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The LUXURY COLLECTION of

Alliance Real Estate

79 York Drive | Brentwood | $1,575,000

1600 Kehrs Mill Road

Chesterfield | $1,695,000

1022 Hampton Park Drive Richmond Heights | $997,500

2150 Riding Trail Drive Chesterfield | $819,900

27 Crestwood Drive Clayton | $1,450,000

16763 Eagle Bluff Court Chesterfield | $1,299,900

3615 Gustave Hollow

19215 E Point Lane

Wildwood | $899,900

Wildwood | $885,000

16182 Wilson Manor Drive

19139 Hardt Road

Chesterfield | $775,000

1115 Scenic Ridge Drive Eureka | $1,190,000

Chesterfield | $1,039,999

1418 Sycamore Lake Drive 17934 Homestead Bluffs Dr

Wildwood | $749,900

A CAREER THAT WORKS FOR YOU.

2102 Kehrspoint Drive

Foristell | $875,000

Wildwood | $839,900

18502 Red Tail

1004 Carriage House Court

Wildwood | $739,900

IN JUST 30 MINUTES, CINDY CAN SHOW YOU WHAT A DIFFERENCE WE CAN MAKE IN YOUR LIFE. GIVE HER A CALL!

Visit www.stlopens.com to view weekend open houses

Festus | $509,000

SET YOUR GOALS.

PICK YOUR HOURS. THE ULTIMATE WORK/LIFE BALANCE.

314-809-1009 www.bhhsall.com 8077 Maryland Avenue | Clayton | 314-997-7600 17050 Baxter Road #200 | Chesterfield | 636-537-0300

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1510 Homestead Summit Drive 16121 Walnut Hill Farm Drive Wildwood | $999,900

1447 Fawnvalley Drive | Des Peres | $925,000

Meticulously maintained and updated home in popular Des Peres neighborhood. Features include wood finishes and flooring, light-filled gourmet kitchen, and master bedroom suite.

Chesterfield | $1,150,000

16950 Lewis Spring Farms Road Wildwood | $899,000

18127 Melrose

Wildwood | $879,000

Maria Elias

Patershuk Partners

C: 314-971-4346 O: 314-872-6721 www.HomesWithMaria.com

Diane Patershuk: 314-477-7673 Rod Patershuk: 314-477-7674 www.PatershukPartners.com

409 Berkley Place Court | Olivette | $1,049,000

Stunning home located in desirable neighborhood with mature trees. Features include beautiful millwork throughout, living room with Palladian windows, gourmet kitchen & private level yard.

662 Westledge Court | Des Peres | $799,000

Wonderful opportunity to own a 1.5 story custom home in desirable Bright Heights community! Features include 2 story foyer and great room, open floor plan, and main floor master with luxury bath.

Visit www.stlopens.com to view weekend open houses

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GATHERINGS & GOODWILL

Arts & Culture Feature:

“STRIKING POWER” EXHIBITION

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In a grandly sprawling exhibition, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation displays desecrated ancient Egyptian artifacts under the oversight of associate curator Stephanie Weissberg, as detailed by Bryan A. Hollerbach, LN copy editor and staff writer.

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2019 CHARITY AWARDS

LN showcases the six worthy finalists in this year’s Charity Awards, as described by regulars Connie Miller and Brittany Nay: Aim High St. Louis, Caring Solutions, Good Shepherd School for Children, Marygrove, Missouri Veterans Endeavor and Safe Connections.

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Craft Alliance Center of Art + Design

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Winter Opera St. Louis Gateway Children’s Charity Safe Connections Upcoming Gatherings

ABODE 42 44 47

The Trio Inside Design Feature: Jessie D. Miller Interior Design

STYLE 66 67 68

On Trend Style Speak Feature: Honey Door Co.

Abode Feature:

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JESSIE D. MILLER INTERIOR DESIGN

LN’s Brittany Nay – one busy lady this week! – chats with Jessie Miller of Jessie D. Miller Interior Design about reimagining a bedroom suite in a special way for a special young lady named Caili. (Wait till you see the hanging bubble chair!)

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At Stash Home, luxury home goods are within reach at reasonable pricing. Better yet, this retailer promises exclusive furniture pieces you will find only in magazines. Flip to page 12, and elevate your home’s style as you celebrate this family-owned business’ ninth successful year. Photo courtesy of Stash Home.

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Game ON! Kids MD Feature: We The People Crossword Puzzle

ARTS & CULTURE 86 88 90 91

Dinner & A Show Around Town Art and Soul Feature: “Striking Power” Exhibition

Celebrating 15 Years of Excellence

“My primary mission is to assist our residents in living a healthier, more fulfilled life.”

DR. DAVID CARR

MEDICAL DIRECTOR

We Won’t Settle for Less Than the Best.

And Neither Should You.

You want your loved one to get the best memory care available.

We know how you feel. That’s why memory care is the primary focus in our assisted living and skilled nursing community. Our Medical Director, Dr. David B. Carr, is a leading specialist in Alzheimer’s disease and geriatric medicine at Washington University. His expertise influences everything we do.

Together, we help our residents make the best of every day – just another reason why

Parc Provence is leading the way in memory care.

To learn more, call

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EDITOR ‌I HATE TO PLAY FAVORITES, BUT THIS EDITION OF LADUE NEWS could potentially be my favorite to date. In the following pages, you’ll see the stunning space (designed by Jessie Miller of Jessie D. Miller Interior Design) of an area teenager who is homebound due to a rare medical condition. Miller’s design is thoughtful, whimsical and breathtaking. In another story, you’ll meet the masterminds behind the carefully curated Honey Door Co., which will make showering those you love with gifts that much easier. And you’ll also have the opportunity to meet our 2019 Ladue News Charity Awards finalists – Aim High St. Louis, Caring Solutions, Good Shephard School for Children, Marygrove, Missouri Veterans Endeavor and Safe Connections. All six of these inspiring winners are striving to make our community a better place to live. Sharing their stories fills my heart with joy, and I hope it does the same for you, too.

All the best,

Alecia Humphreys

Editor’s Corner The St. Louis REALTORS

Congratulations to Sneakers with Soul (SWS) – a

Commercial Division

nonprofit that provides new sneakers and athletic shoes

was recently recognized by

for children and youth in need – for being awarded a

the National Association

$14,000 grant from the Spirit of St. Louis Women’s Fund

of REALTORS with a

to further its mission. Since its inception in 2010, SWS

5-Star accreditation,

has placed more than 15,000 pairs of new sneakers on

which is its highest

the feet of children living in the greater St. Louis area.

honor. According to a press release, St. Louis REALTORS is the voice of more than 8,000 Realtors in the greater St. Louis area and provides valuable tools to real estate professionals, successfully advocates for private property rights and unites Realtors in community projects.

St. Louis REALTORS Commercial Division (STLR) President Carl Day, Director of Commercial Services Margo Colestock, a National Association of REALTORS representative, and STLR CEO Dan Sale.

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17198 LAFAYETTE TRAILS DRIVE IN WILDWOOD

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1120 Kodiak Ridge Court l NEW LISTING Warrenton | $594,500

278 Merlot Lane l NEW LISTING St. Albans | $645,000

29 West Brentmoor Park | NEW LISTING Clayton | $4,195,000

1725 S. McKnight Road | NEW LISTING Ladue | $599,000

NEW LISTINGS 29 WEST BRENTMOOR PARK, Clayton. Classic Brentmoor Park estate, ar�ully recreated and refined, to an extravagant level. Excep�onal lush grounds in a tropical theme. $4,195,000 68 ABERDEEN PLACE, Clayton. Updated beauty in popular Hillcrest. Updated kitchen and baths, hardwood floors throughout. Finished basement. $949,900. Open 6/9, 1-3 PM 12359 IRONSTONE ROAD, Des Peres. Berkley Manor Gem! Well loved and maintained 4 bedroom, 2.5 baths home with hardwood floorson a great lot. $695,000. Open 6/9, 1-3 PM 8025 MARYLAND AVENUE, UNIT 7D, Clayton. This sophis�cated 2 bed, 2 bath unit offers open light filled spaces and beau�ful views of Clayton! $675,000 278 MERLOT LANE, St. Albans. Impeccably maintained with amazing panoramic view of the Studio and hillside beyond. A custom design/built St. Albans Construc�on. $645,000 1725 SOUTH MCKNIGHT ROAD, Ladue. Charming 2 story English style home on .95 acre level lot with over 2600 square feet of living space. 3 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. $599,000 1120 KODIAK RIDGE COURT, Warrenton. Wonderful 16 year old 5 bedroom custom home on wooded lot overlooking private lake. Finished lower level and pool. $594,500 17198 LAFAYETTE TRAILS DRIVE, Wildwood. Lovely 2 story home with 4 bedroom & 3 full and 2 half baths. formal dining room and living room with spacious great room. $425,000 2845 DARDENNE LINKS DRIVE, O’Fallon. You will fall in love with this spacious 2-story, 4 bedroom, 3 full baths and par�ally finished lower level in an outstanding subdivision. $275,000

939 Winterwood Lane | NEW LISTING Ladue | $649,000

1173 SPENCER ROAD, St. Peters. This home has an updated kitchen, large lush rear yard fully fenced (‘18), 3 full bedrooms, add lower level family room. $225,000 112 WILLOW DRIVE, Eureka. Wonderful 3 bed, 2 bath ranch on large, private lot. Newer roof. Walking distance to area parks/ trails and pool. $214,900.

Open 6/9, 1-3 PM 572 COEUR DE ROYALE, UNIT 306, Creve Coeur. Spacious two bedroom unit in sought-a�er community. Large living room, dining room combo. $189,000.

Open 6/9, 1-3 PM

LuxuryCollection 42 HUNTLEIGH WOODS DRIVE, Huntleigh. $6,850,000 1091WINGSROAD,St.Albans. $4,900,000 18 HUNTLEIGH WOODS,Huntleigh. $4,250,000 26UPPERLADUEROAD,Ladue. $3,795,000 1703EAGLE BLUFFDRIVE,St.Albans. $3,450,000 2283 TALON COURT,St.Albans. $3,380,000 544 QUAIL RIDGE, St. Albans. $3,085,000 15 PINEVALLEYDRIVE,Ladue. $2,950,000 1 UPPER LADUE ROAD,Ladue. $2,950,000 8 FORDYCE LANE, Ladue. $2,895,000 11 EAST BRENTMOOR PARK, Clayton. $2,795,000 21 UPPER LADUE ROAD,Ladue. $2,750,000 5165 LINDELL BOULEVARD, CWE. $2,295,000 13368 POINTE CONWAY DRIVE, Town & Country. $2,275,000 1835 MANOR HILL ROAD, Town & Country. $2,185,000 12027 GAILCREST LANE, Town & Country. $1,895,000 9252 CLAYTON ROAD, Ladue. $1,835,000 12GLENVIEWROAD,Ladue. $1,795,000 7 GRAND MERIDIEN COURT, Wildwood. $1,750,000 8VOUGA LANE,Frontenac. $1,719,000 1109 WHEATON HILL COURT,Town&Country. $1,690,000

8025 Maryland Avenue, Unit 7D l NEW LISTING Clayton | $675,000

1012 HAMPTON PARK, Richmond Heights.

2PICARDY LANE,Ladue.

544 EAST JEFFERSON AVENUE, Kirkwood.

7149 WESTMORELAND DRIVE, University City.

1328 LITZSINGER WOODS LANE, Ladue.

213TROONCOURT,St.Albans.

9052 CLAYTON RD., TBB, Richmond Heights.

150 CARONDELET PLAZA, UNIT 1004, Clayton.

702 CHAMPEIX LANE,CreveCoeur.

53 WESTMORELAND PLACE,CWE.

$1,449,000 $1,385,000 $1,349,000 $1,295,000 $1,219,999 $1,179,000 $1,100,000 $1,075,000 $1,075,000 $1,049,500

520 NORTH & SOUTH, UNIT 102, University City.

14356 SPYGLASS RIDGE, Chesterfield.

701 S. SKINKER BOULEVARD, UNIT 301,St.Louis.

314 NORTH BROADWAY, UNIT 1003, St. Louis.

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uxury does not have to come at extreme cost, as Stash Home proves.

Now in its ninth year, the furniture retailer has matured its brand to reflect the core values of the family who owns it and the guests they are committed to serving. “our brand offers high style and high value,” co-owner Jeff edgeworth says. “Stash is the turnkey to any project in your home.”

The business, which began in 2010, has four locations and joined the Dufresne Spencer Group (DSG), an almost $1 billion company with almost 4,000 employees. “my dad started this dream with my brother and me, when we were furniture reps,” edgeworth details. “We knew the best folks to work with because of our background.

We deal with the top brands. We are the people manufacturers want to work with.”

When Stash started out, edgeworth and his family traveled coast-to-coast to compare average furniture stores and discovered a void of interesting items, especially in the mid to high quality range. Pledging to fill Stash with distinctive goods not found elsewhere, they house items that resemble what can be found only online, on TV or in the pages of a lustrous magazine.

