Airport for a three-day barnstorming 

aviation event beginning at 9 a.m. 

on Saturday, May 29 at the TAC air ramp, 

18260 Edison Ave. in Chesterfield. 

The historic aircraft on display and available 

for rides will be the North American 

B-25 Bomber, Grumman TBM Avenger, 

L-3 and Boeing Stearman. These aircraft 

are powerful American icons bringing the 

sights, sounds and stories of World War II 

aviation to the St. Louis area. 

The event is open to the public from 9 

a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, May 29 through 

Monday, May 31. 

The requested donation for static ramp 

access is $5 for adults and $2 for children 

ages 11-17. Children age 10 and younger 

are free. 

Advance ride reservations range from 

$95 to $895. Ride reservations and 

additional information can be found on 

Facebook @ Commemorative Air Force 

Missouri Wing.

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County Council denies conditional use permit 

to allow increased group home occupancy 

By BRIAN E. BIRDNOW 

A controversial permit request to 

increase the capacity of a group home in St. 

Charles County hit a dead-end at the April 

26 County Council meeting. However, the 

vote was hardly decisive. 

Approval of a conditional use permit 

(CUP) to increase capacity – from eight 

residents to 12 – at the LIV Recovery Sober 

Living facility at 17 Placid Drive, off of 

Caulks Hill Road met with a 3-3 tied vote, 

with one council member absent. The vote 

ended the expansion issue in a defeat for 

the petitioner and applicant, Cameo Jones, 

but the home can continue to operate. 

The meeting, which was sparsely 

attended, stood in stark contrast to the 

April 12 meeting when the measure was 

introduced to a large and vocal, if generally 

decorous, crowd. In the council’s 

preliminary questioning of the applicant at 

that meeting, a number of pointed issues 

cropped up. 

First, it came to light that the group home 

has been operating for roughly a year, with 

no permit having been issued, thus LIV 

Recovery Sober Living has been illegally 

operating in violation of county regulations. 

However, this appears to have been 

due to misunderstood regulations and not a 

willful effort to evade the law. Additionally, 

the council identified parking problems on 

the residential lane on which the home sits 

based on the occupancy of the home and the 

number of vehicles allowed under current 

regulations. Finally, the council considered 

a matter of paramount importance to 

many of the residents of the neighborhood, 

namely property values and the imperative 

of protecting them in the near future. 

During the questioning, Jones and her 

husband, Derek, gave forthcoming and 

confident testimony concerning the facility. 

They also attempted to quell the fears that 

some in the large crowd of spectators had 

concerning the project. Jones noted that 

the facility has been cited as a model for 

development by the National Alliance of 

Recovery Residences and its administrators 

have done their best to address issues 

raised by the home’s new neighbors. 

However, council member John White 

(District 7) chided Jones for the “stealth 

situation,” by which her organization had 

proceeded to that moment. White and 

Local cities oppose House proposal to eliminate April elections 



17 Placid Drive, home of LIV Recovery Sober Living 

(Source: Zillow) 

council member Terry Hollander 

(District 5) concurred in the 

opinion that the recovery facility 

had hurt their cause by poor 

organization and planning. 

The April 12 meeting then 

moved to public comments, and 

there was no shortage of observations. 

One of the first speakers 

declared that LIV Recovery 

Sober Living was the “best facility 

of its sort I’ve seen”, and said 

that opposition to the institution was based 

on “… misunderstanding or ignorance.” 

He then qualified the remark to assure the 

crowd that, by using the term “ignorance” 

he meant no offense. 

Speaker Scott Hartman also praised 

the intent of LIV Recovery Sober Living 

to help the residents get their lives back. 

Other speakers alluded to the possibility 

that the opponent’s motives in this matter 

could be related to “bigotry” and “fear and 

stigma.” Still another speaker stated that 

people’s lives are at risk and that those 

imperatives outweighed considerations 

such as property values. 

In response, those who opposed the project 

said they came to their decision by a 

number of lines of reasoning. 

The first speaker who opposed the plan 

listed a potential decline in property values 

as his main complaint, but also noted that 

he had been involved in tense confrontations 

with residents of the group home. 

Another speaker said he had moved to 

the neighborhood because he liked it the 

way it was and did not welcome change. 

A third speaker claimed that she had a 

petition signed by 185 neighborhood residents 

opposing the plan. The last two of 

those speaking in opposition to the project 

See COUNTY COUNCIL, page 13 

By JOHN TREMMEL 

Changes could be coming to the local 

election process if Rep. Ben Baker (District 

160) has his way. 

Baker, whose district is located in southwest 

Missouri, is the primary sponsor of 

House Bill 920, which if passed and signed 

into law by the governor, would move local 

municipal elections from the first Tuesday 

after the first Monday in April to the first 

Tuesday after the first Monday in November. 

The November date is traditionally 

when statewide and national elections are 

held. 

Locally, the St. Peters Board of Aldermen, 

the O’Fallon City Council and the 

Weldon Spring Board of Aldermen have 

all unanimously passed resolutions urging 

state representatives and state senators to 

vote against HB 920. Copies of those resolutions 

will be sent to the governor, leaders 

of the House and Senate, plus representatives 

and senators for districts containing 

those cities. 

The Dardenne Prairie Board of Aldermen 

will vote on a similar resolution at 

its May 5 meeting. The Cottleville Board 

of Aldermen plans to address an HB 920 

opposition resolution on May 19. 

Based on comments made 

at the St. Peters Board of 

Aldermen meeting on April 

22, HB 920 is being discussed 

widely by the Missouri 

Municipal League and 

its members. So, it is likely 

many cities statewide will 

address this in some way in 

the near future. 

One reason proponents 

give for wanting the election 

day change is their belief 

that some entities use the 

traditionally low voter turnout 

for April elections to pass large bond 

issues and tax increases. In Missouri, turnouts 

by county generally range between 

10% to 20% for April elections and 55% to 

75% for November elections. 

An example is the April 6, 2021, vote for 

O’Fallon’s new home water main insurance 

program, on the ballot as Proposition 

W. Of the 62,082 voters registered in 

O’Fallon, only 7,816 voted on the proposition, 

according to the St. Charles County 

Election Authority. Proposition W passed 

with 63.97% of the vote, which equates to 

only 8.1% of O’Fallon’s registered voters 

passing the proposition and its resulting 

Pollsters wait for voters at Dardenne Elementary in O’Fallon 

during the 2020 municipal election 

(File photo) 

new tax. 

Another reason proponents say they want 

the change is to ensure candidates for elective 

office face more voters in elections. 

An example is the April 6, 2021, vote 

for O’Fallon’s mayor. Of the 62,082 voters 

registered in O’Fallon, only 7,887 voted 

for the five candidates. Incumbent Mayor 

Bill Hennessy won with 4,190 votes, or 

53.13% of votes cast. However, Hennessy’s 

4,190 votes represent only 6.7% 

of registered voters in O’Fallon. The 7,887 

total votes cast for all five candidates represent 

only 12.7% of registered voters. 

HB 920 proponents believe traditionally 

higher November voter turnouts will result 

in election results more representative of 

total registered voters. They also believe 

eliminating the April election will save 

taxpayer money. 

Opponents of the bill believe that local 

voters are able to focus better on local 

issues and on candidates for mayor, city 

council and boards of aldermen when 

those are voted on during local municipal 

elections in April, uncluttered by numerous 

other votes about statewide or national 

matters. 

Opponents believe elections about local 

candidates for city offices and city issues 

are mostly non-partisan, especially compared 

to November statewide and national 

elections. They believe voters are more 

informed about the local issues if partisanship 

is reduced and election communications 

are focused on local matters. 

Opponents believe voters will have 

“ballot fatigue” if national, statewide and 

local candidates and issues are combined 

into one, long ballot. They believe voters 

will be less prepared and knowledgeable 

with so many choices at one time. 

