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Seventeenth century philosopher Thomas Hobbes said that words are wise men’s counters, but they are the money of fools.

That is as painfully true today as it was four centuries ago. Using words as vehicles to try to convey your meaning is very dif-ferent from taking words so literally that the words use you and confuse you.

Take the simple phrase “rent control.” If you take these words literally – as if they were money in the bank – you get a com-plete distortion of reality.

New York is the city with the oldest and strongest rent control laws in the nation. San Francisco is second. But if you look at cities with the highest average rents, New York is first and San Francisco is second. Obviously, “rent control” laws do not con-trol rent.

If you check out the facts, instead of relying on words, you will discover that “gun control” laws do not control guns, the government’s “stimulus” spending does not stimulate the economy and that many “compassionate” policies inflict cruel results, such as the destruction of the black family.

Do you know how many millions of people died in the war “to make the world safe for democracy” – a war that led to autocratic dynasties being replaced by totalitarian dictatorships that slaughtered far more of their own people than the dynasties had?

Warm, fuzzy words and phrases have an enormous advantage in politics. None has had such a long run of political success as “social justice.”

The idea cannot be refuted because it has no specific meaning. Fighting it would be like trying to punch the fog. No wonder “social justice” has been such a political success for more than a century – and counting.

While the term has no defined meaning, it has emotionally powerful connotations. There is a strong sense that it is simply not right – that it is unjust – that some people are so much better off than others.

Justification, even as the term is used in printing and carpentry, means aligning one thing with another. But what is the stan-dard to which we think incomes or other benefits should be aligned?

Is the person who has spent years in school goofing off, acting up or fighting – squandering the tens of thousands of dol-

lars that the taxpayers have spent on his education – supposed to end up with his income aligned with that of the person who spent those same years studying to acquire knowledge and skills that would later be valuable to himself and to society at large?

Some advocates of “social justice” would argue that what is fundamentally unjust is that one person is born into circumstances that make that person’s chances in life radi-cally different from the chances that others have – through no fault of one and through no merit of the others.

Maybe the person who wasted educa-tional opportunities and developed self-destructive behavior would have turned out differently if born into a different home or a different community.

That would of course be more just. But now we are no longer talking about “social” justice, unless we believe that it is all society’s fault that different families and communities have different values and pri-orities – and that society can “solve” that “problem.”

Nor can poverty or poor education explain such differences. There are indi-viduals who were raised by parents who were both poor and poorly educated, but who pushed their children to get the educa-tion that the parents themselves never had. Many individuals and groups would not be where they are today without that.

All kinds of chance encounters – with particular people, information or circum-stances – have marked turning points in many individual’s lives, whether toward fulfillment or ruin.

None of these things is equal or can be made equal. If this is an injustice, it is not a “social” injustice because it is beyond the power of society.

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‘Puppy Problem’to the editor:

In response to the letter to the editor by Linda Clay, “Puppy Problem,” I ask why you allow statements to be made that cannot be proven.

In her letter she states that “the cute little pet shop puppies came from parents that most likely are living a hellish existence.” She goes on to say that you should not buy puppies from a pet shop. I own a pet shop and we raise some of our own pup-pies and we purchase puppies from local people who like to raise puppies in their homes and who do not like dealing with the general public. We also purchase pup-pies from USDA-inspected and licensed breeders; these breeders care for their ani-mals and do not allow their animals to be

“raised in hellish conditions.” We visit and inspect these facilities before we do busi-ness with the breeder. The “Puppy Mill” stories exploited in the news most often do not involve USDA-inspected and licensed breeders. The USDA inspects our facility on a regular basis.

A local owner of a furniture store makes the same unsubstantiated claim in his radio commercials. No one seems to hold these people accountable for liability state-ments they are making. Before the animal rights, rescue groups, and PETA people (and the furniture store owner is involved with these groups) make these generalized claims, they should prove their allegations before defaming an individual’s livelihood. I, along with Linda Clay, would not pur-chase a puppy from a “puppy mill.”

Jon LochmannWildwood

More on the mosqueto the editor:

As many of you are painfully aware by now, the news both in papers and on radio the last couple of weeks has been inun-dated with the controversy concerning the wisdom, the right, the tolerance or the lack of tolerance of building a 13-story mosque at Ground Zero. The opposing view-points have speedily degenerated into a cacophony of name-calling, label-slurring, tension-stirring, and mud-slinging, which I don’t know about you, but have left my head spinning. Thankfully, two commen-taries: first, a radio interview and second, a news article, have greatly helped me come up for air and get my head straight on the subject. I would like to share a brief sum-mary of these.

First, the radio interview, which I was privileged to hear on Truth Talk Radio 630

AM on Fri., Sept. 10, was the broadcast devoted to “Remembering 9/11,” by Dr. Gina (Loudon), political analyst, writer, policologist, national speaker and wife of (Mo.) State Sen. John Loudon. She was interviewing Kitty Werthmann, an 80-year-old refugee from Nazi Austria, who was able to escape to this country with her family when she was 12 (68 years ago) and who still goes around America, even today, telling her personal story and the story of the gradual advance of totali-tarianism under Hitler’s regime. She feels compelled to tell the story because she says, sadly, that she sees a great similarity in America, now, to what happened under Hitler in the 1930s. She wants to remind people that America is truly the greatest country in the world and to warn them not to let freedom slip away. On the subject of building the mosque at Ground Zero, she states her opinion unapologetically and in the form of an analogy: “Building the mosque at that site would be like erecting a statue of Hitler at Auschwitz.” Thank you, Kitty, for helping me see this more clearly.

Second was an article posted on RiteOn Newsletter on Sat., Sept. 11 from an ear-lier article written by Newt Gingrich, with whom most of you are probably familiar. But for any of you who are not, he is a writer, national speaker and former Repub-lican Speaker of the House of Represen-tatives from 1995-1999, and also one of the key leaders in what is remembered as the “Republican Revolution” in the 1990s. Listed in the paragraph below are some of the reasons he opposes the proposed “Cor-doba House” mosque near Ground Zero.

First, he feels that there should be no mosque near Ground Zero so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. He feels that this would be a dis-tinct double standard and would allow and encourage Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while demanding our weakness and submission. Secondly, he believes that even the name “Cordoba House” is a deliberately insulting term because it refers to Cordoba, Spain, the capital of Muslim conquerors who symbolized their victory over Christian Spaniards by transforming a church there into the world’s third-largest mosque complex. Thirdly, he rejects the notion of some of the mosque’s backers that the proposed term “symbolizes inter-faith cooperation” since every Islamist in the world recognizes Cordoba as a symbol of Islamic conquest. Fourthly, we have not rebuilt the World Trade Center in nine years, but the proponents of the mega-mosque are planning to build the 13-story, $100 million structure within a year. Fifthly, the

people behind the Cordoba House refuse to reveal all their funding sources.

You can find Newt’s full article on RiteOn.org. But after reading this myself, I believe in Newt and Kitty more strongly than ever and in Newt’s words: “No mosque. No self-deception. No surrender. The time to take a stand is now.”

Tricia ReichardtWildwood

Teacher compensationto the editor:

I would like to take issue with some of the information about teacher compensa-tion in a letter written to you by Rick and Ann Standal from Ballwin, which was pub-lished in your Sept. 1 edition.

First of all, the authors treat educators as if they are union employees who clock in and out with a six-hour day. As a retired Parkway counselor, I know that is not the case. I worked at Parkway South High School for 14 years and many teachers at that high school stayed much later than 3 p.m. If you don’t want to believe me, drive by a Parkway school after 4:30 p.m. You will be amazed at how many cars are still there. If teachers needed to leave earlier, they usually dragged a large briefcase with them so that they could grade papers and prepare for the next day’s lessons at home. In the evening, they could also count on returning e-mails, phone calls, and posting their lessons and homework on the school’s Web site. Many days they come in early or stay late to attend meetings with parents or to attend IEPs for students with disabilities. Summers are usually filled with attend-ing workshops and institutes or graduate classes. My experience tells me that teach-ers and counselors are professionals. They do their jobs, which involves far more than six hours a day that they are required to spend inside the school building.

The Standals also mention that the aver-age teacher’s salary in Parkway is $55,176. I need to point out that a teacher who earns this salary in Parkway according to the Parkway Web site has a master’s degree and 14 years of experience. The highest pay for a teacher who has a bachelor’s degree is $47,500, and that is with 16 years of experience. Everywhere in the (letter), the Standals talk about teachers having only a bachelor’s degree, so this needed to be pointed out to the public. I also found out on a 2005 MBA Profile for Saint Louis University graduates that in that year the average salary for an MBA with 15 years experience was $110,000, with a salary range from $85,000-$200,000. Teachers with master’s degrees in 2010 are defi-

nitely not overpaid.Here was another quote: “The question

I ask myself is not why people become teachers, but why wouldn’t they when you work six hours a day for 180 days for 30 years and then retire at 85 percent of your pay with full health benefits for the rest of your life.”

This quote is totally inaccurate. Accord-ing to the Public School Retirement System calculator, a teacher in the Missouri system will receive 75 percent of compensation average after 30 years. Teachers do not receive health benefits for the rest of their lives. As a matter of fact, teachers who started teaching before 1987 did not pay into Medicare and they also have no Medi-care benefits unless they worked a second job to receive those benefits. Those with-out Medicare pay out of pocket for health care the rest of their lives. When we con-sider that teachers get a good pension, we should also take into account that for those 30 years they paid between 10-14 percent of their salary into the retirement system every year, unlike most workers who pay 6.2 percent into Social Security. If most American workers put that into their 401K and invested wisely, they would have a comparable pension as well.

Another error in the Standals’ letter was that teachers get cost of living for the rest of their lives. That is incorrect. The maxi-mum cost of living lifetime multiplier is 80 percent. When that percentage is used up, the monthly pension checks remain the same, unlike Social Security which does have a COLA for someone’s lifetime.

They also mention that the “system is out of whack.” In 2010, The Public School and Public Education Employee Retire-ment Systems of Missouri was one of four systems in the nation nominated as the Large Public Plan of the Year by Institu-tional Investor magazine. Yes, it has been affected by volatility in the market and the contribution rates have increased in recent years, but I am confident that the Board of Directors will skillfully navigate the markets and produce competitive returns or change the defined benefit calculator to keep the level of risk lower than most large public pension plans throughout the country. It is certainly not out of control or ready to collapse as the Standals indicated. In the history of the teachers’ retirement system, no Missouri workers have been asked to supplement the retirement system with their tax dollars.

Paulette TarantolaRetired Parkway counselor

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Which way to Mayberry?

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Last week was network television’s much-ballyhooed premiere week. New shows were rolled out, old favorites began again, red carpets were walked. According to each station’s promotional advertisements, every single new show this year was the most “talked about,” “anticipated,” “dramatic” or “exciting.”

Well, these shows may have been anticipated before anyone saw them, and they may be getting talked about now, but the drama and excitement were notice-ably lacking. Television, dear readers, is a wasteland.

Consider arguably the most hyped new program of the fall, NBC’s “The Event.” NBC spent six months building intrigue around the serial drama, carefully telling viewers everything “The Event” was not. Unfortunately, they forgot to mention that “The Event” is not very good television. After viewing the pilot, the show seems to be about a guy and his fiancee, and the fiance’s dad who might be a pilot, and the president, and some lady from some secret lab. Oh, and a plane disappears. Oh, and the show jumps back and forth in time, which is really annoying. It was just an awful, awful, awful waste of the airwaves.

Of course, no one can forget about that new cop show. You know, the one where the one cop is kind of a renegade and the other one is pretty strait-laced, but they end up working together pretty well because they learn to compromise in hilarious yet meaningful ways? Which show is that, you ask? It is every other show on television.

Up in the front of the offices here at the Newsmagazine Network, there is a nice, flat-screen TV up on the wall. Generally – and this is not likely to come as a great surprise – we just leave Fox News or the Fox Business channel running all day. Until about three weeks ago, we would switch to Fox Sports for Cardinals games, but that became too aggravating. People walk by the TV, some stop for a second to check the headlines or to see how many runs the Cardinals are losing by, and then go about their day.

Last week, for some reason, the TV was tuned to TV Land, a station that reruns classic shows. They were airing “The Andy Griffith Show.” Crowds gathered around the set and watched and laughed and everybody said the same thing: “They just don’t make television shows like this anymore.”

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EDITORIAL


This November, Republicans are likely to gain some significant ground in both the House and the Senate. People are fed up and scared and frustrated, and so more change is coming our way.

In anticipation of expected victory, the Republicans laid out their plans for lead-ership in last week’s “Pledge to America.” The five-point plan included sections on job creation, repealing ObamaCare, smaller government, national security, and restoring trust in government.

Those all seem like laudable goals, but the plan falls far short of any significant accomplishment.

We are entering the era of impossible government mandates that demand signif-icant overhaul. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and ObamaCare all threaten

the economic core of society. They each individually are game-changers, and col-lectively, they are the single biggest threat to our way of life.

The Republican pledge simply puts duct tape on the Titanic. There is way too much, “Our mandates are better than their mandates,” which is actually true, but it is not enough.

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If they only had a plan

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CHESTERFIELD

Family affairGround will be broken for the new $18

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Speaking on Sept. 16 at a Project 64 West luncheon at the Doubletree Hotel

in Chesterfield, Pace revealed that the 54,000-square-foot building will house the St. Louis County Library’s existing genea-logical collection that currently occupies the upper floors of the library’s head-quarters in Frontenac. The Center will be located near the intersection of Wild Horse Creek and Baxter Roads, directly across from the Ascension Catholic Church.

The Chesterfield facility promises to be a comfortable place for people to find infor-mation about their ancestors. It will sit on land donated by local real estate developer Sachs Properties and will be built with pri-vate funds, so no additional taxation will be necessary for its construction.

Pace said the building would be a cultural asset that will attract people from around the area, providing economic benefits to West County.

ELLISVILLE

Rolex theftAt approximately 11 a.m. on Sept. 14,

an individual stole a diamond-encrusted Rolex watch worth approximately $84,000 from Clarkson Jewelers in Ellisville.

According to Sgt. Nancy Walker of the Ellisville Police, there was no force involved in the incident; the suspect alleg-

edly just asked to try on a watch and then ran out of the store with it still on his wrist. The suspect was described as a thin, black male, 5’6”-5’8”, wearing a dark brown dress shirt and a tan vest. Police said he might have gotten away in a tan Impala with Tennessee plates.

More room to playThe Ellisville City Council on Sept.

15 approved a resolution authorizing the city to apply for a grant with the St. Louis County Municipal Grants Commission that would enable expansion of the existing playground at Bluebird Park.

Ellisville Parks Director Lisa Blumer said the city applied for the maximum amount of $184,000 and said the city should know by the end of the year whether or not it will receive the grant. Residents expressed a desire for a bigger playground, and the city would like to add more facilities and a swing set to the playground, Blumer said.

No trailer parkingAn ordinance passed at the Sept. 15

Ellisville City Council meeting prohibits the parking of standalone trailers on streets between the hours of dusk and dawn.

Councilmembers approved the ordinance for reasons of public safety.

Ellisville City Clerk Kate Demeter said the ordinance takes effect immediately and applies on all city streets.

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Proceeds from the run totaled more than $10,000 and are being donated to BackStoppers of St. Louis and The Pujols Family Foundation.

“When we decided that we were going to do this event, we had no idea what to expect,” said race coordinator/runner and Metro West Fire Protection District Captain Brad Shelton. “Needless to say we were moved by the outpouring of run-ners and community members who came out to remember and honor those who were lost on 9/11.”

Winners of the “Overall Male and Female” categories were Rick Brunn (18:49.7) and Heather Fieser (20:50.7).

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The Manchester Board of Aldermen at its Sept. 20 meeting unanimously approved a plan to seek federal STP (surface transpor-tation program) funding through East-West Gateway Council of Governments to con-struct and repair a sidewalk on Meramec Station Road between Mautenne Drive and the Grand Glaize Library.

The decision came after residents reported that under its current conditions, the road is unsafe for pedestrians.

The city already has spent $24,000 on planning, engineering studies and ease-ment acquisitions for the project. However, constructing the sidewalk with city funds was blocked by votes from some aldermen who cited concerns about the cost of the project.

City officials expect to learn by the end of the year whether or not they will receive the grant money.

TOWN & COUNTRY

Calling all artistsThe city of Town & Country’s newly

formed Public Art Commission will hold an outdoor art competition in conjunction with the city’s annual Fall Festival.

“Impressions of Town & Country” will challenge artists to paint local scenes “en plein air,” which is French for “in open air.” Artists are invited to bring a blank canvas to Longview Farm House at 8 a.m. on Sat., Oct. 23 and may draw from inspi-ration anywhere within the city’s limits. At 4 p.m., artists will return to Longview Farm Park, where professional artists will judge their work. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three winners, and there will be non-monetary awards for “people’s

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Up to 10 boxes of materials per car will be accepted for shredding. Acceptable items include paper, paper clips, binder clips, folders, CDs, rubber bands and empty pill bottles. Cardboard boxes, hard drives, batteries, and medical waste (medi-cine, needles, etc.) will not be accepted.

Shredding documents such as bank and credit card statements helps prevent iden-tity theft. All materials will be recycled and kept out of local landfills.

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By BRIAN MCDOWELLBarry Flachsbart said he was very sur-

prised to hear about the recent resigna-tion of Chesterfield Mayor John Nations. As president pro temp of the city council, Flachsbart in October will be appointed to serve as an interim mayor for the rest of Nations’ term, which ends in April.

“No one knew this was going to happen,” Flachsbart said. “I’m excited about the opportunity to serve the city. I know that the mayor always says that public service is a great privilege, and I want to do my part to keep Chesterfield an outstanding city.”

Flachsbart has a long and colorful resume. He worked as a sportswriter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in high school and college and was a weekend clerk at the paper’s city desk. He took the graduate program in engineering at Stanford Univer-sity and was an early expert on computer technology for companies like McDonnell Douglas and Union Pacific.

Work in the private sector, he said, exposed him to many management styles and ways to solve day-to-day problems and will come in handy in his role as Ches-terfield’s mayor.

Flachsbart once was president of Citi-zens for Chesterfield, the group that filed the original papers to incorporate the city.

“We had a vision back then to offer good services efficiently, and that has played out

well,” Flachsbart said. “We were always pro-development, but pro good develop-ment. We wanted to put commercial devel-opment in the right place. Because of this, both our businesses and our residents have been very well taken care of.”

Chesterfield has grown beyond his wild-est expectations.

“It’s certainly better than I ever thought it would be,” Flachsbart said. “I think one thing we did right early on is that we estab-lished zoning practices that protected the quality of our neighborhoods. We have lots of great businesses in this city, and we are a business friendly community, but we’ve tried to be that while the integrity of our neighborhoods has been upheld.”

Flachsbart was a part of the original Chesterfield City Council until 1990, when he left his post to launch an unsuccessful bid for mayor. He ran for a council seat again in 1994 and has been part of the city’s governing body ever since. He was in his second one-year term as president pro temp of the council when Nations announced he was resigning to take over as head of Metro.

As interim mayor, Flachsbart expects to focus on the city’s budgeting.

“My main goal is to keep us fiscally sound during these economic tough times,” Flachsbart said. “Our city government has always done an excellent job at this. We always try to have cash on reserve for any-

thing that comes up.”He said Chesterfield has a rule that the

city has to keep at least 40 percent of its operating budget in financial reserves at all times. Thanks to efficient city manage-ment, current reserves are $1 million over the total – an amount that Flachsbart said would keep Chesterfield running for at least half a year if the city took in zero tax revenue.

“Of course, we do end up using some of that money from time to time,” Flachsbart said, “but this policy allows us to not worry about the little things.”

Such financial discipline is necessary, he said, because the city loses so much in sales tax revenue every year. He explained that when Chesterfield first became a city, in accordance with state law, it was not allowed to keep sales tax revenue on goods purchased within the city limits. Instead, the money is put into a pool with sales tax revenue from other cities. Even though most of Chesterfield’s budget comes from that pool, Flachsbart estimated that the city ultimately loses $6 million annually by participating in the tax pool.

“This law was essentially written to dis-courage cities from incorporating,” Flachs-bart said.

The rest of the city’s revenue comes from utility taxes.

“Despite this pool system not performing well for us, we still want the city to run effi-

ciently,” Flachsbart said. “It has put us in the position of being fiscally conservative. We have fewer city employees per capita than most any other city in this region. So, we have to attract the best employees we can, so we can do more with less. We don’t pay them princely salaries, but we do pay competitively, and they all do a good job.”

He touted the city’s good bond rating, recent positive assessments of the police

Flachsbart set to serve as Chesterfield’s interim mayor

Barry Flachsbart

By SHEILA FRAYNE RHOADESIt is a sign of hard economic times. Last

month, restaurant owner Charlie Gitto, Jr. placed a “Now Hiring” placard outside his newest “From The Hill” eatery in Chester-field, and more than 1,000 people applied for jobs.

