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Among those who have been disap-pointed by President Barack Obama, none is likely to end up so painfully disappointed as those who saw his election as being, in itself and in its consequences, a movement toward a “post-racial society.”

Like so many other expectations that so many people projected onto this little-known man who suddenly burst onto the political scene, the expectation of move-ment toward a post-racial society had no speck of hard evidence behind it – and all too many ignored indications of the very opposite, including his two decades of association with the egregious Rev. Jer-emiah Wright.

Those people of good will who want to replace the racism of the past with a post-racial society have too often overlooked the fact that there are others who instead want to put racism under new management, to have reverse discrimination as racial payback for past injustices.

Attorney General Eric Holder became a key figure epitomizing the view that gov-ernment’s role in racial matters was not to be an impartial dispenser of equal justice for all, but to be a racial partisan and an organ of racial payback. He has been too politically savvy to say that in so many words, but his actions have spoken far louder than any words.

The case that first gave the general public a glimpse of Attorney General Holder’s views and values was one in which young black thugs outside a voting site in Phila-delphia were televised intimidating white voters. When this episode was broadcast, it produced public outrage.

Although the Department of Justice’s prosecution of these thugs began in the last days of the Bush administration, and the defendants had offered no legal defense, the case was dropped by the Justice Depart-ment after Eric Holder took over. One of the lawyers who were prosecuting that case resigned in protest.

That lawyer – J. Christian Adams – has now written a book, titled “Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department.” It is a thought-pro-voking book and a shocking book in what it reveals about the inner workings of the Department of Justice’s civil rights divi-sion.

Bad as the Justice Department’s decision was to drop that particular case, which it

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Despite the efforts of some in the media and in politics to depict the voter intimi-dation in Philadelphia as just an isolated incident involving a few thugs at one voting place, former U.S. Attorney Adams shows that these thugs were in fact part of a nationwide organization doing similar things elsewhere.

Moreover, the civil rights division of the Justice Department has turned the same blind eye to similar voter intimidation and corruption of the voting process by other people and other organizations in other cities and states – so long as those being victimized were white and the victimizers were black.

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The widespread, organized and sys-tematic corruption of the voting process revealed by the author of “Injustice” is on a scale that can swing not only local but national elections, including the 2012 elections. The Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder has not only turned a blind eye to blatant evidence of voter fraud, it has actively suppressed those U.S. Attorneys in its own ranks who have tried to stop that fraud.

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Deer controlto the editor:

I think our board of aldermen needs to meet with the Creve Coeur City Council regarding deer management. Creve Coeur is using a bow hunting provision as well as a no-feed ordinance to control their herds. The city of Creve Coeur is not spending any money for this solution while our board of aldermen plans to spend well over $100,000 for sharpshooting.

I attended the meeting at Town and Country Municipal Center on Monday eve-ning (Oct. 10) and was so disappointed at the total lack of compromise between the board members. It is so obvious that two of the aldermen are not the popular ones so the others will not support anything they suggest.

Grow up, people. Take time to listen to feedback, especially from us for whom you work. If we cannot attain control without lethal measures, let’s make those lethal measures as safe as possible for the humans.

If safety is the real concern, that’s the only attitude to adopt and the only accept-able solution.

Mary BrendiaTown & Country

‘Irritant’ Rockwood taxpayers

to the editor:Suzanne Rainey, a (Rockwood) NEA

(National Education Association) represen-tative, went before the Rockwood school board recently and referred to the Rock-wood Stakeholders (for Real Solutions) group as “various irritants.” As everyone should know, that group is demanding accountability for our tax funds. Of course, all of us also should know our hard-earned money rightfully belongs to the school board and the union. They will spend it as they please and we will shut up and not

“irritate” them. How dare we demand clear and total accountability from them and input in that spending process. Will the peasants ever learn?

If anything should fire up taxpayers in this school district and anywhere else in this country it is the staggering, breath-taking arrogance of someone like Rainey referring to a taxpayer who wants account-ability as an “irritant.” This is why we are where we are as a society.

Ed Giesler Ellisville

Rockwood ‘money grab’to the editor:

This (Rockwood School District) tax increase is totally unwarranted and based upon a totally false premise!

I agree that property values have fallen. Unfortunately, the county tax appraisals have not. I received a written notifica-tion that my property appraisal was being increased by over 8 percent for 2011. Checking with my neighbors, I found the lucky ones are only being taxed at the 2010 appraisal rate. There were no reduced appraisal rates. As such, the Rock-wood School District would be receiving at a minimum the same amount as last year without any tax increase.

This tax increase is a money grab, pure and simple. The stated justification is totally false.

I challenge the board to provide docu-mentation of their figures that the average assessed value has dropped by 1.9 percent! They are already taking a pound of flesh and now want more. Enough is enough! I for one will actively campaign against any proposed bond issue.

Robert C. Leonard Ballwin

to the editor:Wait a minute – didn’t we just have this

conversation? (St. Louis County Executive Charlie) Dooley wanted to raise property taxes to pay for raises for county employ-ees. Now Rockwood just did it anyway.

Our salaries are down, our property values are down, but heck, does Rockwood School District care? Nope, they just raised your property taxes to cover the revenue shortfall from property values going down.

What?We may not be able to afford all those

expensive, out-of-town consultants? Oh no.

Turns out there is a state law that allows school districts to raise taxes when prop-erty values decrease. Cool – maybe we should have a law that says when our prop-erty values go down, the government sends us a check for the difference.

I think it’s time for a new law.Also, when reading the article, I just

can’t get the math to work. The claim is that house values are down, so tax rates must be increased to keep revenue flat. So I interpret that to mean that I will pay the same amount in taxes next year.

However, if you use the house values and tax rates stated in the article, your taxes will increase by 2.44 percent. Maybe

the school board needs to take a math class themselves.

Please send a short note to your Mis-souri state senator and representative and tell them what you think about this law. Go to www.mo.gov and click on “My Govern-ment,” then “Elected Officials.” You can look up who represents you and get their email address. I did.

John RyckmanWildwood

P.S. After sending this in to West News-magazine, I received a reply from (State Rep.) Tim Jones. The Rockwood School board did not approve a tax increase. Tax increases can only be approved by the people. They approved a change in the tax levy. Somehow I am expected to believe there is a difference. You increased the amount per thousand we pay. Think Rock-wood will lower the levy when Dooley decides it’s time to increase our property values? LOL.

Death of Steve Jobsto the editor:

As I was watching the news on TV on Wednesday evening, Oct. 5, the program was interrupted with the exceptionally sad announcement that Steve Jobs, co-founder, creative genius and pioneer of Apple, Inc., was dead at 56.

My reaction, like many others around the globe, was one of sorrow, seeing this giant of a man at the pinnacle of his career felled by this wretched disease, pancreatic cancer, and its unforgiving aftermath. Surely, this kind of end wasn’t on his agenda. Billions of his hard-earned (and well-deserved) dollars, access to the greatest doctors and procedures, and his own creative genius couldn’t find a successful way out of or around this dreadful plight.

It took me more than a few minutes to come out of my shock and almost nausea from being hit with the harsh reality that unwelcome death comes for us all – sooner or later. But as I sat there on my sofa trying to find some sense to this truth, I realized that this particular death of this particularly powerful and influential man could serve as a poignant wake-up call that our days (many or few) are ordained by a Higher Power (for me, the God of the Bible) which no man, however clever or wise, has ever been able to outsmart.

Psalm 139, verse 16 in the Bible says: “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to

be.” This is a reminder to me to live right

with God, because the number of years I might have on this earth, no matter how glorious, pale in comparison to the eternity I will spend in the hereafter.

Tricia Reichardt Wildwood

Gratitude and attitudeto the editor:

This goes out to Bob K. and Rob S. in support of John D. and Lisa S. (West News-magazine “Letters to the editor”).

(I) ran across these two quotes this week and wanted to share with you guys and with all readers of this fine and very open column.

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” (Melo-die Beattie)

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company … a church … a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we embrace for that day. We cannot change our past … we cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one thing we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent on how I react to it. And so it is with you …we are in charge of our atti-tudes.” (Chuck Swindoll)

Thanks, Lisa, for the reminder – a good word does wonders for our twin friends in life, gratitude and attitude.

Ron UnterreinerChesterfield

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So they are there, 24/7, hanging out on Wall Street and, according to the main-stream media, many other places. They seem to be having a good time, playing music, playing games, taking up space and who knows what else, all the while trying to figure out just exactly what it is they want.

For not knowing, or better yet not articu-lating intelligently in any sense a unified voice just what they want, they seem to generate a lot of attention.

These folks – and we don’t seem to be at all sure who they are – get lots of atten-tion from the liberal media, the liberal politicians and some questionable far-left celebrities, including such deep people as Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon and Alec

Baldwin. These protesters really don’t bother

us as it is clearly their right according to the Constitution to peacefully protest, but someone please step right up and tell us what you want.

It is much more concerning to most of us when the unions and Democratic politi-cians at high levels in our government start supporting this group. Why? Because we believe that even their supporters don’t exactly know what these folks stand for or want.

It has been suggested and some of their signs support the idea that they are anti-capitalist and feel they have been victim-ized by the system. As many others have suggested, there sure seems to be a large

number of them “occupying” while talking on their i-Phones and wearing their Gap clothes.

Unions, and more importantly Demo-cratic politicians, need to think about their position of support for this group. There are lots of us out here in the real world that just don’t understand it.

We have all faced the difficult challenges of the current economic times, many have lost jobs and struggle mightily to persevere, but most of us out here in middle America aren’t looking to change the system and aren’t looking to have a darn thing handed to us except opportunity.

We don’t hate the rich; we aspire to be one of them. We don’t despise capitalism; we see it as a system that creates opportu-

nity for those that can take advantage of it. We don’t loathe the rich movie star, profes-sional athlete, or successful businessman or woman; we salute them and want to be like them.

So, occupiers, have your fun, but please try to make some point. Occupying folks please tell us what you want and why you think you deserve what ever it is.

And to the Democrats and unions out there supporting these people, please be careful.

It may be years since we have been referenced in this fashion, but there still remains a huge silent majority our here with very traditional American capitalistic values that speak loudly at the ballot box and the cash register.

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News Br iefs Honoring first respondersStudents, faculty and

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Janet Esrock died on Sept. 11 as a result of the injuries she sustained in the accident.

On behalf of the Whitfield School community, Interim Head of School Ruth Greathouse announced that a donation was made in the first responders’ honor to The BackStoppers Inc., an organization that provides financial assistance to the families of firefighters, paramedics, EMTs and police officers who have fallen in the line of duty.

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Canines in costumeThe Ellisville Parks Department will be

hosting a “Howl-oween Canine Costume Contest” in a effort to raise money to build a dog park at Bluebird Park.

The event will take place at 10 a.m. on Sat., Oct. 29 on the tennis courts at Blue-bird Park. If inclement weather should occur, the activities will shift to the Parks Administration Building at Bluebird Park.

There will four categories in the contest: best costume, best doggie-owner combo, most original, and spookiest costume.

The fee is $7 per dog and $10 for a dog/owner combo. For more information, con-tact the Ellisville Parks Department at 227-7508.

MANCHESTER

E-cycle SaturdayThe city of Manchester will host a

resident e-cycling drop-off event from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 29, at Paul A. Schroeder Park, 359 Old Meramec Station Road.

RNA WorldWide Recycling will partner with the city to accept electronics, computer and appliances for free recycling. Items that will be accepted include: computer, medical, dental and laboratory equipment (excluding biohazards), telephones, cell phones, digital cameras, batteries, appli-ances, TVs, scrap metal and metal office furniture.

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April election filingsThe city of Wildwood now has available

on its website information about filing for the April 3, 2012 municipal election.

Individuals who plan to file to run for mayor or a seat on the city council must complete a nominating petition. To run for city council, an individual must have the nominating petition signed by at least 25 registered voters of the ward in which he/she resides; to run for mayor, an individual must have the petition signed by 100 reg-istered voters.

The petition must be submitted at the time of filing for office, and signatures are valid only if obtained on or after Sun., Oct.

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New nature trekWildwood City Council at its Oct. 10

meeting committed to fund up to $100,000 for the Packwood Park Nature Trek proj-ect.

Wildwood recently completed construc-tion of the Rock Hollow Trail, which pro-vides a connection from Ridge Road to the Al Foster Memorial Trail along the Mer-amec River.

In an effort to enhance the trail experi-ence, the city decided to use Packwood Park as an extension of the trail system, making trails available for horses, moun-tain bikers, walkers and runners.

WEST COUNTY

Taking back drugsSeveral West County municipalities and

police departments will be supporting the U.S. Department of Justice’s Drug Enforce-ment Administration (DEA) and partner organizations for a national prescription drug take-back initiative on Sat., Oct. 29.

Increasingly, prescription and over-the-counter drugs are being used by teens and youth at parties or for experimentation, and studies show that a majority of abused pre-scription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home med-icine cabinet.

Even over-the-counter drugs can have unexpected and adverse health effects. The take-back program helps prevent improper use or abuse of drugs and keeps them out of the watershed, allowing for a safe and proper disposal method.

Scheduled take-back events are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 29 at the following West County locations:

• Ballwin – Donald “Red” Loehr Police and Court Center, 300 Park Drive • Chesterfield – Chesterfield City Hall, 690 Chesterfield Parkway West• Ellisville – Ellisville Police Station, 37 Weis Ave.• Eureka – Eureka Police Department, 120 City Hall Drive• Manchester – Manchester Police Sta-tion, 200 Highlands Blvd.The DEA in conjunction with state and

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By CAROL ENRIGHTMercy President and CEO Lynn Britton has announced

plans for the company to invest $4.6 billion in Missouri, including building a $90 million virtual care center in Chesterfield. Britton made the announcement to more than 150 invited guests, including Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, at an Oct. 11 community meeting at the Edward Jones corpo-rate headquarters in Des Peres.