The family business follows five threads: style, quality, value, being unique and its newest thread, care. From the cutting edge to the staples, the pieces you discover at Stash inspire conversation and invite a deeper appreciation of your aesthetic – a lot of which are offered at a discounted price of 50 to 70 percent off other furniture retailers.

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“everything we do at Stash is unique,” edgeworth shares. “We named our fifth [foundational ideal, which we call threads,] ‘care,’ because we’re a family that believes in giving. If you’re not investing in your community, you’re bankrupt as a company. For every transaction, we donate $1.27 to numerous charities. In 2018, we raised $98,000.”

The Y127 program, as it is known, stems from the english Standard Version Bible, verse James 1:27, which says: “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” Stash reaches out to local schools, churches and organizations to determine where the greatest need is.

Stash adheres to the vision of its parent company, DSG, to make “life moments matter.” each piece of furniture is selected to foster memories for guests and their loved ones, and is built to last for generations. The furniture retailer accommodates special orders and offers white-glove delivery service and in-home designing guidance. “[As part of DSG,] Stash Home is now in the top 25 furniture retailers, which makes our pricing unmatchable,” edgeworth boasts. “our buying power has [grown]. We’re expanding to other markets. Stash continues to evolve.” Join in the evolution.

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raft Alliance Center of Art + Design held its annual Makers Ball early in May 3 at Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis in that municipality’s downtown.

Emceeing the event, which featured demonstrations by Craft Alliance instructors, was former longtime television personality Karen Foss. Funds raised there support art programs for all ages, a scholarship fund, outreach programs and exhibitions.

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I see Craft Alliance as being a real anchor in the St. Louis arts community and one that really has tremendous outreach. It brings art to life for so many people.

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Winter Opera Saint Louis

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inter Opera Saint Louis recently held its first-ever Big Band Dinner Dance at the Saint Louis Club in Clayton.

The event commenced with opera entertainment during dinner by Karen Kanakis, followed by the Winter Opera barbershop quartet. The evening continued with a performance by Gina Galati, followed by a big band performance by Caduceus – the Doctor’s Band, then a collaboration with a Winter Opera 1940s harmony trio, as well as dancing throughout the event. Sponsoring the band were Drs. Tony and Kim Bernie. The event benefited the local nonprofit professional opera company.

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Dottie Kreh, Kent Kreh

Glenn Sowder, Laverne Riebold

Nancy Green, Mary Pillsbury Wainwright, Don Wainwright

I’ve been amazed at the last 10 years I have associated with Gina Galati and the amazing job she’s done with the Winter Opera Saint Louis.

She brings in such huge artists from all over the U.S., and the quality they create makes us want to support them. This event raises money for the Winter Opera Saint Louis and helps support the St. Louis artistic community.

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o matter the Kentucky Derby winner, the real winners of the Gateway Children’s Charity’s 10th annual Derby Day Party were young metro area children. Guests came dressed in Derby Duds and enjoyed live and silent auctions, hors d’oeuvres and mint juleps (of course!), along with hearing live music and watching the running of the 145th Kentucky Derby. This year’s grant recipients were Hilltop Child and Family Development Center, KIPP St. Louis and Unleashing Potential. The charity makes high-impact and tangible investments in early childhood programs supporting children in underserved communities. This year’s event raised $160,000 by some 150 guests to the tent at the Boathouse at Forest Park.

What gets the board excited about GCC is the direct impact we make with these kids. We’re a pretty small board that does one event a year, but we’re laser-focused on a very specific cause, and that is raising money for underprivileged kids in the St. Louis area that are at the kindergarten stage of life. We’re making a very, very specific and direct focused impact, and we get to see that. It’s not diluted by bigger efforts.

We’re able to see the impact right away.”

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afe Connections recently held its annual Together! Engaging Women Empowering Girls event at The RitzCarlton, St. Louis in Clayton. More than 500 women and girls attended. Anchoring this year’s program was survivor and former Safe Connections client Ashley, who shared her own story of recovery and empowerment. Moderating the event was St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Aisha Sultan. Co-chairing it were Dr. Jill Powell and Diane Patershuk. All funds raised by the brunch stay in St. Louis to end domestic and sexual violence through Safe Connections’ award-winning, nationally accredited programs in youth education, 24-hour crisis care and therapy for adult and teen survivors.

Safe Connections’ Together! brunch is an uplifting and powerful event designed to inspire girls and celebrate women.

It allows us to expand awareness about Safe Connections’ work to prevent and end domestic and sexual violence and the resources we provide for the St. Louis region, including our 24-hour crisis help line, therapy and youth education programs.

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undreds of charities and nonprofit organizations fill the metro area’s spectrum. Each has a different backstory, a different audience, a different purpose. Yet they are all unified in one aspect – passion.

Passion is powerful. It sparks ideas. It drives individuals not only to see a need but also to create a plan of action. It fuels the fire burning in a person’s heart. For approximately 26 years, Ladue News has proudly celebrated this purpose-driven passion with its annual Charity Awards – and this year is no different.

It is our privilege not only to share the stories of this year’s six worthy charities – Aim High St. Louis, Caring Solutions, Good Shephard School for Children, Marygrove, Missouri Veterans Endeavor and Safe Connections – but also to honor their hard work and dedication to our community at Ladue News’ Charity Awards ceremony, which takes place June 13 at Vue 17.

We hope you enjoy learning more about each charity in the pages that follow and join us to celebrate all these organizations have done for our community.

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AIM HIGH ST. LOUIS

By Connie Mitchell | Photo courtesy of Voices For Children

iddle school can be a tough time for even the most privileged children, and learning can take a back seat to surviving. Aim High St. Louis provides a tuition-free summer program for middle school students from area public school districts.

“Aim High empowers our students to grow and succeed, both personally and academically, by providing creative learning opportunities, abundant educational resources, exposure to new experiences and ideas, and committed and trusting relationships that are supportive,” says Julie Angelica, the organization’s executive director.

Achievers, as they are known at Aim High, apply as rising sixth-graders. Once accepted, they participate for four years, completing the program as rising ninthgraders. During the five-week summer program and monthly Saturday sessions throughout the school year, they experience a blend of academics, personal and cultural enrichment, and community building.

The Aim High curriculum focuses on key state-level academic standards, and participants benefit from college and career exploration, mentoring, tutoring, test-taking and study skill sessions, and leadership and volunteer opportunities as teaching assistants.

Yet Aim High isn’t just a typical summer camp. “Essential to the relationship construct is the idea that this is a partnership that bears equal responsibility between the program and the participant,” Angelica says. “Aim High’s job is to provide resources, opportunities and relationships that will support a student

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to define and grow into the best version of themselves, while the student’s responsibility is to put in the time and effort to maximize the opportunities and relationships that can help them succeed. And they do!”

Aim High is hosted at local schools, and faculty members come from public and private schools throughout the metro area. The St. Louis program, developed by John Burroughs faculty members Ellen Moceri and Richard Sandler, launched in 1991, based on a similar program in San Francisco.

Angelica joined Aim High in 2009 and says there is no such thing as a typical day. With only three full-time staff year-round, she balances her time between financial and administrative tasks, programming, board support and management, fundraising and networking. “I work with an amazing board of volunteer directors, and although our central office team is small, it’s pretty incredible what we’re able to accomplish,” she says. In 2018, more than 450 Achievers attended Aim High.

“Middle school is both a powerful and difficult time in adolescent development, and we believe reaching students before they have cemented their values and beliefs is critical to supporting their best vision of themselves,” Angelica says. “Graduates have told us that knowing there is an entire community of people beyond your family who are invested in you and your success is life-changing.”

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When Chloe Cherry talks about Crystal, you can hear the emotion in her voice. Cherry worked closely with Crystal, a young Achiever at Aim High St. Louis.

“She was very interested in poetry, and so when I started a poetry club for Aim High, I could just see how excited she Chloe Cherry | Photo supplied was,” says Cherry, who serves as a teaching assistant and mentor. “Working with her one-onone, I saw her poetry really grow over the summer, and at the same time, I could see a positive change in her. It was really wonderful.”

Cherry became a teaching assistant at Aim High prior to her senior year of high school at Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience in St. Louis. “My psychology teacher knew about Aim High and suggested I get involved,” she says. “I love kids, and I really enjoyed it – so much I came back.”

All of the kids have teachers and mentors giving them attention, and we try to cultivate and boost their confidence. And as a teacher’s assistant, I can tell that the teachers and TAs involved get so much out of it as well, being a part of a child’s growth and seeing their success.” – Chloe Cherry Currently a freshman majoring in psychology at Pennsylvania’s Villanova University, Cherry returned to Aim High last summer as a head teaching assistant, in which position she oversees other TAs and floats between several classrooms at the program’s Priory location.

“I think everyone involved gets so much out of it,” she says. “All of the kids have teachers and mentors giving them attention, and we try to cultivate and boost their confidence. And as a teacher’s assistant, I can tell that the teachers and TAs involved get so much out of it as well, being a part of a child’s growth and seeing their success.”

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By Brittany Nay | Photos by Madeleine Hawn and Carolyn Schlueter

hen a young Missouri man had nowhere to turn, Caring Solutions was there.

“He was in and out of the psychiatric hospital six times in three months [with] behavioral issues,” says Madeleine Hawn, founder and CEO of Caring Solutions. “He was dropped off at our respite home with only his medications, and he started to do wonderfully because we provided behavioral support.

He returned to live at home with his father after a few months of care. That was so heartwarming to see that reunion – it was just awesome.”

Founded in 2001, Caring Solutions was the first Missouri nonprofit to offer a host-family living option for those with developmental disabilities and has since developed multiple community-based living environments and staffing models. Many of its clients have come from broken or abusive homes, aging or ill parents, long-term hospitalization or homelessness, and have often been unable to receive services from other providers.

“From the very beginning, we wanted to fill the gaps of service for people with developmental disabilities and serve those people who have the greatest needs,” Hawn says.

The organization’s focus is on helping children and adults with intellectual and developmental disorders, such as autism or cerebral palsy, who frequently have additional mental illness and physical developmental disorders.

With almost 300 employees and 115 volunteers, Caring Solutions annually provides 550,000 hours of 24/7 support to 100 individuals in St. Louis and St.

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Louis County, as well as surrounding Missouri counties. The nonprofit receives referrals from the Missouri Department of Mental Health, which also serves as the primary funding source for most clients.

Services are provided in the client’s home or at one of the organization’s staffed sites, which include host homes, individualized supported-living homes, companion homes, independent-living assistance and respite.

Its newest, Valentine Place, offers shelter and therapeutic respite services to those with developmental disabilities and severe behavioral challenges. “It’s the only program of its kind in the state,” Hawn says, adding that the home can serve four clients at a time, annually providing 55,000 hours of respite.

Each of the nonprofit’s sites offers individualized support, Hawn says. “Often, we rent a house or apartment and provide individualized supported living with around-the-clock awake staffing to help clients with all aspects of their daily living. We also provide in-home support to families who have a developmentally disabled family member, and the individual may need to go to one of our respite homes once a month for a break for the family.”

Hawn says it’s touching whenever a client achieves new skills: “We help people discover their abilities … For some, it is learning how to take a shower, and others, it is getting a job. We are not just called Caring Solutions – people really care about each other here.”

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Greg Beasley believes in the importance of understanding those with developmental disabilities.

That’s what sparked him to help longtime friend Madeleine Hawn’s organization, Caring Solutions.

Beasley, who serves as a board member and chairs the development Greg Beasley | Photo by Sarah Conroy committee, has painted the nonprofit’s homes, as well as recruited friends and fellow West County Rotarians to help in the renovation of its Valentine Place therapeutic respite home in Ferguson.

The versatile volunteer even plays Santa Claus at the organization’s annual holiday party.

Beasley says serving Caring Solutions has given him a greater awareness of local individuals’ needs in the area of developmental disabilities. “It’s important to understand the degree and extent of those disabilities,” he says.

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Caring Solutions develops a unique program around what each client needs. They also find out what the clients can do, and they help them build on that.”

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And as Beasley has gotten to know some of the clients through volunteering, it’s become even more clear what a worthy cause he is helping. “Caring Solutions develops a unique program around what each client needs,” he says. “They also find out what the clients can do, and they help them build on that.”

Caring Solutions describes Beasley as an “exemplary volunteer,” who is “caring, kind and humble,” according to Sally Boyd, the nonprofit’s director of development.

Beasley encourages others to become involved with the organization. “People should volunteer to help out so they can truly understand the different types of needs of these clients,” he says. “It gives you a lot of satisfaction and happiness to be able to see them get better at what they can do, and it’s gratifying to see their growth when you work with them.”

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t Good Shepherd School for Children, kids with special needs learn, play and grow alongside their typically developing peers.

