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STAR PARKER<br />
We must restore<br />
‘veritas’ at our universities<br />
According to a survey done by the Harvard<br />
Crimson in 2022, 80% of the faculty<br />
at Harvard University self-identified as<br />
“liberal.” Thirty-seven percent self-identified<br />
as “very liberal.”<br />
Only 1% self-identified as conservative.<br />
This snapshot of the politics of the faculty<br />
at the nation’s oldest and leading university<br />
is not exceptional. Surveys of most university<br />
faculties show them overwhelmingly<br />
on the left.<br />
If we think about it, it can help us<br />
understand why the president of Harvard,<br />
Claudine Gay, had such a hard<br />
time making a clear statement condemning<br />
the atrocities committed by Hamas<br />
against Israeli civilians.<br />
And it can help us understand demonstrations<br />
by students at Harvard, and other<br />
universities, accusing Israel, the victim of<br />
these atrocities, as their cause.<br />
As one Wall Street Journal columnist<br />
put it, one can hardly imagine demonstrations<br />
at Harvard against human brutality<br />
in China, Iran, North Korea, Russia<br />
or Syria.<br />
But somehow atrocities against Israelis<br />
are not only justified in the eyes of these<br />
left-wing university elite but caused by<br />
their Israeli victims.<br />
What is the sickness of the soul that has<br />
captured America’s elite of higher education?<br />
To start our inquiry, we must look at Harvard’s<br />
founding. John Harvard, who provided<br />
the college’s first endowment, was a<br />
clergyman.<br />
Read the language on Harvard’s seal.<br />
“Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae.”<br />
“Truth for Christ and Church.”<br />
How many of Harvard’s administration<br />
today, of those teaching at Harvard today,<br />
of those learning at Harvard today can<br />
identify with these words from the earliest<br />
days of their university?<br />
I don’t know the exact number, but I<br />
think if we guess zero, we’ll be close to the<br />
truth.<br />
America was founded and built by Christians<br />
who sought truth and worked to make<br />
a better world.<br />
Were there flaws, mistakes? Of course.<br />
They were men.<br />
But the way to improve is to get closer to<br />
the truth, not to throw it in the trash.<br />
Those administering, teaching and learning<br />
at Harvard and our other leading universities<br />
are not consumed by scholarship<br />
and truth-seeking, but by ideology.<br />
Ideology is strikingly similar to another<br />
word: idol. Something man builds for himself<br />
and worships.<br />
It is the product of egotism and pride and<br />
not the product of humility, which comes<br />
only from knowing there is a truth bigger<br />
than you, of which you are part.<br />
Claudine Gay condemned hate and said<br />
her university is about bringing people<br />
with differences together.<br />
This is a university president who does<br />
not see “veritas,” truth, and good and evil<br />
in the world, as embodied and conveyed in<br />
the message on her university seal and its<br />
history.<br />
The job of universities is to pursue truth.<br />
But this is impossible when they do not<br />
believe truth exists. Thinking that the point<br />
is bringing together people rather than<br />
pursing truth is an exercise in ideology, not<br />
scholarship, and leads only to the social,<br />
cultural and spiritual degeneration we are<br />
experiencing.<br />
If we want to save our country, let’s save<br />
our places of learning. Let’s purge the sea<br />
of ethnic, political and ideological clubs<br />
that dominate social and intellectual life at<br />
what are supposed to be our institutions of<br />
learning.<br />
The terrorists are financed by the sale of<br />
oil. That oil was found, developed and is<br />
worth mega-billions because of Western<br />
technology. A disproportionate contribution<br />
to the development of that science and<br />
technology has come from the very people<br />
whose homeland is Israel, against whom<br />
the terrorists commit atrocities.<br />
The United States grew and became<br />
great with the values that brought forth the<br />
miracle that is the modern State of Israel.<br />
The moral relativism and hedonism of<br />
America’s left is now obliterating these<br />
truths.<br />
A new birth of freedom in America<br />
means a new birth of truth and learning at<br />
our universities.<br />
• • •<br />
Star Parker is president of the Center<br />
for Urban Renewal and Education and<br />
host of the weekly television show “Cure<br />
America with Star Parker.”<br />
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR<br />
Veterans Day<br />
To the Editor:<br />
This Veterans Day we remember, celebrate<br />
and honor all who served our country,<br />
those men and women who wore the uniform<br />
of our nation’s Armed Forces. We also<br />
recall the deaths of our fellow countrymen<br />
during wartime and the resulting deaths due<br />
to wounds inflicted during wartime actions.<br />
These men and women made the greatest<br />
sacrifice possible, giving one’s own life.<br />
“No greater love is there that a man lay down<br />
his life for another.”<br />
As we honor our veterans, I would like to<br />
take a moment to explain the bond we established<br />
and nurtured as we served our country.<br />
Instilled in veterans are core values, principles<br />
of morals, and the values of honor, courage<br />
and commitment. These were reinforced<br />
among all members of the Armed Forces, so<br />
that these core values became second nature.<br />
We have always stood on the side of right<br />
and human decency. It is our solemn duty as<br />
veterans to see that the principles that have<br />
made America strong, guarded and protected<br />
are passed on to our children and our<br />
children’s children. We must never lose our<br />
enthusiasm for showing openly our pride in<br />
our country and support for our veterans.<br />
The veterans we remember on Nov. <strong>11</strong><br />
November 1, 20<strong>23</strong><br />
MID RIVERS NEWSMAGAZINE<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
Do you speak Republican?<br />
After several weeks of chaos, the United<br />
States House of Representatives has a<br />
speaker. Rep. Mike Johnson, a little-known<br />
Louisiana Republican, won the job last<br />
week without losing a single Republican<br />
vote. Mr. Johnson speaks Republican and<br />
oozes conservatism.<br />
He is ardently pro-life. He was a key<br />
figure in attempts to overturn the 2020<br />
election. He does not believe in humancaused<br />
climate change. He strongly<br />
opposes same-sex marriage. Out of 435<br />
lawmakers, Johnson was ranked the 429th<br />
least bipartisan, according to an index by<br />
the Lugar Center and McCourt School of<br />
Public Policy at Georgetown University.<br />
A consensus builder he is not.<br />
A near month of public infighting has left<br />
the Republican brand bruised and battered.<br />
An ultra-conservative speaker who ends up<br />
on the unpopular side of a lot of issues will<br />
do little to repair that image. With that in<br />
mind, will Speaker Johnson be able to get<br />
anything done and does he even want to?<br />
There are some big items on the very<br />
near-term to-do list for Congress. They<br />
need to fund the government. They need<br />
to decide if we are going to continue to<br />
fund our allies in Ukraine and Israel. There<br />
are still funds needed for natural disasters<br />
in Hawaii, California and Vermont. The<br />
border crisis looms large.<br />
That is an awful lot to find on one’s plate,<br />
particularly when Matt Gaetz is off to the<br />
side, threatening to slap the plate out of<br />
your hands. Do Johnson’s conservative<br />
bona fides buy him some leeway with the<br />
far-right zealots like Gaetz? Maybe. Johnson<br />
is a fairly classic social conservative;<br />
Gaetz is more of a MAGA-come-lately<br />
conservative. They both speak Republican<br />
but with very different accents.<br />
All of this makes it very interesting that<br />
Johnson was able to unite the party in such<br />
a coherent fashion. His platform may look<br />
a lot like firebrand and failed speaker Jim<br />
Jordan, but his tactics are very different.<br />
He seems to have virtually no enemies<br />
within the party.<br />
There is a term used in football to<br />
describe quarterbacks who are good<br />
enough not to lose, but not good enough<br />
to create wins. They call them game managers.<br />
Mike Johnson seems like a game<br />
manager for the Republican party. Can he<br />
deliver large, generational wins not seen<br />
since the days of Newt Gingrich? Probably<br />
not. But he is also not likely to turn the ball<br />
fought for freedom. They traveled to many<br />
distant shores not to fight for peace, but to<br />
free people and their countries from oppressors.<br />
The sacrifice of our veterans will seem<br />
almost meaningless if we as a nation do not<br />
remember. If we do not remember now, will<br />
future generations recall the sacrifice our<br />
veterans made to maintain their freedom?<br />
We must always remember and teach future<br />
generations that “freedom is never free.”<br />
We honor all veterans for their sacrifice,<br />
their dedication to our freedom and<br />
the hardship of battle. The fatigue of long<br />
days and longer nights, the loneliness of<br />
their time away from loved ones, especially<br />
those times away on holidays, the birth of<br />
their children, the missed anniversaries,<br />
graduations, birthdays and all the special<br />
days when they could not be home because<br />
they were called to serve their country, and<br />
they answered that call.<br />
It’s the soldier, not the reporter who gives<br />
you the freedom of the press. It’s the soldier,<br />
not the poet who gives you freedom of speech.<br />
It’s the soldier, not the campus organizer who<br />
allows you to demonstrate. It’s the soldier<br />
who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose<br />
coffin is draped with that flag, that gives you<br />
the freedom to fly that glorious flag.<br />
On Veterans Day, and every day, thank a<br />
over and create easy wins for Democrats,<br />
which is what lost Kevin McCarthy the job.<br />
The sad reality is that we have been<br />
without a Speaker of the House for nearly<br />
a month and, well, the house has stayed<br />
standing. We don’t really need a lot from<br />
the job. We don’t really need a lot from<br />
Congress. Those to-do items listed earlier<br />
aren’t just the priority items, they’re<br />
pretty much the only items that must get<br />
done. We used to be deathly afraid of<br />
gridlock. Gridlock seems like a decent<br />
outcome these days. The world is spinning<br />
faster and faster and faster, and if<br />
gridlock can slow it down for a bit, then<br />
sign us up.<br />
Do we believe that this was Matt Gaetz’s<br />
plan all along? No. Gaetz is playing checkers,<br />
not chess. This outcome is not horrible,<br />
however. In a perfect world, we would<br />
have ended up with a consensus-building,<br />
sensible center type of Speaker who could<br />
represent the agreement held by most of<br />
the country, both Republican and Democrat.<br />
We haven’t seen that perfect world<br />
for quite some time, however. Instead, we<br />
got a principled man who speaks Republican<br />
and is unlikely to get much done. That<br />
feels like a pretty good outcome, as well.<br />
veteran for the freedom you have today and<br />
every day.<br />
Rich Chrismer<br />
Honor families of those<br />
who serve<br />
To the Editor:<br />
World War I ended at the <strong>11</strong>th hour of the<br />
<strong>11</strong>th day of the <strong>11</strong>th month in 1918 when<br />
the Armistice went into effect. The United<br />
States has observed Veterans Day, originally<br />
Armistice Day, every year since 1919.<br />
Veterans Day is when we honor those who<br />
have served in the armed forces of the United<br />
States. It is distinctly different from Memorial<br />
Day when we honor those who have<br />
made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.<br />
When honoring our veterans, let us also<br />
honor the families of those who served. They<br />
sacrificed time with loved ones who were<br />
away on active duty. They did their best to<br />
continue with daily life while their loved ones<br />
were away serving. They did this knowing<br />
that at any time they could get that phone call<br />
or knock on the door that would tell them that<br />
a loved one had made the ultimate sacrifice.<br />
Let us honor and say thanks to all those<br />
who served on this Veterans Day, including<br />
their families!<br />
Scott Ottenberg<br />
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Cooks sold the officer two counterfeit<br />
motor vehicle insurance identification cards<br />
and two more counterfeit temporary tags.<br />
In a court-approved search of Cooks’<br />
home on Dec. 15, 2022, investigators<br />
found computer equipment, a printer, two<br />
counterfeit motor vehicle insurance identification<br />
cards, blank sheets of temporary<br />
Missouri Department of Revenue paper<br />
with authentication features, counterfeit<br />
temporary tags, fraudulent Missouri dealer<br />
license plates and blank stock check paper,<br />
Cooks’ plea agreement says. A forensic<br />
analysis of the computer equipment<br />
revealed Cooks’ history of producing hundreds<br />
of fake tags.<br />
The plea says that those who are trying to<br />
hide their possession of a stolen vehicle or<br />
dodge their financial obligations as vehicle<br />
owners often purchase fake temporary tags<br />
and other documents.<br />
At sentencing, Cooks could face up to<br />
ten years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or<br />
both prison and a fine.<br />
The case was investigated by the St.<br />
Charles Police Department, the St. Louis<br />
Metropolitan Police Department, the U.S.<br />
Secret Service and the Missouri Department<br />
of Revenue. Assistant U.S. Attorney<br />
Tracy Berry is prosecuting the case.<br />
Nonprofit executive<br />
indicted for fraud<br />
Connie Bobo, of St. Charles, was indicted<br />
on three felony counts of wire fraud, three<br />
counts of aggravated identity theft and two<br />
counts of obstruction of an official proceeding.<br />
Bobo is the executive director of<br />
New Heights Community Resource Center,<br />
which accepted money to provide meals<br />
to low-income, school-age children after<br />
school and during the summer.<br />
The indictment accuses Bobo, 44, and<br />
New Heights of fraudulently claiming to<br />
have served at least 3 million meals to children<br />
between February 2019 and March<br />
2022 – meals that New Heights neither<br />
actually purchased nor supplied. Relying on<br />
those false claims, the Missouri Department<br />
of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) paid<br />
Bobo about $<strong>11</strong> million, the indictment says.<br />
According to the indictment, Bobo used<br />
$4.3 million to purchase a nearly $1 million<br />
home for herself, other homes for relatives<br />
and to make a $2.2 million commercial real<br />
estate investment. She also gave nearly $1.4<br />
million to her romantic partner, who spent<br />
$2<strong>11</strong>,907 on a 2017 Mercedes-Benz G550<br />
Wagon. The indictment seeks the forfeiture<br />
of the real estate and the SUV.<br />
“This indictment shows that we will<br />
aggressively pursue those who defraud a<br />
program intended to feed needy children,<br />
and those who exploited loopholes created<br />
by a global pandemic,” said U.S. Attorney<br />
Sayler A. Fleming. “We will seize the<br />
houses and luxury vehicles that they buy<br />
with those funds and we will seek punishment<br />
that is appropriate for the scale of the<br />
crime, which by law includes repayment of<br />
the funds. Anyone with information about<br />
COVID-19 related fraud should contact<br />
the National Center for Disaster Fraud at<br />
(866) 720-5721.”<br />
If found to be guilty, the wire fraud and<br />
obstruction charges carry a penalty of up to<br />
20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both<br />
prison and a fine. The aggravated identity<br />
theft charges are punishable by two years<br />
in prison consecutive to the sentence for<br />
any other charge.<br />
WELDON SPRING<br />
Phase 2 of Spirit Valley<br />
Business Park underway<br />
Tubular USA will be relocating to a new<br />
131,000-square-foot headquarters and<br />
manufacturing facility in the Spirit Valley<br />
Business Park in Chesterfield Valley.<br />
Keystone Construction Company has<br />