The virtual care center – the first of its kind in the nation – will provide around-the-clock telemedicine to outlying care centers across the four states in which Mercy oper-ates: Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Mercy’s existing telemedicine program – an electronic intensive care unit (ICU) called Mercy SafeWatch – provides virtual care to more than 400 patients across the Midwest. Using computers, specially trained doctors and ICU nurses moni-tor vital signs and even talk with patients through bedside cameras at hospitals that in some cases are hundreds of miles away.

The new center will enable Mercy to expand its telemed-icine to additional ICUs and other sites, such as hospital emergency rooms, reaching into more remote areas that might not have easy access to medical specialists.

Britton described the center as a “hub, like a switchboard operator,” connecting patients across the region with phy-sicians to meet their needs, 24/7.

“If your loved one is being brought to a Mercy hospital somewhere and they need that neurologist’s care, they’re working through … the virtual care center to make the connection so that the neurologist is ready and waiting,” Britton said.

The state-of-the-art clinic will bring 400 professional-level jobs to the area, including highly trained intensivist physicians and critical care nurses. The proposed facility will be located on 38 acres of land across from Chester-field Mall on Clarkson Road between I-64 and Chester-field Parkway.

“We are excited and proud that a company of Mercy’s caliber, after extensive evaluation of various sites, has chosen Chesterfield as the location for its virtual care facility. While our review process has not yet begun, we welcome the investment in our community and the new jobs that will be created,” Chesterfield Mayor Bruce Geiger said in a statement responding to Mercy’s planned investment in the city.

Britton said that although Mercy and other health care systems have been using telemedicine to various degrees, “there’s no place where it’s been brought together so com-prehensively.”

Throughout his remarks, Britton referred to the physi-cian shortage affecting the outlying communities that Mercy serves. He said the virtual care clinic will allow “more people to get the care they need wherever they are.”

Britton also announced what he called a “major expan-sion” into St. Charles County, including a new multi-spe-cialty clinic and hospital, for a total planned investment of $290 million.

Missouri’s governor called Mercy’s $4.6 billion invest-ment in Missouri, including the planned investments in St. Charles and Chesterfield, “very welcome from a health care perspective and … really, really welcome from a jobs perspective, too.”

“These investments will be a tremendous boost to our state and our economy,” Nixon said.

A Mercy spokesperson said groundbreaking plans for the new Chesterfield center will be announced in the next six months. Mercy’s total investment over the next eight years includes $2.4 billion in the St. Louis area and $1 bil-lion to rebuild its presence in Joplin.

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An artist’s rendering of Mercy’s planned virtual care center in Chesterfield.

Mercy announces plans to build $90 million virtual care center in Chesterfield

By CASEY GODWINA man was killed on Sat., Oct. 15

after his car hit a light pole in Town & Country. The crash occured about 12:30 p.m. at the intersection of Route 141 and Conway Road, near St. Luke’s Hospital.

The victim was identified as Bryan A. Kraus, 49, of St. Louis.

According to the Missouri State High-way Patrol, Kraus was driving a black 2003 Chrysler Concord northbound on Route 141 when he lost control and struck a light pole.

Debris from Kraus’ vehicle hit a Mer-cury Mariner and a Chevy Tahoe that

were at the intersection. No one in either of those vehicles was injured.

Kraus, who was wearing a seat belt, was killed on impact, officials said. He was alone in the vehicle.

A portion of Route 141 remained closed for several hours following the crash while an accident reconstruction team investigated and crews cleared the scene.

Police said the cause of the crash has yet to be determined, but speed may have been a factor. Witnesses reported Kraus barely missed another vehicle just before impact.

Man dies in Town & Country crash

A one-car accident on Route 141 and Conway Road proved fatal for the driver. (Photo courtesy of West County EMS & Fire Protection District)

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By CASEY GODWINTown & Country likely will see fewer

deer starting in December. At its Oct. 10 meeting, the Town & Country Board of Aldermen passed a bill contracting White Buffalo Inc. to sharpshoot up to 300 deer this winter. Another 50 deer would be killed during the 2012-13 winter season.

The deer managment plan, which relies entirely on lethal methods to thin the deer population, was passed after much debate and a heavy outpour of citizen comments. At a work session that preceeded the meet-ing, Alderman Phil Behnan (Ward 4) said he had personally recieved hundreds of emails from residents about the issue.

“People are fed up and want us to do something,” Behnan said. “We want the streets to be safer and this plan, as far as sharpshooting, is really the only way we can achieve that goal. If we want to prevent serious injury, we really have to thin this herd down.”

Alderman Fred Meyland-Smith (Ward 3), who chairs the city’s deer task force, said there have been 160 automobile-deer accidents in the last two years.

Mayor Jon Dalton said he was willing to entertain the idea of combining lethal means with sterilization, so long as the goal of thining the herd from the current size of

roughly 650 deer to 300 could be achieved in the same amount of time. Alderman Al Gerber (Ward 2) had previously developed a plan that combined lethal and non-lethal means, but it has not been recieved well by other board members.

Cost was also a deciding factor for the board in choosing between entirely lethal methods and the plan that includes steril-ization. The deer managment plan passed Oct. 10 will cost the city $165,500 over two years, with $133,000 being budgeted for 2012.

At the work session, Behnan showed the board how Gerber’s plan, which includes sterilization of 50 deer the first year and 15 deer in the second year, could cost as much as $200,000 over the same two-year period. Gerber said he thought that cost estimate was flawed because it assumed the deer would be sterilized after sharpshooting – not the other way around as stated in his

plan. The issue has brought out at previous meetings many who are against the lethal-means-only plan, but at the Oct. 10 meet-ing, many residents spoke in support of the lethal deer plan.

“It always amazes me how a small group of very vocal people can have so much influence,” resident Gustine Crawford, said. “Part of the reason is that people like me feel like the solution is so obvious that it is not necessary to send out mailings, put out signs everywhere and fill a meeting room. Sorry to say we are the silent majority.”

Crawford, who offered her property on Weidman Road to be used by sharpshooters, said deer have wandered onto her property to die after being hit by cars. She, like sev-eral residents who spoke in support of the plan, reported seeing as many as 20 deer in her yard on any given day.

Gerber made several last-ditch efforts to have sterilization included in the deer management plan, including holding a first reading of a separate bill that would contract White Buffalo to sterilize deer. He attempted also to add amendments to the sharpshooting bill to include sterilization and to raise the goal population of 30 deer per square mile to 40 deer per square mile. Both amendments failed.

Alderman Steve Fons (Ward 3) stated

numerous times how uncomfortable he was about sharpshooting being conducted from vehicles and said he was concerned shooting could not be done safely from a truck.

“It is precisely the protocol that was followed in each of the last two years,” Meyland-Smith said. “Having witnessed it personally, this is a nine-foot platform that is fixed to a bed of a pickup truck and is used to elevate a shooter in places where trees and tree stands are not available. It has been used successfully and safely.”

Fons proposed amendments that would require sharpshooting to be done only from a tree stand at least 15 feet high on 10 acres and not 5 acres. Both amendments failed.

Gerber cast the only “no” vote during the final passage of the bill. He had told the board during the work session that if they would not include his amendments, he would vote against it.

After passage of the bill, several resi-dents expressed dissatisfaction.

“We have polarization in Town & Coun-try, pure and simple,” resident Dennis Fitzgerald, who has spoken many times in favor of Gerber’s plan, said. “You guys could do something about it. You had a chance to bring this community together, but you chose to give it all to one side.”

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By MARCIA GUCKESThe Rockwood School District will not

be asking voters to approve a bond issue or a tax increase on the April 2012 ballot. The decision breaks the district’s pattern of seeking a bond issue every two years.

The school board at its meeting on Oct. 19 agreed to follow Superintendent Bruce Borchers’ recommendation to not place a bond issue or tax rate increase on the April 2012 ballot. Following the board meeting, Borchers sent an email to Rockwood’s staff explaining the reasons for his recommen-dation.

“At this point in time, I believe we need to evaluate what our future needs will be in order to support our strategic plan,” Borch-ers wrote in his email. “Not putting a bond issue on the April 2012 ballot does not mean that we won’t address the district’s maintenance and technology needs, now and in the future. It does mean that we are carefully considering what is critical in Rockwood for student success.”

Borchers told the staff in his email that the district needs to reduce its reliance on state funding, which he called “unpredict-able.” He said that in the meantime, district officials are seeking ways to “tighten our belt” including cutting expenditures with-out reducing staff.

“It is my goal to do everything we can to keep from having to use a reduction-in-force (RIF) process,” Borchers said.

According to Borchers’ email, budget cuts will not solve the district’s financial problems.

“Please keep in mind the measures we are taking are not long-term, sustainable solutions to the problem of uncertain state funding,” Borchers said. “In my opinion, increased revenue is the only solution; a tax rate increase is not a matter of ‘if,’ but ‘when.’”

The board on Oct. 19 had been expected to hire a project management firm to over-see construction projects funded by the bond issue. Recently, the board has been under fire for consistently hiring Glenn Construction Company to manage its bond issue related projects, and for destroying competitors’ bids without even looking at them. Over the past 14 years Rockwood has paid Glenn more than $15.6 million.

Controversy has built also around the fact that Rockwood Board of Education Presi-dent Steve Smith is employed by Glenn Construction, even though Smith abstains from any votes concerning Glenn.

Glenn and three other firms had submit-ted proposals for the $50 million bond issue expected to be on the ballot in 2012.

Rockwood drops plans for bond issue and tax increase

By MARCIA GUCKESRockwood Board of Education member Matthew

Fitzpatrick walked out of the board’s Oct. 19 meeting before it even started. Fitzpatrick left during a work ses-sion held before the regular meeting in which the board agreed not to put a bond issue or a tax increase on the April 2012 ballot.

Fitzpatrick submitted a letter of resignation to the board secretary the next morning. In his letter, he stated that he was resigning for personal reasons.

“There is need for me to focus my attention elsewhere,” Fitzpatrick wrote. “Personal reasons demand my time.”

West Newsmagazine attempted to reach Fitzpatrick, but he did not respond in time for publication.

Fitzpatrick has been on the board since 2009. His term was to expire in 2012.

According to Cathy Orta, Rockwood’s communication coordinator, the board will vote to accept Fitzpatrick’s resignation at its Nov. 17 meeting.

Board policy for filling vacancies states that anyone interested in serving on the board will have two weeks to submit a letter to the school board secretary after the resignation is accepted. Applicants will be reviewed and final candidates will be interviewed in open session at a regular or special meeting. After the interviews, the board will vote to appoint the new board member at its next regular meeting.

Rockwood board member abruptly resigns

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By TED DIXON JR.With a 5-2 vote, the Creve Coeur City

Council on Oct. 10 took steps to control the city’s deer population by adopting a no-feed ordinance and an ordinance allowing bow hunting.

As neighboring cities have debated the deer problem, so has Creve Coeur. City Councilmember Tara Nealey (Ward 2) was instrumental in tackling the issue and knows firsthand the danger the animals can present, having collided with a deer while driving last spring.

Nealey acknowledged that damage done by deer to landscaping and property is problematic but said the biggest concern is the danger deer present to public safety.

Residents at the meeting spoke both in favor of and against the proposed ordi-nances. Resident Tom Evans expressed support, saying the deer are “chomping on our bushes.” Resident Carol Costigan spoke out against the bow-hunting ordi-nance and recommended an alternative method, such as sterilization, as a way to control the deer population.

“I know it is expensive, but it is a life-time investment,” Costigan said. “In the long run, it can save you money. I don’t like being in the killing business. I don’t want children witnessing the killing of any animal.”

Nealey in her study of the issue con-cluded the sterilization approach was in fact very expensive and not very effective.

Before the final vote was taken, Coun-cilmember Beth Kistner (Ward 1) spoke against the bow-hunting ordinance.

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Councilmember A.J. Wang (Ward 2) cast the other vote in opposition bow hunting.

The city’s no-feed ordinance states that the attracting and feeding of white-tailed deer results in the deposit of refuse and fecal matter and creates traffic hazards and property damage. It now is unlawful in Creve Coeur to feed deer any fruit, grain, hay, vegetable, mineral, salt or other type of food. According to the ordinance, the city can issue a written warning for a first offense, and “offenses shall be subject to standard procedures for ordinance viola-tions.”

The bow-hunting ordinance stipulates that hunting must be done according to state regulations and additional municipal restrictions. A shooter would stand in a tree roughly 15 feet from the deer, point down-ward and shoot the deer with a bow. The archery season runs from Sept. 15 to Jan. 15.

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By AMY ARMOURMore than 100 people attended a recent

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The Missouri Department of Transporta-tion (MoDOT) on Oct. 12 held a three-hour public hearing at Missouri Highway Patrol Troop C Headquarters, and 114 people stopped by to learn more about the pro-posed bridge.

The three-lane, westbound bridge that stretches over the Missouri River from Chesterfield into St. Charles County was built in 1935 and in recent years has been shut down several times for repairs and inspections. The proposed new bridge would provide four expanded lanes to handle the 75,000 vehicles that cross the bridge each day.

MoDOT officials set up various stations to discuss the proposed alignment, the envi-ronmental impact and the proposed right of ways. Visitors had the opportunity to leave comments and suggestions at the hearing or ask questions of MoDOT officials.

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“The impact (on drivers) will be mini-mal,” Hellenbusch said.

David Schneider commutes from his home in Defiance to his job in St. Louis every weekday and attended the meeting to learn how his daily trip would be affected.

“With this arrangement, I don’t think it will be shut down too much,” Schneider said. “I have no reason not to like the (pro-posed) plans.”