Opponents also point to familiarity as a 

positive, noting that voters are accustomed 

to local issues being in April elections.





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At its April 22 meeting, the O’Fallon 

City Council approved three bills to authorize 

conditional use permits (CUPs) for 

new businesses Scooter’s Coffee, Adventure 

Shooting Sports and MotoMart. 

All three bills passed with 7-0 votes 

with Ward 1 representatives Deanna 

Smith and Dave Hinman and Ward 

4 representative Dr. Jim Ottomeyer 

abstained or absent. 

Bill No. 7307, sponsored by Ward 

5 council members Debbie Cook and 

Katie Gatewood, authorizes a CUP for 

Scooter’s Coffee, a drive-thru-only 

coffee shop at 411 S. Main St. with 

hours of operation from 6 a.m.-7 p.m., 

daily. 

Bill No. 7306, sponsored by Ottomeyer 

and fellow Ward 4 council 

member Jeff Kuehn, authorizes a CUP 

for Adventure Shooting Sports at 2505 

Hwy. K within the Four Seasons shopping 

center, two storefronts west of Show-Me’s 

restaurant. The business will sell firearms 

and accessories. They will not pawn guns. 

Business hours will be from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 

Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 

on Saturdays. 

The applicant already had planned security 

shutters on the glass, as well as alarms 

and security cameras. The CUP approval 

includes a requirement for an O’Fallon 

Police Department review of security plans 

and additional possible security measures 

identified in that review. 

Bill No. 7305, sponsored by Ward 3 

council members Dale Kling and Nathan 

Bibb, authorizes a CUP for building a 

MotoMart gas station on undeveloped land 

in the new Streets of Caledonia development. 

The address is 8601 Hwy. DD, at the 

northwest corner of Hwy. DD and Caledonia 

Drive. 

The future site of Scooter’s Coffee in O’Fallon 

(Source: City of O’Fallon) 

The new 5,346 square feet building 

will include a gas station, car wash, convenience 

store and drive-thru restaurant. 

The drive-thru will be served by a kitchen 

located inside the gas station and will sell 

food made on-site, to-order. 

Drive-thru business hours will be 6:30 

a.m.-8 p.m., daily. The convenience store 

will be open 24/7. 

The approval included requirements for 

an outdoor speaker maximum decibel level 

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or greater, or at any property line abutting 

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their motives by the other side, with one 

woman stating, “… we are not racists or 

bigots.” She also expressed support for the 

organization’s goals and efforts. 

After nearly 90 minutes of debate on 

April 12, council chairman Mike Elam 

(District 3) notified the board and spectators 

that the final vote on the issue would 

be on Monday, April 29. With Elam’s 

announcement, much of the crowd 

decamped for the evening. 

At the April 29 meeting, the measure 

was the first item the council addressed. 

Elam read the bill and asked for a roll 

call vote. Council members Joe Cronin 

(District 1), Dave Hammond (District 4), 

and Nancy Schneider (District 6) voted 

against the proposed bill, while Joe Brazil 

(District 2), Hollander and Elam voted 

in favor of the measure. White, who had 

sponsored the bill (No. 4944) was absent 

due to illness; therefore, a potential 

deciding, tie-breaker vote was never cast. 

According to the council rules and state 

law, a tie vote reaffirms the status quo. 

Thus, the proposed group home facility at 

17 Placid Drive will not receive a conditional 

use permit. 

While the increased occupancy was 

denied, the home can continue to operate 

with eight residents as long as the owners 

make some building improvements to 

bring the home into compliance, according 

to Mary Enger, the county’s director of 

communications. 

“Our building and code enforcement division 

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Celebrating the German Heritage of St. Charles 



By DEANNE LEBLANC 

German immigrants have had influence 

on Missouri heritage since they first 

stepped foot onto Missouri soil. 

Beginning in the 1830s, tens of thousands 

of German immigrants settled in 

large groups along the Missouri River 

Valley where German communities still 

exist. They were inspired to come to Missouri 

due to a glowing report of the area 

by German traveler Gottfried Duden, 

who lived in what is now Warren County 

from 1824-1827. He described the Missouri 

River Valley as “idyllic with cheap 

land and rich resources.” He also noted its 

resemblance to Germany’s Rhineland. 

By 1860 Germans comprised more than 

half of Missouri’s foreign-born residents. 

Between Indian Grove in northwest Missouri 

(Chariton County) to St. Louis, a distance of 

about 175 miles along Interstate 70, 16 counties 

have German roots. In 2016, then Gov. 

Jay Nixon officially designated that region 

as the “German Heritage Corridor” when he 

signed House Bill 1851 into law. 

Present day Missouri life remains rich 

with German culture. From agriculture to 

wine and beer making to language, religion, 

customs, celebrations and even architecture 

– all have left a lasting mark on Missouri and 

especially on St. Charles County. 

Celebrating Midwest Maifest 

One prime example of how German 

culture continues to influence regional 

residents is the annual Midwest Maifest, 

scheduled this year for Sunday, May 16. 

The one-day festival, hosted by the St. 

Charles-Ludwigsburg Germany Sister 

Cities, will be held from 2-6 p.m. at the 

New Town Amphitheater in St. Charles. 

Festivities will include samples from local 

craft breweries, wineries and spirit distilleries, 

food and local craft vendors, and 

German entertainment. 

After having to postpone Maifest last 

year from May to August due to COVID- 

19, the St. Charles-Ludwigsburg Germany 

Sister Cities is excited to make Maifest 

2021 better than ever. With the addition of 

more breweries and the much requested 

pretzels, this year’s Maifest is sure to be a 

“gute Zeit,” German for “good time.” 

An outdoor festival, Maifest is open to 

all ages without capacity limits. Masks are 

encouraged when social distancing cannot 

be achieved but not required. Organizers 

will have masks and sanitizers available 

for those who wish to use them. 

Wolfgang Volz 

Admission is free for all, but attendees 

age 21 and older who want to sample adult 

beverages must purchase a wrist band at a 

pre-festival cost of $25 or $35 if purchased 

at the festival. Guests with wristbands will 

receive a souvenir sample cup and product 

samples throughout the festival. 

According to its organizers, there will be 

at least 10 beer brewery vendors, six spirit 

distillers and six wineries represented at 

Maifest and each of them will have many 

different samples to share. In addition, food 

trucks at the festival will offer a wide range 

of food and drink options for purchase. To 

purchase a tasting wristband or for updates 

about Maifest, visit midwestmaifest.org. 

Musical guests include accordion player 

Wolfgang Volz, Ubercool – a German 

party band, and D’Fröhliche Schuhplattler 

– a group of local dancers who perform 

the Schuhplattler, a traditional style of folk 

dance popular in southern Germany, Austria 

and the German-speaking regions of 

northern Italy. In this dance, the performers 

stomp, clap and strike the soles of their 

shoes (schuhe), thighs and knees with their 

hands held flat (platt). 

“The German Cook,” a Jackson, Missouri, 

resident who has been a Maifest fan favorite 

for several years will be cooking up delicious, 

authentic farm-to-table German food, 

including German bratwurst and pork burgers, 

sauerkraut, salads and stews. Beautifully 

made German Springerle cookies also 

will be available for purchase. 

Proceeds from the Midwest Maifest benefit 

the German Chapter of the St. Charles 

Sister Cities Programs, a nonprofit that 

supports educational and cultural high 

school home-stay exchanges as well as 

adult exchanges. 

Fostering friendships here and abroad 

Sister Cities International was founded 

in 1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 

People-To-People Citizen Diplomacy 

initiative. His goal was to try to “heal 

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the world” after the end of World War II. 

Eisenhower wanted a way to bring Americans 

back together and Sister Cities was a 

big part of that initiative. 

The mission of Sister Cities International 

is to “foster mutual understanding, to 

champion peace, make lasting friendships 

and promote goodwill through cultural, 

social, business and educational exchanges 

between St. Charles and her sisters.” 

