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Let’s think about priorities. Say that you 

live in one of the dangerous high crime and 

poor schooling neighborhoods of cities like 

Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit or St. Louis. 

Which is most important to you: doing 

something about public safety and raising 

the quality of education or, as most black 

politicians do, focusing energies upon 

President Donald Trump and who among 

the 20 presidential contenders will lead the 

Democratic Party? The average American 

has no inkling about the horrible conditions 

in which many blacks live. Moreover, 

they wouldn’t begin to tolerate living under 

those conditions themselves. 

Crime lowers the value of property. We 

can see some of this when housing prices 

skyrocket in formerly high crime areas when 

large numbers of middle- and upper-income 

people purchase formerly run-down properties 

and fix them up. This is called gentrification 

- wealthier, predominantly white, 

people move in to renovate and restore slum 

housing in inner cities, causing higher rental 

prices and forcing low-income residents out. 

Also, as a result of gentrification, crime falls 

and neighborhood amenities increase. 

The high crime rates in many black 

neighborhoods have the full effect of outlawing 

economic growth and opportunities. 

Here’s a tiny example of the impact 

of crime on businesses. In low crime 

communities, supermarket managers may 

leave plants, fertilizer and other home and 

garden items outdoors, unattended and 

often overnight. If one even finds a supermarket 

in a high crime neighborhood, then 

that store must hire guards, and the manager 

cannot place items outside unguarded 

or near exits. They cannot use all the space 

that they lease, and hence they are less 

profitable. Who bears the ultimate cost of 

crime? If you said black people, you’re 

right. Black people must bear the expense 

to go to suburban shopping malls if they 

are to avoid the higher prices charged by 

mom and pop shops. 

In low crime neighborhoods, FedEx, 

UPS and other delivery companies routinely 

leave packages that contain valuable 

merchandise on a doorstep if no one is at 

home. That saves the expense of redelivery 

and saves recipients the expense of having 

to go pick up the packages. In high crime 

neighborhoods, delivery companies leaving 

packages at the door and supermarkets 

leaving goods outside unattended would be 

equivalent to economic suicide. 

Today’s level of lawlessness and insecurity 

in many black communities is a 

relatively new phenomenon. In the 1950s, 

‘40s, ‘30s and earlier times, people didn’t 

bar their windows. Doors were often left 

unlocked. People didn’t go to bed to the 

sounds of gunshots. And black people 

didn’t experience anything like what’s 

experienced in Chicago and other cities 

such as one person being shot every four 

hours and murdered every 18 hours. The 

uninformed blame today’s chaos on discrimination 

and poverty. That doesn’t even 

pass the smell test, unless one wants to 

argue that historically there was less racial 

discrimination and poverty than today. 

Politicians who call for law and order are 

often viewed negatively, but poor people 

are more dependent on law and order than 

anyone else. In the face of high crime or 

social disorder, wealthier people can afford 

to purchase alarm systems, buy guard dogs, 

hire guards and, if things get completely 

out of hand, move to a gated community. 

These options are not available to poor 

people. The only protection poor people 

have is an orderly society. 

Ultimately, the solution to high crime 

rests with black people. Given the current 

political environment, it doesn’t benefit a 

black or white politician to take those steps 

necessary to crack down on lawlessness 

in black communities. That means black 

people must become intolerant of criminals 

making their lives living hell, even 

if it requires taking the law into their own 

hands. 

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

Regarding ‘Assault on 

Western Civilization’ 

I am impelled to write a response to 

“Assault on Western Civilization” by Mr. 

Walter E. Williams [West Newsmagazine, 

July 10]. 

It really boils down to a crabby old 

man complaining the world he knows is 

changing. It is only odd that the author 

of this article is African-American. It 

was equally sad but more understandable 

when a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Laura 

Ingraham whined, “The America we once 

knew does not exist anymore [because 

of] massive demographic changes. 

I guess Trump would suggest to Ingraham 

and Williams that if they do not 

like America, they should go back to 

where they came from. I would remind 

Ingraham that there was a time when 

even Irish and Italian immigrants were 

opposed in this country. 

It is this simple. Progress can only be 

made by progressives. It was progressives 

that did away with slavery and 

extended women the right to vote. By 

definition, conservatives want to hold on 

to the status quo or even regress to the 

“good old days.” 

Someone should ask Williams, would 

he like to return to the good old days 

when lynching was an acceptable diversion 

for the whole family – an occasion 

for a Sunday picnic? Progress should not 

be confused with an assault on Western 

Civilization. Progress also should not be 

confused with an attack on the church 

and Christian values. According to a poll 

in 2015, 75% of Americans identify as 

Christian compared to 33% of the world 

population. Diversity and tolerance does 

not equal “assault.” 

I really could not follow Williams’ 

point about Biden. Williams complained 

that Biden “criticized sexual assault.” 

Since Williams is a Trump supporter, 

maybe Williams celebrates sexual 

assault? Williams went on to question 

why Biden would point out, “This is 

English jurisprudential culture, a white 

man’s culture.” Biden was speaking 

about sexual assault in this country and 

that it needs to stop. 

Williams compares the status of 

women in this country to Saudi Arabia, 

etc. Since when is Saudi Arabia our 

standard? Would Williams have us tell 

women in this country who are victims 

of sexual assault, “Well, it could be 

worse. You could live in Saudi Arabia?” 

It’s called progress, Walter. Be a man. 

Be a strong man. Do not fear progress 

like women voting. Walter, go to your 

Christian church and pray for peace, 

wisdom, tolerance and love for your 

neighbor and fellow American. 

Thomas Buettner 

Responding to ‘Spirit 

Airport noise’ 

In response to the letter regarding 

“Spirit Airport Noise,” I would like to 

point out to Mr. Viviano that Spirit Airport 

has been located in Chesterfield 

Valley [Gumbo Flats] for many years 

longer than any homes or condos in that 

area. People who bought homes in that 

area surely knew that an airport was 

located there. I find it difficult to find any 

sympathy for folks complaining about 

airport noise. Additionally, I certainly 

welcome the presence of U.S. Military 

planes and personnel in the area. God 

forbid that there will ever be an emergency 

situation in our area requiring military 

forces. I’m sure Mr. Viviano will 

agree that we all would welcome their 

“noise” should that ever occur. Mr. Viviano, 

your “quiet neighborhood” includes 

an airport. Embrace it or find a peaceful 

neighborhood in an area to your liking. 

Mary Hahn 

Replying to ‘Chesterfield 

installation lacked respect’ 

In a letter to West Newsmagazine [July 

10], Mary Brown castigated Chesterfield 

City Council members Tom DeCampi 

and Ben Keathley, hoping her criticism 

would cause local citizens to view these 

two negatively. When one is unable to 

win an argument on substance, he or she 

often launches a personal attack. And 

that’s what we are seeing here. 

DeCampi and Keathley are guilty of 

being proponents of limited government. 

They cling to the old-fashioned idea that 

my local tax dollars should be used to provide 

essential public services. They have 

problems with the concept of dipping 

into the city treasury to lure private businesses 

to the area. That equates to forcing 

me to contribute to a well-heeled corporation 

that really doesn’t need government 

favors to succeed financially. Mary 

Brown feels that just a little transgression 

doesn’t make one a sinner. She says the 

city should do this only now and then and 

always with impeccable reasoning. 

Some of us residents wonder what 

else can transpire when you open that 

door. Maybe we should use tax money 

to install bird feeders on every corner. 

After all, finches have to eat year round 

and sometimes the seed supply runs 

short. Or maybe build comfort stations 

for neighborhood poodles. And let’s fund 

an orchestra to perform free concerts on 

Friday night. Okay, silly suggestions. 

They’re not awful but are they the proper 

province of city government? 

There’s nothing wrong with Brown 

proposing her vision of municipal functions. 

If that’s the way she sees it she can 

do her best to sell it. But it is extremely 

intolerant for her to think Keathley and 

DeCampi don’t have the right to defend 

limited government. There was nothing 

impolite or uncivil in questioning a new 

council member about her views of using 

my tax dollars to entice new companies 

here. I’m pleased we have public servants 

concerned about my tax obligations. 

I would advise Mary Brown to stick to 

the issue and avoid unfounded smears. 

Norman Baxter 

Was Euripides right? 

Euripides was a Greek writer of tragedies 

who lived in Macedonia from 480- 

406 B.C. In one of his plays he suggested 

that God turned sinful men and women 

mad prior to their deaths. 

We, the American people, are witnessing 

the same thing today. Specifically the 

absurd and banal behavior of our congress 

men and women in the Democratic 

controlled House of Representatives. 

Their comments and actions are attempts 

to undermine our great Republic and 

stem from baseless and ludicrous accusations. 

I suspect that by now virtually 

everyone has divined their primary motivation, 

namely to get reelected when 

sanity demands their removable from 

office. 

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Truth be told, we love these calls. 

Melissa is very good at her job, quite pleasant 

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“Why do you not run Walter Williams 

on every single page?” 

This week, we are featuring a special 

interview with Dr. Williams regarding an 

upcoming speaking engagement he has in 

town, so we thought we might get ahead of 

these callers by answering those questions 

in advance. 

Why do we run the Walter Williams 

column? Because we believe that what he 

has to say is important, and nobody else in 

town will run it. It really is that simple. 

Walter Williams is an important thinker, 

an excellent writer and a respectful human 

being. The communities we serve skew 

pretty heavily toward the conservative side 

of the political spectrum, and Williams 

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important to provide a foil to that viewpoint. 

Are we aware that some of you disagree 

with Williams’ views? Of course, we are. 

The decision to feature his columns was 

not taken lightly, particularly in this day of 

sharp political divide. We actually experimented 

for a time with not featuring an 

opinion columnist at all. When Thomas 

Sowell – our former syndicated columnist 

and a close friend of Dr. Williams – retired, 

we tried some other things in that space. 

It is true that, during that time, Melissa 

received fewer calls from readers who 

were angry about something we published. 

She also received fewer calls from readers 

who were thrilled with something we published. 

It seemed that the entire conversation 

within our community had gotten just 

a little less interesting. 

Then, we found the wisdom of Walter 

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to publish his column. Most of you loved 

the choice, some of you did not. But an 

undeniable energy returned to the community 

dialogue that had been missing for a 

while. We completely respect that some of 

you disagree with what Dr. Williams has to 

say. That is why we maintain a letters to the 

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respond. It is our policy to prioritize letters 

that disagree with us. 

We put forth that our community is a 

better place when people read and discuss 

important thinkers like Dr. Williams. There 

is no better place in the world to be than 

between two smart, respectful people who 

disagree with one another. Too often these 

days, we forget to be respectful or go out 

of our way not to be smart. We hide from 

information with which we think we disagree. 

Dr. Williams reminds us that wellformed, 

well-written arguments can be the 

basis of great community dialogue. We 

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with tampering in the first degree, leaving 

the scene of an accident and resisting 

arrest. Kyron Wallace, 17, and Shakur 

Martin, 18, both of Florissant, have been 

charged with stealing and resisting arrest. 

Christopher Carter, 19, of St. Louis has 

MANCHESTER 

Fontbonne West postpones 

open house, campus tour 

With renovations continuing at Fontbonne 

University’s new West Campus in 

Manchester, a previously planned open 

house and campus tour is being postponed 

until after the first of the year. 

Two weeks ago, the university announced 

the departure, after six years at its helm, of 

Michael Pressimone, who will step down 

as president at the end of the 2019-2020 

school year. 

Severe weather on July 22 resulted in flash flooding in areas from Eureka to Chesterfield. 

Pictured is downtown Eureka. 

[Photo courtesy of Rep. Dottie Bailey]



Samples of the types of IDs residents should look for when dealing with Census 

Bureau field staff. 

According to the university, Dennis 

Gipson, former president and CEO of 

Hussman International/Ingersoll Rand 

Ltd., will assume the newly created role 

of interim COO to help ensure a smooth 

transition. 

Pressimone was instrumental in the purchase 

of John F. Kennedy High as the site 

of Fontbonne’s West Campus. 

Local woman wins in Ms. 

Senior Missouri Pageant 

Kathy Lovegren, of Manchester, 

received the Ms. Congeniality Award at the 

Ms. Missouri Senior Pageant on July 14. A 

Realtor for more than 20 years, Lovegren 

double majored in education and piano 

performance at Principia College. She later 

founded Music Makers in Miami, Florida, 

which offered after-school musical enrichment 

classes for Montessori and church 

pre-schools. Her talent entry for the competition 

was an original piano piece called 

“Rejoice.” 

Census workers in 

neighborhoods 

In preparation for the 2020 Census, the 

Census Bureau will be conducting preliminary 

“Field Data Collection” throughout 

the country, beginning Aug. 4 through 

Oct. 11. Census Bureau temporary field 

staff will be in Manchester neighborhoods 

to update address lists and maps using 

a laptop computer. Some staff also will 

be knocking on doors in order to verify 

addresses and gather information on additional 

living quarters. 

Census Bureau staff will 

have either temporary or permanent 

employee identification 

cards. See examples. 

These workers will likely 

have a laptop with them with 

the Census Bureau logo on it, 

a black canvas bag with the 

Census logo, as well as the 

photo IDs. Census Bureau 

employees do not need a 

solicitor’s license. 

Manchester files legal action 

against Doctor John’s, Inc. 

The city of Manchester has filed legal 

action against Doctor John’s Inc. seeking 

a court order requiring the Doctor John’s 

store located at 14463 Manchester Road 

to comply with the city’s zoning code and 

the store’s agreed-upon limited use as an 

apparel and accessories store. 

Upon inspection, it was discovered 

that the lingerie boutique had expanded 

its merchandise to include among other 

things, novelty items that are outside the 

scope of its approved zoning. The city 

is seeking to have Doctor John’s Lingerie 

Boutique discontinue displaying and 

offering such items for sale based on 

regulations associated with the store’s C-1 

District zoning. 



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The city says the limitation was known, 

understood and agreed to by Doctor John’s 

owner prior to the issuance of the store’s 

business license and occupancy permit. 

In a press release, the city said it 

“respects the store’s operation under its 

approved zoning use but cannot allow the 

obvious, and flagrant, illegal expansion of 

unapproved uses, as the store’s failure to 

follow the city’s zoning code is detrimental 

to the neighboring property owners, the 

law-abiding Manchester businesses and 

residents, and the city as a whole.” 

“Bring it on, I’m ready to go,” said John 

Haltom, one of the store’s owner. “The 

city just said we had to take out things that 

weren’t apparel or accessories. They don’t 

say specifically what that means. I’m not 

going to guess and play their game. 

“They cannot tell me what I can and can’t 

sell. Then, they are censoring [my business] 

and they will be in a lot of trouble. 

They know they cannot [legally] do that.” 

TOWN & COUNTRY 

MoDOT to close Ladue 

Road temporarily 

Drivers who use Ladue Road will need 

to use an alternate route this weekend. 

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NEWS BRIEFS, from page 9 

Missouri Department of Transportation 

crews will close Ladue Road between 

Mason Road and Route 141 between 7 a.m. 

and 3 p.m. on Saturday Aug. 10 to replace 

a drainage pipe. 

Local eastbound traffic will be able to go 

as far west as the Bellerive Country Club 

entrance; westbound traffic will be able 

to go as far as S. Mason Road during the 

closure. Vehicles will not be able to travel 

between S. Mason Road and Bellerive 

Country Club. Through traffic will not be 

able to travel from Route 141 to Mason 

Road. 

Drivers heading to Bellerive Country 

Club or the Kirk Christian Day School will 

be able to do so only from the west. 

Once the repair is complete on Saturday, 

there will be a temporary asphalt patch on 

that section of roadway for several days 

before crews put a permanent patch on the 

road. That work will happen during nonpeak 

hours, but is not expected to fully 

close the roadway. 

WILDWOOD 

Fahr Greenhouse honored 

as Farm Family of the Year 

Patrick and Mary Bellrose, of Wildwood, 

have been named St. Louis County’s 

Farm Family of the Year for 2019. 

The Bellroses own Fahr Greenhouse, 

located at 18944 St. Albans Road, which 

boasts a 69-year history of flower farming. 

Since 1950, Fahr Greenhouse has 

grown up to 1,500 varieties of flowers in 

their 75,000 square feet of greenhouse 

space, with an additional three acres of 

outdoor production areas. The business 

was started by Mary’s parents, Dorothy 

and Leonard Fahr, and includes wholesale, 

retail and internet sales. The Farm 

Family of the Year award is given by the 

University of Missouri County Extension 

Council and the Missouri Farm Bureau 

and recognizes the outstanding contribution 

and economic impact that Missouri 

farm families have throughout the state of 

Missouri. The Bellroses will be presented 

with the award at a ceremony during the 

Missouri State Fair in Sedalia on Aug. 12. 

ST. LOUIS COUNTY 

Steve Stenger to be 

sentenced Aug. 9 

Lawyers for Steve Stenger filed paperwork 

on July 30 to allow the former county 

executive to pay restitution before being 

sentenced Aug. 9 on federal corruption 

charges. At press time, U.S. District Judge 

Catherine Perry had not ruled on whether 

Stenger would be allowed to make that 

payment, reported to be in the amount of 

$130,000. 

Indicted on five pay-to-play deals, 

Stenger could face up to up to 20 years in 

prison for each crime; however, it is more 

likely that the most he might serve is three 

to four, given federal sentencing guidelines. 



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Stenger pleaded guilty to all five charges in 

May. 

Magic House seeks volunteers 

The Magic House, St. Louis Children’s 

Museum and The Magic House @ MADE 

are looking for adult volunteers to work 

weekday mornings aiding the museum with 

its school field trip and preschool programs. 

Students, ages 13 and above, also are 

needed to assist visitors of all ages with 

hundreds of hands-on exhibits. Student 

volunteer opportunities are available after 

school and on weekends. 

Volunteers typically work a three to 

four hour shift per week and are asked 

to commit to volunteering a minimum of 

30 hours within a year. Applications can 

be submitted online at magichouse.org; 

additional information can be requested 

by emailing volunteer@magichouse.org to 

request more information. 

SSM to roll out health 

insurance program 

SSM Health will begin offering medical 

health insurance to St. Louis county 

residents during the industry’s open enrollement 

period this year. The rollout of Well- 

First Health, both on and off the Affordable 

Care Act marketplace, is expected to take 

place from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15. Coverage 

would be effective starting Jan. 1, 2020. 

This is the health systems’ first local 

health insurance offering but not the 

regional company’s first insurance program 

overall. 

Tryout to win chance to sing National Anthem at Blues game 

By KATE UPTERGROVE 

Have you ever dreamed of singing the 

National Anthem in front of a crowd of as 

many as 18,400 fans [a full house] at a St. 