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By BETSY ZATKULAKThe Ballwin Board of Aldermen at its

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The legislation was passed in accordance with state statutes.

According to Tracey Durbin, coordinator of the Breath Alcohol Lab for the Missouri Safety Center at University of Central Missouri, bath salts have stimulant proper-ties that can produce “an effect of ecstasy, cocaine or methamphetamines.”

Durbin said many people who use bath salts also experience hallucinations. The effects of synthetic cannabinoid are simi-lar to those of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, but synthetic cannabinoid is more powerful and is worse, Durbin said.

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Under Missouri law, possession of 35 grams or less of K2 constitutes a misde-meanor and possession of more than that is a felony. Possession of bath salts contain-ing MDPV also is a felony.

In passing the legislation, Ballwin can prosecute offenders in municipal court.

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By CAROL ENRIGHTWildlife Rescue Center in Ballwin has

been home to some celebrity critters of late. On Sat., Oct. 8, while the center’s executive director, Pam Bolton, was at Busch Stadium retrieving the famous Rally Squirrel – which rushed the field during the Cardinals National League Division Series against the Phillies – she received a call that a goose that had an arrow lodged in its chest had finally been caught.

The center had been receiving calls from concerned individuals who spotted the injured goose at Des Peres Park, but each time center staffers and volunteers tried to catch the bird, “he’d fly off,” Bolton said.

“It’s amazing that he could still fly as well as he could with an arrow going through his chest,” she said.

On Oct. 8, Mary Carle, a manager for Wildlife Rescue Center, and volunteers Kate and Ken Tretter went to the park in another effort to rescue the goose.

“There was a lady there that had been feeding the geese, and he (the goose) was familiar with her and … walked right up to her,” Bolton said.

While the woman fed the goose, the Tret-ters and Carle were able to capture it. Dr. Kathryn Kettenbach, a veterinarian who volunteers at the center, removed the arrow and began treating the goose’s wound.

“They are now flushing the wound and giving the goose antibiotics,” Bolton said. “The goose does have quite an infection. … We’re not sure how he’s going to recover.”

Bolton said that the center rescues ani-

mals that have been shot with guns or BB guns on a fairly regular basis. Last year, the center found more than a dozen ducks, which had been shot dead, lying in a creek near Castlewood. Bolton said the center reports the abuses to the police.

When asked about the Rally Squirrel, Bolton said that when she released him into Castlewood State Park, “he ran right up a hickory tree, which would be perfect for him for the winter with all the hickory nuts.”

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By SARAH WILSONThe Wildwood City Council at its Oct.

10 meeting voted against a bill that would have approved its Town Center Advisory Panel’s (TCAP) recommendations for updates to the city’s Town Center Plan. In light of their ongoing disagreement, councilmembers decided to try a different approach.

Residents have expressed repeated con-cern regarding the new plan, which would change property land-use designations and could lead to additional noise, lack of privacy and changing land values. Owners of several properties in particular – the Brown, Slavik Family Trust, Jones family and Spanos properties – have expressed opposition about their property designa-tions.

Pete Spanos, owner of the Spanos prop-erties, said the updated plan would signifi-cantly downzone his properties.

“All we’re asking for is what we paid for,” Spanos said.

Wildwood resident Ed Thibeault voiced his frustration with city leaders’ handling of the matter.

“It took our Founding Fathers about two months to write the Constitution, and it took only two years to ratify it by the existing states – but not in Wildwood,” Thibeault said. “The hyperbole and disin-formation that’s been put out regarding this process is despicable. … You have failed to pass the recommended plan. In that rejec-tion, you rejected not only the committee’s recommendation, but also the input and recommendations of highly recommended experts in the field. You’ve also rejected the Planning and Zoning Commission’s recommendation, and that, in itself, I think, raises serious questions about the balance of power in this city.”

Councilmember Ron James (Ward 6) said he had problems with the bill and would not vote for it.

“The 16 people, I’m sure, with the infor-mation they had, made the best decision they could, whether they had an interest in it financially or not,” James said. “They did what they thought was right.”

James said he agreed with 95 percent of the plan but would like to review the Spanos and Slavik properties to make sure their plans are in line with the city’s.

“I just want to be sure that what the city is planning for the future can be accom-plished,” James said.

Wildwood Director of Planning and Parks Joe Vujnich said for the most part, the department understands the property owners’ concerns and would aim to lessen the impact of whatever plan is implemented on new and existing developments.

The council failed to approve the bill, with a vote of 9-6. Supporters included Councilmembers Katie Dodwell (Ward 4), David Sewell (Ward 6), Larry Good-son (Ward 8), Larry McGowen (Ward 1), David Geile (Ward 1), Tammy Shea (Ward 3), Harry LeMay (Ward 3), Debra Smith McCutchen (Ward 5) and Nick Roppolo (Ward 5). Councilmembers opposing the bill were Ed Marshall (Ward 2), Holly Parks (Ward 2), James, Michele Bauer (Ward 8), John McCulloch (Ward 7) and Jim Kranz (Ward 7).

Wildwood resident Dan Topik said resi-dents should make note of the vote.

“I just want to make sure that all the resi-dents and citizens in the audience pay close attention to how their ward members vote on this bill, and maybe then make some decisions in next April’s election,” Topik said.

Shea made a motion for the council to send the TCAP’s recommendation to a “committee of the whole” so councilmem-bers could “have the opportunity as an entire council to discuss whatever issues anyone has.” The council voted in favor of Shea’s recommendation.

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By SARAH WILSONWildwood’s Ward Redistricting Commit-

tee is one step closer to reaching a conclu-sion after deciding to focus specifically on material from the U.S. Census data.

Mayor Tim Woerther said the decision of redistricting is a matter of “rural versus suburban.” He said one way to look at it would be to take a radial approach, which would make sure every ward has a bit of rural and suburban, or the committee could arrange it so that each ward contains a bit

of the Town Center.Due to the city’s population growth, the

city council appointed a committee of resi-dents, one from each ward, to analyze cur-rent populations of each ward and discuss potential redistricting.

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By JIM ERICKSONRoad and highway construction projects

that will have an impact on West St. Louis County were reviewed by state and county officials at a recent meeting of Progress 64 West, a civic organization promoting sound business growth, with emphasis on the I-64 corridor from I-270 westward to I-70.

Leading the review were Kristy Yates, area engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), and Garry Earls, St. Louis County’s chief operating officer.

The biggest single upcoming project is the new Daniel Boone Bridge span carry-ing I-64 over the Missouri River. Yates said a design-build contract for that project will be awarded next year. With an estimated cost of $125 million for property acquisi-tion, utilities, engineering and construction, the project involves building a new bridge upriver from the current spans.

Other upcoming MoDOT projects include:

• I-64 eastbound between Route 141 and I-270. Lane expansion with exit ramps and on-ramps revised accordingly. Plans call for the contract to be awarded in 2014; esti-mated construction costs are $18.5 million.

• Southbound Route 141 at I-44. A fly-over ramp will be built to take southbound

Route 141 traffic to eastbound I-44. Other construction will be designed to ease con-gestion and deal with drainage issues at the intersection. Construction costs are pro-jected at $10.2 million, with the contract to be awarded in 2014.

• I-270 between I-44 and Manchester Road. Northbound and southbound lanes will be expanded on the 2.6-mile stretch. Construction costs are estimated at $10.2 million; the contract award date will be late 2012.

Yates said MoDOT is dealing with budget cutbacks by closing some of its locations around the state and through attrition. Lay-offs may be needed in the future if attrition fails to generate needed savings, she said.

Infrastructure projects account for about 40 percent of St. Louis County’s approxi-mately $500 million yearly budget, Earls said. Major West County projects include:

• Page-Olive Connector. Started in July 2010, the $65 million project should be completed by next August. Most of the work on four bridges will be completed this year, and most paving from Waterworks Road to Page has been finished.

• Kehrs Mill Road, Long Road, Wild Horse Creek Road. Bids for the project were opened Oct. 19, and construction should begin next spring. Completion is

expected during summer 2013. Roadwork will realign Long Road with Wild Horse Creek Road for improved traffic flow. Kehrs Mill Road will tee into Long Road. Bids came in under budget, Earls said. Work involving levee projects is being coordinated with the Corps of Engineers.

• Baxter Road. Construction started early this year and should be completed by early 2013. Utility relocations are almost com-plete, and grading and paving are under-way. The project cost is $5.3 million.

• Baxter Road infrastructure from Clark-

son Road to Wild Horse Creek Road. This project involving paving, sidewalks and curb ramps is scheduled for completion by the fall of 2015.

• River Valley Connector. Work will not begin until after the Page-Olive Connec-tor and Route 141 open. It will connect the Chesterfield Valley and Howard Bend areas.

• Northwest Parkway. Plans call for the project to extend the Route 141 corridor north from Route 370. It is designed to link employment centers and residential areas.

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By CAROL ENRIGHT“How’d you two meet?” usually turns

up a funny story or two among couples. But some relationships begin under more serendipitous circumstances than others. Ariel Sabar’s new book, “Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love & Serendipity on the Streets of New York,” profiles nine couples who met by chance in public spots around New York City and examines how those locations played a role in the strangers fall-ing in love. There is the couple who met at the top of the Empire State Building, a sailor who encounters a runaway in Cen-tral Park and offers to buy her dinner, and a young woman who stops to ask a police officer for help in Times Square.

Sabar will speak at the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival on Nov. 7, and festival orga-nizers are hoping to add some hometown flavor to his talk by finding local couples who met under similar conditions in public places around St. Louis. Select couples may be invited to share their stories – and win a prize – at Sabar’s event.

Since word of the search got out, cou-ples have been emailing their stories to St. Louis Jewish Book Festival Director Marcia Evers Levy.

“Every time one pops up on my email, I have to stop what I’m doing because I want to read them,” Levy said.

Sabar is one of 30 authors who will speak at the 11-day festival at the Jewish Community Center’s Staenberg Family Complex in Creve Coeur.

Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin will kick off the festival at 7 p.m. on Sun., Nov. 6, with an on-stage interview with KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan. Arkin will talk about his new book, “An Improvised Life: A Memoir.”

Other festival highlights include: a dis-cussion of “Our Haggadah: Uniting Tradi-tions for Interfaith Families,” with authors Steve and Cokie Roberts; Gilad Sharon dis-cussing the book he wrote about his father, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon; Martin Fletcher, former Tel Aviv Bureau chief for NBC, talking about “The List,” his first fiction book; and former Major League Baseball player and two-time All-Star selection and Gold Glove Award winner Shawn Green speaking about his book, “The Way of Baseball: Finding Still-ness at 95 mph.”

Levy said festival-goers can look for-ward also to “a night of laughs” on Nov. 16 with David Javerbaum, former execu-tive producer of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” Levy called Javerbaum’s latest, “The Last Testament: A Memoir by God,” “a hilarious tongue-in-cheek look at religion.”

This year marks the 33rd St. Louis Jewish Book Festival, which is held in November to coincide with Jewish Book Month.

“The first year, there were eight authors over seven days,” Levy said.

Today, the St. Louis Jewish Book Festi-val is the largest festival of its kind in the U.S. and was honored as one of Missouri’s top literary events at the 2011 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Wash-ington, D.C.

“The festival has a very good reputation” nationwide, Levy said.

“And, frankly, St. Louis has a wonderful reputation for being respectful and support-ive of authors. The authors consistently say to me how much they enjoy … meeting our audiences and talking to our audiences,” she added.

Each presentation includes a question-and-answer session with the audience. Books will be available for purchase, and the authors will be signing books after each event.

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Criteria for the scholarship included, but was not limited to, being a high school junior when applying; maintaining a cumu-lative GPA of at least 2.7 on a 4.0 scale throughout high school; participating in community/volunteer activities; planning to apply for financial assistance to attend college; and attending an accredited, four-year college or university during all years for which the scholarship is awarded.

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Earning Eagle ScoutWestminster Christian Academy stu-

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‘Best College’Maryville University in St. Louis was

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Maryville is one of three universities in St. Louis – along with Washington Uni-

versity and Saint Louis University – to be cited in the National University category. In ranking 1,500 colleges and universities nationwide, U.S. News & World Report compiles overall scores based on categories such as academic reputation, graduation rates, class size, freshman retention rates, student-to-faculty ratio, faculty resources and credentials, alumni giving rate and financial resources.

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The activity was one of many special events scheduled in the 2011-2012 year to honor the school’s milestone.

Parkway West senior and cross-country runner Ian Kotthoff met a runner from Joplin and talked about the tornado destruction and how it impacted the Joplin cross country program. Kot-thoff decided to make a difference. The Joplin coach informed him that they had lost everything and that they were trying to purchase an ice machine that was destroyed.

Kotthoff created a program to raise money called “Runners Helping Run-ners.” He set up a table at a Parkway track event and collected almost $500 for the Joplin cross-country program.

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The award recognizes the outstand-ing performance of individuals who have served as a school administrator for less than three years. Marquette High Assistant Principal Dr. Jennifer Sebold nominated Mathison for the award because of his ongoing efforts to foster a positive learning environment.

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Barat Academy moved in August from Dardenne Prairie to the site of the former Gateway Academy in Chesterfield. Although leaving St. Charles County cost the school about 40 students, its adminis-trators, teachers and students are excited about all that the private, co-educational Catholic high school has gained from the relocation.

Sophomore Megan Roberts, 15, is assis-tant director of the school play. She said the new location is “great because we actu-ally have a stage now to practice on.”

“Before, we didn’t have that; we did the play in the foyer. So now we’re able to practice every night with the set – and it’s great,” she said.

Roberts said the food at the new campus “tastes better,” too.

This is likely due to the fact that the school cafeteria is equipped with a full kitchen that allows on-site meal prepara-tion. Barat’s old campus did not have a working kitchen, so a food service com-pany brought in lunch.