“We help each child reach his or her full potential, realizing that is different for everyone,” says Nancy Litzau, school president. “Children move with their age group regardless of their developmental level, and we find the children with special needs want to stay up with their peers.”

In 1967, a group of parents of young children with special needs formed the organization in the basement of a church with a mission to care for the whole flock, never leaving any child behind – hence its name, Good Shepherd. “At that point, the Special School District was about 10 years old, and educators did not believe the youngest children with special needs could be educated,” Litzau says. “There was no special-needs education before kindergarten, so it was a unique concept at the time.”

Today, the nonprofit early-learning and pediatric-therapy center has grown to occupy a 3-acre campus in Creve Coeur, welcoming children with and without special needs, ages 6 weeks to 6 years, and up to age 18 in its therapy services.

Therapists serve children enrolled in the school or as outpatients with speech and language, occupational, physical and behavioral special needs.

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a library, and each week, teachers develop uniquely themed lessons that promote development for all children. Through the power of early intervention, Litzau says kids with special needs are successfully transitioning to traditional schooling at the typical age.

Although it’s really easy to see the benefits that children with special needs receive at the school, typically developing kids also benefit, Litzau says: “They’re much more compassionate about people who are different from them, they’re less likely to bully, and they’re more likely to interact with those with special needs.”

One student who came to Good Shepherd as a 3-year-old who didn’t talk or walk began to make sounds intentionally and walk before kindergarten.

“All the kids wanted to help her so much that we had to make taking care of her a classroom job,” Litzau says. “Looking at a child differently is an adult thing, not a child thing. Small children don’t recognize special needs and just want someone to play with them and be happy with them.”

When people think of special needs, they think of a deficit, Litzau says. “But kids who may not be able to sit in an academic setting or participate in a project still can be an early reader and be really bright and contribute in a different way,” she says. “Not giving up on any kid is important.”

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Staci Kopp wants to scream from a mountaintop how special Good Shepherd School for Children is for kids and their families.

Kopp, a member of the school’s board of directors and parents’ association, says she and her 5-year-old son, Grayson, instantly fell Staci Kopp | Photo by Sarah Conroy in love with the earlylearning center when he began attending about three years ago.

The center is a great space for kids, whether they are typically developing or have unique needs, Kopp says. “It chokes you up as a parent because it’s a really special place where differences aren’t really an issue, and they get to just be a kid,” she notes. “They’re all friends and don’t notice whether they’re normally developing or have special needs, and they learn that just because they are different in some ways, it just makes you special, and you still get to do things all the [other] kids do.”

They’re all friends and don’t notice whether they’re normally developing or have special needs, and they learn that just because they are different in some ways, it just makes you special, and you still get to do things all the [other] kids do.” – Staci Kopp As an active volunteer, Kopp helps host the school’s events, from cookouts to movie nights and teacher-appreciation days. “It’s a great way for parents to get to know [one another] and learn the special things the kids have, and share stories and life experiences,” she says.

The center’s intimate size and small staff create a tightknit family setting where the kids can really blossom, Kopp says: “The teachers are so creative, and they make it this fun world where the kids go.”

The integrated effort to meet each child’s special needs is unique, and it’s such a relief for parents to leave their children in that type of environment every day, Kopp says: “I see these parents on Facebook who don’t know where to go to help their kids, and I wish more knew about Good Shepherd. They support the whole family.”

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By Brittany Nay | Photos courtesy of Marygrove

arygrove gives abused children and teens the support and tools to turn trauma into triumph.

For almost 170 years, the residential treatment facility has provided a safe space and resources for young people struggling with emotional and behavioral issues that have resulted from abuse, neglect and other trauma.

The children and adolescents placed at Marygrove often come from failed placements in other residential facilities or foster homes. “Our goal is to get them to a healthier place mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually so they have a sense of safety and can break the cycle of abuse,” says Joe Bestgen, Marygrove’s CEO. On a 43-acre campus overlooking the Missouri River in Florissant, Marygrove offers services including therapeutic residential treatment and foster care, transitional and independent living programs, and crisis services to more than 1,100 kids each year.

Its core program, therapeutic residential treatment, can serve up to 110 kids at a time in cottagelike housing amid a family-style environment that also includes a school and recreational therapy, including sports, fitness exercises, and arts-and-crafts classes.

“All staff are trauma-informed, and our hope is to give the [kids] a comfortable environment and routine that feels safe, with a warm bed, hot meals, appropriate hygiene products and adults around them who are there to protect them and not to harm them, so that then our therapists can help them with the trauma they have experienced,” Bestgen says.

Marygrove also offers 24/7 crisis services including shelter and support

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for individuals from birth to age 21 who are experiencing a family crisis. In addition, respite care is provided to kids as a child abuse prevention method.

Another Marygrove service is the transitional living program. “Individuals are less interested in fostering or adopting older children ... so we prepare them to be able to live on their own,” Bestgen says, adding that teens are taught life skills from doing laundry and buying groceries to managing a budget and maintaining a job.

Marygrove’s independent living program provides 35 young adults at a time with subsidized apartments, utilities, food, bus transportation and programs to ready them for independence. “It is required that they go to school, get a technical degree or have a job,” Bestgen says. “About a third are parents with newborns or toddlers, so we help teach parenting classes so the cycle [of abuse] doesn’t continue.”

Additionally, the nonprofit offers therapeutic foster homes, where foster parents help young people with serious emotional issues develop skills that will help them transition back to their families, an adoptive home or independent living.

In today’s society, the need for Marygrove’s services is great and growing, Bestgen says, adding: “But children are so resilient that if we can show them kindness, safety, respect and love, they have the ability to bounce back, and we can change the trajectory of their lives.”

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Tyan Ragone loves how Marygrove is a safety net for abused kids and teens.

Since 2015, Ragone has lent her support to the nonprofit’s fundraising efforts, including serving as 2018 chair of the benefit dinner Bloom, which is its largest fundraiser. “Through Bloom, I got to learn more Tyan Ragone | Photo by Sarah Conroy about what these kids are struggling with and how we can help them and give them a second chance,” Ragone says, adding that the benefit dinner and program, featuring stories of the young people helped by Marygrove, raised $737,000 last year and $896,000 this year.

Ragone was drawn to help Marygrove after hearing the children’s stories of emotional and physical abuse, from being forced into sex trafficking to being held in boxes in their own homes. “The kids are not ready mentally to be adopted or go to foster care,” she says, “and Marygrove provides so much more than shelter and food for them – they recover mentally and physically so they can get back to a normal life.”

They have a beautiful campus where the kids live in a family environment, they eat dinner in groups like a family, and they do holiday and summer activities. They let the kids feel like they are part of a – Tyan Ragone bigger family.”

The supportive atmosphere Marygrove provides the children is priceless, Ragone says. “They have a beautiful campus where the kids live in a family environment, they eat dinner in groups like a family, and they do holiday and summer activities,” she says. “They let the kids feel like they are part of a bigger family.”

Ragone says volunteering and donating to Marygrove help children rise above unfortunate situations. “Some of these kids went from being aggressive and feeling unwanted to becoming successful, going to college and coming back to help others,” she explains.

“Marygrove gives them a pathway to success.”

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rom post-traumatic stress disorder to substance addiction and homelessness, today’s veterans can potentially grapple with many barriers post-deployment – and Missouri Veterans Endeavor (MOVE-STL) is here to help.

The 501(c)(3) nonprofit provides at-risk and homeless veterans and their families with housing and therapeutic programs to help them overcome obstacles and achieve their goals toward a better future.

MOVE-STL has supplied housing to more than 150 veterans and their family members, offered attachment resources to more than 600 veterans and assisted more than 100 veterans in finding and/or maintaining employment.

Bill Wallace, president of MOVE-STL and a U.S. Army Bosnia veteran, says: “We can address any need 24/7, and we have case managers working with them on a daily basis … to become financially and socially independent, overcome homelessness, move into their own home and have a full life.”

MOVE-STL’s 3-acre 25-unit apartment complex, situated on 3 acres in St. John houses up to about 50 veterans, including their family members. “We are the largest veteran community in the region,” Wallace says.

“There is power in having your veteran peers living around you.”

The nonprofit’s case managers help veterans and their family members establish action plans to increase social independence, adequately manage finances, and gain and maintain employment if they are able to work.

The organization also offers individual, group, couples and family therapy.

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“As MOVE serves a large number of families, it is very important to work with that veteran family individually and as a unit,” Wallace adds. MOVESTL offers diverse support to children, such as activities, tutoring services, transportation to and from school and more.

MOVE-STL also assists veterans with transportation to work and school, as well as connects them with family and friends, a church and hobbies that range from art to cooking classes.

Among MOVE-STL’s many success stories are veterans who have obtained jobs, watched their children graduate high school and enter college, and purchased their own home.

MOVE-STL hopes to expand by developing another residential complex, as the need is expected to grow. Wallace says with 200,000 service members transitioning to civilian life every year and almost 2 million service members having served in Afghanistan, Iraq and other hostile environments since 2001, many of these men and women discharge with stressors.

“Post-traumatic stress is a very personal and individual malady, and if left untreated or denied, it can show up at unexpected times and lead to at-risk behaviors, isolation and homelessness,” Wallace says. “We want to make sure we are doing everything we can with our community to have the measures in place to support our veterans.”

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Chris Schroeder believes in helping U.S. veterans who have supported the country’s freedom. And through MOVE-STL, the father of a U.S. Navy pilot is doing just that.

Since early 2016, Schroeder has been giving back by serving MOVESTL through his role as the St. Louis regional Chris Schroeder | Photo by Sarah Conroy leader for the UMB Veterans Business Resource Group at his employer, UMB Bank.

To contribute to MOVE-STL’s mission of housing and supporting veterans and their families, Schroeder has led the group to serve a Fourth of July barbecue and holiday dinners for its veteran residents and staff. “We support the communities that we serve, and we do that through an employee matching-gift program,” Schroeder says.

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Helping veterans and their families become secure and successful has been important and impactful for Schroeder.

“It’s important to give your talents, time and treasures through volunteering,” he says. “I encourage others to find a group they are passionate about and find a little time each week or each month to give to that cause.”

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omestic and sexual violence can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere.

“There is no standard profile of a survivor of domestic and sexual violence,” says Susan Kidder, CEO of Safe Connections.

That’s why Safe Connections supports domestic and sexual violence survivors of every gender, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation, as well as offering therapy, support groups and prevention education programming. The organization also operates a 24-hour crisis help line.

Established as the Women’s Self-Help Center more than 40 years ago, the nonprofit annually serves almost 20,000 individuals and has about 50 staff members. Licensed professional therapists provide individual therapy and a variety of support groups for survivors, ages 11 and older, who have experienced rape, domestic or dating abuse, sex trafficking or childhood sexual abuse.

“We have nearly 20,000 stories, and none are better or worse than any other story because trauma is trauma, and our work in our therapy program in part is to help people in healing from those traumas,” Kidder says.

The majority of survivors are female, and although most men are not abusers, the majority of abusers are men, Kidder says, adding, “We must engage boys and men to be leaders, role models and change agents.”

In this effort to stop the cycle of domestic and sexual abuse, the organization offers prevention education, including Project HART (Healthy

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Alternatives in Relationships among Teens), classroom-based programming for middle school and high school students, as well as Safe Connections on Campus for college students. “We are helping our young people understand what healthy relationships are and what healthy relationships aren’t – and helping them exit those that aren’t,” Kidder says. “It’s important for us to do prevention on the front end so there is less need for our services on the back end.”

Safe Connections also is dedicated to changing the dialogue surrounding survivors. “It’s important to know that violence is never, ever a survivor’s fault,” Kidder says. “It’s very misguided to ask, ‘Why were you there?’ ‘What were you wearing?’ ... we need to ask different questions.

It’s not ‘Why doesn’t she leave?’ It should be ‘Why does he abuse?’”

To help raise funds for its cause, Safe Connections annually hosts two signature events: Together!

Engaging Women/Empowering Girls each spring and the Lotus Ball, set for Nov. 8 at the Missouri Athletic Club’s downtown St. Louis location. Kidder says the empowering events give voice to survivors of domestic and sexual violence and inspire the community to change the cycle of abuse.

Domestic and sexual violence survivors are not alone, Kidder says, adding, “We need everyone to be involved because this is not a women’s issue alone – this is everyone’s issue.”

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Dean Kpere-Daibo says Safe Connections is truly transforming lives.

The longtime volunteer, who previously served on Safe Connections’ Young Professionals board for six years and currently is a member of its board of directors, assists in raising funds and resources for the cause and acts as an Dean Kpere-Daibo | Photo by Sarah Conroy advocate for its mission of preventing and ending domestic and sexual violence, while helping survivors thrive.

Safe Connections has shown Kpere-Daibo the impact domestic and sexual abuse has on the community. “Through discussions and training provided by Safe Connections’ staff, I am now better educated on the cycle of violence and how we can work to break the cycle,” he says.