Louis Blues game? Now’s your chance. 

The Stanley Cup Champion St. Louis 

Blues [that never gets old] and the St. 

Louis Symphony Orchestra [SLSO] are 

calling for soloists, vocal performance 

groups, instrumentalists and small instrumental 

groups to audition for a chance to 

win a one-night National Anthem performance 

prior to a Blues game during the 

2019/2020 season. To be considered for an 

audition, performers must submit an online 

video entry at stlouisblues.com [or http:// 

bit.ly/32MPxhd] before noon on Friday, 

Aug. 16. 

Finalists will be invited to an in-person 

audition at Powell Hall to perform live 

in front of a panel of judges, including 

long-time National Anthem singer Charles 

Glenn; Kevin McBeth, who directs the St. 

Charles Glenn 

[St. Louis Blues photo] 

Louis Symphony IN UNISON Chorus; St. 

Louis native Kennedy Holmes, who finished 

fourth on Season 15 of The Voice; 

James Bertels, a winner in the inaugural 

contest; and an SLSO musician. 

“They’re a great team,” Glenn said about 

the contest collaboration between the Blues 

and SLSO, which is now in its third year. 

Glenn, who announced his retirement 

last January as the full-time National 

Anthem performer for the Blues, went out 

with a bang as his beloved team brought 

home the Stanley Cup. After 19 years of 

performing in front of fans, he has some 

advice for National Anthem hopefuls. 

“We’ve had violinists, we had a brass 

quartet, we had a saxophone quartet – the 

variations of people who have tried out for 

this opportunity over the past three years 

have been great. A lot of variety,” Glenn 

said. The key he said is presenting it well. 

As a performer and as an instructor at 

Missouri Baptist University, Glenn has the 

experience to back up his advice, which 

is: “Focus on the Anthem, focus on your 

minute and 30 seconds, and focus on your 

key because it’s not an easy song to perform.” 

“If you’re singing the Anthem, the range 

is really wide. You can’t start too low or 

too high because there’s no turning back,” 

he said. He suggested that singers audition 

either with the Anthem or a song that 

showcases their vocal range – and he says 

creative renditions of the Anthem can be 

good “if they are done correctly.” 

“It can’t be over seasoned, let’s put it that 

way,” Glenn said. “I add a little flair to it 

but not to the point that you don’t recognize 

the song. If you put too much flavor 

on it, audiences won’t recognize the song 

and then, you’re missing the whole point of 

singing the National Anthem. An anthem is 

for everyone to sing together, so it should 

be performed in a way that it’s pretty easy 

to follow.” 

Last year, Matt Pentecost, 34, a music 

teacher in the Maplewood-Richmond 

Heights School District, was named the 

contest winner. 

For additional information and to submit 

an online entry, visit stlouisblues.com.

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On Friday, Sept. 13, The Hammond 

Institute for Free Enterprise will welcome 

renowned economist Dr. Walter 

E. Williams as a featured speaker in its 

H. F. Langenberg Memorial Speaker 

Series. 

Williams, a professor of economics at 

George Mason University, is a widely 

published author and syndicated columnist, 

whose work is carried by 140 

newspapers and magazines, including 

West Newsmagazine. 

At Lindenwood, he will present a 

lecture titled “Is The Constitution Still 

Relevant?” 

Lindenwood University economists, 

Dr. Howard Wall, director of the Hammond 

Institute for Free Enterprise, and 

Dr. Tawni Ferrarini, director of the Economic 

Education Center, will serve as 

moderators of the event that will include a 

question-and-answer session. 

Admission is $20 per person. Tickets 

can be purchased in person from 9 a.m.-5 

p.m. at the J. Scheidegger Center for the 

Arts box office, 2300 West Clay St. in 

St. Charles; by calling (636) 949-4433 or 

online at lindenwood.edu, search “Walter 

Williams.” On the night of the event, all 

students with a valid ID from any school 

will be admitted free. 

In advance of his visit to St. Charles, 

Williams spoke with West Newsmagazine 

about his topic, his friendship with Thomas 

Sowell and the nation’s changing societal 

norms and its future. 

Walter E. Williams on himself 

“The overwhelming characteristic of my 

life is that I have been a troublemaker and 

rabble rouser for all of it. 

On Thomas Sowell 

“We’ve been friends since 1969. He got 

his doctorate from the University of Chicago 

and I received my doctorate from 

UCLA. Sometimes, people have called 

UCLA and the University of Virginia the 

farm teams of the University of Chicago. 

There’s a very, very strong relationship 

between the three. So we had many of the 

same professors.” 

On writing a column 

“I started writing for the Philadelphia 

Tribune, it was a black paper [in the late 

1970s]. The fellow who was president of 

the paper wanted to change its focus so 

he invited me to write a weekly, or sometimes 

twice a week, column. I did that 

for about four or five years. Then, the 

Heritage Foundation, started a column so 

I went to a reception for that. A fellow 

named Ed Grimsley [was there.] He was 

the editorial-page editor for the Richmond 

Times-Dispatch and he told me: 

‘Nobody reads the Philadelphia Tribune. 

You ought to get syndicated and if you 

do so, we will subscribe.’ That was a 

long time ago, 1980, and the Richmond 

Times-Dispatch still carries my column 

occasionally. 

“I write about what comes to my mind 

or what interests me or what might be on 

the news. I give an economist’s approach 

to the problems that people face. I apply 

economics to many, many issues that 

people don’t normally apply economics 

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Lindenwood University to host Dr. Walter E. Williams for two events 


to, such as race discrimination or sales 

of commodities and other things that 

people don’t always think of in economic 

terms. One of my tenacious mentors at 

UCLA, a fellow named Armen Alchian, 

he’s dead now but we were at a facultystudent 

graduate hour and he said: ‘You 

know, Williams, a true test of whether a 

person knows his subject comes when he 

can explain it to somebody who doesn’t 

know a damn thing about it.’ I take a lot 

of delight in being able to explain potentially 

complicated ideas in economics to 

ordinary people.” 

On the Constitution 

Do you think most Americans know 

what’s in the Constitution? 

“No, and I’m pretty sure if they did, 

they wouldn’t like it. That is, if you look 

at Article 1, Section 8 of the United States 

Constitution, it enumerates 23 things that 

Congress can do and there’s nothing in the 

See WILLIAMS, page 36 

Dinner with Dr. Williams 

In addition to the Sept. 13 public event, The Hammond Institute will host a private 

dinner with Dr. Williams at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14 at the Grand Opera 

House, 311 N. Main St. in historic Saint Charles. 

Support levels for this event begin at $250 for two tickets. All proceeds will benefit 

the Hammond Institute’s Free Enterprise Academy. Supporters at the Bronze 

[$500] or higher level have the opportunity to exhibit at Friday night’s event at the 

Scheidegger Center. To obtain more information or tickets, contact Matt Adams at 

MAdams@lindenwood.edu or (636) 949-4835. 

The John W. Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise 

The John W. Hammond Institute for Free 

Enterprise, directed by Dr. Howard J. Wall, 

was founded in 2013 following a generous 

gift from long-time Lindenwood Board of 

Trustees member John W. Hammond. 

Hammond, a Chesterfield resident, at 

that time said, “Lindenwood University’s 

impact on young people is something I have 

always admired and been attracted to. This 

gift is a perfect combination of blending my 

interests with what Lindenwood does best.” 

What the Hammond Institute does best is 

to foster free enterprise and civil and religious 

liberty through the examination of 

market-oriented approaches to economic 

and social issues. Its mission is based on 

the view that limited government, such as 

that laid out in the Constitutional foundation 

of the United States, is a necessary 

component of a just and prosperous society. 

In serving that mission, it serves as an 

umbrella organization for the University’s 

Cleopatra Nestor, explaining her winning project at the most recent economics research competition. 

Center for Economics and the Environment, 

its Duree Center for Entrepreneurship, 

the Liberty and Ethics Center and the 

Economic Education Center. 

Institute programming is open to Lindenwood’s 

faculty, students and staff as 

well as invited colleagues in higher education 

and university friends. The general 

public also is invited to participate in 

programming that promotes the ideals of 

the value of free private enterprise policy 

around ethics and justice and the value of 

the U.S. Constitution. 

“Our constitution is the rock of this 

country, and it is eroding,” Hammond said 

making his 2013 gift. “I hope the institute 

can help us all see what the framers of the 

constitution had in mind when they wrote 

the document.” 

The programs from all of the different 

centers that are purely educational 

and available to Lindenwood students 

and the wider community are brought 

together under the Free Enterprise Academy 

umbrella. Those programs provide 

resources for teaching economics and 

personal finance, an economics course for 

state lawmakers, entrepreneurial mindset 

courses, entrepreneurship and economics 

camps for pre-college students, and early 

access courses for high school students. 

Academy programs for Lindenwood 

See HAMMOND INSTITUTE, page 36

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At The End 

Law Matters 



End-of-life 

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Even when we 

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who had no close family members, 

and even that is tough. But when it is 

a close family member, it can be 

heart-wrenching. 

I was recently reminded of that 

with my mother-in-law. She lives in an 

assisted living facility, and she has 

dementia. My wife (she’s not going to 

be happy with me for mentioning her 

in one of my columns) goes by almost 

every day to see her and to visit with 

almost all the other residents. They all 

light up when she comes in the room. 

Some time ago my wife noticed that 

her mom was getting more and more 

tired. She would go to bed around six 

and sleep late. That was unusual for a 

girl who was raised on a farm, rising 

early each morning to milk the cows. 

We knew something was up. 

One Friday evening we were heading 

out of town when her cell phone rang. 

It was the facility. They had called an 

ambulance. They said grandma had 

been exhibiting stroke-like symptoms. 

We met her at the hospital. After examining 

her (and she was as mad as 

could be – “Leave me alone!”), the 

doctor told us that she was having an 

arrhythmia, one chamber of her heart 

wasn’t coordinating with another. 

The solution was a pacemaker. 

Without it, she would (in a sense) 

slowly drift off to sleep and 

eventually die. With it, she would 

live for several more years. 

My wife’s dilemma was this: does 

she pass on the pacemaker so her 

mother could die peacefully and join 

her beloved husband and friends in 

Heaven; or does she approve the 

pacemaker and consign her mother 

to at least a few more lonely years. In 

the end, after consulting with her 

siblings, she approved the pacemaker. 

However, it needs to be noted that 

the only reason that my wife could 

make these kinds of decisions was 

that her mother had designated her 

as her surrogate for health care 

decisions using a healthcare durable 

power of attorney (a “DPOA”). 

Without taking the time to execute a 

healthcare DPOA, all of those 

decisions would’ve been left up to 

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Michael Staenberg has a vision for 

Chesterfield, its mall and its valley 

By CORY EDWARDS 

The office building at 2126 Innerbelt 

Parkway is a beautiful place to work. Green 

and efficient, it was cool on this hot summer 

day thanks to LED lighting and 

a white roof adorned with solar 

panels. The interior features 

bare brick walls, skylights and 

a glass-enclosed metal staircase. 

The brick walls are covered 

in colorful modern art: abstract 

paintings, sculpture, photography, 

and mixed media creations 

from all over the world. Staenberg 

The building’s owner, The 

Staenberg Group [TSG], occupies its 

second floor. 

TSG’s lobby contains photos created by 

local artist Diane Katzman. Each one displays 

the wit and wisdom of the company’s 

CEO, Michael Staenberg. Staenberg himself 

took the lead in rehabbing and beautifying 

the 20-year-old building, a job he 

took seriously. 

Chesterfield Valley Square 

Throughout his career as a commercial 

real estate developer, Staenberg has come 

to believe “it’s the little things” that can 

lift a person’s spirit, ultimately helping 

those who pass through his developments 

become better citizens. 

Known in West County as the driving 

force behind much of Chesterfield Valley’s 

progress since the Great Flood of 1993, 

Staenberg’s holdings include: 

• Partial ownership of Chesterfield Commons, 

a 2-mile long open air shopping 

center on the south side of Chesterfield 

Airport Road. 

• Chesterfield Valley Square, a retail 

center located just west of the Commons 

and anchored by Bar Louie and Oishi. 

• The District, formerly Taubman Prestige 

Outlets, which is to become a “retailtainment 

center complete with a 3,300 

capacity, indoor music venue. 

• Thirteen acres of raw land at 17511 

Chesterfield Airport Road, adjacent to the 

existing Lou Fusz Ford dealership. 

• The former Sears building at Chesterfield 

Mall. 

Staenberg is deeply committed to his 

investments in Chesterfield. 

The late Louis S. Sachs, the 

man behind much of city’s early 

development, often was referred 

to as “the father of Chesterfield.” 

It was Sachs who developed 

Chesterfield Village, the commercial/retail 

center that formed 

the city’s basis, and which he 

envisioned as the city’s downtown. 

Given Staenberg’s many holdings, 

he seems to have replaced his former 

mentor as the new visionary in town. 

On the raw land at 17511 Chesterfield 

Airport Road, he’s working to establish a 

to-be-named car dealership along with a 

few other outparcels. 

Additionally, he believes Top Golf 

promises to turn the north side of I-64 in 

Chesterfield Valley into an entertainment 

destination. His transformation of Chesterfield 

Prestige Outlets into The District 

is part of that vision. The entertainmentfocused 

development will have a music 

venue, restaurants and retailers unique to 

St. Louis, he said. He’s also forming partnerships 

with “several exciting entertainment 

people” who he declined to name. 

As the owner of the Sears building at 

Chesterfield Mall, Staenberg has a seat at 

the table for any redevelopment of that 

mall property. He wants to make sure it 

is redeveloped properly. The mall and its 

anchor tenants are bound by a reciprocal 

easement agreement. Under that agreement, 

TSG, Macy’s, and Dillard’s all have 

a say in redevelopment efforts. 

TSG also has made a bid to buy Chesterfield 

Mall from its current owners, Hull 

Property Group. 

He said he believes the mall can become 

a new “downtown Chesterfield,” which he 

said will require both public and private 

funds. 

“You can’t ask a private developer to do 

everything,” he said. 

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Want to know more about the man behind 

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Schnucks and Straub’s markets.



By JEFFREY BRICKER 

Youth sports is big business and that 

business is growing. According to numbers 

recently published by financial planning 

firm Mass Mutual, money spent on youth 

sports tournaments jumped to $10.5 billion 

in 2016. That was an increase of 26% 

over a four-year period. With that national 

growth comes local opportunities. 

“This is the fastest-growing sector of the 

American tourism market,” Dan Buck told 

West Newsmagazine. “More families are 

spending more time and money on their 

children’s sports than on destination vacations. 

Let’s give them a vacation.” 

Buck is the managing partner for Big 

Sports Properties, the lead developer of a 

new sports complex/resort at the site of the 

former St. Louis Mills outlet mall. The 160- 

acre POWERplex facility intends to host 

more than 180 major sports tournaments and 

special events per year. But Buck is quick to 

point out the Hazelwood-based campus is 

not going to be just another sports facility. 

“Our goal is to provide more services and 

amenities that will truly make their experience 

a vacation and not just a tournament,” 

he said. 

Buck said in the near future, St. Louis 

could become one of the nation’s premiere 

destinations for youth sporting events. 

“What the city and Big Sports Properties 

have achieved in a very short time frame 

for all the remaining landowners is nothing 

short of miraculous,” said Lloyd Ney, coowner 

and operator of the Ice Zone hockey 

rink that opened as a key property when 

the outlet mall debuted. “We were facing 

a disaster scenario where we would not be 

able to fulfill our mission of growing youth 

ice sports and now we get to be a part of 

a thriving, new sports destination campus.” 

St. Louis County Council member Mark 

Harder [R - District 7] believes the facilities 

is a big win for the county. He pointed 

out after developers failed to secure support 

to locate POWERplex in Chesterfield, St. 

Charles County made a strong push for Big 

Sports Properties to put the facilities there. 

“We’re glad they stayed in St. Louis 

County,” Harder said. 

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By BONNIE KRUEGER 

The 2018 Comprehensive Annual 

Finance Report [CAFR] was presented 

during the work session prior to the Town 

& Country Board of Aldermen meeting 

on July 22 by Victoria Dailey, CPA 

and manager with the accounting firm of 

Hochschild Bloom & Company LLP. The 

accounting firm was retained by the city for 

the audit. 

The independent auditor’s report on the 

financial statements of the governmental 

activities, each major fund, and the 

aggregate remaining fund information 

is included in the financial section of the 

full report, which is available at town-andcountry.org/DocumentCenter. 

The 2018 financial highlights in the 

report include: 

• On a government-wide basis, the city’s 

assets and deferred outflow exceeded its 

liabilities at the close of the fiscal year by 

$51,314,052 [net position] for a decrease 

of $135,412 compared to 2017. Of this 

amount, $5,664,740 [unrestricted net position] 

may be used to meet the city’s obligations 

to citizens and creditors. 

• The total cost of city programs increased 

by $597,818, or 4.1%, and net program 

costs were $161,263 less than they were 

in 2017. 

• At the close of the 2018 fiscal year, the 

city’s governmental funds reported combined 

ending fund balances of $12,253,721. 

This is a decrease of $3,815,758 in comparison 

with the prior year. 

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2018 Town & Country audit 

presented to Board of Aldermen 

• Approximately 68% [$8,314,383] of 

the combined fund balance was unassigned 

and available for spending at the city’s discretion. 

The full amount of the unassigned 

balance is in the general fund. The general 

fund had a decrease of about $4 million, 

which is due to the Town Square project, 

which totals $5.2 million. Dailey explained 

that the audit included a review of each 

2018 Town Square receipt to verify that 

all invoice payments matched the boardapproved 

amounts. 

• The city had no outstanding debt during 

2018, and no new debt has been issued. 

The letter of internal controls and accounting 

procedures said there were no major 

deficiencies or material weaknesses, but 

offered a few suggestions. Those included 

updating the finance department review 

procedures relating to the reconciliation 

and recording of municipal court receipts. 

Also noted was the lack of city administrator 

review and approval [in addition to the 

finance office] on some credit card statements 

as is the city’s normal practice with 

VISA statements. Both recommendations 

recently have been implemented, according 

to Finance Director Pamela Reitz. 

The Government Finance Officers Association 

of the United States and Canada 

awarded the Certificate of Achievement for 

Excellence in Financial Reporting to the 

city for the past five fiscal years. In order 

to be awarded this certificate, the city had 

to publish an easily readable and efficiently 

organized CAFR that satisfied both GAAP 

and applicable program requirements. 

Back in time 

On July 20, volunteers 

from the Assistance 

League of St. Louis 

hosted high tea at the 

Ladue home of Yolanda 

Perez Cunningham. 