One downside of the move for Roberts

is that the drive from her home in Troy to school is now 45 minutes. But the sopho-more said the longer commute does not bother her “because Barat’s just that awe-some.”

Ninth-grade Western Civilization teacher Vanessa Sparrow said that although she ini-tially worried about “the students acclimat-ing well,” they “didn’t skip a beat.”

“They joined the community as one and kind of just conquered it. It adds more to the feeling of community than we already had,” Sparrow said.

Along with the working lunchroom and dedicated stage for theatrical productions, Barat inherited a gym about twice the size of the one at its old campus.

“We didn’t realize what we didn’t have until we had it,” said Michael Wade, Barat’s director of admissions.

“It was sad to leave (our old campus), but … we found everything that we were hoping to build,” said Schwarz.

The biggest thing the school found was space. The 90,000-square-foot building is 27,000 square feet larger than the school’s prior digs.

“We can handle 600 students here now,” Wade said.

Current enrollment is just less than 200 students, 40 fewer than the school had last year. But Wade said he is optimistic about the growth potential in West County.

Because students enrolling in Catho-lic high schools typically commit to their school of choice by February, Schwarz said that the next few months “will be the real indicator of how we do next year” in terms of enrollment.

Schwarz added that because Barat is in a growth mode, it admits students on a roll-ing basis.

“We are constantly open for business,” she said.

Barat Academy settles into new home in Chesterfield

A new Barat Academy sign graces the front of the school at the former site of Gateway Academy on Wild Horse Creek Road in Chesterfield.

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watching the Cardinals battle the Brew-ers for the National League Division title, some Rockwood School District patrons were fighting to keep the district’s gifted education program in the game.

“Most of us are Cardinal fans and would like to be watching the Cards play tonight,” one father said, “but we’re bigger fans of kids and schools. That’s why we’re here tonight.”

That father was among about 300 Rock-wood parents and students who attended a public discussion session at Lafayette High School held by consultants who have been hired by the district’s board of education to conduct a regularly scheduled evaluation of the gifted education program.

“It’s sad that we’re here in a defensive mode,” that same father told the evalua-tors.

“You’re here to learn how to improve the program and we would love to have a good critique, but because of budget cuts, we all hesitate. We could offer our ideas on how the program could be improved, but instead we feel like we have to be here to defend it.”

The evaluators – University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education Professors Carolyn Callahan and Karen Lelli Austin – told the audience that they had told all of the district’s superintendents they would not be allowed to attend the public session.

“We are totally independent,” Callahan said. “We have not been given an agenda. We have no ties to Rockwood. We have not been given any directives.”

Callahan said that the data they gather would be interpreted by a Korean gradu-ate student who does not even know where Rockwood is.

Although most opinions the evaluators gathered at the open session were positive, a few did bring up the district’s budget as a factor.

“Today the district is in a budget crunch,”

a mother without children in the gifted education program said. “A lot of money is funneled into the program, but my kids cannot benefit from it.”

She said the type of education gifted stu-dents get should benefit all students equally and suggested that could be done with less cost by including the program in home school curriculums.

Others disagreed, saying gifted educa-tion should remain in a separate school but be extended to five days a week instead of one.

“The problem is not the CCL (Center for Creative Learning),” a mother said. “The problem is what happens the other four days of the week.”

The CCL is the elementary component of the program. Students from kindergarten to first grade attend at the 1401 Froesel Drive campus. Students from second to fifth grade attend at the campus at 265 Old State Road. Both schools are in Ellisville.

Other parents said students should get more time in gifted education.

The most moving opinions came from CCL students both present and past. A very young student took the microphone and drew a big breath of courage.

“My name is Katy and I go to CCL,” she said. “I wish I could go every day of the week.”

Several graduates of the gifted education program said it had not only challenged them intellectually but did more to shape their personalities and the way they face the world than any other experience they have had.

Callahan and Austin will complete their evaluation with surveys, school obser-vations and interviews with randomly selected focus groups representing admin-istrators, staff, parents, and students from kindergarten through high school. They will present their findings to the school board at its meeting Dec. 1, and their report will be available online at rockwood.k12.mo.us.

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About 300 people recently attended a public discussion session about Rockwood’s gifted education program at Lafayette High School’s theater. (West Newsmagazine photo)

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By MARCIA GUCKES“Yes! First!” said a Rockwood fourth

grader with a raised fist and a slight jump of excitement when he opened his baggie and found he would be living in a “First World” country.

The experience the student and his class-mates were about to have would simulate the differences in living in a First, Second or Third World country.

Gifted student educators Lynne Harman and Suzanne Lesser recently threw a Hunger Banquet for students at Rockwood’s Center for Creative Learning (CCL) as part of the “Feeding the World” unit. With help from parents, they set up several tables in classrooms to represent the three different “worlds.” Students were instructed to use what they had learned about systems that can improve life, such as education, trans-portation and health care, to try to find a way to improve the global situation.

Two of the 24 students received baggies with passports to the First World where they were free to travel around the “globe” and had more than enough “money” to buy from a table of food from around the world. They could choose cheese, bread, carrots, meat, milk and cookies.

Two other students went to the Second World where they had only one free trip around the world but could travel to a ban-quet table of foods grown in their region, such as rice cakes, fresh fruit, raisins, and orange juice. They also had enough money to keep themselves well fed.

The remaining 20 fourth graders were squished into a Third World represented by a taped off square of carpet where they had to wait their turn to buy food from the

government table, which offered saltine crackers from the grain they grew, choco-late syrup from the cacao beans growing in their region, and water that only lasted until the well ran dry.

When all the students had arrived in their worlds, Harman announced loudly, “Start living!”

First World students casually walked to their banquet table and returned with plates of ham sandwiches and cookies.

One of the Second World students trav-eled to the First World to buy cookies and milk, and the other discovered he could not travel there because his classmate had used the ticket without talking it over with him.

Meanwhile, the Third World students pushed their way to the government table to buy food that was sparsely rationed out by two “government workers.”

The action stopped when Harman turned off the lights and asked the students if they had found a way to improve the global sit-uation. Most admitted they had been busy buying food for themselves.

Both teachers encouraged them again to seek solutions and not just food.

The cycle repeated itself several times until First World students decided to build a school in the Third World. They taught Third World students to be teachers who could return to their taped off square and get paid by the government to teach.

Harman said they have had all kinds of reactions to the simulation.

“Tears,” Harman said. “Some gifted stu-dents are so intense emotionally that they just can’t get past the unfairness of it all.”

Harman said the unit has been taught at the CCL for at least 15 years.

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Fourth graders at Rockwood’s Center for Creative Learning purchase food at the Hunger Banquet, held as part of a unit of study titled “Feeding the World.”

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Fr. Wally Sidney, S.J., PresidentDe Smet Jesuit is a Catholic, college preparatory high school that is part of a global network of Jesuit schools educating more than 500,000 students internationally in the tradition of St. Ignatius of Loyola. At De Smet Jesuit, each student’s curriculum is customized to challenge him appropriately in the various disciplines. The curriculum is rigorous, designed to prepare young men for success in college and life. Learning at De Smet is more than academic rigor, as the school strives to form “Men for Others.” De Smet changes lives, and athletic, co-curricular and retreat and service programs provide opportunities for young men to find their gifts and make friendships that will change the world.

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By WARREN MAYES

High school softballEureka, St. Joseph’s Academy and West-

minster Christian Academy recorded dis-trict softball championships.

In Class 4, District 3, second-seeded Eureka knocked off top-seeded Parkway South (24-3) 6-4.

Eureka Coach Mark Mosley said his squad celebrated like you would expect for a program that won its first district title since 1999. It was Eureka’s fourth overall district championship.

“We are all thrilled,” Mosley said. “The coaches, players, and parents are all proud. But we are not surprised. We had this exact

game in mind the very first day of practice, and we’ve had the goal and expectation that we could do this. We have been talk-ing about playing the district championship against Parkway South all season long. And we hope this is just the beginning of a successful postseason for us.”

Last year, Eureka lost 9-3 to Parkway South in the district title game.

“I did not remind them of last year,” Mosley said. “First of all, the girls remem-ber it. And secondly, we are a new team. And I did not even want the idea of losing in their minds. All we’ve talked about lead-ing up to it this game was having fun, play-ing for each other, having a game plan and approach in the batter’s box and executing

it, and our key word the last two weeks: momentum.”

Parkway South won two regular-season meetings over Eureka – 1-0 in a tourney game and 2-1 in a Suburban West Confer-ence game.

“I told the girls after our second loss to South that I was willing to give them those first two wins if we could get districts,” Mosley said. “I also told them how hard it is to beat a team three times in one season – these were things I told them immediately following our second loss to them. I also liked the idea that we’d played them close twice, and we’d gotten to see their pitcher twice.”

Jessica Poore and Jenny Weiss each drove in two runs for Eureka in the win.

“Jenny’s home run was really big. It might have only been a solo shot, but it set the tone for the rest of our team that we could hit (Sheridon) Sprague and that they were not untouchable.

“South is not a team that is used to playing from behind, so keeping pressure on them was a big game plan of ours, so responding to them tying it was also really important for us. Everyone contributed for us whether it was just making the pitcher throw more pitches, getting a bunt down, or just getting a productive out or hard hit ball.”

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“The question was did she abandon a play on the ball and run into Alyssa on pur-pose,” Parkway South Coach Terry Braz-zell said. “The umpire gave a delayed dead ball signal so we kept the runners going and actually thought we had won the game as the bases cleared because the ball went into the outfield and none of the Eureka outfielders went for it.

“The umpires huddled and said that the third base umpire mistakenly gave the delayed dead ball signal and that Alyssa was out.”

“The girls were very devastated,” Braz-zell said, but gave credit to Eureka for the win. “They took advantage of the breaks they were given and we just dug too big a hole to climb out of.”

In earlier district play, No. 4 Washing-ton defeated No. 5 Parkway West 6-4. The Longhorns finished 6-17 for the fall. No. 3 Lafayette defeated. No. 6 Marquette 7-0. Marquette wound up 5-16. Lafay-ette’s season ended with a 12-4 loss in the semifinals to Eureka. The Lancers finished 16-11.

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Top-seeded Westminster won the Class 3 District 4 championship with a 6-5 victory over No. 2 Kennedy (18-3).

“Our focus beginning the district was to defend our No. 1 seeding, Coach Andy Benes said. “We played well enough during the season to beat the teams in our district so we expected to win, even though the competition was very close.”

With the score tied at 5 in the seventh, Courtney McGhee led off the inning with a well-placed hit in the infield. She subse-quently stole second base. After a failed sacrifice bunt, senior center fielder Bryn McKie smoked a single right down the first base line and McGhee scored easily from second base for the winning run.

Offensive stars for the Wildcats were McKie, who had three hits; with Sydney Seabaugh, Jocelyn Sheffield, and McGhee all adding hits. Kristen Ahlbrand blasted a two-run homer in her first at-bat.

Jessica Johnson allowed three earned runs in picking up the victory.

“She attacked the strike zone and forced JFK to swing the bats,” Benes said.

It was Westminster’s third district title.In Class 2 District 5 play, Principia lost

4-2 in the championship game to O’Fallon Christian. The Panthers finished 7-8 on the season.

High school boys’ cross countryMarquette won the Suburban West Con-

ference meet held at Jefferson Barracks. The Mustangs scored 53 points to nip Eureka (58).

It was the fourth conference champi-onship overall on the boys side for Mar-quette.

The other team totals were Lindbergh 95, Parkway South 116, Fox 125, Lafayette 131, Mehlville 148, Northwest Cedar Hill 205, and Oakville 212.

Sophomore Noah Kauppila, of Mar-

quette, won the race in 16 minutes, 21.25 seconds. In second place was Eureka’s Ethan Lambert at 16:39.89.

Marquette Coach Mike Ebert said his squad had high expectations heading into the meet.

“The guys really wanted to defend their conference championship from last year,” Ebert said. “We knew that the field of run-ners was deeper than in years past, and that Eureka would be a tough team to beat.

Ebert said Kauppila ran “a smart first mile.”

“He’s very smart and calm early in the race, and this paid off the day of the confer-ence championship since it was a relatively warm day,” Ebert said.

It was his third individual race cham-pionship (Fleet Feet South Kickoff Meet and Parkway Central Invitational) of the season.

Other Marquette results were Dan Lasker, ninth place at 17:15; Adam Rode-rique, 10th place at 17:21; Grant Dolan, 14th place at 17:43; Jeff Orf, 19th place at 17:52; Logan Jardine, 24th place at 18:01; and Ryan Lehr, 37th place at 18:40.

Kennedy senior Tyler Gardner recently won the Affton Invitational. It was a repeat performance as varsity boys’ champion for Gardner.

He took first with a time of 20:23.

High school girls’ cross countryEureka won the Suburban West Confer-

ence championship in a race held at Jeffer-son Barracks.

The Wildcats scored 28 points. Other team scores were Lafayette 45, Lindbergh 85, Parkway South 118, Mehlville 136, Oakville 144, and Marquette 146.

Eureka freshman Hannah Long won the race in 19:07.55.

Wildcats Coach Kally Fischer said her girls were in it to win it.

“Our expectation heading into the con-ference meet was to win,” Fischer said.

The result was Eureka’s second con-ference championship in as many years. Eureka has been in the Suburban West for just two years.

Long’s victory continued an amazing season for her. She is undefeated this fall.

“This is a respectable time on this course racing all by herself,” Fischer said. “It was her first time at Jefferson Barracks.”

Other Eureka times and finishes were: junior Megan Cunningham, third in 20:28.87; junior Angie Sumner, sixth in 20:44.85; Taylor Schulz, freshman Rachel Yergensen, seventh in 21:04.82; freshman Sammi Powell,11th in 21:20.37; and senior Jessie McNeel, 18th in 22:03.97.