On Sept. 8 and 9, B&B Theatres held a hiring fair to staff its new Wildwood Cinema 10 slated to open on Oct. 1 in the Wildwood Town Center, and hundreds of people applied for full- and part-time employment.

“We’ve never seen anything like this in all my 30 years in the business,” Gitto said of the response to his job opening adver-tisement. “We opened our restaurant in Harrah’s (in Maryland Heights) back in 2004 and didn’t have anywhere close to this number of applicants.”

Gitto said he advertised the job openings

also through Craigslist and via online post-ings. He had about 150 positions to fill.

“It was a bit overwhelming but not crazy,” Gitto said. “We’re very organized and happy to provide jobs for the Chesterfield area.”

Numbers aside, Gitto said he was sur-prised at the backgrounds of many of the job seekers.

“It’s unbelievable,” Gitto said. “I’ve seen so many people in a combination of pro-fessional fields – school teachers, former real estate agents and people with master’s degrees.”

In the end, 140 jobs were filled from a pool of 1,400 applicants. Charlie Gitto’s opened on Sept. 9 at 15525 Olive Blvd. in Chesterfield.

Paul Farnsworth, general manager of the Wildwood Cinema 10, said that 260 people turned out to apply for work at the

10-screen theater. “The job fair turnout was incredible,”

Farnsworth said. “I personally conducted 250 interviews.”

Farnsworth, who was hiring manag-ers, bartenders and part-time concession personnel, said that traditionally, B&B Theatres’ positions have been filled by high school and college students, but older adults from all walks of life put in applica-

tions for work at the Wildwood complex.Farnsworth said that when he asked

potential employees why they wanted to work at the theater, the typical response from adults was that they wanted to “get back on track after being laid off.”

Ultimately, Farnsworth hired 32 employ-ees, including some retirees.

“Unfortunately these aren’t all full time positions,” Farnsworth said.

Applicants flock to fill West County jobs

A “Now Hiring” sign posted last month at Charlie Gitto’s in Chesterfield brought in droves of applicants. The restaurant opened on Sept. 9.

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By MIKE FOSTERRoughly 200 people with 200 Ameri-

can flags crossed the breadth of St Louis County and City on Sat., Sept. 11 as a trib-ute to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. West County resident Bo Drochel-man, 64, organized the event, dubbed “March to the Arch,” leading walkers from Mike Duffy’s at Clayton Road and Hwy. 141 to the Gateway Arch.

Drochelman made his first march alone on Sept. 11, 2002, the first anniversary of the attacks. Around 3:40 p.m. that day, he left a note for his wife, grabbed the Ameri-can flag from his front porch and began a 21-mile trek to the Arch.

“I had wanted to do something just a few days after the attacks, but I wasn’t in good health at the time,” Drochelman said. “I couldn’t start something in the memory of those victims and then not finish.”

By 10:40 p.m., Drochelman reached the Arch and made a commitment to himself to complete the journey every year that he is physically able.

The following year, Drochelman’s family walked with him, and the trek slowly grew into a local event. Eager to encourage any participation, his two sons, daughter, and daughter-in-law contacted local news outlets to spread the word and provided T-shirts, water and bananas for everyone who walked. A few more people would join in each year.

This year, however, there was a drastic rise in participation, due in part to promo-tional support from a friend of Drochel-man; 100 people gathered at Mike Duffy’s and began walking east on Clayton Road. Another 100 joined in at various points along the way.

Drochelman said people are welcome to

join the March at any point, walking just 100 yards or the full 21 miles.

“That’s what America is all about,” Dro-chelman said. “We all start at different places but finish together as Americans.”

Drochelman said the purpose of the “March to the Arch” has not changed since its inception.

“It’s about remembering the victims,” Drochelman said. “Innocent Americans died because someone hated other Ameri-cans that (the victims) had never met. We can’t ever let that memory go, no matter how much time passes.”

Drochelman said the “March to the Arch” is a way to remember all Americans who have died because they were Ameri-cans and not just those who died in the 9/11 attacks or those who died in war. It also is meant as a sign of American strength in the face of tragedy, he said.

“My goal was also to show that this country cannot be defeated, even if we were shaken by a great loss, so the people who attacked us look and see that they’ve bitten off more than they can chew,” Dro-chelman said.

One walker, whom Drochelman iden-tified only as “Ron,” in 2003 began an impromptu singing of “America the Beau-tiful” that quickly spread across the entire group and has became a tradition.

“Our only rule is you need to bring a flag,” Drochelman said. “It doesn’t matter what size; we just need to show that this is about our unity as Americans.”

As for next year, Drochelman has high hopes for a big turnout, as Sept. 11 falls on a Sunday and will be the 10th anniversary of the attacks.

Information on ”March to the Arch” can be found at marchtothearch.com.

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By BARB REUTERThe Ballwin Board of Aldermen at its

Sept. 13 meeting reconsidered an ordinance approving the preliminary development plan and a zoning change for the Estates at Hallmark Place.

The ordinance failed to pass at the Aug. 23 meeting, but the aldermen in attendance voted to reconsider the bill.

Brad Goss, representing the developer, Rowles Homes, Inc., addressed concerns regarding setback requirements, fire safety, and the planned detention basin on the Sel-vidge Middle School property.

Goss said there would be 18 feet between the homes, following the current building code and setback requirements, and that there would be no fire hazard given the dis-tance between the homes.

In response to an inquiry as to whether sprinkler systems could be a requirement, Goss advised that a residential sprinkler system is a consumer choice and, accord-ing to state statute, cannot be mandated.

Goss further advised that the Rockwood School District is in favor of the detention basin and is working with the developers.

Following unanimous approval for a first and second reading, the bill passed five to three. Subsequently, an ordinance provid-ing for the approval of a subdivision plat

for the Estates at Hallmark Place passed five to three.

At the Aug. 23 Board of Aldermen meet-ing, Alderman James Terbrock (ward 1) said he was concerned that plans for the Estates at Hallmark Place called for only 18 feet between some of the houses and suggested a minimum of 20 feet.

“If one house catches on fire, they’re all going to go,” Terbrock said at that meet-ing.

At the Sept. 13 Board of Aldermen

meeting, a Ballwin resident spoke also in opposition to the subdivision, stating that the proposed homes are too close and pose aesthetic and safety issues. The resident pointed to homes in Windy Acres Estates, where in June a home was struck by light-ening, and six neighboring homes were affected.

Aldermen at the Sept. 13 meeting voting in opposition to both ordinances were Ter-brock, Michael Finley (ward 1), and Ron Markland (ward 2).

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The I-64 reconstruction project in St. Louis has been named as a top 10 grand prize final-ist for the 2010 America’s Transportation Awards competition given by the American Association of State Highway and Transpor-tation Officials (AASHTO).

The public now through Oct. 18 may vote for I-64 to win the national “People’s Choice Award” for best project in the country by vis-iting americastransporationaward.org. The awards will be announced at the national AASHTO meeting on Oct. 31.

The I-64 St. Louis project was the larg-est highway improvement in Missouri his-tory, yet reopened one month early and $11 million under its $535 million budget. All project goals were met or exceeded despite limited funds, limited space and the need to limit the impact of construction. The project closed two 5-mile sections of I-64 for one year each, but survey results show 95 percent of Missourians were satisfied with how the work was handled.

Earlier this year, transportation experts from across the country judged more than 40 entries from 29 states in the categories of on-time, under budget, innovative management and best recovery act project. The I-64 St. Louis project won first place in the Midwest region in the under budget category. Winners from each region and category were then nar-rowed down to an overall top 10, with the I-64 St. Louis project making the list.

As a Top 10 finalist, the I-64 St. Louis project is now in the running for the grand prize and the People’s Choice Award. Win-ners of both awards will receive $10,000 to go toward a charity or scholarship.

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By TED DIXON JR.In a contentious discussion on Sept. 13

that featured residents yelling at a coun-cilmember, one councilmember arguing with Creve Coeur Mayor Harold Diel-mann on how to run the regular meeting and another threatening to walk out if residents were not allowed to speak, not enough votes were cast in favor of a pro-posed zoning amendment, and the mea-sure failed.

The Creve Coeur City Council for a few weeks was considering a text amendment to the Planned Community (PC) zoning ordinance that would have made changes to the permitted uses in districts less than 40 acres. The bill was sponsored by Creve Coeur Councilmember David Kassander (ward 3) and would have limited commer-cial development of PC districts of less than 40 acres.

Many residents over the course of the debate have expressed concerns about expanding commercial development in the city encroaching their neighborhoods. In 2000, the district’s minimum acreage was changed from 40 to 15 acres to allow a nursing home, the Parc Provence, to be built on a 16-acre assemblage of previ-ously zoned land on Coeur de Ville Drive

The reduction in minimum acreage, however, was made without changing any of the permitted uses specified for districts of less than 40 acres.

Subsequently, in a 16-acre PC district that was created for the Parc Provence, uses such as retail stores, banks, drug stores and dry cleaners were allowed without conditions.

Kassander had argued that since the site on Coeur de Ville is zoned PC for the Parc Provence development, any of the above mentioned uses could be put on that prop-erty, and little could be done to stop it.

The owner of the facility, Charles Deutsch, stated his opposition to the pro-posed text amendment and told the council

it would hamper any potential develop-ment on the property. Deutsch argued that he was being unfairly targeted.

Deutsch’s lawyer, Douglas Barron, offered a final plea to the council before the vote was taken.

“This text amendment represents a wholesale change of the district,” Barron said, adding that the amendment was a naked attempt to control the undeveloped seven acres of the Parc Provence property. He said it could cost the facility dearly if the amendment was approved. Kassander said that the new proposal had nothing to do with the nursing home. He argued it was a zoning issue.

Creve Coeur Councilmember Jeanne Rhoades (ward 4) agreed with Kassander. “Some of us on the dais have a broader view,” Rhoades told Barron. “I don’t buy into that you are uniquely targeted.”

Creve Coeur Councilmember Tara Nealey (ward 2) sided with Deutsch. She said the developer has delivered and come through over the years on his project.

“You are targeting Mr. Deutsch,” Nealey said.

When she uttered those words, residents in attendance roared back at her in disap-proval and denied targeting Deutsch.

Regarding the voting process, Creve Coeur City Adminstrator Mark Perkins said since a protest petition was filed on the matter, a supermajority of six coun-cil votes in favor of the amendment was required for passage. The final vote was 4-4. Those who voted in favor of it were Kassander, Rhoades, Laura Bryant (ward 4) and Robert Haddenhorst (ward 3). Those voting against it were Nealey, Beth Kistner (ward 1), David Kreuter (ward 1) and A.J. Wang (ward 2).

At West Newsmagazine press time, Creve Coeur Director of Planning and Community Development Paul Langdon said he had not heard of any new propos-als on the issue.

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By BRIAN MCDOWELLFranklin County Planning and Zoning

officials on Sept. 21 voted to recommend giving Ameren UE authorization to build a landfill for coal ash waste in a 100-year flood plain adjacent to the company’s large power plant adjacent to the Missouri River in the small town of Labadie.

One committee member voted no, and another abstained from voting at all, but all other appointed committee members voted to recommend approval of the proj-ect, with a long list of stipulations. Those stipulations included recommendations that the project be within 1,000 feet of the power plant; that a levee system must be built, maintained and inspected at Ameren UE’s expense; and that the transportation of the potentially hazardous material from other Ameren facilities to be stored in the landfill would require a conditional use permit from the county. Committee mem-

bers maintained also that the project must follow all existing state and national envi-ronmental laws.

Some residents of the area insisted that the coal ash that would be stored in the proposed facility is toxic and unsafe. They said they worry about what would happen if the area surrounding the site of the landfill flooded like it did in 1993 and the coal ash found its way into local groundwater and the Missouri River, which is the source of most of St. Louis County’s drinking water.

Those concerns are what drove a group of citizens to form the Labadie Environmental Organization, a group that has maintained a presence at all meetings at which the project has been discussed.

Even though many of the group’s demands were adopted into the commit-tee’s recommendations, other requests – such as the formation of a citizens’ advi-sory committee to monitor the landfill – as well as concerns about the effects of coal ash on local groundwater, were ignored.

“We just wish they’d consider our needs more than those of a private company,” Labadie resident Patricia Schuba said. “What they approved wasn’t near enough.”

Ameren UE officials who were present at the meeting declined to comment on the decision.

The Planning and Zoning Committee is expected to present to Franklin County’s three county commissioners its recommen-dations in a full hearing, which is expected to occur sometime in October.

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Fewer Missourians buckled up this year compared to 2009, according to a statewide seat belt survey conducted in June 2010. Despite evidence proving the benefits of wearing a seat belt, nearly 24 percent of Missouri motorists are still not making it click. Only 76 percent of Missourians buckle up regularly, compared to 77 per-cent in 2009, which is eight percent less than the national average of 84 percent. “We are just totally baffled as to why these

people still don’t buckle up and risk their lives unnecessarily every time they ride in a vehicle,” Leanna Depue, chair of the Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety’s Executive Committee said. “Unfortunately, Missouri just can’t seem to get our overall seat belt usage rates to increase, and it’s not likely to improve significantly without a primary safety belt law. We could save so many lives just by making our seat belt law a primary one.”

In 2009, 878 people were killed in Mis-souri traffic crashes, and 67 percent of the vehicle occupants killed were not wear-ing a seat belt. Wearing a seat belt is the best defense in a crash because it provides protection from being ejected and keeps motorists from smashing into windshields, dashboards and other passengers.The annual survey involved more than

126,419 observations of drivers and pas-sengers in 460 locations in both urban and rural counties. Missouri worked with The Missouri Safety Center to conduct the survey. Since 2004, the usage rate has fluctuated only slightly between 75 and 77 percent.

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By SHEILA FRAYNE RHOADESPlans recently were announced to cel-

ebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams, who was raised in St. Louis. To pay tribute to the artist, the Tennessee Williams Family Foundation for the Arts is collaborating with The Wiegand Founda-tion, Inc., to create a memorial bas-relief sculpture of the playwright. Current plans call for the piece to be a gift to the city of St. Louis.

“Creating a permanent tribute to my uncle was my father’s longtime dream,” said Francesca Williams, an artist who resides Collinsville, Ill., and the daughter of playwright’s brother, Dakin Williams. “I’m happy to take these first steps to see his dream become a reality.”

Those first steps included preparation of the sculpture’s preliminary cutout, which on Aug. 28 was unveiled in the Chester-field studio of sculptor Don Wiegand.

“We are hoping to have the project underway by Tennessee’s birthday on March 26, 2011,” Wiegand said.

Williams, born on March 26, 1911, died in 1983. His most acclaimed works include “The Glass Menagerie,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “The Night of the Iguana.” In 1980, President Jimmy Carter pre-sented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Contributions to the project are encour-aged and may be sent to: Tennessee Wil-liams Project, The Wiegand Foundation, Inc, One Wiegand Drive, Chesterfield, MO 63005.


By SHEILA FRAYNE RHOADESChildhood friends of a Chesterfield man

who has ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) have organized a fundraiser to help with the cost of medical bills.

In 2006, Gregg Neely, 43, was diagnosed with ALS. The Parkway Central and Miami of Ohio University graduate and his wife, a full-time employee of the Rockwood School District, have two children – Sam, 17, Delaney, 10, and Bode, 4. The family’s health insurance covers only a small por-tion of Neely’s many medical bills.

Prior to becoming ill, Neely worked for 15 years for Gourmet to Go and was an avid hockey player.

Neely’s friends secured the partnership of the St. Louis Bandits and will hold a fundraiser at 7:05 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 1 as part of the Bandits hockey game at the Hardee’s Iceplex (16851 N. Outer 40 Drive in Chesterfield). The St. Louis Bandits, a Tier II Junior A ice hockey team in the North American Hockey League’s North Division, will face the Springfield Junior Blues.

“Gregg’s health has taken a turn for the worse in the past year,” said Laura Tock-man, a friend of the Neely family. “He now needs a feeding tube. Because he has trou-ble breathing, he was given a tracheotomy so he could be hooked to a ventilator when necessary.”

Tickets to the game are $5. VIP tickets to the benefit are $30 and include admis-sion to the hockey game and to a VIP area where there will be food and drinks, along with the opportunity for autographs and pictures with some St. Louis Blues players and alumn. Silicone bracelets reading, “For Gregg” will be sold for a donation of any amount.

Neely’s children will be dropping the honorary puck before the game.

For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Laura Tockman at (314) 486-4514.

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By BRIAN MCDOWELLA party celebrating the 50th anniversary

of the Manchester Police Department at the city’s Sept. 20 Board of Aldermen meeting included an unexpected guest. Suzie Ever-ingham, with about 20 supporters in tow, showed up to confront the group she called “the good ol’ boys that run the city.”

In an impassioned speech, Everingham said her husband, Charlie Everingham, after 29 years as a Manchester police offi-cer and 42 total years as a police officer, was forced to either resign or be fired.

Everingham said that on Sept. 2, Man-chester Acting Police Chief Timothy Walsh and City Administrator Ed Blattner presented her husband with two sheets of paper: a pre-written letter of resignation, and “a document saying he was fired.”

Everingham said Walsh told her husband, “You can either resign, or I’m going to fire you.”

“Charlie was forced to make a split-sec-ond decision,” Everingham said. “To Char-lie, being fired meant he did something wrong, and he knew he didn’t do anything wrong.”

She said it was important to note that “if you are fired as a police officer, you lose your police accreditation.”

“So, (my husband) signed the pre-written forced resignation letter on Sept. 2,” she said.

Everingham said that someone told her that Walsh said he hired a police officer for “political reasons” and that that officer did not meet the minimum requirement of 70 on the Manchester Police Department test.

She urged the board to look into the situation regarding her husband’s choice to resign or be fired and “the acting chief’s hiring methods.”

“Members of the board, please conduct an investigation of these issues,” Evering-ham said. “Please suspend (Walsh) until the investigation is concluded. Lie detec-tor tests of all involved might be helpful. I know my husband is most willing to take one.”

Everingham said the controversy sur-rounding her husband was just “the tip of the iceberg” and that an investigation would bring other stories to light.

She took several city officials to task, calling them “little boys.”

“The political diapers you are wearing are full and the stench is beginning to reek outside of City Hall and this building,” Everingham said. “I would suggest you put on your ‘big boy’ pants and realize you work for this amazing city of hard-working people; they don’t work for you, nor your

political aspirations. “My husband loves this city and is, obvi-

ously, beloved by it. Your actions gave neither a chance to say goodbye after 29 ½ years. And you dare to celebrate 50 years of this police department without him. Shame on you.”

Everingham did not cite any reason for the alleged disciplinary action against her husband.

A source who asked to remain anony-mous told West Newsmagazine that prior to being given the choice to resign or be fired, Everingham had gone to Walsh and given Manchester Mayor Dave Willson a memo accusing some of his fellow police officers of unspecified criminal activities.

Willson acknowledged receiving such a memo from Everingham but said the accusations outlined therein contained no names and no specific timeframe, so he never acted on it. Willson said he never discussed the allegations with Everingham or Walsh.

“All I know is that I got a phone call from the city manager telling me that Charlie Everingham resigned,” Willson said. “It surprised me, but that was the only thing I ever heard about it.”

Willson said he supported Suzie Ever-ingham’s right to make public comments during board of aldermen meetings but that he would not otherwise be reacting to what she said.

Board members said they were told only that the longtime police officer had resigned. Alderman Bob Tullock (ward 1) said at the meeting that the board and Manchester residents need to know what happened.

City Attorney Patrick Gunn said he would need permission from Charlie Ever-ingham before details of the case could be made public.

Walsh declined to comment, stating in an e-mail to West Newsmagazine, “It is the long standing policy of this city not to comment on on-going personnel issues. I must comply with that policy.”

West Newsmagazine’s call to Blattner for comment on the matter was not returned.

According to Suzie Everingham, when news about what happened to her husband hit the community, the Everinghams spent a few days on the phone telling and retell-ing the story.

“Everyone was appalled, and many were embarrassed to say they lived in Man-chester,” she said. “I am a chaplain at a congregation in Manchester, and when

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By BRIAN MCDOWELLThe old cliche, “When it rains, it pours”

has taken on real meaning for some resi-dents of the Countrylane Woods II subdivi-sion in Manchester who say that stormwater is causing erosion in a channel that was built in a creek bed in that area.

Delivering an impassioned plea to the Manchester board of aldermen at its Sept. 6 meeting, the board of trustees for the neigh-borhood of Countrylane Woods II appealed to the city to help deal with the situation.

The trustees claimed that the problem has been ongoing for a long time.

According to Mike Ritchie, flooding six or seven years ago left a sanitary sewage pipe exposed, and there was a large sewage spill in the area.

“Now, with an inch and a half of rain, the creek goes from dry to raging in about 15 minutes,” Ritchie said. “That creek is just going to get worse and worse.”

Trustee Eric Ruegg said that in some por-tions, the water flow had moved up to 14 feet from where it originally started and had begun encroach into a few residents’ yards within the subdivision.