Among the guests 

transported, by way of 

the event, to Victorian-era 

England were Veronica 

Heger of O’Fallon, Maureen 

Swingle of Ballwin, 

Rachel Hale of Lake 

Saint Louis, and Becky Brockmann of St. 

Charles [pictured in order, at above]. 

Cunningham won the high tea service 

at the Assistance League’s 14th 

Annual Authors Brunch, one of two 

major fundraisers for the organization. 

The Author’s Brunch netted a record 

$65,737 for the organization which 

sponsors philanthropic programs, such 

as providing new school uniforms, 

books and shoes to deserving school 

children, and clothing and personal care 

items to women and children who seek 

protection in shelters. 

In total, the Ellisville-based nonprofit 

aids about 50,000 St. Louisans each year.




A popular and recently controversial recreation 

site in West County has been sold. 

Colorado-based Vail Resorts, Inc. 

announced on July 22 that it had reached 

a definitive merger agreement with Peak 

Resorts, Inc. which owns 17 ski areas. 

Among those properties is Hidden Valley 

Ski Resort in Wildwood. 

Vail Resorts will take control of Peak 

Resorts through a premium purchase of 

common stock worth an estimated $264 

million according to a press release issued 

by the company. 

Peak Resorts President and CEO Tim 

Boyd lauded the deal and Vail Resorts. 

“Vail Resorts has a proven track record of 

celebrating the unique identity of its resorts, 

while continually investing in the guest and 

employee experience. For this reason, we 

are confident that our resorts and employees 

will continue to thrive within the Vail 

Resorts network,” Boyd said. 

Boyd founded the Wildwood-based 

company in 1977, two years after graduating 

from the University of Missouri. That 

same year, he purchased the Wildwood 

Golf Course for $250,000. He converted 

the property to a ski resort in 1982. Over 

the next several decades, the company 

Hidden Valley Zip Line Course 

added resorts in several states including 

Vermont, New York and New Hampshire. 

In recent years, the company and some 

members of the local community have not 

always seen eye-to-eye. The most recent 

example of which was Boyd’s desire to 

add a zip line course on the ski resort’s 

property. After several months of debate in 

2017, the Wildwood City Council approved 

the addition of the course in January 2018. 

The stated goal was to help Hidden Valley 

generate revenue during the off-season. 

According to Boyd, the zip line course 

was originally projected to produce $1 million 

in annual revenue, which he said the 

resort needed to maintain its operations 

after multiple years of unpredictable winters 

and warmer weather. In the heat of 

his November 2018 battle, Boyd claimed 

the property would be sold for residential 

development. 

“That is the most profitable option. It’s 

really unfortunate,” Boyd said at a Nov. 

20 meeting of the Wildwood Planning and 

Zoning Committee. “This is Wildwood at 

its best shortsightedness.” 

In the end, Hidden Valley was granted 

its permits for the zip line course, which 

opened on May 31, and Boyd did not 

follow through on his threat to sell the 



Peak Resorts, Hidden Valley sold to Colorado-based operator 

[Hidden Valley Facebook photo] 

property to land developers. 

According to a statement from Vail 

Resorts, the company plans to retain most 

of the current Peak Resorts staff while 

investing an additional $15 million to 

elevate the guest experience at the resorts. 

That influx of one-time capital could go to 

any or all of the 17 resorts being acquired 

from Peak Resorts. 

Wildwood leaders were mostly uncertain 

as to what the change in ownership would 

mean, if anything, to their community. 

“I don’t know what it will ultimately 

mean to us,” Council member John Gregnani 

[Ward 1] said on Monday, July 22. 

Although he said he was doubtful the city 

would have any negative financial impact 

from the sale. 

For his part, Wildwood Mayor Jim 

Bowlin hopes the future of Hidden Valley 

brings less friction with its surrounding 

neighbors. 

“I wish Hidden Valley continued success, 

and whatever its future may include it must 

be in harmony with nearby residents and 

the rest of our city,” Bowlin said on Tuesday, 

July 23. 

The transaction has been approved by 

both companies’ boards of Directors and 

is expected to be finalized in the coming 

months.

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The problems with Lake Chesterfield 

have a long history in the city of Wildwood. 

By most accounts, trouble with the lake 

goes back decades. Last year, Wildwood 

commissioned a study by a researcher 

from the University of Missouri Science 

and Technology to try to determine the 

cause of the persistent leaks and intermittent 

draining of the lake. 

On Monday, July 22, trouble with Lake 

Chesterfield was front and center at the 

City Council meeting once again. The 

cause for concern is a public road that runs 

over an embankment that also serves as a 

dam for the watershed. 

Joe Vujnich, the city’s director of parks 

and planning, addressed concerns about 

the safety of Pierside Lane and potential 

erosion that has taken place. 

Vujnich explained that while the lake 

is privately owned, the dam is part of the 

city’s right-of-way and a critical component 

of Pierside Lane. He presented a proposal 

from Geotechnology, Inc., an engineering 

firm contacted by the city. That proposal 

was for further study and investigation into 

the current condition and potential risks 

posed by the dam on Pierside Lane. However, 

the study would cost the city about 

$59,000, which Vujnich pointed out is not 

currently budgeted. That fact caused some 

members of the council to pause. 

City engineer Rick Brown, who is the 

director of public works, said he believed 

the safety of Pierside Lane was only an 

issue as long as Lake Chesterfield had 

water in it. Without a lake, there was no 

ongoing safety issue according to Brown. 

That led to several back-and-forth comments 

from council members trying to 

wade through the murky waters of safety 

on a public roadway that is connected to a 

private watershed. 

“I think we need to determine if we’re 

going to be using public money for a lake,” 

council member Steve Taylor [Ward 4] 

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Wildwood to consider funding 

new study of Lake Chesterfield 

Lake Chesterfield 

said. “The safety issue [on Pierside Lane] 

is connected to it being a lake.” 

Council member Crystal McCune [Ward 

7] pointed out the city does have $25,000 

available in an escrow account from the 

Lake Chesterfield subdivision developer. 

She recommended that sum be used against 

any amount needed to conduct the study. 

Mayor Jim Bowlin confirmed for the 

council that the $25,000 in escrow is available 

for the study. 

“The $25,000 that was put 

into escrow by the developer I 

think is pretty straightforward 

… I think where the heartburn 

is, and we heard this the last 

time … folks were asking why 

the city was paying for it,” 

council member Joe Garritano 

[Ward 8] said. “I’m concerned 

about the questions that will 

come back again about this.” 

McCune, who previously 

served on the Lake Chesterfield 

Home Owners Association 

and now represents those 

residents on the city council, sought to correctly 

identify the water basin. 

“We keep referring to this as a ‘lake,’” 

she said. “I think city council needs to refer 

to it as a watershed. It is not a lake. It is a 

stormwater retention basin that also feeds 

Caulk’s Creek.” 

McCune urged her colleagues to move 

the issue forward with urgency. “We’ve 

been waiting a long time,” she said. “And I 

think, due to the safety risk and hazard that 

is unknown, it is important for us to move 

forward to find out where we are today.” 

Fellow Ward 7 council member Tim 

Woerther echoed McCune’s calls for swift 

action on the matter. 

“This is an issue we don’t understand,” 

Woerther said. “And we need to understand 

it because of the issues we’ve had in the 

surrounding watersheds.” 

Vujnich offered multiple options to the 

council and said he was confident that if 

the decision was made to move forward, 

the money would be there for the study. 

“If the council’s will is to find that $34,000, 

I’m sure as we jump into the mid-year budget 

adjustments, we can,” Vujnich said. 

After the meeting, Bowlin expressed his 

optimism that the long held concerns of 

many residents regarding Lake Chesterfield 

would finally be addressed. 

“For the first time, we are using geophysical 

surveying to enable an accurate assessment 

of the issues,” Bowlin said. “This 

will allow us to work effectively with Lake 

Chesterfield residents to identify options 

for a workable solution.” 

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Town & Country’s Town Square 

Summer rains have dampened many 

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summer. But perhaps no town and its citizenry 

was more disappointed than Town 

& Country when its much anticipated 

Town Square grand opening and 18th 

annual Fire & Ice celebration was rained 

out on June 22. 

Fingers, and maybe some toes, are being 

crossed all over that municipality in anticipation 

of the grand opening celebration’s 

new date: Friday, Aug. 16. 

The event is to begin with the Town 

Square ribbon-cutting ceremony at 7 p.m., 

followed by a community photo at the 

Town Square tunnel, according to Parks 

Director Anne Nixon. The evening closes 

with fireworks at 9 p.m. All scheduled 

events are being held at Town Square; 

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Ptah Williams Jazz Trio will entertain 

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results in music that is vibrant with 

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Fire & Ice is well known for its annual 

Tastes of Town & Country dining area, and 

although the celebration is a bit abbreviated 

in its 2019 rescheduled form, local 

food and drink vendors will be available 

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Guests are encouraged to bring blankets, 

plus balls, toys and games to share. Adding 

to the evening’s fun are give-aways from 

the Town & Country/Frontenac Chamber 

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the unveiling of “T & C Rocks!” 

Parking at Town Square is limited to 

patrons with current ADA [disabled parking] 

hangtags; however, residents are 

welcome to park at The Principia High 

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the property to the city’s existing 

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It has been an ongoing debate in the 

Wildwood City Council for several months 

now. At issue is access to email addresses 

provided by residents. Those residents 

have signed up to receive the city’s newsletter 

in their inbox. However, some might 

be receiving a few extra emails. 

Some council members have argued that 

the email addresses should be made available 

to every member of the council, not 

just a select few members of city government. 

Others believe the real issue is one of 

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Wildwood debates use of resident 

email addresses by council members 

Currently, the city has no 

clear policy on email usage or 

database access as it regards 

to citizens’ email addresses. 

“Having discussions 

with some 

people, it seems … 

there’s an increasing tendency of people to 

request email lists and other lists of municipalities 

because of the Missouri Sunshine 

Law,” council member Steve Taylor [Ward 

4] said. He went on to say that he’s been 

told there is an increasing number of incidents 

in which municipalities have turned 

over mailing lists due to Sunshine Law 

requests, and then those lists have been 

sold to merchants for marketing purposes. 

Taylor did not indicate that Wildwood’s 

email lists had been released or used for 

such purposes; however, he made a motion 

before the council to ask City Attorney 

John Young to research the issue and look 

into “closing” certain email lists from the 

Missouri Sunshine Law. 

When asked how much this research 

would cost, Young estimated between 

$1,000 and $2,000. 

Not everyone on the council shared Taylor’s 

concerns. 

“I just think it’s a waste of resources … for 

an issue that has not come forward,” council 

member Crystal McCune [Ward 7] said. “I 

think that open and transparency is key. I 

think that is why the Sunshine Law is here.” 

Ultimately Taylor’s motion requesting 

the city attorney to research the issue 

was referred to the city’s Administration 

and Public Works Committee. For council 

members that action may have seemed like 

déja vu. 

Mayor Jim Bowlin tried to get in front 

of the issue during a city council meeting 

several weeks ago. In that session, he 

introduced a memorandum from City Co- 

Administrator Steve Cross advising council 

members that one of their own had used 

the city’s newsletter database to send out 

his own communication. This was problematic 

for Bowlin and Cross as, according 

to the memo, “residents had provided 

their email address for the sole purpose of 

receiving [the newsletter] from the city.” 

While he wasn’t named in Cross’ memo, 

council member Niles Stephens [Ward 8] 

quickly outed himself and defended his 

actions. 

“If anyone had any problem with any 

email I sent, they could file a complaint 

with the Missouri Ethics Commission,” 

Stephens said to the council during a 

heated exchange. 

Stephens alleged 

hypocrisy on the 

part of Bowlin 

and others since 

his fellow Ward 8 

council member, Joe 

Garritano, has also 

allegedly used email 

addresses obtained 

from the city’s database. Moreover, he said 

he has “sent one email” while Garritano 

“sends regular emails.” 

Garritano has adamantly denied Stephen’s 

accusations and has asserted multiple 

times that his email list is one he has 

personally procured without the assistance 

of the city’s database or resources. 

Stephens also has contended that Bowlin 

uses unilateral discretion in regards to the 

database and his communications with 

Wildwood residents. Complaints have been 

made in the past, by parties other than Stephens, 

that some of Bowlin’s emails have 

contained an overtly political tone and 

message while he was acting in an official 

capacity. 

Going back to October 2018, Stephens 

requested an email list from Bowlin that 

the mayor had used to send a message to 

residents of Ward 8. Stephens said Bowlin 

refused telling him, “The list is not a public 

document because, in part, it was obtained 

with the express purpose of including residents 

in my newsletter, which I undertake 

personally.” 

Currently, the city has no clear policy on 

email usage or database access as it regards 

to citizens’ email addresses. The question 

of whether or not the information is public 

record remains undecided. 

In June, the council voted to send the 

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School expected to start on time at Parkway South Middle despite paving delays 


Parkway School District’s facilities 

department is wrapping up its summer 

to-do list in order to be ready for the first 

day of school on Aug. 13. 

One of its major projects is the new addition 

to South Middle, which will become 

the new registration hub and home base for 

some displaced Instructional Service Center 

employees. With the district’s growing 

north area population, the ISC is being converted 

back into an elementary school and 

its employees will need new office locations. 

Construction has begun on the addition, but 

its completion still is undetermined. 

Due to high rainfall this summer, the 

contractor at South Middle fell behind on 

pouring the new driveway and parking lot, 

which has been reconfigured for the new 

campus. However, at press time, the contractor 

planned to pour the new driveway 

by Monday, Aug. 5, giving school staff and 

families full access to the property by the 

first day of school. 

Staff and students will enter the building 

this year through the new security 

vestibule that was completed using funds 

passed by last November’s bond issue. Still 

to come from those funds is the addition of 

safety film. 

“The electrical component to the vestibule 

is on backorder at this time, so we 

don’t know yet if that will be installed for 

the first day of school, but it can be operated 

manually,” explained Paul Tandy, 

Parkway’s chief communications officer. 

Other improvements are less noticeable, 

such as HVAC, chiller and water pump 

replacements in addition to plumbing and 

roof improvements. 

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campus with its new vestibule and 

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with the Missouri Department of 

Transportation can now take advantage of 

an apprenticeship program that provides 

maintenance employees with on-the-job 

training combined with related classroom 

instruction, all while earning a paycheck. 

The program is also available to current 

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The U.S. Department of Labor-Missouri 

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programs as meeting the requirements for 

the federal apprenticeship program. 

“The good news for all employees, both 

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Rockwood JROTC students 

recognized for excellence 

Two Chesterfield high school Junior 

Reserve Officer Training Corps [JROTC] 

Cadets have received the DAR ROTC 

Bronze Medal. 

Cadet Megan Krajewski, of Lafayette 

High, and Jasmine McComb, of Marquette 

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area Mary Hempstead Lisa chapter of the 

National Society of the Daughters of the 

American Revolution [NSDAR]. 

The DAR ROTC Bronze Medals are 

awarded to cadets of outstanding ability, 

qualities of dependability, good character, 

leadership abilities and adherence to military 

discipline. Cadets are nominated for 

the DAR Bronze Medal by their school’s 

aerospace science teacher. 

Paul Robinson, JROTC Cadet at Lafayette 

High, was awarded the DAR Good 

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Lisa Chapter Regent, Gail Young. 

The DAR Good Citizenship Award is 

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dependability. 

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Its members are descended from the 

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Elite honors go to 

Marquette High graduate 

Marquette graduate Sujay Murali is a 

2019 U.S. Presidential Scholar, one of our 

nation’s highest honors for high school 

students. Out of the 3.6 million students 

who graduated from high school this year, 

approximately 5,200 students qualified for 

consideration. Only 161 earned the recognition, 

with Murali one of two Missouri 

recipients. 

Murali received a proclamation from 

Missouri Governor Mike Parson for this 

accomplishment, congratulating Murali for 

his outstanding achievement in the areas of 

leadership, scholarship and contributions 

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Washington, D.C., to receive a Presidential 

Scholar Medallion. 

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community service, leadership and demonstrated 

commitment to high ideals. 

Parkway bus driver Greg Zemblidge 

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the Osage Middle School in Lake Ozark, 

Missouri. The event featured 10 driving 

skills including a six-minute test to find 

six driving defects, parallel parking and 

student pickup drills. 

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in recent years but it has been 11 years 

since Parkway has crowned a state champion 

at this event 

Zemblidge also represented Missouri at 

the 49th Annual School Bus Driver International 

Safety Competition on July 21 in 

Austin, Texas, where he placed 20th. 

Each year, the National School Transportation 

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Rockwood graduate named 

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As a graduate of Rockwood School District, 

Meghan Menchella benefited from 

the way her teachers pushed her to achieve. 

Now an eighth-grade social studies 

teacher at Crestview Middle School, 

Menchella was named one of 10 local 

recipients of Regional Teacher of the Year 

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DESE began the Regional Teacher of the 

Year program in 2016 as a way to celebrate 

outstanding teachers from all over the state. 

Menchella and the other nine St. Louisarea 

teachers were honored at a reception 

July 22. 

“It’s been an overwhelming time,” 

Menchella said. “So much of this has been 

a group effort, and I’m seeing a little more 

of what I’m capable of and, as a school, 

what we’re capable of together. I’m very 

grateful and very humbled.” 

Parkway students slay the ACT 

Seven Parkway students scored a 36, the 

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Vijayakumar. From West High, the students 

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mathematics, reading and science, each 

scored on a scale of 1-36. A student’s composite 

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Sixth-grader Anokhi Desai earned a perfect 

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Geographic Education. The written exam 

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skills, interpreting charts and graphs, and 

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Legion baseball 

The Ballwin American Legion Post 611 

freshman baseball team reached the state 

tournament this summer. 

Post 611 finished its season strong by 

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state tournament, where it placed fourth. 

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over Cape Girardeau Post 63 and Gladstone 

Herrick Memorial Post 626. The 

team sustained losses to Union Post 297 

and Jefferson City Post 5. Head coach 

David Lochmann said he was proud of his 

players and their accomplishments this 

season. 

“A lot of these players were given challenging 

roles that asked them to step out of 

their comfort level and perform their best 

for the team,” Lochmann said. “We had a 

short season and a lot of it was curtailed 

by all the rain. They gelled just in time and 

played some of their best baseball in the 

last two weeks.” 

Ballwin Post 611 baseball teams consist 

of players residing within the Marquette 

and Lafayette high school boundaries. For 

more information about the program or 

tryouts for the 2020 teams, contact Greg 

Soaib at (314) 604-0427. 