Kennedy junior Carlye Chaney won the varsity girls’ race in the Affton Invitational with a time of 24:01. It was Chaney’s first varsity win.

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the playoffs and also marks the renewal of the rivalry between the Marquette Mus-tangs and the Lafayette Lancers.

Lafayette travels to face rival Marquette in a 7 p.m. game on Thursday.

Normally, the game would be on Friday.“Our school district is off every year on

the last Friday of October,” Thornhill said. “I hate to break up our habits that our play-ers have created on game days, so putting the game on Thursday allows it to feel like an ordinary game day and night. Playing on Thursday also allows both coaching staffs to hopefully start preparing for the playoffs a day early. It allows us to go out and scout as an entire staff on Friday night.”

Playing on a different day breaks up the routine to which players and coaches are accustomed.

“We will prepare a little different,” Thornhill said. “Our staff had a long Friday night (after game against Parkway South). We had a long night of watching film in preparation for our practice that Saturday morning. We basically started our regular practice week on Saturday.”

Marquette has the home field advantage, and Thornhill said his Mustangs will take every edge they can muster when meeting Lafayette.

“We always enjoy playing in front of our home crowd,” Thornhill said. “It is special when we play at home, but we haven’t had much success at home against Lafayette. We have won two games in the last three years, but our wins were at their stadium.”

The game is always a big draw no matter where it is played.

“It’s exciting for the fans,” Lafayette Coach Boyd Manne said about the rivalry.

Lafayette enters the game undefeated in the Suburban West at 7-0. So, that puts a bulls-eye on the Lancers for the Mustangs to try and hand them a league loss. It is a balanced conference, Thornhill said, in which any team can take down another team.

“I wouldn’t consider Lafayette any tougher than another opponent in the Sub-urban West,” Thornhill said. “Each week in our conference, we play against good schools with great coaches.”

Marquette has won two of the last three meetings, including last year’s. Yet, in the scheme of things, Thornhill said, it does not mean much.

“What has happened the last three years will have no bearing on the outcome of this game,” Thornhill said. “Our seniors will decide how they finish their regular season

– not anyone from the past.”The Mustangs know they will have their

hands full against the Lancers.“Lafayette is a good team that has really

changed from the beginning of the year,” Thornhill said. “Their game against Park-way South (a 27-0 victory in Week 8) reminded me of Lafayette three or four years ago. To beat Lafayette, we have to come out and limit our mistakes and exe-cute on both sides of the ball. We have to play great defense and establish our run-ning game.

“I am sure both sides will be ready for a great night of football.”

Manne agreed.“We will be focused on playing football

for four quarters,” Manne said. “We have had a motto this year of improving every day, every play, and every game. We want to take care of the football, play great defense and win the kicking game.”

With a playoff berth on the line for both teams and this being a rivalry game, the intensity stands to be high. It is a game Thornhill said he is looking forward to playing.

“I love playing this game last. Many times when we play this game, something is on the line, which always adds to the excitement,” Thornhill said. “This could be the last year that we play each other in the last game of the year. With the new play-off system and the crossover games with the Suburban North, it is going to make it difficult scheduling Lafayette as the last game on the season. This game will not be played last at least for the next two years.”

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By WARREN MAYESIt does not matter which side of the ball

Michael Scherer is on for the MICDS Rams. Scherer, a 6-foot-3, 230-pound senior, plays middle linebacker and running back for Coach Josh Smith.

“I like both sides of the ball,” Scherer said. “I like to hit people on defense and I feel very comfortable with the ball in my hand on offense.”

There has been no letdown this season for Scherer. He had a solid junior campaign, leading MICDS with 68 tackles with a sack. Offensively, he rushed for 919 yards and 12 touchdowns and caught 20 passes for 207 yards.

He is on track to do just as well this fall.Smith said Scherer has a track record

that offered comfort in knowing what he can do on the football field.

“Michael was a two-way starter for us last year,” Smith said. “We felt like this season he would be in a position to affect every play with his athleticism. Michael is our middle linebacker and he has a high football IQ.”

Through the first eight games of the season (at press time), Scherer leads the Rams in scoring with 15 touchdowns.

“He plays the game hard, and that usually ends with a trip to the end zone,” Smith said.

Scherer leads the running attack with 684 yards on 101 carries for a 6.8 average per attempt.

Scherer also can catch the ball. He has grabbed 13 receptions for 186 yards, aver-aging 14.3 yards per catch.

On the defensive side, Scherer patrols behind the line. He has 56 tackles to lead the Rams. He has recorded eight tackles for loss of yards. He also has two interceptions, a sack and a fumble recovery.

As one of the Rams’ captains, he takes

his leadership role seriously. “I am a captain but I like to lead by exam-

ple,” Scherer said. “I like to show people how hard I work and how it shows come game time that I have put in the work nec-essary to be successful on the field. And in doing so, I hope that they will see the success that I have had from my hard work and that it will cause them to want to do the same thing.”

Scherer has made a verbal commit-ment to play for Missouri and is confident he made the correct choice. He made his pledge before the season began, picking Missouri, although he had more than a dozen scholarship offers from schools like Boston College, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan State, Nebraska, Vanderbilt and others.

“I chose Mizzou because I believe in the coaching staff there and I love the family atmosphere,” Scherer said. “The program is strong and is headed in the right direc-tion, and Coach Pinkel and Coach Stec (Dave Steckel) are people that I cannot wait to play for.”

High school seniors cannot sign binding letters of intent with NCAA Division I and II universities until the first Wednesday in February of their senior year.

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“I am just trying to help my team win in any way that I possibly can,” Scherer said. “I will play any position or do anything asked of me if it helps my team to win.”

Scherer believes the Rams can win. MICDS was undefeated in its first eight games and ranked No. 4 in Missouri in Class 4.

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By WARREN MAYES Everybody gets knocked down. Lafay-

ette freshman forward Austin Panchot understands that, but the youngster keeps bouncing back up.

At press time, the 5-foot-5, 120-pounder has scored 21 goals, including seven game-winners for the soccer Lancers. He can pass also, as demonstrated by his 10 assists.

“Physically, it’s difficult for him,” vet-

eran coach Tim Walters said. “He’s not that big. He doesn’t complain about any-thing. He gets whacked and whacked and he doesn’t cry to the officials. He’s tough mentally. I have some concerns about him physically. He gets back up. Mentally, if he gets knocked down, he just says he has to work a little harder. That’s his mentality.”

Panchot said the rigors of high school soccer do not bother him.

“They don’t intimidate me at all,” he said about bigger athletes. “I’m used to playing against bigger guys. I draw a lot fouls. I get shouldered off the ball but I give them a shoulder back. I wouldn’t say I’m a tough guy, but I don’t shy away from anyone, either.”

Although just a freshman, Panchot said he does not see himself getting any bigger.

“My dad (Jeffrey) is only an inch taller than me now, and it’s the same with my older brother (Jean-Luc),” Panchot said. “I’m almost at my maximum height. I’m fine with it. I make it work for me.”

Walters certainly is glad to have him on the squad.

“It’s hard for a freshman to come in and do what he’s done,” Walters said. “My son, Tim, who had 97 goals for us in his career here, only had four goals as a fresh-

man. That tells you Austin is very good as a freshman.

“What a way to start your high school career. The kid from Marquette (Keith Grieshaber) got a lot of goals last year (22) as a freshman, but they’re two different builds.”

Panchot has been playing soccer with Scott Gallagher club teams since he was very young.

“I’ve always enjoyed soccer since I was little,” he said. “My dad was a soccer player back in his time (at Lindbergh). He helped me practice with the opposite foot and other things to help me get better.

“Soccer is everything to us. Our whole family is soccer, soccer, soccer.”

Panchot, who will be playing for the Gal-lagher U 16 Academy team when the high school season ends, knows what do to.

“He’s just crafty,” Walters said. “With that craftiness, he’s also a very hard worker. His ball skills are phenomenal. He has a desire to compete and play all day long.”

After a couple of days of tryouts, Walters let him know he would be playing varsity.

“I enjoy playing at the highest level pos-sible,” Panchot said. “I like playing against bigger players and making myself better.”

Panchot lets the older players, including

his senior brother who is a captain, lead the team. He does his leading by example.

“I try to let my play do the talking,” Pan-chot said.

He said his coach has helped him get better.

“Coach also taught me gym in middle school, so I knew him before high school,” Panchot said. “He’s always giving me little tips. Earlier this year, I was having trouble finishing against a goalkeeper who was going down. Coach told me to chip the goalie who was going down and I scored. He helps me out to be a better player.”

Walters said the only downside to Pan-chot is sometimes the players watch him do his thing and get caught up in that.

“He has this ability to get out of the worst situations,” Walters said. “I look up and say, ‘How did he get out of this?’ … That would be his downside in mesmerizing his teammates.”

Away from athletics, Walters said, Pan-chot is a good student.

“He’s an awesome kid. He’s very level-headed,” Walter said.

The good news is Walters has Panchot for another three years. Plus, Panchot has a younger brother, Logan, who is 13 and headed toward the Lancers.

Lafayette freshman notches 21 goals, 10 assists

Lafayette freshman Austin Panchot


By WARREN MAYESThere is a new career scoring leader for

the Kennedy boys’ soccer program. Senior Danny McCune broke the 35-year-old record held by 1976 graduate Mike Baechle. The 5-foot-11, 155-pound McCune scored his 44th career goal in this season’s 2-1 loss at Bayless. Losing the game dulled the accomplishment. He was honored in the next Kennedy home game against Trinity, a 1-0 victory.

Baechle was on hand at a pre-game cer-emony to give McCune a ball to mark his record.

“It means a lot to me,” McCune said. “Obviously, a lot of good players have played at Kennedy. That record has been around a long time at 35 years, so it’s been a good record.”

The ceremony impressed McCune.“We met at the center of the field before

the game,” McCune said. “He handed me the ball and told me congratulations. It was pretty neat to have the guy whose record I broke hand me a ball and congratulate me. I have played with both of his sons, so it’s pretty neat to know the guy whose record I broke.”

Coach Tom Rapp said it was a special moment but it was not overdone.

“Mike is a Kennedy grad and he’s in our school’s hall of fame,” Rapp said. “He gave Dan the ball and there was a picture taken. It was very low-key. Our focus was on the game. We got back to work.”

The Celts earned the victory over Trinity on a McCune goal.

“It was an awesome win for us over Trin-ity,” Rapp said. “Danny scored with 12 minutes left in the game on a cross from Blake Grojean. Danny headed it into the far corner. It was a world-class goal.”

The record-breaking goal came when Kennedy was down 2-0 to Bayless.

“I was in the middle at the top of the box,” McCune said. “There was a through-ball to midfielder Joey Culver. It was bouncing in the air. My defender tried to beat him to the ball and Joey one-timed it to me and I one-timed it over the goalie.”

Rapp said it was a typical McCune goal.“It looked like he was going to be smoth-

ered,” Rapp said. “He put a little touch on the ball and it went over the keeper’s hands by a couple of inches. He did just what he wanted to do with the ball like he always does.”

McCune set Kennedy history with that score.

“I did know that goal was the one to give me the record,” McCune said. “But first, I just wanted to win the game. It was a good feeling but it would have been better if we had won.”

Earlier this season, McCune moved past Tony Luedecke, a former 2009 Class 1 all-state first team and Regional Offensive Player of the Year, in scoring. Luedecke finished his career with 41 goals.

McCune holds two other career records at Kennedy. He has the most assists (17) in a season, a record he set last year. He holds the career assist total as well.

“I’m pretty fast but I don’t have over-whelming speed,” said McCune, who began playing soccer when he was 3 years old. “I have good ball skills. I’m good in the air. I’m a good finisher.”

Rapp said McCune is someone he likes having on his team.

“He’s extremely athletic,” Rapp said. “He’s fast and he’s quick. He’s a very honest player. He gets banged up by his mates because they can’t react quickly enough. He gets banged in the games by the opponents and he never complains. He’s a very coachable kid. Danny’s a solid, all-around player.”

Kennedy’s McCune breaks decades-old scoring record

Danny McCune (left) broke the Kennedy soccer scoring record, which for 35 years belonged to Mike Baechle (right).

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Rusty Ryan, former Lafayette High School baseball coach, remembers the first time he saw St. Louis Cardinal standout David Freese.

The boys were indoors for a clinic. Football Coach Boyd Manne was the freshman baseball coach.

“We were sitting the gym and the boys were horsing around between sessions. I didn’t know David,” Ryan recalled. “I see this kid run over, slide and catch a ball, get up and throw a dart. I asked Boyd, ‘Who was that kid?’

“He said his name was David Freese. I thought, ‘What an athlete.’ You could see the ability and the hand-eye coor-dination even then.”

Fast-forward to the present, and Freese is the hometown hero for the Cardinals, making their 18th appearance in the World Series. The ex-Lancer and Wildwood native helped secure the team’s spot against the Texas Rangers with a National League Championship Series to remember against the Milwaukee Brewers.

In a lineup loaded with All-Stars, it was Freese who all but iced the pennant for St. Louis.

The St. Louis third baseman smacked a three-run homer in Game 6 of the NLCS, helping the Cardinals score a 12-6 victory over the Brew-ers.

Freese also scored three times in the victory and batted .545 (12 for 22) in the NLCS with three homers, three doubles,

nine RBI and seven runs.For his efforts, he was selected MVP of the NLCS. “I think not too many people get a chance to do this in

their hometown, and it’s an unbelievable feeling,” Freese said. “To be a part of this team, this group of guys, this organization, means a lot.”

Part of a high-scoring offense that includes Albert Pujols, Matt Holliday and Lance Berkman, Freese went three for four with a homer in a four-run first inning that got the Cardinals rolling. It was his third home run of the series and fourth in the NL playoffs.