While there are some Sister Cities around 

the country and the world that are over 60 

years old, the St. Charles-Ludwigsburg 

Germany Sister Cities Exchange Program 

is celebrating its 25th anniversary – and 

still growing. 

Joe Daues is credited with starting the 

German Chapter of the St. Charles Sister 

Cities Programs in the early 1990s. At that 

time, Daues was a member of the St. Charles 

German Heritage Club. Along with several 

other club members, Daues wanted to connect 

to a sister city in Germany. Twentyfour 

letters were sent to different towns 

in Germany that were similar in size to St. 

Charles, but only four towns responded. 

Midwest Maifest 2019 

Ludwigsburg was chosen by the St. 

Charles Heritage group for a visit. Located 

in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and 

with a population of 91,000, Ludwigsburg 

is one of the most prosperous economic 

centers in the state. Travel between the 

cities ensued until the groups decided that 

Ludwigsburg would be the perfect place 

for a St. Charles partnership. Although 

some exchanges were completed with the 

cities in 1993, the partnership wasn’t made 

official until 1996. 

“The whole goal of diplomacy is even 

more important now than it was 60 years 

ago,” explained Mary Johnson, president 

of the St. Charles Sister Cities Program. 

“We should always be striving to make 

global relations better. 

“It doesn’t matter to us who sits in the 

White House or who the chancellor of 

Germany is because it’s about personal 

connections. We are about education, culture 

and friendship. My husband and I 

have personally hosted seven adults and 

two students and our world has expanded 

exponentially. I just wish everyone could 

partake in this program. Life-changing is 

not an overstatement.” 

Currently, the high schools of St. 

Charles, St. Charles West, Orchard Farm 

and Lutheran in St. Peters participate in the 

program. Three high schools in Germany 

(or “gymnasiums” as they are called there) 

also participate. 

“It would be ideal if the program could 

add another school district in the area so 

that more German students would have the 

opportunity to come here,” Johnson said. 

“They are able to send many more kids here 

than we are to them and opening the opportunity 

to another district in the area would 

help make that happen.” 

Johnson said one of her favorite things 

about the program is how it brings people 

together – not just globally but locally as 

well. Host families get to know one another 

while their exchange students are in town. 

Under the Sisters Cities program, the student 

exchanges last for just two weeks but 

the bond created through those two weeks 

lasts a lifetime. 

“I have lifelong friends in St. Charles 

that I wouldn’t have met if it wasn’t for the 

exchange program,” Johnson said. 

Some original members of the St. 

Charles Sister Cities Program are still 

active participants in the group. However, 

Marcia Daues, wife of founding member, 

Joe Daues, passed away this year leaving 

a huge vacancy within the group, Johnson 

said. She was heavily involved and loved 

being an active member for so many years. 

Membership in the group is open to 

anyone who has an interest. Individual 

membership is $15, family membership 

is $30 and corporate membership is $100. 

Perks of membership include a monthly 

newsletter, beer seminars, discounts for 

festivals and more. 

Meetings, featuring informative and fun 

guest speakers, are held at 6 p.m. on the 

fourth Monday of the month at Culpepper’s 

in St. Charles. Membership is not required 

to attend meetings; all are welcome. 

The future of St. Charles-Ludwigsburg 

Germany Sister Cities is looking bright, as 

the group is expanding into the craft brew 

beer and winery industry. In 2022, it is 

planning brewery and winery exchanges 

from Germany and eventually France. 

Germans would be hosted by, and work 

with, people in the craft brew beer industry 

and winery industry in Missouri. Should 

they choose to, St. Charles residents could 

go to Germany to continue the experience. 

For more information about the German 

Chapter of the St. Charles Sister Cities 

Program, visit the group’s Facebook page 

or send an email to stcharlessistercities@ 

gmail.com. 

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Three St. Peters residents receive kindness awards 




Once each quarter at Board of Aldermen 

meetings, the city of St. Peters recognizes 

citizens who have gone “above and 

beyond” with kindness in the community. 

Recipients receive a Random Acts of 

Kindness certificate signed by the mayor. 

The purpose of the program is to recognize 

acts by people in the community that 

make St. Peters a great place to live and to 

motivate citizens of all ages to see good 

happening in their community. 

At the April 22 meeting, Jacob Jones, 

Jeannie Marie Smith and Landon Hall 

received the award. 

Jones is a junior at St. Dominic High. For 

three seasons, he has programmed holiday 

lights at his home to “dance” to holiday 

music. Outside of the display he has posted 

a donation box for Sts. Joachim and Ann 

Care Service. To date, Jones has collected 

over $5,000 in donations as well as several 

bags of toys and many cans of food. 

Jones said he got his passion for this as 

a child, when he was often taken to the 

Celebration of Lights display in O’Fallon. 

He always said he was going to make his 

house dance to lights, too. 

Jones was nominated by his grandmother, 

St. Peters resident Sandra Brown. 

Jeannie Marie Smith started creating and 

donating handmade cards in April 2020, 

and has since given over 700 cards to various 

groups to distribute as a way to encourage 

people to remain positive through the 

COVID-19 pandemic. 

She provided several hundred cards to 

the staff of The Watermark Senior Living 

Community to distribute to residents and 

staff. She also provided birthday cards 

for the residents of Watermark to send to 

family and friends, since residents were 

not able to shop outside of the facility. 

Additionally, Smith provided cards to a 

local grade school for the administrative 

staff to distribute to teachers and other 

school staff members to thank them for 

their extra effort at the start of the school 

year. 

Smith believes that reaching out in this 

way has helped her stay positive during the 

pandemic and given her a sense of contributing 

to the community in a unique way. 

She was nominated by her husband, 

Chris Smith. 

For the past two years, Landon Hall, age 

8, has taken it upon himself to shovel the 

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elderly, in addition to his own house. He 

always is ready to go help them at the first 

sight of snow and doesn’t accept anything 

in return. 

Hall said he does this to help his neighbors, 

his community and to keep his neighbors 

safe. 

According to his award nomination form, 

Hall will go out and shovel with the help of 

his mom and make sure that it’s safe for his 

neighbors to get out and about. 

He was nominated by his grandparents, 

who live in Sullivan, Missouri. 

His mother, Tonya Hall, said he tells his 

grandparents on the phone all about his 

snow shoveling, so they wanted to recognize 

him for his good deeds. 

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By JESSICA MESZAROS 

As of February 2019, the program many 

knew as Boy Scouts of America officially 

became Scouts BSA, and opened to boys 

and girls between the ages of 11 and 17. 

Now, just two years later, 

an inaugural class of 934 

girls have become the first 

to earn the coveted rank of 

Eagle at a “Be the Change” 

ceremony held in February, 

with more following 

since. According to Laura 

Enge, district director of 

the Greater St. Louis Area 

Council, 13 of those Scouts 

were from the St. Louis area. 

Rachel Locke and Lily 

Duvenick are among the 

8% of Scouts on average 

who achieve Eagle. Both 

are members of Scouts BSA 

Troop 911, chartered by the 

Lions Club of Harvester in 

St. Charles. Their first patrol 

was aptly named “Trailblazers.” 

“The Eagle Scout Award is 

the top achievement,” Enge 

said. “It’s also the most 

well known achievement 

for youth in the Scouting 

program. People who aren’t 

familiar with Scouting and 

how it works are still generally 

familiar with Eagle Scout.” 

Duvenick 

Locke 

Lily and Rachel grew up with Scouting 

as a family tradition. The scoutmaster 

of their unit, Stacey Locke, is Rachel’s 

mother and has her own history with 

Scouting, having previously served as the 

cubmaster and assistant scoutmaster for 

her older son’s group. Stacey’s grandfather, 

father and brother also attained the rank of 

Eagle. 

