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The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, and of Rev. Martin Luther King’s memorable “I have a dream” speech, is a time for reflections – some inspiring and some painful and ominous.

At the core of Dr. King’s speech was his dream of a world in which people would not be judged by the color of their skin, but by “the content of their character.”

Judging individuals by their individual character is at the opposite pole from judging how groups are statistically represented among employees, college students or political figures.

Yet many – if not most – of those who celebrate the “I have a dream” speech today promote the directly opposite approach of group preferences, especially those based on skin color.

How consistent Martin Luther King himself was as he confronted the various issues of his time is a question that can be left for historians. His legacy to us is the “I have a dream” speech.

What was historic about that speech was not only what was said but how powerfully its message resonated among Americans of that time, across the spectrum of race, ideology and politics. A higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted in Congress for both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

To say that was a hopeful time would be an understatement. To say that many of those hopes have since been disappointed would also be an understatement.

There has been much documented racial progress since 1963. But there has also been much retrogression, of which the disintegration of the black family has been central, especially among those at the bottom of the social pyramid.

Many people – especially politicians and activists – want to take credit for the economic and other advancement of blacks, even though a larger proportion of blacks rose out of poverty in the 20 years before 1960 than in the 20 years afterward. But no one wants to take responsibility for the policies and ideologies that led to the breakup of the black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and generations of discrimination.

Many hopes were disappointed because those were unrealistic hopes to begin with.

Economic and other disparities between groups have been common for centuries,

in countries around the world – and many of those disparities have been, and still are, larger than the disparities between blacks and whites in America.

Even when those who lagged behind have advanced, they have not always caught up, even after centuries, because others were advancing at the same time. But when blacks did not catch up with whites in America, within a matter of decades, that was treated as strange – or even a sinister sign of crafty and covert racism.

Civil rights were necessary, but far from sufficient. Education and job skills are crucial, and the government cannot give you these things. All it can do is make them available.

Race hustlers, who blame all lags on the racism of others, are among the obstacles to taking the fullest advantage of education and other opportunities. What does that say about the content of their character?

When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was pending in Congress, my hope was that it would pass undiluted, not because I thought it would be a panacea but, on the contrary, because “the bitter anticlimax that is sure to follow may provoke some real thought in quarters where slogans and labels hold sway at the moment.”

But the bitter anticlimax that did follow provoked no rethinking. Instead, it provoked all sorts of new demands. Judging everybody by the same standards was now regarded in some quarters as “racist” because it precluded preferences and quotas.

There are people today who talk “justice” when they really mean payback – including payback against people who were not even born when historic injustices were committed.

The nation has just been through a sensationalized murder trial in Florida, on which many people took fierce positions before a speck of evidence was introduced, basing themselves on nothing more than judging those involved by the color of their skin.

We have a long way to go to catch up to what Martin Luther King said 50 years ago.

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The IRS Says I Owe $12,000. Now What Do I Do? Nothing strikes fear in the heart of a taxpayer more than receiving a letter in the mail from the IRS. This is the time of year taxpayers are receiving letters reporting items that may have been missed on a prior year tax return. Generally speaking, it takes about 15 months for the IRS to match W2s, 1099s etc. they have received to your income tax return. For instance, your tax return for the year 2011 was filed by April 15th of 2012.

15 months later would be July of this year (2013).

Keep in mind, any W2s or 1099s you received were also sent to the IRS. The IRS WILL check your tax return to make sure it was reported. Depending upon the nature of the 1099, any tax due can be substantial or nothing. The three most common we encounter are: 1. You did some consulting or side jobs for someone as a subcontractor and did not receive a 1099MISC. Consequently, you forgot to tell your tax preparer about it. It is apparent the person that paid you sent one to the IRS even if you did not receive one.

2. You sold stocks (including cashing in stock options) or cashed in bonds or CDs. The IRS only receives the gross sales amount and will recalculate your tax assuming it was entirely profit if it was not reported on Schedule D. 3. You rolled over retirement money but the 1099R reported it as paid directly to you.

In these situations even if the additional income reported is correct you probably should amend the tax return to make sure any related expenses or “cost basis” are deducted against the income. Many times the actual amount due will be much lower than the IRS proposed amount or possibly nothing at all.

The absolute worst thing to do is throw the letter in a pile for your tax preparer to look at next year.

In any situation involving correspondence from the IRS, I strongly advise talking with a tax professional immediately. There is a definite advantage if someone who is familiar with these situations takes a look at it before you respond.

These “Correspondence Audits” as they are known are not the “Audits From Hell” people often hear about. We will address that topic later.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Obamacare To the Editor: America’s 28 million small businesses are the backbone of our economy, creating two out of every three net new jobs and employing half of America’s workforce.

From mom-and-pop stores and restaurants, to high-tech startups and productive manufacturers, 115,038 small businesses are helping to drive Missouri’s economy and create jobs in our local communities.

Many small business owners consider their employees to be part of their family, and providing benefits such as health care is one important tool they have to help retain their talented workforce and compete for skilled employees. But even though many businesses want to offer their workers health insurance, in the past they have often been unable to afford it, for reasons like steadily climbing rate increases and limited coverage.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is committed to giving small business owners the resources they need to start and grow a business – including access to critical information about how the Affordable Care Act is opening up better health care options for small business owners and entrepreneurs.

Under the Affordable Care Act, small employers will have more options than ever when it comes to health insurance.