“That’s the crazy thing about baseball. You have your ups and downs and you just keep working hard. You get hot every now and then,” Freese said. “The timing was unbelievable. Honestly, I wish we could make eight or nine or however many of these and give them to our bullpen. What they did, they really deserve this award. They’re why we won this series.”

The 28-year-old third baseman took a 10-game postsea-son hitting streak with 14 RBI for the wild-card

Cardinals into the World Series against the AL champion Texas Rangers.

“The Rangers are scary. They’re a scary team,” said Freese, prior to Game 1 of the World Series. “You look at that lineup; you

look at that staff. It’s going to be a battle.”His teammates have marveled at what he

has done.“He’s a guy that can hit 25, 30 home runs,

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at this level,” said Pujols, who trained with Freese the last two off-seasons. “I think he’s showing it right now.”

Veteran reliever Octavio Dotel defined Freese in two words: “Unbelievable player.”

Manager Tony La Russa, who does not often throw around praise, likes what he has seen from Freese.

“He’s going to be a star. If he can stay healthy, he’s going to be a star year in and year out,” La Russa said. “I’m talk-ing about a clutch star.”

Ryan and Steve Miller, the former Lafayette athletic director and assistant coach under Ryan when Freese was playing for the Lancers, proudly said they have been fol-lowing him every step of the way.

“I’m proud for David,” Ryan said. “He’s a very, very good kid, and I’m happy for him and his family. He comes from a good family and you like to see good kids have success. David’s a good kid.”

Miller agreed.“David has worked very hard to be the professional that

he is,” Miller said. “I’m very proud of David for what he has done on the field, but, more importantly, the way he has conducted himself off the field with the fans, being very humble and modest – giving credit to his teammates and conducting himself in a professional manner.”

Ryan said Freese was a gifted athlete in high school.“He was extremely well-rounded,” Ryan said. “He could

have been a quarterback, a wide receiver, a running back or a basketball player. He was a very athletic kid who could always hit.

“He had the inside out swing even in high school. He could really pound the ball.”

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“He was a very good hitter as well as a position player,” Miller said. “He was a very difficult hitter to strike out. He was mainly a line drive, in the gap hitter, and on occasion would hit home runs. He hit two in one game against Parkway West his senior year in 2001. He set the record for best batting average in a season in 2001 with a .533 average.”

Ryan said he thought Freese had the potential to reach the big leagues.

“I’m not going to say I knew David Freese would be a major leaguer,” Ryan said. “I thought he had a chance. How far you go depends on a lot of things – luck, how hard you work and being able to avoid injuries. He always had the ability.”

Funny enough, he quit right after high school and did not play for a year.

“Yes, David quit after a high school. He said he was just burnt out,” Ryan said. “I told him I made a little money at this game but I told him you could make a lot. He said, ‘Coach, I don’t want to play.’ So he sat out a year.

“He then went to Mizzou for a year and then came back to play at (St. Louis Com-munity College) Meramec and was an all-American there. He went to South Alabama and then got drafted.”

The Padres selected him in the ninth round of the 2006 first-year player draft.

He was acquired from San Diego for a fading Jim Edmonds in December 2007.

Problems with his ankles, stemming from a single-car crash on an icy road in January 2009, eventually required surgery, which limited him to 87 major league games in 2009 and 2010. This season, he missed another 51 games with a broken left hand after being hit by a Scott Linebrink pitch in Atlanta on May 1, wrecking a .356 start.

But the time away allowed Freese’s ankles to heal. He returned in late June and finished the season with 10 homers, 55 RBI

and a .297 average in 97 games, mainly bat-ting sixth as the everyday third baseman.

Then came the postseason.Freese had hits in each game of the NLCS,

propelling the Cardinals to their first World Series appearance since beating Detroit in 2006. He had a single, double and homer in the Game 6 clincher.

With that, the West County athlete reached his first World Series.

“A lot of guys have talent,” La Russa said. “To be successful in the league, you’ve got to be tough and you’ve got to have good character. He is a very tough individual. He’s had his share of bad breaks with his ankle and his feet. But this guy has great insides, and it matches his talent.”

St. Louis Cardinals Yadier Molina and David Freese (R) celebrate scoring on a hit by Jaime Garcia in the second inning of Game 5 in the NLCS at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on October 14, 2011. Photo by Bill Greenblatt

St. Louis Cardinals David Freese tries to get out of the way of a Milwaukee Brewers Zack Greinke pitch but is hit in the second inning of Game 5 in the NLCS at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on October 14, 2011. Photo by Bill Greenblatt

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Mercy Hospital St. Louis offers free, One-on-One Freedom from Smoking Sessions through February at the Mercy Hospital St. Louis campus (615 S. New Ballas Road in Creve Coeur). The ses-sions, developed by the American Lung Association, help participants learn how to quit, establish a quit day and develop skills to remain smoke-free. The class is taught by registered nurses and respira-tory therapists. The program runs for seven weeks with one-hour sessions that can be set up between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Call (314) 251-4811.

• • •St. Luke’s Hospital is offering an online

childbirth class that allows expectant parents to attend regular childbirth classes despite scheduling conflicts, bed rest or other constraints. The class teaches about pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and newborn care through an interactive pro-gram. To register or for more information, call (314) 205-6906.

• • •Part three of the Dr. Mom Series is from

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• • •“Safety When Taking Multiple Medi-

cations,” part of the Wellness College Lec-ture Series, is from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tues., Nov. 1 at the Institute for Higher Education at St. Luke’s Hospital (232 S. Woods Mill Road in Chesterfield). The lec-ture series on successful aging targets older adults, caregivers and members of the “sandwich generation.” For more informa-tion, additional classes or to register, call (314) 542-4848 or visit stlukes-stl.com.

• • •Cholesterol screenings provided by

Missouri Baptist are from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Wed., Nov. 2 at Dierbergs Heritage Place (12595 Olive Blvd. in Creve Coeur) and Wed., Nov. 9 at Dierbergs Market Place (1730 Clarkson Road in Chester-field). Cholesterol screenings are free, and no fasting is required. Results are avail-able immediately and participants must be age 18 or older. To register (required), call (314) 996-LIFE (5433).

• • •“Women and Sleep” is from 6 p.m. to 7

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• • •St. Luke’s Hospital presents “Navigat-

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• • •“Integrating Alternative Medicine

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• • •“Hospice Myth Busters” is from 6:30

p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thurs., Nov. 10 at Cancer Support Community of Greater St. Louis (1058 Old Des Peres Road in Des Peres). The class addresses common misconcep-tions associated with the hospice model of care. Amherst Hospice provides dinner and discussion. To RSVP, call (314) 238-2000 or visit cancersupportstl.org.

• • •The American Red Cross St. Louis Area

Chapter presents its Babysitter’s Training Class from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 12 at its chapter headquarters (10195 Corporate Square Drive in Creve Coeur). The course prepares youth for babysitting by teaching skills in safety, basic child care, safe play, first aid and critical emergency action. Babysitters must be age 11 or older to register. The cost is $85 and includes a participant manual. For more information or to register, call (800) 733-2767 or visit redcross.org.

• • •St. Luke’s Hospital as part of its Well-

ness College offers “End of Life Planning and Caregiving” from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tues., Nov. 15, at the Institute for Health Education (232 S. Woods Mill Road in Chesterfield). For more information or to register, call (314) 542-4848.

• • •An Alzheimer’s Association Support

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The event honors seniors older than age 75 who have demonstrated that retirement is no reason to slow down.

West County Ageless Remarkable St. Louisans include:

Creve Coeur resident Eleanor Ger-shien, 80, is the oldest person ever to have received a degree from Maryville Univer-sity, graduating in 2006 at age 75 with a degree in studio art.

An accomplished oil painter and member of the Greater St. Louis Art Association, she also is a decorated athlete who recently earned seven gold medals at the JCC Senior Olympics.

She has enjoyed a successful, four-decade real estate career and continues today. “I love people, and I love houses,” she said.

W.F. Samuel Hopmeier, 76, of Town & Country, is committed to community service. As chair of the Missouri Athletic Club Charitable Society for Children, he helps generate funds to support area chil-dren’s charities.

He lends additional community support as a member of the board of directors of YouthBridge Community Foundation and as mentor with Innovate VMS, the venture mentoring service of Innovate St. Louis.

“Get out and do something,” he said. “It doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it makes a contribution to others as well as for yourself.”

Manchester resident Helen Hume, 78, is a retired art educator who recently began taking classes to learn how to use modern technology to enhance her art. She has penned eight books on art history and spends her spare time volunteering with the St. Louis Artists’ Guild and Saint Louis Symphony. She is a photographer and an oil painter.

“I feel I represent a lot of people who volunteer,” she said. “All my life I’ve been able to share, and I feel blessed.”

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Barbara Wood, of Ballwin, recently held a small reunion party for her long-time Ballwin Hills Bridge club, which for 55 years met on a monthly basis, rotating between the members’ homes.

the club was started in 1956, and the members retired the club in 2010. “the party was brief, but the ladies truly enjoyed seeing each other once again

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sciences, Wildwood resident Ernest G. Jaworski, 85, was the first president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. He retired in 1993 after 43 years at Mon-santo but remains committed to scientific advancement as a scientist in residence at the Saint Louis Science Center and as a sci-ence tutor at St. Louis Community College in Wildwood.

“My guiding light has always been my faith in people’s goodness,” Jaworski said.

Chesterfield resident Phyllis Tirmen-stein, 80, retired as business manager in the pathology department at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.

She is a former orchestral musician and vocalist and presently serves as advisor of the Roland Quest Memorial Fund of the Greater Saint Louis Community Founda-tion.

Through her work with the Fund, she has helped renovate Graham Chapel at Wash-ington University and provided financial support for the St. Louis Zoo, the Humane Society and the St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors System.

“As I am now a member of the ageless, I am thankful for each day that I can make a contribution to this community,” she said.

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The baby boomer generation represents a market of 77 million Americans, and for the next 19 years, nearly 10,000 Americans will turn 65 every day.

“The need for this growing population to learn more about available products and services for older adults is greater than ever,” Larry Levin, publisher and CEO of the St. Louis Jewish Light, which is presenting the event, said. “Not only do baby boomers need more information on navigating the retirement path, but many of them also are faced with caring for aging parents. Primetime Expo will serve as a ‘big tent’ to offer as much information (as

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The Primetime Expo will feature more than 50 companies, resources and orga-nizations that serve the baby boomer and senior adult markets.

Experts will be available to discuss topics ranging from health, fitness, fashion and beauty to Alzheimer’s screenings and housing options for seniors, home health care and legal issues. Additional exhibit categories include retail, financial planning and investments, insurance, technology, home modification and improvements, rec-reational activities, social services, chari-table organizations, dining and more.

The Primetime Expo also will offer par-ticipants the opportunity to attend any of eight seminars at which they can learn directly from top area experts on topics such as health and wellness, parental care, services available to assist families, elderly law, financial planning, retirement benefits and social aspects of aging.

“We looked at the demographics in the community and noticed a baby boomer population that really needs to be served

with more information to prepare for the future,” Gary Goldman, creator of the event, said. “No one thinks about these things until a crisis happens, and then someone is left unsure of what to do or where to turn. There is a great need for reaching this audi-ence, and the Primetime Expo recognizes those needs.”

Sponsors of the event include BJC Healthcare, ElderLink St. Louis, Gersh-man Mortgage, The Cedars, Edward Jones Investments, M&I Bank and BJC Home Care.

While gathering information on vital issues, those attending can enjoy free refreshments, courtesy of area restaurants, and register for door prizes.

Goldman said he is expecting a decent turnout.

“I don’t think there is anything like this that caters directly to the baby boomer,” Goldman said. “And this time of year, around the holidays, is when people start thinking about family and family needs, so it is a good time to get informed and find more than one helpful source.”

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By LANCE VOGELAndy Duff, 76, a resident of Gambrill

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Three days later, Gambrill Gardens received a letter from Andy Miller, an 11-year-old Amish boy from Cass City, Mich., who had found the balloon on May 12 in his family’s spelt field while helping his father put up a fence. Gambrill Gardens posted the letter on its community bulletin board, and when Duff saw the letter had come from a fellow “Andy,” he decided to respond. Soon, Duff and Miller were exchanging multiple letters a month, and Duff received letters also from Miller’s father, Nevin Miller. After learning through the letters about the Miller family’s lives, Duff decided to go meet them in person and enlisted his buddy, Bob Bayer, to join him last month for the 500-mile journey north.

Upon reaching the Amish community, Duff and Bayer met Nevin and Laura Miller and the three youngest of their eight children.

The other five children, including Andy, were at school, so Duff and Bayer hitched a horse-and-buggy ride to the one-room schoolhouse, where Duff met the rest of the Miller children and was kindly granted the opportunity to sit in on Teacher Simon’s lesson on safely operating a horse and buggy on Michigan’s highways. After the

lesson, Duff and Bayer joined the students in singing some hymns.

When school was out, the Miller family showed Duff their fruit and vegetable pre-serves in the basement and their dairy cows, whose milk they sell to Organic Valley. Afterward, the Millers prepared a dinner for their guests consisting of warm tomato soup, brick cheese, homemade spelt bread (which Laura Miller said gives you “rosy cheeks”), mayonnaise and sliced tomatoes.

“It sure reminded me of the old days when we were all gathered around the table,” Duff said. “Everyone was so well-mannered.”

On Saturday, the Miller family prepared for Duff and Bayer a hearty lunch of Shep-herd’s pie, mashed potatoes and coleslaw, followed by a dessert of fresh apple pie and homemade ice cream. Later, the Mill-ers started a crackling bonfire by the lake, and Andy Miller brought Duff and Bayer to the field where he had found the downed balloon.