“Then, I married a man who was also 

an Eagle Scout, and his father is an Eagle 

Scout,” Stacey said. “So, then, our son 

became an Eagle in 2012. So, Rachel is 

joining the family tradition.” 

Her brother’s involvement is what 

inspired Rachel to join Scouts BSA. 

“Growing up seeing him go through the 

Boy Scout Organization I always wanted 

to be just like him,” Rachel said. “When 

the opportunity arose, I quickly signed 

up and got started. I could finally be and 

do what my brother did and I was able to 

inspire more young women to do the same.” 

Lily’s interest in Scouting also began 

early. Both her father and older brother 

have attained the Eagle Scout rank. 

“My brothers and my dad have always 

been involved in Scouting,” Lily said. 

“The Boy Scout troops did festival fundraisers 

in St. Charles with Festival of the 

Little Hills and events like that. I always 

volunteered as a sibling.” 

Frequently, Rachel was 

also a sibling volunteer. 

“We’ve known each 

other since the boys were 

in first grade, years and 

years ago. So the girls 

were the tag-along little 

sisters, doing anything they 

could,” Stacey explained. 

That included jumping into 

Scouts BSA with Stacey as 

their leader. 

Scouts can register 

as early as age 10 or 11 

depending on previous 

qualifications and they 

have until their 18th birthday 

to earn the Eagle Scout 

rank before they age out of 

the program. 

“Sometimes you have a 

go-getter that might get 

Eagle by 14, but a lot of 

Scouts get it at 16 or 17,” 

Stacey said. 

With the admission of 

girls to its ranks, Scouts 

BSA also announced that 

those joining at age 16 and 

older would be given an extension so to 

earn the Eagle rank. 

“If you joined and you had never been in 

a Boy Scout troop or a Scouts BSA troop, 

they would give you a grand total of 24 

months to finish your Eagle,” Stacey said. 

But she added, “That is way less time than 

a traditional scout.” 

All other Eagle rank requirements 

remained, including earning a total of 21 

merit badges, 13 of which are specific 

merit badges in areas like first aid, environmental 

science, cooking, personal fitness, 

communication and more. Some badges 

also require feats of athleticism, like swimming, 

hiking or cycling. In order to qualify, 

Scouts are also required to have multiple 

leadership roles. 

Rachel is a member of the Order of The 

Arrow, the national camping honor society 

of Scouts BSA. She has also attended 

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Three teams of students from Assumption School in O’Fallon placed at St. Dominic 

High’s Math Festival. 

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Math whizzes bring home gold 

This spring, St. Dominic High sponsored 

its 39th annual Math Festival with 10 

elementary schools competing for awards. 

Assumption School in O’Fallon had 14 

students from seventh and eighth grade in 

the competition. After several individual 

rounds, it came to the elimination round of 

the competition. Six of Assumption’s students, 

three 7th graders and three 8th graders, 

qualified for the elimination round and 

moved to the final competition. The individual 

first place winner of the entire Math 

Festival was Danielle Dang, an eighth 

grader at Assumption School. 

Other Assumption School teams also 

did well. In first-place was the team of Ava 

Grossman, Sydney Moore, Nathan Dang, 

McKenna Sweier, and Ben Hembrock. In 

second place was the team of Isabelle 

Schenk, Caitlyn Doriman, Clayton Foster 

and Diego Herrera. In third place was the 

team of Anna Kleckner, Matt Fischer, Garrett 

Drohr and Madison Huff. 

Student creates, delivers 

Blessing Bags 

Inspired by her studies of the Corporal 

Works of Mercy in religion class at Academy 

of the Sacred Heart, fifth grade student 

Vivian brought the third goal, social awareness 

which impels action, to life. Vivian 

first learned about Blessing Bags from her 

mom. When her religion and social studies 

teacher Tammy Strother began talking 

about the ways the class was going to participate 

in the Corporal Works of Mercy, 

Vivian knew she wanted to make Blessing 

Bags on her own. 

One day after school, Vivian and her 

mom put together 10 bags that they 

intended to give to individuals who were 

homeless. Each bag included items like 

deodorant, wet wipes, oranges, mints, 

homemade sandwiches and a water bottle 

with the quote “You matter. You are not 

forgotten” wrapped around the label. They 

drove around for nearly two hours to 

deliver Blessing Bags. The remaining bags 

were taken to a nearby shelter. 

When asked how she felt while doing 

this service, Vivian said, “I thought about 

how happy it would make the people 

receiving the Blessing Bags and that made 

me happy!” 

Artists add to online gallery 

With fewer guests visiting their 

campus this past year due to COVID- 

19, the Lutheran High Art Department 

launched their virtual art gallery last year 

as a creative and socially distant way to 

share the works of students with friends, 

family members and other art enthusiasts. 

The gallery has been updated once again, 

this time with the addition of second 

semester works from the Art Fundamentals, 

Ceramics and Painting classes. Art 

department teachers Carla Krazl and 

Amber Maddick assisted in spearheading 

the update. 

The art gallery can be viewed by visiting 

sites.google.com/lhssc.org/lhs-virtualartshow/home. 

Works from first semester 

students also will remain on display for 

virtual viewing. 

Students lend a hand 

to a local resource 

A group of eighth grade students from 

Christian Middle in O’Fallon recently 

paid a visit to The Sparrow’s Nest 

Maternity Home. While there, students 

received a tour of the operation and provided 

assistance for the home by doing 

yard work. 

The Sparrow’s Nest Maternity Home 

is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the goal of 

empowering young moms and their children 

through awareness-raising events as 

well as services like transportation, food, 

shelter, clothing, educational fees, counseling 

and more. 

Francis Howell North journalists 

awarded for excellence 

Francis Howell North High journalism 

staffs earned numerous awards this 

past weekend during the virtual Spring 

National High School Journalism Convention. 

The staffs earned numerous Top 10 

finishes in the Best of Show competition. 

“The Knightly Show”, Francis Howell 

North Media’s weekly news show, placed 

seventh in the Broadcast category. The 

North Star brought home two Top 10 finishes 

with a 9th place finish in the Special 

Edition category and a second place finish 

in the Newsmagazine category. FHNtoday. 

com nabbed 1st Place Best of Show in the 

Large School Website category. 

“Our website has gone through a lot 

of changes this year, both with our staff 

and with the content we’ve been posting, 

so it’s a huge honor to win Best of 

Show,” Online Editor-in-Chief Ashlynn 

Perez said. “I was so excited when I heard 

the news. It’s always great to see when 

your hard work pays off. I’m so proud of 

everyone who contributes to the website 

and pours all their hard work into our program 

daily.” 

Two students placed in the National 

Student Media contests. Perez and Emily 

Zhang, both seniors, each earned Excellent 

ratings in Feature Writing (Perez) and Videography 

(Zhang). 

Two staff members were also honored 

over the weekend for being named Pacemaker 

finalists. The Excalibur was honored 

as a yearbook finalist and FHNtoday. 

com was an online news site finalist. 

“It’s been a really wild last 12 months 

and Mrs. Kiel and I are just so proud 

of these students and how hard they’ve 

worked day in and day out through it 

all,” Media Adviser Aaron Manfull said. 

“Each of the staffs were honored this 

weekend and it will be all the more special 

for them as it shows someone else 

recognized all their hard work during 

this time as well.” 

The program’s student editor-in-chiefs 

who oversee production of the media 

are: senior Sydney Ellison (North Star 

Newsmagazine), junior Claire Brockmann 

(Excalibur Yearbook), Perez (FHNtoday. 

com Web), senior Gabe Lobato (FHNtodayTV 

Podcast), senior Emily Zhang 

(FHNtodayTV Social Media) and senior 

Anna Hollinger (Photography). The journalism 

program at Francis Howell North 

is led by Manfull and Jordyn Kiel. They 

oversee the nearly 100 members on staff 

and 300 students who run through the program 

each year. 