As these provisions continue to go into effect in the next several years, it’s important for small business owners to stay informed about what they need to do to comply with and take advantage of the Affordable Care Act. First, starting Jan 1, 2014, small businesses with generally up to 50 full-time equivalent employees will be able to purchase health insurance through the online health insurance marketplace for small businesses, known as SHOP. The SHOP Marketplace will offer employers a choice of qualified health plans from different private health insurers and make it easier for employers to make side-by-side comparisons between these plans, based on price and benefits.

SHOP also offers employers and their employees access to health insurance plans that must include a package of “Essential Health Benefits” like coverage for doctor visits, preventive care, hospitalization and prescriptions. Many small employers may be eligible for tax credits of up to 50 percent of their premium costs if they choose to purchase coverage through SHOP. Enrollment in the federal SHOP mar-

ketplace, operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, starts on Oct.1 for coverage beginning Jan. 1, 2014.

Information on how the law affects your business, and instructions on how to preview the health insurance policy offerings in SHOP when they are ready on Oct. 1, are available via a new, streamlined web tool for businesses housed at Business.

USA.gov/healthcare.

The Affordable Care Act calls on all employers that are covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (generally, those firms that have at least one employee and at least $500,000 in annual dollar volume of business), to notify their employees about the coverage options available to them through the health care Marketplace, whether or not the employer currently offers health coverage. Employers are required to provide this notice to all current full-time and part-time employees by Oct. 1, 2013, as well as all new employees at the time of hire beginning Oct. 1.

The Affordable Care Act allows small employers to offer health coverage in a way that makes sense for their business and works for their bottom line, and the SBA is committed to leveraging our resources and federal partnerships to connect you with the facts and resources you need to understand the law.

To learn more, contact the SBA St. Louis District Office at 314-539-6600 or visit the website at http://www.sba.gov/mo/stlouis.

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Cost of freedom To the Editor: Having read the “editorial” in the Aug. 28 edition of MRN, I am left somewhat puzzled.

What exactly is it that the author suggests be done?

Does the author suggest that there is no simple way to adjudicate a discount for the disabled veteran and therefore let’s just do what the majority of Americans do to support the American veteran? Nothing.

If the author has a problem differentiating between combat and non-combat service related disabilities I have an answer which is at least one more that he or she has, give the city services discount to all honorably discharged veterans. If the city can’t afford that then they can’t afford to pay the price for freedom.

Michael Davisson Veteran, U.S, Army Vietnam

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“Learning from Old Men and Starfish…”

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Studies show that many people actually pay less for their health care expenses if they are seeing a chiropractor.

What a story. It’s a story that I heard long ago that I should tell you about, too. It may help change a life.

At the first glimmer of light of dawn, a young man walked at the edge of the seashore. There had been a storm the night before, and he knew this would be a good morning to find seashells.

With pants rolled up above his ankles, he walked along looking down for what treasures he might find.

Then the young man looked up and could barely make out a figure of a very old man ahead of him. The young man watched as the old man bent down to pick up an object from the sand, and toss it into the surf. As he got closer, and the light of morning began to turn the sand pink, he noticed that the old man was picking up starfish that had been tossed up on the beach by the storm. There were thousands of them, but one by one the old man picked them up, and tossed them back into the surf.

Nearing the old man the young man introduced himself, and said, “Excuse me, but there are thousands of starfish stranded here on the beach. You can’t possibly make a difference?”

The old man smiled and looked at him, then picked up another starfish. He tossed it back in the sea. “I certainly made a difference to that one, didn’t I, son?”

That old man did make a difference, like someone made a difference for me. Let me tell you my story.

Years ago, I was just another athletic teenage boy playing with his friends in upstate New York, until I developed a series of “ear and sinus infections.” In my case it came on little by little. The pain in my sinuses, ears, nose, head, and chest got so intense that there were times when I had no energy and could barely breathe. Sometimes my sinuses felt so swollen that my vision would blur and I would get awful headaches and earaches. I was afraid I was sick and was beginning to lose my self confidence. After a lot of medications and considering surgery (that was the only option, according to the surgeon) I decided against it. But, there’s more…

A friend of mine convinces me to give their doctor a try. This new doctor does an exam, takes some films, and then ‘adjusts’ my spine. The adjustment doesn’t hurt, it actually feels good. I get relief, and I can breathe again. It works so well for me, and I’m so impressed with the other ‘miracles’ I see in his office, that I eventually go to chiropractic school myself.

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like this she would have been put on several types of medications. Imagine, a little girl not being able to play with her friends in class, she was afraid of being embarassed. After I started to adjust her, her attention started to improve immediately, and now, her attention issuses are only occasional. Lately we even did a puzzle together with no problem.

That seems like a small thing, but it makes a huge difference to her.

Boston, the other little boy, knows enough to ask me to adjust him when he feels like he may be getting sick, or sometimes just to stay “tuned up.”

It’s strange how life is, because now people come to see me with their ear and sinus problems.

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You should know that I don’t heal anyone of anything. What I do is perform a specific spinal adjustment to remove nerve pressure, and the body responds by healing itself. We get tre-medous results. It’s as simple as that!

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EDITORIAL

The sporting life It has been said that the first step in recovering from an addiction problem is to admit that the problem exists. Professional sports: You have a problem, and it is not apparent that you fully recognize that as of yet.

Major League Baseball recently suspended 13 players for violating the league’s drug policy. 11 of those were fairly straightforward and included 50 game suspensions for each, with no appeal.

Ryan Braun, last year’s National League MVP, negotiated a 64-game suspension that represents the balance of the 2013 season. This punishment was particularly convenient as his team is out of contention and this is the lowest-paying season left on his massive contract by a good margin. Braun had won an appeal of a previous suspension, and followed that up by doing his best Lance Armstrong impression and throwing stones at everyone he possibly could.