Ruegg said that in some of the areas where children have been known to play, exposed sewer pipes, manhole covers, and

telephone and electric wires still could be seen in the creek beds.

In 2002, a city-funded scientific study found that there were three main channels of erosion from stormwater in the area.

Since then, the trustees for Countrylane Woods II placed a wall of rocks to try to contain the effects the water has on the area. However, rushing water eventually damaged the rock structure and eventu-ally overcame manmade restrictions to the water’s flow.

“This thing has been a hazard for a half dozen years, but it seems like nobody’s really had the money to deal with it,” Ruegg said.

Ruegg said that he was only asking the city to do what it had promised to do all along and work with the list of priorities it established eight years ago, during the original study.

Citing safety concerns, $300,000 for a planning, engineering and design study was unanimously approved by the alder-men. Completion of a Missouri Corps of Engineers study of the matter is expected to take a year.

The trustees expressed their appreciation for the actions taken by the city of Man-chester.

Stormwater study gets approval

A photo that the trustees from the Countrylane Woods II subdivision presented to the Manchester board of aldermen shows exposed telephone cable in an area traversed by children.

Charlie and I were first married, a woman named Pat Hackman came up to me and said, ‘Do you know when I first met your husband?’ I said I didn’t and she said that she was working in her yard in the heat and he stopped his police car and talked with her and, concerned about her, he came back with a cold bottle of water for her.

“And, that is just one example of many

‘Charlie’ stories from those that live in Manchester.”

Hackman confirmed the story and said she considered Everingham a man of great integrity and a perfect representative for the city of Manchester.

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By SUSAN E. SAGARRAThe firefighter/paramedics of the Ches-

terfield-headquartered Monarch Fire Pro-tection District collected a record amount of donations from the community during the recent Fill-the-Boot campaign to ben-efit the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).

The Monarch firefighters collected $21,637, the highest amount of any fire district in St. Louis County and the sur-rounding area. The only exception was the St. Louis Fire Department, which col-lected $29,055.

“The Fill-the-Boot campaign is one of our biggest fundraising efforts, and we work with 165 fire departments in the greater St. Louis metropolitan area,” said Lauren Green, executive director of the St. Louis Chapter of the MDA.

This year’s total exceeded Monarch’s previous record of $14,332.

“People were more than generous,” said Dan Stoverink, a Monarch firefighter/para-medic who serves as the Monarch shop’s coordinator for the fundraiser. “It is amaz-ing. MDA is such a great organization, and the community recognized that.”

Stoverink said that every firefighter/paramedic at Monarch participated in the campaign during two collection weekends,

one in early June and the other during the Labor Day weekend, which was held in conjunction with the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day MDA Telethon.

“All three shifts worked at five intersec-tions within the Monarch Fire District throughout both weekends,” Stoverink said. “Between the two weekends, every-one helped collect the money. The fire-fighters are really appreciative of the generosity from the community.”

Stoverink said that over the years, he has met numerous families affected by MDA.

“I’ve gotten to know some of the fami-lies, and the parents are inspiring,” Sto-verink said. “They don’t want sympathy. They just want a cure. The kids also are just amazing. Some are just sharp as a tack.”

Green praised the firefighters’ efforts.“The Monarch firefighters did an amaz-

ing job,” Green said. “It is just fantastic that they collected so much. Firefighters are the backbone of what we do at MDA, and Monarch has set the bar for the entire St. Louis area. It’s a huge accomplishment and we’re very proud of them.”

Green said that over the years, Monarch has helped MDA in numerous ways.

“It is such a pleasure to work with the Monarch firefighters,” Green said. “One

of their firefighters, Ron Bristow, has been a camp counselor for several years, and these guys go above and beyond. They don’t just collect the money. They are very humble, and in addition to their job of protecting and serving, they are always willing to help out in the community with efforts like these.”

Still, Andy Stecko, Monarch shop stew-ard and 3rd District vice president of the

Professional Firefighters of Eastern Mis-souri Association, said that the people in the community deserve the credit.

“We understand how tight people’s bud-gets are these days, and we are grateful that the community opened their hearts and their wallets to help us raise these funds,” Stecko said. “It is because of their generosity that we were able to contribute so much.

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By SARAH WILSONGerman music, children’s rides and

bratwurst will once again be featured at the annual St. Louis Strassenfest, returning to Chesterfield on Oct. 1, 2 and 3. Admission is free for all.

“We look forward to a beautiful fall weekend for our family-oriented event,” St. Louis Strassenfest President Patrick Worzer said.

This year’s Strassenfest is not a typical festival with pop bands and concession booths from large chain restaurants. In previous years, Strassenfest featured main-stream oldies pop bands, but to give the event a more authentic feel this year, live German music will be played all weekend by a few different bands, including the fea-tured Jay Fox and the Bavarian Showtime Band.

The traditional German festival allows only recognized nonprofit groups to take part. More than 35 organizations partici-pate and earn funds by operating food, bev-erage, arts and crafts and game booths.

Since 1960, Strassenfest has helped raise $8.2 million to support cultural, educa-tional, civic and charitable activities in the St. Louis area.

The St. Louis Strassenfest is an all-vol-unteer event.

“We hope to build on last year’s success, especially in light of the economy hitting charity fundraising especially hard,” Ches-terfield resident Doug Littlefield, event organizer, said.

Littlefield, along with Worzer, works with the city of Chesterfield, St. Louis County, Chesterfield Mall and Sachs Prop-erties to coordinate the event.

The original German-style Strassenfest was in 1960 in Columbia, Ill. Each year, the event expanded, and by 1971, Colum-bia officials decided it had gotten too large for the small city. In response, the St. Louis Strassenfest Corporation was formed, and in 1972, the event was held in St. Louis for the first time.

This year’s Strassenfest will feature four of the five original beers from the German Oktoberfest. Attractions will include roughly 17 food and beverage booths with all of the old favorites: bratwurst, potato pancakes, shish kabobs, and funnel cakes.

The Strassenfest at one time was consid-ered a heavy drinking festival, but over the years, it has evolved into a family-friendly event, Littlefield said.

The Children’s Village consists of the Purina Farms Frisbee Dog Show, storytell-ing, clowns, face painting, jugglers, inflat-ables and balloons. Children’s rides will be there as well.

“We really tried to double the amount of kids’ stuff,” Littlefield said. “We will have larger tents and more covered seating areas. Last year, we didn’t have that many rides for teens, so this year we have a few more carnival rides that cater to that age group.”

Littlefield said they are expecting and hoping for an even bigger crowd than last year.

“Last year, we had an awful lot of com-petition with other events, baseball games and Rosh Hashanah, but this year we’ve sort of adjusted the schedule to not com-pete with those pretty big events,” Little-field said. “We’re hoping for a really good audience and are excited for another great weekend.”

Free, family-friendly Strassenfest returns to Chesterfield

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By BRIAN MCDOWELLA father visiting his daughter’s elemen-

tary school class normally is not newswor-thy, but when he is in the military, half a world away in the middle of a war zone, such an event becomes much more inter-esting.

That is what happened on the morning of Sept. 9 in Paige Nilson’s second-grade classroom at Barretts Elementary in the Parkway School District. Col. Peter Ries is an Army reservist stationed at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, where he works as a staff judge advocate. His unit, the103rd, has up to 8,000 soldiers and is in charge of all transportation and supplies in Iraq and moving all equipment and personnel out of the country as part of the draw-down.

This deployment, Ries’ second to Iraq, began in February 2010, and he is to return home in April 2011. Ries gets to talk most every day by phone to his family and about once a week on Skype, computer video technology that allows live teleconferenc-ing.

Ries’ daughter, Emma, is in Nilson’s class, which chose a pen pal program with troops stationed in Iraq as their service project. Emma’s mother, Jane Ries, came

up with the idea of using Skype to let the colonel talk to students about his experi-ence in Iraq.

A computer was used to link Skype to a SMART Board in the classroom, so the kids could see Ries and he could see his daughter’s classroom.

Ries’ wife and fifth-grade son, Jack, sat in for the event.

Jane Ries held up a laptop showing pictures her husband took in Iraq as Peter narrated them. Images included the base, troops, the mosque on base, the mess hall, the base movie theater, helicopters, trans-port vehicles and a few of the palaces where the military now base their operations.

“I work a lot of hours here,” Ries said. “It is hard for us to be away from our families. This is honestly the first group of kids I’ve seen in quite a while.”

He said that the food was good and included a variety of American and foreign foods. He described the computer lab on base and said it is where soldiers go during off hours to check e-mails, use the Internet and make contact with their families.

Ries said he will return home briefly in October for his son’s birthday, and he promised to visit the class in person then.

After the conference, students discussed what that they have written to their American military pen pals, citing ques-tions like, “Do you have any pets back home?” and, “Have you seen the Hannah Montana movie?”

Nilson is using the exer-cise to teach social stud-ies and letter writing but recognized that it could have a broader effect.

“I hope they learn the importance of helping others,” Nilson said, “and that they develop an appreciation for different people and different places and other communities. I want them to realize that their letters have purposes.”

She said the conference with Ries rein-forced her teaching.

“The Ries family is so incredible,” Nilson said, “and Emma is such a good leader in class. The picture was clearer than I thought it would be. I’m glad that everyone got to see each other, and I was very impressed with the kids’ questions.”

Emma said that during weekly Skype conversations with her father, she talks mainly about school and soccer practice.

“It was fun to see him on the big screen,” Emma said.

Jack talks to his father about school, football and other sports and asks about what is happening in Iraq.

“He gives me the scoop on what he’s hearing, what he’s eating for lunch and what he’s downloaded on i-Tunes,” Jack said.

Both kids said it was very difficult to have their father away for so long.

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Gateway exchange programGateway Academy recently launched its

International Exchange Student Program for middle school students. This school year, Gateway has eight students from Sevilla, Spain, and Mexico. The students will be here for the entire school year and are staying with Gateway Academy host families.

Fourteen for 14The Missouri Department of Elemen-

tary and Secondary Education (DESE) has recognized the Parkway and Rockwood School Districts for meeting all 14 perfor-

mance standards on DESE’s Annual Per-formance Report (APR). This is the 10th consecutive year both districts have earned the recognition.

The APR is based on Missouri Assess-ment Program scores, ACT scores, atten-dance and dropout rates, college and career placement measures, and other academic performance measures.

School kickoffC h e s t e r f i e l d

Montessori School recently kicked off a new school year with its annual “ I n t e r n a t i o n a l Grill Fest.” Fami-lies shared dishes representing the many nation-alities within the school commu-nity. Activities included face painting, ball games, and the chance to enjoy the school’s three new playgrounds.

National Merit semifinalistsEighteen Rockwood high school seniors

were named semifinalists in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program.

More than 1.5 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the competition when they took the 2009 Pre-liminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screening of program entrants. To become a finalist, a semifinalist must have an out-standing academic record, be endorsed and recommended by a school official, and earn SAT scores that confirm their qualify-ing test performance.

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The 2010 Howard Park Center Golf Classic held at Norwood Hills Country Club raised about $37,800 for Howard Park Center. Orville and Jane Middendorf were the presenting sponsors for the annual event, which attracted roughly 100 golfers.

“On behalf of the children and families we serve every day, I truly appreciate the support from everyone that participated in this event,” Howard Park Center Executive Director Dawn Casey said.

Pictured are Dawn Casey (right) with Orville Middendorf and Jane Middendorf, who were presented with a decorative plate as a thank you for their generous sponsorship of the Golf Classic.

Pictured (from left, back row) are exchange students Lola Ferraro, Ines Barquin, Lola Garcia, Candelaria Lopez, Jimena Rivera, Mariana Fernandez and (from left, front row) Pepe Benavides, and Wito Ferraro.

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The top three student winners and their teachers from each of the nine geographi-cal regions will be announced at a special Washington, D.C. Awards Gala in the spring of 2011, where first-, second- and third-place winners will be awarded cash prizes. For details, visit beinganamerican.org.

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is accepting nominations for the 2011 Girls and Women of Distinction Awards. GSEM will honor 10 girls and 10 women who positively impact the community. Nomina-tions are based on girls and women exhibit-ing courage, confidence and character and who make the world a better place.

Girls and women may be nominated for their outstanding achievements in one of the following categories: Creative Arts, Entrepreneurship, Government & Legal, Inspiration, Numbers, Practical Arts, Social Sciences, Sports & Fitness, Technology, and The Sciences.

Girl nominees should be in grades three through 12, and women nominees should be older than age 18. Nominees do not need to be registered Girl Scouts. For more information, call (314) 592-2373 or visit girlscoutsem.org.

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Counselor of the Yearcathy Westbury, a

school counselor at stanton Elementary in the Rockwood school District, was selected as the Elementary school counselor of the Year for the state of Missouri.

“We are enormously proud of cathy, her nationally recognized school counseling pro-gram, and her many talents and gifts,” stanton Principal Matt Miller said.

Westbury was recognized for the difference she has made through her efforts for student leadership opportunities, devotion to guidance curriculum and efforts to curtail bullying.

“cathy runs a superb school counseling program at stanton,” Dr. sharon sevier, director of Guidance and counseling for Rockwood, said. “We look forward to nominating her for the national counselor of the year recognition.”

The Missouri school counselor Association honors one elementary, middle and high school counselor each year as the top school counselors in the state. Nomi-nations come from all parts of Missouri and are evaluated and selected by the MscA Professional Recognition committee.

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By BRIAN MCDOWELLThe girls in Ms. Friend’s first-grade

class at Ross Elementary School write and illustrate elaborately detailed stories about friends, pets and slumber parties. They can do so without boring or facing ridicule from the boys in their grade, who are busy in Ms. Roy’s class, where they are writing stories about football games, “Star Wars” and zombies without worrying whether their female classmates think that these are appropriate topics for literary exploration.

The unique set-up of separate gender classrooms is becoming more available at elementary schools in the Parkway School District. Ross Elementary is starting a separate classroom for each gender in both first and second grade.

The program does not separate the genders completely; boys and girls in the classes have recess, gym and lunch together. Specifically, the program was designed to address the different needs and interests that boys and girls have in a class-room setting.

Participation is voluntary and requires parental permission.

The unique program has been run-ning with great success at Carman Trails Elementary School in Ballwin for the last couple of years. Sylvia Bronner, the school’s interim administrative intern and original boys’ first-grade classroom teacher said teaching in a mixed-gender classroom made her better at her job.

“I did a lot of learning about physiologi-cal differences between boys and girls that I could apply in any classroom I was teach-ing in,” Bronner said. One positive result of the separate gender classroom, Bronner said, was that the boys learned to love the writing process.

“It became their favorite activity,” Bron-ner said. “I found that we had taken the focus off other things to give them time to write. It all came from these learning strat-egies we had – things like some boys learn better standing up – and the importance of not comparing work to other kids in the class. They liked to write and they liked to read each other stories, as long as the topics were something that was interesting to them.”

Bronner said the set-up also had a posi-tive effect on the mental attitudes of some students.

“We just want kids to see themselves as learners, and want them to know that school is a place for them,” Bronner said, “and, in a traditional classroom setting, not all kids feel that way.”

The success of the program at Carman Trails inspired Ross officials to give it a shot.

“I don’t have any hard data yet, but the kids are happier,” Ross Principal Lisa Greenstein said. “For some boys and some girls, this program works better.”

Greenstein said the classes seem to be helping children gain confidence as learn-ers, and she is impressed at the way the structure engages boys.

Kelly Friend, a part-time marathon runner, teaches the first-grade girls’ class.

“I didn’t want the girls class to be all pink and purple,” Greenstein said. “I think her toughness and competitiveness can be a good example for young girls.”

Friend said she sees the girls emulate her, wearing a scarf on days after she wears a scarf, or using the same phrases that she often uses. She discourages cliques from forming by moving the girls to a different desk every day.

“As their teacher, I keep having ‘ah-ha’ moments,” Friend said.

The structure allows girls to explore their interests, such as colors and social activi-ties, and to perform activities designed to enhance self-image.

Julie Roy, who teaches the boys’ first-grade class at Ross, said it has been a challenge.

“I have found it’s effective to explain things using bullet points,” Roy said. “I just tell them exactly what is expected of them. I find boys don’t want to copy me exactly, but they do need some type of structure.”

Roy said her students value consistency. They have been working on construction and design projects using mathematical manipulatives.

The two teachers often compare notes after the school day, since they are teach-ing the same curriculum in different ways. The process has illustrated differences between the genders, even at a young age, which are illuminating. For instance, a classroom discussion in which students were asked to share something about themselves took “forever” in the girls’ classroom, as the girls wanted to discuss every point made by fellow students. Given the same exercise, the boys opted for one-word answers, and Roy said she had to pry to get them to express anything emotionally.

“I just want them to be comfortable,” Roy said, “and with this, I think they are.”

Both teachers said they were amazed by the smoothness of the transition and that, so far, it has worked exactly as their train-ing indicated it would.

Greenstein said the future of the pro-gram at Parkway and expansion to other grades and schools will depend mainly on academic results and parental interest.

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New team, new year, but the winning goes right on for the Eureka boys’ soccer team.

The Wildcats recently won the Mehlville Cup, going 4-0 in the tournament.

Gary Schneider moved up from assistant to take over for Bill Goggin. He inherited a club that lost 14 seniors and nine starters.

Winning the tournament was a great start to the season for Eureka.

“My expectation going into the tourna-ment was that every player that played in the game would give the team a 100 per-cent effort,” Schneider said. “I think we got that from all of them. We still have a long way to go, but I really like our effort right now.”

Eureka defeated Mehlville, Seckman and Westminster to reach the champion-ship game.

“In those wins, there were spots in the game that we were not playing well and things were not going our way,” Schneider said. “Our seniors stepped up and put us on their shoulders and refused to let us lose. We started to move the ball a lot better. As soon as that happened, our chances improved as well.”

Eureka faced Oakville for the title and came away with a 1-0 overtime victory. Jake Johnson scored the lone goal.

“This is a bittersweet game,” Schneider said. “We won the game, and Jake Jackson came through for the game-winning goal. It was a really a back-and-forth game.

“But we lost a very good goalie for the season in Connor Pahl. He took a pretty hard hit, but he will recover. He certainly scared me and everyone for a while there.”

His boys showed Schnieder their moxie when Pahl went down.

“I’m really proud of how our team responded when Connor got hurt,” Sch-neider said. “The trainer that was on site that night did an awesome job with him and really helped everyone remain calm. She deserves a lot of credit. Our boys could have collapsed and fallen apart but we didn’t, and we came out even harder and eventually put one away in overtime. I was very proud of them that night.”

Pahl is a sophomore.“It’s not really who steps up to replace

him. Connor Pahl and senior Brian Wood-ward were fighting for a starting spot,” Schnieder said. “So it should be an easy transition for Brian to be named the starter. Dane Roper has moved up from JV to help us out and back up Brian. If that should happen, I know Dane will be ready to take the net over from Brian.”

Winning the tourney was important for the club, but Schneider said he was looking for more than just victories.

“We are not hung up on wins and losses,” Schneider said. “We are trying to play the best soccer we can every time we step onto that field. Those four games showed that we have some things that we can certainly improve on.”

Still, Schnieder acknowledged he is happy with the start to the season.

“If you would have told me a month ago that we’d lose 14 seniors and nine starters off of last year’s team and we’d start the season beating Mehlville, Seckman, West-minster and Oakville and have a record of 4-0, I’d think you were joking,” Schneider said.

High school boys’ cross countryParkway West won the Stan Nelson Invi-

tational with 43 points.Other team scores were Eureka 53,

Kirkwood 91, DeSoto 103, Lafayette 115, Northwest 157, Hazelwood West 193, Fort Zumwalt North 227, Christian 236, Hazel-wood East 261.

Eureka junior Ethan Lambert won the race in 16 minutes, 39.10 seconds. Junior teammate Cade Netscher was third in 17:02.37.

Lafayette senior Kurtis Harshman was fourth in 17:06.15.

Parkway West Coach Dale Shepherd said the event was run on a flat course at Northwest Intermediate School.

“The footing was very muddy in places

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The Eureka Wildcats varsity soccer team

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but not as bad as I had expected,” Shepherd said. “It was our goal to win, but we were short-handed so there was some apprehen-sion.”

Here are the Longhorn results: junior Steven Shearman (5th - 17:10); sophomore Chris Carter (6th - 17:14); senior Bryan Witt (7th - 17:15); senior Andrew Reilly (13th - 17:36); sophomore Kevin Koboldt (14th - 17:41); senior Nick Bonner (22nd - 18:09); and junior Alex Poppen (30th - 18:46).

It was the second big meet win for the Longhorns, who also won the Parkway Quad.

The Parkway West JV also finished first. The young Longhorns were led by Cody Moore, Brett Dubuque, Andrew Kuehnle, Jordan Gagstetter and J.D. Hankammer, who finished first, second, third, fifth and sixth in the race, respectively.

The Parkway West Invitational is set for Sat., Oct. 2 at McNair Park in St. Charles.

High school girls’ cross countryLafayette won the Stan Nelson Invita-

tional with 15, and Parkway South was second with 55 points.