begun construction of the facility will feature<br />
offices, a steel fabrication manufacturing<br />
facility, warehouse space and room for<br />
future growth.<br />
Keystone recently began construction<br />
of the infrastructure in the business park<br />
to support future buildings. Spirit Valley<br />
Business Park is positioned across from<br />
the St. Louis Premium Outlets and next to<br />
the Spirit of St. Louis Airport.<br />
Tubular’s steel products are integrated<br />
into the architectural design to represent<br />
the brand. The architect is Gray Design<br />
Group. Engineering is being provided by<br />
Stock & Associates Consulting Engineers,<br />
Inc and Knapp Engineering. Construction<br />
is scheduled to be completed by June 2024.<br />
Keystone built the infrastructure for<br />
Phase 1 of the 50-acre Spirit Valley Business<br />
Park in 2008 and has constructed <strong>11</strong><br />
buildings within the business park. Work<br />
at Phase 2 began earlier this month and<br />
includes mass grading, new streets and<br />
infrastructure for sewer, water, electric and<br />
gas. It will be completed in December.<br />
Current tenants of the Spirit Valley Business<br />
Park Phase 1 include robotic and<br />
engineering firms, contractors and healthcare<br />
suppliers, including Vermeer <strong>Mid</strong>west,<br />
Neff Power, Oaktree Products, Chesterfield<br />
Fence & Deck, Fresh Air Heating & Cooling<br />
and BELFOR Property Restoration, St.<br />
Louis Auto Detail and Thompson Price.<br />
Keystone is also completing a $6 million<br />
mixed-use building at 675 Spirit Valley<br />
West Drive within the Spirit Valley Business<br />
Park. The building features 40,000<br />
square feet of flexible space, which can be<br />
divided between one to four tenants, and<br />
accommodates a wide range of uses from
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warehouse, office, manufacturing, showroom<br />
and more. Keystone was the designbuild<br />
contractor for the building core and<br />
shell and is now completing build-out of<br />
its own new headquarters. Keystone will<br />
relocate to the building by the end of this<br />
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WENTZVILLE<br />
Community College breaks<br />
ground on new campus<br />
St. Charles Community College held<br />
a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday,<br />
Oct. 25 for its Regional Workforce Innovation<br />
Center on a 55-acre campus at the<br />
corner of Interstate Drive and Schaper<br />
Road in Wentzville.<br />
Gov. Mike Parson spoke at the event, along<br />
with St. Charles County Executive Steve<br />
Ehlmann, SCC President Barbara Kavalier,<br />
Ph.D., SCC Board of Trustees President<br />
Mary Schnare Stodden, and SCC Sr. VP for<br />
Administrative Services and Chief Operating<br />
Officer Todd Galbierz. They were joined by<br />
key representatives from the community and<br />
business and industry.<br />
The center will be the home of new<br />
programs in advanced manufacturing,<br />
including battery technology, electric and<br />
autonomous vehicles, renewable wind and<br />
solar energy, high-tech processes and robotics.<br />
In addition to providing education and<br />
training for students, the college will have<br />
a “Make-it Center” lab where students in<br />
middle and high school can explore new<br />
technology such as how a 3-D printer<br />
works and even operate a robotic arm. An<br />
introduction to advanced manufacturing<br />
technologies and other skilled trades will be<br />
available for students with options to earn<br />
associate degrees and certificates.<br />
It is funded primarily by the state<br />
through the American Rescue Plan Act<br />
(ARPA) funds and the MoExcels Workforce<br />
Initiative. The estimated cost for the<br />
Regional Workforce Innovation Center is<br />
$41.9 million.<br />
ST. CHARLES COUNTY<br />
Interstate Drive near Quail<br />
Ridge Park to be improved<br />
Interstate Drive in St. Charles County now<br />
runs from Prospect Road/Duello Road near<br />
the I-70/I-64 junction all the way west across<br />
Hepperman Road in Wentzville to Scheper<br />
Road near Foristell. Residential and commercial<br />
developments continue to sprout<br />
along the roadway, much of which was<br />
newly constructed over the past three years.<br />
One section, however, from Prospect/<br />
Duello to Quail Ridge Park is an old and<br />
narrow I-64 “outer road” with deteriorated<br />
asphalt, narrow lanes and small shoulders.<br />
Residents, commuters and park visitors<br />
have patiently waited for improvements to<br />
that original roadway.<br />
As part of the consent agenda at its Oct.<br />
10 meeting, the St. Charles County Council<br />
authorized a $5,452,452 contract with<br />
RV Wagner of St. Louis to reconstruct the<br />
roadway. The project is to be completed<br />
within 260 calendar days from when the<br />
contractor is notified to begin.<br />
The Interstate Drive Phase 1 reconstruction<br />
extends from approximately 800 feet<br />
east of the entrance to Quail Ridge Park<br />
and extends east and southeast to Duello<br />
and Prospect Road.<br />
The project includes road and intersection<br />
improvements, a shared-use path and<br />
sidewalk, curbs and gutters, curb ramps<br />
and drainage structures.<br />
Federal funds will cover $900,000 of the<br />
total cost and $1,539,500 will come from<br />
MoDOT cost-share funds.<br />
This consent agenda item was discussed<br />
separately, at the request of council<br />
member Tim Baker (District 7), who led a<br />
discussion about the preference of choosing<br />
local bidders from St. Charles County<br />
if their bids are within 2% of the lowest bid.<br />
Bob Schnur, the county’s assistant director<br />
of administration, said that certainly<br />
can be done, but that he still recommended<br />
keeping the competitive bid process as<br />
is to save county taxpayers from paying<br />
higher costs. After some back-and-forth<br />
discussion, the council approved the item<br />
via a voice vote with no dissent.<br />
Family Arena lighting<br />
to be replaced<br />
The Family Arena’s existing light displays<br />
are at the end of their useful life and<br />
replacement parts are no longer available.<br />
As part of the consent agenda at its Oct.<br />
10 meeting, the St. Charles County Council<br />
unanimously approved a $1,887,554 contract<br />
with Mitsubishi Electric of Warrendale,<br />
Pennsylvania, for new bowl displays<br />
to be used for sports, circus, graduations,<br />
trade shows, festivals and more.<br />
According to background materials, this<br />
will replace all current displays and add<br />
additional display locations. The new LED<br />
lighting will have significantly better resolution<br />
to enhance guest experiences and<br />
will allow for an increase in versatility for<br />
shows/tours and events.<br />
The contract includes the removal and<br />
replacement of existing video and ribbon<br />
displays as well as control and management<br />
equipment. On-site work is to begin<br />
in mid-2024.<br />
This project is being funded by a<br />
(COVID-19) Shuttered Venue Operators<br />
Grant.<br />
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Honoring Veterans: volunteers needed at county museum<br />
By KATE UPTERGROVE<br />
Paul C. Rhoads<br />
The St. Charles County Veterans<br />
Museum was founded with the mission to<br />
honor veterans by sharing their stories so<br />
they will not be forgotten. But as museum<br />
volunteers began interviewing veterans, a<br />
new mission took root along with a new<br />
need for more space.<br />
“Once you start to listen to the veterans’<br />
stories you realize there are needs out there,<br />
that some of our more modern veterans are<br />
coming back and they’re suffering from<br />
PTSD among other things. So we want to try<br />
to find a way to help and that requires more<br />
space,” explained Jim Higgins, board president<br />
for the Veterans Museum. “If we can<br />
become a hub of resources for veterans, have<br />
conference rooms, places that they can meet<br />
and utilize for support groups and different<br />
things like that, that requires more space.”<br />
So the museum will be moving – eventually<br />
and with the help of the community<br />
– to 1019 Bryan Road. The 2.45-acre site<br />
in front of the O’Fallon Justice Center will<br />
house a 12,000- to 14,000-square-foot<br />
museum. Its $1 per year lease is a gift from<br />
the city of O’Fallon.<br />
Dickinson Hussman Architects, of St.<br />
Louis, has been contracted to begin the<br />
design of the building. And, on Friday,<br />
Nov. 17, the first large-scale fundraising<br />
effort for the new <strong>Mid</strong> America Veterans<br />
Museum will take place.<br />
The Remembrance Gala is expected to<br />
sell out but those who wish to donate to<br />
the museum’s capital campaign can use the<br />
“Donate” tab at stcharlescountyveteransmuseum.org.<br />
The name change reflects a desire for the<br />
museum to be a resource that is not limited<br />
by geography.<br />
“If we’re truly helping in the healing process<br />
of our veterans do you want to say geographically<br />
we can’t help you?” Higgins<br />
asked. “We want to rebrand the museum<br />
as the <strong>Mid</strong> America Veterans Museum and<br />
open it up to a much bigger geography, preserve<br />
more stories and recognize people in<br />
a much larger regional area.”<br />
Noting that the museum’s five-year anniversary<br />
is coming up on April 12, Higgins<br />
said that its current space at 410 E. Elm Street<br />
in O’Fallon filled up in the first two years.<br />
Chief among the displayed artifacts are<br />
those stories of veterans, recorded and preserved<br />
by museum volunteers. Pages and<br />
pages of service, memories, triumph and<br />
pain are preserved online and in print.<br />
“You get the good along with the bad,”<br />
Higgins said. “I had no idea what we were<br />
starting when we sat down and heard the<br />
stories of our veterans. You start to learn<br />
that when they came home from Iraq,<br />
Afghanistan or some of the other places<br />
where there were humanitarian missions<br />
where there were casualties, that they come<br />
back and they’re suffering. Many suffer<br />
from PTSD and we lose a lot of veterans<br />
each year (to suicide).<br />
“You start to learn that they just don’t<br />
come home and take off the uniform and<br />
go back to their civilian lives. Their service<br />
stays with them and many of them will be<br />
fighting a battle the rest of their lives. So<br />
we asked, ‘How can we help these folks?’”<br />
There are multiple answers: listen, learn,<br />
educate, support, connect, care.<br />
“It really is a privilege and an honor to<br />
listen to their stories and be able to help<br />
preserve them,” Higgins said. “You’re<br />
sharing a veteran’s story and when another<br />
veteran hears that story, he or she can<br />
relate to it and there’s a bit of healing that<br />
happens. That’s why trying to do this has<br />
become much, much more than simply telling<br />
stories and displaying artifacts.”<br />
To capture the stories, museum volunteers<br />
sit down for one-to-one interviews and<br />
local high school students record videos of<br />
veterans sharing their stories. The videos<br />
are edited on the front end and back end<br />
(titles and credits), according to Higgins,<br />
and then sent to the Library of Congress<br />
where they are preserved forever.<br />
He said working with the students is<br />
regarding because “these kids have no clue<br />
what our veterans have gone through and<br />
it’s eye-opening for them and they’re very<br />
grateful for the chance to do this.”<br />
In addition to the challenge before them<br />
“You know, weve been open almost five years but<br />
we’re still one of the best kept secrets out there.”<br />
– Jim Higgins, board president, St. Charles Veterans Museum<br />
to raise funds for the new museum, Higgins<br />
said the challenge the museum leadership<br />
faces every day is finding volunteers.<br />
“We’re short staffed. We’re probably<br />
behind by 60 to 70 stories at any given time<br />
and they’re coming in two, three, four a<br />
week. We’re trying our best to write these<br />
out but when you’re writing and researching<br />
a story it takes time.<br />
“We need people who will do research and<br />
writing. We need help with publicity. You<br />
know, weve been open almost five years<br />
but we’re still one of the best kept secrets<br />
out there. We need grant writers and there’s<br />
just so many positions that we need to fill.”<br />
Higgins said volunteers don’t need to<br />
commit to large amounts of time and they<br />
don’t need to have served themselves.<br />
“If somebody can give us four to six hours<br />
a month that’s a big help,” he said.<br />
He pointed out that he was not in the<br />
military.<br />
“I do this because I am very grateful for<br />
those who did serve. My father served.<br />
My brother served. My uncle served. And<br />
obviously, I have a lot of good friends that<br />
served and this is my way of just saying<br />
‘Thanks’ to them.”<br />
With Veterans Day approaching, there’s no<br />
better time to say “Thank You” to those who<br />
have served or to help the museum that seeks<br />
to honor and aid them. To learn more about<br />
volunteering or donating, email sccvetsmuseum@gmail.com<br />
or call (636) 294-2657.<br />
ON THE COVER: The stories of these veterans and hundreds more can be found under<br />
the “Stories” tab at stcharlescountyveteransmuseum.org. Pictured (top row, from left) William<br />
Howard Browning, Renee Essary, Harold Paul Hogarth, Merlin De Vere Larson, Velma<br />
Lee Powell and Edwin L. Echelmeyer ; (middle row) Earl Dryden, William J. Bartee, Joseph<br />
C. Mowry, Christopher James Carter, Stephen K. Scott and Sam Pool; (bottom row) Sally<br />
Blaine, Fred S Morton, Matthew Sims, Thomas Patrick Corcoran, James J. Cregan and Dylan<br />
R. Merola.<br />
To read about the day that inspired our modern Veterans Day celebration, check out the story<br />
of Paul C. Rhoads, a World War I veteran. Rhoads’ diary shares a detailed account of Armistice<br />
Day 1918, when at the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” the armistice<br />
signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany ended hostilities on the Western Front.<br />
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St. Charles County<br />
celebrates Veterans Day<br />
The St. Charles Salutes - Veterans<br />
Day Celebration is from 10<br />
a.m.-6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. <strong>11</strong><br />
at the Lewis and Clark Boathouse<br />
Parking Lot, 1050 S. <strong>Rivers</strong>ide<br />
Drive in St. Charles.<br />
The event will begin with a<br />
parade, followed by a ceremony at<br />
the memorial, and will end with a<br />
fireworks display. There will also<br />
be a vendor fair, music and more.<br />
For details about participating<br />
in the parade, securing a vendor<br />
booth, or sponsoring the event,<br />
visit stcharlescitymo.gov.<br />
• • •<br />
The St. Peters Veterans Memorial<br />
Commission’s annual Veterans<br />
Day Ceremony is from 10 a.m.-<br />
noon on Saturday, Nov. <strong>11</strong> at the<br />
Cultural Arts Centre at City Hall,<br />
One St. Peters Centre Blvd.<br />
The guest speakers are Col.<br />
Kevin Golinghorst, who has<br />
served over 27 years in the U.S.<br />
Army as an engineer officer, and<br />
Capt. Andrew Bender, who is<br />
responsible for Coast Guard<br />
operations across the Heartland’s<br />
waterways.<br />
Golinghorst served during Operation<br />
Iraqi Freedom and two tours<br />
of Operation Enduring Freedom in<br />
Afghanistan. He has an undergraduate<br />
degree in Civil Engineering, a<br />
Master’s in Defense Geographic<br />
Information, Military Arts and<br />
Science, and National Security<br />
and Strategic Studies.<br />
In his duties, Bender leads a vast<br />
team focused on maritime safety,<br />
security, and environmental protection.<br />
He has held pivotal roles<br />
in various Coast Guard sectors.<br />
Refreshments will be served<br />
after the ceremony. For details,<br />
visit stpetersmo.net.<br />
• • •<br />
Veterans Day Ceremony is at<br />
<strong>11</strong> a.m. on Saturday, Nov. <strong>11</strong> at<br />
Veterans Memorial Walk, 800 Belleau<br />
Creek Road in O’Fallon. For<br />
details, visit ofallon.mo.us.<br />
• • •<br />
A Veterans Day Program is at <strong>11</strong><br />
a.m. on Saturday, Nov. <strong>11</strong> at Veterans<br />
Memorial Park, 200 Civic<br />
Center Drive in Lake Saint Louis.<br />
For details, visit lakesaintlouis.<br />
com.