Zumwalt musicians 

recognized at state 

Fort Zumwalt students participating 

in co-curricular or Missouri State High 

School Athletic Association sanctioned 

activities have been able to experience as 

close to a typical school year as possible, 

despite the pandemic. For Fort Zumwalt 

High musicians, that has meant another 

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SCOUTS, from page 17 

In summer 2019, Lily headed to Philmont 

Scout Ranch in New Mexico to hike 

across the mountains. Additionally, she 

has honed her leadership skills by staffing 

various small camps over the years, including 

her own Camporee in February 2020. 

This year, she will staff a summer camp at 

Famous Eagle as an adult. 

“To earn Eagle, you have to learn about 

personal finances, personal fitness and you 

have to do a few things that are a little more 

Duvenick’s completed Eagle Scout project at the Sts. 

Joachim and Ann Care Service. (Source: Lily Duvenick) 

athletic like swimming and hiking,” Enge 

said. “The kids that are Eagles, they’re 

really well-rounded, and hopefully they 

are much better prepared for life having 

done these merit badges and explored 

these topics and interests. 

“The fact that these two young women 

have done it in two years time is actually 

all the more impressive. You have to be 

very active and very dedicated.” 

The last requirement before earning 

Eagle is to complete a final project out in 

the community that they organize and fund 

through contributions from individuals 

SCHOOLS, from previous 

About 200 instrumental and vocal musicians 

were recognized at the State Solo 

and Small Ensemble contest, earning Gold, 

Silver and Bronze awards. Participation 

in the competition requires selection and 

rehearsal of pieces above and beyond 

those prepared for participation in school 

bands, orchestras and choirs. Typically 

and local businesses. 

Both girls started planning their projects 

last year, which included getting them 

approved by the St. Louis Area Council. 

Rachel’s project involved creating a sharing 

shed at her alma mater, Progress South 

Elementary, that students could use as they 

needed throughout the years. The project 

took over 40 hours of labor. 

“I was inspired to create the sharing shed 

because I love to help in my local community,” 

Rachel said. “I have donated to little 

libraries and food pantries in the past and 

wanted to create something similar 

for my elementary school.” 

For her project, Lily built a little 

library and bench at Sts. Joachim 

and Ann Care Service in St. Peters, 

where she had previously completed 

service hours. 

“I always had the idea of doing 

one of those free libraries because 

I always saw them and thought 

they were super cool,” Lily said. 

“We built it in my garage back in 

January, and painted it and stained 

it. I went to Dollar Tree and got a 

bunch of books and loaded it up, 

and it’s out there.” 

According to Enge, these final 

Eagle Scout projects not only serve 

to prove a Scout’s skills, but also 

literally help build a better community. 

“For those of us who live in 

these communities, it’s so impactful 

because they’re improving and 

beautifying out churches, our parks, 

our common spaces,” Enge said. 

Lily said the stress of the work 

was worth the reward. 

“I didn’t want to look back later and be 

like, ‘Wow, I was one of the first girls who 

could have gotten Eagle and I didn’t,’” she 

explained. 

Rachel said she hopes their accomplishments 

inspire other future Eagle Scouts. 

“I feel honored to be one of the first girls 

to obtain the Eagle Scout rank,” Rachel 

said. “It feels empowering to be part of 

such an influential generation. To be able 

to be one of the first women, I can now 

inspire others that both women and men 

alike are equal in ability and women can 

do the same activities.” 

the in-person competition usually spans 

several days in Columbia. For this year’s 

virtual competition, most Fort Zumwalt 

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school, but some recorded from home. All 

performances had to be recorded within a 

10-day window through an app that timestamped 

the performance. Student performances 

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Pandemic pets 

Families with young children haven’t 

been the only Americans to get in on the 

trend of adopting a new dog or cat during 

the COVID-19 pandemic. According to 

the most recent National Poll on Healthy 

Aging, 10% of older adults between the 

ages of 50 and 80 also added a new pet to 

their households between March 2020 and 

January 2021. 

That number was an even higher 16% 

among older people who have at least one 

child or teen living with them, the survey 

showed. 

In all, 59% of people age 50 to 80 who 

completed the nationally representative 

poll in January 2021 said they are pet 

owners. Of that number, 17% said they had 

gotten at least one pet since the pandemic 

began, although the survey did not ask if 

this was their first pet or an additional pet. 

Pet ownership was higher in the 2021 

survey among people aged 50 to 64, 

women, those who are employed and those 

living in single-family detached homes, as 

well as white adults. 

The new survey data was an update to 

a previous report published in April 2019. 

Older adults who participated in that 

survey said having a pet helps them enjoy 

life, have a sense of purpose, reduce stress, 

and stick to a routine. Dog owners in particular 

said their pet helps them stay more 

physically active. 

Among older adults living alone or in 

self-reported fair or poor health when they 

participated in the 2019 poll, nearly 75% 

said their pet helped them cope with physical 

or emotional symptoms. 

The percentage of those living alone who 

said their household includes a pet rose by 

12 percentage points between the 2019 and 

2021 surveys, reflecting the important role 

of pets as companions for older adults – 

More older women may be overcoming their 

reservations about letting their hair go gray, 

according to a recent small study. 

A new survey shows that 10% of older adults 

have acquired a new pet since the COVID-19 

pandemic began. 

(Source: Adobe Stock) 

which became especially critical during the 

pandemic, according to the report’s authors. 

The risks of going gray 

During recent lockdowns, some older 

women who were unable to visit their hairdressers 

– and who weren’t leaving home 

much anyway – decided to let their hair go 

“natural,” which meant going gray. 

This trend appears to have accelerated a 

change that was already happening among 

many women over 50, according to British 

researchers. Using input from members of 

two Facebook groups focused on women 

making the transition from coloring their 

hair to embracing their natural silver tones, 

University of Exeter scientists explored 

some of society’s common attitudes 

toward women’s natural aging processes … 

and how some older women are pushing 

back against these attitudes. 

Many women participating in the groups 

said they perceived a risk in allowing their 

natural gray hair to show, the researchers 

found. That risk stemmed from negative 

consequences they said they had 

commonly experienced after going gray, 

such as being ignored, talked down to, or 

viewed as less competent. 

Unfortunately, some group participants 

also reported being chastised – including 

by some of their own family members and 

friends – for “letting themselves go.” 

Many said making the transition to gray 

hair helped them to feel more natural and 

more authentic, however. This was especially 

true if they felt supported by friends 

and loved ones in their decision. 

“We are all constrained by society’s 

norms and expectations when it comes 

to appearance, but expectations are more 

rigorous for women – especially older 

women,” explained lead author Vanessa 

Cecil, of the University of Exeter. “The 

‘old woman’ is an undesirable character in 

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Western societies, being seen as incompetent 

or unpleasant – if she is seen at all.” 

“We also found that women (in the study) 

chose to compensate for going gray by 

using other beauty practices, so embracing 

gray (was not) the same as embracing 

looking old,” she added. 

“In the face of impossible standards to be 

natural and remain youthful forever, these 

women are doing what they can to retain 

status,” Cecil said. “Gray-haired and youthfully 

glamorous is one thing … but in Western 

societies it’s still not OK to look old.” 

The study was recently published in the 

Journal of Women & Aging. 

Possible breast cancer-soda link 

More American women than ever before 

– about 3.5 million – are now living well 

beyond a diagnosis of breast cancer, statistics 

show. Because the disease is so 

common, protecting women’s health 

through diet and lifestyle recommendations 

is critically important. 

One of those recommendations may be 

to avoid sugary sodas, researchers from the 

University at Buffalo’s School of Public 

Health recently reported. They conducted 

a dietary study that specifically examined 

how the long-term prognosis of women 

with breast cancer might be related to how 

much sugar-sweetened soda they drank 

prior to battling the disease. 