Girls golf 

Lafyette junior Brooke Biermann shot 

a 3-under-par 69 in the second qualifying 

round in the 156-player field at the 71st 

U.S. Girls’ Junior at SentryWorld in Stevens 

Point, Wisconsin. However, 

it was not enough for the 

talented Biermann to move on 

to the match play portion in the 

tournament. 

Biermann, of Wildwood, shot 

an 82 in the opening qualifying 

round. She was one of just five 

players to shoot a 3-under 69 in 

the second round. She recorded 

seven birdies in the round. 

Biermann 

Her standout score in the second round 

gave her a finish of 7-over 151. But the 

36-hole cutoff was 150. Thirteen players 

tied at 150, resulting in a playoff. 

Biermann has been playing well this 

spring and summer. She recently finished 

in a tie for 18th place in the 44th annual 

Junior Girls PGA Championship at Keney 

Park Golf Course in Hartford, Connecticut. 

She also reached the semifinals of the prestigious 

93rd Women’s Western Amateur 

Junior Championship in Carmel, Indiana. 

Last fall, Biermann capped her sophomore 

season at Lafayette with a secondplace 

finish in the Class 2 state golf 

tournament. She shot rounds of 71 and 72 

to score a 143 over the two-day tournament 

at Swope Park Golf Course in Kansas City. 

• • • 

Team Missouri, coached by Lafayette’s 

girls golf coach Katrina Clark, was 

unable to defend its championship in the 

recent 51st Junior Girls’ Four-State Championship 

at ArborLinks Golf Course in 

Nebraska City, Nebraska. 

Missouri finished last with two points. 

Nebraska won with 11.5 points followed 

by Iowa with 5.5 points and Kansas with 

5 points. 

“This summer was my third year coaching 

the Four-State team,” Clark said, noting 

that there were no St. Louis or Kansas City 

girls on the team. 

“The girls qualify for the team through 

MGA [Missouri Golf Association] tournaments, 

which are heavily played by juniors 

in middle Missouri,” she explained. 

Women’s golf 

McKenna Montgomery, of Chesterfield, 

finished third in the recent Missouri 

Women’s Amateur/ Mid-Amateur Championship. 

The tournament was 

played at Bogey Hills Country 

Club in St. Charles. 

Montgomery, who helped 

Westminster Christian Academy 

to win a state title, finished 

the Amateur tournament with 

a 221. Montgomery will be a 

senior this fall at Union University 

in Jackson, Tennessee. 

Defending Amateur champion 

Emily Goldstein, of Chesterfield, finished 

eighth with a 231 total. 

Ten-time past champion Ellen Port finished 

in second place with a three-day total 

of 224 [78-73-73]. Last year’s champion, 

Kayla Eckelkamp, of Washington, came in 

third with a total of 234 [85-74-75]. 

The Low Junior Award for the tournament 

went to Claire Solovic with her total 

of 228 (80-77-71). Solovic will be a senior 

this fall at Seckman. 

Maryville names golf coach 

Maryville University Director of Athletics 

and Campus Recreation Lonnie Folks 

announced recently Scott Thomas has been 

promoted to be the head coach for both the 

Saints men’s and women’s golf teams. He 

has served as the assistant coach for both 

programs since 2015. 

Thomas succeeds Glenn Paulus, who is 

retiring from full-time duty at the university 

but will remain with the two teams as 

an assistant coach. 

“I am excited,” Thomas said. “It’s a great 

new way to stay involved with the game. I 

look forward to helping these young people 

get better. It’s going to be fun.” 

Thomas helped lead the Saints men’s 

team to three straight NCAA Tournaments 

and the 2019 Great Lakes Valley Conference 

championship. He has coached three 

All-GLVC selections, one Freshman of the 

Year and one All-Midwest selection. 

As a player, Thomas had a successful 

career as an amateur golfer at the local, state 

and national levels. He has won the Missouri 

Amateur, Missouri Mid-Amateur, and the 

Missouri Senior Amateur championships. 

Locally, Thomas has won the St. Louis 

District Golf Association’s Men’s and 

Senior Championships. He also has captured 

the Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association’s 

Senior Amateur Championship. 

He was named the 1992 St. Louis Post- 

Dispatch Amateur Player of the Year and 

the 2008 Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association 

Senior Player of the Year. 

Thomas has competed in six R&A Amateur 

Championships and 12 United States 

Golf Association championships. 

He said he is looking forward to his 

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“I enjoy recruiting and talking to young 

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Wildwood’s Austin Hindman 

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Living the dream is not just a glib statement 

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The Lafayette graduate left the University 

of Missouri after just one year, choosing 

instead to turn professional in his 

chosen sport – triathlon. 

“It’s been the dream 

since I was a little kid,” 

Hindman said in a phone 

call from Lima, Peru. 

“It’s a reality now for me. 

It’s still kind of a little bit 

surreal.” 

At the time of the call, 

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Hindman was with Team 

USA at the 2019 Pan 

Am Games. He finished 

12th in the Elite Men’s 

competition with a time 

of 1 hour, 52.03 minutes. 

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swim, 1:00.29 in the 20-kilometer bicycle 

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In June, Hindman finished sixth in 

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American Cup. In May, he was sixth in the 

Monterrey CAMTRI Triathlon American 

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In April, he was 16th in the Bridgetown 

CAMTRI Sprint Triathlon American Cup. 

In March, he was eighth in the Sarasota- 

Bradenton CAMTRI Sprint Triathlon 

American Cup. 

“I’ve raced seven times this year,” he 

said. “There are ups and downs. It’s a 

pretty big learning curve on how to balance 

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worked out. 

“I started out the year in South Africa. I 

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He said turning pro and leaving college 

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American International Sports Team [AIST] USA with Eureka’s Sydney Tiemann in the back row, 

second from left. 

[Provided photo] 

AIST lacrosse takes Eureka’s 

Sydney Tiemann to Portugal 


Sydney Tiemann, who graduated last 

spring from Eureka, knew it was an opportunity 

to good to pass up. 

The opportunity? A spot on American 

International Sports Team [AIST]. 

“My mom got an email from the company 

saying that I was nominated to play 

internationally for the USA,” Tiemann 

said. “My mom asked me if I knew what 

it was, and the only reason I knew about 

it was because of my high school lacrosse 

coach Melissa Menchella. She told me that 

I should do it because it is something that 

no one really gets to experience and something 

I should not pass on.” 

Since 2002, AIST has been traveling the 

world with select players from across the 

country competing in a variety of sports. 

The selection process is based on recommendations 

from coaches as well as statistical 

leaders from around the nation. For 

high school teams, selected players can be 

from an AIST tryout, a college coach’s recommendation, 

a college showcase event or 

from researching online player profiles. 

Menchella said Tiemann was deserving 

of the honor to play on the team. 

“Sydney has a passion for the game that 

goes beyond most. She has dedicated so 

much time and effort toward the sport,” 

Menchella said. “I believe that only players 

who want to go above and beyond with 

the sport will capitalize on opportunities 

such as this one, and Sydney is that kind of 

athlete with the sport of lacrosse.” 

Tiemann had to first fly to Newark, New 

Jersey, in order to meet the team. Then, 

everyone flew to Portugal together. The 

U.S. team only had two practices for the 

tournament while there. She noted that the 

first practice was a little rough due to jet 

lag but during the second practice everything 

just clicked. 

Team USA finished third out of the 10 

teams in the tournament. 

The squad played four games on the first 

day. The fifth game, held on day two, was 

the semifinal. USA lost but won the thirdplace 

game to finish 5-1. 

Tiemann said she finished with six or 

seven assists and four goals. 

“I think I played well. There was like 

maybe two or three games where I played 

the whole time,” she said. “Everyone 

knew how to play really good together and 

everyone did something to help the other 

girls on the field.” 

She said the competition was better than 

she expected but that “it was really interesting 

seeing how other teams from different 

countries play.” 

“The majority of the teams we played 

didn’t have to wear goggles or use a mouthguard,” 

Tiemann said. “We also played 

with 11 girls including a goalie, so it was a 

little different than home rules. There was 

no bad talk on the field and everywhere 

you looked you would see the team opponents 

talking to each other.” 

The best part of the tournament for Tiemann 

was meeting the other girls and “just 

being able to learn from them,” she said. 

This was her first trip to Portugal and 

Spain. She was able to visit Lisbon in Portugal 

and Seville in Spain. 

“It was so pretty and the architecture was 

so beautiful,” Tiemann said. “We went to a 

lot of castles in Lisbon and walked on this 

wall called Castelo dos Mouros in Lisbon. 

We also got to go to the beach in Lisbon 

and we got to zip line [across] a country’s 

border. We went from Spain to Portugal on 

a zip line, which was so cool.” 

The tourney capped Tiemann’s high 

school career; however, she will continue 

to play in college at McKendree University.

AUGUST 24 | SATURDAY 

PARADE 10am 

OPENING CEREMONIES 11:30am 

SCOUTING EXPERIENCE 11am – 4pm 

KIDS‘ ACTIVITIES 11am – 6:30pm 

FOOD COURT, BEER & WINE GARDEN 11am – 9:30pm 

BOOTHS & CRAFT AREA 11am – 6:30pm 

(Fine Craft Area, Book Authors, Demonstrations & 

Exhibits, and Business & Organization Booths) 

CITY INFORMATION / HISTORY TENT 11am – 9pm 

CONCERT featuring WILD HORSE CREEK BAND 11:30am – 4pm 

ANNOUNCEMENTS 6:30pm 

CONCERT featuring FAT POCKET 6:45pm – 9:15pm 

FIREWORKS 9:15pm (end of concert) 

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It’s time once again to Celebrate Wildwood 

but the party on Aug. 24 is all about 

you. From the parade in the morning until 

the fireworks at night, there’s a wide range 

of activities to entertain you all day long. 

So grab the family [sans any pets] and 

your friends and head to Wildwood Town 

Square at the intersection of Taylor and 

Main Street for West County’s last official 

festival of summer. 

Don’t let the parade pass you by 

Who doesn’t love a parade? And this 

parade is one of the best kept secrets in 

West County, easily accessible with good 

viewing opportunities all along the route. 

The parade steps off from Wildwood 

Crossing promptly at 10 a.m. and continues 

to Eastgate Lane, so it’s best to set up 

your lawn chairs or blankets on Manchester 

Road between Old Fairway Drive and 

Taylor Road, or on Taylor Road between 

Manchester Road and Main Street. Then, 

sit back and enjoy the fun. Be sure to bring 



a bag for candy and other goodies that 

parade participants may be handing out 

along the route. 

Activities for all ages 

2019 

After the parade, head over to Town Center 

for a full day of fun beginning at 11 a.m. 

Kids will enjoy inflatable bounce houses, 

a giant water slide, a rock-climbing wall, 

face painting, balloon artists, aerial trapeeze 

fun, and pony rides. Plus local Boy Scouts 

will be on site to provide a range of outdoorthemed 

activities, including the popular Boy 

Scout STEM Lab, Pinewood Derby racing, 

tomahawk throwing and a slingshot skills 

activity. New this year will be reenactors 

from the 8th Missouri Infantry, who will 

demonstrate what life was like in the 1880s. 

While the majority of the kids activities 

will run from 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m., the Scout 

activities will end at 4 p.m. 

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art, toys, quilts and more. Craft booths will 

be open from 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. 

Learn something new 

One of the festival’s more recent and popular 

additions has been the opportunity for 

guests to visit with a host of local authors. 

Attending this year are Clark Beim-Esche 

with his book “Calling on the Presidents: 

Tales Their Houses Tell”; Star Huddleston, 

whose children’s book tells the tale of an 

amphibian in search of himself; Dee Livers 

and her St. Louis-based adventure series for 

children; Jana Meehan, with a variety of fiction/nonfiction 

“good reads”; James Merkel, 

whose non-fiction books are nonetheless 

filled with colorful St. Louis characters; and 

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11 a.m.-9 p.m. City Information and History Tent 

11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Food Court and Vendors 

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11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Wildhorse Creek Band on the Main Stage 

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CELEBRATE WILDWOOD, from page 30 

Commission also returns this year, sharing 

space with the City Information Tent 

and debuting the latest chapter of the 

city’s written history. Spiral bound copies 

of “Celebrate the History of Wildwood 

Missouri” will be given out free of charge 

while supplies last. 

“The newest chapter covers the period 

between 1920 and 1990,” said commission 

chair Paul Wojciechowski. He added that 

while the book is free, donations will be 

accepted with the goal of reconstructing the 

Essen log cabin. 

“You might remember the cabin as the one 

that was stolen a few years ago,” he said. 

The cabin will be reconstructed on a yet-tobe-determined 

piece of land. 

The city’s written history is a collaborative 

effort between the commission and the 

Wildwood Historical Society, who also will 

have a presence at the festival. 

The City Information and History Tent 

will be open all day from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. 

Want to learn more about some of the 

businesses and organizations that call Wildwood 

home? Stop by the informational 

booths of Fellowship of Wildwood, Lifegate 

Baptist Church, Kiwanis Club of Meramec 

Valley Community, MO81st Air Force 

Junior ROTC - Lafayette High, Dr. Edmund 

A. Babler Memorial State Park, START 

[St. Louis Teens Aid Refugees Today], 

Rockwood Drug Free Coalition, Stonecrest 

Senior Living Center, St. Louis Community 

College – Wildwood. Living Water Academy, 

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Food and drink 

All that playing, shopping and talking 

might make you hungry and thirsty. Thankfully, 

Celebrate Wildwood has your food 

and beverage needs covered with hearty 

offerings from Daddy O’s Cheesesteaks, 

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Local band FatPocket performs from 6:45-9:15 p.m., followed by fireworks. 

Smokers, Union Baptist Church fish sandwiches 

and the Whatup Dog hot dog cart. 

Libations and other refreshments once 

again will be offered by the Pond Athletic 

Association along with Small Batch 

Winery, and Milk and Honey. To satisfy 

your sweet tooth, choose from Kona Ice, 

Freezing Point ice cream, The Nutty Sisters’ 

cinnamon roasted nuts, T and M Kettle 

Korn, or Poffcakes, mini Dutch pancakes 

topped with fresh strawberries, Nutella, 

maple syrup, powdered sugar, caramel and 

chocolate topping. Stop by one or all, and 

don’t forget The Big Squeeze, which will 

have mouthwatering, fresh-squeezed lemonade 

and soft hot pretzels for sale. 

Looking for something a bit more 

healthy? Micro Meadows, local urban 

farmers who produce about 13 varieties 

of microgreens, will be offering superfood 

salads, so be sure to check them out. 

Free concerts 

Celebrate Wildwood once again is offering 

two free concert experiences that will 

have attendees tempted to take center stage 

and show off their dance moves. 

From 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Wildhorse 

Creek Band takes center stage on 

Main Street. The band has been described 

by Guitar World/Extreme Guitar Magazine 

as “a melting pot of country, Bluegrass and 

Americana in the America/Eagles vein. 

They feature beautiful vocal harmonies, 

percussive strumming, fluid lead playing 

and solid bass playing.” 

Homegrown in Wildwood, they’ve 

been playing concerts all across the state 

since 1993 and have performed with The 

Marshall Tucker Band, Martina McBride, 

Monte Montgomery and more. The current 

trio includes Rob Compton [of Bobaloo], 

Pat Stevenson and either Rob Compton Jr. 

or Jim Keefe [of Rockin’ chair]. If you’ve 

heard them before, you know that sitting 

and listening with some food and drink 

from a nearby food vendor is a great way 

to spend a late summer day. 

As day gives way to night, Fat Pocket 

takes the stage. This high-energy party 

band plays everything from 60s’ classics to 

today’s chart-topping hits. No musical genre 

is off the table – and that’s what audiences 

love. FatPocket performs from 6:45-9 p.m. 

and no doubt will have audience members 

out of their seats and dancing. 

Fireworks 

It’s hard to follow a group like FatPocket 

unless you do it with a bang – literally. 

Immediately following FatPocket’s last 

song, Celebrate Wildwood will light up the 

night sky with fireworks. Organizers say 

the best spots for people to view the fireworks 

show will be along Main Street but 

they caution, “plan to arrive early if you’re 

not already in Town Square.” 

Parking 

Parking for the event will be available in 

the Main Street parking garage, located near 

the Wildwood Hotel. Visitors also can park 

in on-street parking spots and at the nearby 

New Community Church, 16801 Manchester 

Road within the city’s Town Center 

stretch. Specifically for the event, a path will 

be created through the adjacent field leading 

to the festival from the church’s parking 

lot, so attendees don’t have to worry about 

walking along Manchester Road. 

What to bring 

Attendees are prohibited from bringing 

glass bottles or pets to the event but are 

encouraged to bring lawn chairs for watching 

the concerts and fireworks show. 

Many food and craft vendors and surrounding 

businesses will accept credit and 

debit cards. If cash is needed, an ATM is 

available at the Bank of America, located 

a few stores down from Dierbergs in Wildwood 

Town Center. 

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After responding to the Assistance 

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Working with Hellmich, Edwards 

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schools with libraries built by various volunteers. 

Assistance League volunteers will keep 

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children can borrow. Children also can 

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A member of Boy Scout Troop 787, sponsored 

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three of his fellow students and four adults. 

In total, the team completed about 80 service 

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“We know that reading sparks a child’s 

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Edwards said. 

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WILLIAMS, from page 12 

enumerated powers of the United States 

Congress that says that Congress can take 

the earnings of one person and give it to 

another to whom it does not belong. And 

you see this if you look at the writings and 

quotations of the Founders. 

“In 1794, Congress appropriated $15,000 

to help some French refugees. James Madison, 

the acknowledged father of the Constitution, 

stood on the floor of the house 

irate and said: ‘I cannot undertake to lay 

my finger on that article of the Constitution 

which granted a right to Congress of 

expending, on objects of benevolence, the 

money of their constituents.’ [Annals of 

Congress, House of Representatives, first 

session, page 170] 

“Now, if you look at the federal budget 

today, two-thirds to three-quarters of it 

is for the purpose of benevolence. That 

is taking money from one American and 

giving to another American. If you told 

average Americans that there is nothing in 

the Constitution that authorizes Congress 

to engage in these thousands of activities 

that Congress engages in, they’d say: 

‘Well, the hell with the Constitution.’ 

“Liberty is not mankind’s standard dish. 

Throughout mankind’s history, he’s been 

subject to arbitrary abuse and control by 

others. A historian writing maybe 200 or 

300 years from now, he might say, ‘You 

know most of mankind has been subject 

to arbitrary abuse and control by others 

but there was this tiny historical curiosity 

where people had a large measure of 

liberty and it was in the United States of 

America and western Europe and Canada 

but it all went back to the normal state 

of affairs – arbitrary abuse and control 

by others.’ 