Duff said he wished he could have stayed longer, but he did not want to interfere with the Amish community’s Preparation Sunday, when the Amish prepare for their biannual communion services.

Duff still communicates with the Millers, and Nevin Miller recently told him that his children love to tell stories about “Duffy.”

As for Duff, he simply wanted to learn firsthand about someone whose life dif-fered from his.

“I just wanted to go and meet them as fellow human beings and learn about their lives,” Duff said. “They’re just like us; they just chose a different lifestyle.”

Duff plans to make a second trip to Cass City next May.

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Gambrill Gardens resident Andy Duff recently traveled to Cass City, Mich., to meet an Amish boy who discovered a balloon launched from the Ellisville retirement community.

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Tenet Healthcare Corp. has announced that Des Peres Hospi-tal appointed John A. Grah as its chief execu-tive officer, effective Oct. 24. As CEO, Grah will oversee strategic, operational and clinical activities for the 143-bed acute care hospital.

• • •Ted Horan, of West

County, has joined the law firm of Lewis, Rice & Fingersh as an associ-ate.

• • •Mike Mertens, director of facilities

for the Parkway School District, was recently appointed president of the Missouri School Plant Managers Asso-ciation (MSPMA).

• • •BJC Medical Group

recently welcomed the physician practice of Town and Country Cardiovascular Group.

Providers at the practice include Drs. John Hess III, Howard Lite, Stuart Higano and Robert Lehman, all of whom have office locations at 1010 Old Des Peres Road in Des Peres.

• • •Monarch Fire Protection District Fire-

fighter/Paramedic Kenny Groennert has been promoted to the rank of captain.

PLACESAero Charter Inc., an aircraft support

company for business and private jets located at Spirit of St. Louis Airport in Chesterfield, has announced the opening of its new 30,000-square-foot hangar. Con-struction was completed for just less than $4 million. The hangar adds 4,200 square feet of shop area and 105,000 square feet of apron.

• • •American Girl, a division of Mattel, Inc.,

has confirmed plans to open a retail store at Chesterfield Mall. The 10,850-square-foot store is slated to open in the spring of 2012 at the site of the former Wapango restaurant and will feature the complete line of Amer-ican Girl dolls, doll outfits, accessories, girl-sized clothing, and books. A 22-seat bistro, doll hair salon, and “Creativi-Tees” boutique also are planned.

AWARDS & HONORSGeorge Reisch, of Wildwood, a brew-

ing expert with Anheuser-Busch, recently was inducted into the Knighthood of the Brewers’ Mash Staff for his contributions to beer. The ceremony took place in Sep-tember inside the Town Hall of Brussels, Belgium.

• • •Life Care Centers of America recently

honored Terri Ingracia, director of clini-cal services for Chesterfield-based Life Care’s Missouri Region, with its Central Division President’s Award. Bill Glore, maintenance director at The Westchester House in Chesterfield, received Life Care Centers of America’s Heartland Divi-sion “Whatever It Takes And Then Some Award” for his dedication to customer ser-vice. Glore earned the award for spending many hours of his own time and money helping a young quadriplegic resident set up voice command for his computer.

He has also befriended a resident with-out family in the area and set her up with a DVD player so she can enjoy watching movies.

BusinessFive years and growing

ATA Martial Arts has relocated from 129 Chesterfield Towne Centre to a larger facility at 17361 edison Ave. in Chester-field.

ATA owner Morgan shank has been an instructor for 10 years, and his business is celebrating five years of teaching mar-tial arts in the Chesterfield area.

New in the neighborhoodThe West st. Louis County Cham-

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By CAROL ENRIGHTNeil Rose was beaming as he watched

more than a dozen volunteers digging in his front yard on a recent Saturday morn-ing. Rose and his wife, Erica, of the Bridle Creek subdivision in Chesterfield, are the winners of the 2011 Native Landscape Challenge sponsored by St. Louis Wild Ones, Shaw Nature Reserve and Grow Native!

On Sept. 17, they received $1,000 in plants and materials – $500 each from Shaw Nature Reserve and Grow Native!, a program of the Missouri Department of Conservation. The St. Louis Chapter of Wild Ones, a non-profit organization that promotes the use of native plants in natural landscapes, donated the equivalent of $500 in labor to install the plants.

“We’re planting a native garden,” said Jeanne Cablish of St. Louis Wild Ones. “Right in front of the house, we’re having a prairie area. … Close to the house, it’s more of a little woodland area with more shade.”

Rose said entering the contest, which was open to all Chesterfield residents this year, “was all my wife’s idea.”

Erica Rose always has been interested in native plantings.

“She’s always wanted to do it, but she didn’t have any expertise in it,” Neil Rose said.

When she saw the contest announcement last spring, she thought, “This is the perfect solution,” her husband said.

Cablish said one of the goals of the con-test is to show how beautiful native plant-ings can be.

“And why do we do native plantings? They’re great for native insects and bees,

and they’re great for the soil,” Cablish said. “They like the Missouri soil, so they don’t take a lot of maintenance. They don’t take a lot of watering.”

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“They’re on a street that has a fair amount of traffic, so a lot of people see it,” Schmidt said. “The yard was kind of a blank slate. It was just a lawn, so it was easy to work with. It has a certain amount of sunlight, which is going to be good for most of these plants. And they have gardening experience.”

A requirement of entering the contest was agreeing to help prepare the lawn for the plantings and to properly maintain the plants going forward.

Rose said that he and his wife are “more than happy” to weed, water and care for the new plantings.

“We’re very excited,” he said. “We’re loving … that all this is happening.”

The Roses are the sixth winners of the Native Landscape Challenge. Previous winners are located in Webster Groves, North St. Louis, South St. Louis, the Forest Park area and Creve Coeur.

Aspiring native gardeners can check out the Rose’s new front yard at 1909 Schoet-tler Valley Drive in Chesterfield.

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Thies Farms hosts Pumpkinland throughout October at its Maryland Heights and North Hanley locations. A play area offers cable gliders, slides, tun-nels, obstacle courses, suspended bridges, petting zoos and a cornfield maze. Wagon rides, face painting, pony rides, conces-sions and children’s art activity areas are featured also on weekends. Visit thiesfarm.com for details.

•The Corn Maze at Brookdale Farms is

open throughout October at 8004 Twin Rivers Road in Eureka. Hayrides, a pump-kin patch and a corn maze for kids are featured by day; a haunted corn maze is featured on Friday and Saturday nights. Daytime admission is $9 for adults, $6 for children ages 4 to 11 and free for younger children. Admission to the haunted maze is $13. Call 938-1005 or visit eurekacorn-maze.com.

•Pumpkin picking is from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

daily throughout October at Rombachs Farm and Pumpkin Patch in Chesterfield. Hayrides, a pumpkin pyramid, pony and barrel rides, face painting and a barbecue are featured on weekends; a free wooden maze and fort and animals are included in weekday activities. Pumpkins start at $4 each. Call 532-7265 or visit rombachsfarm.com.

•The Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Pumpkin Patch is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday through Oct. 31 at 327 Woods Mill Road in Manchester. Pumpkins and gourds are available. Visit goodshepherdlutheran.com.

•The 11th Annual “Not-So-Haunted

House!” is open from Oct. 28-30 at The Magic House Children’s Museum in Kirk-wood. Kids of all ages are invited to dress in costumes and trick-or-treat throughout

the museum. This year’s event will include a visit from storybook characters, such as Cinderella, Prince Charming and Willy Wonka. The event is free with the price of admission. Call (314) 822-8900 or visit magichouse.org.

•A Prehistoric Halloween Party is from

5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wed., Oct. 26 at the Missouri History Museum. Wear a costume. Activities, candy, spooky stories and more are featured. Radio Disney offers prizes, music and games from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Admission is free. Call (314) 746-4599.

•Halloween Potpourri is at 9:30 a.m.

(doors open at 9:15 a.m.) on Thurs., Oct. 27 at The St. Louis Carousel at Faust Park. Tom Bonham’s popular Puppet Potpourri has been modified into Halloween Pot-pourri with puppets suggesting Hallow-een themes with gentle song and dance routines designed for fun and not to scare. Tickets are $5 in advance and $6 on the day of the performance. Tickets include a carousel ride after the performance. Visit the gift shop at the Carousel or call (314) 615-8383.

•A Halloween Festival is at 6 p.m. or 7

p.m. on Fri., Oct. 28 in Paul A. Schroeder Park in Manchester. The evening includes a variety of games with prizes, a hayride and pumpkins. Tickets must be purchased in advance and are on sale in the Man-chester Parks and Recreation Department’s office. Everyone over the age of 2 needs a ticket. Tickets are $3 per person for Man-chester residents and $4 for non-residents. Call 391-6926.

•Halloween at the Y is from 6:30 p.m. to

8:30 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 28 at the Wildwood Family YMCA at 2641 Hwy. 109. A cake-walk, monster mash dance, haunted garden, pony rides, balloon twister, inflatable and crafts are featured. The admission fee is $20 per family when purchased through


Oct. 26 and $25 Oct. 27 and after. Call 458-6636.

•The Halloween Golf Glow Scramble

is from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 28 at Ballwin Golf Course. Play a crazy two-person scramble on a glowing course with a glow ball. Fuel up with pizza and drinks. Pack light and bring a flashlight. Prizes will be awarded. Visit ballwin.mo.us or call 227-8950.

•Carney’s Kids Foundation hosts its

annual Club Halloween from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 28, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel-Clayton (7750 Carondelet). Event beneficiaries include Delta Gamma Center, Half the Sky Foundation, Litzsinger School, Rainbows for Kids, Ranken Jordan and The Saint Louis Crisis Nursery. Area restaurants serve their signature dishes, while comedians Rahn Ramey and Tommy Johnagin perform. Live and silent auctions and a costume contest are featured. Tickets are $50. Visit carneyskids.org for details.

•The Ballwin Parks & Recreation Depart-

ment and Ballwin Athletic Association host the Ballwin Fall Fest from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 29 at Ballwin Athletic Association. Scheduled at various times throughout the day are whiffle ball and washer tournaments, a closest to the pin golf challenge, civic and business organization group booths, a haunted hayride, trick-or-treating at business booths, a performance by Babaloo, a Halloween costume contest, kids’ games and activities and a live perfor-mance by Hillbilly Authority. Visit ballwin.mo.us or call 227-8950.

•Mercy Children’s Hospital’s “Boo at

the Zoo” is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 29 at the St. Louis Zoo. Mummies and daddies are invited to bring their little ghouls and goblins for safe trick-or-treat-ing, entertainment, games and a costume parade along the Pumpkin Trail. Children are encouraged to wear costumes. Trick-or-treating is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admis-sion is free. Call (314) 781-0900 or visit stlzoo.org.

•The fifth annual Pumpkin Prowl, a chil-

dren’s Halloween party, is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 29 at St. Louis Com-munity College’s Wildwood campus. A costume parade, magician, face painting, games and prizes are featured. Admission is free and open to young children and their families. Advance registration is required. Call 422-2244 or visit calendar.stlcc.edu.

•Trunk or Treat is from 3 p.m. to 6

p.m. on Sat., Oct. 29 at the West County YMCA (16464 Burkhardt Place). Trunk-or-treating, pictures with Fredbird, a petting zoo, bounce house, carnival games, food,

live music, a costume contest and a dance performance by A Trek Dance Collective are featured. To RSVP, visit westcountyfel-lowship.org.

•The Ellisville Elks Lodge Trunk-or-

Treat is from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 29 at the Lodge, 1007 New Ballwin Road. Kids come in costume and collect treats at “spooky” cars. The event is free and family-friendly. Call 227-0404.

•A Halloween Costume Contest is at

8:30 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 29 at Stovall’s Grove. The contest is judged at midnight. Reserva-tions are suggested. Call 405-3024.

•“Ghouls in the Garden” is from 1 p.m.

to 3 p.m. on Sun., Oct. 30 at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Families are encouraged to dress in Halloween costumes to enjoy a daytime trick-or-treat experience. Admis-sion is $5 for children. Adults are included with garden admission, and garden mem-bers are free. Advance reservations are required. Call (314) 577-9570 or RSVP online at mobot.org.

•Skymax Gymnastics hosts Tricks for

Treats, a free Halloween event for children ages 2-5, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Sun., Oct. 30, at Skymax (16241 Westwoods Business Park in Ellisville). Children can enjoy trick-or-treat fun by visiting various stations where they perform an age-appro-priate skill to collect a treat. The event is free with a complete ticket. It takes about 30 minutes to complete all stations. All children should be accompanied by an adult. Call 227-6949 or visit skymaxgym-nastics.com.

•A Halloween carnival is from 5 p.m. to

8 p.m. on Sun., Oct. 30 at John F. Kennedy High School. Costume and dance contests, games and food are featured. Admission is free for adults and $3 for kids. Call (314) 973-1372.

•Trunk-or-Treat, a family-friendly

event, is from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Sun., Oct. 30 at Manchester United Methodist Church, 129 Woods Mill Road in Man-chester. Folks decorate trunks of their cars with Halloween-themed props; kids are encouraged to come in costume and collect goodies, going from car to car. Families may stay for a showing of “Monsters Inc.” Admission is free. Call 394-7506 or visit manchesterumc.org.

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ARTArt Trends Gallery and Saint Louis

Watercolor Society host the second annual Watercolor Exhibit with an opening recep-tion from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Fri., Nov. 4 at the gallery (703 Long Road Crossing Drive #1 in Chesterfield). Admission is free and features wine, cheese, art and talented art-ists. Call 536-3266 or visit arttrendsgallery.net.

• • •The juried exhibition Rogue 2 Vogue

continues through Sat., Nov. 5 at Chester-field Arts. The exhibit showcases a collec-tion of stylish couture, including Kentucky Derby-style hats made from screen and ground cover, dresses made from coffee filters and another made from zippers. Visit chesterfieldarts.org.