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The Lost and Found Nephew<br />
Law Matters<br />
I prepared a<br />
trust-based<br />
estate plan for a<br />
client. I<br />
explained the<br />
benefits in<br />
avoiding probate<br />
- more<br />
privacy, less<br />
cost. He understood.<br />
He was close to his elderly aunt<br />
who had never married. She had a<br />
sizeable estate. Her attorney had<br />
prepared a will-based plan for her.<br />
When my client, the nephew, talked<br />
to her about creating a trust, she told<br />
him that her attorney said trusts were<br />
not a good idea because you don't<br />
have court supervision of the<br />
administration of a trust. I know I'm a<br />
little jaded after practicing law for as<br />
long as I have, but I have to wonder<br />
whether the attorney was also<br />
thinking about the sizable probate fee<br />
he hoped to get. In any event, the aunt<br />
did not do a trust.<br />
Time passed, and sadly, the aunt<br />
died. When someone dies, all of their<br />
accounts and assets get frozen until an<br />
estate is opened. My client was named<br />
as the personal representative, the<br />
executor, and he came to me to<br />
probate her estate.<br />
When you open a probate estate,<br />
among other things, you need to try to<br />
contact potential heirs. In this case,<br />
there was another nephew. No one<br />
knew where he was, and there was no<br />
record of him in the aunt's address<br />
book or any letters or even Christmas<br />
cards. After some sluething, my client<br />
found an address for the cousin in a<br />
remote town in Minnesota. So, we<br />
sent him the required information,<br />
hoping that would be the end of it.<br />
We weren't that lucky.<br />
The next thing that happened<br />
was that I was contacted by an<br />
attorney. He told me that he representated<br />
the Minnesota cousin. He<br />
said that his client had, in fact, been<br />
very close to the deceased aunt and<br />
called her regularly, although the<br />
phone records didn't show that. He<br />
said that my client had taken advantage<br />
of the aunt and had her write his<br />
client out of the will. He demanded<br />
half of the estate.<br />
I told my client that this was a<br />
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O’Fallon has been seeking to use external<br />
funds to help with two road projects.<br />
The first project is the reconstruction<br />
and replacement of the Tom Ginnever<br />
Avenue and North Cool Springs Road stopcontrolled<br />
intersection with a roundabout<br />
to mitigate congestion and delays, and to<br />
improve safety through this intersection.<br />
The project also would address pedestrian<br />
improvements including the installation<br />
of new 10-foot-shared-use path sections<br />
within the intersection project limits.<br />
The total project cost is estimated to<br />
be $1,518,000. The city proposes to use<br />
$986,700 in federal funding (65% of the<br />
estimated project total) for all items that<br />
are eligible for federal reimbursement.<br />
Bill No. 7596, sponsored by Mayor Bill<br />
Hennessy, would authorize an agreement<br />
to use Missouri Department of Transportation<br />
- Congestion Mitigation and Air<br />
Quality Funding (CMAQ) for this project.<br />
CMAQ funds are federal funds passed<br />
through the East-West Gateway Council of<br />
Governments and MoDOT.<br />
At its Oct. 26 meeting, the City Council<br />
had planned to do a second reading<br />
and a vote for passage. However, council<br />
member Ron Epps (Ward 1) moved to<br />
table the bill “to collect more information<br />
on it.” Council member Deana Smith<br />
(Ward 1) seconded the motion, saying she<br />
had concerns when this project first came<br />
up and that she had been told there would<br />
be a study and discussion before it came<br />
to the council as a bill. She said it then<br />
“showed up on the agenda” without having<br />
that promised discussion.<br />
Smith said she had heard “lots of concerns<br />
from residents and we need time to<br />
get more information and have more discussion.”<br />
Resident Katie Page also spoke during<br />
the citizen comments portion of the agenda,<br />
expressing several questions and concerns<br />
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O’Fallon approves use of federal funds<br />
for one road project, tables one project<br />
Tom Ginnever Avenue and North Cool Springs Road<br />
(Google Earth photo)<br />
about the roundabout.<br />
The motion to table Bill No. 7596 was<br />
carried by a voice vote of 9-1, with council<br />
member Tom “Duke” Herweck (Ward 2)<br />
opposed.<br />
It currently is unclear how long the bill<br />
will remain tabled. The council has only<br />
two more meetings this year on Nov. 16<br />
and Dec. 14.<br />
The second project is the Hoff Road<br />
Reconstruction Phase 2 and includes the<br />
reconstruction of Hoff Road from Progress<br />
West Lane to east of Kemmar Court<br />
along with a full removal and replacement<br />
of the roadway through the project limits.<br />
The project also will address pedestrian<br />
improvements with the installation of a<br />
10-foot shared-use path between Progress<br />
West Lane and Kemmar Court.<br />
The total project cost is estimated to be<br />
$3,828,600. In 20<strong>23</strong>, the city applied for<br />
federal funding assistance for the project.<br />
The application was approved and awarded<br />
funding assistance through the Infrastructure<br />
Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) utilizing<br />
the Surface Transportation Block Grant<br />
(STBG) Program. This would provide<br />
$1,914,300 in federal funding (50% of the<br />
estimated project total) for all items that<br />
are eligible for federal reimbursement.<br />
At its Oct. 26 meeting, the council voted<br />
10-0 to approve Bill No. 7597, sponsored<br />
by Mayor Bill Hennessy, which authorizes<br />
an agreement with the Missouri Highways<br />
and Transportation Commission for use of<br />
IIJA funding through the STBG Program.<br />
The city will seek additional funding for<br />
both projects from the St. Charles County<br />
Road Board to further reduce the city’s<br />
funding obligation. If the city receives<br />
additional funding from the Road Board,<br />
separate agreements with will be presented<br />
to the council via proposed ordinances to<br />
approve the additional funds.<br />
Both of these projects are included in the<br />
city’s five-year Capital Improvement Plan<br />
with funding being allocated in 2024-2026.