Alex Rodriguez was given a 211 game suspension, which represents the balance of this season and next. A-Rod, however, is appealing that suspension and as of press time was still an active major leaguer. Rodriguez, who has previously confessed to using performing enhancing drugs, was allegedly actively recruiting other players to his drug supplier and actively interfering with MLB’s investigation.

In the National Football League, our hometown St. Louis Rams will be without tailback Isaiah Pead and Linebacker Jo-Lon Dunbar to start the season, both for violating the league’s

drug policy. Pead will miss one game and Dunbar will miss four. Since 2010, the NFL has suspended more than 50 players as a result of failed PED tests, and the league does not have a test for human growth hormone yet.

The statistics on PED usage are mind boggling, but the most perplexing part of the drug problem in pro sports is not the usage. The most perplexing part is that we, the fans, are no longer in the least bit outraged by cheating in sports. The 11 “standard” drug suspensions handed down

by MLB and nobody is angry at those players? People are a little bit angry at Ryan Braun because he lied and people are kind of angry at A-Rod because, well, because he’s A-Rod. When we were kids playing pickup games of basketball, baseball or football, the absolute worst thing you could accuse a fellow player of was cheating. Children have an innate sense of fairness. Modern adults have lost that somewhere along the way. Modern adults paid their money to buy their tickets and want to be entertained, fairness be damned. We kind of hope things are on the up and up, but every time they prove otherwise, we whimper instead of roar.

For some reason, we have become jaded and numb. We have lost that childlike sense of right and wrong, fair and unfair. We still cheer for the cheaters, and in doing so we are cheating ourselves.

Professional sports fans: We have a problem.

Praise for a city’s efforts In the Aug. 28, 2013, edition of MRN, we hammered O’Fallon pretty hard with regard to it wanting to help some of the disabled veterans in that municipality. We wrote with words of indignation and scorned officials for not fully looking into the way the VA rates veterans’ disabilities. We queried as to why the city would give out special savings to non-conflict related disabilities. And, we suggested the city better understand how the Veterans Administration operates before making law. We were on point. Dead on. But should we have been?

In hindsight, we were wrong in the way we wrote of O’Fallon’s actions. Instead, we should have been commending O’Fallon for trying to do something that is right and just.

As one member of O’Fallon’s staff put it, “We’re taking stabs at this. It’s new.”

Mid Rivers Newsmagazine’s hope is that O’Fallon continues taking stabs at helping our veterans. And as they move forward, the city should find innovative ways of helping

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all citizens who put themselves into harm’s way for the masses. The city should never stop offering innovative ideas to make life better for those who have given so much.

And as O’Fallon finds its way in helping these citizens, so should neighboring communities.

America was built through our struggles to find reason and answers. It came about through decisive action that seldom touched the few but was there for the many. O’Fallon has that spirit. It is willing to try new ideas.

It is smart enough to say, “we may be wrong about this,” only to take a new approach.

We at MRN continue to find pride in reporting on the innovative spirit of the communities we serve.

When we believe a city is wrong in how it’s doing something, we’ll likely express that view. But that doesn’t mean O’Fallon – or any other city – should stop trying.

Keep taking stabs at helping others, O’Fallon. Never stop.

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“Many homeowners, businesses and communities have wonderful evergreens that need to be removed for home expansion, utility work or other reasons,” said MDC Community Forestry Coordinator Nick Kuhn. “Using one of these large evergreens for the governor’s mansion is a great way for the tree to be seen by many and be remembered for years to come. The owner of the chosen evergreen will also receive a personalized thank you from the governor, an invitation to the lighting ceremony and of course, bragging rights.”

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ST. CHARLES COUNTY 20th anniversary For 20 years, the Missouri Department of Transportation’s Motorist Assist operators have come to the rescue of stranded motorists on St. Louis area interstates and highway.

Motorists surveyed over the last 20 years rated Motorist Assist nearly 100 percent in customer satisfaction rating, higher than even Amazon.com.

“Our customer surveys tell us we’re doing a great job helping stranded motorists on St. Louis interstates,” said Tom Blair, MoDOT assistant district engineer for the St. Louis region. “I am proud of what these men and women of Motorist Assist are able

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In 2012, Motorist Assist handled nearly 37,000 incidents, including over 8,000 abandoned vehicles, over 7,700 mechanical repairs and nearly 5,500 tire changes.

Momma says …

A 36-year-old St. Charles County woman has been charged with child endangerment after allegedly encouraging her children to sell drugs.

According to police Carrie Lynn Ryan, of the first block of Hickory Lane, encouraged and aided her two oldest children to sell illegal narcotics for money. When police entered her home, they found Ryan intoxicated and the home filthy and infested with fleas, lice and bedbugs.

Ryan has also allegedly failed to get her 3-year-old child treated for head lice.

Neighbors told police the youngest child has run throughout the neighborhood unsupervised numerous times.

Ryan was charged with one charge of first degree endangering the welfare of a child and two second degree charges of endangering the welfare of a child. She is currently being held in the St. Charles County Jail with a $10,000 cash only bond.

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Ambulance out of service The St. Charles County Ambulance District has taken an ambulance out of service as a cost savings measure after the defeat of Proposition E in April.

The base, located near the intersection of Feise and Bryan Roads, previously housed two ambulances which respond to over 3,300 calls per year, district officials said.

Martin Limpert, a spokesman for the ambulance district said that the Board of Directors and leadership team began investigating ways to absorb a projected shortfall in funding. Changes in health care reform and a stagnant tax base have mandated that the district make changes, he said.