Through discussions and training provided by Safe Connections’ staff, I am now better educated on the cycle of violence and how we can work to break the cycle.”

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While working with the nonprofit, Kpere-Daibo says he has utilized his network of friends and associates to serve a great cause and potentially solve a systemic problem in society. “I have learned the only way to serve as an advocate for healthy relationships and solving this problem is by being comfortable having these critical discussions among your friends and family about what a healthy relationship looks like [and] the warning signs of an unhealthy relationship,” he says.

Kpere-Daibo hopes others also will volunteer for the organization.

“When I hear the stories of survivors discussing what Safe Connections means to them and their families,” he says, “I realize the impact of our work: how each small fundraiser, trivia night and dinner ensures Safe Connections can continue its work in breaking the cycle and assisting survivors in rebuilding their lives.”

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icture a much-loved Ladue home, bustling with a family full of boys. Although nice enough, unfortunately, this classic ’90s-style residence with compartmentalized living spaces lacked a layout conducive to entertaining relatives and friends.

As a result, the homeowners contacted area professionals to help open up the rooms for connectivity.

Their plan included reworking a builder-grade bar and desk area, allowing the kitchen and breakfast area to flow better into the adjacent great room.

During an early design session, the homeowners discussed their desire for both new flooring throughout the first floor and a new kitchen island in the future. With an abundance of forethought into time and investment efficiencies, the decision was made to change the kitchen’s footprint prior to adding new flooring. The island update led to a full kitchen remodel with new cabinetry, countertops and appliances, as well as an influx of better lighting throughout the space.

Prior to the renovation, the cooktop slanted across the center island, which kept guests from gathering in the kitchen during parties. The homeowners’ consultants thus rotated the island and relocated the cooktop to the kitchen’s back wall, making it better

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align with the rest of the space; a new exhaust hood with stainless straps and a white body, meanwhile, added visual interest.

Other fabulous features installed in the kitchen included new white Sutherland cabinets from Showplace Wood Products and Caesarstone’s Statuario Maximus quartz countertops, along with a Wolf range and a Sub-Zero refrigerator. After those improvements, the kitchen opened up into the dining area and hearth room, making it perfect for entertaining and socializing.

The great room was designed as the optimal transitional space to enjoy summer sun or cozy up beside the fireplace during long, cold winters. One of the room’s most magnificent aspects, a massive set of floor-to-ceiling windows flooded it with sunlight every day. When the underwhelming fireplace needed a complete makeover, though, it was an obvious choice to channel the windows and create s mantel with gorgeous floor-to-ceiling Hermitage stone from Horizon Stone’s 19th Century Series. To brighten the space, the homeowners’ consultants also installed lighter, more natural-looking hardwood flooring with wider planks.

The remodeled bar area remained in the same location, albeit with a refreshing new look and open

concept flow for easier entertaining. The butler area likewise remained perfect for serving, with stools added for extra seating. Rockport Gray wood cabinets were chosen to contrast with the white kitchen nearby.

The desk area, otherwise, was relocated to a more private front room of the residence.

This fantastic residential transformation allowed the homeowners to completely make over a majority of their public living spaces. The result delighted them, and their bustling family now feels right at home in the newly remodeled space.

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ast winter, Jessie Miller of Jessie D. Miller Interior Design was presented with a unique challenge: create a calming retreat for a local teenager with a rare medical condition that leaves her homebound.

“Caili has a disease that makes her restrained to the confines of her home,” Miller says. “She hasn’t gone to [a brick-and-mortar] school since second grade because she needs to be protected from exposure to strep A, a bacterial infection. The treatments use immune suppression agents which make Caili even more susceptible to infection, and any infection she is exposed to can cause an exacerbation, or flare, of the encephalitis.”

The 14-year-old has autoimmune encephalitis, a condition that occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy brain cells, resulting in severe neurologic, cognitive and psychiatric symptoms, which usually resolve with treatment. The treatment and recovery period can take years.

“Because she’s in her house 24/7 and can’t go out until we get a handle on the disease and she is in remission, it’s really important for her to have her own space,” says Carmel Henges, Caili’s mother. “So this [redesign] was really a statement of who she is.”

Another local designer, who is currently working on another large design-and-build project for the Henges family, recommended Miller, who was not a carrier of the bacteria that could affect Caili’s condition and, therefore, was able to be around the teen and in her room for the revamp.

“We need to make certain that any adult Caili is exposed to has not had a diagnosed strep A infection as an adult and that they have not had contact with other children prior to seeing Caili that day,” Henges says. “At this point, Caili’s immune system reacts to any pathogen present so everyone has to be 100 percent healthy to avoid an exacerbation of the autoimmune process. Caili is also undergoing chemo treatments every three months in Washington, D.C., which severely suppresses her immune system, making exposures to any illness even more problematic.”

To dramatically transform the suite into a space that was as unique as Caili, Miller met with the teen to get to know her personality and passions, as well as review some

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inspirational images that evoked her sense of style. “She’s special in the sense of how creative she is,” Miller says. “She has a wild imagination, and it’s so fun to work with someone so free-spirited, just letting her be herself, letting her feel comfortable. She is very attracted to nature and all things mystical – fairies, butterflies, dragons and dinosaurs – so that began her design story for me.”

The revamp included a bedroom connected to a recreation room by a Jack-and-Jill bathroom. “I found a paper butterfly Christmas ornament at a local shop, Holliday, that reminded me of Caili when I saw it,” Miller says, “so I gathered a collection of them in the color palette she loves – teal and purple.”

Miller also found butterfly-patterned fabric, which matched the ornaments, and used that for the drapes behind the headboard of Caili’s custom-made bed.

Continuing this whimsical theme, Miller chose a wallpaper resembling reptilian skin – an homage to Caili’s love of dinosaurs – for the bedroom ceiling. Chevron-patterned wood planks in alternating finishes – one of Miller’s signature design moves – were incorporated into the bedroom flooring.

In the rec room, local artist Susan Greene of Paint Imagery created an astonishing aquatic mural inspired by Caili’s passion for sea life.

“She has these fish tanks that she’s extremely proud of, and she loves the fish like they’re her children,” Miller says.

A serene atmosphere, including soothing lighting, is important for Caili’s condition, so Miller selected special fixtures for the redesign. For the bedroom, she found a vintage chandelier from The Green Shag Market in St. Louis and a ribbon chandelier from “chic and unique” home décor site Chairish.com for the rec room.

“The ribbon chandelier lived in my foyer years ago and has been waiting for its forever home, and when I saw Caili’s space, I knew I had found the perfect home for it,” Miller says. “I collect so much furniture – they’re like my foster babies, and I’m finding their forever home.”

The imaginative suite is complete with Caili’s personal requests. “Caili said she wanted a shelf for her dinosaurs and her fish tanks,” Henges says. “And the bubble chair was a must-have for her.”

After a whirlwind month of design work last February, it was time for the revamped room’s big reveal. The finished project was a total surprise to Caili, who had been in the Northeast for almost a month to receive medical treatment.

Because of a snowstorm that was closing in on St. Louis, Miller and her design team left Caili’s home before she arrived – but with the magic of technology, the designer was still able to witness the teen’s “amazing” reaction through FaceTime as she walked through the suite. “She was ecstatic,” Miller says. “It was pure joy to watch her mind absorb all the different elements of the space. She homed in on every detail … and especially loves the mural. She kept saying it was the most surreal moment of her life.”

Since the redesign, Caili adores spending time in her new space, Henges says. “She is a creative child who loves science and nature, writing and filmmaking, and there is even a lightbox to do her filming,” Henges says. “In what she calls ‘the hangout room,’ she loves sitting in the beanbags, playing an online game or being on FaceTime with her friends, or watching a movie.”

Miller really understood Caili and bonded with her, Henges says. “It was important that I created a room she wanted to spend time in,” Miller says. “Caili now has a space to display all her collections, a comfy place to study, and hopefully is on her way to recovery so she can soon have sleepovers again.”

Every night before bed, Henges says she asks Caili about the revamp: “Are you sure you still love it?” And the teen replies, “What’s not to love?”

Jessie D. Miller Interior Design, jessiedmiller.com

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Welcome to 662 Westledge Court in Des Peres!

This lovely home features a 2 story foyer & great room, dramatic staircase, very open floor plan, library/office, separate dining room, 9’ ceilings, wide plank wood floors, gas fireplace. Main floor master features luxury bath with double vanity, separate tub and shower. Extended gourmet kitchen with upgraded 42 wood cabinetry, center island & breakfast bar, stainless steel appliances, granite counters & breakfast room. Main floor laundry room with custom cabinets & sink. Upstairs, 3 additional large bedrooms each with a walk-in closet and lighted ceiling fan, one with private bath, two with jack & jill bath. Walk out lower level with 9’ ceilings, 3 car side entry garage, Hardie Board siding, 30 year architectural shingle roof. Prime location. $799,000

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Luxur y and real estate are synonymous with The Ryan Tradition of Coldwell Banker Gundaker. With John Ryan at its helm, this distinctive real estate group has garnered respect throughout the St. Louis market.

These renowned leaders are known for listing and selling the most significant properties in the area – and their latest listing, 9945 Old Chatham Road, is no exception. Discover what elevates this home to noteworthy status when you turn the page. Pictured: Sydney Millman, John Ryan and Corinna Estop Foy of The Ryan Tradition.

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THE RYAN TRADITION

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N

o other real estate group holds the unparalleled perspective that The Ryan Tradition does of the local luxury real estate market. And that is because, since 1992, John Ryan and his team at Coldwell Banker Gundaker have exceeded $1 billion in total sales, with an average sale price of $2-plus million.

Staying the “best in the biz,” though, requires keeping an eye on what’s happening in the housing market. “The market in the luxury segment has been strong, so far, this year,” Ryan says. “This consists of both local buyers moving up and a healthy number of inbound corporate executive families.”

He notes that although inventory is low, which makes the market competitive, he and his team educate buyers on how to appropriately price their properties to achieve best results. Currently, The Ryan Tradition is pleased to introduce 9945 Old Chatham Road to the market.

The desirable residence boasts 9,500 square feet and occupies three acres in Ladue. The property features an open floor plan that welcomes in natural light and is considered one of the most significant Colonial-style homes in the area, as evidenced by the special attention paid to every detail by noted architects Maritz & Young.

Herringbone flooring guides you under 10-foot

ceilings and past graceful arched openings to explore the living spaces. The groin vaulted center hall takes you past the family and dining rooms, and onto the open kitchen and hearth room. The latter living areas shine in warmth through three elevations of windows, casting light on the custom appliances and center island of the kitchen, as well as on the breakfast area.

A barrel vaulted hall leads you beyond the secondfloor foyer to uncover the wing of bedrooms, featuring 4 baths and 5 beds. In addition, the master suite appeals with a dressing room and luxe bath. Elevator access leads you back down to the only addition on the original abode: a spectacular 2-story garden room, where two arched entries then escort you through to the living room.

Able to accommodate events of any size, summertime soirees delight in the setting of the home’s 20- by 40-foot pool. From the spacious secondfloor laundry and exercise room to the lower level and a five-car garage, this 6-bedroom, 8-bath home proves a fantastic place to settle in and make your own. All that’s left to do now is to give Ryan and his team at The Ryan Tradition a call.

The Ryan Tradition, 9651 Clayton Road, St. Louis, 314-941-0572 (direct), 314-993-8000 (office), theryantradition.net

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agent PROFILES

By Amanda Dahl

‌JILL AZAR

KIM CARNEY

SUSAN COX HOLDEN

Laura McCarthy Real Estate 314-616-8836 (direct), 314-725-5100 (office), lauramccarthy.com

The Carney Team Coldwell Banker Premier Group 2203 S. Big Bend Blvd., 314-422-7449, t hecarneyteam.com

Janet McAfee Real Estate 9889 Clayton Road, 314-503-3345, janetmcafee.com/susanholden Licensed since 1989, Susan Cox

LIZZY DOOLEY REAL ESTATE GROUP Laura McCarthy Real Estate 314-680-1426 (direct), 314-725-5100 (office), lauramccarthy.com

Jill Azar grew up talking real estate

Ranked among the leading REALTORS

Holden has a reputation for providing

at the dinner table. That naturally

in St. Louis, Kim Carney specializes

exceptional service before and after

The hallmarks of the Lizzy Dooley Real

progressed to her becoming a customer-

in the luxury real estate market and

a sale. Consistently ranked as a top

Estate Group include “white glove”

driven agent in her own right. Azar

utilizes a unique and aggressive

agent at Janet McAfee Real Estate, she

treatment, rigorous comparative market

gains clients’ trust by working hard with

marketing plan. She prides herself on

works in all price ranges within the

assessments, highly targeted marketing

their most valuable asset, their home.

taking a proactive approach. Carney

central corridor. “I love my work,” she

that leverages social media and creative

In addition, she enjoys participating

offers the experience and savvy

says. “My passion is helping people and

oversight for premarket staging.

in community activities and at her

negotiation skills that achieve optimum

maintaining relationships.”