The research was focused on about 925 

women between the ages of 35 and 79 who 

had been diagnosed with breast cancer. 

These participants, who were enrolled 

in the Western New York Exposures and 

Breast Cancer (WEB) Study, were followed 

for a median of nearly 19 years after 

food frequency questionnaires measured 

their non-diet soda intake in the 12 to 24 

months before their cancer was discovered. 

Among the women who had died by the 

end of the follow-up period – about 40% 

of total participants – a higher percentage 

had reported frequently drinking sugarsweetened 

soda compared to the women 

who were still living. 

Why might this be the case? The study’s 

leaders said that sugary sodas contain large 

quantities of sucrose and fructose, giving 

them a high “glycemic load” compared to 

other beverages. This could lead to a higher 

risk of breast cancer along with more wellknown 

links to conditions like heart disease 

and type 2 diabetes, they hypothesized. 

“Non-diet sodas are the highest contributors 

of sugar and extra calories to the diet, 

but they do not bring anything else that is 

nutritionally beneficial,” said first author 

Nadia Koyratty. “While we need more 

studies to confirm our findings, this provides 

evidence that diet may impact (the) 

longevity of women after breast cancer.” 

On the calendar 

BJC Missouri Baptist Hospital sponsors 

a free seven-session course, Living 

a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions, 

which begins on Thursday, May 13 

and runs through Thursday, June 24. Each 

weekly session, held live via Zoom, is from 

9:30- a.m.-noon. Learn to set healthy goals, 

make action plans, manage pain, embrace 

nutrition and exercise, understand the use of 

medications and increase your confidence 

in managing your own health. Developed 

by Stanford University’s Patient Education 

Research Center, this course is for those 

with any chronic health condition. The 

course is presented by St. Louis Oasis. Register 

online at classes-events.bjc.org; class 

coordinators will contact all registrants to 

provide login information. 

• • • 

St. Louis Oasis presents How to Become 

a Highly Motivated Diabetic on Thursday, 

May 13 from 10 a.m.-noon. Learn the seven 

habits of a motivated diabetic, including 

many specifics about nutrition and exercise 

that promote enhanced quality of life, 

during this free online Zoom session sponsored 

by BJC Missouri Baptist Medical 

Center. Register at classes-events.bjc.org. 

• • • 

Pump it Up to Beat Cardiovascular 

Disease, presented by St. Louis Oasis, is on 

Tuesday, May 18 from 10 a.m.-noon, live 

via Zoom. Are you living with some form 

of cardiovascular disease? Learn how to 

incorporate exercise and activity into daily 

management of your condition under the 

guidance of a physical therapist. Whether 

you are thinking about starting an exercise 

regiment or already have an established 

routine that you are looking to “spice up,” 

this class is for you! The free course is sponsored 

by BJC Missouri Baptist Medical 

Center. Register at classes-events.bjc.org. 

• • • 

St. Louis Oasis and BJC Missouri Baptist 

Medical Center present Strike the Right 

Balance on Monday, May 24 from 10 a.m.- 

noon. Did you know one of the main reasons 

older adults see their doctors is for dizziness 

and imbalance? Join a vestibular physical 

therapist to learn about your body’s balance 

systems while discussing strategies to 

decrease your fall risk and improve your balance. 

This fun and interactive free presentation, 

held live via Zoom, will provide insight 

into creating confidence in your balance and 

helping you maintain an active, healthy life. 

Register online at classes-events.bjc.org. 

• • • 

St. Luke’s Hospital presents a Bone 

Builders lecture on Thursday, June 17 

from 1-2:30 p.m. Learn more about exercise, 

nutrition and medications for bone 

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to celebrate the next step in their St. Louis area collaboration. (Source: Mercy) 

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By LISA RUSSELL 

Mercy completes acquisition 

of Dierbergs pharmacies 

All 22 of Dierbergs Markets’ traditional 

and specialty pharmacies officially became 

Mercy Pharmacy locations on April 19. 

Officials from both companies marked the 

transition with a blessing and ribbon-cutting 

ceremony at the Dierbergs Lafayette 

Square location in Manchester. 

With this expansion, Mercy now offers 

34 retail pharmacies in the St. Louis region. 

Mercy also has plans to develop a pharmacy 

in a new Dierbergs store under construction 

in the Shoppes of Hawk Ridge in Lake Saint 

Louis, slated to be open late in 2021. 

“Adding the Dierbergs Pharmacy locations 

to Mercy gives our patients more convenience 

for obtaining needed medicines. 

With this new collaboration, our Mercy- 

GoHealth Urgent Care centers – many 

located in the same shopping plazas as 

Dierbergs stores – and our rapid expansion 

of outpatient sites, we are bringing even 

more convenient health care services to 

where people live, work and shop throughout 

the Metro area,” said Stephen Mackin, 

executive vice president, Mercy and president, 

Mercy St. Louis Community. 

With the agreement completed, Mercy 

also has added more than 150 Dierbergs 

pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and 

other pharmacy associates to its team of 

employees. 

CF diagnosis may soon 

be simplified 

The genetic disease cystic fibrosis (CF) 

currently affects one in every 3,300 births 

in the United States. As Cystic Fibrosis 

Awareness Month also takes place in May, 

a new and far simpler screening method 

for CF may soon help to ease some of the 

diagnostic burden for babies, families and 

physicians alike. 

A Northwestern University-led research 

team has developed a gentle, easy-to-read 

sticker that, when applied to a baby’s skin, 

absorbs sweat and then changes color to 

provide an accurate diagnosis of CF within 

minutes. While measuring chloride levels in 

a sweat test has been the diagnostic standard 

for decades, the current technology involves 

a rigid, bulky and often uncomfortable device 

which must be strapped to infants’ wrists for 

at least 30 minutes to collect their sweat. 

In testing of the stickers at Chicago’s 

Lurie Children’s Hospital, researchers 

found that they were not only more comfortable 

for children, but could also collect 

about 33% more sweat than the current 

method, helping to ensure that just one test 

can provide an accurate result. 

Because it is so simple to use, the stickers 

may eventually provide the option of 

testing children outside of hospitals in the 

home, which could help families in rural 

areas or in medical settings without special 

diagnostic tools. 

For families already anxious about a 

CF diagnosis, though, doctors involved in 

the testing said the sticker technology can 

offer several advantages right now over 

the collection devices currently in general 

use. “Some parents bring their baby 

in for testing and are sent home without a 

confirmed result because the device was 

unable to collect enough sweat,” said study 

co-author Dr. Susanna McColley, a pediatric 

pulmonologist at Lurie. “They go home, 

without knowing if their baby has a serious 

disease or not, and their baby cannot yet 

start treatment. It can be agonizing.” 

The research and study findings were 

published in the journal Science Translational 

Medicine. 

Tanning bed ban for minors 

could prevent many cancers 

If the U.S. were to impose a ban on the 

use of tanning beds by adolescents under 

17, thousands of potentially deadly skin 

cancers could be prevented and millions of 

dollars in healthcare costs saved, according 

to a recent review published in the journal 

CANCER. 

Indoor tanning has been linked to an 

increased risk of all types of skin cancer – 

including melanoma, which is potentially 

fatal if not detected early – with the highest 

risk in those who start using tanning 

beds at a young age. In fact, melanoma has 

become one of the most common cancers 

among young adults, especially women. 

But despite this increased knowledge, 

indoor tanning remains a common practice 

among young Americans. Research 

shows that 17% of U.S. teens have used 

tanning beds, as have 59% of college students. 

One-third of those who regularly tan 

indoors start doing so before age 18. 

A handful of countries, including the 

U.K., France, Germany and Spain, have 

implemented policies to ban tanning beds 

for those under 18, while the U.S. and 

Canada have not. Such bans, say this 

study’s Canadian authors, have the potential 

to save lives and treatment-related 

costs – although they do come with their 

own price tags related to policy implementation 

and enforcement, as well as lost revenue 

to the tanning industry. 