“We are closely monitoring the financial and operational impact of any cuts and may need to make further reductions,” Limpert said.

During the past three years the district has removed an ambulance from the Harvester area, eliminated two overnight ambulances and reduced paramedic staff by 11 in order to maintain a balanced budget.

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Aug. 26 to allow for continued construction of the new Caulks Hill Road improvements.

The Caulks Hill Road project includes wider lanes and the addition of curbs, gutters and sidewalks. The horizontal and vertical alignment will also be improved to provide better sight distance for drivers.

Traffic will be required to use the signed detour route for approximately seven weeks while the new road section is being built.

Local traffic can access either side of the closure location, but no through traffic will be permitted. The county will use changeable message boards to notify residents of any date changes of the closure and opening.

Nominations needed The Greater St. Charles County Chamber of Commerce is requesting nominations for the annual presentation of its Citizen of the Years Award and Lifetime Distinguished Service Awards.

“The Lifetime Distinguished Service Awards recognize an individual’s accomplishments in the areas of civic, humanitarian, and cultural over numerous years or throughout their lifetime,” said Scott Tate, president/CEO of the Greater St. Charles County Chamber of Commerce The Citizen of the Years award is designed to recognize the achievements of a citizen for actions, generosity and service, broad-based community involvement in a non-paid position, and leadership in organizations above and beyond the call of duty on behalf of the community throughout their life.

“The Citizen of the Years award is given to an individual who continues to give back – they are passionate about our community and the people who live here and want to make it a better place. They give back because they care – not for the recognition,” Tate said.

The deadline for nominations is Oct. 18.

Bridge closes for inspection The westbound I-64 Daniel Boone Missouri River Bridge will be closed from noon on Sat., Sept. 7 until 9 p.m. on Sun., Sept. 8 for the bridge’s biannual inspection.

There will be no access across the river from St. Louis County westbound to St. Charles County during these times. The eastbound I-64 bridge will be open for the weekend.

Motorists are advised to use the other three Missouri River crossings between St. Louis and St. Charles counties during the weekend. Those alternate crossings include I-70, Hwy. 364 and Hwy. 370.

ST. PETERS Celebrate Celebrate St. Peters 2013 will be held Sept. 20 and Sept. 21 at 370 Lakeside Park.

Families can check out live music, food and drinks, carnival games and rides,

vendor and craft booths, fireworks, and kids’ events along the lake.

Come back to the park at 8 a.m. on Sept. 22 for the third annual Celebrate St. Peters Race Around the Lake 10K or third annual Let’s Move! Back-to-School 1-Mile Fun Run/Walk.

The Let’s Move! Back-to-School 1-Mile Fun Run/Walk is a part of the Let’s Move! national initiative to fight childhood obesity and raise a healthier generation of kids.

Register for the 10K race or fun run/walk online at www.stpetersmo.net/rec-plex.

See the special section on Celebrate St. Peters in this edition of MRN.

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By SUE E. STEINIGER Francis Howell Superintendent Pam Sloan says she is hoping Missouri lawmakers come up with significant solutions to remedy the problems plaguing the failing school districts of Missouri during this next legislative session.

Sloan said at a recent Francis Howell Board of Education meeting, “We are getting ready to go into the next legislative session, and I am talking with anyone who will listen to me asking, ‘What about next year?’”

Sloan says the current law regarding failing school districts is poorly written.

“I would hope at a minimum, what comes

out of the next session would be at least guidelines that we (educators) will have some input in as far as how to administer this law,” she said.

She said not having guidelines is one of the districts major limitations right now.

“We are left sort of guessing on the implementation of it and the impact is not felt equally among the school districts to support these ailing school districts.”

But Sloan’s concerns may be addressed sooner than later. The legislators appear to be responding to Missouri’s unaccredited school district crisis and the St. Louis/St. Charles County area could be the first to have input.

House Speaker Tim Jones (Dist. 110) has formed the House Interim Committee on Education and selected two retired educators state Rep. Steve Cookson (Dist.153) and state Rep. Lyle Rowland (Dist. 155) to serve as chairman and vice chairman respectively. The committee which will tour the state from Sept. 23 through Oct. 23, will hold its first meeting from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Sept. 23, at the St. Charles Community College located in Cottleville.

The committee’s purpose for the state tour is to give lawmakers a chance to take time for an in-depth look at Missouri’s educational needs, including those concerns of transferring students from failing, unaccredited school districts to accredited districts, such as what has happened in the Nor-

mandy School District and Francis Howell School District situation. There have been 12 public forums scheduled throughout the state. A final report will be submitted to the Speaker’s office by December.

State Representative Chrissy Sommer (Dist. 106, St. Charles) is a member of the Interim Committee on Education and will be at the St. Charles Community College public meeting. Sommer said creating new legislation, or working with the current law will depend on the committee’s findings.

“Hopefully we will be able to do more clarifying if we are going to keep that law at all, and I am not saying we are not,” Sommer said. “There may be lots of changes in it – they may just tweak it. Somehow we have got to get to a point where classrooms aren’t overcrowded, because that doesn’t benefit anyone. We want to make sure that we get guidelines in place, however the entire group decides those should be at that time.”

Regarding Sloan’s concern that educators should have input as to how to administer this law, Sommer said, “My office tries to get feedback from anybody that we are writing legislation about or for. So it’s not like the door is closed to educators, staff or parents.

We are always looking for input and that is one reason for these tours is to get this input.

By actually going out to the people, instead of hoping that they will write or call in, is a great chance for them to present their ideas. The

more ideas we can get, especially from people who deal with it (the issues) on a daily basis, the more successful this committee will be.”