Dooley and her team are top agents

children’s school.

results for her clients.

with extensive networking capabilities and superior knowledge of the central corridor market.

JIGGS DUNN & CHRISTINE COOL Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Alliance Real Estate 314-503-7999 (Dunn), 314-614-5822 (Cool), 314-997-7600 (office), j iggsdunn.com Top producers Jiggs Dunn and Christine Cool have represented sellers’ and buyers’ real estate needs for more than 40 years. With $350 million in closed sales in the last 12 years, Dunn and Cool apply their knowledge, experience and negotiating skills to work for you when

MARIA ELIAS Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Alliance Real Estate 314-971-4346, h omeswithmaria.com Maria Elias’ expertise and community

ESPENSCHIED HERMANN GROUP Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Alliance Real Estate 314-872-6747, espenschiedhermanngroup.com

knowledge are evident through rave reviews from clients. Assisting families

Lifelong St. Louis metro area residents

throughout the moving process for

Ann Espenschied, Wendy Hermann

more than 20 years, she specializes

and Paula Andrew are ranked in the

in relocation, as well as listing and

top 1 percent of Berkshire Hathaway

marketing. A member of the Multi-

HomeServices Alliance Real Estate

Million Dollar Club, Elias ranks in the

agents. These dedicated professionals

top 1 percent of St. Louis REALTORS.

combine decades of experience and see each transaction from start to finish, with passion, trustworthiness and knowledge.

buying a home.

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agent PROFILES

CORINNA ESTEP FOY

JAN KOSMAL

The Ryan Tradition Coldwell Banker Gundaker 9651 Clayton Road, 314-479-9342 (direct), 314-993-8000 (office), theryantradition.net

Coldwell Banker Premier Group 314-478-1179, jankosmal.cbphomes.com With a reputation for hard work,

KATHLEEN LOVETT & LAURA DONOVAN

STEVE MATHES & JOE MATHES

Janet McAfee Real Estate 314-610-7408 (Lovett), 314-229-8978 (Donovan), janetmcafee.com/lovettdonovanteam

Coldwell Banker Gundaker 314-503-6533 (Steve), 314-279-1604 (Joe), steveandjoemathes.com

organization and persistence, Jan Kosmal delivers passion,

Technology has dramatically altered

Real estate is a tradition for the Mathes

“The convergence of my passions

professionalism and commitment with

the real estate business and advanced

family. Steve Mathes followed his

brought me to real estate,” says Corinna

every transaction, regardless of its size.

client communications. Kathleen Lovett

father, Julian, into the business, and his

Estep Foy. “As a VP in private banking,

“Real estate is a demanding, full-time

and Laura Donovan have the savvy to

own son, Joe, has now joined him. Steve

I honed my negotiation skills. My

job, and I am totally committed to

stay on the cutting edge of digital and

has more than $500 million in closed

family is from Ladue, and so I knew

my clients,” she says. Kosmal aims

social media marketing, including with

sales and is a top producing agent.

The Ryan Tradition is recognized for

to provide top-notch service to each

their mobile website, with the ability to

The Mathes team continues to earn

its dedicated, trusted service. It was a

person she helps.

promote properties through domestic

recognition and accolades.

natural fit for me.”

channels and by offering global reach for luxury properties.

SUE MCLAUGHLIN & KATIE MCLAUGHLIN Laura McCarthy Real Estate 314-504-4214 (Sue), 314-283-8444 (Katie), 314-725-5100 (office), lauramccarthy.com

SYDNEY MILLMAN

ROD & DIANE PATERSHUK

The Ryan Tradition Coldwell Banker Gundaker 314-874-5064 (direct), 314-993-8000 (office), theryantradition.com

Patershuk Partners Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Alliance Real Estate 314-872-6714, p atershukpartners.com Experience, integrity, connections.

Sydney Millman joined The Ryan

These are just three of the values that

Sue McLaughlin launched her career

Tradition with eight years of

Patershuk Partners offers clients. Rod

in real estate 30-plus years ago. Her

experience at Coldwell Banker Gold

and Diane Patershuk prioritize getting

daughter, Katie, was raised in the

Coast in Chicago. She specializes in

you what you want. After all, you are

industry, acquiring her license in college

luxury properties and has a strong

not just another transaction to them.

and proving a natural. They officially

family background in real estate. With

They and their many partners deliver

teamed up and created a successful

a bachelor’s degree in psychology and

personal attention to detail to help you

partnership built on the principles of

extensive experience, she works to

move forward.

hard work, staying smart and treating

achieve the best for both her buyers

clients like family.

and sellers.

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JEN ROSS CROSS

JOHN RYAN

TED WIGHT

Circa Properties 7801 Forsyth Blvd., Suite 200, 314-313-1779 (direct), 314-352-5200 (office), j enrosscross.com

The Ryan Tradition Coldwell Banker Gundaker 314-941-0572 (direct), 314-993-8000 (office), theryantradition.com

Dielmann Sotheby’s International Real Estate 314-607-5555, tedwightrealestate.com

Consistently ranked in the top tier

John Ryan and The Ryan Tradition lead

Bernoudy, has sold real estate for 15-

of all St. Louis REALTORS, Jen Ross

the central-corridor luxury market in

plus years. Ranked as the No. 3 agent

Cross passionately connects people

St. Louis, with more than $1 billion

in the region by the St. Louis Business

with property and has been doing so for

in sales since 1991. He is involved

Journal, Wight has been featured

16-plus years. Her clientele is primarily

in the most significant transactions,

nationally in Dwell, Forbes, The New

referral-based, and she enjoys working

innovative new-construction projects,

York Times, The Wall Street Journal and

with both buyers and sellers. She is

land sales and the relocation of

Architectural Digest and on HGTV.

invested as a partner in her company.

executive families.

Ted Wight, who resides in a home designed by noted architect William

314.313.1779

jen@rosscrossrealtor.com

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New ListiNg

New price

44 Woodcrest Drive Ladue $2,250,000

10 Edgewood Road Ladue $3,900,000

1.91 Acres

New ListiNg

3 Edgewood Road Ladue $2,445,000 1 Acre

9890 Old Warson Road Ladue $1,160,000 3.62 Acres

11420 Clayton Road Frontenac $565,000

4 Denny Lane Huntleigh $1,495,000

T H E RYA N T R A DI T ION

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New PriCe

8 ACres

120 Linden Avenue Clayton $4,600,000

New CoNstruCtioN

9625 Ladue Road Ladue $6,900,000

New CoNstruCtioN

11600 Clayton Road Frontenac $2,250,000 New CoNstruCtioN – Move iN reAdy

10 Larkdale Drive Ladue $2,375,000

136 N. Brentwood Clayton $3,595,000 Whether you’re buying or selling a luxury home, choose The Ryan Tradition.

If you would like to discuss your significant property needs, please contact us. We look forward to the opportunity to work with you.

John Ryan | 314.941.0572 | jo ryan@coldwellbanker.com TheRyanTRadiTion.com

Coldwell Banker Gundaker - Ladue 314.993.8000

©2017 NRT Missouri LLC. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell Banker Gundaker fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. Operated by a subsidiary of NRT LLC. Coldwell Banker, the Coldwell Banker logo, Coldwell Banker Global Luxury and the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury logo are service marks registered or pending registrations owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. Real estate agents affiliated with Coldwell Banker Gundaker are independent contractor sales associates and are not employees of Coldwell Banker Gundaker.

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‌15 Bellerive Country Club |

214 Bellington Lane |

Susan Cox Holden Janet McAfee Real Estate 9889 Clayton Road, 314-503-3345, janetmcafee.com/susanholden

Christy Thompson Janet McAfee Real Estate 9889 Clayton Road, 314-974-6140, janetmcafee.com/christythompson

Situated on a 1.4-acre lot, this renovated

Located in Parkway Schools, this move-in

brick residence backs to the 17th tee at Bellerive Country Club. The abode offers

By Amanda Dahl

30 Clermont Lane | LADUE

32 Clermont Lane | LADUE

Kim Carney The Carney Team Coldwell Banker Premier Group 314-422-7449, thecarneyteam.com

Lizzy Dooley Real Estate Group Laura McCarthy Real Estate 314-680-1426 (direct), 314-725-5100 (office), l auramccarthy.com

Residing in the heart of Ladue, this 4-plus-

Fall in love with this stunning home,

bedroom home features fabulous updates

featuring updated baths and hardwood

ready residence balances upscale finishes

and an expansion. New enjoyments include

flooring. Admire the gourmet kitchen;

with a casual, comfortable feel. Highlights

a gourmet kitchen, with hearth room

living room, with a gas fireplace; family

fabulous views from its private pool, spa

of the 4-bedroom home include: 9-foot

addition; a main-floor office; a sunroom,

room, with pool views; wine room; and

and patio. Additional amenities include

ceilings, hardwood flooring, a well-

with wet bar; and a dressing room in the

master suite, with private baths and walk-in

a finished lower level and 3-car garage.

appointed kitchen, an updated master suite,

master suite. $1.5 million

closets. $2.05 million

$1.575 million

a saltwater pool and a picturesque patio.

TOWN AND COUNTRY

CREVE COEUR

27 Crestwood Drive | CLAYTON

3 Edgewood Road | LADUE

10 Edgewood Road | LADUE

Carolyn Malecek & Cynthia Akos Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Alliance Real Estate 314-956-9405 (Malecek), 314-749-9003 (Akos), bpmjrealestate.com, cynthiaakos.com

John Ryan The Ryan Tradition Coldwell Banker Gundaker 9651 Clayton Road, 314-941-0572, theryantradition.com

John Ryan The Ryan Tradition Coldwell Banker Gundaker 9651 Clayton Road, 314-941-0572, theryantradition.com

This classic home, designed by Study and

Reminiscent of the Hamptons, this

An incredible opportunity awaits within

Farrar, has been updated for the modern

gorgeous estate resides on 4.28 acres and

Clayton’s prestigious Claverach Park, where

lifestyle. A PebbleTec pool and slate

boasts multiple brick terraces, a pool

this fantastic residence boasts thorough

terrace excite, while the interior displays

and an outdoor living room, with a stone

updates and incredible architectural details

dramatic formal rooms, with antique

fireplace. The guest house delights with

throughout. Built circa 1929, the 5-plus-

paneling and exceptional craftsmanship.

2 bedrooms, plus a living room and kitchen.

bedroom home exudes sophistication,

The splendid new kitchen delights with

with intimate spaces that offer comfort. A

premium appliances.

3-plus-auto garage is an added amenity.

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luxury LISTINGS

1447 FAWNVALLEY DRIVE, 331 LADUE WOODS COURT, 1489 MINMAR DRIVE PHOTOS BY STEVEN B. SMITH; 15 LADUE LANE, 8921 MOYDALGAN ROAD PHOTOS BY SQUARE ONE MEDIA PRODUCTIONS‌; 11 LADUE MEADOWS PHOTO BY CINDY WILTSE‌

1447 Fawnvalley Drive | DES PERES

Jiggs Dunn & Christine Cool Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Alliance Real Estate 314-503-7999 (Dunn), 314-614-5822 (Cool), jiggsdunn.com

15 Ladue Lane | LADUE Sue McLaughlin & Katie McLaughlin Laura McCarthy Real Estate 314-504-4214 (Sue), 314-283-8444 (Katie), 314-725-5100 (office), l auramccarthy.com This lovely home’s secluded 2 acres boasts

Located in the popular subdivision

patios, a pool, a cabana and meticulous

of Hardwood Hills, this 4-bedroom

gardens. The main floor highlights a

family home offers an updated kitchen,

spacious den, living room and dining room,

master bath, and fresh carpet and paint.

with hardwood floors, plus a kitchen that

The property also includes a finished

invites with custom cabinets and high-end

lower level and has been meticulously

appliances. $1.995 million

maintained. $925,000

11 Ladue Meadows |

9625 Ladue Road | LADUE

Sharon Hutson Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Alliance Real Estate

John Ryan The Ryan Tradition Coldwell Banker Gundaker 9651 Clayton Road, 314-941-0572, theryantradition.com

CREVE COEUR

17050 Baxter Road, Suite 200, 314-614-4575 (direct), 636-227-3456 (office), s haronhutson.com

Known as The Woodlands, this spectacular

This spectacular, 1½-story custom home

features a lighted greenhouse, an herb and

features a gourmet kitchen with breakfast and hearth rooms. Wood flooring and high-beamed ceilings guide you through to discover a luxury master suite, with a

estate resides on 8 beautiful acres and vegetable garden, covered outdoor living and kitchen areas, a pool and pool house, a waterfall and pond, a carriage house and much more.

walk-in shower, a 3-car rear-entry garage and more. $1.25 million

331 Ladue Woods Court |

1489 Minmar Drive |

Steve Mathes & Joe Mathes Coldwell Banker Gundaker 314-503-6533 (Steve), 314-276-1604 (Joe), steveandjoemathes.com