“If you ask the questions: ‘Which way 

are we headed as a nation, tiny steps at a 

time? Are we headed more toward more 

personal liberty or toward more government 

control over our lives?’ It unambiguously 

has to be the latter. 

“It would take a heroic step from Americans 

to right this ship. 

“The only prospect on the horizon is a 

group of people called the Free State Project. 

This is a group of Libertarian types. 

They’re trying to get a bunch of people to 

move to New Hampshire and once they 

get enough people in New Hampshire 

to take over the political system in New 

Hampshire by Democratic means and 

elect their own Congressmen and Senators, 

and then negotiate with Congress 

to obey the Constitution. If Congress 

refuses to obey the Constitution, some of 

the members talk of seceding from the 

Union. 

On attending the lecture 

at Lindenwood 

“I think people should consider learning 

more about our Constitution, learning 

more about our founding, what the Founders 

proposed. You hear so many people, 

especially politicians, say ‘our democracy’ 

but the Founders had utter contempt for 

democracy. As a matter of fact, you don’t 

find the word democracy in any of our 

founding documents, the Declaration of 

Independence or the United States Congress. 

“The Founders wanted us to be a republic. 

That is a republic of limited government. 

You find this when you pledge 

allegiance to the flag. Do we pledge 

allegiance to the democracy for which 

it stands? No, it’s republic. Or that song 

from the Civil War, is it the battle hymn 

of the democracy or the republic? It’s 

the republic. 

“So, I think there’s widespread ignorance 

in our country and I think that if people 

come out to the lecture they can be better 

informed and they can raise questions.” 

HAMMOND INSTITUTE, from page 12 

students include research competitions 

and awards for economics students; a new 

philosophy, politics and economics [PPE] 

micro-credential; the University’s Collegiate 

DECA competition team; reading 

groups; and a new Student Fellows program. 

Wall acknowledged that the many different 

centers can make the work of the 

Institute seem overly complicated. Overall, 

he said, the Hammond Institute, through 

its programs, is involved in economic 

research for the state of Missouri and providing 

entrepreneurship training and economic 

education. 

As an example of those efforts, Lindenwood’s 

Economic Education Center, under 

the direction of Dr. Tawni Hunt Ferrarini, 

provides resources and programs for kindergarten 

through grade 12 educators, 

youth organizers and parents in addition 

to kindergarten through grade 16 students. 

The Center’s mission is to increase economic 

awareness and instill appreciation 

and value for using sound economic reasoning 

to make choices associated with 

comfortable and secure living. 

Wall notes that Lindenwood’s commitment 

to free enterprise sets it apart from 

other universities. 

“I think you’d be hard pressed to find 

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You’ve packed the backpack, picked out 

first-day-of-school clothes and talked about 

before- and after-school routines and activities. 

Now, it’s all up to the teachers, right? 

Sorry, it’s not that easy. The true recipe for 

academic success is one part educator, one 

part parents and one part student, with each 

contributor doing his or her part. 

For their part, students need to be prepared, 

attentive and willing to ask for help. 

To do so, they need the help of mom and 

dad, sometimes even more as they grow. 

From kindergarten to senior high, the best 

outcomes result from working as a team. 

Know what is expected 

Start the school year off right by getting 

to know your child’s teacher and his or her 

expectations. A good way to do this is to 

attend school functions, such as back-toschool 

nights, parent-teacher conferences, 

even PTO meetings and read the information 

the teacher sends home. 

Sitting down with young children and 

emptying out their backpack daily is a good 

way to ensure that important assignments and 

notes home get the attention they deserve. 

With older students, keeping the lines of 

communication open can be harder. But 

even when your teen or preteen declares, “I 

don’t need your help,” his or her teacher may 

be saying, “Oh yes, you do.” That’s when 

it helps for parents and educators to have a 

good working relationship built on mutual 

respect. When a child won’t ask for help, 

sometimes the parents need to ask instead. 

Encourage reading 

The benefits of reading for health and 

happiness are clear at any age, and students 

are prime candidates. Improved memory, 

bigger vocabulary, increased empathy, 

decreased stress, brain development – 

there’s no downside. 

The 18th century essayist Joseph Addison 

wrote, “Reading is to the mind as exercise 

is to the body.” When it comes to your 

young scholar, the best way to encourage a 

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The Dream Team: 

Students, teachers and parents 

sharp, healthy mind is to promote reading. 

Schoolwork often involves required 

reading, and kids are less likely to do or 

enjoy it if it feels like a chore. Set a teacher 

up for success by instilling in your children 

the concept of reading as a fun activity. 

Read to them, read with them, read aloud. 

Set up a family book club. And take time 

to read from your children’s textbooks, so 

you can talk with them about what they’re 

learning at school. 

Share a meal 

Sitting around the dinner or breakfast 

table provides an ideal opportunity to talk 

about the day’s events and plan for extracurricular 

events, large school projects, test 

preparation or family outings. 

Ask specific questions about classes. How 

many times have you found yourself asking 

the question, “How was your day?” and 

hearing a grunt of “fine”? That exchange 

is devoid of information. Instead, ask your 

students what they are learning in each class. 

Ask which classes they like and which classes 

they don’t. Knowing what they don’t like or 

discovering what subjects may be presenting 

challenges is as important as celebrating their 

accomplishments. Together, come up with 

a plan to address areas that need improvement, 

and don’t forget to include your child’s 

teacher in your strategy. 

While we’re on the topic of meals, children 

who are well fueled are better prepared 

to learn. Nutrition experts suggest eating a 

breakfast that is rich in whole grains, fiber 

and protein and low in added sugar. Fresh 

fruit, nuts, yogurt, even a peanut butter and 

fruit sandwich can be wholesome choices 

as can smoothies that are equal parts vegetables 

and fruits with added protein. 

Enforce bedtime 

Students who are not well rested have a 

harder time paying attention and staying on 

task. Experts recommend 10 to 12 hours of 

sleep a night for school-age children. Set 

curfews, limit screen time for at least 30 

minutes prior to bed and remove distractions, 

such as phones and gaming equipment, 

from your child’s room or lock the 

devices after a certain time of night. 

Focus on organization 

There are so many pieces of paper in a 

student’s world – homework, handouts, 

info sheets, permission slips, progress 

reports. It’s all too easy for things to slip 

through the cracks or get lost in the shuffle 

when it’s one big maelstrom of print-outs. 

A chaotic locker or messy backpack 

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Local therapist offers tips on the 

best way to start the day 

By ALEXANDRA HILL 



Introduce Your 

Child to The 

World of Music 

Ages 6 months - Pre-School 

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“Some mornings are a struggle.” 

No truer words may ever have been 

written. When the alarm clock rings 

on that first day of school some kids 

are going to struggle. Other students 

may be great on day one, but seriously 

struggling after the newness wears off, 

say around day 15. 

As an occupational therapist, Joyce 

Olshan noticed that many of the techniques 

and ideas she used daily with 

her clients also could be beneficial to 

parents and teachers. She also noticed, after 

being around her sister and her sister’s 

grandchild, that there are many books about 

going to bed – for example, “Goodnight 

Moon” – but few about helping kids get up 

in the morning. 

Adults have ways to wake up like alarm 

clocks and caffeine, but children often need 

some help easing into their days. Teachers 

don’t have time to attend to grumpy students 

and sometimes grumpy children can 

get labeled as bad kids, simply because 

they didn’t have the time in the morning to 

fully wake up. 

When she turned 60, Olshan decided it 

was time to write the “My Wake Up Book,” 

she knew parents and students needed. 

It begins with a phrase often uttered by 

parents, “Time to wake up, sleepy head!” 

and then asks, “Under your blanket, oh so 

soft, do you need more time to snuggle?” 

Through a series of exercises and suggestions, 

complete with rhymes, Olshan 

helps parents prepare their child for a good 

day ahead. 

It’s important to have sensory organizing, 

Olshan explained. “We all have sensory 

likes and dislikes.” Her book strives to help 

children and their parents find a wake-up 

routine that works best for them, one they 

can use on those days when “mornings 

are a struggle.” It is born out of the field 

of sensory integration, something she used 

The cover of “My Wake Up Book” by Joyce Olshan 

and Jonathan Herzog 

frequently in her work as a therapist. 

In writing her book, she said she tried to 

keep to a therapeutic schedule. She wanted 

the book to be simple and open-ended. A 

few pages at the end of the book offer other 

suggestions to help kids wake up in the 

morning. The way Olshan sees it is that if 

one of the suggestions in the book triggers 

some sort of reaction or causes a child to 

think, it will lead the way. 

Olshan, a Chesterfield resident, said 

she had been thinking of writing a book 

like this for a long time, but one day the 

poems that you see in the book just came to 

her. She went to friends, family and other 

occupational therapists to get feedback and 

ideas on her book. But when she wrote it 

she didn’t have an artist. It took some digging, 

but she finally found a friend with a 

son who was a graphic artist. 

Parkway North graduate Jonathan 

Herzog was the one who came up with the 

idea for the diverse family styles shown in 

the book. Olshan liked the idea of having a 

book with drawings to which all different 

kinds of people could relate. 

As for how she went about publishing it, 

Olshan said she has a good friend in the selfpublishing 

business, Peggy Nehmen. When 

self-publishing a book, you normally have 

to be computer savvy and Olshan is not. 

Luckily, she said, her friend is. Olshan said 

that if she hadn’t had Nehmen’s help, her 

book would probably not exist today. 

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can be a sign that the kid is overwhelmed. 

That’s when assignments start to disappear, 

teacher notes for parents never make it 

home, and grades begin to wobble. 

Frequently, check in with your child 

about their strategies for staying organized. 

Are they using their planner? If not, why? 

Is there a better way? 

Give them practical methods to organize 

all that paperwork. Consider folders and 

binders with dividers or multiple pockets. 

Sort materials by class and/or category 

[notes, homework, assignments, projects, 

grades, etc.]. It’s easy to find something 

when you know where you left it. 

Foster good study habits 

Kids don’t know good study habits 

intrinsically. Parents should teach and show 

their children how to study, particularly for 

tests. Teachers can provide study guides 

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for a test involves the student going back 

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National Immunization Awareness Month shines a spotlight on vaccines and 

their role in maintaining good health for adults as well as kids. 

Health 

Capsules 

By LISA RUSSELL 

Vaccinations shouldn’t 

end in childhood 

August is National Immunization Awareness 

Month – and just because you’re long 

past the childhood immunization schedule 

doesn’t mean that you no longer need vaccines 

to protect your health. 

Depending on your age when you were 

first immunized, protection against some 

diseases can wear off as you get older. 

New vaccines also have been added over 

the years, especially for older adults to protect 

against diseases such as shingles and 

pneumonia. 

It’s also important for women who are 

pregnant, or planning to become pregnant, to 

make sure their immunizations are up to date. 

The specific vaccines you should have as 

an adult are dependent on your age, health 

conditions, lifestyle, and plans for international 

travel. Following is a general list of 

immunizations adults should discuss with 

their doctors: 

• Yearly seasonal influenza [flu] 

• Tdap: tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis 

[whooping cough], for those who have 

not previously been vaccinated, pregnant 

women, and those providing care for 

infants including parents, grandparents and 

babysitters 

• Shingles for healthy adults over age 50 

• Pneumococcal [pneumonia] for adults 

age 65 and older, or others with health conditions 

that put them at risk 

• Hepatitis A and/or Hepatitis B, for 

adults with diabetes or who are planning 

to travel internationally to countries where 

these diseases are common. 

Planning for emergencies 

should include pets, too 

Most people think of their pets as family. 

But they may not think about what would 

happen to those canine and 

feline family members if 

an emergency – such as 

a fire, flood, tornado or 

earthquake – should strike 

with little or no warning. 

In such situations, when 

panic often prevails, pet 

owners often face difficult 

decisions about how to 

keep them safe. As part of 

its Healthy Pets, Healthy 

People program, the Centers 

for Disease Control 

and Prevention offers a few basic tips to 

help make these decisions easier when seconds 

count. 

1. Have your pet microchipped. Ask 

your veterinarian to implant a microchip 

containing your contact information, which 

can be easily scanned if you and your pet 

become separated. During a disaster, finding 

a lost pet that hasn’t been microchipped 

can be extremely difficult or even impossible. 

Once the chip is implanted, keep the 

registration information up to date. 

2. Prepare a pet disaster kit containing 

food, leashes, bedding and any necessary 

medications. Although this means purchasing 

extra supplies, it will be easier to gather 

your pet’s items if you have them all together 

and ready for an emergency. Include copies 

of your pet’s veterinary records, rabies vaccination 

certificates, microchip information, 

and any prescriptions. 

3. Prearrange where your pet will stay 

in an emergency. Pets other than service 

animals are often not allowed in evacuation 

centers, so ask out-of-town friends or relatives 

ahead of time about keeping your pet 

in an emergency. In the event that you’re 

not home when disaster strikes, establish 

a “buddy system” with friends and neighbors 

you can call to check on your pets and 

evacuate them if necessary. 

4. Include pets in family plans. When 

discussing your family’s emergency plans, 

make sure everyone knows who will grab 

the pet(s), supplies, and where you will 

meet during an evacuation. For sheltering 

in place, pick a room with few or no 

windows, no toxic chemicals or plants, and 

make sure to close off small areas where 

frightened pets could get stuck. 

As important members of the family, pets should be included in 

planning for natural disasters and other unforeseen emergencies. 

Parents admit their role in 

teens’ ‘failure to launch’ 

A new University of Michigan poll that 

questioned parents of teens about those 

teens’ readiness for adulthood found that 

many are not ready – and their parents are 

taking the blame for this “failure to launch.” 

Nearly all parents who participated in 

the survey – a nationally representative 

sample whose kids are between the ages 

of 14 and 18 – said they are helping their 

teens become more independent by allowing 

them to make more choices, pushing 

them to handle things themselves, and no 

longer doing things for them. 

However, a quarter of parents surveyed 

also said they are the main barrier to their 

teen’s independence because they don’t take 

the time or effort needed to give their teen 

more adult responsibilities. They said it’s 

often quicker and less hassle to do things 

themselves, or they don’t think about specific 

ways to give teens more responsibility. 

Parents gave their teens – and themselves 

– the lowest ratings on the subject 

of teens assuming responsibility for their 

own healthcare. Many parents felt that it 

remained their job to ensure that their teens 

received appropriate care, followed medical 

advice and took medicines on schedule. 

“The process of transitioning from 

childhood to adulthood includes everything 

from preparing for work and financial 

responsibility, to taking care of one’s 

health and well-being. Our poll suggests 

that parents aren’t letting go of the reins as 

often as they could be to help teens successfully 

make that transition,” said Sarah 

Clark, an associate research scientist and 

the poll’s co-director. 

“We did not ask about life-or-death 

health care matters. But we did ask parents 

whether their teens could independently 

handle very basic tasks, such as taking care 

of minor injuries, figuring out the correct 

dose of a medication or calling to make a 

doctor’s appointment,” Clark explained. 

She said that it’s crucial for teens to 

begin taking ownership of their health 

before they enter adulthood, when they 

will face more complex tasks. 

Although nearly all the parents surveyed 

expressed the belief that it is important for 

teens to make mistakes, they also felt it





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was their role to prevent teens from making 

mistakes that are too serious, expressing a 

reluctance to let go of certain decisions 

where negative consequences could result. 

“It is clear that parents recognize tension 

in helping teens move toward independence, 

and they agree that valuable learning 

experiences often result from a poor 

decision,” Clark said. 

“Some parents justify taking control over 

certain responsibilities because they don’t 

believe their teen is ‘mature enough.’ But 

this type of logic inhibits their teen from 

actually becoming more mature.” 

Common personal care products 

pose dangers to kids 

Most people don’t think of personal care 

products like shampoo, lotion, makeup and 

cologne as unsafe for children, so they are 

generally kept within easy reach. However, 

these types of products sent nearly 65,000 

children under age 5 to U.S. emergency 

rooms between 2002 and 2016 – about one 

child every two hours. 

A study recently conducted at Nationwide 

Children’s Hospital’s Center for 

Injury Research and Policy found that 

most injuries from these types of products 

occurred when a child either swallowed 

the product [about 76%] or it made contact 

with a child’s eyes or skin [about 19%], 

causing either poisoning or chemical burns. 

“Kids this age can’t read, so they don’t 

know what they are looking at. They see 

a bottle with a colorful label that looks or 

smells like something they are allowed 

to eat or drink, so they try to open it and 

take a swallow,” said Rebecca McAdams, 

M.A., MPH, senior research associate at 

the center and the study’s co-author. 

The top three categories leading to injuries 

were nail care, hair care and skin care 

products, followed by fragrances. Nail 

polish remover was the single item that led 

to the most ER visits, while more than half 

of the injuries requiring hospitalization 

were from hair care products. 

The authors also expressed concern 

about kids’ easy access to these products. 

“Children watch their parents use these 

items and may try to imitate their behavior. 

Since these products are often stored in 

easy-to-reach places and are not typically 

in child-resistant containers, it can be easy 

for kids to get to and open the bottles,” said 

McAdams. 

They recommended that parents and child 

caregivers follow these simple safety tips: 

• Store all personal care products up, 

away and out of sight - in a cabinet that can 

be locked or latched is best. Never leave 

personal care products unattended and put 

them away immediately after use. 

• Keep all personal care products in their 

original containers. 

• Know how to get help. Save the national 

Poison Help Line (1-800-222-1222) in your 

cell phone and post it near home phones. 

On the calendar 

St. Louis Children’s Hospital Specialty 

Care Center presents Baby-Kid Expo on 

Saturday, Aug. 10 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at 

Greensfelder Recreation Center in Queeny 

Park, 550 Weidman Road in Ballwin. This 

free event connects St. Louis area families to 

products and services including healthcare 

and daycare providers, educational choices 

and recreation options. It will feature a petting 

zoo, Safety Street, magic acts, princess 

shows and more. Register for admission and 

prize giveaways at babykidexpo.com. 

• • • 

St. Luke’s Hospital offers cholesterol 

and glucose wellness screenings on 

Thursday, Aug. 15 from 7-9:30 a.m. at St. 

Luke’s Convenient Care 1080 Lindemann 

Road [inside Dierbergs Des Peres]. Get 

your cholesterol and glucose numbers in a 

one-on-one consultation with a registered 

nurse/health coach, which also includes 

blood pressure and body composition measurement. 

The cost is $20; an A1C blood 

test is also available for an additional $12. 

Advance appointments are required; register 

online at stlukes-stl.com. 