In a memo, Neosha Hayes, FHSD Communications Technology Specialist, stated,“FHSD is working in cooperation with Cooperating School Districts (CSD) to stay abreast of the transfer process. CSD will notify districts of any updates regarding state laws and specific plans with state legislators.”

Hayes memo continued, “Dr. Sloan is attending various meetings and participating in discussions at the local, regional and state level regarding the transfer law, the implementation challenges of it, and what might be done to improve the educational outcomes for students in unaccredited districts.”

As for the Sept. 23 meeting she stated, “The board members have been informed of these state meetings. At this time, we do not know who will be attending the House Interim Committee on Education.”

The State Joint Committee on Education is also taking action. The committee, chaired

by Rep. Mike Lair, Dist. 7, will hold a hearing at 1 p.m., Oct. 1, in the House Hearing Room 3 in Jefferson City. Various organizations will present the committee with ideas for long-term solutions for students residing in unaccredited districts.

The Joint Committee on Education is a statutory committee created in Section 160.254, RSMo.

St. Charles County task force addresses school safety concerns

By BRIAN FLINCHPAUGH The major accomplishment of a St. Charles County school safety task force may have been in getting the right people in the right place, county officials say.

“Everyone learned a lot – it was great to see educators, law enforcement and mental health people all in the same room, basically addressing the same problem,” said St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann.

Ehlmann presented the final recommendations of the Schools, Mental Health and Emergency Services Task Force to the County Council at its Aug. 26 meeting.

The 14-member task force came about in response to the Dec. 14, 2012, shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

In December, the council passed an emergency ordinance creating the task force and authorizing Ehlmann to appoint members.

Starting in January, the task force met to review procedures and share information before coming up with a dozen recommendations on Feb. 7. Added to those recommendations were some best practices and responses to those recom-

mendations that were much of the gist of Ehlmann’s report to the council.

Ehlmann told the council that among the best practices identified and suggested for schools were risk assessment work sheets used by the Fort Zumwalt School district to identify troubled students as soon as possible.

Mental health and crisis intervention first aid training was also suggested to quickly recognize students with problems.

Ehlmann also stressed a recommendation that schools develop strong working relationships with law enforcement to the point that police know the layout of buildings where that they may have to respond.

Ehlmann said several agencies are stepping up efforts to aid schools and others. The Community and Children’s Resource Board of St. Charles County, which received grant funding, is helping pay $855 of the $1,855 cost for mental health first aid training for about 30 teachers in the county. The training is expected to begin in October.

The county’s Juvenile Justice Center is also planning to provide training for

Solutions to present to all schools and law deputy juvenile officers.

Ehlmann said schools may be able to enforcement in the county, technical solupurchase radios through the county that will tions available for installation in school faciliallow quicker and direct access to emer- ties that would connect into the county’s new gency responders. The access will improve emergency radio communications system.

• Focusing on facility security when with the anticipated upgrade of the county’s emergency response radio system involving schools build or renovate facilities.

• Increasing awareness of mental and new communications towers that is expected behavioral health resources available to to be online in the summer of 2014.

The task force completed its work with schools, including 24-hour response access the report but task force members said it lines and mental health first-aid training.

• Boosting funding for school-based may prompt emergency providers to conmental health services. tinue to communicate.

• Sharing information with all schools One of those members, Councilman Terry Hollander (Dist. 5) said the biggest so that they know when to request crisis development of the task force was that it intervention trained officers.

• Encouraging state legislators to idenallowed organizations to share ideas and tify funds to assist police in expanding find out services that were available.

“Especially schools didn’t know about assignment of school resource officers.

• Removing the stigma from mental free mental health assistance that was just health issues. there for the asking,” Hollander said.

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Immigration reform advocates rally on St. Charles Courthouse steps

By MARY ANN O’TOOLE HOLLEY Grace Aviles stood on the steps of the St. Charles County Courthouse with her four children and a crowd of people of many colors and nationalities. She told of how her mother and her friend brought her and her brother across the Mexican border into the United States “for a better life.”

She was 9 years old, she recalled. “I didn’t speak English and I didn’t go to school for a year until I got used to things.”

Last week, she and her children joined an immigration rally with about 300 others, including Pablo Tapia who stood on the highest of the courthouse steps speaking in the hot sun with his two children standing at his side.

People surrounded him holding signs – some in Spanish – saying things like “Citizenship now” and “Don’t separate my family.”

Tapia, and about 40 activists arrived in St. Charles by bus as part of their 11-city, four-day tour through the Midwest “battleground states” in hopes of prodding key members of Congress to adopt comprehensive immigration reform.

The tour, part of the Minnesota-based Asamblea de Derechos Civiles, the Assembly for Civil Rights (ADDC), is trying to gain the attention of politicians who sit on the House Judiciary Committee.

The tour also made stops at cities in Ohio,

Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana.

“This country depends on our labor, but denies our rights,” said Tapia. “We are the new dispossessed labor force, and this is the next stage in the civil rights movement.”

Tapia is pushing for “a new immigration policy” that would include “legalized status and a ‘road to citizenship’ for all immigrant workers in this country; the right of workers to reunite their families; and protection of immigrants’ workplace rights,” in particular, the elimination of government Green Card raids.

“The fight for the rights of immigrants is a fight for all working and oppressed people,” Tapia said.

Aviles, of St. Charles, said she still has family in Mexico that can’t come live with her, in particular, her sister and brother.

“We came illegally. It was really scary,” Aviles recalls. “I think the government should stop deportation and let families have a better future.”