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County’s historic courthouse interior wall painting to be recreated<br />
By JOHN TREMMEL<br />
The Historic St. Charles County Courthouse<br />
interior is to be restored to replicate<br />
its original design.<br />
According to the county’s website, the<br />
Historic County Courthouse at 100 N.<br />
Third Street was designed in 1898 by thenprominent<br />
architect Jerome B. Legg. The<br />
stone for the building was quarried on-site.<br />
It is the only courthouse Legg built with<br />
stone and is considered his best effort.<br />
Construction started in February 1900<br />
and completed in 1905. While it was occupied<br />
in April 1903, its official dedication<br />
was not held until Oct. 31, 1913.<br />
The building currently houses the offices<br />
of the county executive, county counselor,<br />
county council and the director of administration.<br />
trim, which is already present in the original<br />
mosaic flooring.<br />
The second is the middle section of the<br />
third-floor walls, which includes the area<br />
between the crown molding to the bottom<br />
of the rotunda. Those walls are where<br />
murals will be painted.<br />
The third area is the rotunda itself. The<br />
artist selected will help design four murals<br />
that depict key eras in the county’s history.<br />
Those murals will include iconic citizens<br />
who contributed to the expansion and<br />
growth of the county.<br />
County staff had issued<br />
requests to several artists<br />
and received two submissions,<br />
from which they<br />
selected Smithey Gallery,<br />
LLC, of St. Charles, who<br />
will do the reproduction<br />
work for $220,868 during<br />
a six-month term. The cost<br />
will be paid from the Parks<br />
& Recreation budget.<br />
County Courthouse<br />
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As part of the consent agenda at its Oct.<br />
10 meeting, the St. Charles County Council<br />
approved a project to reproduce elements<br />
of the building’s original artwork<br />
and commission new murals that portray<br />
historically significant people and events<br />
in the county’s history.<br />
According to the meeting materials, the<br />
walls of the Historic Courthouse were<br />
once adorned with murals and decorative<br />
trim paint. Over time, those murals and<br />
trim have been painted over. During the<br />
last major renovation in 1993, a study was<br />
performed to uncover a sample of those<br />
images. At that time, it was determined the<br />
murals were too difficult to uncover.<br />
This new project includes designing and<br />
painting three distinct areas on the third<br />
floor.<br />
The first includes the three walls above<br />
the wainscot trim to the crown molding in<br />
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Tickets on sale now for 35th Annual Progress 64 West Awards Banquet<br />
By KATE UPTERGROVE<br />
The Progress 64 West Awards Banquet keynote speaker will be Michael Staenberg (left);<br />
Marc Cox will serve as emcee.<br />
Progress 64 West will host its 35th<br />
Annual Excellence in Community Development<br />
Awards Banquet at <strong>11</strong> a.m. on<br />
Wednesday, Nov. 22 at the DoubleTree by<br />
Hilton Hotel, 16625 Swingley Ridge Road<br />
in Chesterfield.<br />
For nearly 35 years, the civic organization<br />
has participated in and promoted<br />
projects aimed at advancing economic<br />
development along the I-64 corridor in<br />
St. Louis and St. Charles counties. Today,<br />
those efforts include advocating for policy<br />
impacting the two-county region.<br />
“When responsible corporate partners<br />
locate within a community, residents realize<br />
not only an increase in job opportunities,<br />
but lower taxes, a higher quality education<br />
system, along with many other amenities that<br />
would not be possible without the added tax<br />
dollars that are returned to our communities,”<br />
Progress 64 West states on its website.<br />
“We are all champions – whether we are<br />
running a bank, civic leaders, healthcare<br />
workers, educating tomorrow’s leaders,<br />
building homes and commercial spaces, or<br />
even helping our neighbors in need. Every<br />
level, every operation, every tiny detail creates<br />
a beautiful story of life. When technicians,<br />
artisans, intellectuals, and craftsmen<br />
work together we all bring our skills to the<br />
table. It strengthens the region.”<br />
To that end, the annual banquet honors<br />
local leaders and corporate partners who<br />
live out that vision. This year those “Champions<br />
in Action” include:<br />
• Chesterfield City Administrator Mike<br />
Geisel, who has worked for the city since<br />
1988. Geisel assumed the role of city<br />
administrator in August 2016.<br />
• Chesterfield Sports Complex, represented<br />
by Stuart Duncan, executive<br />
director of the Chesterfield Sports Association<br />
(CSA). A project of the CSA, the<br />
97,000-square-foot complex features nine<br />
basketball courts that convert to 18 volleyball<br />
courts to host tournaments of every<br />
level and size for a range of sporting types,<br />
including gymnastics, martial arts and more.<br />
• Boone Center Inc. (BCI), represented<br />
by CEO Troy Compardo. BCI has, since<br />
1959, helped people with intellectual and<br />
developmental disabilities find meaningful<br />
employment.<br />
• The Brass Rail Steakhouse. Each<br />
Thanksgiving since 2013, the O’Fallon<br />
restaurant owned by Scott Ellinger has<br />
delivered thousands of free dinners to area<br />
residents in need. An army of volunteers<br />
steps up to pack and deliver the Thanksgiving<br />
feasts. The goodwill began in 2013<br />
when Ellinger was asked to help out with a<br />
backpack food program at the local school<br />
district. He realized that if those families<br />
don’t have food for the weekend, they<br />
certainly don’t have Thanksgiving dinner.<br />
That first year, he fed a little more than 100<br />
people. Today, it’s thousands of meals.<br />
Also being honored at the event will be the<br />
winners of the P64 Entrepreneurial Scholarship,<br />
which aims to support, encourage and<br />
foster young entrepreneurs who go to school<br />
and live in St. Louis City, St. Louis County,<br />
or St. Charles County. The scholarship<br />
program, now administered by the Youth-<br />
Bridge Community Foundation, grew out<br />
of the Progress 64 West scholarship named<br />
for one of West St. Louis County’s original<br />
“champions in action” – Louis S. Sachs.<br />
Sachs envisioned a downtown for Chesterfield<br />
in roughly the area where Michael<br />
Staenberg will, in coming years, redevelop<br />
Chesterfield Mall and where work continues<br />
on the mixed-use Wildhorse Village<br />
development.<br />
Staenberg will serve as the key note<br />
speaker for the awards banquet. Radio personality<br />
and journalist Marc Cox will serve<br />
as its master of ceremonies.<br />
Tickets are $90 per person. Tables seat<br />
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What’s next for The District? Developer says in many ways its users will decide<br />
By KATE UPTERGROVE<br />
On Tuesday, Oct. 17, the consensus of<br />
the first-time visitors – gathered around<br />
a table at The Hub STL in The District in<br />
Chesterfield Valley – was that the atmosphere<br />
was great.<br />
People of varying ages were sitting in<br />
chairs on the green or at tables on raised<br />
platforms, listening to Folkstone, a Roots-<br />
Americana band, performing on stage.<br />
Others were playing cornhole. Some<br />
played catch with a football. Most had a<br />
beverage in hand from 4 Hands Brewing<br />
and/or a plate of food nearby from Hi-<br />
Pointe Drive-in, which had a steady line of<br />
customers all evening long.<br />
On the west end of the parking lot, a<br />
crowd was gathering at The Factory for a<br />
concert by Les Claypool and his Fearless<br />
Flying Frog Brigade. But in between The<br />
Hub STL and The Factory, more than a<br />
dozen spaces wait to be filled. A similar<br />
number wait to the east. And that begged<br />
the question:<br />
“What’s next for The District?” In three<br />
words: food, fun and function.<br />
First up, food. Michael Staenberg, president<br />
of The Staenberg Group (TSG) says<br />
there are a lot more restaurants coming in,<br />
Francis Howell School District teachers enjoy team-bonding during a cornhole tournament<br />
on the green at The Hub STL in The District on Oct. <strong>23</strong>.<br />
(Source: The District)<br />
some which have signed and others that<br />
are on the cusp. Included in that number<br />
are Napoli Bros. Pizza and Pasta, which<br />
is slated to open in the spring, and Narwhal’s<br />
Crafted, a frozen drink lounge that<br />
offers both spiked and virgin varieties. In<br />
the “haven’t quite signed yet” category are<br />
a Mexican restaurant and a sushi restaurant.<br />
On the sweeter side, Staenberg said a<br />
cookie and ice cream shop is also slated to<br />
open in The Hub STL area.<br />
In terms of fun, The Hub STL already is<br />
fast becoming the place to watch a game<br />
on the big screen, listen to free performances<br />
by local bands, host an impromptu<br />
cornhole tournament among friends or just<br />
relax on the green.<br />
“The Hub STL is such a gathering place<br />
for football and hockey games, CITY SC –<br />
as I was leaving on Sunday (Oct. 22), about<br />
3:15 p.m., everyone was arriving in their<br />
Chiefs apparel,” added Jennifer Petrowsky,<br />
who serves as The District coordinator for<br />
TSG. “When Mizzou is playing everyone<br />
is here in their Mizzou attire.<br />
“We send out an email to over 7,000<br />
people every two weeks letting them<br />
know what games will be shown on the<br />
big screen. To sign up, people just need to<br />
enter their email on The Hub STL webpage<br />
(thedistrictstl.com/the-hub).”<br />
In the spring, we’re going to be looking<br />
to area high schools so that they can have<br />
their show choir performances on The Hub<br />
STL stage,” Petrowsky said. “Maybe we’ll<br />
have yoga on the green or performance<br />
during the day. Like today, we have teachers<br />
from the Francis Howell School District<br />
using the green for a team-bounding<br />
cornhole competition.”<br />
As cooler and even colder weather moves<br />
in, both Staenberg and Petrowsky think the<br />
popularity of the green will continue.<br />
“Oh absolutely,” Staenberg said. “We’re<br />
going to have heaters out there and we<br />
have fire pits as does 4 Hands.”<br />
For guests who aren’t fans of the cold, a<br />
new indoor venue for fun is getting ready<br />
to open between The Hub and The Factory.<br />
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The Brass Rail seeks Thanksgiving<br />
volunteers, donations<br />
Volunteers at a past Thanksgiving event at The Brass Rail.<br />
By KATE UPTERGROVE<br />
The tradition of feeding families at<br />
Thanksgiving continues this year as The<br />
Brass Rail restaurant in O’Fallon prepares<br />
to provide thousands of free meals.<br />
Each Thanksgiving, since 2013, chef and<br />
restauranteur Scott Ellinger has joined an<br />
army of volunteers to prepare and deliver<br />
thousands of free dinners to area residents<br />
in need.<br />
“It’s nearly that time again, and we can’t<br />
do it without YOU,” Ellinger says in a<br />
post on the restaurant’s website. “To volunteer<br />
with us sign up on our website at<br />
brassrail1.com. We have a limited number<br />
of spots for on-site volunteers. We also<br />
appreciate those willing to deliver meals<br />
for us on Thanksgiving morning. No signup<br />
is necessary to deliver meals. Simply<br />
show up on Thanksgiving at 10:30 a.m.<br />
and follow the line of cars. We’ll have<br />
your box of food ready to go!”<br />
(Source: The Brass Rail)<br />
Those who want to help but who cannot<br />
volunteer can donate a meal using the restaurant’s<br />
Amazon Wish List. All items purchased<br />
will ship directly to The Brass Rail<br />
and are thoroughly appreciated.<br />
Those in need who wish to receive a free<br />
meal must sign up online.<br />
“While we understand not everyone has<br />
access to a computer or smartphone, most<br />
should be able to find someone in the community<br />
who may assist with this quick/<br />
easy process,” the restaurant’s website<br />
states. “Online signup allows us to more<br />
easily sort locations so that deliveries are<br />
more efficient and ultimately, we are able<br />
to reach even more in need.”<br />
Meal requests will not be accepted over<br />
the phone.<br />
Once capacity has been reached, The<br />
Brass Rail will make an announcement and<br />
no more meal requests will be accepted.<br />
Volunteers and donors with questions<br />
can email april@brassrail1.com.<br />
O’Fallon reduces sewer rates, looks to reduce property tax rates<br />
November 1, 20<strong>23</strong><br />
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Existing O’Fallon ordinances would<br />
have increased sewer rates by 6% for the<br />
years 2024 through 2027. However, at its<br />
Oct. 26 meeting the City Council unanimously<br />
passed Bill No. 7595 to voluntarily<br />
reduce that rate increase to 3% instead of<br />
6%. Additionally, after 2027, instead of<br />
rates increasing 4%, the increase will be<br />
2%.<br />
These rate revisions are the result of<br />
the city’s cost-saving measures implemented<br />
over the past few years and a careful<br />
review of the sewer system’s Capital<br />
Improvement Plan.<br />
This change in rates still accomplishes<br />
all necessary projects in the sewer fund and<br />
preserves a healthy fund balance. With the<br />
lower rate, the fund balance is projected<br />
to be greater than $2 million in fiscal year<br />
2024 and by 2027 this balance is expected<br />
to grow to be in excess of $3.5 million.<br />
O’Fallon had established a 20<strong>23</strong> general<br />
property tax levy rate of $0.2917 per<br />
$100 assessed valuation. However, the<br />
city’s assessed property value after Board<br />
of Equalization review increased by<br />
$7,462,882 as compared to the information<br />
used to calculate the initial tax levy rate.<br />
Consequently, O’Fallon has proposed<br />
Bill No. 7598, which would reduce the<br />
general tax levy rate to $0.2909 per $100<br />
assessed valuation. The higher valuation<br />
and the lower rate will yield the same<br />
amount of tax revenue. The debt service<br />
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would remain the same.<br />
If typical process and timing are followed,<br />
this bill will receive a second reading<br />
and vote for passage at the next council<br />
meeting on Nov. 16.