To consider both the benefits and costs of 

a ban, investigators modeled the lifespans 

of the 17.1 million Americans who are now 

between the ages of 14 and 17. The team’s 

simulations compared the outcomes, both 

financially and in terms of health consequences, 

of instituting a ban versus not 

doing so. 

Their simulations showed that a ban 

would prevent more than 15,000 melanoma 

cases and produce an economic savings of 

more than $205 million over their lifetimes. 

On the calendar 

BJC offers a Young Athlete Center 

Bridge Program on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 

May 11, 13, 18, 20 and 25, from 6:30- 

7:30 p.m. at the Children’s Specialty Care 

Center, 13001 N. Outer Forty Road, Suite 

350 in Town & Country. A maximum of 

four children per class is allowed; the fee 

is $25 per child. Please register the child 

only by visiting classes-events.bjc.org. 

• • • 

American Red Cross blood drives 

will be held on Tuesday, May 18 at Grace 

Presbyterian Church, 6308 Hwy. N in St. 

Charles; and on Sunday, May 23 from 

11 a.m.-4 p.m. at two BJC St. Charles 

County locations: Progress West Hospital, 

2 Progress Point Parkway in O’Fallon; 

and Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital 

Medical Office Building #1, 6 Jungermann 

Circle, Suite 117 in St. Peters. Sign up for 

an appointment time and view other area 

drives online at redcrossblood.org. 

• • • 

St. Luke’s Hospital presents Weight 

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Restore Your Health on Thursday, May 

20 from 6-7 p.m., live via Webex. During 

this online seminar, a St. Luke’s surgeon 

will discuss and answer your questions 

about the weight loss procedures offered 

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Food Drive are being accepted Saturday, 

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1781 Zumbehl Road in Saint Charles. Drop 

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Foodbank. For best items to donate, visit 

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• • • 

Operation Food Search hosts its first 

Operation Barbecue virtual cooking class 

from 7-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 13. 

Sugarfire’s executive chef Matt Glickert 

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preparation. Proceeds support Operation 

Backpack. Tickets are $65 for two adults; 

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• • • 

Sts. Joachim and Ann Care Service 

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Saturday, May 15 through Saturday, May 

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May 15-29. Cost is $25 for adults; $15 

for children (13 and under) and includes 

a commemorative T-shirt. Dogs can join 

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• • • 

Friends of Kids with Cancer hosts its 

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May 17 at Whitmoor Country Club, 1100 

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and breakfast begin at 9 a.m.; 

lunch and a filet mignon dinner to follow. 

Includes speakers, auctions, giveaways, 

beverages and snacks on the course and 

more. For questions, call (314) 275-7440. 

• • • 

A Caregivers Inn Blood Drive is from 

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one raffle ticket entry for a $100 gift certificate 

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registering to donate. Call 1-800-RED 

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• • • 

A Partners Golf Tournament begins at 

1:30 p.m. (registration opens at 12:30 p.m.) 

on Friday, June 4 at the St. Peters Golf 

Club, 200 Salt Lick Road. The O’Fallon 

Lions Club, Rotary and Kiwanis are hosting 

a golf tournament. Eighteen holes of 

golf plus dinner and awards. Cost is $400 

per team, includes prizes, dinner, drinks, 

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• • • 

Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build 

team The M.A.D. Dream Builders hosts a 

Cornhole Tournament from 4-6 p.m. on 

Friday June 18 at Elks Lodge, 1168 Tom 

Ginnever Ave. in O’Fallon. Cost is $20 per 

player for teams of two. Fundraiser will 

benefit Habitat for Humanity of St. Charles 

County. For more information or to register, 

visit facebook.com/MADDreamBuilders. 

FAMILY & KIDS 

Friday Night Stargazing takes place 

30 minutes before dusk on clear Friday 

evenings at the Astronomy Viewing Area 

at Broemmelsiek Park, 1615 Schwede 

Road in Wentzville. Details at asemonline.org. 

Advance registration requested 

for groups of 10 or more by email to outreach@asemonline.org. 

• • • 

St. Charles County Parks’ Geoquest 

2021 continues now through Nov. 30. Participants 

explore St. Charles County parks 

in search of 15 small metal canisters. Each 

canister can be pinpointed with a smartphone 

or GPS device daily between 7 a.m. 

and sunset. Find the canisters to decipher 

hidden messages for prizes. To get started, 

email geoquest@sccmo.org and details 

about the game will follow. 

• • • 

Tickets are now available for the A 

Dream Is A Wish Ice Show on 7-9 p.m. 

Friday, May 14; 5-7 p.m. Saturday, May 15; 

and 2-4 p.m. Sunday, May 16 at the Wilkinson 

Ice Arena at St. Peters Rec-Plex South, 

5250 Mexico Road in St. Peters. Cinderella’s 

story starring Rec-Plex skaters of all 

ages. Tickets for Rec-Plex members are 

$8.50 for adults; $6.50 for children ages 12 

and younger and seniors 55 and older. For 

all others, tickets are $9.50 for adults; $7.50 

for children 12 and younger and seniors 55 

and older. Attendees must be masked. Tickets 

are available at the St. Peters Rec-Plex, 

One St. Peters Centre Blvd. Learn more by 

visiting stpetersmo.net. 

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• • • 

Musical Ancestries is at 10 a.m. on 

Saturday, May 22 on Classic 107.3. The 

episode airs again at 7 p.m., May 23, and 

2 p.m., May 26. The new episode explores 

the music, instruments, dance, festivals 

and cultural traditions of Thailand. Following 

the Thailand episode will be “Musical 

Ancestries: Bosnia” in June. For more 

information and previous episodes, visit 

classic1073.org/musical-ancestries. 

• • • 

The first annual Duckie Dive is at 

6:30 p.m. on Friday, June 4 at Alligator’s 

Creek Aquatic Center, 403 Civic 

Park Drive in O’Fallon. Participants will 

search for and collect rubber ducks in the 

pool. Prizes await swimmers who find 

special golden ducks. For more information, 

visit renaudcenter.com. 

FESTIVALS & CONCERTS 

History in Harmony is from 1-4 p.m. 

on the last two Sundays of the month from 

April through June at 230 S. Main St. in Saint 

Charles. Stroll and shop along Historic Main 

Street while listening to a rotating line-up of 

guest musicians. The next concerts are on 

Sunday, May 23 and Sunday, May 30. For 

more information, visit discoverstcharles. 

com/event/history-in-harmony/3516/. 

• • • 

The Beale Street Concert Series is 

from 6-8 p.m. the second Wednesday 

of each month May through October at 

Streets of Saint Charles, 1650 Beale Street. 

The series begins on Wednesday, May 12 

with No Diggity, a 90s cover band. Bring 

lawn chairs. No rain dates, coolers, outside 

food or beverages. Wear a mask and 

social distance. For more information, visit 

discoverstcharles.com/event/beale-streetconcert-series/1275/. 

• • • 

Daniel Boone Home Brew Fest is from 

noon-5 p.m. on Saturday, May 15 at The 

Historic Daniel Boone Home, 1868 Hwy. F 

in Defiance. Guests 21 and older only. Taste 

30-plus different Missouri beers brewed by 

breweries and homebrewers from across 

the state. Tickets include a souvenir tasting 

glass and tour of the home. Also features 

live entertainment from The Silver Creek 

Bluegrass Band from 12-2 p.m., and The 

Skylark Brothers from 2-5 p.m., as well as 

food from the Savor The Southwest food 

truck. Designated driver tickets are free. 

Space is limited; tickets are $30 in advance 

or $35 at the door and can be purchased 

at bit.ly/2021HomeBrewFest or by calling 

the park at (636) 798-2005. 