• • • 

St. Louis Children’s Hospital sponsors a 

Babysitting 101 class on Saturday, Aug. 17 

from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Children’s Specialty 

Care Center, 13001 N. Outer Forty 

Road in Town & Country. This class is a 

great introduction to the basics of babysitting; 

participants learn how to entertain 

kids in their care while attending to their 

needs. There is no age limit. The course fee 

is $30 per child. Register online at StLouisChildrens.org/Registration 

or call (314) 

454-5437. 

• • • 

An American Red Cross blood drive 

is on Monday, Aug. 26 from 10 a.m.-2 

p.m. at the St. Luke’s Hospital Institute for 

Health Education, 222 S. Woods Mill Road 

in Chesterfield, on Level 2 of the North 

Medical Office Building. To schedule an 

appointment, visit redcrossblood.org. and 

enter the sponsor code SAINTLUKES or 

call (314) 658-2090. 

• • • 

St. Luke’s Hospital presents the first event 

in a special Conversations for Women series, 

Basics of Mindful Eating, on Thursday, 

Sept. 5 from 6-7:30 p.m. at The Lodge Des 

Peres, 1050 Des Peres Road. The overall 

goal of mindful eating is to have a healthy 

relationship with food. Participants will 

learn several techniques to help them understand 

their eating habits, and learn how to 

modify them to reach nutrition goals while 

also enjoying food more. A light dinner will 

be served. To register for this free event, 

visit stlukes-stl.com. 

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING 

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

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

August 14, 2019, at 7:00 P.M. to consider the petition of McKelvey Homes, LLC for 

Text Amendments to Title IV, Land Use, Section 400.211 Clarkson Meadows and Marsh 

Field Acres Preservation Overlay Districts, pertaining to regulations applicable to Clarkson 

Meadows Preservation Overlay District. 

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

the Ellisville City Hall, #1 Weis Avenue, on Wednesday, August 21, 2019, at 7:00 P.M. to 

consider the petition of McKelvey Homes, LLC for Text Amendments to Title IV, Land Use, 

Section 400.211 Clarkson Meadows and Marsh Field Acres Preservation Overlay Districts, 

pertaining to regulations applicable to Clarkson Meadows Preservation Overlay District. 

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

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Smokee Mo’s in Manchester 

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NEW & NOTABLE 

Smokee Mo’s St. Louis is now open in 

its newest location at 110 Meramec Station 

Road in Manchester. The restaurant offers 

traditional smokehouse barbecue, as well 

as vegan barbecue. Kimmswick’s Blue 

Owl Bakery desserts are coming soon. To 

complement the vegan entrees, vegetarian 

and vegan desserts also are forthcoming. 

Holiday and event catering is available. 

PLACES 

Gateway Design Studio, LLC, a professional 

planning, landscape architectural 

and environmental design firm located in 

Ballwin, announced the completion of the 

Pine Lawn Community Park project. The 

highlight of the project is the transformation 

of vacant, derelict buildings into the 

3.3-acre Pine Lawn Community Park – a 

new neighborhood park and hub for community 

activity that includes a playground, 

walking paths and a multipurpose field. 

The project also includes the transformation 

of a half-mile stretch of Pasadena 

Boulevard into a new walkable environment 

with sidewalks, street medians, and 

a roundabout. 

• • • 

HealthWorks! Kids’ Museum St. Louis 

has announced that the Mid-America Transplant 

Foundation has donated $34,800 in 

grant funding to help support its Recycle 

Life Project. This new initiative is designed 

to educate and reinforce the importance of 

preventive care and healthy life choices, 

while introducing the topic of organ and 

tissue donation in a way that is fun and easy 

to understand. The grant funding will also 

be used to ensure that the program is accessible 

to all by providing hundreds of admission 

scholarships to low-income students. 

PEOPLE 

The Missouri Association of School 

Business Officials announced the election 

of Patty Bedborough as its new board 

president. Bedborough is the chief financial 

officer of the Parkway School District. She 

developed a zero-based budgeting process 

to ensure efficient use of resources through 

sustainability efforts and redevelopment 

of open positions. Bedborough received 

her bachelor’s degree from the University 

of Missouri-St. Louis and her master’s in 

business administration from Missouri 

Baptist University. 

• • • 

Erika Schenk recently 

was elected to The 

Fulton School’s board 

of trustees. Presently the 

general counsel and vice 

president of compliance 

at World Wide Technology, 

Schenk also serves 

Schenk 

Kinney 

on the boards of the Missouri Historical 

Society, The Commerce Funds, Character- 

Plus and Forest Park Forever. 

• • • 

Alliance Technologies 

LLC has announced that 

Ballwin resident Curt 

Kinney has joined the 

firm as vice-president of 

business advisory services. 

As the leader of 

the new Alliance Business 

Advisors, Kinney brings four decades 

of business executive leadership and experience 

to area business owners. 

AWARDS 

Balaban’s earned best of award of 

excellence for its wine cellar in the 2019 

awards from Wine Spectator, the international 

magazine considered one of the 

world’s authorities on wine. In 10 years 

of operation in Chesterfield, Balaban’s 

has earned Wine Spectator awards each 

year with eight of 

those annual awards 

the best of award of 

excellence. The best 

of award of excellence 

recognizes restaurants 

whose wine 

lists offer interesting 

selections, appropriate 

to their cuisine 

and appealing to a 

wide range of wine 

lovers. In other 

news, the restaurant announced July 22 

that owners Brian Underwood and Steve 

McIntyre have sold the restaurant, which 

will cease operations on Aug. 10. Karen 

Halper, owner of Patty Long Catering, the 

Mahler Ballroom, Enchanting Embellishments 

and Mary Ann’s Tea Room, purchased 

Balaban’s and plans to move it back 

to its central West End roots. 

EVENTS 

The Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce 

hosts its general membership meeting 

at noon [doors open at 11:15 a.m.] on 

Wednesday, Aug. 21 at St. Louis Community 

College-Wildwood, 2645 Generations 

Drive. Bring your business cards for speed 

networking. Admission is $30 for members; 

$35 for guests. A $5 discount applies 

for registrations through Aug. 19; a $5 surcharge 

applies to day-of walk-ins; walkins 

will not be guaranteed a meal. Register 

online at chesterfieldmochamber.com or by 

calling (636) 532-3399. 

• • • 

The West St. Louis Chamber of Commerce 

hosts its general membership meeting 

from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 

22 at The Wildwood Hotel, 2801 Fountain 

Place in Wildwood. Admission is $25 for 

members; $30 for nonmember guests. 

There is a $5 surcharge for registration less 

than 48 hours prior to the luncheon and for 

walk-ins. To register, call (636) 230-9900 

or visit westcountychamber.com. 

Balaban’s in Chesterfield will cease operations Aug. 10. 

New customers only. Up to 1/2 acre. 

Cannot be combined with other offers. Expires 8/31/19. 

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING 

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

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

14, 2019, at 7:00 P.M. to consider a City-initiated petition for Text Amendments to Title IV, 

Land Use, in order to add hotel/motel uses as permitted uses in the C-3 Commercial Zoning 

District and the C-4 Ellisville Business Park Zoning District of the City of Ellisville, Missouri. 

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

the Ellisville City Hall, #1 Weis Avenue, on Wednesday, August 21, 2019, at 7:00 P.M. to 

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

City-initiated petition for Text Amendments to Title IV, Land Use, in order to add hotel/motel 

uses as permitted uses in the C-3 Commercial Zoning District and the C-4 Ellisville Business 

Park Zoning District of the City of Ellisville, Missouri. 

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

the City of Ellisville.

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aging through lifelong learning, active 

lifestyles and service, St. Louis-based 

Oasis launched its Intergenerational Tutoring 

program here in 1989. Since that time, 

thousands of older adults have served as 

Oasis volunteer tutors nationwide, impacting 

the lives of nearly half a million children. 

The 2019-2020 school year will mark the 

program’s 30th anniversary – and Oasis is 

currently signing up new volunteers to join 

the St. Louis area seniors currently serving 

as tutors, mentors and friends to kids in 

kindergarten through third grade. Opportunities 

are available in 28 school districts 

across Missouri, including St. Louis and St. 

Charles Counties, St. Louis City and Jefferson 

County, as well as St. Clair County, 

Illinois. 

Tutors focus on students’ early literacy 

skills, using an educator-designed 

approach that emphasizes improved reading, 

speaking, listening and writing. No 

previous teaching experience is required; 

Oasis provides training and other materials 

volunteers need to be successful. Oneon-one 

meetings take place once a week 

during the school day, generally lasting 

about an hour. 

Benefits to the students who participate 

are many, according to National Intergenerational 

Tutoring Director Mary Click. 

“They enjoy reading more, they enjoy 

school more, they become more confident, 

and they benefit in other academic areas as 

well,” Click said. 

Perhaps just as significant, though, are 

the benefits to the tutors themselves. 

“Our tutors love what they do … the 

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it than the children do,” said Oasis Institute 

Director of Communications Anne Heinrich. 

In fact, 100% of Oasis tutors responding 

to a survey conducted by the nonprofit 

said they find significantly more purpose in 

life as a result of their service, she added. 

Dean Barnes, a Manchester resident who 

has served as an intergenerational tutor for 

two years in the Parkway and Rockwood 

school districts, definitely agrees with that 

statement. 

“I worked in the construction equipment 

rental business for 40 years, and traveled 

nonstop. So when I retired, I had this huge 

void I needed to fill in my life,” Barnes 

explained. 

“I get a whole lot out of being a tutor 

… it does a whole lot of good all around. 

I just feel it’s the right thing to do. It’s a 

very enjoyable time, especially when you 

can develop a relationship with a child,” he 

said. 

Barnes has worked with 14 students over 

the past two years, six during the first year 

and eight the second, visiting schools two 

days per week. He started in the Parkway 

district, tutoring students in three elementary 

schools – but when one of them moved 

to Rockwood, “I filled out the forms and 

followed the young man over there,” he 

said. 

Like the vast majority of Oasis tutors, 

he plans to continue his service during the 

upcoming school year. 

“It’s a wonderful program; I can’t speak 

highly enough about it.” 

• • • 

Oasis intergenerational tutors will 

receive 10-12 hours of training in late 

August and September, with a goal of 

matching tutors with students by the first 

week in October. For more information 

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or call (314) 995-9506.





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As the population ages, more and more American workers are providing care for elderly 

parents, which is increasingly creating needs for support from their employers. 

News & Notes 


Sandwiched at work 

In addition to their full-time jobs, about a 

quarter of American adults now care for an 

elderly family member on an unpaid basis, 

according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This 

number is only expected to rise as more 

people live into their 80s and beyond, and 

many seniors choose to “age in place” in 

their homes rather than entering nursing 

homes or other care facilities. 

Many of those informal caregivers experience 

significant work disruptions as a result. 

However, they often don’t receive support 

from their employers, either because it is not 

offered or because they are hesitant to use it, 

according to a recent study. 

Researchers from Baylor University, 

Louisiana State University and the University 

of Iowa analyzed data from about 

650 people who described themselves as 

informal caregivers. Nearly three-fourths 

of those interviewed said they experience 

some degree of work interruption due to 

their caregiving responsibilities, ranging 

from mild disruptions such as adjusting 

work hours to more severe ones, such as 

needing to move from full-time to parttime 

status or taking a leave of absence. 

More than half of those serving as 

caregivers for 10 or more hours weekly 

reported more severe disruptions at work. 

“So-called sandwiched caregivers, typically 

middle-aged, are caring for ailing 

parents while trying to work full-time 

and raise their own children,” said the 

study’s lead author Matthew A. Andersson, 

Ph.D., an assistant professor of sociology 

at Baylor. 

“But what’s particularly troubling … is 

that employees who are experiencing work 

interruption are much more likely to say 

they have unmet need for workplace support 

than those who manage to keep working at 

the same pace,” Andersson said. “This tells 

us that employers may not be stepping up to 

connect informal caregivers with workplace 

supports they need. That makes informal 

caregiving an even tougher role.” 

Andersson cited employer-sponsored 

programs such as eldercare referral or 

financial counseling, along with workplace 

environments and training programs structured 

to accommodate and support family 

needs, as areas of opportunity for employers. 

“We know that informal caregiving is 

becoming more common and more complicated 

due to the multiple health conditions 

of care recipients and the all-too-familiar 

work-family conflict … we need to get 

employers more involved in the reality of 

this pressing situation,” he added. 

Pinpointing surgery risks 

Seniors who undergo surgery are often 

more vulnerable than younger adults to 

complications that delay their recovery. As 

part of its Geriatric Surgery Pilot Project, 

the American College of Surgeons recently 

identified four specific risk factors associated 

with older patients’ inability to return 

home for at least a month after surgery. 

A research team looked at about 4,000 

patients who had inpatient procedures 

between 2015 and 2017. Eighteen percent 

of them were still living in a care facility 

30 days after surgical treatment. These 

patients commonly had one or more of 

four health events: 1. a history of a fall 

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The American College of Surgeons recently identified four specific health factors impacting 

elderly patients’ lifestyles and ability to return home after surgery. 

MATURE FOCUS, from page 47 

within the past year, 2. preoperative malnutrition 

as defined by more than 10% of 

unintentional weight loss, 3. postoperative 

delirium, and 4. a new or worsening pressure 

ulcer after surgery. 

This information can help surgeons 

advise patients beforehand about the possible 

effects of a surgical procedure on their 

clinical outcomes and future lifestyles, the 

group stated. It also may guide hospital 

quality improvement programs to address 

these conditions. 

“When surgeons speak with older patients 

about the decision to operate, we discuss 

complication rates and the risk of mortality. 

We don’t usually talk about whether 

they will have the independence they had 

beforehand,” said study co-author Ronnie 

Rosenthal, M.D., F.A.C.S. “This information 

should help us make better preoperative 

decisions with our patients by allowing us 

to tell them about the impact a surgical procedure 

will have on their way of life.” 

Money management-dementia 

connection 

Problems with simple money math, such 

as making change or figuring tips, are 

extremely common with aging. But trouble 

managing money can also be a symptom 

of dementia, and may correlate with the 

amount of protein deposits called amyloid 

plaques built up in the brain, according to 

new Duke University research. 

“There has been a misperception that 

financial difficulty may occur only in the 

late stages of dementia, but this can happen 

early and the changes can be subtle,” said P. 

Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, a professor of 

psychiatry and geriatrics at Duke and the 

study’s senior author. 

The study included 243 adults between 

55 and 90 participating in the Alzheimer’s 

Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, which 

included tests of financial skills along with 

brain scans to look for protein buildup. 

The testing showed that more extensive 

amyloid plaques were directly related to 

a deteriorating ability to understand basic 

financial concepts and complete tasks, such 

as calculating account balances. These 

declines were similar in men and women. 

“Older adults hold a disproportionate 

share of wealth in most countries and an 

estimated $18 trillion in the U.S. alone,” 

Doraiswamy said. “Given the rise in 

dementia cases [expected] over the coming 

decades and their vulnerability to financial 

scams, this is an area of high priority for 

research.” 

Most testing for early dementia and 

Alzheimer’s disease now focuses on 

memory skills, the researchers pointed out. 

A financial capacity assessment could be 

another valuable tool for doctors to track 

subtle changes in a person’s cognitive function 

over time, and could also help older 

adults protect their finances, they added. 

The study was published in The Journal 

of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease. 

On the calendar 

A Total Control Course is offered on 

Mondays and Wednesdays, Aug. 12 through 

Sept. 30, from 1:30-2:45 p.m. at the St. 

Luke’s Desloge Outpatient Center, 121 St. 

Luke’s Center Drive in Chesterfield, in 

Building B. This course integrates specific 

core training exercises and educational discussions 

to help women improve their pelvic 

health. Topics include nutrition selection, 

pharmaceuticals, behavior modifications 

and lifestyle information. The course fee is 

$99. Register online at stlukes-stl.com; call 

(314) 205-6881 with questions. 

• • • 

Missouri Baptist Medical Center presents 

a free monthly caregiver class, Supporting 

the Caregiver, on Tuesday, Aug. 13 from 

1-2:30 p.m. in Auditorium 1 of the hospital, 

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3015 N. Ballas Road. This class is for those 

caring for a loved one; BJC employees will 

provide personal and professional insight on 

resources to assist caregivers. Light refreshments 

will be served. Register online at 

https://classes-events.bjc.org. 

• • • 

St. Louis Oasis presents a free information 

session, Opiates: What You Need 

to Know, on Wednesday, Aug. 14 from 

10 a.m.-noon at Missouri Baptist Medical 

Center, 3015 N. Ballas Road, in Room 420 

of the Clinical Learning Center. To register, 

call (314) 996-5433. 

• • • 

BJC Missouri Baptist Medical Center 

sponsors a Today’s Grandparents class 

on Thursday, Aug. 15 from 6:30-9 p.m. in 

Building D, Suite 400 of the hospital, 3023 

N. Ballas Road. This two-hour class serves 

as an update for grandparents-to-be, and 

focuses on current trends in infant care as 

well as tips on both local and distant grandparenting. 

Discussion is encouraged; a tour 

of the OB division is included. The cost is 

$20 per person. Register each grandparent 

online at https://classes-events.bjc.org. 

• • • 

St. Luke’s Hospital presents Heart Failure, 

Now What?, on Tuesday, Aug. 20 

from 1-2:30 p.m. at the Desloge Outpatient 

Center, 121 S. Luke’s Center Drive 

in Chesterfield, in Building A. The word 

“failure” can be a wake-up call for those 

diagnosed with heart failure; it can also 

provide motivation to do something about 

it and be successful at taking care of your 

heart. Join a multi-disciplinary team of 

health professionals to discuss proven 

strategies to help you take control of your 

heart health and minimize your risk of 

complications. The program is free. Register 

online at stlukes-stl.com; call (314) 

542-4848 with questions. 

• • • 

Choice: Healthy Living for Seniors 

sponsors a Beginning Meditation course 

on Friday, Aug. 23 from 10-11 a.m. at the 

Samuel Sachs Library, 16400 Burkhardt 

Place in Chesterfield. Participants will learn 

simple meditation techniques, presented 

by Sahaja Meditation Group, to achieve 

mental silence, inner peace, and a stressfree 

life. Class sizes are limited. To register, 

call 314-994-3300 or visit agingahead. 

org. Following class, participants may stay 

for lunch from St. Louis Bread Company; 

the suggested donation for lunch is $5 for 

those over age 60 and $10 for those under 

60. Choice events are sponsored through a 

partnership between the St. Louis County 

Library and Aging Ahead. 

• • • 

An AARP Smart Driver Course is 

offered on Wednesday, Sept. 18 from 9 

a.m.-1 p.m. at the Ellisville Parks and Recreation 

building, 225 Kiefer Creek Road in 

Ellisville. This program will help tune up 

your driving skills, update your knowledge 

of the rules of the road, learn about normal 

age-related physical changes and ways to 

adjust for these changes. The cost is $15 

for AARP members and $20 for non-members. 