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At <strong>11</strong> a.m. on November <strong>11</strong>, 1918, (the<br />
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show her sympathy with peace and justice<br />
<strong>11</strong>th hour of the <strong>11</strong>th day of the <strong>11</strong>th month)<br />
the hostilities of World War I, “the war to<br />
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Ava Mulvey, a junior at Fort Zumwalt<br />
West and the sergeant of the O’Fallon<br />
Police Explorers, has been watching<br />
crime shows with her mom and brother<br />
for years. She also is enrolled in the Lewis<br />
& Clark Career Center’s Law Enforcement<br />
program. The program is run like a<br />
mini police academy and taught by retired<br />
police officer Mark M. Kostos. The experienced<br />
United States Marine Corps veteran<br />
has served as federal security director for<br />
law enforcement with the Transportation<br />
Security Administration at St. Louis-Lambert<br />
International Airport, was a federal<br />
air marshal and border patrol agent, and<br />
is well-equipped to help influence the next<br />
generation of law enforcement officers like<br />
Mulvey.<br />
“My students wear uniforms and police<br />
duty belts with training equipment,”<br />
Kostos said. “I cover all of the topics that<br />
police recruits will study in the academy:<br />
history of policing, criminal law, court<br />
system, police tactics and procedures. I<br />
like to tell my students that if they pay<br />
attention in my class they will be bored<br />
when they get to the academy because they<br />
will have heard it all before.”<br />
Enrolled students are high school juniors<br />
and seniors from all the high schools in<br />
St. Charles County. During the one-year<br />
course, they spend half of their day at<br />
Lewis & Clark, and the other half at their<br />
traditional high school.<br />
Mulvey’s favorite part of the program<br />
has been the life skills she has learned.<br />
“Police work is very public and very<br />
stressful. You need to know how to stay<br />
composed and how to handle a situation. A<br />
lot of what we do in this class is figuring<br />
out what is happening and how to handle<br />
it,” she said. “We also learn how to talk to<br />
people. I am always told how a police officer<br />
will rarely need to be forceful if they<br />
can talk to people.”<br />
All students at Lewis & Clark have to<br />
apply to be in the program and go through<br />
a screening process to ensure that they<br />
have the appropriate aptitudes and skills<br />
for the career field.<br />
“Law enforcement is really about problem<br />
solving, and most of the time, there<br />
are no black-and-white answers,” Kostos<br />
explained. “This can be a new concept for<br />
students that are accustomed to traditional<br />
education. I try to reinforce with the students<br />
that as long as they follow officer<br />
safety principles, don’t violate policies<br />
or civil rights, and keep everything legal,<br />
ethical, and moral, they will probably be<br />
on the right track.”<br />
With an abundance of crime shows on<br />
television, the prevalence of social media,<br />
and the often negative press that officers<br />
receive, Kostos focuses on addressing misconceptions.<br />
“People watch TV, and expect law<br />
enforcement to work like what they see<br />
on CSI or Law & Order,” he explained. “I<br />
do a lot of scenario-based training in my<br />
class, having students act as police officers,<br />
victims, witnesses and suspects. I focus on<br />
ethical conduct and equal treatment, and<br />
my students learn that there are more ways<br />
to resolve law enforcement encounters<br />
than just arrests or use of force.”<br />
Andy Ledesma, a senior at Fort Zumwalt<br />
West, said he appreciated this approach.<br />
“My biggest challenge was probably just<br />
trying to not do things that I’ve seen in<br />
police shows during our drills and training<br />
scenarios,” Ledesma said. “Mr. Kostos is<br />
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and pretty funny, but he also has a lot of<br />
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OFFICERS, from previous<br />
experience in the field so you can really<br />
trust what he says.”<br />
St. Charles County is very pro law<br />
enforcement, and Kostos said while most<br />
of the students come into the program with<br />
a respect for law enforcement, they also<br />
come in as “blank slates,” not knowing<br />
anything about procedures and tactics, or<br />
law enforcement ethics.<br />
“I try to keep my students engaged with<br />
current events related to law enforcement,<br />
and often those issues can involve misconduct<br />
or violations of policies by other officers,”<br />
Kostos said. “We frequently review<br />
bodycam footage or news stories from<br />
around the country, and discuss what could<br />
have been done differently.<br />
“However, I try not to use only negative<br />
stories. There are a lot of positive police<br />
interactions out there that don’t get as<br />
much coverage from the media.”<br />
Nicole Howes, a senior at Fort Zumwalt<br />
North and police explorer for both O’Fallon<br />
Police Department and St. Charles Police<br />
Departments, said there is much that is<br />
misunderstood about law enforcement.<br />
“I have been in law enforcement for two<br />
years now and have met many law enforcement<br />
officials and all of them have the drive<br />
to do better for society and help wherever<br />
they can,” Howes said. “Most cops see the<br />
corruption and the hatred in society and it<br />
downs them whenever they sign up to do a<br />
job for good and watch as people assume<br />
that every cop is corrupt when most cops<br />
just want to help.<br />
“Mr. Kostos taught me patience, equanimity<br />
and self motivation. Things I didn’t<br />
really think were that important. He showed<br />
me that in difficult situations, the little<br />
things matter the most. Law enforcement<br />
isn’t easy, the smallest situations can escalate<br />
in the blink of an eye, but if you stay<br />
patient (and) calm, and use your ethos you<br />
can manage the best out of the situation.”<br />
Lindsay Garcia, a senior at Fort Zumwalt<br />
North and captain of the Explorers<br />
program, has always had the urge to help<br />
others.<br />
“As a kid I had to go through some personal<br />
legal matters,” Garcia shared. “At the<br />
time the police weren’t able to do anything.<br />
The feeling was dreadful. I know I wasn’t<br />
the only kid dealing with legal matters. I<br />
thought to myself, ‘No kid should ever go<br />
through this alone.’ That’s when I knew<br />
that was my passion – making sure there is<br />
always someone there for them.”<br />
The students work on all of the typical<br />
law enforcement tactics and procedures<br />
that one would expect to see at an academy,<br />
such as training in pat down frisks,<br />
handcuffing, building search techniques,<br />
traffic stops, crime scene investigation,<br />
physical training and working with a firearms<br />
simulator that allows for everything<br />
from basic marksmanship training to live<br />
action judgment scenarios. But Kostos<br />
also gives his students an introduction to<br />
legislative issues. State Rep. Justin Hicks<br />
recently visited Kostos’ program. Hicks is<br />
a member of the judiciary and crime prevention<br />
and public safety committees and<br />
discussed how concerns of constituents<br />
become legislation at the state level. Covering<br />
a broad range of topics, he explained<br />
police officer qualifications, education and<br />
training, and recent changes to Missouri’s<br />
marijuana and gun laws.<br />
“Rep. Hicks is very much aware of the<br />
need for top quality police officer applicants<br />
across the state,” Kostos said. ”It is<br />
great to have him as an advocate for law<br />
enforcement in Jefferson City.”<br />
The biggest challenge for these law<br />
enforcement students is not being able<br />
to go directly into law enforcement after<br />
graduation from high school as Missouri<br />
law requires that they must wait until age<br />
20 1/2 to attend an academy.<br />
“I have been working with several local<br />
law enforcement agencies to provide<br />
non-sworn law enforcement positions for<br />
some of my students.” Kostos said. “These<br />
positions are typically in the emergency<br />
communications centers, or as police<br />
service officers working in city jails and<br />
front desks. These types of positions are<br />
good bridges for teenagers to transition<br />
from high school to an actual sworn law<br />
enforcement position.”<br />
Kostos said he sees a need for new<br />
police officers in the area and while the<br />
program is only in its third year, he hopes<br />
for it to become even more recognized in<br />
the region as the start of the pipeline for<br />
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The next generation seems to be well on<br />
its way.<br />
Garcia hopes to make it into the FBI.<br />
Ledesma plans to join the Marines or Air<br />
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and further his career into law enforcement.<br />
Howes plans to enlist in the Navy,<br />
then work as an agent for Naval Criminal<br />
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in either human trafficking or terrorism.<br />
Mulvey also plans to enlist in the military<br />
before going to the police academy.<br />
“Law enforcement is challenging, but<br />
incredibly rewarding. If you are interested<br />
in helping people and really making<br />
a difference, this is a great place to start,”<br />
Kostos said.<br />
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Thanksgiving calls to mind harvest days<br />
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Speaking of flowers, fresh floral arrangements<br />
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For Thanksgiving, bring in autumn<br />
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fall lilies or orange roses with their<br />
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with an elegant ceramic pot, homespun<br />
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For Christmas, fresh flowers could<br />
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heralders of Christmas cheer, but if you<br />
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The semi-professional caroling group is<br />
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Holiday flowers help set the mood.<br />
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Lightening the load this holiday season<br />
By LAURA SAGGAR<br />
The flip of the calendar to November<br />
means the holiday season is finally here.<br />
It’s hard to believe that in just a few weeks<br />
friends and family will be gathering together<br />
to give thanks and show gratitude for their<br />
blessings this year, along with making new<br />
memories. While it might seem early, now<br />
is the time to start planning, especially if<br />
you’re the host. One way to reduce the stress<br />
of party planning is to have the meal catered<br />
by a local restaurant. The sooner an order is<br />
placed, the better.<br />
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Most restaurants that cater will have a<br />
special holiday menu available on their<br />
website, or just call them and ask. Lauren<br />
Martin, manager of Dalie’s (a sister company<br />
to St. Peters-based Pappy’s Smokehouse),<br />
said when calling a restaurant to ask about<br />
catering, it’s good to have a rough head<br />
count ahead of time, and to know how many<br />
of those in the party are children. Caterers<br />
know how big to make servings depending<br />
on the party size, so they can help take the<br />
guesswork out of how much food is needed<br />
to order.<br />
“Kids don’t eat as much as adults, so that<br />
goes into how many people we need to feed,”<br />
Martin said.<br />
A main course is key for the holidays and<br />
usually consists of a type of meat, whether<br />
MOOD, from previous<br />
meal or simply hot beverages and dessert.<br />
And tune up your voices to sing in your<br />
own neighborhood or at more public place<br />
like a nearby senior living community. The<br />
St. Louis Carolers Association will provide<br />
everything you need including song<br />
it’s ham, turkey or brisket. Martin recommends<br />
having two to three side dishes as well,<br />
and cautions that less is more.<br />
“Any more than two or three sides gives<br />
people too many options,” Martin said. “It’s<br />
easier for people to have less options when<br />
they have to decide on what they eat. Also,<br />
they don’t eat a lot if they are going to a lot of<br />
holiday parties on the same day.”<br />
Having a couple catered sides is an option<br />
to have in addition to traditional family sides<br />
that only grandma can make.<br />
Some restaurants will deliver and set up<br />
the dinner, while others will want the host to<br />
pick up the food. Ask the restaurant to find<br />
out what their policy is. Martin said Dalie’s<br />
catering service for parties of over 15 people<br />
includes delivery and set up for an 18% fee<br />
and includes disposable plates, utensils and<br />
napkins.<br />
Martin said most customers tip the delivery<br />
driver, and it’s usually an additional 15-20%.<br />
To keep the food nice and hot for guests,<br />
Martin recommends keeping food in an oven<br />
set to 225 degrees fahrenheit.<br />
“Low and slow is what we tell people when<br />
it comes to keeping food warm or reheating,”<br />
Martin said. “Everything we use is oven safe.<br />
(Hosts) can put a pan of water in the bottom<br />
of the oven to help keep the food from drying<br />
out. We suggest reheating the food slowly so<br />
it doesn’t overcook.”<br />
Martin said to try to set up a delivery time<br />
close to the time you are going to eat to help<br />
keep the food hot.<br />
Be sure to ask restaurants about their<br />
kitchen if one of the guests has a food allergy.<br />
Also don’t forget about the vegetarians or<br />
vegans on the guest list. Martin said Dalie’s<br />
has a pulled jackfruit option for vegans, so<br />
be sure to ask.<br />
“You don’t want them to be left out,”<br />
Martin said.<br />
Earn bonus points as a guest and bring an<br />
appetizer to share. Martin said charcuterie<br />
boards are still a big hit for any kind of gathering.<br />
“Catering makes the holiday dinner so<br />
much easier when you’re hosting a big party,”<br />
Martin said. “It means less dishes and clean<br />
up, which means more time with your guests<br />
because all the work is done.”<br />
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Yes, Halloween just ended. Literally.<br />
The Jack-O-Lantern is still sitting on the<br />
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To help you get in the mood and find<br />
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The Foyer<br />
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Chesterfield, The Foyer is home to unique<br />
statement pieces you won’t find anywhere<br />
else. That’s a promise owner Carrie Keipp<br />
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Saturday, Nov. <strong>11</strong>. Store hours are 10<br />
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During the Open House event, all fall<br />
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4 and Sunday, Nov. 5. All weekend long,<br />
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Plus the first 100 guests on Saturday will<br />
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Progress in the fight<br />
This November’s national observance<br />