• • • 

Music on Main is from 5-7 p.m. on 

Wednesday, May 19 at 100 N. Main St. in 

Saint Charles. Free outdoor concerts will be 

held third Wednesday of the month from May 

through September in the 100-200 blocks of 

Main Street. Bring lawn chairs; food and 

drink available to purchase. Featured music 

for May is by Rogers & Nienhaus. For more 

information, visit discoverstcharles.com/ 

event/music-on-main/1256/. 

• • • 

The Dardenne Prairie Summer Concert 

& Food Truck Rally are from 7-10 

p.m. on the third Friday of the month at City 

Hall Park, located at 2032 Hanley Road in 

Dardenne Prairie. Bring lawn chairs and 

blankets. Concessions will be available 

for purchase. The May 21 concert features 

Dr. Zhivegas. For more information and a 

concert line-up, visit dardenneprairie.org/ 

parks_and_recreation/events/sc/index.php. 

• • • 

The 2021 Sunset Fridays “On The 

Road” virtual concert series kicks off 

Friday, May 21 at 6:30 p.m. streaming 

live at www.sptvnow.net. Features music 

by acoustic rock artist Wade Trent. Concerts 

can be viewed online, on demand, on 

Charter Spectrum channel 992 or AT&T 

U-Verse channel 99. For more information 

and a full concert schedule, visit stpetersmo.net/sunset-fridays.aspx. 

• • • 

The O’Fallon Jammin’ Concert Series 

takes place from 6:30-9 p.m. on select Tues- 

See EVENTS, page 30 



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I EVENTS I 29 

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combination salad 

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EVENTS, from page 29 

days from June through August at the Civic 

Park Bandstand at 308 Civic Park Drive. A 

free concert series in the park. The series 

kicks off Tuesday, June 1 with music from 

That 80s Band. Food trucks and concessions 

available on-site. Practice social distancing; 

face masks are encouraged. For more information, 

visit ofallon.mo.us/jamming. 

• • • 

Food Truck Frenzy is at 5:30 p.m. on 

Friday, June 4 at Sports Park, 3589 Hwy. 

K in O’Fallon. A food truck picnic, a free 

concert and free kids’ activities. Bring 

chairs or blankets. Browse food trucks and 

enjoy live music from Steve Ewing. Visit 

ofallon.mo.us/food-truck-frenzy for an upto-date 

listing of food trucks. 

• • • 

The Foundry Art Centre hosts its inaugural 

Block Party from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on 

Saturday, June 19 at 520 N. Main Center 

in Saint Charles. A free outdoor art festival 

for all ages featuring steamroller 

printmaking, food trucks, beer booths, live 

music and more. Also features an interactive 

heavy machinery and vehicle display 

with vehicles from the St. Charles Police 

Department, the St. Charles Fire Department, 

St. Charles Public Works, Fabick 

Cat and more. For more information, visit 

us foundryartcentre.org or email Jessica 

Mannisi, art and exhibitions coordinator, 

at jmannisi@foundryartcentre.org. 

• • • 

A Performance in the Park is at 6:30 

p.m. on Thursday, June 24 at Thursday, 

June 24 at O’Day Park, 1000 O’Day Park 

Drive in O’Fallon. Featured performers are 

the Beyond the Circle Dancers. Enjoy food 

truck fare, and beer and wine from local 

vendors that will be on-site for purchase. 

Concert admission and parking are free. 

SPECIAL INTEREST 

A community-wide kid and baby garage 

sale is from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, May 

15 in the parking lot of Warren Elementary, 

141 Weiss Road in St. Peters. Sell and find 

toys, clothes, electronics, books, furniture, 

and more for kids and infants. Register to 

sell items at Warren.PTO.com shop on-site 

the day of the event. 

• • • 

The St. Charles Swing Dance Club 

hosts a social dance from 7-10 p.m. on 

Saturday, May 22 at the VFW Hall in 

St. Charles, 2201 South Old Hwy. 94. 

Features music by the Charlie Mann 

Band suitable for swing, hip-hop, and 

disco dancing. DJs play during band 

breaks. All ages and dancers welcome. 

A dance is held on the fourth Saturday 

each month. Cost is $10 per person. To 

register, visit stcharlesswingdanceclub. 

wordpress.com. 

• • • 

The Beale Street Market is from 

5-8 p.m. the first Wednesday of each 

month May-September at Streets of St. 

Charles, 1650 Beale Street. An annual 

market series featuring unique arts and 

homegrown foods. The next market is 

Wednesday, June 2. For more information, 

visit discoverstcharles.com/event/ 

beale-street-market/3517/. 

• • • 

The St. Charles County Pachyderm 

Club hosts weekly speakers at noon 

every Friday in May at JJ’s Restaurant, 

200 Fort Zumwalt Square in O’Fallon. 

Guests should arrive by 11:30 a.m. to order 

lunch. The May 7 speaker is Katy McKinney, 

founder of Classical Academy de 

Lafayette. Speakers discuss current issues, 

policies and initiatives. For more information 

on events and future speakers, visit 

sccpachyderms.org. 

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I BUSINESS I 31 

HBA President Bill Wannstedt presents a $12,500 check to Lauren Muehling, 

of Habitat for Humanity of St. Charles County. HBA Executive VP Celeste 

Rueter, at right. 

(Source: HBA of St. Louis/Eastern Missouri) 

business 

briefs 

PLACES 

On behalf of the Home Builders Charitable 

Foundation, the HBA of St. Louis and 

Eastern Missouri presented a $12,500 donation 

to Habitat for Humanity of St. Charles 

County to assist with the nonprofit’s 2021 

build season. Habitat for Humanity of St. 

Charles County strives to provide decent, 

safe, affordable and sustainable housing to 

deserving local families. The HBA is a local 

trade association of more than 600 member 

firms. The Home Builders Charitable Foundation 

is the HBA’s charitable arm, dedicated 

to providing housing assistance to 

people or organizations with shelter needs. 

• • • 

Boone Center, Inc., a nonprofit 

that supports people with disabilities 

through innovative employment 

opportunities, has opened 

Andrew’s Outfield, an outdoor 

patio space that honors former Hilton 

BCI employee Andrew Norton 

and features ADA accessible picnic tables, 

park-style benches, and eight seats from 

the old Busch Stadium. Andrew’s Outfield 

is an extension of Andrew’s Clubhouse, a 

St. Louis Cardinals-themed indoor break 

room, which was dedicated in August 2017. 

PEOPLE 

Jaclyn Norono-Rodriguez has been 

elected to the board of directors of The Contract 

Packaging Association. Norono-Rodriguez 

is director of sales at BCI Packaging, 

a for-purpose contract packaging and light 

manufacturing company and division of 

Boone Center, Inc. in St. Peters. The association 

is the national trade organization 

representing contract packagers and manufacturers. 

Directors serve a two-year term, 

providing leadership to guide the association’s 

activities, operation, and direction. 

• • • 

Brad Hilton, of St. Charles, has 

joined Wiegmann Associates as 

project engineer. He is responsible 

for designing energy-efficient, 

cost-effective and high-performing 

HVAC systems. Hilton previously 

interned with U.S. Steel as a 

mechanical engineer. 

EVENTS 

The O’Fallon Chamber of Commerce and 

Industries holds its membership luncheon 

from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 25 

at Whitmoor Country Club, 1100 Whitmoor 

Drive in Weldon Spring. Registration is $20 

in advance; $25 after the Friday before the 

event and includes lunch. Preregistration is 

required online at ofallonchamber.org or by 

calling (636) 240-1818. 

• • • 

The Greater St. Charles Chamber of 

Commerce hosts its Lunch with Leaders 

from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Wednesday, June 

16 at Waters Edge Banquet Center, 200 

Salt Lick Road in St. Peters. Cost is $30 

for members and $35 for guests; register 

in advance to receive $5 early registration 

discount. To register, visit gstccc.com or 

email lori@gstccc.com. 

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