Lancer sophomore Jesse Maddox won the race in 20:57.67. Sophomore Grace Bueckendorf was second in 21:07.59. Junior Maddie Henning was fourth in 21:20.90. Sophomore Kelly Carpenter was fifth in 21:40.17, and sophomore Amy Bower was sixth in 22:13.29.

Parkway South senior Amanda Schmidt was seventh in 22:19.25.

Incarnate Word Academy won the recent Lutheran South Invitational with 40 points.

Other team scores were Lutheran South 77, Villa Duchesne 80, Lutheran North 93, Notre Dame 112, Oakville 11 and Whit-field 144.

High school boys’ swimming

Parkway Central won the Marquette relays with 274 points.

Other team scores were: Lafayette 234, Parkway South 224, Marquette 214, SLUH 198, CCP 178, Parkway West 162, Kirk-wood 104, Vianney 90, Cape Central 68,

and Clayton 64.Parkway Central Coach Kevin Mabie

said he was proud of his boys for winning the meet.

“We were hoping to win, but knew it would be tough,” Mabie said. “Two of the top four teams in the state from last year were there, as well as tough Lafayette and Marquette teams. This meet is a great way to start the season. It’s a little bit different, which is fun, but it allows us to really see a lot of the best teams in the area.”

The win lifted the Colts to 2-0 in meets this fall. However, the boys will not be resting on what they have done so far.

“We have a long way to go before achiev-ing our goals,” Mabie said.

The Colts had five first-place finishes: the 200 free relay team of Logan Emery, Danny Truong, Zach Biggs, and David Cruz; the 600 IM relay team of Emery and Nick Orf, and Josh Mo; the 400 medley relay of Riley Brown, Drew Larkins, Orf and Emery; the 300 breast relay of Lar-kins, Mo, and Brandon Weissman; and the 200 medley relay team of Brown, Larkins, Biggs, and Truong.

Several of the boys have qualified for the state meet.

“Our 200 free relay is currently the fastest in the state,” Mabie said. “Orf dropped his IM time below 2 minutes, and the state cut is 2:07. He went 52.8 in the 100 fly, and the state cut is 57. Riley Brown got his back-stroke cut with a time of 58.18, and Drew Larkins got his breast cut of 1:02.72.

Lafayette Coach Todd Gabel was pleased with his squad.

“We felt really good about getting second, considering we DQ’d our fly relay,” Gabel said.

Lafayette’s divers took first place, and the 900 progressive relay team broke a 10-year-old record with a winning time of 8 minutes, 19 seconds.

The Lancers’ dive team consists of Charlie Zimmerman, Colman Swisher and Anthony Levy.

Swimmers on the 900 progressive relay team were freshman Patrick Vega, junior Alec Morgan and sophomore Jon Glaser.

“The boys swam best times in the 900 progression relay,” Gabel said. “It is huge deal when you can break any record but even bigger when it is 10 years old. All the years it stood with all the fast swimmers trying to break it.

Lafayette had three teams finish second. The 600 individual medley team consisted of Alex Vavra, Glaser, and Lucas Bruder. The 400 free relay team had Vega, Connor Parsons, Josh Daminato and Alec Morgan. The 300 breast team consisted of Jeremy Bruder, Jared Rahe and Bruder.

Several Lancers also achieved new state cuts at the meet including, senior Alex Vavra (200 IM), Bruder (100 breast), Glaser (200 IM) and Vega (100 back).

Lafayette divers Charlie Zimmerman, Colman Swisher and Anthony Levy.

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By WARREN MAYESLafayette High School sophomore Kate

Barber is quickly becoming one of the top two-sport athletes for the Lancers. She is among the reasons Coach Kate O’Connell’s field hockey team is playing well this fall and Tim Walters’ soccer squad is success-ful in the spring.

The Lancers are 7-0 in field hockey, and Barber leads Lafayette with seven goals and 11 assists for 25 points.

Lafayette is fortunate to have her: She had a choice between Lafayette and Fort Zumwalt West. Barber’s mother is a teacher at Kehrs Mill, and Barber is a lim-ited choice student at Lafayette.

“She wanted to have the opportunity to play field hockey and soccer,” O’Connell said. “Fort Zumwalt West does not have field hockey.”

In 2009, Barber made the U16 Junior National field hockey team. She also was chosen this past summer for the Junior Olympics for the second time.

“She trains with the junior national teams and the Midwest High Performance team, which is an elite training team for college athletes,” O’Connell said.

For Barber, making the teams is the result of hard work.

“To make the junior national team, you go through the Futures, which is a regional tournament,” Barber said. “It’s been held at Anheuser-Busch Park here. From there, you get selected to nationals, and then you get to the Junior Olympics. Those were held at Virginia Beach, Va.”

This past summer, she again made the Junior Olympics team but did not get to the next step of junior nationals.

“When you go, you’re one of the top players in the U.S.,” said Barber, who plays center mid. “I did a lot over the summer. Being able to play with good players makes me a better player. I like it.”

So does O’Connell.“Kate brings an intensity level and a

dedication that a coach can only dream of,” O’Connell said. “Kate plays at a very high level, and it is great to have an athlete that is committed to field hockey.”

As a freshman, Barber had seven goals and 24 assists, so she is on her way to smashing those stats this season.

“Last year was a building year for Kate. She moved around at different positions and then settled into the center mid position,” O’Connell said. “She has really grown into more of a leadership role this year, she has more confidence over the ball and in the circle she has a knack for scoring.

“Kate is definitely more of a quiet leader. She leads by example. She has a great work ethic, commitment and dedication.

Kate knows her role. As a sophomore, she would never try to step on anyone’s toes. She is not a captain, but she leads on the field in a unique way. As a center mid, she really has to control the speed and pace of the game. She does this quite well.”

Barber likes to be a good teammate.“I just feel like I have to be helpful for

the girls. It helps me, and I think it helps them be better players,” said Barber, who has been playing field hockey for seven years. “I’m an athletic person, and field hockey is something I’ve picked up that I like and that I think I’m good at.”

Barber is not the lone reason Lafayette is off to a good start this fall.

“Lafayette field hockey is truly a team; it’s not just about Kate,” O’Connell said. “She is a great player, but she is great because we have tons of other great players around her. Shannon Knobloch is a senior committed to play at SLU next year. Abbey Angevine, Jordan Woolums, and Lindsay Carr are all great seniors that are commit-ted to play soccer in college. We have a good team.”

Come spring, Barber plays soccer and Walters has her to himself.

“Kate is a fighter and scrapper and very talented player. Put those three things together, and good things happen,” Walters said.

Barber did not take long to make the var-sity last year as a freshman.

“I brought her up quickly. It was an easy thing to do,” Walters said. “The coaches loved her and so did the team. Put that with the talent and it’s a no-brainer.”

For the soccer Lancers, Barber played forward and midfielder. She had 11 goals

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(three game winners) and two assists for Lafayette.

“She’s one of my top goal scorers, if not the top,” Wal-ters said. “I look forward to three more exciting years with her. She has all the tools, but what makes it great for me is that she has the fight and work rate that made myself successful at the college and professional levels.

“She will certainly be one of our go-to girls. She has a great deal of knowledge of the game and that will continue to grow. She already makes others around her better. She has also improved my coach-ing by giving a new dimension that I haven’t seen in a while.”

O’Connell agreed Barber can play well on both fields.

“Kate is a very talented ath-lete, as are many girls on our team,” O’Connell said. “She works very hard, and that plays a big role. She natu-rally has incredible change of speed and general field aware-ness. These are similar skills

in field hockey and soccer. You must be able to eliminate a defender, and this is some-thing that she does very well in both sports.

“To be a varsity starter in two very strong sports at Lafayette shows a lot.”

What is her best sport? “Kate has been playing

soccer for a very long time. She has committed a lot of time to soccer, and now her time is transitioning to field hockey,” O’Connell said. “I am not her soccer coach, so this is hard to say, but I have seen her play soccer and she is very strong. I always compare it in this way – Kate is argu-ably the best U-16 player in the entire Midwest for soccer.

“She is the only player in the Midwest region to train with the U-21 National team. These are very high honors in the field hockey world. I am not sure what her soccer resume is, however I know she is one heck of a field hockey player. She’s very strong. She has incredible speed, vision, and the ability to read players.

As for specific skills, she is a great corner hitter and she has strong elimination skills.”

Barber said she is leaning toward field hockey as her best sport.

“I prefer field hockey over soccer,” Barber said. “I just think I’m better at it. I like to score goals. Field hockey is played like soccer, but it’s a different concept. You’ve got running and getting in posi-tion. They both help me out with each other.”

Colleges already are look-ing at Barber.

“She has been seen at many national level tournaments,” O’Connell said. “I have spoken with many top Divi-sion 1 schools about Kate. I personally would like to see her play at Indiana.”

O’Connell is an Indiana graduate.

For Barber’s part, that is all down the road.

“I hope we can keep win-ning and can be really good this fall,” Barber said about the field hockey team.

Then, it will be on to soccer.

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By WARREN MAYESParents of the Lafayette High

School fall sports athletes gathered recently in the school gym for Fall Sports Parents’ Night to talk about the upcoming season.

There was a general meeting with Athletic Director Steve Berry, followed by breakout sessions for each sport.

“We had a very nice turnout,” Berry said. “We don’t actually count numbers, but from the look, I’d say we had more this year than

in years past.”The event, Berry said, was about

giving the parents an opportunity to meet their son’s or daughter’s coaches and sponsors and to see what the student-athlete has been involved in since fall sports prac-tices began Aug. 9.

It was an opportunity also to pass along some general information that will assist the parents in stay-ing better informed.

Berry said about 800 parents and all of the sports teams were present.

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Lafayette holds Fall Sports Parents’ Night

From left, David Morrisey, Patrick Vega, Josh Daminato, Brian Boucher, Brent Huffines and Coach Todd Gabel show parents what they do in practice.

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County Day School (MICDS) in 2003, and the Rebels are out to end that losing streak.

MICDS travels to Priory for a 1 p.m. game Sat., Oct. 2 in an ABC League game.

MICDS Coach Josh Smith said he looks forward to the game every year.

“It’s become a good rivalry over the years,” Smith said. “They always play us tough. We’ve had some success against them in recent years. But with the current status of things for us, I’m sure a lot of schools have circled us this year.”

Priory is off to a good start this season. The Rebels have won their first four games.

“It’s a combination of the ball bouncing our way and our players executing on the field,” Priory Coach Marty Combs said.

On the flip side of the coin, MICDS won just one of its first four games.

The Rams defeated the Rebels 42-21 last season. However, Smith said his club played well in that game and was not that much better.

“That score last year is deceptive,” Smith said. “They were better than that score would indicate. I don’t think we were that much better than them and certainly not by

that score. It was a game where we scored just before the half and then played very well in the second half.”

There is a reason why Priory and other ABC schools have not beaten the Rams, Combs said.

“MICDS has a tremendous program with a long history of winning football teams,” Combs said. “Success breeds success. The John Burroughs loss (21-0 on Sept. 11) was the first ABC League loss since 2003 for MICDS.”

His squad always anticipates playing against MICDS, Combs said. It is one of the big games on the Rebels’ schedule.

“Every team each year has to make one of their goals to beat MICDS,” Combs said.

However, Combs said he does not try to magnify the game for his squad.

“Some would say it is a really big game; others, maybe not so much,” Combs said. “I treat every game as a rivalry game, espe-cially if it is for a conference champion-ship.”

The successful start to the season for Priory has many contributors. Many play-ers have stepped up for the Rebels, who last year went 8-6 and made a deep run in the playoffs.

Combs had three starters on offense and

four on defense return this fall from last year’s talented team. They have picked up on that success from 2009.

“It has really been a team effort on offense with different players making plays when we need them,” Combs said. “Defensively, Colin Linkul, Peter Jochens, Ray Bayer and Seve Esparrago are playing the best ball right now.”

The keys to a win over MICDS by the Rebels are simple, Combs said.

“Contain their potent offense and control the line of scrimmage,” Combs said. “We need to eat the clock and score. We don’t want to do anything to beat ourselves.”

Despite the slow start, Smith said he and his staff are working hard to fix things. The squad still practices hard and wants to play well.

“When you’re down, it’s a lot of little things like execution, experience and dis-cipline,” Smith said. “It’s just not one thing that has caused us to get off to the slow start. If it was, we’d have had it fixed by now.”

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John Valentine, a 6-5, 245-pound senior, plays on the offensive and defensive lines.

Against Priory, Smith said the Rams have a big job ahead of them.

“Traditionally, you have to stop the run,” Smith said. “They are a physical team that likes to play a smash-mouth style of foot-ball. They have a strong offense. I think it’s going to be a good game.”

Other games on Fri., Oct. 1:CBC at Vianney, 7 p.m.SLUH at Chaminade, 7 p.m.DeSmet at Oakville, 7 p.m.DuBourg at Kennedy, 7 p.m.Lafayette at Fox, 7 p.m.Marquette at Mehlville, 7 p.m.Parkway Central at Seckman, 7 p.m.Parkway South at Northwest, 7 p.m.Parkway North at Seckman. 7 p.m.Webster Groves at Parkway West, 7 p.m.

Games on Sat., Oct. 2:Lutheran North at Principia, 1 p.m. Christian Academy-O’Fallon at West-minster Christian Academy, 1 p.m.

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A few years ago, she competed in Miss America’s Outstanding Teen pageant, won the Miss Lake of the Ozarks Outstanding Teen title, and in 2008, she finished in the top 10 in the Miss Missouri Outstanding Teen pageant.

This year, on Sept. 11, Burke was crowned Miss Spirit of St. Louis at the Florissant Civic Center – a big win in that it sealed her advancement next June to the Miss Missouri pageant, which is part of the Miss America system.

Competing in pageants and being crowned Miss Spirit of St. Louis allow Burke the opportunity to shine a light on her greatest passions: community service, leadership and dance.

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tions and is running for his a third term. “Right now, the biggest part of my job is

to encourage businesses to move here and to stay here and to work with the people of this county to create opportunities for them,” Dooley said.

Dooley grew up in St. Louis and gradu-ated from Wellston High School. He served in the Army in Vietnam and for 30 years was a supervisor at McDonnell Douglas. He served on the Park Board for the city of Northwoods and was mayor of that com-munity from 1983-1995. During that time, Dooley was president of the local Munici-pal League and the Missouri Chapter of Black Mayors and a member of the St. Louis County Economic Council.

Dooley said his Democratic affiliation and political career stemmed from his belief that government should help people.

“It was a very difficult decision for me to run for this office the first time,” Dooley said, “but I know I made the best deci-sion.”

He said he represents the entire commu-nity and has “reached across the aisle.”

“I feel like this is my calling,” Dooley said. “I love representing people and being

a listening post for the whole county. Right now what people are telling me is that they want jobs. That is why I am encouraging businesses to come here and be a part of what we’re doing. However, we have to know that we can’t expect people to invest in the community unless we are willing to invest in ourselves.”

Events in St. Louis County during Dool-ey’s tenure as county executive include the rebuilding of I-64, the beginning of the Route 141 expansion, the opening of River City Casino, the opening of the Metropoli-tan Education and Training (MET) Center in Wellston, four small business incubators throughout the region and construction of Monsanto’s Helix Center in Creve Coeur.

Dooley pointed to those projects as evidence of his commitment to creating opportunities for county residents.

“St. Louis County is the economic engine and the core government in the state, and I am proud of what we’ve accomplished here,” Dooley said.

Dooley’s job has not been without its challenges. The county has lost 40,000 jobs since he has been in office.

“Name one place that hasn’t lost jobs,

but we’re trying to recoup by working on things like the China Hub,” Dooley said. “If you look at areas like what happened with Express Scripts and UMSL, we have had successes. … I look around and see positive developments in every place in the area. We have a new animal shelter that is 26,000 square feet that was built without a tax increase.”

Dooley’s campaign claims his office has lowered the property tax rate by 10 percent since he took office.

“We know that’s not our money; it is simply an investment in the community,” Dooley said. “Of course, only 6.5 cents of every dollar we take in from property taxes goes to county government.”

Dooley said St. Louis County is Mis-souri’s only county with a AAA bond rating.

“That enables us to do everything we want to do when it comes to infrastructure,” Dooley said. “We also have a fully accred-ited health department in this county.”

He has an optimistic plan.“The China Hub will be a game-changer

and will lead to the enhancement of Lam-bert. The new bridge being built over the Mississippi will create jobs, as well as the North County Records Center and the plans to change Jamestown Mall,” Dooley said. “We are redoing (I-) 270 and Dorsett, and they have made the (Route) 367 a place of value now. We have been working with the public schools to make them better.”

Dooley said his favorite part of the job is “meeting the people that roll up their sleeves and make the community tick.”

“That is who makes this area work – the teachers and social workers and firefight-

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ers; I am in awe of them,” he said.One may think that an enthusiastic politi-

cal leader with such a proven track record would have an easy time getting elected, but Dooley is facing the biggest challenge of his political career in running against Bill Corrigan.

“We’ve never been at a disadvantage in this election,” Dooley said. “In the end, the candidate that is the most ethical is always going to win.”

‘The leadership and the vision’Dooley’s opponent never has held a

public office.“I have a keen interest in both public

service and giving back to the community,” Corrigan said.

Born in University City and raised in Florissant and Ballwin, Corrigan grew up in a household of 10 people. He remem-bers how his mother cut corners to feed her family. His father was a judge for 30 years.

Corrigan attended the University of Notre Dame, working his way through college with a job on assembly lines at General Motors. He later worked for the Highway Department and attended law school at Mizzou; for the past 25 years, he has been an attorney. He lives in Ladue with his wife and two teenage daughters, works for the Armstrong Teasdale law firm, sits on the boards of several non-profits and is active in his parish.

“I spent most of my life in this county,” Corrigan said. “I care deeply about this region, and I know I can make this a great race.”

The area’s economic outlook inspired Corrigan’s run for county executive.

“The county is in decline,” Corrigan said. “I have the skill set to offer the sharehold-ers – the people – something better.”

Corrigan pointed to media reports from earlier this year stating that 34 county employees received cars and gas cards from the county at taxpayer expense.

“These were highly paid people that worked in Dooley’s office that had their cars and their gas paid for by the taxpayers,” Corrigan said. “When we started bringing up this issue, Dooley told everyone that this has been the policy for 30 years, but he has had seven years to deal with this issue. He only just recently started limiting who in his office got cars, when this became a political issue. Well, leadership is being accountable to voters.

“I have no problems with the county executive having a car to go to meetings or events that he needs to go to. … But Dooley still uses that car to go to the grocery store and run personal errands. That is wrong.”

Corrigan supports the election of a county tax assessor who would answer to the county’s voters and said such a change would help fix the county’s broken

tax system. Until recently, Corrigan said, Dooley opposed the move, preferring to appoint his own tax assessor.

“When I announced my support for this issue, he seemed to change his mind and put it up for a vote,” Corrigan said. “That is not leadership.”

The measure passed on Aug. 3 with almost 75 percent of the vote.

“I offer solutions and not just criticisms,” Corrigan said. “I have the leadership and the vision to help make this community better.”

Corrigan opposes a merger between the city of St. Louis and the county.

“I’ve heard that Dooley is in favor of it, but I am sure that he is trying to keep that quiet,” Corrigan said. “Still, I want to help the city recruit business, because a good and healthy and vibrant downtown helps us all. So I am willing to work with Mayor Slay with that, to attract business here.”

Corrigan said he attended municipal meetings around the county and was told by community leaders and citizens that Dooley never had met with them.

“Even people in North County, when I went up there, told me that they feel that Dooley takes them for granted,” Corrigan said. “He also hasn’t been spending time in Jefferson City representing our interests there like he should be doing. So, where exactly has he been?”

Corrigan said county government should live within its means but that under Dool-ey’s leadership, it has not. When the reces-sion started, Corrigan said, the St. Louis County budget went up and the county government now is the area’s 10th largest employer, while the in the last seven years, 40,000 jobs in the county were lost.

“You cannot be a good steward and offer multi-billion dollar, no-bid contracts to companies that donated to the county executive’s political campaigns,” Corrigan said.

Corrigan called on Dooley to return $24,450 in campaign donations from real estate developer John Steffen, who was charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office with bank fraud. He said Dooley’s former top aide and campaign manager, Darin Cline, resigned last fall due to troubles with the IRS. Corrigan’s campaign has alleged that Dooley’s current campaign manager, John Temporiti, inappropriately pressured two members of the county council to change “no” votes to “yes” in favor of a six-figure contract between St. Louis County and one of Temporiti’s family members.

His campaign filed an ethics complaint against Dooley for failure to properly report campaign donations.

Corrigan has challenged Dooley to a series of four debates – one each in North County, South County, West County and

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“I’ll debate Charlie Dooley, anytime, any-where and regarding any issue important to moving the county forward,” Corrigan said. “Debate is right for the people, who should see that they have a clear choice. They should have the chance to compare and contrast the candidates in this race.”