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more hopeful one for the millions of American<br />
families impacted by this devastating disease.<br />
With approval of a new drug expected<br />
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The newest medicine, called donanemab,<br />
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progression of Alzheimer’s by about 35%,<br />
scientists reported in a study published in<br />
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All three of these new drugs work by<br />
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brain’s cellular functions and lead to the<br />
rapid spread of another damaging protein<br />
called tau. Both the amyloid and tau proteins<br />
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On Oct. 16, the Centers for Medicare<br />
and Medicaid Services also removed existing<br />
limits on coverage of PET brain scans<br />
used to help diagnose early Alzheimer’s,<br />
allowing seniors on Medicare broader<br />
access to these new treatments. Medicare<br />
already has issued its decision to cover<br />
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Although a cure is not yet possible, these<br />
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effective for people who are diagnosed in<br />
its earliest stages, so other therapies still<br />
are desperately needed to help those with<br />
more advanced disease.<br />
Hobbies for health<br />
Having a hobby leads to greater happiness,<br />
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Their recent study spanned nearly<br />
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Having a hobby – no matter what it may be – has positive impacts on well-being for older adults.<br />
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said. Those benefits remained after adjusting<br />
for other factors such as household<br />
income, employment and partnership status<br />
over an average of six years of follow-up.<br />
“Our study shows the potential of hobbies<br />
to protect older people from age-related<br />
decline in mental health and well-being.<br />
This potential is consistent across many<br />
countries and cultural settings,” said Dr.<br />
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years through many mechanisms, including<br />
feeling in control of our minds and<br />
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The study was published in the journal<br />
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Seeing through grapes<br />
A nationwide analysis conducted in 2022<br />
found that nearly 20 million Americans are<br />
living with some form of age-related macular<br />
degeneration (AMD). By the time they<br />
reach age 50, adults have a one in 10 risk<br />
of being affected by the early form of this<br />
common eye disease, which can eventually<br />
lead to a dramatic loss of central vision.<br />
Researchers in Singapore, where a rapidly<br />
aging population has created similar<br />
concerns over AMD, recently found that<br />
a simple addition to one’s daily diet may<br />
offer protection. In a recent study, they<br />
found that eating grapes improved key<br />
markers of eye health in older adults, after<br />
just a few months.<br />
In this new study, 34 adults between<br />
the ages of 60 and 85 consumed either<br />
freeze-dried grape powder (equivalent to<br />
1 ½ cups of grapes per day) or a placebo<br />
powder every day for 16 weeks. Afterward,<br />
detailed tests showed that those who<br />
ate the grapes had significantly increased<br />
macular pigment accumulation, as well as<br />
improvements in other biomarkers of eye<br />
health. Those who did not eat the grapes<br />
saw a significant increase in the formation<br />
of substances called advanced glycation<br />
end products (AGEs), which may contribute<br />
to eye diseases in a number of ways.<br />
“Our study is the first to show that grape<br />
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“Grapes are an easy, accessible fruit that<br />
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Grapes are a natural source of antioxidants<br />
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The study was recently published in the scientific<br />
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These scientists recently analyzed up to 50<br />
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Common conditions which consistently<br />
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asthma, and eye, nose, and throat infections.<br />
The researchers also found that immediately<br />
prior to being diagnosed with type 2<br />
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individuals experienced high blood pressure<br />
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One in 10 suddenly developed asthma.<br />
By contrast, these conditions happened<br />
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by around one in 10 participants without a<br />
type 2 diabetes diagnosis.<br />
“These novel insights into the onset and<br />
natural progression of type 2 diabetes…<br />
suggest an early phase of inflammationrelated<br />
disease activity long before any<br />
clinical diagnosis of type 2 diabetes is<br />
made,” said senior author Dr. Adrian Heald,<br />
of Manchester University. “Understanding<br />
the long-term clinical history of type 2 diabetes<br />
years before diagnosis means that, in<br />
the future, people could have the time to<br />
make lifestyle changes to prevent this lifechanging<br />
disease from arising.”<br />
On the calendar<br />
St. Louis Oasis presents a Cardio<br />
Strength class on Mondays and Wednesdays,<br />
Nov. 13 through Dec. 13, from 9:30-<br />
10:30 a.m. at the Chesterfield Community<br />
Center, 690 Chesterfield Parkway West<br />
(second floor of Chesterfield Mall, next to<br />
Macy’s). This workout is a mix between<br />
low-impact cardio and functional strength<br />
exercises which will help improve your<br />
cardiac health, increase muscle mass and<br />
improve bone density. The cost for all sessions<br />
is $85. Register by visiting st-louis.<br />
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• • •<br />
Healthy Living for Your Brain and<br />
Body, presented by St. Louis Oasis, is<br />
on Monday, Nov. 13 from 10:30-<strong>11</strong>:30<br />
a.m. The event is offered both online via<br />
Zoom and in person at Clayton Oasis, 50<br />
Gay Ave. in Clayton. During this free class,<br />
attendees will learn about research in the<br />
areas of diet and nutrition, exercise, cognitive<br />
activity and social engagement, and<br />
develop a plan for healthy aging. Register<br />
at st-louis.oasisnet.org.<br />
• • •<br />
St. Luke’s Hospital offers a virtual<br />
Bone Builders Lecture on Tuesday, Nov.<br />
14 from 1-2:30 p.m., presented online only.<br />
Join us to learn more about exercise, nutrition<br />
and medications for bone health and<br />
osteoporosis prevention during this free<br />
event. Register at stlukes-stl.com.<br />
• • •<br />
BJC Missouri Baptist Hospital offers a<br />
Today’s Grandparents class on Tuesday,<br />
Nov. 21 from 6:30-9 p.m. at the Missouri<br />
Baptist Medical Center Clinical Learning<br />
Institute, 3005 N. Ballas Road. This handson<br />
class offers updates on current trends in<br />
infant care and feeding, and provides tips<br />
on local and long-distance grandparenting.<br />
The course fee is $20 per person (each<br />
person attending must register separately).<br />
Registration is available online at classesevents.bjc.org.<br />
• • •<br />
BJC of St. Charles County sponsors a<br />
Kick the Achiness of Arthritis class on<br />
Tuesday, Nov. 21 from 10-<strong>11</strong>:30 a.m. at<br />
the St. Charles City-County Library’s Cliff<br />
View Branch, 10 Cliff View Drive in Wentzville.<br />
This course, focused on the lower<br />
body, is designed to help you learn the best<br />
ways to manage arthritis with exercise. The<br />
free session is presented by St. Louis Oasis.<br />
Register online at classes-events.bjc.org.<br />
• • •<br />
St. Luke’s Hospital presents Effective<br />
Communication Strategies on Thursday,<br />
Nov. 30 from 6-7 p.m. at the hospital’s Institute<br />
for Health Education, <strong>23</strong>2 S. Woods<br />
Mill Road in Chesterfield. The event will<br />
also be livestreamed. St. Luke’s and the<br />
Alzheimer’s Association are hosting this<br />
free in-person and virtual education program<br />
to help families learn to decode verbal<br />
and behavioral messages from people with<br />
dementia. Those who prefer to attend the<br />
event online will receive a link after registration.<br />
Sign up at stlukes-stl.com.<br />
• • •<br />
This fall, Lindenwood University’s College<br />
of Science, Technology and Health<br />
presents LindenW.I.S.E. (Wellness-<br />
Inspired Social Enrichment), a community<br />
program for adults over 60 designed<br />
to connect them with students to share<br />
social activities and learning experiences.<br />
The November event, Games and Gratitude,<br />
is on Thursday, Nov. 30 from <strong>11</strong><br />
a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the university’s Hyland<br />
Arena, 209 S. Kingshighway in St. Charles,<br />
in the VIP Room. The December event,<br />
Holiday Teach ‘n Taste, is on Wednesday,<br />
Dec. 6 at the same place and time. The<br />
events are free, and a free catered lunch<br />
will also be provided. For more information<br />
or to register for either or both, email<br />
wise@lindenwood.edu.<br />
• • •<br />
St. Luke’s Hospital presents a free<br />
online program, A Discussion of Overactive<br />
Bladder with Dr. Cathy Naughton,<br />
on Wednesday, Dec. 13 beginning<br />
at 6 p.m., live via Zoom. Join us for this<br />
educational event and learn options to<br />
regain bladder control. This virtual webinar<br />
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a board-certified urologist in practice at<br />
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THE DISTRICT, from page 16<br />
come to town. A new concept for St. Louis,<br />
it’s already popular in Kansas City.<br />
“It’s going to be the coolest thing,”<br />
Petrowsky predicts. “They’re games shows<br />
like the branded ones you see on TV, but<br />
it’s your family and friends, or corporate<br />
partners who are the contestants.”<br />
The choice of game show category is<br />
up to the group but must be decided in<br />
advance when tickets are purchased. The<br />
available categories are Classic Showdowns<br />
and Prime Time Showdowns. Both<br />
feature hosts who lead the experience as if<br />
the games were live television.<br />
Classic Showdowns include Survey<br />
Battles, a friendly feud of the top four<br />
survey answers; Spin and Solve, in which<br />
contestants spin the wheel and solve the<br />
phrase; and What’s that Cost, which features<br />
name that price games and The Drop.<br />
Primetime Showdowns include Survey<br />
Battles along with MatchUp Wars, in<br />
which contestants predict their teammates’<br />
answers, and Time Rush Games that consist<br />
of 60-second skill challenges. The<br />
battles are booked in 1-hour increments.<br />
Tickets are $35 per person.<br />
“What we’re trying to do is create an<br />
environment for the entire community,”<br />
Staenberg said.<br />
That concept means that businesses<br />
within The District are meant to be unique or<br />
uniquely local. It also means that the spaces<br />
yet to be filled will feature a variety that<br />
includes select retail and even office uses.<br />
Currently, The District features The<br />
BY JESSICA MARIE BAUMGARTNER<br />
Two St. Peters residents were given a<br />
Random Acts of Kindness Award for helping<br />
neighbors with yard work. During the<br />
Oct. 26 Board of Aldermen meeting, Roy<br />
Bumstead (Ward 1) and Harry Prinster<br />
(Ward 2) were recognized for their positive<br />
community actions.<br />
Roy has lived in the area since 1962. He<br />
retired from his work as a general contractor<br />
about 20 years ago and now uses time<br />
to help others in his neighborhood. He was<br />
nominated for the award by his neighbors,<br />
Don and Rose.<br />
“This winter, we had some storms that<br />
blew some limbs down, and his neighbor’s<br />
yard had a large limb laying in the yard,”<br />
Don noted in his nomination. “Roy got out<br />
his chainsaw and cut up the limb so that it<br />
could be picked up.”<br />
Don noted that Roy cuts grass for other<br />
neighbors often.<br />
“Roy’s always been helpful,” he said. “I’ve<br />
lived next to Roy for 60 years, and I know<br />
he’s always helpful to help out a neighbor<br />
GIVING BACK<br />
The Folkstone concert on Oct. 17<br />
was one of the ways that The District,<br />
and more specifically TSG, seeks to<br />
do good in the world. The happy-hour<br />
event raised $60,000 for the purchase<br />
of a Life Support Ambulance for the<br />
Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency<br />
medical service.<br />
Staenberg noted that The Factory<br />
gives $300 from each concert’s ticket<br />
sales to smaller nonprofits for which<br />
a smaller donation can do a great deal<br />
of good.<br />
“I remember we gave $700 to a<br />
food pantry in North St. Louis and<br />
they could serve an extra 1,000<br />
people a year because they could buy<br />
a (restaurant-grade) cooler,” Staenberg<br />
said. “We just try to help people.<br />
Each of us have three Ts to share:<br />
time, talent and treasure. What can<br />
you do to make a difference.”<br />
Reverie event space; Performance<br />
Pilates; LIT cigar lounge; Phoenix Salon<br />
Suites, Arch Nemesis Brewing; The Gallery,<br />
which features artwork curated by<br />
Staenberg; House of Pain Gym; and the<br />
Main Event, which has games for all ages<br />
including bowling, escape rooms, indoor<br />
mini golf, virtual reality, laser tag and<br />
more.<br />
“What we’re really trying to do is have<br />
the demand filled by the people coming out<br />
here,” Staenberg said.<br />
St. Peters residents awarded for Random Acts of Kindness<br />
with whatever’s needed. I remember back,<br />
he was also a volunteer fireman in his early<br />
days, so Roy’s always been helpful.”<br />
Roy was awarded a certificate of recognition<br />
“for being a wonderful neighbor.”<br />
City officials thanked him for his kindness<br />
and for helping those in need.<br />
Harry Prinster also was given a Random<br />
Acts of Kindness Award for cutting grass<br />
for his new neighbors three times before<br />
they were able to move in.<br />
“It took us a while to get fully moved in,<br />
and we noticed that our grass had been cut,”<br />
new St. Peters resident Kristen said. “I was<br />
stressing about it, personally, because I<br />
didn’t want it to get overgrown and possibly<br />
get a notice or anything like that. So<br />
it was stressing me out, and then we finally<br />
moved some things in, and we noticed our<br />
lawn had been cut.”<br />
She described Harry and his wife, Joann,<br />
as “just really great neighbors.<br />
“They’re willing to help out with anything,<br />
and we really love our neighborhood<br />
and our community,” Kristen said. She<br />
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By JESSICA MARIE BAUMGARTNER<br />
The St. Charles Sister Cities program is<br />
launching a new branch that offers international<br />
connections with French pen pals.<br />
Building on its already-formed connections<br />
in Germany and Ireland, the St.<br />
Charles Sister Cities program recently<br />
solidified a connection with Montbeliard,<br />
France. Now, it hopes to aid residents of<br />
Montbeliard, France, in learning about our<br />
culture while offering a better understanding<br />
of French life to St. Charles area residents.<br />
The connection between St. Charles and<br />