Sue McLaughlin & Katie McLaughlin Laura McCarthy Real Estate 314-504-4214 (Sue), 314-283-8444 (Katie), 314-725-5100 (office), l auramccarthy.com

CREVE COEUR

8921 Moydalgan Road | LADUE

WARSON WOODS

Located in Ladue Pines, this 4,440-squarefoot home reveals a beautiful renovation,

This wonderful abode debuts a brand-new

with endless upgrades and a Home

kitchen, with honed granite and marble

Protection Plan. The 5-plus-bedroom and

countertops, plus built-ins. The breakfast

4.5-bathroom residence is move-in ready

area is situated near the main-floor laundry

and surrounded by gorgeous woods on a

and mud room. The kitchen also opens to

private acre lot. $825,000

the hearth room, featuring a wood-burning

Jill Azar Laura McCarthy Real Estate 314-616-8836 (direct), 314-725-5100 (office), l auramccarthy.com A true showstopper, this contemporary abode features beautiful updates that expertly blend modern and traditional tastes. Located on a private Ladue lane, the eye-catching 6-bedroom, 7-bathroom residence boasts a treasured design within its 5,900-plus-square-foot sprawling floor plan. $1.499 million

fireplace. $849,900

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DEALS TO BE DUNN! G N I IST

L W NE

7 Fox Run Lane Frontenac • $1,550,000

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Jiggs Dunn

Christine Cool

Cell: 314-503-7999 jdunn@bhhsall.com Office: 314-997-7600

Cell: 314-614-5822 ccool@bhhsall.com jiggsdunn.com

luxury LISTINGS 476 Steeplechase Lane |

21 Upper Ladue Road | LADUE

Ted Wight Dielmann Sotheby’s International Realty 314-607-5555 (direct), 314-725-0009 (office), tedwightrealestate.com

Gai Lowell, Susan Cox Holden & Marianne Galt Janet McAfee Real Estate 9889 Clayton Road, 314-983-2204, ext. 204, janetmcafee.com/gailowell

FRONTENAC

662 Westledge Court |

9 Westwood Country Club |

Maria Elias Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Alliance Real Estate 314-971-4346, homeswithmaria.com

Jan Kosmal Coldwell Banker Premier Group 314-478-1179, jankosmal.cbphomes.com

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SPIRITS Whimsical and oh-so-Instagrammable, Kindred is a space out of a Pinterest fairy tale dream. And to make it even better, everything in the boutique has been curated for a unique shopping experience. Ladue News caught up with visual merchandising manager Samantha Binkley to learn all about Kindred’s mission as a collective boutique, its focus on promoting small businesses including local Midwest designers and how Kindred carries a variety of on-trend products for any style or personality.

Kindred is a collective boutique, so cool! Could you tell us more about that?

Being a collective boutique means that we are essentially a vessel for local boutiques to showcase their product in a higher-paced setting. We try to take down a lot of the barriers to entry for smaller businesses to enter high-traffic shopping centers, while providing shoppers in those centers with the opportunity to buy from local business owners. So the store is very much about community and partnership.

How is shopping in a collective boutique a unique experience for customers?

One of the biggest differences we see is that with larger corporations, they centralize their buying team and tend to minimize the amount of difference from store to store. We take the opposite approach – we want our boutique owners to be incredibly plugged in to the local consumer habits and trends. We also want a diversity of buying styles to ensure that anyone who walks through our doors has the opportunity to find something and support a small business if that’s what they’d like to do.

Because of this, shopping with us provides our customers with the ability to shop their favorite local boutiques in one space. There’s also an element of discovery, because customers are exposed to businesses, brands and products that they might not have heard of before. From a product standpoint, we work hard to offer styles that are specific to the market and to limit the quantities we get so that our customers

are going home with something that is unique.

Since your boutique is a space for smaller merchants to get noticed, what is the selection process for brands to be a part of your collective?

About half of our boutiques come to us, and the other half are folks that we identify as potential partners and reach out to. When we evaluate a potential partnership, we like to look at the business’ current size and sales channels. We look at who their customer is, their price point and their fit within our current makeup of boutiques. Ultimately, we want to feel that being a part of Kindred is a helpful endeavor for their business goals. If we can help them generate sales and meet customers on their way to opening their first storefront or launching an online store, that’s the kind of thing that we get excited about.

Are there any familiar local brands represented that we might recognize?

If you’re a big St. Louis Blues or Cardinals fan, you’ll see a ton of people sporting our STL hats to games or even to Ballpark Village. JuJu B’s is a well-known and well-respected shop who carries the STL hat. We recently brought in Series Six, which is an amazing addition to our Made in STL section. We also have Ashley Jayne Boutique, who has a huge following on Instagram and Facebook, in addition to being some of the nicest women we know.

Kindred has two other locations – one in Overland Park, Kansas, and the other in Independence, Missouri. How were St. Louis and West County Center chosen as the next step in expansion?

We opened our original location in Overland Park because Kansas City is home to our ownership team.

We’ve developed a great relationship with that mall management team, and they recommended West County Center to us as a possible new location. As we came to St. Louis more to entertain the idea, we really fell in love with a lot of the city. There’s some

By Trey Ross similarity to Kansas City, but at the same time, St. Louis is incredibly distinct. One of the things that we love most is the pride that folks here in St. Louis take in supporting their city and their local businesses. That’s what made St. Louis such an alluring place to expand.

You guys sell a little bit of everything – clothing, home décor, gifts, apothecary items. What are some of the hottest trends that you’re seeing in the boutique right now?

We are finding that more and more people are drawn to pastels and neutrals this spring and summer.

Versatility is also incredibly important in their search for the perfect summer wardrobe. It feels like shoppers have a keen eye for how much trend is too much and are looking to strike that balance between on-trend and timelessness.

We are also seeing a lot of people really drawn to rompers, jumpsuits and dresses that have unique qualities about them. We like to think of these items as “elevated basics,” and we do really well when we find those pieces. Customers want something with a bit of interest – and that, I think, is part of what we do best.

Should we be watching for anything new on the horizon at Kindred?

We are currently working on a Made in STL section in our store, which is inspired and based on our sister store, Made in KC, back in Kansas City. Within that section, we are going to be bringing in the best local makers and designers here in St. Louis to showcase their products. We’ll have everything from apparel to candles to cards. We think that this is another way for customers to support their local business owners, and we’re excited to bring it to fruition. In addition, we’ll continue to look for opportunities to expand Kindred’s retail footprint both inside and outside of St. Louis.

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n this time of social media and other digital technology, it’s easy to stay connected to friends and family wherever they are. But technology, of course, can be a double-edged sword, often taking the human connection out of relationships. And in the case of marking significant life moments, it can reduce well-intended warm wishes and congratulations to likes, comments and emoji-filled texts.

Entrepreneurs Uvie Ahlering and Madi Bruns are looking to change that with Honey Door Co., a lifestyle brand specializing in curated gift boxes. The pair’s online storefront officially launched over the Memorial Day weekend.

“We both really had this inclination individually for years, that we just wanted to do something on our own,” Bruns says. “And then we finally found the right idea and someone willing to try it with us.”

Two creative St. Louis transplants look to revamp the art of giving gifts for the digital age.

In a very St. Louis way, Ahlering, born in Israel, and Bruns, originally from Oregon, met through their husbands, who attended high school together. But social media was the true conduit for their connection: Ahlering remembers following Bruns’ husband on Instagram, and whenever he’d post pictures with her she’d think, “I feel like I need to be friends with this girl!” The feeling was mutual, and 24 days after connecting, the pair opened a bank account together. Six months later, Honey Door Co. boxes are already making their way through the mail.

The idea, they admit, was personal from the start.

“We both went to college away from home, and we met so many friends and made so many connections,” Ahlering says, “and it was so hard for us to keep up with those friendships.”

Visiting in person is great when it’s an option, and anyone who’s survived his or her mid-20s knows the joys of planning your vacation days around a particularly busy wedding season. But what about those life moments that are big, but not quite big enough to necessitate a cross-country flight or a rented tux – like purchasing a home, landing a job promotion, becoming parents for the first time (yes, puppy parenting counts) or recovering from a difficult surgery?

Bruns recalled a particular time when she wanted to send a care package to an out-of-state friend, but her options were limited to flowers, a fruit arrangement or a stuffed bear hugging a “get well soon” balloon. It was in meeting and partnering with Ahlering that they dreamed up a better experience.

“We know what our friends love,” Ahlering says. “We know what we ourselves talk about and love, and we want our friends to have those same things. So we created a company that would make it easy for them. We’re taking the inconvenience of gift-giving out of the equation.”

Favoring unique goods that are ethically sourced, often organic and local when possible, Honey Door Co. launched with three different curated boxes.

First, Bay-Bee Boy and Bay-Bee Girl boxes are perfect for expecting parents, with items like tiny moccasins and newborn-size soft sleepers. Swarm Wishes, the brand’s self-care option, is great for any time a “thinking of you” moment occurs, packed with items like a jade roller and Lark Skin Co.’s Lavender + Mint Lotion Bar. Finally, the Found Your Honey box is for any ladies navigating the wedding-planning track and provides treats like matching eye masks and a leather pouch for stowing day-of essentials.

Ahlering and Bruns say their goal is to avoid generic items that the receiver might be tempted to regift.

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“When you’re gifting, you don’t want it to be clutter or mass-produced,” Bruns says. “We selected things that people will be excited about in the moment but also will want to keep forever.”

Adds Ahlering, “You can get, get, get so much in today’s world, but I think it’s really important to pick mindful items that people would genuinely use.”

Each box will be delivered to the giftee’s home within two days of purchase in the brand’s signature cheery packaging (the box, crinkled paper stuffing and the packing tape are all recyclable) and will contain at least five items accented with a fresh floral bundle, a menu card detailing the customized contents and a personalized handwritten note. All boxes will retail for under $100, although they are valued much higher.

Ahlering and Bruns – who, in addition to Honey Door Co., both have fulltime jobs in marketing and information technology sales, respectively – both mention the strong support they’ve received from friends, co-workers, family and the community at large as they’ve launched their passion project.

“We’re really grateful for the St. Louis small-business community that understands where we’re at because they’ve been there, too,” Ahlering says.

We selected things that people will be excited about in the moment but also will want to keep forever.

– Madi Bruns

“Everybody is willing to help; if you ask for it, it’s there. St. Louis rallies – it’s not about competition or who is doing what. Everyone just wants St. Louis to boom.”

The pair is just as committed to giving back to the community with Honey Door Co., with a portion of the proceeds from each box going toward a local cause or charity. They’ve selected Haven of Grace, a St. Louis organization that provides a home for young women who are homeless and pregnant, as their first organization and say they are excited to rotate additional organizations in the future.

Looking ahead, they already have pop-ups in the works with other local businesses, and they plan on adding more themed boxes, such as a House Swarming box for first-time homeowners or boxes for when your friend becomes a puppy parent, and switching up the items as the seasons change.

They’re even open to working with individuals or companies for more whitelabel offerings like corporate gifts and wedding welcome boxes for wedding guests traveling for a wedding. Regardless of where they go next, the spirit of the company – revitalizing the act of connecting people through gifts – will remain front and center.

“We know how amazing people in St. Louis are, and that means you have friends in different places,” Bruns says. “So we’re here to provide a service that’s going to keep those friendships and connections alive, thriving and meaningful, and we’re honestly honored to do that.”

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Soccer to Me,BABY!

By Frank Cusumano

‌HERE’S WHAT I THINK:

1.

In the very near future, we’re going to get some great news from Major League Soccer. Our town has done it! We won the lottery from hell with our prior NFL owners, Bill Bidwell and Stan Kroenke back to back, but we hit a heavenly jackpot with the Taylors and Jim Kavanaugh in soccer – two true St. Louis families who have been incredibly successful trying to make our city better. Believe me, if they were shooting for a great profit, there are at least 100 ideas better than investing in a soccer team – instead, this is about civic pride.

2.

Speaking of improvements, what about the job Gateway Motorsports Park owner and CEO Curtis Francois has done with the track in Madison, Illinois? It had what seemed to be its last race in 2010, then was dead for two solid years. Francois took over, and now it’s the only track in America that has an Indy race, a NASCAR race and an NHRA event. David Steward, the founder of Maryland Heights’ World Wide Technology, was impressed so much that he entered into partnership with Francois. The track was renamed

World Wide Technology Raceway, and the Bommarito 500 is one of the best sporting events in our area every year. There’ll be more big things to come at that track.

3.

The Blues took control of the sports scene during spring, and the thing that jumps out at me about the franchise is the future. Almost every really good player on the team is either in his prime and locked up for years or is about to reach his prime. The president of the Blues, Doug Armstrong, deserves a great deal of the credit – this season has been the start of a trend, not an aberration.