Although it has been more than 10 years since Aviles arrived in the U.S., she says she is not a citizen. She said she falls under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), a temporary resident status implemented by the Secretary of the Department Homeland Security in June of 2012.

“Now, I am happy and working, and attending St. Charles Community College,”

Aviles said.

According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, there are an estimated 35,000 to 65,000 immigrants who entered the country illegally living in Missouri, however, one of every six of those immigrants is a child who does not work. If the legislation being proposed passes, approximately 11 million immigrants would become eligible to apply for citizenship. Under the proposal, those applying must have been in the country by Dec. 31, 2011. Not all will qualify because of other requirements beyond just having been in the country.

Senate Republicans have created a counter proposal for immigration reform passed in June.

In April, Sen. Charles Schumer of New York introduced SB744 with co-sponsors: Sen. Michael Bennet, Sen. Richard Durbin, (MRN photo) Sen. Jeff Flake, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Robert Menendez and creating a legal immigration system that Sen. Marco Rubio is more focused on the skills of potential Senator Rubio has called this bill a start- immigrants as opposed to prioritizing the ing point. He said the bill was not meant familial relations of potential immigrants. to be a take-it-or-leave-it proposition.

“The situation today works for no one, It was meant to start the discussion for especially the middle class. It allows the Senate to work on a bill to make our unscrupulous businesses to hire undocuimmigration laws match our 21st century mented workers and pay them less, diminneeds from securing the border, creating a ishing job opportunities for Americans,” better entry and exit tracking system and Rubio explained on his website.

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By SUE E. STEINIGER The residents of BaratHaven, a small community in Dardenne Prairie are speaking out about the potential plans to construct a 10 building, 220-unit apartment complex in their community.

During a homeowners meeting on Friday, Aug. 23, at the Dardenne Prairie City Hall, approximately 150 residents made it clear to their Ward 3 representatives, Aldermen Mike Conroy and Sharon West, as well as Mayor Pam Fogarty that they oppose the development.

Several of the homeowners had spoken before the Board of Aldermen during the Aug. 21 board meeting. They were passionate in expressing their concerns that this type of development, if completed, would change their community forever, lowering the value of their property and potentially force families to move from BaratHaven.

The City Planning and Zoning Commission is expected to consider a zoning change request on Sept. 11, for the 11-acre property adjoining the BaratHaven residential community from multi-family residential to commercial zoning. If the zoning change is approved the plan for the apartments complex would go before the Board of Aldermen on Sept. 18. The time schedule does not give the BaratHaven homeowners much time to react.

The official application for the re-zoning was filed with the city on Friday, Aug.16,

by St. Charles Engineering & Survey, Inc. According to the application, the contract purchaser/developer is Rolwes Development. The current owner of the property is Simmons First National Bank.

“The rent level, a gentleman told me, is going to be $675,” said John Collins, a BaratHaven resident and vice president of the DP Planning and Zoning Committee. Collins

said he spoke with an engineer at St. Charles Engineering and Survey, Inc. “They are expecting an income to qualify for $24,000,” Collins continued. “I can tell you the average income now based on the city’s numbers put our family income in our city at a little over $88,000. There is a world of difference on the economics. That’s our concern.”

During the meeting West, Conroy and Fogarty addressed the negative phone calls and email communications they said they had received from the BaratHaven residents regarding the possible apartment complex.

The mayor and board members reproached the residents on the negative way they handled the issue.

“We are willing to work with you on this, but please be respectful in how you communicate your concerns to us,” Fogarty said.

“The objective is to defeat the proposal at the planning and zoning meeting and make sure it’s sustained at the aldermen meeting the week following,” Collins said.

A number of BaratHaven residents suggested there was bias on the part of the city in favor of this development, based on a May 17 letter to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and other emails and documents revealed by a request for information under the Sunshine Law. That concern was addressed by Fogarty.

“We do this all the time,” she said. “We filled out that same letter for others who are asking for federal money and it doesn’t always come to fruition. They are not going to purchase the ground unless they get rezoned, unless they get things done, and then the federal government isn’t likely to give them the money until they get that stuff done.”

Fogarty promised there would not be a quick vote on the development. “The process can takes months to complete,” she said.

County adds extra measure of care

By AMY ARMOUR The St. Charles County Sheriff’s Department has purchased a Care Trak telemetry tracking system to find lost individuals with special needs.

The system allows deputies to track an individual wearing a wrist transmitter from one mile away on the ground and five miles from the air. The wrist transmitters are waterproof and are programmed with a unique frequency for each individual. The frequency is programmed into the tracking system to help pinpoint an individual’s location.

The St. Charles County Sheriff’s Department, in cooperation with the St. Charles County Department of Community Health and the Environment, launched the new program Aug. 5 to give families a little more

peace of mind. The Sheriff’s Department paid $5,000 for the Care Trak system, which is the first in the St. Louis area on the Missouri side.

“We are proud to bring this system to St. Charles County,” said Sheriff Tom Neer.

“My wish for families and caregivers is that our deputies never have to use it, but we are ready if it is necessary. It is another tool the Sheriff’s Department has to help keep residents safe.”

A one-time fee of $250 submitted with the application covers the cost of the program, wrist transmitter, and wrist transmitter battery check device. To qualify for the program, an individual must be a resident of St. Charles County; have a medical diagnosis that has or may cause wandering; a 24-hour caregiver; and no access to a vehicle if able to drive.

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New towers coming for emergency communications system in 2014

By BRIAN FLINCHPAUGH St. Charles County officials now hope to have an improved radio communications system for emergency providers up and running by July or August 2014 – about six months later than a federal deadline.