An open bookWhile Dooley would not agree to Cor-

rigan’s desired debate format, he expressed his desire to debate Corrigan.

“I’ve got a great story to tell,” Dooley said. “I am the only one in this race talking about the real issues and not all this other garbage. I know we’re working with the League of Women Voters, and we’re doing a few of the candidates’ forums, and if he steps into my world, I think he’ll decide that’s plenty. I just need enough time to discuss the issues that actually impact people’s lives.”

Dooley said charges such as those Cor-rigan leveled against him are among his great frustrations about politics.

“Running for an election should be an opportunity,” Dooley said. “Instead, it turns into mudslinging, innuendos and mistruths. It’s silly season, and that is unfortunate, because we miss out on our chance to educate voters.”

Asked about the perk car issue, Dooley said, “We had that for 40 years in this county, and it wasn’t a good thing to do. The time was right to end it, and now, when employees are outside of work, they pay for their own transportation. Something like that is easy for a candidate that is on the outside looking in to criticize.”

He denied ever opposing the election of a tax assessor.

“I only said that we’re the best county to decide such a thing,” Dooley said. “We don’t need other counties to vote on what we should do. I didn’t want there to be a statewide election on a local matter. I’d rather listen to what the people of St. Louis County feel about it.”

Dooley acknowledged that his campaign in 2007 and 2010 received donations from Steffen and said the money was since donated to the Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity.

“Now, he also gave $25,000 to the RNC (Republican National Committee),” Dooley said. “Are they going to return that money? Or is Mr. Corrigan too incompe-tent to know?”

Dooley said it is untrue that anyone on his staff ever was indicted for anything and that an FBI investigation officially cleared his office of any wrongdoing.

“I have a good team of good people that are very ethical,” Dooley said.

Dooley issued new ethics guidelines as a part of his campaign.

“The county has a customer service number, 615-5000, that is always answered by a human voice,” Dooley said. “We also started a watchdog number for people to report ethics violations. I know that honest government starts at the top, so my life and career are an open book, and I only ask my opponent to do the same thing.

“This is an election between my opponent and me. I have disclosed four years of tax returns. People can see how much money I have. He refuses to do that. My records are open to the public. Will he do the same? If not, what is he trying to hide?”

Dooley said Corrigan in the last eight years refinanced his mortgage five times at the bank at which he sits on the board.

“Why did he do that?” Dooley said. “What is his salary at this bank? Did his salary come from TARP money that his party opposes but his bank received? I think voters should know about this.

“If you ask Corrigan about Metro, he has no comment. If you ask him about develop-ment in North County, he has no comment. Where I stand on these issues is clear. No one knows where he stands. I will not let my ethics be questioned by a rich lawyer from Ladue.”

Regarding time spent in Jefferson City, Dooley said, “I have spent enough time there. We also got a great lobbyist down there and a great team that I am always in communication with. Much of the money to improve Metro came from the state.”

Dooley pointed out the necessity of Metro and other projects he has taken on during his time as county executive.

“The fact is, we couldn’t afford not to do what we did for Metro,” Dooley said. “We needed to do what we did to (I-) 64. Improving our infrastructure is the key to our success. That is what creates jobs and opportunities. This is what I have focused on.”

Addressing concerns that he would sup-port a city-county merger, Dooley said, “For something like that to happen, condi-tions would have to be right. If it could be done in a way where the county wouldn’t lose any money, maybe. That would have to make sense to the voters; they have the buy-in and the ownership here. Is that what the community wants to do? I do think that everyone is better off working together. That is what a group like the East-West Gateway is all about. Putting us together in name really means nothing.”

Asked if he had any regrets about his time in office, Dooley said, “I wish I had com-municated better on some things. There is always room for improvement, but I know I have made the right decisions. Now, how do we move forward?”


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Ryan said that Corrigan has, indeed, refi-nanced his home five times.

“Like millions of other Americans, as rates fell, Bill financed his home to get a better rate,” Ryan said. “There was no sweetheart deal.”

Ryan said it is true that the bank at which Corrigan is on the board received TARP money.

“This investment enabled families to remain in their homes and businesses to continue to pay employees,” Ryan said. “To date, this community bank, which has been serving the St. Louis community for 90 years, has already paid back $2 million in interest, and taxpayers will make money on the investment that the government made.”

Asked if the RNC was returning the donations from Steffen, Ryan said, “If there is any politician who took money from indicted real estate developer John Steffen and they performed an official act on his behalf and then took more money, they should return that money as well.”

Regarding Dooley’s claims that cam-paign contributions from an indicted lawyer were donated to charity, Ryan said, “Are they returning the ‘please’ portion of the political contribution or the ‘thank you’

portion of the political contribution? Char-lie has clearly acknowledged that this money is tainted, but in typical fashion, he’s not doing the right thing by donating the entire amount. The money is tainted, and it should be returned. This is com-pletely outrageous.”

All candidates are required to disclose and report to the state of Missouri a per-sonal financial statement that is acces-sible to all county voters. Corrigan has complied with the requirement; however, Ryan indicated he will not go beyond the requirement to satisfy the publicity stunt of a political opponent.

“The cloud of ethics controversy fol-lowing Charlie Dooley has finally caught up to him, forcing him into releasing his tax returns because people believe he’s a corrupt politician,” Ryan said. “Charlie Dooley has a track record of no-bid con-tracts and coercing his employees into contributing 1 percent of their salaries to his campaign. Dooley is running for politi-cal cover because he can hear the footsteps of an angry electorate that has finally had enough.”

Corrigan’s plan to improve the county includes tax reform, ethics reform and eco-nomic revitalization. His memorandums on the topics are available on his campaign’s Web site.

He has promised that as county execu-

tive, he would emphasize small business creation and support.

“I have met with business leaders and gathered their ideas,” Corrigan said. “I listened to them and their concerns, and they share my commitment to making the county better.”

Corrigan claimed supporters of every political stripe but is very committed to Republican principles.

“I am for limited government and low taxation,” he said. “I am very much a fiscal conservative, but this isn’t about partisan politics. We will work with anybody that

wants to work with us. And I will be going to all of the county’s municipalities. I am fighting for votes everywhere that I can.”

The last time St. Louis County voters elected a county executive, in November 2006, Dooley won by a wide margin, gar-nering 67.34 percent of the vote and beat-ing out Republican Joe Passanise (30.86 percent) and Libertarian Brown (1.77 percent). At press time, it appears that the 2010 the race for St. Louis County’s next chief executive officer will be much tighter and that no candidate will be taking a Nov. 2 victory for granted.

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“Our books are open, available and understandable, unlike the federal govern-ment’s,” Flachsbart said, “and we’re more transparent than they are. All of our bills are put on our Web site before we vote on them. We always listen to public com-ments at our meetings. One of our goals is to get the public more involved and to be more interactive with our citizens.”

Another issue Flachsbart thinks a lot about is the quality of life in Chesterfield.

“That is one of the main things that attracts businesses to a community,” Flachsbart said. “Great arts, and parks and recreational opportunities; reliable police and public services. I know that people in the city government have disagreed on several minor things, but these are what we’ve all been focused on since the very beginning.”

He cited city improvements now under-way, including new hiking trails being built with the cooperation of Great Rivers

Greenway, and an amphitheater in Central Park.

“People really appreciate the oppor-tunity to walk, run, bike, rollerblade, be outside,” Flachsbart said. “That’s a really big draw in getting people to want to come here and live here.”

Flachsbart said there is nothing in his agenda that is new; he said that he wants to keep doing the right thing for the people of Chesterfield.

He also said he is considering a real run for mayor, so he could continue to hold the job once his interim term is up in April.

“I’ve thought about it, yes,” Flachsbart said, “but I haven’t officially announced anything like that yet. The biggest part of a decision like that these days is financing, and I know that such a race would be very expensive, but my inclination is to run. I guess I should wait and see who else is planning on running.”

When asked whose announcement could stop such plans to run, Flachsbart joked, “My wife. If she were going to run, I’d probably have to reconsider.”

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Celebrating 115 years in business

From Day 1, Dau Home Furniture, at 15424 Man-chester in Ellisville, has been known for the quality of its products and the per-sonal attention it gives its customers. Now, the com-pany is celebrating its 115th year, and soon to be 116th, anniversary of serving the community.

Ferdinand Dau first opened Dau Furniture Com-pany in 1894, making Dau the oldest furniture store open in St. Louis. At the beginning, the company was more of a neighborhood store, selling items such as basic children’s furniture and cabinets. Due to its suc-cess, the company expanded both its space and the family presence.

Ferdinand’s great-grandson Paul Dau, a fourth-generation owner, took over the business in 1975, and his daughter, of the fifth generation, helps out in the store as well.

Paul attributes the company’s success to its ability to establish a relationship with each customer.

“We treat people fairly, and we’re service driven,” Paul said. “We’re a family busi-ness that understands other families we’re serving, and we’ve always kept those standards first and foremost. My generation, as well as my dad’s generation, was taught the golden rule: ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ And we’ve stood by that.”

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Kanwal Khan, M.D., an internal medi-cine specialist, recently joined Diagnostic Internists of Chesterfield at St. Luke’s Hos-pital.

• • •Dr. Caren Schaecher, an OB/GYN, is

now in practice at Women’s Health Care, Inc. and has offices at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield and at St. Luke’s WingHaven Medical Building in O’Fallon, Mo.

• • •Three West County residents were

chosen for St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors System leadership positions for the 2011 fiscal year. They include Robert Elsperman, of Town & County, as board chairman; Ralph Thaman, Jr., of Ballwin, as vice chairman; and Marvin Wool, of Chesterfield, as secretary.

PLACESSweet & Sassy Salon, a salon, spa and

party place offering haircuts, spa treat-

ments and birthday parties for “tween” girls, has opened at West County Center in Des Peres.

• • •Terra, a gift shop in Des Peres, is

expanding and relocating to the former Jaffe Lighting location in the same shop-ping center, on Manchester Road just east of Bopp Road.

MEETINGS & NETWORKINGThe West County Chamber of Com-

merce holds a First Friday Coffee Club from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. on Fri., Oct. 1 at Eagle Bank (14231 Manchester Road in Manchester). Call 230-9900 or visit west-countychamber.com.

• • •The Chesterfield Chamber of Com-

merce holds a First Thursday Coffee at 7:30 a.m. on Thurs., Oct. 7 at St. Luke’s Desloge Outpatient Center in Chesterfield. Admission is free for members and $15 for non-members. To register, call 532-3399 or visit chestefieldmochamber.com by Oct. 5.

• • •The West County Chamber of Com-

merce holds Business After Hours from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thurs., Oct. 7 at Tucker’s Place in Manchester. Admission is free for members and $15 for guests. To register, call 230-9900 or visit westcounty-chamber.com by Oct. 5.

• • •The Wildwood Business Association

holds a general membership meeting from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thurs., Oct. 7 at Living Word Church (17315 Manchester Road in Wildwood). Visit wildwoodba.org.

• • •“Essential Ingredients for Lasting

Success in Business” is the topic of an eWomenNetwork Accelerated Network-ing Luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 8 at the Doubletree Hotel in Chesterfield. Admission is $35 for mem-bers and $45 for non-members registering before Oct. 5 and $55 for everyone begin-ning Oct. 5. Call (314) 968-9664.

• • •The West County Chamber of Com-

merce 2010 Business Expo is from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thurs., Oct. 14 at Life Time Fitness (3058 Clarkson Road in Ellisville). A variety of West County businesses show-case their products and services. Call 230-9900 or visit westcountychamber.com.

• • •The Wildwood Business Association

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By SHEILA FRAYNE RHOADESMembers and guests of the Wildwood

Historical Society on Sept. 21 traveled back in time to the 1860s. “Gen. and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant,” together with other ladies and gentlemen in period dress, were present at the Society’s Vic-torian Costume Ball. The special event was held at the historic Bethel United Methodist Church in Wildwood.

Members of the 8th Missouri Volun-teer, U.S. Infantry Re-Enactment Orga-nization provided dance demonstrations. The 8th Missouri is a living history group based out of St. Louis. Members are dedicated to preserving and teach-ing American Civil War history.

Stan Prater, of High Ridge, member of the 8th Missouri and Civil War buff extraordinaire, is locally known for his portrayal of Grant.

“I actually started ‘being Grant’ down at Grant’s Farm,” said Prater, who appeared in the movie “Gettysburg” and presented a brief history of Mis-souri’s part in the Civil War.

Most members of the 8th Missouri Civil War Re-Enactors, Inc. wear the federal blue uniform, but Prater described the unusual garb of what

was then called the American Zouave. Made strictly in St. Louis, the uniforms are composed of a deep blue jacket with red trim, a red sash and large, red trousers. Soldiers in the original 8th Missouri wore the Zouave uni-form for the duration of the Civil War. Prater described how they fought and won many battles. The Zouaves were mainly composed of fierce fighters – Irish workers from the St. Louis water-front in the 1860s.

“Mrs. Grant” described the ladies’ gowns and the language of fans. After polite bows and curtsies, hoop skirts swished and bounced while couples performed the “Patty Cake Polka” and other period dances.

The Wildwood Historical Society hosted the Victorian evening.

Wildwood’s history started more than 200 years ago, when settlers took advantage of Spanish land grant offers in the area. During the 1800s, 10 differ-ent communities grew up around rural post offices. They eventually joined to form the city now called Wildwood.

The Wildwood Historical Society was founded in 1999.

“Society members strive to learn from

the past and preserve our area’s heri-tage,” Jim Martin, Society president, said. “Our focus goes beyond Wild-wood. Everyone is welcome to join. All of West County benefits from this preservation. Since the WHS is not connected with the city of Wildwood, we can take risks. We have freedom to do more.”

The “more” includes the Society’s acquisition of the Hencken Place property in the old community of Dutch Hollow. The chicken coop there is used for Society meetings, and the other buildings house a museum.

“We welcome donations or loans of antiques and other historic memo-rabilia (pictures, artifacts, etc.) to fill out the museum space,” Joan Schmid, museum director, said.

The Wildwood Historical Society meets at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month at the Hencken House Museum, 18750 Hwy. 109. For more information on the Society, contact Martin at 799-7610 or visit wildwoo-dhistoricalsociety.org.

For more on the 8th MO Civil War Re-Enactors, contact Prater at 677-8252.

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By MEL PETERSONSome area programs are helping children

who have experienced a loss to navigate the grieving process.

St. John Lutheran Church in Ellisville for years has offered GriefShare for adults and recently started its Good Grief Group for kids.

“It’s not a support group,” Good Grief Group spokesperson Linda Brady said. “Kids are not forced to talk. They can open up in their own way.”

The group offers hands-on activities, crafts, toys, books, and music that allow kids to find outlets for their grief and the tools they need to discover their own griev-ing processes.

Brady said the course is designed as a “growing season” curriculum, meaning each session covers a different topic. The group meets for an hour once a week for 10 weeks, and the sessions are meant to be taken as a whole, but joining in halfway through the course is acceptable and ben-eficial, she said.

The course is open to children ages 4-12 and is for any child – member of the church or not – experiencing a loss.

Sessions are on Monday nights and are held at the same time as GriefShare ses-sions, so parents and children can attend their respective sessions simultaneously. So that parents can become a part of their child’s process beyond the sessions, the church offers parent guides to help keep discussions going at home. The course fee is $25 to cover the cost of materials and handbook, and scholarships are available.

Another group offering help for grieving

children is BJC Healthcare. For the past 12 years, BJC has offered Stepping Stones Bereavement Camp for Children, a week-end camp held every August in Eureka.

Eileen Spinner, volunteer program coor-dinator, said the camp is free and open to children ages 6-12 who are coping with any type of loss. On average, around 60 children attend. Stepping Stones features therapy, activities, crafts, a carnival and bonfires.

Spinner said the intent is to make the weekend as close to a camp experience as possible, but it is a camp with purpose. Quintessential steppingstones are made in memory of the loved ones, as are boats for a boat ceremony on the lake. Clos-ing ceremonies are open to the camper’s family members, enabling families to share moments of letting go.

The camp is meant to give kids the opportunity to grieve and grow along with others. “Shared experiences can be a big help,” Spinner said.

Stepping Stones would be nothing with-out donations and its volunteers. Accord-ing to Spinner, the camp is free of charge because it relies heavily on donations.

There are 80-90 volunteers every year, including mothers, nurses, teachers and people who might have experienced a loss in their own childhood or just recently.

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By SHANNON F. IGNEYOvarian cancer cases are on the rise.

According to the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 21,880 new cases of ovarian cancer will be reported in 2010, up 330 cases from 2009. The disease will claim an estimated 13,850 lives.

Often referred to as a “silent killer,” ovarian cancer is the most deadly of gyne-cologic cancers. Statistics published by the Mayo Clinic indicate that only 20 percent of cases are identified in the early stages; it occurs in one out of 57 women regard-less of age, and to date, there is no reliable screening test for detecting the disease.

For one local organization, those statis-tics are too grand to be ignored.

The St. Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness organization (SLOCA) for the past eight years has been educating the public about ovarian cancer and providing support to women battling the disease. The all-volun-teer, non-profit organization has 130 mem-bers dedicated to increasing awareness and survivorship of the deadly disease.

“Our goal is to make the teal ribbon as pervasive and recognizable as the pink ribbon is for breast cancer,” said SLOCA spokesperson Jan Paul.

A survivor herself, Paul stressed the importance and necessity of communicat-ing the symptoms of the disease to women of all ages, race and health history.

“The fact that 80 percent of cases are caught in advanced stages makes it much more resistant to treatment,” Paul said. “And, there is no early detection screening test for ovarian cancer – your annual PAP smear does not test for ovarian cancer – which is why it’s so important that women know the symptoms.”

There are many symptoms of ovarian cancer: fatigue, indigestion, back pain, pain with intercourse, constipation, menstrual irregularities and unexplained weight gain or loss. However, research studies have identified four symptoms that are key to diagnosis:

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toms, SLOCA is active in the community. Members volunteer time to staff informa-tion booths at health fairs and community festivals – including The Working Wom-en’s Survival Show – host fundraisers and

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“In addition to knowing the symptoms, persistence in getting a diagnosis from your doctor is vital,” SLOCA member Beth Hudson said.

Hudson, a Des Peres resident, lost a sister to the disease and is herself a three-year survivor.

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“Women have to be their own health advocates,” Paul said. “We have to know the symptoms, listen to our bodies, and act.

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SLOCA sponsors monthly gynecological cancer support groups in partnership with the Barnes-Jewish Wellness Community and Barnes-Jewish Siteman Cancer Center. The meetings are free and for women affected by gynecological cancer.

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Hiker Chicks take on 30 parks

Twenty West County women who call themselves the Hiker Chicks this summer hiked 30 of St. Louis County’s parks. Each woman had her own reason for partici-pating, such as wanting to lose weight, decrease blood pressure, manage diabe-tes, or even prepare to hike the Grand Canyon.

The women range in age from 22 to 78 and are members of Curves in Ellisville, where they work out year-round.

“I grew up in St. Louis, and I never realized, before this program, how many parks there are that we don’t take advantage of,” said Dee Dee Cooke, owner of the Ellisville Curves.

After completing hikes at 30 area parks, the Hiker Chicks got together for a celebration.

“Spirit Girls’ Night Out” is from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Thurs., Oct. 21 at Forest Hills Country Club (36 Forest Club Drive in Chesterfield). The night consists of an indulgent evening to celebrate friendship and good health with activities such as pampering, expert discussions on sleep, breast and heart health, cocktails, appetiz-ers and chocolate. Early registration is $15 through Oct. 7 and $20 per person after Oct. 7. To register, call (314) 542-4848 or visit stlukes-stl.com.

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“Girls in the Know Mother/Daughter Series” is from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. for four Mondays in a row on Oct. 25, Nov. 1, Nov. 8, and Nov. 15 at the St. Luke’s Desloge Outpatient Center (121 St. Luke’s Center Drive in Chesterfield). Led by women professionals, the speaker series touches on topics such as self-esteem, friendship, health and nutrition, body image, safety, bullying, puberty and sex education. For more information, call (314) 473-5685 or visit girlsintheknow.org.

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Robert W. Boyle, DMD

From the moment you step into Clarkson Dental Group you will feel at ease. From the tranquil atmosphere of their reception area to the exam rooms “with a view” . . . the office is designed to provide you with state-of-the-art dental care in a relaxed and comfortable setting.

Clarkson Dental believes in treating you the way they would like to be treated—with kindness and respect. You will discover that the professional experience of the staff is surpassed only by their warmth and friendliness. The office is smaller by design, so that time can be taken to get to know you and give you the best care possible. You want a more personalized level of attention and a higher quality of care and that is Dr. Boyle’s highest priority for you.

Dr. Boyle and his staff will listen carefully to you and your goals and address your questions and concerns. You and Dr. Boyle will be provided with a detailed examination and explanation of your dental health. From there, Dr. Boyle and the patient discuss and create a custom plan for comfortable treatment that ensures your optimal dental health and well-being. You will feel very confident knowing that you look great and feel great.