4.

Soon we’ll have a lawsuit in our town against Kroenke and the NFL. All the preliminary rulings have worked against Stan. I’m pretty confident the attorneys representing our town will prove that Stan and the league had already made up their minds about the Rams’ move and forced St. Louis to spend a lot of money to try to keep the team. I’m also pretty confident the league violated some of its relocation laws, too. The lawsuit’s not going to bring back

football here, and it’s not going to affect Stan’s wealth much – but still, it’d be nice to see him have to write another check to St. Louis. Remember, he already lost the Personal Seat License lawsuit.

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Things I really believe in nowadays: (a) The Mizzen+Main dress shirt. Look the company up online. It’s the greatest invention of all time. It’s comfort nonstop. (b) A McBride Homes home. The company’s products have the biggest closets, the biggest master bedrooms and a certain panache about them. (c) Billions on Showtime. It’s the new Dallas – so many diabolical characters to love. (d) A Bill Simmons podcast. Just a great dose of sports insight, pop culture and humor.

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Swimmer’s Ear

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y the time you read this, Memorial Day will have come and gone, swimming pools will be open, and kids will be in the water. Although most children enjoy swimming with no problems, some might develop otitis externa – swimmer’s ear.

Swimmer’s ear is an infection involving the sensitive, skin-lined ear canal.

This part of the ear produces wax that can help clean and waterproof the canal and that provides an acidic pH, giving it an antibiotic effect to help fend off infections.

Disruption to the healthy environment of the canal causes swimmer’s ear.

Moisture breaks down the protective layer of wax and leads to swelling of the canal skin, allowing bacteria to enter and cause inflammation and infection. Warmer summertime temperatures and swimming offer the perfect setting to develop swimmer’s ear. An infection can develop even after exposure to pools’ clean, chlorinated water.

A child complaining of ear pain, regardless of the cause, should be evaluated by a physician. A history of recent swimming and/or manipulation of the ear canal will raise the suspicion of swimmer’s ear. It can sometimes be difficult to distinguish between swimmer’s ear and a middle ear infection, which is more common in cold-weather months after an upper respiratory infection. If moving your child’s ear up and down causes pain and he or she has recently been swimming, it’s most likely swimmer’s ear.

Treatment of swimmer’s ear is usually handled by your child’s pediatrician; only complicated cases require a referral to an ear, nose and throat specialist, also known as an ENT or otolaryngologist. The most common treatment is the application of antibiotic eardrops. During treatment, swimming should be avoided, and when your child bathes, the canal can be protected with a petroleum jelly-covered cotton ball. Pain is the dominant symptom and can be treated with acetaminophen or ibuprofen.

If your child suffers from recurrent swimmer’s ear, preventive measures can be taken, such as getting all water out of the ear after swimming and using over-the-counter swimmer’s eardrops to evaporate any residual water in the ear canal. Using earplugs is generally not recommended to manage swimmer’s ear because it may cause mild trauma to the ear canal and can lead to impaction of earwax.

If the proper precautions are taken, your child can enjoy a fun and pain-free summer of swimming.

My thanks to Dr. Jim Forsen, pediatric otolaryngologist at Mercy Children’s Hospital, for his input on this article.

Treatment of swimmer’s ear is usually handled by your child’s pediatrician; only complicated cases require a referral to an ear, nose and throat specialist, also known as an ENT or otolaryngologist.

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West County Center houses a new and innovative retail store that offers a wide range of crowdfunded products.

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n today’s world, the business of … well … business takes many forms.

Many entrepreneurs take a traditional route, putting countless hours into developing and marketing their products. In recent years, though, crowdfunding has become a popular route to get an idea off the ground.

Websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo allow innovators to share their concepts with the world, which can garner funds and support from others who believe in their product, too.

Ryan Sim was one such creator back in 2015. The Singapore native “was never the 9-to-5 kind of person” and set about making slim radio-frequency identificationprotected wallets via a Kickstarter campaign under the name of Kisetsu. When the first campaign raised more money than expected, Sim started believing in crowdfunding. He went on to launch two more wallet campaigns, each more successful than the last. The third campaign raised $130,000, a fortunate moment that might have been fate, as Sim was fired from his digital agency sales job around the same time. He put all his time and effort into the Kisetsu wallet line but wanted to focus on getting his products out into the world rather than just promoting them online.

“We rented a booth and sold wallets on the streets of Singapore,” Sim recalls. “It was going pretty well.

Crowdfunding is the practice One day, I put out a little sign that of funding a project or venture said ‘funded with Kickstarter.’ Sales went up threefold.” by raising small amounts of Realizing people were intrigued money from a large number by crowdfunded products led Sim and a few fellow Singaporean of people, typically via the creators to come up with the idea internet. In 2015, more for a crowdfunding store. On doing some research, they found there than $34 billion was raised was no such thing, but there was worldwide by crowdfunding. definitely a market for it.

“People look at these products for more than what they are,” Sim says. “They realize they have a story behind them.”

After a successful pop-up event at a busy shopping area in Singapore, We The People was officially born in 2016.

“We The People is all about ideas and how your ideas powered with crowdfunding can have their own life,” Sim says. “Crowdfunding doesn’t look at your background or how educated you are. It looks at the idea and the person behind it.”

Six months after Sim and his team opened their initial Singapore store, they started getting a lot of interest from the United States wanting to bring We The People stateside. Although it was a market they wanted to tap into, they remained focused on their efforts in Singapore until 2018, when they began franchising and looked into bringing We The People to the U.S. They could’ve looked into the country’s biggest cities like Los Angeles or New York City, but instead they opted for St. Louis.

“We picked St. Louis for two reasons: One, it’s right in the center of the country, and two, the talent pool is just as good if not better than on the coasts,” Sim says.

“A lot of people have been asking, ‘Why St. Louis?’ but I say, ‘Why not?’”

We The People first launched in a pop-up format on the lower level of Des Peres’ West County Center in late 2018 and moved to a permanent location upstairs shortly after. The store, which is a bright and clean-lined space, is set up to feel almost like a museum, but where products can be tried out and handled.

“The sales staff will tell you everything about everything in the store, including background on the product’s creator,” Sim says. “Most of the sales staff are creators themselves.”

We The People currently features products from all over the world, but Sim and his team were passionate about including metro area makers in the store. Visitors to

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We The People will find local products like the Flipstik, an adhesive patch that attaches to the back of a cellphone and can be stuck to any surface, and Skelosaurz, leather dinosaur puzzles that can be molded into a variety of shapes with water.

There’s something for everyone at We The People. Customers will also find everything from a slick bagel-shaped travel power strip (the store’s best-seller), to paper that uses static electricity to stick to any surface, to Sim’s own wallets. Visitors can also check out forthcoming products through a feature called “livefunding.”

Creators set up a booth or send a prototype to We The People, and the sales staff will talk to customers for them.

Giving back to the communities that have helped make their dream a reality is important to the We The People team.

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Louis’ Tower Grove South neighborhood and My Thai in that city’s Central West End. Filling the space previously occupied by Público, Fox Fire retained the wood-fired grill in the kitchen and treelike sculptures mounted on the dining area wall. Fox reworked the open kitchen to suit her needs and brought many new touches to the dining room, including a teak carving imported from Thailand and art by local talents Andrew Tansil and Ray Moody.

“This place feels like home,” Fox says. “I can be cooking, and my kids can sit here and watch, and friends and family can come hang out. It’s very comfortable.”

Highlights from the menu include a grilled shrimp salad with romaine, other lettuce, garlic croutons,

shaved Parmesan and a ginger-vinaigrette dressing with a hint of sweetness from honey. A Philly cheesesteak, another favorite, comprises a soy- and ginger-marinated steak topped with cheese, lettuce, peppers and onion, served with fries and taro chips.

Pan-Asian offerings include pad Thai with noodles, bean sprouts, green onions, egg, lime and crushed peanuts, available with marinated chicken, pork, tofu, beef, shrimp or a seafood combo. The same proteins are available across a number of items, including Fox’s take on Vietnamese phở, featuring a rich, savory broth with noodles, bean sprouts, green onions, cilantro, basil and fried wontons.

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an-Asian cuisine and wood-fired specialties make for a deliciously unique match at Fox Fire in University City. The menu mirrors the marriage of owner and chef Somying Fox and her husband, Kevin – a blend of their backgrounds present in the Asian- and Americaninspired dishes.

“We wanted people to be able to enjoy Asian food and American food at the same time,” Somying Fox says. “It’s all made with love. We want to make everybody happy and for them to have a good experience – that’s our goal.”

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marinated in Asian-style sauce; a spicy fish fillet featuring crispy fish with garlic, pepper, red curry, ginger, onion and basil; and basil mussels with sautéed mussels, scallops, ginger, pepper, basil and Brussels sprouts.

Fox Fire makes the perfect spot for customers who are hungry but don’t exactly know what they’re craving – so theater fans can feel free to enjoy a feast that transcends continents before catching the Bard’s classic Love’s Labors Lost from the Shakespeare Festival St. Louis.

Otherwise, guests oughtn’t forget about the delectable desserts from Fox Fire, which include sweet sticky rice and custard, fried bananas with ice cream, crème brûlée and chocolate cake. A full bar, with a selection of beer, wine and cocktails like the lychee martini, is also available for guests.

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‌Story: King Ferdinand of Navarre convinces three of his pals, namely the lords Biron, DuMaine and Longueville, to join him in three years of fasting and studying and, most important, resisting the powerful allure of women. They somewhat reluctantly agree to do so, with Biron the least enthusiastic.

Don Adriano de Armado, a Spaniard visiting Navarre, reports to the king that the commoner Costard has been having a fling with a country wench named Jaquenetta. Armado is pleased when the king admonishes Costard, revealing to his own page, Moth, that he himself fancies Jaquenetta.

The Princess of France arrives in Navarre accompanied by three of her ladies, Roseline, Catherine and Maria, to discuss a political matter with Ferdinand.

Instantly, the king is smitten with the princess, as are his three pals with the trio of French ladies. Separately, they devise schemes to meet the women clandestinely, in clear violation of their newfound pact swearing off the opposite sex.

Meanwhile, Armado writes a letter to Jaquenetta and entrusts the simple Costard to deliver the message. However, Costard inadvertently switches the letter with another he’s been given by Biron to hand over to Roseline.

When Costard shows Jaquenetta Biron’s letter by mistake, two court scholars named Nathaniel and Holofernes consulted by Jaquenetta interpret Biron’s letter as treasonous and send Jaquenetta off to inform the king of Biron’s crime.

After Biron realizes what has happened with the two letters, he admits his transgression but also reminds the king and his fellow lords of their same offense, which they admit. They then decide to masquerade as Muscovites to entertain the women, who in turn disguise themselves once they learn of this ploy.

As the pairs happily reunite after learning each other’s true identities, the princess is visited by a French messenger named Marcade, informing her of the death of her father and the urgency for her to return home as the new queen of France.

She then tells Ferdinand that he and his lords must wait a year and a day before they can wed their soul mates to prove their undying love. Armado agrees to do the same to prove his worthiness to the fair Jaquenetta.

Highlights: Shakespeare Festival St. Louis executive producer/director Tom Ridgely coaxes delightful performances from his polished ensemble in this sparkling presentation of one of the Bard’s wittiest and most engaging comedies.

Other Info: As Ridgely observes in his program notes, “Taking place over two midsummer days in the royal park of the King of Navarre, it’s hard to imagine a play more perfectly suited to our glorious surroundings right here in Forest Park.”

Right he is about that. The Shakespeare Glen

makes an ideal location for performing this breezy and well-paced piece, two acts that span about 2½ hours. Scenic designer Jason Simms’ pastoral set blends into Forest Park’s natural scenery to accentuate the outdoor element in the Bard’s comedy, which is replete with wordplay.

Strolling on and off the stage during intervals between scenes are members of The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra, whose musical direction and composition enhance the gentle, agreeable nature of the story along with Rusty Wandall’s pleasant sound design.

The orchestra’s composers/performers Matt Pace and Brien Seyle are joined by Patrick Blindauer on accordion.

Topping the performances are Philip Hernández, extracting every ounce of comedy from the rich role of the blustery Armado, and Naima Randolph as his plucky and enterprising page, Moth. The lanky Hernandez and diminutive Randolph are amusing in their physical contrast, as well as their immersion in their roles.

Bradley James Tejeda expertly delivers the speeches and emotions of the lovestruck Biron, while Patrick Blindauer excels in the role of the unflappable and determined Costard. There’s accomplished work as well

by Laura Sohn as the affecting Roseline, Kea Trevett as the self-confident princess, Kiah McKirnan as the independent Catherine and Vivienne Claire Luthin as the agreeable Maria.

Sky Smith is accomplished in the role of the wellmeaning if shortsighted king, ably joined by Sam Jones as Longueville, Riz Moe as DuMaine and the aforementioned Tejeda as Biron.