Jennifer George, the county’s director of policy, told the County Council at its Aug. 26 meeting that the county expects to seek another waiver from federal Jan.1, 2014, deadline for an improved system.

The county had received a two-year waiver from the Federal Communications Commission from the requirement earlier.

JoAnn Leykam, the county’s director of administration, told council members the county had been one of the first areas of the country to receive a waiver.

“They knew we probably would not get fully done, what they were looking for was substantial progress,” Leykam said.

In August of 2009, county voters approved a bond issue to finance construction of a county-wide emergency radio communications system for first responders, tying together police, fire, ambulance and public works departments.

For months, the county and its contractor and system designer, Motorola Solutions, scrambled to locate and build the new system. That system requires building 12 radio towers, ranging in height from 250 feet to 450 feet.

George said tower construction is expected to begin Feb. 1, 2014. Testing is expected to be underway at the towers from April until July, with emergency providers starting the use the towers in July or August.

The county is building the towers mostly

on publicly owned land to save taxpayers money. Finding suitable tower locations hasn’t been easy because of technical requirements that they be precisely placed and close to dispatching locations.

Having a 250- to 450-foot radio tower in the backyard hasn’t drawn an enthusiastic response in some areas of the county.

One option for Lake Saint Louis, for example was locating a 350-foot tower at the city’s Civic Center property at 200 Civic Center Drive. But the city’s Board of Aldermen approved a resolution May 6 supporting the location of the tower at the county’s 25-acre Youth Activity Park in Dardenne Prairie. George said plans now are to build the tower at the park.

George said the next big step will be approval of intergovernmental agreements, which municipalities and fire districts are expected to consider in September.

An advisory board that includes representatives from jurisdictions involved is expected to be established, George said.

Government jurisdictions will also be asked to approve a microwave path protection ordinance by the end of the year.

The ordinance would be designed to regulate buildings and development to prevent microwave transmission from dishes on the towers.

If the system had been operational in May, it might have helped emergency providers deal with the aftermath of a tornado that ripped through St. Charles County in May. George said she expects that St. Charles County’s towers and its new system will be up and operational before St. Louis County and possibly before Jefferson County.

FZSD sets priorities for school year

By AMY ARMOUR The Fort Zumwalt Board of Education adopted a tentative version of its top 10 priorities for the 2013-14 school year. And some of the priorities have already been set in motion.

The Board of Education approved the implementation of the program modifications in mathematics for K-8 earlier this year, which is a top priority. Improving student respect and courtesy in school buildings, along with addressing issues of bullying, suicide and drug use in schools remains an ongoing priority for the district.

“This is a long term priority,” said Bernie DuBray, superintendent of the district.

This year the district will start the design and construction for the new Transition Center for students with behavioral issues or severe autism. The center is scheduled to open in the 2014-15 school year. The expan-

sion of the fine arts building at West Middle School is also a top 10 priority for the district to complete for the next school year.

Keeping a close eye on the budget and increasing revenue when possible will also be a priority this year.

“We’re going to have to be real careful … but I believe the economy is coming back and sales tax revenue is coming back,” DuBray said.

The district will review curriculum for high school math, gifted education and early childhood education this year. In addition curriculum revisions will take place for vocational education, business and foreign languages.

The district will also promote STEM in all schools, and improve public communication through Facebook, Twitter and the school messenger communication system. Finally the District will review all of its at-risk programs.

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By CAROL ENRIGHT cenright@newsmagazinenetwork.com If talk of limited government and defunding the Affordable Care Act gets your heart racing, clear your calendar for Sept. 28.

That’s the day some of the most prominent voices in the Republican Party will headline the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the St. Charles Convention Center for a program of speeches, workshops, panel discussions and networking opportunities.

Among the 30 or so speakers are Fox News personality and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; Govs. Sam Brownback of Kansas and Rick Perry of Texas; former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum; and Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association.

Homegrown politicians, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt and U.S. Reps. Blaine Luetkemeyer and Ann Wagner are in the lineup as well.

CPAC St. Louis is put on by the American Conservative Union (ACU), the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative organization. This is the 40th year that the ACU has hosted a conservative political action conference in Washington, D.C. However, St. Louis is only the fourth city to host a regional CPAC – after Denver, Orlando and Chicago.

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“Our goal was to go around the country and marry the great interest in federal issues with the interests in the regions,” Cardenas explained.

Two major themes at CPAC St. Louis will be Obamacare – and “what do conservatives do about the disaster that it’s become,” said Cardenas – and immigration reform.

“We look forward to energizing and mobilizing conservatives in the state,” he said.

Luetkemeyer, who represents the state’s 3rd Congressional District, hinted that he would be addressing the government’s overreach into private citizens’ lives, the economy and “a health care program that’s about ready to implode.”

He called the CPAC “a great opportunity to showcase conservative ideas, conservative philosophy – and I welcome the opportunity.”

Wagner, a Ballwin native representing Missouri’s 2nd District, spoke at last year’s regional CPAC in Chicago. She said she was “thrilled” to have the event in St. Louis.

“We’re the heartland,” said Wagner.

“This is where true, common sense conservatism reigns.”

Wagner said she would “talk about the way to stop this administration’s blatant disregard for individual liberties and freedom.”

“People are so fed up with the government abuse and waste and overreach that they’ve seen of late,” Wagner said.

Beyond the broad theme of limited government, the congresswoman said she would address the GOP’s plans to “get our economy moving again,” as well as energy and health care issues.

Wagner said the convention would rally its supporters with an eye toward the 2014 election.