Dr. Robert Boyle has been voted a “Top Doc in St. Louis” by other St. Louis dentists and dental specialists multiple times. He was also voted the “Best Dentist in West County” by his patients.

To learn more, please visit their Web site at www.clarksondentalgroup.com. To make an appointment, please call 636-537-0065.

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Christopher Kling, M.D., is a board certified dermatologist who specializes in medical, surgical and cosmetic dermatology for adults and also in pediatric dermatology. He is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Society for Dermatologic Surgeons.

“I enjoy helping people of all ages, utilizing both my interpersonal and surgical skills,” Dr. Kling said. “I especially enjoy getting to know the entire family, as all ages have something to gain from my expertise in the treatment of many different skin problems like acne, warts, eczema, rosacea, changing moles or skin cancer.”

Recently relocating his practice to a state-of-the-art facility at Wildwood Town Center, Dr. Kling is experienced in the latest cosmetic treatments, including BOTOX® and a variety of filler materials for unwanted wrinkles and sclerotherapy or laser treatments for unwanted leg veins. An in-office medical aesthetician performs microdermabrasion, facials, chemical peels and skin care analysis.

Dr. Kling has an excellent bedside manner, and as the father of three young children, is great with kids. At Town Center Dermatology, every member of the family receives prompt, professional care with a compassionate, personalized touch.

16759 Main Street, Suite 201 • Wildwood • 636.821.1661 • towncenterderm.com

Christopher Kling, M.D.

Town CenTer DermaTology

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Combining technology, credentials, and experience does make a difference. The latest digital x-ray equipment, 46 years of serving the St. Louis metropolitan area, and outstanding credentials are what set Strotheide Chiropractic apart from others. For more than 115 years, chiropractors have been committed to spreading awareness that there are safe, natural and effective options for all health care needs, including headaches, neck pain, mid-back and low-back pain, auto injuries, and work and sports-related injuries.

At Strotheide Chiropractic, we provide the highest level of personalized service designed to elevate the patient’s quality of life. In addition to more traditional chiropractic treatment, Strotheide Chiropractic uses the Pro-Adjuster in the treatment of its patients. The Pro-Adjuster is the most scientifically advanced form of chiropractic service currently available. It is computerized, painless, safe for all ages, and allows patients to receive chiropractic treatment without popping, twisting, or cracking.

173 Long Road, Suite 100 • Chesterfield • 636.530.12123412 Nameoki Road • Granite City, IL • 618. 876.7800 • www.goodback.net

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The ChiroHCG Weight Loss Centers Program is designed and supervised by doctors. As a ChiroHCG Weight Loss Center patient, patients will experience rapid, healthy weight loss without hunger or cravings. The Center’s typical female client will lose between 20 and 30 pounds in 42 days and the typical male client will lose between 25 and 40 pounds in 42 days. These results are typical.

The ChiroHCG Homeopathic formula has been specially blended to include the strongest homeopathic HCG available, as well as four other homeopathic compounds that aid in boosting metabolism, suppressing cravings, help to detoxify the body, and boost energy. By blending these four other compounds into the formula, patients do not need to purchase any additional supplements in order to maximize their weight loss or to aid in detoxification of the body.

As previously stated, this is a doctor-supervised program. All ChiroHCG Weight Loss Program clients receive six weekly follow-up visits with either Dr. Strotheide or Dr. O’Leary at their Chesterfield Valley location.

When asked why he decided to bring the ChiroHCG Weight Loss Program into his clinics, Dr. Strotheide said, “In my 17-plus years of treating patients, I have come to the realization that many of the health problems people suffer from are complicated by being overweight. I made the decision, that in order to help our people not only feel better, but to actually be healthier, we had to address the issue of weight. I researched many different programs and found ChiroHCG to be very comprehensive, easy to follow, and most importantly, safe and effective.“

Dr. Strotheide also wanted to point out that the ChiroHCG Weight Loss Program is being used by many people who are not chiropractic patients and they do not need to be a chiropractic patient in order to use the ChiroHCG Weight Loss Program

The ChiroHCG Weight Loss Program is available to both patients and non-patients exclusively at Strotheide Chiropractic.

If unsure if the ChiroHCG Program is right for you, please call and schedule a no-charge, no-obligation ChiroHCG Weight Loss Program consultation.

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Over the years, Dr. Mary T. Grimm and Dr. J Daniels Lamping have acquired a passion for helping their patients lead healthier lives through diet and exercise. They are now offering their patients a new non-invasive way to lose fat and inches and feel better with Zerona, the perfect method to helping someone either jump start or complete their transformation to a healthier lifestyle. With Zerona, patients but can lose the extra fat and inches.

Dr. Grimm is a board certified OB/GYN, certified in clinical densitometry (CCD) and specializes in nutrition and weight management. She currently offers a medically monitored weight loss plan. Dr. Lamping is a board certified OB/GYN who emphasizes good nutrition, health and exercise. He currently offers Juice Plus +.

Dr. Grimm and Dr. Lamping do not give up on their patients. The do not advocate a diet, but rather a healthy lifestyle change, and the recommendation they make for their patients is what they practice every day.

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Amy Miller, M.D.

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St. Louis Skin Solutions has been in business for over 6 years helping people obtain healthy beautiful skin. A wide variety of treatments are available at St. Louis Skin Solutions including: Botox/ Dysport, dermal fillers, SmoothShapes for cellulite, laser hair removal, peels, along with treatments for rosacea, sun damage, acne, leg veins, fine lines & wrinkles, skin care and more.

The newest addition is BHRT (Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy), which can improve your skin, but also can improve muscle tone, bone density, mental clarity, and libido, along with help reduce fatigue. Dr. Miller will discuss BHRT at a Health and Wellness seminar on Tuesday, October 26 from 6-9 p.m. at The Lodge Des Peres.

Dr. Miller and her small, personal staff make everyone feel welcome and never try to sell people things they do not need. “More than 50 percent of our patients are from referrals, which says a lot about us,” Dr. Miller said. Please come meet them at their open house on Tuesday, November 2 from 4-7 p.m.

The Sheen Vein Institute was established solely for the purpose of providing those individuals suffering from varicose vein disease a facility that is capable of caring for all aspects of vein disease. Dr. Vidal Sheen, the owner and Medical Director of The Sheen Vein Institute, is a board certified vein treatment specialist focusing exclusively on the non-surgical treatment and management of varicose vein issues. Dr. Vidal Sheen, M.D., RVT, RPVI, is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and received his medical degree from the University Of Louisville School Of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency at the Barnes-Jewish hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and in Phlebology (the treatment of Varicose Vein Disease). Dr. Sheen feels that the ultimate goal should be to provide patients not just a better understanding of vein disease but also unique solutions to their individual vein issues. With the result being; legs that look better and feel better.

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Clinical Research: Why should you participate? You should participate in a clinical trial if your illness is not adequately ••controlled. You have an intolerance to current medication or side effects. ••Your current medication is not fully effective. ••You have curiosity concerning your illness and potential study medication. •• A desire to help advance medications approval process and helping as a ••public service.

Clinical research is not typically talked about during everyday conversations. It is not discussed in high school science classrooms, and it is usually only discussed in a doctor’s office when a patient has been diagnosed with an illness, for which no available treatment exists or for which available treatments are unpleasant, unsafe and ineffective.

Yet arguably, clinical research touches every person’s life regularly. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 55 percent of all Americans are taking prescription medications at the present time. Ninety percent of Americans report routinely using over-the-counter medications. The average American simply does not realize that all medicines go through clinical testing with people just like them. Without study volunteers, clinical trials cannot be conducted, and ultimately, public health advances cannot be realized.

At The Clinical Research Center, the subject’s well being and safety are the primary goals. There are multiple important respiratory trials being conducted every day at the center. Physicians are Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, as well as Certified Clinical Researchers. The center has specialized for more than 20 years in the area of respiratory illnesses, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and allergic

respiratory illness, including allergic rhinitis. “We are always looking for patients with different types of respiratory illnesses

who would like to do clinical research.” Dr. Phillip Korenblat said. “Some studies are testing medications, and some are testing devices. Patients who have any of these respiratory conditions can call us to see if there is a research study available.”

The Center has been conducting Patient Satisfaction Surveys since 2000, which have shown that subjects are highly satisfied with their experience and willing to participate in future studies.

“We have a great local volunteer database who have stated that they would consider helping us with a study but we always would like to see additional people interested in clinical research” Dr. Jeffrey Tillinghast said. “Our clinical trials are important to us, and we strive to make our subjects the most important part of what we do.”

The studies are conducted by the physician and a trained Study Coordinator, who is a Registered Nurse and they are available to subjects 24 hours a day.

Located on the beautiful Barnes Jewish West County Hospital campus, the center is easy to find, has safe, convenient parking, and flexible hours with evening studies available as well as during the day.

Overall, the center has completed more than 300 clinical trials. The clinical and research experience the doctors and nurses possess can assure patients they are in the right place. The center is hopeful that ongoing public opinion will reflect a better-informed community, greater appreciation of the value of clinical research to public health, and deeper recognition of research volunteers.

Call the center to see if you qualify for a research study, or join the database for future trials.

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Finding a skin care product to reduce fine lines, tighten and revitalize sun-damaged skin and shrink pores is as close as the dermatologist’s office.

“Many of my patients complain that there are so many products that are available over the counter and they spend so much money, but they are not sure what they are buying,” said Dr. Anne Riordan, a dermatologist for 15 years practicing at Wildwood Dermatology and who was seen on “Show Me St. Louis” and on “Great Day St. Louis.”

After five years of research and development, Dr. Riordan developed a revolutionary skin care product called Azfasst, which is specially designed to promote overall skin rejuvenation, improve texture and clarity of the skin and tighten fine lines and wrinkles.

The product can be used on all skin types and contains lactic acid, salicylic acid and green tea, which have been shown to exfoliate skin, improving its clarity and smoothness.

“Salicylic acid decreases oil and decreases pore size, and green tea has been shown to help improve sun-damaged skin,” Riordan said. Azfasst is reasonably priced and available at Wildwood Dermatology or on their website at www.asfasst.com.

16516 Manchester Road • Wildwood • 636.458.8400

Anne T. Riordan, M.D.

WildWood dermatology

Main Street Counseling is owned and operated by Cindy Eisenbeis, MSW, LCSW. The office is located in St. Peters with easy access from the Page extension and Highways 94 and 70, making it easily accessible to individuals in both St. Charles and St. Louis County. The therapists at Main Street Counseling have over thirty years of combined experience. We work with individuals of all ages and are specialized in various areas including trauma and grief counseling, relationship and couples issues, older adult issues, depression and anxiety, behavior issues, anger management, and child and adolescent issues.

The therapists at Main Street Counseling realize that when difficult experiences force people into complex situations, time, encouragement and guidance are often needed to reach the very personal decision to seek mental health services. It is the goal of Main Street Counseling to provide therapy in a respectful, sensitive and non-judgemental manner. Main Street Counseling makes it their number one priority to provide therapy that will teach skills necessary to handle life’s challenges and to provide a relaxed atmosphere where clients can heal and develop their inner strength.

1286 Jungermann Road, Suite G • St. Peters, MO 63376 (636) 498-0700 • www.mainstreetcounseling.com

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After 40-plus years in the field, Jacqueline Hartman, MA, CCC-SP/A, can handle most hearing care issues. The audiologist is a graduate of Washington University’s program at Central Institute for the Deaf and served on staff at the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center and St. John’s Mercy and on the faculty of Washington University Medical School. For nearly 30 years, she has specialized in hearing aid fitting and repair, diagnostic testing and specialty assistive hearing devices. With a full line of hearing aids, Hartman can meet most any client’s needs, regardless of their level of hearing loss or budget constraints.

Also new are hearing instruments designed to ensure the clearest speech possible even in the noisiest enviroments. Hartman founded her hearing center on the principles of personalized service, competitive pricing and up-to-date products and services. Clients always are provided with straightforward explanations about their hearing problems. “Information about hearing solutions can be confusing,” Hartman said. “You can count on us for fair and honest answers to your questions and a commitment to a successful outcome.” She has a second location, Hearing Center of Kirkwood, in Kirkwood.

15991 Manchester Road • Ellisville • 636.394.4240

Jacqueline Hartman, MA, CCC SP/A

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Dr Norman Bein dedicates his surgical practice, Vein Specialties, to the in-office treatment of vein disease. Dr. Bein has been a board-certified surgeon for more than 30 years and is a registered vascular technologist. He specializes in the medical and cosmetic treatment of varicose and spider veins that can occur on the legs, face, chest and hands. By utilizing state-of-the-art equipment and the latest laser technology, he tailors each treatment to individual symptoms, using minimally invasive procedures that result in little or no downtime. This ensures long-term and lasting results. Insurance coverage is available for medically necessary vein procedures, and Dr. Bein’s staff is dedicated to assisting with the process. Treating vein disease is not only a small part of Dr. Bein’s practice – it is his focus – and that makes a big difference to patients.

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866.626.VEIN (8346) • www.Veinspecialtiesllc.com

Dr. Norman N. Bein, MD FACS RVT

Vein SpecialtieS

“Seniors Home Care allows individuals who want the benefits of assisted living, but do not want to move out of their home, to stay in the comfort of their home and maintain their independence,” says Kit Whittington, R.N., who founded SHC to provide a support system for older adults. SHC services reassure those struggling to raise children and also provide supportive care to elderly parents. Companionship, medication reminders, transportation, shopping, light housekeeping, cooking and personal care among the many offerings. To determine an individuals needs, a SHC registered nurse conducts a detailed, complimentary assessment and creates a checklist itemizing the client’s needs. Care is provided by screened, bonded and insured SHC employees who have completed a professional training program designed by Kit. SHC services range from a 30-minute Quick VisitTM to 24-hour care seven days a week. Services are offered also to those in nursing homes, hospitals, or recovering from illness.

“My goal is for older adults to be able to live with dignity,” Kit says. “Seniors Home Care provides individuals just that, through the kindness and respect we show them.” SHC has a Better Business Bureau A+ rating and won a Torch Award in 2009.

West County 636.225.2600 • Mid County 314.962.2666 • Clayton/Ladue 314.863.2667

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Kit Whittington, R.N., B.S.N., FounderSeniorS Home Care

Laura Wagner, M.D. (formerly Dr. Laura Grady) is a Board certified dermatologist and skin care specialist who has been in practice for 17 years. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and completed her medical training at Washington University School of Medicine.

“Dermatology is a fascinating specialty,” said Dr. Wagner, who first and foremost is a medical doctor. “It provides a window into the patient’s general health. It is a component of internal medical care.”

Rather than perform cosmetic procedures, Dr. Wagner treats more complex medical conditions. “My practice is in general dermatology and skin cancer,” she said. “Patients should see me when there are changes in pre-

existing moles, sores that won’t heal, itching or new or long-standing rashes.” Dr. Wagner treats patients of all ages, from infants and young children to the elderly, and accepts Medicare assignment.

Each patient is seen personally by Wagner – never by a physician’s assistant or nurse practitioner. “I am very available to my patients,” she said.

14377 Woodlake Dr., Suite111 • Chesterfield • 314.434.1111

Laura Wagner, M.D.

Laura Wagner, Inc.

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By SUZANNE CORBETTJohnny Appleseed likely would not rec-

ognize the apples harvested today. Unlike the majority of heirloom apples Johnny sowed in the 18th century that were small and often oddly shaped, apple varieties today can range in flavor and size from sweet to tart and diminutive to gigan-tic. The Honeycrisp, Jonathan and Red Delicious have replaced the once popular Pippin, Spitzenburg and Winesap varieties.

As the apple season progresses, so do the varieties of apples being harvested, each having a unique flavor profile and texture that will define it as an eating or baking apple. A few varieties, such as the Jona-than, are considered all-purpose because of a semi-tart flavor and firm texture.

Current apple trends have placed the Honeycrisp as the most sought after eating apple, dethroning the Red Delicious, which earns high flavor marks for its rich, sweet, mellow taste. Red’s brother, the Golden Delicious with its tangy, firm flesh remains a favorite among bakers, along with the Granny Smith for apple pies.

Since surfacing a few decades ago at markets, Galas and Jonagolds have con-

tinued to grow their fan base. Galas are orange-yellow, have a pleasant sweet, crisp taste and are great for tossing in the lunch bag. Jonagolds, a cross between the Jonathan and a Golden Delicious, have an orange-red blush over a yellow skin with a sweet, subtle tartness reminiscent of vin-tage apple varieties that have been making a comeback.

An old-time favorite is the Winesap, a late-season variety requiring cooler autumn nights to ripen. It is a tart apple with an aroma some describe as wine-like. Some used to call Winesaps “good keepin’ apples,” as they could be successfully stored in the cellar throughout the winter.

No matter which apples are selected from the more than 7,500 documented varieties, proper storage is the secret to keeping apples through the season. If pur-chased in plastic bags, they should be kept in that bag and placed in the crisper sec-tion of the refrigerator. The plastic bags help retain the apples’ moisture. Just make sure the plastic bag has a few vent holes to allow the apples to breathe and the air to circulate.

Most apples keep well when stored in

cool conditions, which apple growers define as between 35 and 55 degrees. That is good to know, since after a day of apple knockin’, one might wind up with more apples than the refrigerator can hold. Large amounts can be placed in a cool garage or basement in corrugated boxes or on plastic or wooden racks. If kept a outside in the garage, they should be covered with an old blanket to safeguard them from freezing.

Finally, remember that one bad apple really can spoil the bunch. Before and during storage it is important to sort and use apples with defects immediately. Only perfect apples free of bruises and decay

should be stored for later use.Apple season is as fleeting as autumn

itself. Before the trees are picked clean, head for the orchard or farmer’s market and get your share of this year’s harvest.

Grandma Eckert’s Apple Pie(Recipe from the Eckert Family Cookbook)

6-7 cups sliced Golden Delicious applesDash of cinnamon1 cup sugar1 tablespoon flour6 tablespoons cream (optional)1 tablespoon butter, melted

Apple talkCapitalizing on this year’s crop

Pillsbury’s Topsy-Turvey Apple Pie

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2 (9-inch) unbaked piecrustsMilk, for finishing the crust

In a mixing bowl, combine apples, cin-namon, sugar, flour, cream and butter. Place one piecrust into a 9-inch pie pan and fill with apple mixture. Cover apples with the second piecrust, flute edges to seal, and prick top crust with a fork. Brush crust lightly with milk before baking at 425 degrees for 15 minutes; reduce temperature to 350 and continue baking for 45 minutes.

Makes 8servings. Baker’s note: Pie may be frozen, baked

or unbaked, for future use. Do not thaw unbaked pies before baking.

Apple Walnut Tea Bread(Recipe courtesy of Suzanne Corbett)

6 cups flour1 3/4 cups sugar2 tablespoons baking powder2 teaspoons salt2 eggs 3 cups whole milk1 1/2 cups chopped black or English wal-

nuts2 cups finely chopped apples

Mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, beat eggs with milk. Stir in dry ingredients, blending well. Mix in walnuts and apples and pour into two greased and floured loaf pans (pan size 9” x 5” x 3”). Bake at 350 degrees for 60-75 minutes.

Makes 2 large loaves or 4 small loaves.

Topsy-Turvy Apple Pie(Recipe courtesy of Pillsbury)

Glaze and Crust:1/4 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon butter, melted1 tablespoon corn syrup 1/2 cup pecan halves1 box (14.1 ounces) Pillsbury refriger-

ated piecrusts, softened as directed on boxFilling:2/3 cup sugar2 tablespoons all-purpose flour1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon4 cups sliced apples

Heat oven to 425 degrees. In 9-inch glass pie plate, mix brown sugar, butter and corn syrup. Spread evenly in bottom of pie plate. Arrange pecans over mixture. Make piecrusts as directed on box for Two-Crust Pie, placing bottom crust over mixture in pan.

In small bowl, mix granulated sugar, flour and cinnamon. Arrange half of apple slices in crust-lined pie plate. Sprinkle with half of sugar mixture. Repeat with remain-ing apple slices and sugar mixture. Top with second crust; seal edge and flute. Cut slits in several places in top crust.

Place pie on sheet of foil on middle oven rack; bake 8 minutes. Reduce oven temper-ature to 350 degrees; bake 35 to 45 minutes longer or until apples are tender and crust is golden brown. Immediately run knife around edge of pie to loosen. Place serving plate upside down over pie; turn serving plate and pie plate over. Remove pie plate. Serve warm or cool with whipped cream.

Makes 8 servings.

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; ; ;Pumpkin picking is from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily throughout October at Rombach’s

Farm and Pumpkin Patch in Chesterfield. Hayrides, pony and barrel rides, face paint-ing, a haunted house blow-up and a barbecue are featured on weekends; a free wooden maze, fort and animals are included in weekday activities. Pumpkins start at $4 each. Call 532-7265 or visit rombachsfarm.com.