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MoBap receives ACEP geriatric accreditation 

The Missouri Baptist Medical Center 

emergency department recently earned a 

Level 3 Accreditation for geriatric care 

from the American College of Emergency 

Physicians [ACEP]. MoBap is the 

first St. Louis area hospital to achieve 

this accreditation, and one of only three 

hospitals in the state. 

ACEP launched the nationwide program 

in 2014, to recognize emergency 

departments that provide excellent care 

for older adults as the U.S. population 

ages. Guidelines range from adding geriatric-friendly 

equipment and specialized 

staff to providing routine screening for 

delirium, dementia and fall risk. 

For MoBap, the accreditation follows 

a three-year effort to improve care for 

older patients both during and after their 

emergency department visits. An analysis 

of its patient population had initially 

found that 37% of emergency visits 

were by people older than 65, with falls 

often listed as the cause of their injuries. 

This analysis led to a multi-disciplinary 

effort to improve care, with an 

emphasis on reducing patients’ longterm 

fall risk. It includes home health 

visits immediately after discharge for 

patients determined to be at high risk for 

falls, as well as providing seniors with 

mobility devices such as canes or walkers 

to improve their safety and working 

with their primary care physicians on 

long-term plans to reduce fall risk. 

In addition to the fall prevention program, 

MoBap is nearing completion of a 

two-year, $1.3 million capital improvement 

project to refresh the ED environment, 

focusing on safety for the geriatric 

population. 

“The GEDA accreditation validates all 

of the hard work by those involved in 

developing our fall program and in updating 

our facilities,” said Emergency Medicine 

Associate Chief Joseph Galkowski, 

D.O. “And we will continue to look for 

best practices and other ways to enhance 

the care we provide to all those in need, 

particularly our geriatric patients.”





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Have You Lived With Pain For So 

Long That You Can’t Imagine Life 

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I ask every new patient that enters my 

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St. Louis County Executive Sam Page 

recently announced he would like to see 

the elimination of some fees charged to 

those in the county’s custody. The proposal 

would eliminate six fees that are currently 

charged to those individuals being held by 

the St. Louis County Justice Center. 

“We should do what we can to ease the 

transition back into the community for 

incarcerated people,” Page said. “Eliminating 

a financial burden on people coming 

out of custody will help them find a job, 

housing and a better way of life.” 

Page’s proposal comes after a recommendation 

from Lt. Col. Troy Doyle, the 

acting director of the Justice Center. Doyle 

has called such fees “predatory.” 

The fees to be eliminated, if approved by 

the County Council, are: 

• A $70 booking fee, charged to those 

who have already been sentenced. 

• A $20 bond fee, charged to a person 

posting bond for an inmate. 

• A $2 fee charged each time an inmate is 

seen by a nurse. 

• A $5 fee charged each time an inmate is 

seen by the dentist. 

• A one-time $5 fee for dispensing medication. 

• A $20 medical assessment fee charged 

for each incarceration. 

Council member Tim Fitch [R – District 

3] expressed his support for the proposal. 

“I think it is time we drop these fees,” 

Fitch said, calling the fees “abusive.” 

Fitch said the origin of these fees goes 

back to 2009 after the collapse of the real 

estate market when then-county leaders 

were concerned about the county’s financial 

health. 

“I think the county was looking for ways 

to increase revenue without increasing 

taxes,” Fitch said. “So they targeted a lot 

of these different fees and the jail was one 

of them.” Fitch also pointed out that following 

the shooting of Michael Brown in 

2014 in Ferguson, more public awareness 

has been raised around criminal fees. 

One group that has been on the forefront 

of criminal justice reform in St. Louis is 

the Arch City Defenders. A nonprofit law 

firm founded in 2009 with the aim of “providing 

holistic legal advocacy and combating 

the criminalization of poverty and state 

violence against poor people and people 

of color,” the Arch City Defenders have 

been recognized over 20 times by local 

and national organizations for their work 

in the area of civil rights. Blake Strode is 

the group’s executive director. 

“This is absolutely a step in the right 

direction toward the complete elimination 

of such criminal legal fees. Our legal 

system continues to conflate justice with 

money in a myriad of ways that, in fact, 

perverts the institution of justice and further 

penalizes people 

for their poverty,” 

Strode said. 

Arch City Defenders 

continue to work 

on behalf of citizens 

in Missouri for the 

elimination of the practice of imprisonment 

for the failure to pay fines and fees. 

“It should be intuitive that the people 

least able to afford these kinds of fees are 

those who are locked in cages and unable 

to generate any income. Instead of looking 

to charge people for 

so-called ‘services’ 

that they cannot optout 

of, we should 

commit to drastically 

shrinking the role of 

prisons and jails in 

our society,” Strode added. 

Page’s announcement comes as the County 

Council was looking closely at a proposed 



County Executive proposes elimination of many county inmate fees 

“I think it is time we drop 

these fees.” 

COUNCIL MEMBER TIM FITCH 

contract for a new phone vendor to service 

the Justice Center. Ultimately, that contract 

failed to receive council support. 

“Although I remain confident the procurement 

department handled the bid process 

fairly, it was done under the Stenger 

administration and that alone makes me 

uneasy,” Page said. “I’ve talked with council 

members and expressed this concern.” 

The proposal to eliminate the six fees 

also contains a provision to use any revenue 

from a new phone system to provide 

better healthcare for inmates.

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The Baby Kid Expo West County is from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10 at 

Queeny Park’s Greensfelder Recreation Center. 

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events 

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 

The Silver Screen Series: Celebrating 

Creative Aging Through the Arts is from 

1-4 p.m. on three consecutive Mondays, 

Aug. 12, 19 and 26 at AMC Classic Creve 

Coeur 12, 10465 Olive Blvd. Doors open 

at 12:30 p.m. The free series focuses on 

films that explore positive aging themes. 

Each film concludes with a discussion 

led by guest leaders. The films are “The 

Intern” [Aug. 12], “Hello, My Name Is 

Doris” [Aug. 19] and “Lost in America” 

[Aug. 26] 

• • • 

The opening of the Dog Days of Summer 

canine art exhibit is from 5-7 p.m. on 

Thursday, Aug. 15 at Longview Park, 13525 

Clayton Road in St. Louis. Free admission 

and light refreshments will be served. 

• • • 

Bach Society of Saint Louis auditions 

are by appointment on Aug. 26 at 

the Church of St. Michael and St. George, 

6345 Wydown Blvd. in Clayton. Experienced 

choral singers are invited to audition. 

Visit bachsociety.org/audition to 

learn more. 

BENEFITS 

Jewish Community Center Used Book 

Summer Sale is from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on 

Sunday, Aug. 11, and from 10 a.m-7 p.m. 

Monday, Aug. 12 through Wednesday, Aug. 

14 and from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Thursday, 

Aug. 15 at the Jewish Community Center 

Staenberg Family Complex – Arts & Education 

Building, #2 Millstone Campus 

Drive in Creve Coeur. Admission is $10 at 

the door [first day only; all other days are 

free]. Aug. 15 is Bag Day – fill a bag for $5. 

Books are priced from 50 cents to $3. 

FAMILY & KIDS 

Raptor Awareness is from 10-11 a.m. 

on Aug. 10 at Chesterfield Valley Athletic 

Complex, 17925 North Outer 40 Road in 

Chesterfield. The program will give individuals 

the opportunity to see multiple 

species of birds of prey up close. No registration 

required. Free event. 

• • • 

Baby Kid Expo West County is from 

9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10 at the 

Greensfelder Recreation Center, 550 Weidman 

Road in Ballwin. Stop by the Family 

Resource station to chat with trained experts 

who offer trusted pediatric health information. 

The Safety Stop team will be on hand 

with a variety of car seats, helmets and home 

safety products. A registered nurse from St. 

Louis Children’s Hospital will be demonstrating 

the proper technique for infant CPR. 

The PAWS for Hope team will be demonstrating 

the fun ways they use pet therapy 

dogs. The day includes Diaper Derby, Princess 

Performances, Serengeti Steve, Muny 

Kids perform, Bubble Van, Clarkson School 

of Irish Dance Performs, Fredbird and 

Louie, Giveaways all day, Comedy Shows 

with Abra Kid Abra, Petting Zoo, Pony 

Rides and more. Join the Online Cutest 

Baby Contest sponsored by West Newsmagazine. 

Visit babykidexpo.com for details on 

how to enter your newborn to 3-year-old in 

our contest to win a prize pack that includes 

St. Louis Cardinals tickets. 

• • • 

Spirit of St. Louis Airshow & STEM 

Expo will be from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday 

and Sunday, Sept. 7-8 at the Spirit 

of St. Louis Airport, 18270 Edison Ave. in 

Chesterfield. Tickets available online only 

at spirit-airshow.com. 

• • • 

Tiny Tot Soccer is from 6-7 p.m. on 

Tuesday and Thursday evenings, Sept. 3 

through Sept. 26 at Bluebird Park, 225 

Kiefer Creek Road in Ellisville. Register 

by calling (636) 227-7508 or online at 

ellisville.mo.us/198/Parks-Recreation. 

• • • 

Pooch Plunge is from 5-8 p.m. on 

Thursday, Sept. 5 and from 9 a.m. - Noon 

on Saturday, Sept. 7 at the EDGE Aquatic 

Center, 225 Kiefer Creek Road in Ellisville. 

Dogs and their owners can plunge, 

play and socialize. Proceeds will benefit 

the Ellisville Dog Park. $3 per person $7 

per dog. Children 2 and under are free. 

• • • 

Teddy Bear Sleepover is from 5:30-8 

p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 8 at Bluebird Park, 

225 Kiefer Creek Road in Ellisville. Preschoolers 

are encouraged to bring a favorite 

teddy; snack provided. The teddy bear [not 

the children] will get to spend the night. The 

children will get a storybook of their teddy’s 

adventure. Teddy bears can be picked up 

after 4 p.m. on Monday. Pre-registration is 

required by calling (636) 227-7508 or visiting 

ellisville.mo.us/198/Parks-Recreation. 

Fee is $10 per teddy bear/participant. 

FESTIVALS & LIVE MUSIC 

The Ellisville 2019 Summer Concert 

Series concludes with Rockin’ Chair from 

7-9 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 8 at Bluebird 

Park, 225 Kiefer Creek Road. Bring seating 

and food and drinks [no glass]. 

• • • 

Creve Coeur’s Free Summer Concert 

concludes with Boogie Chyld from 6-8 

p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 8 at Millennium 

Park, 2 Barnes West Drive. Bring drinks 

and snacks or browse food trucks. 

• • • 

The “Hot Summer Nights, Cool 

Summer Sounds” Des Peres concert 

series concludes with Trilogy from 7-9:30 

p.m. on Aug. 9 at Des Peres Park, 12325 

Manchester Road. Bring blankets, lawn 

chairs, snacks and beverages [no glass]. 

Concessions available for purchase. 

• • • 

Wildwood’s Music on Main concludes on 

Aug. 9 at 6:45 p.m. at the Town Center Plaza, 

16860 Main St. in Wildwood. Lawn chairs, 

blankets and coolers are permitted; no glass. 

• • • 

The Manchester Community Band performs 

“Marches Around the World” in 

a free concert at 6 p.m. on Aug. 11 at the 

amphitheater in Schroeder Park, 359 Old 

Meramec Station Road. 

• • • 

The Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce’s 

32nd Annual Concert Series concludes 

with Billy Peek from 7-9 p.m. on 

Tuesday, Aug. 13 at Faust Park, 14941 

Olive Blvd. in Chesterfield. Free entry. 

Food trucks and concessions onsite. 

• • • 

Made Festival is from 5-8 p.m. on 

Friday, Sept. 6 and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. on Saturday, 

Sept. 7 at Westport Plaza, 111 W. 

Port Plaza Drive in St. Louis. Formerly 

named Vintage Bliss Market, Made Festival 

will feature more than 80 vendors 

– ranging from retro artisans to modern 

retailers -- and a live music lineup of popular 

local and national artists, including: 

Odds Lane, Striking Matches, Alexandra 

Kay, Three Pedros, and John Gurney Band. 

This is a free event open to the public. For 

more information visit westportstl.com or 

@westportstl on social media. 

• • • 

25th Anniversary of the MOSA- 

ICS Fine Art Festival is Friday, Sept. 13



Festival of the Little Hills 

By ALEXANDRA HILL 

Do you like history? Live music? Street 

food? Artisan crafts? If so, you need to 

head to the Festival of the Little Hills in 

historic Saint Charles. A summer staple 

since 1971, the annual Festival runs Friday, 

Aug. 16 through Sunday, Aug. 18 but with 

one notable change. 

The Festival will be held on Riverside 

Drive, in the 300 to 500 blocks, between 

S. Main Street and Frontier Park, which 

remains closed as a result of earlier flooding. 

The fun begins at 4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 

16 and continues through 10 p.m. From 

4:45-6:45 p.m., blues and rock band King 

Benny performs on the main stage. At 7:45 

p.m., Accolade takes the stage. 

On Saturday, Aug. 17 the festival begins 

at 9:30 a.m. with a full day of music, food 

and fun, including the opportunity to shop at 

approximately 300 artisan and craft booths. 

Festival of the Little Hills is widely recognized 

as one of the region’s premiere craft 

events, showcasing both local and regional 

artists with a wide array of offerings from 

paintings and photography to candles and 

soaps to clothing and jewelry to metal 

works, pottery, woodworking and more. 

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Approximately 50 food vendors have 

“street food” for sale as well as casual cuisine. 

Other vendor booths will give partici- 

Food E Fun E Crafts E Music E Entertainment 

Food Fun Crafts Music Entertainment 

pants a chance to get to know better area 

Free ParkinG 

businesses and organizations. 

Shuttle Locations: 

From 10-11 a.m. on Saturday, the St. 

Duchesne high school 

2550 Elm Street 

Charles Municipal Band performs on 

St. Charles, MO 63301 

the main stage. The local favorite is followed 

by The Tub Thumpers from 11:45 

3601 Droste Road 

st. charles West high school 


a.m.-1:15 p.m. and reggae rock band The 

ePc-executive Personal comPuters 

Driftaways from 2-4 p.m. Country group 

3941 Harry S Truman Blvd. 

August St. Charles, 17,18 MO 6330119, 2018 

Borderline will take the stage at 4:45-6:45 

AT HWY. 70 & CAVE SPRINGS 

Free shuttle Bus scheDule 

p.m. and the Platinum Rock Legends will Free ParkinG AUGUST (Handicapped Shuttle Available) Friday 5:00 pm - 11:00 pm 

16, 17 & 18, 2019 

Shuttle Locations: 

Saturday 9:00 am - 11:00 pm 

close out the night from Duchesne high school cuBe smart selF storage 

Sunday 9:00 am - 6:00 pm 

2550 Elm Street 

7:45-9:45 p.m. 


2661 Veterans Memorial Parkway 

st. charles FREE West high school PARKING/SHUTTLE 


Discover CHECK WEBSITE FOR PARKING Saint UPDATES Charles, Missouri 

Sunday brings more 3601 Droste Road 

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music, food and shopping ePc-executive Personal comPuters 

3941 Harry S Truman Blvd. 

from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. The 

FREE SHUTTLE BUS SCHEDULE 


FESTIVAL HOURS: Festival Hours: 

AT HWY. 70 & CAVE SPRINGS 

Free shuttle Bus scheDule Friday 4-10 pm 

(Handicapped Shuttle Available) Friday 5:00 - 11:00 pm Saturday 9:30 am-10 pm 

St. Charles Municipal Band Friday 6:00pm - 11:00pm 

Saturday 9:00 www.festivalofthelittlehills.com 

Friday 4-10pm • Saturday 9:30am-10pm 

am - 11:00 pm Sunday 9:30 am-5 pm 

cuBe smart selF storage 

Sunday 9:00 am - 6:00 pm 

PleASe Note: Check website for parking 

2661 Veterans Memorial 

returns to the main stage at Saturday Parkway9:00am CHECK 

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WEBSITE 

11:00pm 

Sunday 9:30am-5pm 

FOR PARKING UPDATES 

restrictions for Commercial, RV and 


Trailer parking during festival weekend. 

noon and plays until 1:15 Sunday 9:00am - 6:00pm 

PLEASE NOTE: Check website for parking restrictions for Commercial, 

Historic saint cHarles, Mo 

p.m. The 4th Street Band 

R Frontier Park RV and Trailer parking during festival weekend. 

www.festivalofthelittlehills.com 

performs from 2-3 p.m., and Shuttle Locations: 

Per City Ordinance, No Pets Allowed Except Service Animals in Frontier Park During EPC-EXECUTIVE Festival Hours PERSONAL COMPUTERS 

last, but not least, southern DUCHESNE HIGH SCHOOL 

3941 Harry S Truman Blvd. • St. Charles, MO 63301 

rock band Catfish Willie 2550 Elm Street • St. Charles, MO 63301 AT HWY 70 & CAVE SPRINGS (Handicapped Shuttle Available) 

finishes off the festival’s 

musical lineup from 3:30- ST. CHARLES WEST HIGH SCHOOL CUBE SMART SELF STORAGE 

4:30 p.m. 

3601 Droste Road • St. Charles, MO 63301 2661 Veterans Memorial Parkway • St. Charles, MO 63303 

Free shuttles make getting 

to and from the Festival 

easy and convenient. Shuttle stops are: 

HISTORIC SAINT CHARLES, MO - WWW.FESTIVALOFTHELITTLEHILLS.COM 

Duchesne High School, 2550 Elm St.; St. 

Charles West High, 3601 Droste Road; 

I LIKE TO LOOK 

Executive Personal Computers, 3941 

Harry S. Truman Blvd.; and CubeSmart 

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Self Storage, 2661 Veterans Memorial 

BUT I LOVE TO LOOK 

Parkway. 

Shuttles will drop Festival guests at the 

GOOD FOR ME. 

intersections of North Main and Adams 

streets and Boone’s Lick Road and Riverside 

Drive. Both the drop-off location at 

North Main and Adams and the Executive 

Personal Computers location are accessible 

for guests with disabilities. 

Visit festivalofthelittlehills.com for additional 

details. 

No Friday 

Parking 

August 17,18 19, 2018 

No Friday 

Parking 

FESTIVAL HOURS: 

Friday 4-10 pm 

Saturday 9:30 am-10 pm 

Sunday 9:30 am-5 pm 

PleASe Note: Check website for parking 

restrictions for Commercial, RV and 

Trailer parking during festival weekend. 