a French city has been a long time coming,<br />
according to Mary C. Johnson, St. Charles<br />
Sister Cities chapter president.<br />
“St. Charles has courted different cities<br />
in France for several decades, but for<br />
unknown (or long forgotten) reasons, the<br />
French city council members were quite<br />
hesitant to form a relationship. From a<br />
historical perspective, it makes sense for<br />
St. Charles to have a French sister, so this<br />
latest attempt, specifically with Montbeliard,<br />
began in 2017 (taking a long pause<br />
during the COVID-19 pandemic),” Johnson<br />
said. “Montbeliard and Ludwigsburg,<br />
Germany, have been “sisters” for 75 years,<br />
so it seemed logical to ask for Ludwigsburg’s<br />
help with the process.”<br />
The Sister Cities initiative was formed in<br />
1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower<br />
as a nonprofit with a mission “to promote<br />
peace through mutual respect, understanding,<br />
and cooperation – one individual, one<br />
community at a time.”<br />
In 1993, the St. Charles German Sister<br />
City program was developed due to good<br />
connections between American soldiers<br />
at the Pattonville Army Base just outside<br />
Ludwigsburg. The Irish Sister City program,<br />
Inishowen chapter, resulted from the<br />
large population of Irish-Americans living<br />
in the area. This endeavor inspired both<br />
the Missouri River Irish Festival and an<br />
exchange program.<br />
“In May 2022, St. Charles welcomed four<br />
Montbeliard VIPs for a visit,” Johnson<br />
said. “In September 2022, the mayor of St.<br />
Charles, Dan Borgmeyer, and representatives<br />
from Sister Cities, visited Ludwigsburg,<br />
Germany, and Montbeliard, France.<br />
On that visit, a letter of intent (to “twin” at<br />
a future date) was signed.<br />
“Since then, the St. Charles Sister Cities<br />
Task Force has been working on special<br />
projects for/with the French … one of<br />
which is the pen pal initiative. Sister Cities<br />
is an active (volunteer) partner with the<br />
city sharing information with our friends<br />
across the Atlantic to encourage tourism,<br />
exchanges and commerce.<br />
We view the Pen Pal program<br />
as an extension of our mission:<br />
People to People Citizen<br />
Diplomacy.”<br />
A group of 75 senior citizens<br />
of Montbeliard are currently<br />
signed up for the new program<br />
and seeking to gain pen pals in<br />
and around the St. Charles area<br />
to help improve their English.<br />
There is also a similar program<br />
running for students, so<br />
individuals from a broad range<br />
of ages are encouraged to get<br />
involved and take advantage<br />
of this new opportunity.<br />
Johnson also described the<br />
potential for groups to join the effort.<br />
“There have been discussions with a<br />
senior group regarding offering (the pen<br />
pal program) as an activity at centers in<br />
the area … making cards, decorating them,<br />
et cetera. Who wouldn’t enjoy receiving a<br />
handmade card/note from a new friend?”<br />
she asked.<br />
Anyone interested in participating in<br />
the pen pal program should contact the St.<br />
Charles Sister Cities chapter via email at<br />
stcharlessistercities@gmail.com. All communications<br />
will ultimately go through<br />
French representative M. Martine Barbieri.<br />
After contacts have been made, pen pals<br />
will be partnered and can begin exchanging<br />
correspondences directly.<br />
“(The Sister Cities) network unites tens<br />
of thousands of citizen diplomats working<br />
in more than 500 communities with 1,800<br />
international partnerships in 140-plus<br />
countries on six continents to ‘wage peace’<br />
one community, one individual at a time,”<br />
Johnson said.<br />
She noted that the St. Charles Sister<br />
Cities program is a 100% volunteer organization.<br />
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Start your family’s health<br />
history this Thanksgiving<br />
When extended families gather for<br />
Thanksgiving celebrations later this month,<br />
they’ll have an opportunity to share more<br />
than a traditional feast. Thanksgiving Day<br />
also marks Family Health History Day, an<br />
annual public health campaign encouraging<br />
Americans to better understand the<br />
health characteristics – and the potential<br />
for genetically linked health problems –<br />
that run in their families.<br />
Is there a history of colon cancer, diabetes,<br />
high cholesterol or early heart disease<br />
in your family? Have any female relatives<br />
had breast or ovarian cancer, or is prostate<br />
cancer common among the men? If so, you<br />
or your children also could be at risk.<br />
A family health history can be an informative,<br />
no-cost component of your personalized<br />
healthcare plan. Sharing that history<br />
with each family member’s primary care<br />
physician may be helpful in predicting<br />
their risk for specific diseases, and suggesting<br />
whether further screening or preventive<br />
treatment is needed.<br />
Using a free online tool from the U.S.<br />
Surgeon General called My Family Health<br />
Portrait, families can record and print<br />
their health histories and take them along<br />
to medical appointments. The tool also<br />
allows users to save their family history<br />
information to their own computers and<br />
share updates to health history information<br />
with other family members over time.<br />
According to the Surgeon General, a<br />
family health history ideally should contain<br />
health information going back at least<br />
three generations, listing the diseases and<br />
conditions that have affected members of<br />
each. It should include the age at which a<br />
particular disease was diagnosed and, in the<br />
case of deceased family members, the cause<br />
of death. The most important relatives to<br />
include are parents, siblings and children.<br />
Access to the My Family Health Portrait<br />
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Ginger supplements may be<br />
anti-inflammatory treatment<br />
Ginger is quickly gaining in popularity<br />
worldwide, to the tune of nearly $3 billion<br />
in global sales on ginger-based products<br />
last year alone…and it’s not just because it<br />
adds a unique spicy flavor to Asian dishes<br />
and healthy smoothies. New research<br />
reveals that ginger supplements may be an<br />
effective, natural way to manage inflammation<br />
for people with autoimmune conditions<br />
such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.<br />
The study points to ginger’s ability to<br />
influence neutrophils, a type of white blood<br />
cell which is part of the immune system’s<br />
first line of defense against inflammation.<br />
Consuming ginger seems to make those<br />
cells less susceptible to a process called<br />
NETosis, which is triggered by a variety of<br />
infections and diseases.<br />
In a clinical trial, researchers found that<br />
healthy participants who took a ginger supplement<br />
every day for a week (containing<br />
20 mg of gingerols) increased their levels<br />
of a chemical that helped to block NETosis<br />
when exposed to certain inflammatory disease<br />
triggers, they said.<br />
“Our research, for the first time, provides<br />
evidence for the biological mechanism that<br />
underlies ginger’s apparent anti-inflammatory<br />
properties in people,” said senior<br />
co-author Jason Knight, M.D., Ph.D., an<br />
associate professor in the University of<br />
Michigan Division of Rheumatology.<br />
“There are not a lot of natural supplements,<br />
or prescription medications for that<br />
matter, that are known to fight overactive<br />
neutrophils. We, therefore, think ginger<br />
may have a real ability to complement<br />
treatment programs that are already underway,”<br />
Knight added. “The goal is to be<br />
more strategic and personalized in terms<br />
of helping to relieve people’s symptoms.”<br />
Do you ‘helicopter parent’<br />
without realizing it?<br />
When my own son was about 10, I<br />
decided to let him stay home alone for a<br />
short time one afternoon while his older<br />
sisters and I headed to a nearby store. He<br />
was happily playing a video game upstairs<br />
when we left. But the experience did not<br />
go well, for either of us.<br />
He heard a noise in the house that frightened<br />
him, panicked when he couldn’t<br />
reach me right away, and ran to a neighbor’s<br />
home in tears. That neighbor told us<br />
both in no uncertain terms that he was far<br />
too young to be on his own. She expressed<br />
her extreme disapproval of my parenting<br />
decision – and her words impacted similar<br />
decisions for a long time afterward.<br />
The fear of being labeled a “bad parent”<br />
– or of being criticized or blamed by others<br />
for not adequately supervising their child<br />
– is one reason parents don’t let their preteen<br />
kids be on their own or do things for<br />
themselves, according to a recent University<br />
of Michigan poll. And while most<br />
parents participating in the poll agreed that<br />
kids must have these opportunities to gain<br />
independence and confidence, they may<br />
be doing more “helicopter parenting” than<br />
they realize.<br />
“There’s a sizable gap between parent<br />
attitudes about promoting children’s<br />
independence and what they actually<br />
allow or encourage their children to do<br />
without supervision,” said C.S. Mott Poll<br />
Co-Director Sarah Clark, M.P.H. “This<br />
suggests some parents may be missing<br />
opportunities to guide their children in<br />
tasks of autonomy and unintentionally hindering<br />
kids’ development of independence<br />
and problem-solving skills.”<br />
Four out of five parents of children ages<br />
9-<strong>11</strong>, polled in the random survey of more<br />
than 1,000 parents nationwide, agreed that<br />
it’s good for children to have free time on<br />
their own without adult supervision. But<br />
far fewer reported their child actually does<br />
certain things without an adult present.<br />
A new poll of parents of preteen kids shows<br />
that many may be doing more “helicopter<br />
parenting” than they think.<br />
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For example, less than half said their<br />
child has walked or biked to a friend’s<br />
house, played at a park with a friend, or<br />
waited in the car while the parent ran a quick<br />
errand. About three in five said they have let<br />
their child stay home alone for 30-60 minutes,<br />
and half said they have let their child<br />
separate from them to look for an item in a<br />
store. Fewer than one in six said they have<br />
allowed their child to trick-or-treat with<br />
friends without a parent nearby.<br />
The top reason behind this hesitancy to<br />
allow independent milestones, parents said,<br />
was concern over their child’s safety. However,<br />
while just over half said they worried<br />
someone might scare, follow or harm their<br />
child, just 17% said their neighborhood is<br />
not safe for children to be alone.<br />
“To some extent, worrying about your<br />
child is natural. But some parents are limiting<br />
their child’s independent activities due<br />
to highly publicized media reports, even if<br />
those outcomes are very unlikely to occur<br />
or cannot be prevented,” Clark said. The<br />
elementary school years, she added, are<br />
a critical period for developing independence<br />
with parental guidance and support.<br />
If helicopter parenting continues into<br />
the teen years, research has shown a lack<br />
of independence can result in increased<br />
levels of anxiety and depression, ineffective<br />
coping skills, poor self-confidence and<br />
lowered academic performance.<br />
On the calendar<br />
Schnucks and St. Luke’s Hospital offer<br />
an Eatwell Market grocery store tour<br />
on Wednesday, Nov. 8 from 6-7 p.m. at<br />
Eatwell Boones Crossing, 220 THF Blvd.<br />
in Chesterfield. Take a wellness-focused<br />
tour through Eatwell Market by Schnucks<br />
with a St. Luke’s dietitian. Participants<br />
will receive wellness resources, food samples<br />
and a $10 gift card to use at Eatwell<br />
Market. The cost is $5; space is limited and<br />
registration is required. To sign up, visit<br />
stlukes-stl.com.<br />
• • •<br />
BJC presents a Family and Friends<br />
CPR virtual course on Wednesday, Nov. 8<br />
from 6:30-8:30 p.m., live via Teams Meeting.<br />
This class uses the American Heart<br />
Association curriculum to teach hands-on<br />
CPR skills (this course does not include<br />
certification upon completion). The cost<br />
is $50. Registration for a seat in this class<br />
is for two people; enter the name of the<br />
person participating with you in the Partner/Other<br />
field during checkout. Register<br />
online by visiting bjc.org/cpr-class.<br />
• • •<br />
BJC St. Louis Children’s Hospital presents<br />
a Staying Home Alone in-person<br />
class on Saturday, Nov. <strong>11</strong> from 10-<strong>11</strong>:30<br />
a.m. at the SLCH Specialty Care Center<br />
West County, 13001 N. Outer Forty Road<br />
in Town & Country, in the third-floor conference<br />
room. A virtual class is also offered<br />
on Tuesday, Nov. 14 from 6:30-8 p.m., live<br />
via TEAMS Meeting. Parents and children<br />
attend the class together to ensure a child’s<br />
readiness. The registration fee is $25 per<br />
family. To register, call (314) 454-5437.<br />
• • •<br />
St. Luke’s Hospital presents a Be Still<br />
to Chill: Basics of Meditation course on<br />
Tuesday, Nov. 14 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the<br />
Desloge Outpatient Center, 121 St. Luke’s<br />
Center Drive in Chesterfield, in Conference<br />
Room 3 of Building A. Attend this free inperson<br />
program to learn the basics of meditation<br />
as well as many tips to support your<br />
practice. Register at stlukes-stl.com.<br />
• • •<br />
BJC St. Louis Children’s Hospital sponsors<br />
a Babysitting 101 virtual class on<br />
Wednesday, Nov. 15 from 6-8:30 p.m.,<br />
live via TEAMS Meeting. This interactive<br />
class is a great introduction to the basics<br />
of babysitting and is recommended for<br />
ages 10 and above. A workbook, first-aid<br />
kit, babysitter skills assessment and backpack<br />
are included in the cost of $25 per<br />
child. Parents may sit in on the class at no<br />
additional cost. Register online at bjc.org/<br />
babysitting-class.<br />
• • •<br />
St. Luke’s Hospital sponsors an annual<br />
Spirit of Women event, All Decked Out,<br />
on Thursday, Nov. 16 from 6-8 p.m. at the<br />
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel St. Louis –<br />
Chesterfield, 16625 Swingley Ridge Road in<br />
Chesterfield. Spend an evening with family<br />
and friends before the holiday hustle and<br />
bustle, enjoying appetizers and beverages<br />
along with motivating tips from St. Luke’s<br />
physicians to help you be your best. Free<br />
health screenings will be offered, along with<br />
attendance prizes and more. The cost of $30<br />
per person includes two drink tickets, appetizers<br />
and “swag bag” Register for the event<br />
online at stlukes-stl.com.<br />
• • •<br />
St. Luke’s Hospital and Macy’s cosponsor<br />
a Winter Wellness Event on Saturday,<br />
Dec. 2 from <strong>11</strong> a.m.-2 p.m. at the<br />
Macy’s location in <strong>Mid</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong> Mall, 1600<br />
<strong>Mid</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong> Mall Drive in St. Peters. Learn<br />
about St. Luke’s women’s health and wellness<br />
resources and take advantage of free<br />