; ; ;Pumpkinland is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 10

a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday throughout October at Thies Farm’s Creve Coeur Mill Road and N. Hanley Road locations. A children’s play area is featured and includes wagon rides, a corn maze and a small pumpkin. On weekends, concessions, pony rides, a craft area, face painting and more are offered for an additional fee. Pumpkins are available for purchase. Admission is $5 for children and $3.25 for adults at the Hanley location and $5.50 for children and $3.25 for adults at the Maryland Heights location. Reservations must be made in advance and are offered Tuesday through Friday only. Call (314) 428-9878 or visit thiesfarm.com.

; ; ;October Harvest is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday

through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday through October at Daniels’ Farm & Greenhouses at 352 Jungermann Road in St. Peters. Activities include a giant straw maze, farm animal petting zoo, unique fort maze, tube slide, pony express train, tire swings, pony rides on weekends, straw bales, corn stalks, Indian corn and more.

; ; ;Drip, a haunted house, is open from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Friday and Saturday and from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday (with exceptions) starting Oct. 1 near Chesterfield Airport Road and Arnage Drive in the Chesterfield Valley. Visitors are invited to tour an old farmhouse where a farmer was found murdered more than 50 years ago. Admission is $20; a $5 discount is available online. Visit fearthedrip.com.

; ; ;Fright Fest is open from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. on

Friday, 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday, and 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday throughout October at Six Flags St. Louis. Halloween attractions, kids’ crafts, a costume contests for kids aged 12 and younger, nightly shows and haunted rides are featured. For details and ticket prices, visit sixflags.com/stlouis.

; ; ;The Darkness, a re-themed attraction through a

haunted funeral home, is open throughout October, and re-opens Nov. 5-6, at 1526 S. 8th Street in the Soulard neighborhood. Tickets are $20 for adults, and $15 for children 50 inches tall or shorter. Combination tickets for The Darkness, Lemp Brewery Haunted House and Creepyworld are $50 for adults and $35 for children 50 inches tall or shorter. Hours and a $2 coupon are available online. Speed Passes are available for an additional fee. Call (314) 631-8000 or visit scarefest.com.

; ; ;Creepyworld, seven haunted attractions in one location, is

open throughout October at 1400 S. Old Hwy. 141 in Fenton. Tickets cost $20 for adults/$15 for children 50 inches tall or shorter. Combination tickets for Creepyworld, The Darkness and Lemp Brewery Haunted House are $50 for adults and $35 for chil-dren 50 inches tall or shorter. Hours and a $2 coupon are available online. Speed Passes are available for an additional fee. Call (314) 631-8000 or visit scarefest.com.

; ; ;The Lemp Brewery Haunted House, a haunted underground attraction, is open

throughout October, and re-opens Nov. 5-6, at Lemp Brewery at 3400 Lemp Ave. Tick-ets are $20 for adults/ $15 for children 50 inches tall or shorter. A combination ticket

for the Lemp Brewery Haunted House, Creepyworld and The Darkness are $50 for adults and $35 for children 50 inches tall or shorter. Hours and a $2 coupon are available online. Speed Passes are available for an additional fee. Call (314) 631-8000 or visit scarefest.com.

; ; ;A pumpkin patch is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday

and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday from Oct. 9 through Oct. 31 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church at 327 Woods Mill Road in

Manchester. A large assortment of pumpkins and gourds are avail-able for purchase. Visit goodshepherdlutheran.com.

; ; ;“Friday Night Live Halloween Edition” is from 7 p.m. to

9:30 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 15 at The Lodge Des Peres. The event is for kids aged 10-14 and features music, a spooky swim, games

and more. Tickets are $5 per person and go on sale Oct. 1. Visit desperesmo.org.

; ; ;The city of Des Peres Fall Festival is from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 16 at Des Peres Park. A bonfire, hayrides, ghost stories, blue-grass music and a showing of “Monsters Inc.”

are featured. Admission is free. Visit desperesmo.org.

; ; ;The city of Ballwin hosts a Family Hayride

from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 16 through Castlewood State Park and ending on the banks

of the Meremac River. Dinner under the stars, a bonfire and local entertainer Babaloo are featured. The

event is for those aged 3 and older. Regular admission is $12; VIP admission is $10. Call 227-8950.

; ; ;“Pumpkins in the Park,” a toddler get-together, is from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Thurs., Oct. 21 at The Pointe at

Ballwin Commons. Admission is $3 per child; parents are admitted for free. Registration is available at ballwin.mo.us or at The Pointe.

; ; ;Halloween Hoedown “Monster Mash” is from 6:30

p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 22 at the Eureka Commu-nity Center. Various interactive entertainment options are

offered. Activities include spooky-inspired crafts, ghoulish games and a costume contest, with some outdoor activi-

ties planned. Admission is one non-perishable food item per person. Children receive a special Halloween bag. Tickets are

required and must be picked up at the Eureka Parks and Recreation office beginning Fri., Oct. 1; those purchasing tickets must be able to


prove residency. If tickets remain, they will be offered to non-residents beginning Oct. 18. Call 938-6775.

; ; ;The “Booterflies” Halloween Party is

from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 23 and Sun., Oct. 24 at the Sophia M. Sachs But-terfly House at 15193 Olive Blvd. in Ches-terfield. Kids aged 3-10 and their families come in costume for a party with a not-so-scary Haunted Village, Pumpkin Patch Barn, Tiny-Bit Mad Scientist Lab, Buggy’s Halloween Party, Bugtilda the Witch’s Boarding House and plenty of party games. The cost of events is included with Butter-fly House admission of $6 for adults and $4 for children aged 3-12; younger children are admitted free of charge. Call 530-0076 or visit butterflyhouse.org.

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

to 4 p.m. on Sun., Oct. 24 at Missouri Botanical Garden at 4344 Shaw Blvd. in St. Louis. Families are encouraged to come in costume and follow a map to discover nine themed treat stations where costumed char-acters await and goodies are distributed. Admission is $5 for kids aged 3-12; adults are admitted with regular Garden admis-sion of $4to $8. Advance reservations are required by Oct. 21. Call (314) 577-9570 or visit mobot.org/membership.

; ; ;“Preschool Pumpkins,” a chance for

pre-schoolers to decorate mini pumpkins, is from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Wed., Oct. 27 and Thurs., Oct. 28 at The Carousel at Faust Park. The program is designed for

children aged 3-5 with the assistance of a parent or guardian. Kids are encouraged to come in costume. The fee is $10 per child and includes a carousel ride for the child and parent. Registration is required. Call (314) 615-8383 or visit the Carousel Gift Shop.

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; ; ;The city of Manchester Halloween Fes-

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

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• • •The “Make Your Mark” mural project

unveiling is from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Thurs., Oct. 7 at Chesterfield Arts (444 Chesterfield Center). Area students unveil their design for a 550-foot mural to be painted on the floodwall at Baxter Road and Edison Avenue in Chesterfield. Call 519-1955 or visit chesterfieldarts.org.

BENEFITSThe St. Mark Charity Scramble, a golf

tournament to benefit Circle Of Concern, is at 8 a.m. on Sat., Oct. 2 at The Land-ings at Spirit Golf Club (180 N. Eatherton Road in Chesterfield). The fee is $100 per player/$400 per foursome. Call Glen Cor-lett at 537-2348.

• • •“Moving Forward,” the fourth annual

St. Louis dystonia walk-a-thon, is at 9 a.m. on Sun., Oct. 3 at Creve Coeur Park. Proceeds benefit the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation, which funds research and promotes education to individuals and families affected by dystonia, a disorder

that robs victims of the ability to control their muscles. Call (314) 469-3243.

• • •The Men’s Club of St. Paul’s Des Peres

holds its 61st annual Roast Beef and Potato Pancake Dinner from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sun., Oct. 3 at St. Paul’s Lutheran (12345 Manchester Road in Des Peres). Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for kids; dinner is served family-style in the school or on a carryout basis. Call (314) 822-0447 or visit stpaulsdesperes.org.

• • •The St. Louis Blues 14 Fund Golf Clas-

sic is at 10 a.m. (registration opens) on Mon., Oct. 4 at The Country Club of St. Albans. The St. Louis Blues team, owners, executives, coaches and alumni join four-somes to raise money for the St. Louis Blues 14 Fund. Foursomes are available for $2,500 and include two Blues celebri-ties as the fifth and sixth players. Golfers also enjoy a Blues gift package, lunch and awards reception with silent and live auc-tions. Call (314) 589-5998 or visit stlouis-blues.com/golfclassic.

• • •A giant garage sale is from 9 a.m. to

3 p.m. on Tues., Oct. 5 and Fri., Oct. 8, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wed., Oct. 6 and Thurs., Oct. 7 and from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 9 at Community Christian Church (623 Meramec Station Road in Manchester). Call 394-2772.

• • •The 43rd annual luncheon and fashion

show to benefit the Rural Parish Workers of Christ the King opens with a boutique at 10 a.m. on Fri., Oct. 8 at the Ritz-Carlton in Clayton. Cocktails, lunch and fashions from Chesterfield Mall and West County Center also are featured. Tickets are $60 per person/$600 for a table of 10, or $120 per person/$1,200 for a St. Michael’s Club table. Call (314) 845-9472.

• • •Friends of Kids with Cancer presents a

Steely Dan tribute concert performed by Groovethang from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 8 at Kemp Auto Museum (16955 Chesterfield Airport Road). A cash bar and appetizers are featured at 6:30 p.m. Tick-ets are $35. Call (314) 275-7440 or visit friendsofkids.com.

• • •Friends of the Saint Louis University

Liver Center hold their annual “Denim & Diamonds” Gala from 6:30 p.m. to midnight on Sat., Oct. 9 at Meadowbrook Country Club in Ballwin. Actor, writer and cancer survivor Anthony Herrera is the guest speaker. A cocktail reception, dinner, live and silent auctions, live music and dancing are featured. Tickets are $200 per person. Call (314) 576-3078.

• • •The Gateway chapter of the Leukemia

& Lymphoma Society host the 24th annual

and final Diamond Ball Gala at 7 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 9 at Old Warson Country Club (9841 Old Warson Road in Ladue). Screen legend Hugh O’Brian is the honor-ary guest. Tickets are $250 per person with tables of 10 available; junior level (age 35 and younger) tickets and tables are $200 per person with tables of 10 available. Call (314) 878-0780 or visit leukemia-lymphoma.org/gat.

• • •The Midwest Knights 15U baseball team

hosts a trivia night at 7 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 9 at Trinity Lutheran Church (14088 Clay-ton Road). Tickets are $20 per person with tables of eight available. Raffles and games with prizes also are featured. Proceeds benefit the Midwest Knights. Call Jenny Pappas at 207-7789.

• • •A fashion show and dinner to benefit

Lydia’s House is at 5 p.m. on Thurs., Oct. 14 at Dream House & Tea Room (15425 Clayton Road in Ballwin). Tickets are $35 per person. For reservations, call 227-7640.

• • •The parents of Boy Scout Troop 801 in

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• • •The second annual Fall Fest at the

Barn is from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sun., Oct. 17 at The Barn at Lucerne (930 Kehrs Mill Road in Ballwin). Pony rides, magic, games for kids, live music, food and drink, artists, local and organic produce booths, an antique tractor and engine display, art-work from the Fall Fest at The Barn Young Artist Competition and a canned food drive to benefit Operation Food Search are fea-tured. Admission is free; games and pony rides require tickets. Call Nancy Pino at (314) 432-8484.

• • •A craft fair is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on

Sat., Nov. 6 and Sun., Nov. 7 at Parkway North High School (12860 Fee Fee Road). Proceeds benefit the Parkway Alumni Association. For more information or to download an application to participate as a vendor, visit parkwayalumni.org.

• • •The American Cancer Society holds

“Guessaroo Trivia Night” at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.) on Sat., Nov. 13 at the Edward Jones Corporate Office Atrium (12555 Manchester Road in Des Peres). Guests may decorate their tables and dress in costume for their favorite decade, TV show, rock band, etc. Prizes are awarded for best-decorated table/costumes and for the top team. A silent auction, raffles and entertainment also are featured. Tickets are $20 per person, $160 per table and $650 for a VIP table. Call (314) 286-8157 or visit celebaroo.org.

• • • Assistance League of St. Louis hosts “A

Jazzy Affair” Cabaret at 7 p.m. on Fri., Nov. 19 at Kemp Auto Museum (16955 Chesterfield Airport Road in Chesterfield). Vintage automobiles, a speakeasy, enter-tainment by The Benefit Blues Band and Angela Keeton, an auction, and a cocktail buffet with cash bar are featured. Admis-sion is $85 ($60 is tax-deductible) and funds remain in the St. Louis community to support philanthropic projects of the Assistance League. Call 227-6200.

FAMILY & KIDSFun Friday Puppet Shows are at 10

a.m. (doors open at 9:30 a.m.) every Friday morning from Oct. 1-Nov. 19 at the St. Louis Carousel at Faust Park. Tickets are $5 per person in advance and $6 on the day of the performance; children 12 months of age and younger are admitted free of charge. Tickets include a ride on the carou-sel. Visit the gift shop at the carousel or call (314) 615-8383.

• • •The Eureka Pacific Elks Fall Flea

Market & Craft Sale is from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 2 at the Elks Lodge (19 W. 1st Street in Eureka). Indoor and outdoor rental spots are available. For more infor-mation, e-mail [email protected].

• • •The Best of Missouri Market is from 9

a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 2 and Sun., Oct. 3 at the Missouri Botanical Garden. More than 120 Missouri food producers and arti-sans and entertainment for all ages are fea-tured. Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for those aged 65 and older and $5 for Garden members and kids aged 3-12; younger chil-dren are admitted free of charge. Call (314) 577-9400 or visit mobot.org.

• • •The fourth annual “Run for the Apples”

is at 7:30 a.m. on Sun., Oct. 10 at Congre-gation Shaare Emeth (11645 Ladue Road in Creve Coeur). A 10k and 5k course are featured, and a 1-mile family fun run starts at 8:30 a.m. Awards are presented to the top three male and female runners in different age groups. The participation fee is $20, $23 on race day. To register, visit active.com. For more information, call (314) 569-0010.

• • •The Chesterfield Alliance for Positive

Youth sponsors “Be A Positive Light,” its annual Family Forum, at 7 p.m. on Wed., Oct. 13 at the Chesterfield Government Center (690 Chesterfield Parkway West). Laura Logsdon, a local mother, addresses

bullying and harassment in schools. Regis-tration is not required. Call Valerie at 346-3651 or Rico at (314) 565-6612.

• • •A Fall Festival is from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

on Sat., Oct. 16 at Des Peres Park (12325 Manchester Road). A bonfire, hayrides, ghost stories, bluegrass music, a showing of the movie “Monsters Inc.” and conces-sions are featured. Admission is free. Visit desperesmo.org.

HOME IMPROVE-MENT & DÉCOR

A Holiday Open House & House Tour is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 1 and Sat., Oct. 2 at Imogene’s Tea Room, Botan-icals and Home Décor (16635 Old Ches-terfield Road in Chesterfield). Shuttles run from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. to the owner’s home, which is decked out for Christmas. Call 733-0077.

• • •The 30th annual Home Builders Asso-

ciation of St. Louis and Eastern Missouri Home & Remodeling Show is from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 1 and Sat., Oct. 2 and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sun., Oct. 3 at the St. Charles Convention Center. More than 200 companies exhibit prod-ucts and services in 300 booths. A seminar by Matt Fox and Shari Hill of HGTV’s “Room by Room,” the Mills Apple Festi-val, the Habitat for Humanity St. Charles ReStore building products warehouse sale,

and the Walter Knoll Holiday Floral Stage are among the featured attractions. Admis-sion and parking are free. For details, visit stlhomeshow.com.

• • •“Holiday Décor,” an “Entertaining Eve-

nings” event, is from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Wed., Nov. 3 at Mary Tuttle’s (17021 Baxter Road in Chesterfield). A demon-stration and refreshments are featured. For reservations, call 728-0480.

LIVE PERFORMANCESThe Ellisville Farmer’s Market features

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An outdoor antique show featuring 28 quality antique dealers is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 2 at Old House in Hog Hollow (14319 Olive Blvd. in Ches-terfield). Call (314) 469-1019 or visit old-houseinhoghollow.com.

• • •Trailnet hosts Ride the Rivers Century,

a bicycle ride featuring a 100-mile route, two ferry rides, views of the River Ring, and food, at 6:30 a.m. (registration begins) on Sun., Oct. 10 starting and ending at Ameristar Casino in St. Charles. The cost is $45 for those pre-registering by Sept. 30 and $55 on the day of the event. Call (314) 416-9930, ext. 114, or visit trailnet.org/century.php.

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The Animal Protective Association of Missouri hosts its 20th annual Canine Carnival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sun., Oct. 3 at Tilles Park in Ladue. Games and contests for dogs, children’s activities, vendor booths and a Pooch Parade are featured. Other highlights include Purina Incredible Dog Team performances, a game for cat lovers, pets available for adoption, and carnival food.

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CONCERTSStraight No Chaser, Sept. 29, The Pag-eantLady Antebellum, Sept. 30, The Fox The-atre“Rhapsody in Blue,” Oct. 1 & 3, Powell Symphony HallGlenn Miller Orchestra, Oct. 2, Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center“An Evening with Renee Fleming,” Oct. 2, Powell Symphony HallVampire Weekend, Oct. 3, Chaifetz ArenaKansas, Oct. 9, The Family ArenaDrake, Oct. 12, The Fox TheatreMary J. Blige, Oct. 16, The Fox TheatreBob Dylan, Oct. 21, Chaifetz ArenaJe’ Caryous Johnson with Brian McK-night and Vivica A. Fox, Oct. 23, Chaifetz Arena“Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho,’” Oct. 29-30, Powell Symphony Hall

John Mellencamp, Nov. 6, The Fox The-atreBarenaked Ladies, Nov. 7, The PageantJustin Bieber, Nov. 8, Scottrade CenterLifehouse, Nov. 9, The PageantIron and Wine, Nov. 13, The PageantUsher, Nov. 26, Scottrade Center

CONVERSATIONCarol Burnett, Nov. 5, The Fox Theatre

CULINARYAnthony Bourdain, Oct. 1, The Fox The-atreTaste of St. Louis, Oct. 1-3, Soldiers’ Memorial - F

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“High,” Oct. 13-Nov. 7, Loretto-Hilton CenterRingling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s “FUNundrum,” Oct. 14-17, Scottrade Center“America’s Got Talent Live” Oct. 21, The Fox Theatre“The Chosen,” Oct. 22-Nov. 7, Mustard Seed Theatre“South Pacific,” Nov. 9-21, The Fox The-atre

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Glenn Miller Orchestra performs its mid-1900s swing on Oct. 2 at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.

Drake performs on Oct. 12 at The Fox Theatre.

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By SARAH WILSONWine connoisseurs no longer have to leave the state or

travel to the middle of nowhere to enjoy delectable wine and a peaceful, relaxing atmosphere.

Barbara Gillick first opened the Eureka Wine House with her husband, Charles Gillick, in 2008 after retiring from styling hair for 44 years. The couple already owned the building, and after months of brainstorming and plan-ning, the one-time office space was transformed into an oasis of comfort.

The scenic, outdoor area is what attracts many of Eureka Wine House’s customers, who are invited to sit out on Eureka’s only grape-colored patio and relish more than 120 different kinds of wines, including selections from around Missouri. Others are imported from countries such as Italy, Spain, France, and Argentina. Wine is available by the glass, bottle or case, and bottles are sold to take home, ranging in price from $15 to $75. Some of the most popular local wines are Claverach, from Eureka, Chau-mette, from Ste. Genevieve, Robller, from New Haven, and Westphalia, from Osage County. The Westphalia is

sulfite-free, so people who are allergic to or tend to get headaches from wine are in luck.

Other available beverages include beer, water and mixed drinks.

The staff at Eureka Wine House is adamant about not driving under the influence, so they always encourage customers to take a cab home and leave their car there when necessary.

“People don’t have to travel far to enjoy a lot of the good Missouri wines,” Barbara Gillick said. “People just enjoy sitting outside and enjoy their friends or family.”

Plenty of food is available to enjoy with the wine as well, including sausage, cheese, chips, crackers, and gourmet fudge. Customers also are invited to bring their own food or have food delivered to them from nearby restaurants while they sit outside. Free Wi-Fi also is available. Dogs are welcome outside on the deck as well – anything to put a smile on the customer’s face. However, one of the few rules: bringing in drinks from elsewhere is prohibited.

“You’re only a stranger once,” Gillick said. “I get more ‘thanks for having us’ than I ever heard before. People feel like they’ve been offered this place.”

Every Friday and Saturday night, live bands liven up the scene and play tunes from rock to oldies to country.

“Once in awhile, we get people who just want to jam on other nights of the week, too, when the weather is nice,” Gillick said.

Customers also can book events at the Eureka Wine House – the perfect site to host birthday parties, wedding showers and bachelorette parties.

“People keep coming back because we have a great arrangement of wines, and dinner doesn’t seem to cost them an arm and leg,” Gillick said. “It seems like we’ve been getting customers from all over. They all just seem to say it’s a lot more fun.”