Historic saint cHarles, Mo R Frontier Park 

Per City Ordinance, No Pets Allowed Except Service Animals in Frontier Park During Festival Hours 

through Sunday, Sept. 15 in Historic St. 

Charles. Approximately 100 juried and 

invited artists will display and sell their 

works of art. 

• • • 

Taste of Maryland Heights is from 

5-8 p.m. on Sept. 27 at the Biergarten at 

SportPort International, 12525 Sportport 

in Maryland Heights. For $25, sample 

the area’s favorite restaurants, indulge in 

cold beverages, take in the sounds of the 

band “Fanfare” and watch a Tug of War 

tournament between the Maryland Heights 

Fire Department vs. the Maryland Heights 

Police Department. To secure tickets and 

tables, go to eventbrite.com. Rain or shine. 

Call (314) 942-2110 or email lisa@mhcc. 

com for more information. 

• • • 

Manchester ArtsFest is from 11 a.m.-5 

p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28 at Schroeder 

Park, 359 Old Meramec Station Road in 

Manchester. This year’s event includes a 

ticketed wine tasting with a souvenir wine 

glass. Regional artists in visual, performance, 

literary and participatory art are 

featured. Visual Artists who would like to 

have a booth [fees range from $20-$40 for 

a booth], and literary artists to join in the 

Poetry Slam as well as performance artists 

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Viviano’s Festa Italiano where eating well is easy 

By SUZANNE CORBETT 

Mangia bene! 

That’s Italian for “eat up, eat well.” The 

salutation you’ll often hear from Michael 

Viviano as he greets customers at either 

of Viviano’s Festa Italiano locations, in 

Chesterfield and Fenton. The festive 

atmosphere of those locations is reminiscent 

of his family’s legendary grocery on 

The Hill. 

“I came up with the name, Viviano’s 

Festa Italiano, because of the old family 

grocery on The Hill. It always had a festive 

atmosphere,” Michael explained. 

“People would come from all over to 

shop for Italian products and enjoy our 

heritage and hospitality. It was a different 

experience, and we all worked to make 

our customers feel like family. 

“That’s what I wanted to create here, 

and we have. We will celebrate 16 years 

in Fenton this November and just celebrated 

12 years in Chesterfield, which we 

Viviano’s Festa Italiano 

marked with a grand reopening in June.” 

Just as Michael wanted, Viviano’s is an 

Italian festival of food and drink where 

you can eat, sip, shop and relax. Customers 

are encouraged to enjoy the ambience 

and savor their meals and conversation. 

On the shelves and in the deli and freezer 

cases, they find domestic and imported 

gourmet specialties and trademark items 

such as Volpi and Boar’s Head meats, 

olives, pastas, cheeses, wines and fresh 

baked bread from The Hill. Those are the 

same items used to create the gourmet 

café’s menu, which includes Viviano’s’ 

signature red sauce. 

“Our red sauce is as close as we can get 

to what our grandmother made on Sunday 

afternoons,” Michael said. “It was different 

than the sauces she made the rest of 

the week. It tasted amazing. She would 

never give us the full recipe but gave 

us something close. It took 22 times of 

making it to try to get it right.” 

Grandma Viviano would approve of the 

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Michael Viviano welcomes guests as friends to both 

of his restaurant’s locations. 

delightfully rich, sweetly spiced 

sauce that is used for the café’s 

cooked-to-order pizza and pastas 

and as the dipping sauce for its 

Toasted Ravioli. Complete the 

picture with Viviano’s’ original 

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artichokes, salami, hearts of palm, 

Fontinella cheese and parmesan 

tossed with house-made dressing. 

Or choose from one of the other 

delicious salads that share space on 

the menu boards with soups, pastas 

and sandwiches. 

Currently, Michael said Viviano’s’ 

top selling trifecta is the: 

• Viviano’s Special comprised 

of Genoa salami, ham, roast beef, 

Provel cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, pepperoncini 

and Viviano’s Special Sauce on 

crusty French Bread 

• Festa Italiano, hot roast beef basted 

in garlic sauce and topped with Provel 

cheese 

• Tortellini in cream sauce tossed with 

prosciutto, peas and mushrooms and 

topped with Asiago and Parmesan cheese. 

All great picks. But wait, there’s more. 

“We expanded the Chesterfield menu,” 

Michael said. “We’re now doing a few 

burgers and adding other items like calamari 

and gluten-free options. We also 

jazzed the place up with a little different 

ambiance and atmosphere. We have a 

bartender and full table service and live 

music almost every weekend. Just call and 

check on the times and who is playing.” 

Live music and karaoke also are featured 

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Former U.S. Attorney to speak at 

annual Businessmen’s Prayer Breakfast 


For 25 years, a group of local businessmen 

have come together to share a meal, 

listen to an inspirational speaker 

and pray. But what began as a 

small gathering has grown to 

fill the ballroom at the Saint 

Charles Convention Center, 1 

Convention Center Plaza. 

It’s a powerful morning 

that this year takes place on 

Wednesday, Sept. 4. Doors 

open at 7 a.m. with the program 

running from 7:30-9 a.m. The 

Ashcroft 

featured speaker is former U.S. Attorney 

General John Ashcroft. 

On Dec. 22, 2000, Ashcroft became the 

79th attorney general of the United States, 

appointed by then President-elect George 

W. Bush. After assuming the role, he introduced 

prayer sessions at the White House; 

those sessions were pre-empted in September 

2011 after the Twin Towers fell. 

Faith always has been central to 

Aschroft’s life. His father and grandfather 

were ministers in the Assemblies of God 

church. In 2002, Ashcroft told Jeffrey 

Toobin of The New Yorker, “[T]here are 

standards that are moral and spiritual and 

eternal that I want to live up to. And people 

who win the battle write the history, and 

they may or may not get it right. I want to 

do what’s right in God’s sight.” 

The former attorney general 

of Missouri [1976-1985], 50th 

governor of the state [1985- 

1992], U.S. senator [1995 to 

2000], Ashcroft has a wealth 

of experiences and stories to 

share with Prayer Breakfast 

attendees. 

“Its purpose is to allow 

people to hear very successful 

business professionals and community 

leaders sharing their stories of inspiration 

and faith,” explained event co-chair Ron 

Hollis. 

The breakfast is organized and hosted 

by Ministry to Men, a 501[c][3] organization 

that also hosts “about 40 men’s bible 

studies held weekly around St. Charles 

County,” according to Hollis. 

Tickets are $25 per person and can be 

purchased online at ministrytomen.net or 

by mailing a check and ticket request to 

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POWERPLEX, from page 15 

ing to the official press release. Hope 

Church, another major tenant currently on 

the property, also is expected to stay and 

could be a good resource for families seeking 

a place of worship on Sundays between 

games according to the same release. 

Hazelwood Mayor Matt Robinson 

praised the work that was done behind 

the scenes to bring the different parties 

together and realize the greater vision. 

“You have to applaud the resilience and 

dedication of all involved,” Robinson said. 

“Our city officials, Big Sports Properties, 

the banks, the bondholders, the county and 

Explore St. Louis, the corporate supporters 

– everyone involved in this vision has 

overcome a lot of hurdles in order to get us 

to the finish line.” 

Buck admits that its been a long journey 

to this point with the vision for a multisport 

facility and family resort encountering 

many obstacles along the way. But 

he’s also quick to point out that patience 

and perseverance have paid off with an 

opportunity in the former St. Louis Mills 

property that is better than what you could 

build from scratch. 

Big Sports Properties got a boost from the 

involvement of NBA All-Star and St. Louis 

native Bradley Beal. A current member 

of the NBA’s Washington Wizards, Beal 

expressed his excitement for the project at a 

news conference earlier this month. 

“This is something that doesn’t just transform 

sports in our region. This place will 

change lives and impact kids for decades 

to come. I’ve never been more excited to 

make a dream become a reality,” Beal said. 

Beal’s involvement will bring some high 

powered basketball to the courts of POW- 

ERplex right away. The Bradley Beal Elite, 

a competitive team for young men 17 and 

under, will be based out of the facility. The 

BBE play in a summer league with teams 

from around the country showcasing some 

of the best prep talent in the United States. 

The league is run by sports giant Nike 

and the possibility of future league tournaments 

here in St. Louis seems likely with 

the opening of POWERplex. But Buck was 

quick to point out it’s not just Beal’s fame, 

money or his elite basketball squad that 

Beal is bringing to the project. 

“Bradley was a great fit for our ownership 

group on multiple fronts,” Buck said. 

“He better than anybody knows the impact 

that sports can have on a young life. How 

it can provide so much more than just great 

competition … when we met with Bradley 

it was clear he didn’t just want an investment 

or to be a part of a sports complex. 

His heart is all about transforming lives.” 

One of the major tasks now for Big 

Sports Properties will be identifying future 

lodging tenants. Cissell Mueller Company, 

a commercial real estate broker, is working 

to fullfil this need. 

“An independent expert in youth sports 

tourism, estimates this campus will generate 

up to 270,000 hotel room bookings per 

year,” said Duane Mueller, partner in Cissell 

Mueller. “We’re getting a lot of interest 

from hoteliers who understand this booming 

sports tourism industry, a key factor 

being that it is just eight minutes from 

Lambert Airport and the flat, shovel-ready 

lots located on such a dynamic, fun and 

entertainment driven campus.” 

Mueller also is looking to add as many 

as six new restaurants to the campus to 

provide a wide range of dining options for 

families. 

All of this begs the question as to whether 

a sports complex can really support that 

many new hotels and restaurants. The risks 

of feast or famine associated with the peak 

and offseason ebb and flow of business can 

be critical to sports-based tourism. 

Buck claims his group has considered 

that risk and they don’t believe POWERplex 

will fall victim to offseason pitfalls. 

“That’s the beauty of this campus, that 

there really is not an offseason. We have 

peak and ultra peak times because of the 

diversity of sports we offer.” Buck said. 

“Everything we’re designing is with that in 

mind – about how every venue on our sports 



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campus can be used for multiple sports so 

we can provide 52 weeks of sports tourism.” 

POWERplex is not intended to be a detriment 

to the already existing athletic fields 

and facilities in the area. In fact, Buck 

emphasized that he’s already had several 

conversations with the management of 

many of those facilities, including Lou 

Fusz, and that the dialogue is about partnership 

and cooperation not competition. 

“We want to make the [Route] 141 corridor 

and five-mile radius [into] a youth 

sports haven that can’t be matched by any 

other city in the midwest,” Buck said. 

If estimates from the developers hold up, 

the area will see an influx of 2.5 to 2.9 million 

new visitors a year, resulting in additional 

tax revenue for St. Louis County. 

“Each one of those unique visitors will 

be spending a lot of money on a weekend 

outing,” Harder said. “That’s an untapped 

market [for St. Louis County].” 

Buck hinted that announcements on 

additional partners, specifically from the 

hospitality industry, could be coming soon 

and indicated that there has been growing 

national interest in what Big Sports Industries 

is doing with POWERplex. 

Buck promises the best is still to come. 

“What we’ll open with in 2020 won’t be 

what we have in 2024. This campus will 

continue to grow and expand as we identify 

what families want,” he said. 

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have previous management 

experience & need to have 

some culinary experience. Serv 

Safe Certificate Required, Send 

resume to ann@foodserv.org. 

HELP WANTED 

Four Seasons Country Club 

Chesterfield. Golf course 

maintenance needed. 

No prior experience required. 

314-469-5986 

• CUSTODIAL POSITIONS • 

for Rockwood School District 

40 hours/week 

To apply please go to: 

www.rsdmo.org 

or call 636-733-3270 

EEOC 

HOME IMPROVEMENT 

AFFORDABLE CARPENTRY 

Wood Flooring, Kitchen 

Remodeling, Countertops, 

Cabinets, Crown Molding, Trim, 

Framing, Basement Finishing, 

Custom Decks, Doors, Windows. 

FREE ESTIMATES! 

Anything inside & out! 

Call Joe 636-699-8316 

All Around Construction LLC 

All interior & exterior remodeling 

& repairs. Historic restoration, 

molding duplication. Finished 

basements, kitchens, baths & decks. 

24 years experience. 

314-393-1102 or 636-237-3246 

Total Bathroom Remodeling 

Cabinetry•Plumbing•Electrical 

21 Years Experience 

EVERYTHING DECKS: 

Construct, Repair, 

Upgrade, Clean / Stain 

MarkHicksLLC.com 

Since 1982, no money up front 

warranty, insured, free estimates 

Discounts • BBB A+ • Angie’s List 

636-337-7733 

Call 636.591.0010 

to place your classified ad today! 

LANDSCAPING 

MULCH, MULCH, MULCH! 

ONE TIME CLEANUP 

Islands, Beds, Backyards 

Tree & Bush Trim or Removal 

Dirt & Decorative Rock 

LANDSCAPE REHAB 

• FREE ESTIMATES • 

636-775-5992 

DUNN’S LANDSCAPING 

Concrete Retaining Walls, 

Patios & Walkways, 

Room Additions, 

Brick Mailboxes, 

Sod Installations, 

Excavation & Sitework. 

Free Estimates. 636-337-7758 

LYONS 

LAWN 

SERVICE 

• Grass Cutting • Mulching 

Seeding • Stump Removal 

Aerating 

636.394.1309 

LANDSCAPING 

M I E N E R 

LANDSCAPING 

Spring Clean-up • Mulching 

Planting • Pruning • Patios 

Retaining Walls • Honeysuckle 

Removal 

Friendly service with attention to detail 

Call Tom 636.938.9874 

www.mienerlandscaping.com 

Mizzou Crew STL (Since 2004) 

Best Values in Town! Landscaping, 

Shrub Trimming and Handy Services. 

Videos and Specials at 

MizzouCrew.com, 

STLMulch.com, HandySTL.com. 

Call for Estimate, or text questions 

and job photos/notes to Jeff at 

314-520-5222 

MORALES LANDSCAPE LLC 

• Clean-Up • Mowing • Mulching 

• Planting • Aeration • Sod Install 

• Leaf/Tree Removal • Paver Patios 

• Trimming/Edging • Stone & Brick 

• Retaining Walls • Drainage Work 

- FREE ESTIMATES - 

636-293-2863 

moraleslandscape@hotmail.com 

RETAINING WALLS • PAVER PATIOS 

MOWING • LEAF & SNOW REMOVAL 

STAINING DECKS BY BRUSH 

Free Estimate 

314-280-2779 

poloslawn@aol.com 

Complete landscape services. 

Trimming, planting, mulch, 

brush removal, tree removal. 

Serving West County 40 years. 

VALLEY LANDSCAPE CO. 

636-458-8234 

PAINTING 

ADVANTAGE PAINTING 

& POWERWASHING 

Interior & 

Exterior Painting 

Drywall Repair • Taping 

Wallpaper Stripping 

Top Quality Work • FREE Estimates 

636.262.5124 

INSURED 

MENTION AD & RECEIVE 10% OFF 

DECK STAINING 

BY BRUSH ONLY 

• Fully Insured 

• References 

314-852-5467 

NO Spraying or 

Rolling Mess! 

www.cedarbeautifulstaining.com 

39 Years! 

SCHEDULE NOW FOR SUMMER RUSH! 

Interior and 

exterior painting 

Deck staining 

- Insured & Free Estimates - 

Dickspainting.com 

314-707-3094 

PET SERVICES 

CONVENIENT 

Dog Grooming 

Full service grooming 

in your home... 

Reasonable Rates • Free Consultation 

All Services Available 

Keep Your Pets Stress-Free at Home 

~ Great for Older Dogs ~ 

Ask about discounts for rescues! 

Call for appointment 

314-591-0009 

Call 636.591.0010 

to place your classified ad today! 

PLUMBING 

GVM PLUMBING 

Can't beat my prices! 

Greg Miller 

636-288-7002 

gvmplumbingstl@gmail.com 

LICENSED PLUMBER 

Available for all plumbing needs. 

No job too small. Free estimates. 

25 years experience. Senior 

citizen discount. 24 hours. 

Call 314-808-4611 

• ANYTHING IN PLUMBING • 

Good Prices! Basement 

bathrooms, small repairs & code 

violations repaired. Fast Service. 

Certified, licensed plumber - MBC 

Plumbing - Call or text anytime: 

314-409-5051 

PRAYER 

ST. JUDE NOVENA 

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus 

be adored, glorified, loved and 

preserved throughout the world 

now and forever. Sacred Heart 

of Jesus, pray for us. St. Jude, 

Worker of Miracles, pray for us. 

St. Jude, Help for the Hopeless, 

pray for us. Say prayer nine times 

a day; by the 8 th day prayer will 

be answered. Say it for nine 

days, then publish. It has never 

been known to fail. Thank you, 

St. Jude. – DR 

REAL ESTATE 

I BUY HOMES 

ALL CASH - AS-IS 

I have been buying and selling 

for over 30 years. 

$ $ 

No obligation. 

No commission. 

No fixing up. 

It doesn't cost to find out 

how much you can get. 

Must ask for 

Lyndon Anderson 

314-496-5822 

Berkshire Hathaway Select Prop. 

Office: 636-394-2424 

ROOFING 

General Contractor for 

Roofing • Siding • All Exterior 

Insurance Specialist • A+ BBB Rating 

314-282-1991 

www.covenantcontractingstl.com 

ROOFING 

Kirkwood Roofing 

Insurance Specialist 

All types of Roofing 

Fully Insured • FREE Estimates 

314-909-8888 

KirkwoodRoofing.com 

ST. LOUIS ROOFING 

Repair • Replacement 

Siding • Windows • Gutters 

Lowest Prices In Town! 

314-968-7848 

TREE SERVICES 

GET 'ER DONE TREE SERVICE 

Tree trimming, removal, deadwooding, 

pruning and stump 

grinding. Certified arborist. 

Fully Insured • Free Estimates 

A+ BBB • A+ Angie's List 

Serving the Area Since 2004 

314-971-6993 

PHIL'S TREE SERVICE 

FREE Estimates - FULLY Insured 

Topping, Trimming, Removal 

Landscaping, and Pruning. 

25 Years Experience. 

ASK ME ABOUT FIREWOOD! 

Call today 636-466-2888 

WATERPROOFING 

TOP NOTCH WATERPROOFING 

& FOUNDATION REPAIR LLC 

Cracks, sub-pump systems, 

structural & concrete repairs. 

Exterior drainage correction. 

Serving Missouri for 15 years. 

Finally, a contractor who is honest 

& leaves the job site clean. 

Lifetime Warranties. 

Free Estimate 636-281-6982 

WEDDING SERVICES 

Marriage 

Ceremonies 

Renewal of Vows 

and Baptisms 

Full Service Ministry 

314.703.7456 

Sell Your Real Estate FAST 

in West Classifieds 

636.591.0010

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