health screenings. Gifts with purchases<br />
will be available at select cosmetic counters;<br />
the event also includes a scavenger<br />
hunt and storewide discounts, light refreshments<br />
and gift basket drawings. Register<br />
online at stlukes-stl.com.<br />
• • •<br />
St. Luke’s Hospital presents Vitamin<br />
ZZZ … Steps to Sounder Sleep on Tuesday,<br />
Dec. 5 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the St.<br />
Luke’s Hospital Institute for Health Education,<br />
222 S. Woods Mill Road in Chesterfield,<br />
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sleeping better at this free, in-person class.<br />
Register at stlukes-stl.com.<br />
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November 29th<br />
Core Physical Therapy celebrated its grand opening at 1043 Wolfrum<br />
Road in Weldon Spring with a ribbon-cutting with the Cottleville<br />
Weldon Spring Chamber on Oct. 26.<br />
BUSINESS<br />
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• • •<br />
Seiffert Insurance<br />
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• • •<br />
Liliana’s Italian Kitchen, located at<br />
3891 <strong>Mid</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong> Mall in Cottleville, celebrated<br />
its grand opening with a ribboncutting<br />
ceremony with the Cottleville<br />
Weldon Spring Chamber on Oct. <strong>23</strong>. This<br />
location has a dining room, bar, patio and<br />
two event spaces.<br />
• • •<br />
Beck & Lenox Estate Planning &<br />
Elder Law, LLC celebrated its newly<br />
remodeled office space and Rudy Beck’s<br />
50th year practicing law with a ribbon cutting<br />
on Oct. 24. Located at 2777 West Clay<br />
Street in St. Charles, partners Rudy Beck,<br />
ESQ and Jayson Lenox serve clients with<br />
the varied aspects of elder law, including<br />
estate planning, trust and probate administration,<br />
asset protection, special needs<br />
planning, veterans’ benefits and Medicaid<br />
planning. For more information visit Beck-<br />
ElderLaw.com<br />
• • •<br />
Core Physical Therapy celebrated its<br />
grand opening at 1043 Wolfrum Road<br />
in Weldon Spring with a ribbon-cutting<br />
with the Cottleville Weldon Spring<br />
Chamber on Oct. 26. They specialize in a<br />
variety of conditions from general sports<br />
injuries and orthopedics to pelvic floor<br />
disorders. For more information visit<br />
coremobilept.com.<br />
• • •<br />
Bayon Bistro Asian Fusion, located<br />
in the Lakeside Shoppes at Winghaven at<br />
3038 Winghaven Blvd. in O’Fallon, held a<br />
ribbon cutting for its grand opening on Oct.<br />
18. The Asian fusion restaurant specializes<br />
in sushi and Cambodian cuisine.<br />
• • •<br />
Nothing Bundt Cakes opened its<br />
newest location at 1600 Wentzville Parkway<br />
in Wentzville on Oct. 18 with a ribbon<br />
cutting with the O’Fallon Chamber of<br />
Commerce. The bakery has more than 60<br />
cake designs themed around holidays and<br />
celebrations throughout the year and can<br />
also customize them for any occasion.<br />
• • •<br />
Altair at the Preserve celebrated the<br />
completion of phase two of their apartment<br />
community located at 100 Winghaven<br />
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT<br />
The “Being Jewish in St. Charles” art<br />
exhibition is now through Saturday, Nov.<br />
18 at the Foundry Art Centre, 520 N. Main<br />
Center in St. Charles, featuring portraits<br />
and stories showcasing the Jewish people<br />
living and working in St. Charles. Visit<br />
foundryartcentre.org.<br />
• • •<br />
An Evening with the Visions of<br />
Harmony women’s acappella chorus is<br />
at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.) on<br />
Wednesday, Nov. 15 at The Foundry Art<br />
Centre, 520 N. Main Center in St. Charles.<br />
Special guests Tofu Concern, Spitfire,<br />
Fleet Street and the Ambassadors of Harmony.<br />
Tickets start at $20. For details,<br />
visit foundryartcentre.org.<br />
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November 1, 20<strong>23</strong><br />
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shredding only – no electronics. Staples,<br />
paperclips, binder clips, rubber bands,<br />
hanging file folders and manila envelopes<br />
can be shredded. Staff will retrieve boxes<br />
or tubs from vehicles. Limit of four standard-sized<br />
banker boxes per vehicle. Free<br />
event. For a list of needed donations, visit<br />
crisisnurserykids.org.<br />
• • •<br />
“Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s” presented<br />
by the Alzheimer’s Association<br />
is from 4-5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 9 at<br />
Cedarhurst Senior Living, 1800 First Capitol<br />
Drive in St. Charles. To register, call<br />
(800) 272-3900.<br />
• • •<br />
Frame the Future Gala is at 6 p.m. on<br />
Saturday, Nov. 18 at Ameristar Casino<br />
Resort Spa, 1 Ameristar Blvd. in St.<br />
Charles. The theme is “Building Tomorrow.”<br />
All proceeds will benefit Habitat for<br />
Humanity of St. Charles County. Tickets<br />
start at $135. To purchase a ticket or a table,<br />
become a sponsor, or donate a basket for<br />
auction, visit hfhgala.org. For details, call<br />
(636) 978-5712.<br />
FAMILY & KIDS<br />
Little Nature Explorer Program is<br />
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Defiance. Enjoy a short hike, story time,<br />
activities and a snack. For children ages 5<br />
and younger, who must be accompanied by<br />
an adult during the entire program. Cost is<br />
$5 per child. Pre-registration is required at<br />
stccparks.org.<br />
• • •<br />
Gourd Crafting is from <strong>11</strong> a.m.-3<br />
p.m. on Saturday, Nov. <strong>11</strong> at the Historic<br />
Daniel Boone Home, 868 Hwy. F<br />
in Defiance. Participants, ages 12 and up,<br />
partake in the entire gourd crafting process,<br />
from scrubbing the gourd to preparing<br />
the surface for crafting. Bring lunch<br />
and wear clothing that can get dirty.<br />
Cost is $5 per person. Pre-registration is<br />
required at stccparks.com.<br />
HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS<br />
A Holiday Bazaar Art Show is on<br />
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Sunday, Dec. 24 at the St. Peters Cultural<br />
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The O’Fallon Tree Lighting Ceremony<br />
is from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday,<br />
Nov. 15 at O’Fallon City Hall, 100 N.<br />
Main Street. Welcome Santa and enjoy<br />
children’s activities, musical performances<br />
and holiday vendors. Bring<br />
canned or boxed food donations and/or<br />
personal care items for local food pantries.<br />
For details, visit ofallon.mo.us.<br />
• • •<br />
A Turkey Toss Disc Golf Tournament<br />
is from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov.<br />
18 at Indian Camp Creek Park, 2679 Dietrich<br />
Road in Foristell. To register, visit<br />
sccmo.org/ParksRegistrations.<br />
• • •<br />
Holiday Night Lights is from 5:30-9:30<br />
p.m. on Friday, Nov. 24 through Saturday,<br />
Dec. 30 at Rotary Park, 2577 W. Meyer<br />
Road in Wentzville. Enjoy a one-mile light<br />
display that features large illuminated commercial<br />
scenes and tunnels of twinkling<br />
lights. The cost is $10 per vehicle with up<br />
to six passengers, plus $1 per additional<br />
passenger. Display is closed Dec. 3, <strong>11</strong> and<br />
25. For details, visit wentzvillemo.gov.<br />
• • •<br />
Celebration of Lights is from 6-9<br />
p.m. nightly beginning Friday, Nov. 24<br />
through Saturday, Dec. 30 at Fort Zumwalt<br />
Park, 1000 Jessup Lane in O’Fallon.<br />
This festive one-mile route of holiday<br />
light displays was designed and funded<br />
by local organizations, churches and businesses.<br />
Drive-through tickets are $14 per<br />
vehicle and must be purchased in advance<br />
at ofallon.mo.us/COL, or by calling (636)<br />
474-2732. Closed to vehicles on Nov. 27<br />
and Dec. 3, 4, 5 and Dec. <strong>11</strong>. The entire<br />
display is closed on Christmas Day. The<br />
City Train tour of the park takes place on<br />
Monday, Nov. 27 and Monday, Dec. <strong>11</strong>.<br />
Each carriage holds up to five adults and<br />
five children. Reservations are required.<br />
Bring a blanket to stay warm during the<br />
ride. To schedule a ride, visit ofallon.<br />
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• • •<br />
Saint Charles Christmas Traditions<br />
opens at noon on Saturday, Nov. 25 at<br />
Frontier Park and continues on historic<br />
Main Street on weekends through Dec.<br />
<strong>23</strong>. For a complete schedule of activities,<br />
visit discoverstcharles.com/events/<br />
christmas-traditions.<br />
• • •<br />
A Holiday Remembrance Candlelight<br />
Memorial is at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov.<br />
30 at Baue, O’Fallon; at <strong>11</strong> a.m. and 2<br />
p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2 at Baue, Cave<br />
Springs; and at 6 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 4<br />
at Baue in St. Charles. Remember loved<br />
ones with a name-reading ceremony,<br />
music, light refreshments and a candlelighting<br />
ceremony. To register, visit baue.<br />
com/events/holiday-remembrance or call<br />
(636) 328-0874.<br />
• • •<br />
Merry Makers Market is from 5-8<br />
p.m. on Friday, Dec. 1, and from <strong>11</strong> a.m.-5<br />
p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2 at the Foundry<br />
Art Centre, 520 N. Main Center in Saint<br />
Charles. Artists and other vendors will be<br />
selling their wares. Additional details at<br />
foundryartcentre.org/merry-makers-market.<br />
• • •<br />
The Augusta Candlelight Christmas<br />
Walk featuring over 1,000 luminaries<br />
is from 5-10 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 1 and<br />
Friday, Dec. 8 at 5577 Walnut St. in<br />
downtown Augusta. For details, visit<br />
augusta-chamber.org.<br />
• • •<br />
The St. Peters Tree Lighting Ceremony<br />
is at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 1 at<br />
St. Peters City Hall, One St. Peters Centre<br />
Blvd. This free event includes festive musical<br />
performances from the Childbloom<br />
Guitar Program of St. Charles County,<br />
Lindenwood’s Voices Only, a performance<br />
by Butch Wax & The Hollywoods, and an<br />
appearance by Santa Claus. For details,<br />
visit stpetersmo.net.<br />
• • •<br />
Santa’s Winter Wonderland is from<br />
9:30-<strong>11</strong>:30 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2 at the<br />
Krekel Civic Center, 305 Civic Park Drive<br />
in O’Fallon. Join Santa as he celebrates<br />
the holiday season with a candy cane hunt,<br />
workshop activities, cookies and milk, and<br />
photos. For ages 2-12. Cost is $20 for residents;<br />
$24 for non-residents. Register by<br />
Nov. 5 at ofallon.mo.us.<br />
• • •<br />
Snaps with Santa plus Paws & Claus<br />
is from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 3<br />
at the O’Day Lodge, <strong>11</strong>00 O’Day Park<br />
Drive in O’Fallon. Kids and fur babies<br />
can enjoy treats and get photos taken with<br />
Santa. The cost is $8 per family (up to five<br />
people and two dogs). Register by Nov.<br />
28 at ofallon.mo.us.<br />
• • •<br />
A Candy Cane Hunt is from 1-2 p.m.<br />
on Sunday, Dec. 3 at Gould Building at<br />
Wapelhorst Park, 1875 Muegge Road in<br />
St. Charles. Santa’s elves have hidden<br />
hundreds of candy canes throughout the<br />
park to find. Expect a visit from Santa and<br />
hot cocoa. Cost is $15 per person (ages<br />
14 and younger.) Bring a bucket or bag to<br />
collect the candy canes. For details, visit<br />
stcharlesparks.com/programs.<br />
• • •<br />
An Old-Fashioned Holiday Stroll is<br />
nightly from 6-8:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec.<br />
3 through Tuesday, Dec. 5 at Fort Zumwalt<br />
Park, 1000 Jessup Lane in O’Fallon.<br />
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EVENTS, from page 37<br />
fireworks show over Lake Whetsel. Fireworks<br />
start at 7 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. each<br />
night. Tickets go on sale Nov. 6 and must<br />
be purchased in advance. Tickets are $5<br />
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• • •<br />
Holiday Cookie Decorating is from<br />
6:30-8:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 4 at<br />
Memorial Hall in Blanchette Park. All participants<br />
will learn and use different decorating<br />
techniques and will take home their<br />
cookies. For ages 15 and over. Cost is $50<br />
per person; supplies included. To register,<br />
visit stcharlesparks.com.<br />
• • •<br />
Breakfast with Santa is from 9-<strong>11</strong><br />
a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 9 at the Rec-<br />
Plex, One St. Peters Centre Blvd. in St.<br />
Peters. Children ages 2-8 will enjoy a<br />
continental-style breakfast, crafts, a hot<br />
chocolate and donut bar, and Christmas<br />
Carols with Santa and his elves. No<br />
walk-ups will be accepted. The cost is $9<br />
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for member children (ages 8 and under)<br />
and $<strong>11</strong> for non-member adults; $16 for<br />
non-member children. Register online at<br />
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• • •<br />
“Do You Want to Paint a Snowman?”<br />
workshop is from <strong>11</strong> a.m.-noon on Saturday,<br />
Dec. 9 at The Foundry Art Centre in<br />
St. Charles. Celebrate the snowy season by<br />
creating a one-of-a-kind snowman painting<br />
on canvas. Children, ages 5-12 will receive<br />
step-by-step painting lessons to create a<br />
frosty masterpiece. Supplies are included<br />
in the registration fee of $35. For details,<br />
visit foundryartcentre.org/kids-classes.<br />
• • •<br />
Storytime With Santa is from 6-7<br />
p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 10 at Webster<br />
Park Community Building, 2201 S.<br />
River Road in St. Charles. Children are<br />
welcome to wear pajamas and bring a<br />
blanket and pillow to get comfortable<br />
during storytime. Each child will have<br />
the chance to get their photo taken with<br />
Santa. Cost is $15 per person. To register,<br />
visit stcharlesparks.com.<br />
• • •<br />
The Snowball Blizzard Blitz is from<br />
6-7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 15 at the Renaud<br />
Center, 2650 Tri Sports Circle in O’Fallon.<br />
Participants will have a blast with snowball<br />
fights and winter games. Must preregister<br />
by Dec. 6. Cost is $15 for residents<br />
and $18 for non-residents. For ages 5-12.<br />
For details, visit ofallon.mo.us.<br />
• • •<br />
Ugly Sweater Bingo is from 7-9 p.m.<br />
on Friday, Dec. 15 at Memorial Hall in<br />
Blanchette Park, 1900 W. Randolph St. in<br />
St. Charles. Registration can be made as<br />
either an individual or a group of eight per<br />
table. Cost is $20 per person. For ages 21<br />
and up only. Cost includes admission, all<br />
Bingo rounds, beer and soda. Guests may<br />
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• • •<br />
Public Stargazing is at sunset or 7<br />
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• • •<br />
St. Peters Lions Club meets on the first<br />
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• • •<br />
The Rough Writers meet from 7-9<br />
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• • •<br />
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• • •<br />
SINGO is at 7 p.m. (check in at 6:30<br />
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• • •<br />
St. Charles Swing Dance Club<br />
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• • •<br />
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