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Home Improvement

IMPROVING St Louis Homes Since 1998

S&R Construction Basement Finishing, Custom

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Concrete & many other quality improvements!

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Help Wanted

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Help Wanted

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LandscapersKnowledge, care, & instal-lation of plants, lawn care,

use of large mower & power equipment, valid drivers license, drive trucks with

trailers, seasonal full-time, all types weather. (EEOC Employer)

Call Mike: 314-220-0400

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current pets of their own.Call 314-600-2044

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20 Years Experience

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PROFESSIONAL REMODELINGHONEST WORK

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Carpentry, Cabinets, Walls Baths, Painting, Repairs

Whole House Remodeling OWNER ON THE JOB

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Attention

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rearranging existing furntutrre, adding acces-sories or new mouldings!Over 25 years experience.Call 314-283-1760

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Home Improvement

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• Fall Aeration • Overseeding• Fertilization

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• Lawn Care(New Customer Discounts!)

Val ley Landscape Co. M o w i n g , l e a f r e m o v a l , mulch ing, tree & brush remov-al, stump removal, trimming, planting, garden tilling, and gut-ter cleaning! (636) 458-8234

•Lawn Mowing & Fertilization •Retaining Walls &

Paver Patios•Landscape Design & Installation

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fertilizing, de-thatching, aerating, mulching, edging, pruning, weed treatmentsErosion/drainage control.Creative landscape plans, patios, plant installations,

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Autullo Masonry Inc. Brick and stone contractor. 32 yrs in business in St.Louis. Our reputation is built on quality and service for all your mason-ry needs. Paving, sidewalks, patios, walls, fireplaces in-door and outdoor, fire pits and tuck pointing. Free Estimates. Insured. Call 636-394-5543

Masonry

MILBOURN TUCKPOINTING

Chimneys, Walls, Spot & Solid Waterproofing, Caulking

Do Own Work • No Job Too Small Licensed & Insured 38 years in business

Free estimate 10% senior discount Credit cards accepted314-484-1548Piano Lessons

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PrayersNovena

To The Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see every-thing and show me the way to reach my ideals. Give me the divine gift to forgive and forget them all who have done wrong to me. I, in short dialogue, want to thank you in everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no mat-ter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my beloved one in our perpetual glory. Thanks for favors. Pray this prayer for three consecutive days without asking for wish. After third day, wish will be granted no matter how difficult. Promise to publish this dialogue as soon as your favor has been granted. T.S.

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W E S T c l a S S i f i E d S

Plumbing Services

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Pet Services

Yucko’sPOOP SCOOP’N SERVICE314-770-1500

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Interior and Exterior PaintingPower Washing • Window Washing

Gutter Cleaningwww.painting-pros.com

636-527-2501

West County Pet Care. Pet Sitting & Dog Walking. We take care of Pets in your home where Pets prefer. Daily, Weekly Rates. Insured 636-394-6852 314-401-5516

I LOVE TO PAINT!!!Professional PaintingPaints, Glazes & MoreCabinetry & Furniture Too!

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concrete staining. Design consultation. Insured. Refer-ences. FREE ESTIMATES

314-397-3868

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Riverside PaintingResidential Interior

and Exterior Painting. Insured.

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Painting Services

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Call Ron 636-527-0176

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Full service grooming in your home... Reasonable ratesFree consultation

All services available Keep your pets stress-free

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Play Sets • GazebosWork Guaranteed!

10% OFFplease mention ad at estimate

16 Years ExperienceReferences • Free Estimates

314-452-2204

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314-852-5467314-846-6499

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any reasonable Estimate!

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Call Mike Today

For Your Free Bid!

314.378.9064

Attention

HomeownersFor All Those Who

Need Interior Painting...Who Were Looking ForA Better Price & Deal...

The Wait Is Over!

For All Your InteriorPainting Projects...It's

“Let The Paint Flo!”

Call Flo TodayFor Your Free Bid

636.485.2647

“Let The Paint Flo” Is A Division Of

Dirt Cheap Power Wash

So You Have To Know The Price

Is Going To Be Dirt Cheap!!!

ABSOLUTE PERFECTIONPainting CompanyEstablished 1984

Comprehensive painting, staining, papering & finishing services. Interior/ Exterior.

Residential/ CommercialJack Bokern, Owner

314-962-5025

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(314) 518-4900

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Affordable Plumbing Repairs and bathroom remodeling. Call Craig 636-458-1161 or 314-614-4840

Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

City of Clarkson Valley, Missouri

Notice is hereby given:

That the Clarkson Valley Board of Aldermen, will at 8:00

p.m. on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at the Fru-Con Center, 15933 Clayton Road, hold a public hearing to discuss a

request from Lee and Associ-ates for a special use permit to locate a lease sign in the “C” office district for the Fru-Con

building known as 15933 Clayton Road.

Scott Douglass, MayorCity of Clarkson Valley

Tuckpointing

MILBOURN TUCKPOINTING

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Do Own Work • No Job Too Small Licensed & Insured 38 years in business

Free estimate 10% senior discount Credit cards accepted

314-484-1548Wanted To Buy

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Roofing Services

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Earthbound RecyclingBuying 1 to 2,000lbs. of

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BaptismsFull Service MinistryNon-Denomination

(314) 703-7456

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636-346-5433

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16304 Sunset Pointe Court ~ Wildwood This exquisite display worthy 4 bed-room, 2.5 bath, 2 story home offers stunning exotic African cherry wood flooring! For a free 24 hour re corded message regarding this property, please call 1-800-628-1775 ext 1406!

Sandy Trenz GRI, ABR, CRS CDPE

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244 Hill Top Dr. Labadie

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632 Tucker Hill Ln.Gray Summit

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18558 Great Meadow Dr.Wildwood • $1,100,000

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12905 Mason Manor Rd.Creve Coeur • $394,000

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16021 Kerryton Place Dr.Wildwood • $248,000

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1572 Fountainhead Ln.Spanish Lake • $385,000

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14350 Lake Tahoe Dr.Chesterfield • $199,900

Updated 3BR 2BA beauty! Brick & vinyl ext! Pro landscaping! New Quarry tile flooring! New neutral carpeting! New white cabs, upgr kit appl! Fireplace! W/O to screened-in porch & sweeping bkyd! Stroll to lake w/fountains!

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16642 Highland Summit Dr. Wildwood • $399,900

STUNNING Vaulted ATRIUM ranch w/Hearthroom, Updated Gourmet Kit., HUGE Fin. Lower w/Rec Rm, Exercise Rm, 2 Bd,& Fam Rm! Screen Porch, Patio, Deck & More! Call Stephanie Thompson 314-479-4555

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105 Royal Gate Dr.- Creve Coeur - $450,000Pristine ranch in great location! Almost an acre of level yard, possibly 4 BDs on main level, updated throughout! Must see!

Big enough to provide excellent service... Small enough to care!

1734 Blue Oak Dr. - Chesterfield - $179,900 2BD/3.5 BA Condo in premium location. Fin.basement with full bath,gas fireplace,end unit,complex pool.

906 Palmer Ct – Lake St. Louis - $214,900 Carefree lifestyle ranch condo on beautiful 15th green of Lake Forest Country Club! Finished LL, updates everywhere.

44 W. Oak Hill Dr.- Ellisville- $284,900Completely remodeled, over half acre land! Updated kit, new carpet, flr to ceiling brick frpl in FR, 3 updated FULL baths! Whlchr accessible.

305 Remington Way Dr. – Ballwin $440,000Pristine “like new” one owner 2sty in Remington Place! First class upgrades, huge mstr ste, bonus rm. Over 3600 sqft!

684 Rustic Valley Dr. - Ballwin - $155,000 Great ranch with lots of potential! Finished lower level, large master bedroom, 2 full baths.

1445 Whispering Creek Dr. –Ballwin - $115,000Prime location, maintenance free condo with pool and clubhouse! 2BD, 2 full baths, and great view from deck!

338 Bellestri Dr. – Ballwin - $210,0005 bds & 3 baths! Updated kit, bay window, sunroom, wet bar, patio & lrg fenced bkyd! Grt nbrhd & Pkwy schools.

249 Vistaoak Ct. – Ballwin - $190,000Pottery Barn Decor, Awesome Updates, Finished LL, Private, Fenced yard.

1722 Smizer Station - Fenton - $189,900Huge 2 story updated property on over an acre! Possible commercial zoning, great investmetn!

12529 Robinview Ct. – Creve Coeur $310,0004BD/2.5 BA on Creve Coeur cul-de-sac! Vaulted ceil-ings, updated kitchen, large grt rm and rear deck!.

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2942 eAgle Point dr - Wentzville Spectacular Atrium Ranch home! Approx. 4,600 sq ft 5 bed, 5 bath on 3 acres. Just minutes off Hwy 40/61Scott Peterson (314) 503-6457

2818 S. Point PrAirie • defiAnceEstate w/ 2 homes & 2 story horse barn on approx 16 acres. 4 Bed 2 1/2 bath 1 1/2 story & 2nd home 4 bed 4 bath ranch. Cathy Shaw-Connely / Tom Shaw, Jr

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1009 SAvonne ct - cheSterfieldWOW! 1 ½ story on 1 acre, 5 bed, 5 ½ bath, Media room, heated pool and stone patio Cathy Shaw- Connely (636)346-4960

232 lArimore vAlley - cheSterfield Priced to sell! Beautiful updated Atrium Ranch! 3.45 scenic acres, 4 bed 3 12 bath, 4 car garage & 5 fireplacesCathy Shaw-Connely (636) 346-4960

18061 Wild horSe creek rd - cheSterfield A MUST SEE --over 12,000 sq ft, 1 ½ story home on approx. 7 acres overlooking St. Charles River Bluffs, 11 car garageCathy Shaw- Connely (636)346-4960

9708 Avondale - Beautiful 4 bed 1/2 story home on 3+/- acres for lease or sale. Cathy Shaw-Connely (636) 346-4960 / Tom Shaw, Jr (314) 283-5064tuscany ridge - 3 acre level lots. Beautiful lots in the heart of Wildwood. Cathy Shaw-Connely (636)346-4960 / Barb Lawless (314) 662-25544325 fox creek rd - One of a Kind Executive 1 1/2 story home on approx. 20+/- acres, 5 bed, 7 bath, 8 car garage. Cathy Shaw-Connely (636) 346-4960 / Tom Shaw, Jr (314) 283-50642523 maple crossing dr. - Updated, Clean-as-a-whistle, 3 bed, 2 ½ bath, finished lower level.Cathy Shaw- Connely (636)346-46902041 desloge estates rd. - Beautiful southern style plantation, remodeled home on 14 +/- acres. 5 bed 3 1/2 bath with guest house. A must see! Cathy Shaw-Connely (636) 346-4960 Chip Dewitt (314)503-36194750 hwy d - Great Horse farm on 27.62+/- acres w/ a 6 stall horse barn, plenty of pasture and in-ground pool. 5 bed 4 1/2 bath Ranch style home. Cathy Shaw-Connely (636) 346-4960 / Tom Shaw, Jr (314) 283-506411=/- acres w/ lake - 4734 Fox creek Rd in the heart of wildwood, Trail access to Rockwood & Greens-felder. Scott Peterson (314) 503-6457$10, 000 per acre - 81 acres available in Wentzville. Scott Peterson (314) 503-6457

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3801 TAMARAWILDWOOD Gorgeous ranch home on 10acres in Wildwood. Features an updatedkitchen, inground pool, $449,900

2208 DARTMOUTH GATE CIRWILDWOOD 1.5 Story on lovely level lot. 2sty great rm, updated kitchen w/granite &wood flrs, main flr master ste. $449,900

1 MONARCH TRACE #308CHESTERFIELD Beautifully appointed vault-ed great rm, fabulous kitchen, ceramictile flr & back splash, 42” cabs. $199,900

961 SHEFFIELD FOREST CTWILDWOOD Simply the best! Stunning,completely renovated 4BR, 5ba, 1.5 styhome. Extensive millwork. $624,900

16860 CHESTERFIELD BLUFFS CIRCHESTERFIELD Updated 1.5 Story inChesterfield Bluffs. Wood flrs throught,updated kit w/corian counters. $380,000

8 CONWAY SPRINGS DRCHESTERFIELD Classic, all-brick 2-story,4BR/2.5ba, over 1 acre - level, perfect forpool! Major makeover . $420,000

441 LONDONDARYBALLWIN Great ranch with 3BR, 3 fullbaths, wood flrs, updated kitchen, fin LLrec room, inground pool . $300,000

2726 WYNNCREST MANORWILDWOOD Beautiful 5BR/3.5+ bath 2 styhome on large level yard, back to trees.Fabulous gourmet kitchen. $700,000

2019 KEHRS MILL RDCLARKSON VALLEYCustom 1.5 sty tuckedaway. 2 sty great rm, main flr masterste, fabulous kitchen w/granite. $649,900

213 GRAND BANKS (CHESTERFIELD)Come see this gracious 4BR, 3ba villa inelegant Baywood Village. $325,00012 GREENBANK (CHESTERFIELD)Forest Hills Country Club! Sprawling3BR, 3.5ba ranch. $325,0001210 CREVE COEUR CROSSING LN #1(CHESTERFIELD) 2BR, 2ba top floorvaulted ceiling condo. $115,00016643 STERLING POINTE CT (CLARK-SON VALLEY) Custom 1.5 sty, gorgeousinground pool, 2 sty great rm. $890,000214 FOX CHAPEL (CLARKSON VALLEY)Beautifully appointed 1.5sty home inForest Hills Country Club. $739,00025 LADUE MEADOWS (CREVE COEUR)Spacious ranch, perfect for entertaining!Private, wooded 1 acre lot. $469,0001594 TERRA VISTA (CREVE COEUR)Gorgeous former display with all the bellsand whistles. Gourmet kitchen. $350,000652 #201 EMERSON RD (CREVE COEUR)New construction! 1BR/1ba. Granite,stainless, wood flrs. $164,000578 SARAH LN #106 (CREVE COEUR)Updated 2BR, 2bath w/remodeledkitchen & view of golf course. $149,9003168 AUTUMN TRACE (MARYLANDHTS) Backs to the lake. Great views.2BR, 2.5 bath ranch condo. $145,0002313 CHARLEMAGNE (MARYLANDHTS) Nice townhouse offers 2BR,1.5ba,liv rm, kit/din LL fam rm. $124,0001865 SEVEN PINES (ST LOUIS) Tradi-tional 3BR, 2bath ranch with lg liv rm &adjoining dining rm, wood flrs. $209,900124 CRESCENT BLUFF DR (ST LOUISCO) 3800 sq ft of perfection on 3.4 acrewooded lot. 4BR, 4.5ba home. $599,9996205 CLIFTON AVE (ST LOUIS HILLS)St Louis Hills 3BR/2ba ranch has LR,DR, fam rm, eat-in kit, sunrm. $244,90012824 PORTULACA #D (STLOUISUNINC) 2BR, 2ba condo. Freshly painted– newer carpet, AC, & furnace. $74,900

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688 HUNTLEY HEIGHTS (BALLWIN)Contemporary, emaculate 2sty. Loft-4BR.Large eat-in kitchen, wood flrs. $339,9001313 RUSTICVIEW DR (BALLWIN)Spacious 3BR/2ba home in convenientsubd. Updated kitchen/baths. $259,900825 WOODSIDE TRAILS DR (BALLWIN)Great ranch villa, 3BR, 3 full baths. Greatrm w/FP. Updated eat-in kitch. $205,000412 GREAT HILL (BALLWIN) Charming,updated 1.5 sty. Maple cabinets, bay win-dow, skylights, fabulous patio. $155,000754 WOODSIDE TRAILS DR #101 (BALL-WIN) Affordable living in this gardencondo. 2BR and 2 full baths. $127,500423 BUSH (BALLWIN) Brick & vinylexterior with large, level & fenced back-yard in Rockwood Schools! $119,750161 CUMBERLAND PARK CT #G(BALLWIN) Absolutely stunning 3BR,2ba condo in West County! $116,5001028 KEHRS MILL RD #2 (BALLWIN)Updated garden condo in building w/ele-vator. 2BR, 2 updated baths. $115,000759 WINDY RIDGE DR (BALLWIN)Great Treetop Condo! Vaulted ceilings!Fabulous view of park-like setting.$110,000711 LOFTY POINT (BALLWIN) SpaciousTreetop condo with newer deck overlook-ing trees. Large master suite. $104,700998 TARA OAKS DR (CHESTERFIELD)Custom 2sty,former display, great lot,inground pool, gourmet kitchen. $725,0001838 ELMSFORD LN (CHESTERFIELD)Beautifully appointed 2 sty w/ingrnd pool.Lovely wood flrs on main level. $644,500899 A HOG HOLLOW (CHESTERFIELD)17 acre lot, currently being used for cropgrowth. Level lot. $561,00017119 SURREY VIEW DR (CHESTER-FIELD) Pristine ranch, 4BR,3.5ba, 2 FP,3 car garage, level lot. $549,9002206 TWIN ESTATES CIR (CHESTER-FIELD) Fabulous 2 sty home with 4BR,2.5 baths and a 3 car garage. $464,900

9367 CADDYSHACK LN (SUNSETHILLS) Stunning 1.5 story with 4+BR,4.5ba in Tapawingo! Large LR. $695,00012911 CEDARLEDGE CT (UNINC STLOUIS) Open flrplan ranch w/3BR, 2.5baon main. Low maintenance siding.$214,90012947 MIDFIELD TERRACE (UNINC STLOUIS CO) Beautiful home, vaulted greatroom, separate dining room. $199,9002119 SADDLE CREEK RIDGE (WILD-WOOD) Stunning 1.5 sty, private lot,gourmet kitchen, granite. $1,250,000849 STONE BRIDGE SPRINGS DR(WILDWOOD) Custom 1.5sty, 3 acres,lovely views, 2sty great rm. $799,00016236 WYNNCREST RIDGE CT (WILD-WOOD) Stunning 2 story atrium homewith 4 BR + bonus room. $674,0001418 RIDGETREE TRAILS (WILD-WOOD) Custom 2 story on gorgeoustreed 1.5+ ac lot. Circle drive. $624,900841 STONE BRIDGE SPRINGS (WILD-WOOD) Stunning atrium ranch sitting on3 wood acres. 4BR, 3.5ba. $549,9001651 WILDHORSE PKWY DR (WILD-WOOD) Atrium ranch on cul-de-sac lot,back to trees. Vaulted great rm. $525,00017517 SUMMIT VIEW PLACE RIDGE(WILDWOOD) Gorgeous 1.5 sty, 3.22 acbacks to Rockwood Preserve. $450,0002011 WAKEFIELD FARM RD (WILD-WOOD) A horse lover's dream! 4BR,3.5ba ranch w/fin W/O LL. $399,90017147 CAMBURY (WILDWOOD) Newertownhome, 2BR, 3.5ba, 2 car gar. Tallceilings, wood flrs, SS appls. $224,900335 OAK PARK VILLAGE DR (WILD-WOOD) 3BR ranch, vauted great rm, FP,kitchen with black appliance $215,000123 IMPERIAL CROWN WAY #J(WILDWOOD) Updated garden condo,2BR, 2ba, one carport space. $115,000133 JUBILEE HILL #A (WILDWOOD)Move-in ready garden condo. 2BR, 2 fullbths. Eat-in kit, all appliances. $105,500

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17360 Cougar TrailsWildwood$597,822

24 Forest ClubChesterfield

$550,000

748 Cedar Field CtTown and Country

$475,000

11984 Moorland Manor CtWest County

$459,900

6906 Pershing AvenueUniversity City

$385,000

1133 Pond Rd Wildwood $1,999,9991233 Takara Ct Town & Country $800,000525 Conway Village Town & Country $749,000122 Summit Ave Webster Groves $639,900154 Carriage Square Creve Coeur $625,00012900 Thornhill Dr Town & Country $475,00010044 Briarwood Dr Ladue $409,000

14630 Hunters Point Chesterfield $324,9002815 Barvilla Ballwin $279,9001541 La Dina Ellisville $249,9002701 Wood Eagles St. Charles $242,900501 Audubon Village Spur Wildwood $240,000813 Payson Dr Olivette $220,0001216 N 5th St St. Charles $209,000

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1310 Laven Del Ln Kirkwood $199,900336 Providence Ballwin $199,0008056 Davis Dr #1S Clayton $185,0008615 Glenwood Crestwood $184,9007611 Suffolk Shrewsbury $164,900109 Meadow Ridge St. Peters $162,00012132 Old St. Charles Rd Bridgeton $159,9001152 Toreador Chesterfield $159,9005 Monarch Trace Ct #103 Chesterfield $159,90015593 Bedford Forge Dr #19 Chesterfield $149,90012183 McKelvey Plc Bridgeton $129,9008536 Old Bonhomme University City $119,000

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$328,000

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$258,900

325 Baxter RdBallwin

$229,900

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$219,000

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$200,000

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