Language aficionados will appreciate the Bard’s wordplay, especially well delivered by Blindauer and Carine Montbertrand (Holofernes), and all in attendance can appreciate the lighthearted romance behind this enchanting version of Love’s Labors Lost.

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Group: Shakespeare Festival St. Louis Venue: Shakespeare Glen in Forest Park near the Saint Louis Art Museum Dates: Through June 23 (except Mondays) Tickets: Free; for details, visit sfstl.com.

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‌Sun., June 9

Enjoy an “UNFORGETTABLE” evening at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, featuring vocalists Denzal Sinclaire and Dee Daniels. Sinclaire and Daniels perform the best of the legendary father/daughter duo Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole, who put their stamp on the jazz and pop music of their times. Prices vary. 3 p.m. slso.org.

Sat., June 15 Wed., June 12

Tonina, a singer/songwriter and bassist from St. Louis, at the open-air WHITAKER MUSIC FESTIVAL perform at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The Whitaker Music Festival presents free Wednesday concerts all summer long and is funded by the Whitaker Foundation, which supports St. Louis arts and parks. Visitors are welcome to bring their own picnics and coolers, but please limit glass in the park! Free. 7 p.m.

Thu., June 13

Take a romantic stroll at sunset to and through the Saint Louis Science Center’s SCIENCE AT SUNSET event. Attendees can enjoy live music, a $5 happy hour with food and drink specials, GameXPloration and more! Free. 5 p.m. slsc.org.

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Tue., June 11

“If you could read my mind, love,” then you’d know this spotlight features none other than esteemed singer/songwriter GORDON LIGHTFOOT. Lightfoot, a folk, folk-rock and country musician, brings his talent to The Sheldon Concert Hall & Art Galleries, including such hits as “Early Morning Rain,” “Sundown,” “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald“ and more. Prices vary. 8 p.m. thesheldon.org.

Fri., June 14

Celebrate your city at Left Bank Books’ LAUNCH PARTY FOR THE ST. LOUIS ANTHOLOGY. The St. Louis Anthology – a book edited by Ryan Schuessler that features more than 50 contributors – chronicles “the city’s history, culture and community.” 7 p.m. at Earthbound Brewing. Left-bank.com.

Fri., June 14

Grab the kids for what’s sure to be a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious OUTDOOR MOVIE NIGHT at Carondelet Park, hosted by Salem United Methodist Church and The Connection United Methodist Church. Kick back and watch the free outdoor screening of Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns while feasting on free popcorn and frozen pops. Free. 7:30 p.m. salemstlouis.com.

Let that inner child loose courtesy of The Magic House, St. Louis Children’s Museum’s ADULT PLAY DATE @ MADE. Big kids, 21 years old and up, can create their own masterpieces with paint, clay, lasers, Legos and more while enjoying tantalizing appetizers, beer and wine. Prices vary. 7 to 10 p.m. at this local treasure’s satellite location, The Magic House @ MADE. magichouse.org.

Sat., June 15

Come hungry to the ST. LOUIS TACO FESTIVAL at Ballpark Village! Area restaurants and food trucks will offer a variety of indulgences from tacos to specialty margaritas, Mexican tamales to churros, and much more. The family-friendly event will feature live music, lucha libre wrestling, a tacoeating contest, face painting and bounce houses. $15 general admission. Kids under 10 are free.

1 p.m. tacofestivalstl.com.

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June 20-30, 2019 at The Grandel Theatre Winner of numerous awards including an acclaimed Tony-winning run on Broadway, Indecent,

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“BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR! Remarkably powerful! Sheds light on a time when history, Jewish culture and the depiction of lesbian love explosively intersected.” - New York Times

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o use a verb common to interior design and fashion, Chesterfield artist Jo Jasper Dean’s Palm Fronds positively pops.

The chromatic vivacity of that 36- by 48-inch oil, which Dean committed to canvas in 2017, may remind many viewers of the botanical jubilation of an increasingly mythic-seeming “ordinary” late spring or early summer here, one unmarred by either flooding or drought. Like many of the other works displayed in her website’s gallery, Palm Fronds also may tempt viewers to think fruitful thoughts: lemon, lime, tangerine, kiwi.

“I find nature inspiring and color intoxicating,” Dean relates. “My images are inspired by direct observation of nature – developing the composition in the field through the camera lens. In the studio, value and color studies are created, followed by color studies translating the composition to my color palette. Beginning with a detailed realistic grisaille – underpainting – executed in sizzling red, I adhere to the reality of defining the form of the subject I’m portraying, but reality stops there.

“I then layer on an imaginative color palette of saturated, amplified colors, igniting visual electricity sparked by the interaction and tension between complementary colors. Using impressionistic, expressive brushstrokes to capture the textures of nature, I always leave a hint of the grisaille showing to add an element of heat.”

Within that general creative context, Dean provides specifics on the origin of Palm Fronds.

“Wherever I travel, I seek out botanical gardens and nature preserves, scouting for the unique and beautiful to convey in a painting,” she says. “The Naples Botanical Gardens [in Florida] is a frequent stop, as we visit family living nearby. One winter, we were strolling the paths when the crisp, warm air was overwhelming as the breeze rushed over me, and the palm fronds seemed to clink like wind chimes above me.

“As I looked up, the fronds were swaying to the breeze following the tune of their ‘chimes.’ I had to paint it.

Click – I got the shot, and relived the warm experience as I re-created it in my studio – in my color palette.”

Dean relates that she studied art at Clayton’s Fontbonne University and St. Louis Community College, ultimately earning a bachelor’s degree in business management from Town and Country’s Maryville University.

As a painter, she’s taken part in juried shows for Art St. Louis, the St. Louis Artists’ Guild and SLCC, among others, and since 2015, Sara Eyestone of New Mexico’s La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa has represented her.

That said, Dean’s enthusiasm for the visual arts long predates her collegiate stint, let alone the present. “I always remember painting and drawing, even when I was a small child, winning my first blue ribbon for an oil painting in sixth grade,” she recalls.

“I was fortunate to have a solo show less than four years after I stopped a corporate career and began painting full time. It’s in my blood – I suppose I’ll always be painting and loving every minute of it. When I go to my studio, I tell my husband, ‘I’m going to paradise.’”

Aptly so. In both her works and her words, Dean seemingly embraces an almost Edenic harmony. “I enjoy painting in this style to convey my emotional connection

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to the image, and to communicate how I see the scenes and subjects that move me,” she says. “Whether in the open landscape or a creature’s environment, I’m attracted to the bountiful offerings, unique treasures and endless textures in nature.

“My paintings focus on a dramatic close-up view of nature to deliver an intimate view of the subject, inviting the viewer to step inside the scene and feel the emotional connection I experienced with my subject. I enjoy using exaggerated explosions of color and lively brushstrokes to evoke the energy I see in nature.”

In short, if Palm Fronds and Dean’s other works prompt jubilation in a viewer, that feeling scarcely goes unshared by the artist herself. “Painting gives me great joy,” she

says. “It lifts my spirits and feeds my soul.

“Painting is an invigorating sensory experience: I love the smell of oil paints, the sound of the palette knife scraping across the surface of the palette, the feel of the brush dragging the paint across the texture of the canvas and the sight of the image developing before my eyes.”

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To learn more about our featured artist, visit jojasperdean.com.

St. Louis-area artists who wish to be considered for future installments of this monthly department of Ladue News should email inquiries to bhollerbach@laduenews.com with “Art and Soul” in the subject line.

Stricken POWERS

By Bryan A. Hollerbach Photos by Sarah Conroy

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triking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt,” an ongoing exhibition at St. Louis’ acclaimed Pulitzer Arts Foundation, details desecrations (among them nasal desecrations) to statues and similar works from the Land of the Nile.

That exhibition, which opened March 22, runs until Aug. 11 under Pulitzer associate curator Stephanie Weissberg and calls into question the degree to which the term icon and all of its derivatives have been degraded over time.

“Striking Power” comprises 40 artifacts on loan from New York’s 196-year-old Brooklyn Museum. Accompanying the exhibition and sharing its title is a 72-page illustrated catalog, co-published by the Pulitzer and its New York counterpart; that catalog includes essays by Weissberg and Dr. Edward Bleiberg, senior curator of Egyptian, Classical and ancient Near Eastern art at the Brooklyn institution.

Works in the exhibition derive from three Egyptian eras, according to the Pulitzer’s initial press release: the Pharaonic Period, 3000-30 B.C.; Late Antiquity, A.D. 200-642; and the Islamic period, dating from 642 to the present.

That release relates the outré inspiration for the exhibition. “The most common question I am asked about the Brooklyn Museum’s collection of Egyptian art is ‘Why are the noses broken?’” it quotes Bleiberg as recalling. “This exhibition grew out of my search for the answer to that question.”

The answer, in brief? In antiquity, Egyptians believed the statuary involved not only paid tribute to deceased rulers but also personified them. In what anthropology calls sympathetic magic, destroying the noses of statues and similar works (an act of literal defacement) prevented those rulers from breathing in the afterlife, tomb robbers believed – and thus, from seeking vengeance for sarcophagal desecrations.

Similar but more theologically oriented depredation took place to prevent deceased rulers from nourishing themselves (and thus maintaining power) in the afterlife.

Later desecration from a more pragmatic era, notes the release, took place often simply to scavenge the granite and other precious components of ancient statuary – something of a precursor to contemporary thieves’ pinching copper from unattended air conditioners – regardless of its archaeological and artistic significance.

Weissberg reflects on how it felt to co-curate an exhibition involving artifacts not “merely” centuries old but millennia old. “‘Striking Power’ is an exciting opportunity to view ancient objects in a new light,” she says. “It’s the first exhibition to explore the intentional destruction of ancient Egyptian art. Developing this show has been a very rewarding

It all began with

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interdisciplinary process, as we’ve looked at objects not only in the moment of their creation, but across thousands of years as different cultures, religious groups and political leaders came into contact with them.

“It’s humbling to realize that although there are very significant differences between ancient Egyptian and modern understandings of visual culture, the power of images has sustained over millennia.”

“Striking Power” opens with the literally disembodied sculptural head of a ruler named Hatshepsut – its nose and other significant features destroyed – and sprawls grandly through the Pulitzer’s entrance, main, cube, lower main, lower south and lower east galleries in a curatorial tour de force.

The artifacts on display range in size from relics smaller than tennis balls and a granite statuette (of a priest named Hor) no bigger than a Barbie to the 82-inch-tall limestone lid of a sarcophagus (of a royal scribe/priest named Pa-di-Inpu).

Many sport nasal destruction (among other calculated destruction helpfully sketched in a complimentary saddle-stitched guide for visitors issued by the Pulitzer) in what brings to mind some sort of vast rhinoplastic exercise gone tragically awry.

In fact, the average visitor to the Pulitzer might laugh aloud on reaching the exhibition’s 35th item, the limestone bust of Ptolemy II, whose kingly schnoz has somehow remained intact across the millennia: Did someone miss a memo?

When asked which of the 40 artifacts in “Striking Power” most impressed her, Weissberg cites the Hatshepsut relic mentioned earlier.

“As one of the few female kings to rule Egypt, Hatshepsut was an incredibly successful leader who used visual representations, such as this statue, to telegraph her power,” she says. “After her reign, her stepson mounted a widespread campaign against her legacy in order to ensure the succession of his own son.

“This particular statue was once a part of a sphinx and displays typical patterns of the destruction that was waged against Hatshepsut’s image, including damage

to symbols of her royalty – such as the protective cobra on her headdress – and her nose, where her spirit would have drawn the breath of life.”

Weissberg also circumspectly distinguishes between the destructive acts illustrated in the exhibition and seemingly congruent acts perpetrated during the last half a century or so, either here or abroad.

“When considering connections between the past and present, it’s important to acknowledge that contemporary image-culture functions in ways that are fundamentally different from that of ancient Egypt,” she says. “Ancient Egyptians believed images could host the spirits of deities or the deceased. Their destruction was, therefore, often aimed at preventing a spirit from exerting influence over the living.

“While the type of threat images pose may be understood very differently today, their destruction can still be attributed to the enormous influence they exert. For this reason, the study of the ancient past lends nuanced understanding to our current moment, in which the destruction of art and monuments occupies critical space in civic discourse.”

Otherwise, Weissberg reflects on a benefit of her and Bleiberg’s investigation into destructive patterns among Egyptian relics. “In the process, many more questions have arisen, which provide exciting opportunities for future research,” she says. “It’s been rewarding to see audiences engage the material with curiosity and enthusiasm as we investigate these objects under a new lens.”

Finally, it bears noting that an exhibition that fundamentally began with broken noses ends on a similarly outré note. Its 40th and last display, positioned alone at the base of the stairwell in the lower east gallery, contains nothing more than a pair of granodiorite feet, all that remains of the statue of a priest named Sehetepibre-ankh.

Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 3716 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-754-1850, pulitzerarts.org

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