• • •An Elementary Art Exhibit runs from

Thurs., Nov. 10, through Sat., Dec. 3, at Chesterfield Arts. The exhibit highlights artwork by local elementary school chil-dren. Visit chesterfieldarts.org.

• • •An Art Show featuring the work of Jodie

Maurer is from noon to 5 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 12, at Westbury Manor Community Center (224 Heather Crest Drive in Chesterfield). Admission is free, and light refreshments are available. The artist will be present. Call Gabrielle Dyck at (314) 878-0422.

BENEFITSJay Wolfe Toyota sponsors a food drive

for Jefferson Barracks Food Pantry (serv-ing soldiers and their families) through Sat., Nov. 19 at Jay Wolfe Toyota (14700 Manchester Road in Manchester). Donors who drop off items receive $4 off any ser-vice appointment (see service advisor for details). Items needed include peanut butter and jelly, macaroni & cheese, baby wipes and diapers, toilet paper, laundry detergent and more. Call 207-3900.

• • •The American Cancer Society invites the

St. Louis community to ‘Pink Differently’ at the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk at 9 a.m. (registration at 8 a.m.) on Sat., Oct. 29 at the Upper Muny parking lot in Forest Park. Thousands of breast cancer survivors, caregivers and supporters across the country walk in 5K and 1.3-mile events. Donations support prevention and treatment efforts, patient services and cures. Visit makingstridesst-louis.org or call (314) 286-8185.

• • •The FAAN Walk for Food Allergy is

at 11 a.m. on Sat., Oct. 29 at Tremayne Shelter in Creve Coeur Park. Registration begins at 10 a.m. at the park, or register in advance at foodallergywalk.org.

• • •Lifepointe Church joins with Circle Of

Concern to host a Family Fall Festival and Transportation Expo from noon to 5 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 29 at the church (1400 Babler Park Drive in Wildwood). Food, entertain-ment, kids’ activities and a transportation exhibit are featured. Proceeds benefit Circle Of Concern, which feeds the hungry and provides long-term and emergency assistance to families in need. Admission is free, but donations of at least two canned or food pantry items are requested. Visit lifepointewildwood.com or call 458-3885.

• • •Manchester United Methodist Church

hosts a children’s garage sale from 7 a.m. to noon (early bird shopping for $5 entry starts at 6:30 a.m.) on Sat., Nov. 5 at 129 Woods Mill Road in Manchester. Shop for gently worn, like-new children’s clothing, toys, furniture and games. Proceeds benefit the church preschool. Call Circle of Friends Preschool at 394-6867.

• • •Chesterfield Elementary School PTO

hosts a free holiday boutique from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 5 at Chester-field Elementary (17700 Wild Horse Creek Road in Chesterfield). The event celebrates local talent and businesses, including artists and craft persons showcasing and selling unique items, as well as a raffle and silent auction. Proceeds support the school’s

educational initiatives. Email [email protected].

• • •The “Are You Smarter than a 5th

Grader” Trivia Night is at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.) on Sat., Nov. 5 at Assumption Greek Orthodox Church (1755 Des Peres Road in Town & Coun-try). Admission is $20 in advance/$25 at the door and includes games and snacks. A silent auction, door prizes, 50/50 and mul-ligans also are featured. For reservations, call (314) 966-2255.

• • •The 19th annual Friends of Kids with

Cancer Fashion Show & Boutique is at 10 a.m. on Thurs, Nov. 10 at The Ritz-Car-lton. The luncheon/fashion show is $75 per person, with boutique shopping at 10 a.m., lunch at 11:30 a.m. and a fashion show at 1 p.m. The dinner/fashion show is $100 per person, with a boutique and cocktail hour at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. and a fashion show and auction to follow. Tables seat 12, and a cash bar is available. Call (314) 275-7440.

• • •Holy Infant hosts a holiday bazaar to

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• • •Parkway Central High School hosts an

Art and Craft Fair to benefit the PCH Marching Band from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 12 and Sun., Nov. 13 at the school (369 N. Woods Mill Road). More than 200 booths of handmade items, bake sales and a concessions stand are included. Visit pkwy.k12.mo.us.

• • •The 3 Painters, high-impact speed paint-

ers who create large masterpieces in min-utes, premiere at an event from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 12, in the atrium lobby of Edward Jones (12555 Manchester Road in Des Peres). Proceeds benefit the children served by Edgewood Children’s Center. Appetizers, micro-breweries, wine bars, a martini bar, coffee bar and more are included. Remaining tickets are $125. Visit great-circle.org for details or to register; visit 3painters.com to see their work.

• • •Ballwin Elementary hosts a Craft Fair

Boutique from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 19 at the school (400 Jefferson in Ballwin). More than 25 vendors present their wares. Email [email protected] for details.

FAMILY & KIDSThe Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce

hosts the 10th annual Gumbo Flats Pump-kin Run/Walk at 8 a.m. (late registration at 6:30 a.m.) on Sat., Oct. 29 at the corner of Long Road and Edison Ave. in Chesterfield Valley. There are 10K and 5K courses and a half-mile children’s fun-run. Costumes are encouraged for kids and adults. A post-race brunch buffet is included. Early regis-tration is $20 and race-day registration is $25. The children’s run is $10 for kids age 8 and younger. Register at the Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce or online at ches-terfieldmochamber.com.

• • •The city of Town & Country Community

hosts the Town & Country Talents and Treasures Holiday Boutique from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 12 at the Longview Farm House. Visit town-and-country.org.

• • •The city of Chesterfield hosts the 12th

annual Chesterfield Turkey Trot with a 5K at 8:30 a.m. and a 1K kids fun run at 9:15 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning, Thurs., Nov. 24 at Chesterfield Amphithe-atre (631 Veterans Place Drive). The 5K route follows Chesterfield Parkway around the mall. Registration must be mailed in by Nov. 18, with online registration due by

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LIVE PERFORMANCESChaminade College Prep presents

“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” from Oct. 27 to 30 at the new Skip Viragh Center for the Arts. Half-price tickets are available for groups of eight or more to the 2 p.m. performances on Satur-day and Sunday by contacting Sarah Arm-strong at [email protected]. For complete show schedule or to purchase tickets, visit chaminade-stl.org.

• • •Eureka Theatre Company presents “The

Drowsy Chaperone” at 7 p.m. on Thurs., Nov. 10 through Sat., Nov. 12. Tickets are $ 8 in advance/$10 at the door. Call 733-3100, ext. 43208, or email [email protected].

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CONCERTSAaron Lewis of Staind, Oct. 27, Lumiere PlaceReba McEntire, Oct. 28, Chaifetz ArenaArianna String Quartet: ASQ Plus Two, Oct. 28, The Touhill“Phantom of the Opera,” Oct. 28-29, Powell Symphony HallFrankie Vallie & The Four Seasons, Oct. 29, The Fox TheatreThe Conductor is Dead, Oct. 30, Powell Symphony HallBen Folds at the Symphony, Nov. 6, Powell Symphony HallThe Blind Boys of Alabama, Nov. 8, Old Rock HouseThe Jayhawks, Nov. 10, The PageantPaul Simon, Nov. 15, The Fox TheatreTony Bennett, Nov. 16, The Fox Theatre

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FESTIVALS6th Annual Greenhouse New Play Festi-val, Nov. 18-20, Kranzberg Arts Center

LIVE PERFORMANCES“God of Carnage,” through Nov. 6, Loretto-Hilton Center“Circle Mirror Transformation,” through Nov. 13, Loretto-Hilton Center“Billy Elliot: The Musical,” Nov. 1-13, The Fox TheatreThe Improvised Shakespeare Company, Nov. 5, The Touhill“Bell, Book and Candle,” Nov. 10-20, Black Cat Theatre“Godspell,” Nov. 18-Dec. 11, Mustard Seed Theatre “Mamma Mia!” Nov. 22-27, The Fox Theatre

Frankie Vallie & The Four Seasons perform on Oct. 29 at The Fox Theatre.

The Arianna String Quartet: ASQ Plus Two performs on Oct. 28 at The Touhill.

George Lopez brings his stand-up comedy to Peabody Opera House on Nov. 5.

Black Cat Theatre: blackcattheatre.org, (314) 781-8300Chaifetz Arena: metrotix.com, (314) 534-1111Dramatic License Theatre: dramaticlicensepro-ductions.org, (636) 220-7012The Fox Theatre: metrotix.com, (314) 534-1111Kranzberg Arts Center: hotcitytheatre.org, (314) 289-4060Loretto-Hilton Center: repstl.org, (314) 968-4925Lumiere Place: ticketmaster.com, (866) 448-7849

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Open seven days a week, The Hangar Grill is a place for hanging out, catching a game via DirecTV and most importantly, enjoying quality food that is ranked a cut above the usual pub fare.

“We’re a bar and grill, but our food isn’t bar food – it’s better,” said Chitwood. “People know when you’re doing it right – and we do things right.”

Co-owner Danny Catlett, a former owner of Harpo’s in Chesterfield, oversees The Hangar Grill’s menu. He’s also responsible for new culinary creations that are taking the menu beyond bar food. New menu additions are planned for a November rollout. Catlett’s entrees include a pan-seared tuna and grouper prepared either blackened or lemon-peppered. There are high expectations for the new steak entrée making its debut: steak medallions served with a red wine reduction sauce, which may well be des-tined to become a signature dish. The classic wedge salad

dressed with a house-made buttermilk ranch will join the salad roster.

Most of the sandwich standards will remain from the original menu, includ-ing the gyro, the buffalo chicken wrap and a collection of half-pound burgers. The bison burger, which is leaner than the traditional ground beef burger, is a big hit among customers.

“Our hamburgers are fabulous and are featured as our Monday special,” said Chitwood, noting the value of the burger and side combo for $4.95. “Another spe-cial that packs people in is our Wednes-day and Saturday night steak nights – a 12-ounce New York strip with a loaded baked potato and a salad for $11.95.”

Appetizers include pub fare must-haves, such as chicken wings, nachos and toasted ravioli, but those looking for something different should check out the battered cheese curds.

The Hangar offers salad fans a nice variety. Standouts are the Greek salad tossed with balsamic vinaigrette, which can be topped with a choice of chicken or gyro meat; and the chef salad – a retro creation with strips of cheese, turkey and ham.

As the menu continues its update, Chitwood plans to update the restaurant’s décor to reflect its new aviation theme.

Special events are planned throughout the year. The first

Hangar Grill Halloween party is set for Oct. 29, and the best costume wins an iPad 2.

Asked about the defining difference that sets The Hangar Grill apart from other establishments, Chitwood cited the hands-on involvement of the owners.

“One of the owners are here every hour of every day,” said Chitwood, who knows staying involved is the best way to run and grow a business. “We want our customers to get to know us, and we want to get to know our custom-ers. We want to be the neighborhood pub.”

From left: The Hangar Grill co-owner Bob Chitwood, Tyler Valine and Stacey Holt.

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Affordable Accounting, Tax, Payroll & Guidance Solutions

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Accounting, payroll, tax Services - Full-service accounting firm dedicated to providing small and medium sized clients with professional, personalized services and guidance in a wide range of financial and business needs. CPA – licensed in Miissouri & QuickBooks ProAdvisor. Cambridge Accounting and Tax. Call Rita at 314-438-5576 or [email protected].

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FIREWOOD: Half cord: $75, Full cord: $150. Delivery $30, stack-ing extra. Ask for Don at 314-805-1405.

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For Rent

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Flooring

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CARPET REPAIRS Restretching, reseaming & patching. No job too small. Free estimates. (314) 892-1003

Destin Florida Area. Beautiful 3 bed, 3 bath condo or home, Gated Gulf Front community. Includes beach front cabana, 3 pools, ten-nis courts & more. Call for Special Spring/summer rates and availabil-ity. To view pictures please go to www.vrbo.com /127089 or /148365. For Additional info Call 314-922-8344.

Electric

the FAN Guy - Trained & expe-rienced tradesman available for light electrical services: ceiling fans, installation & repairs, new outlets/switches, attic fans/lighting. Fair, dependable & honest. Call Paul 636-734-8402.

Garage Sale

Garage Door

WEST COUNTY GARAGE DOOR SERVICE Proudly serv-ing West County since 1980. Springs, cables, electric openers. Door replacement. Evening & weekend service available. Call 636-388-9774

Hauling

J & J HAULING WE HAUL IT ALL

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Skips Hauling & demolition! Serving the Bi-State Area in-cluding St. Charles County. Ap-pliances, furniture, debris, con-struction, rubble, yard waste, excavating & demolition! 10, 15 and 20 cubic yard rolloff dump-sters. All type clean-outs & haul-ing! Affordable, dependable and available! No conditions! 20 yrs. service. Toll Free 1-888-STL-JUNK (888-785-5865) or314-644-1948.

THE WORKS Home maintenance repair, electric, carpentry, plumb-ing, painting & plastering, ceramic tile & backsplash, hardwood floor-ing, pressure washing & sealing, assembly and more. No jobs too small or large. 25 yrs experience. FREE ESTIMATES Call Bill at (636) 391-7548 or (314) 452-6554.

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• Mowing and Fertilization• Landscape Installation

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PEDRO MARTINEZ LANDSCAPINGA Cut Above! Aeration, seeding, leaf removal, power raking, bush & tree removal, fall clean-up. Gutter cleaning. mulching, bush & tree trimming, 636-237-5160 or 314-243-4623.

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We Use Environmentally Friendly - NO VOC Paints

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KEVIN'S PAINT SERVICE Expert & Professional. New & old house interior/ exterior painting, dry-wall & acoustical ceiling repair. 25 years painting experience. Low rates/ Free Estimates. Call Kevin 636-322-9784

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