“Obviously, as the Republican Party, we want to keep control of the House and to grow our members in the House,” Wagner said.

She talked about Project GROW, the GOP’s effort to recruit more women to the party.

“I’m spending a good deal of my time on recruitment, especially with women and encouraging women to get more active and involved in the conservative movement and the Republican Party,” she said.

Cardenas said CPAC events have, historically, provided a platform for the GOP’s rising stars, such as Sen. Marco Rubio, and he promised the St. Louis crowd would get a glimpse of the party’s up-and-comers, too.

“We’ll bring a host of young leaders under 40 to St. Louis that, perhaps, Missourians haven’t heard of, but certainly will in the years ahead,” Cardenas said.

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Message from St. Peters Mayor Len Pagano I have always been “St. Peters proud!” I believe that we have a great community with great people. And, the weekend of Sept. 20-21, we will celebrate our hometown. We welcome everyone from around the region to come and celebrate with us.

Music lovers will have a great time. We’ll have a variety of music going on three different stages. We’ll get the free music started Friday night with The Fabulous Motown Revue and welcome The Brothers and The Little River Band on Saturday night. There’s going to be something for everyone including blues, polka, an Elvis tribute and good old rock and roll.

We’ve added lots more free parking and new this year, you can buy a reserved parking place in advance at City Hall or Our City staff has worked hard to put together Celebrate St. the St. Peters Rec-Plex. You can only get your reserved spot Peters 2013 with something for everyone including great in advance, so act now! We’ll have over 50 vendors offering music, good food, fireworks, rides, games, and all kinds of crafts and a big variety of food, snacks, beer and soft drinks fun along the lake at our beautiful 370 Lakeside Park. The for sale. We’ve also partnered with The Home Depot and event will take place Friday and Saturday, Sept. 20-21, with Bass Pro Shops who will be bringing free fun activities for a 10K race and a 1-Mile Fun Run/Walk on Sunday, Sept. 22. the kids. Our Cultural Arts Centre mascot, Arty, will also be

there with creative fun for kids at Arty’s Corner.

Several local non-profit groups will be operating game booths. I see this as a win-win for everyone. You and your family get to have fun competing for prizes, while these local groups have an opportunity to raise some muchneeded funds.

Area runners can be part of the Celebrate St. Peters 10K Run on Sunday morning. Also on that morning, the “Let’s Move!”

St. Peters Back to School 1-Mile Fun Run/Walk will allow families to take an active part in the “Let’s Move!” national initiative to raise a healthier generation of kids.

My wife, Joyce, and I hope to see you along the lake so we can all celebrate “My Hometown, St. Peters” together!

For more information or updates visit www.stpetersmo.net Thanks to our Celebrate St. Peters sponsors: Financial assistance for programs at Celebrate St. Peters has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.

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Guests can expect triple the number of carnival rides this year and inflatables for kids of all ages to enjoy. Tickets or wristbands may be purchased at Celebrate St. Peters.

Wristbands can be obtained in advance at a discounted price at St. Peters City Hall and St. Peters Rec-Plex and will entitle the wearer to unlimited rides during the session.

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All events take place along the lake at 370 Lakeside Park. To get there, take Exit 2 at Truman/Lakeside Drive, turn north and follow Lakeside Drive into the park.

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The Fabulous Motown Revue on Main Stage sponsored by Mid Rivers Newsmagazine and The Big 550 KTRS.

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Monkey Tales Theatre performing “Past Imagination” on Community News Family Stage 11-11:45 a.m.

Tom Christopher Band (Elvis impersonator) on the Celebrate Stage 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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The Biscuits (Rock/ZZ Top tribute) on Celebrate Stage 2-2:45 p.m.

Joy Nack’s “Live Your Dreams” puppet show on Community News Family Stage 3-3:45 p.m.

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FZSD committee hopes to advance teaching and learning across all grades

By AMY ARMOUR The Fort Zumwalt School District will continue to look for opportunities to present students with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) learning experiences.

The district formed a STEM Committee that met four times last year with a mission to “increase the number and diversity of students who are STEM proficient and ready to explore STEM careers by advancing STEM teaching and learning across all grade levels.”

Assistant Superintendent Jackie Floyd said the committee found that the district needs to do more with STEM curriculum – and earlier.

At the elementary level, the district currently has after-school clubs for Lego robotics and the math and English curriculum is being rewritten to reflect higher levels of collaborative and problem solving. There is also an increase of non-fiction text and science and social studies content is being incorporated into the math and English curriculum.

Elementary students also had the chance to attend the Camp Invention this summer.

“Partners for Progress have helped fund STEM camps this summer,” said Bernie DuBray, superintendent of the district.

The committee suggested providing staff and students at the elementary level with more support in the form of basic programming and keyboarding classes.

The math and English curriculum is also

being rewritten at the middle and high school levels to reflect higher levels of collaborative and problem solving. FZSD offers middle school students robotics clubs and a sixth-grade keyboarding-technology class has been added.

Floyd said the district should look into utilizing labs for science as well.

High school students at FZ currently can participate in advanced robotics competitions and/or the Boeing Engineering Challenge. Students can choose advanced placement courses from four core content areas and hands-on STEM courses are available for all high school grades in Industrial Tech and Business programs.

Floyd would also like the district to explore Project Lead the Way (PLTW) at the middle and high school levels. According to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, PLTW “offers a dynamic high school program that provides students with real-world learning and hands-on experience. Students interested in engineering, biomechanics, aeronautics, biomedical sciences and other applied math and science arenas will discover PLTW is an exciting portal into these industries.”

“The district STEM Committee identified PLTW programming as something we should investigate further and decide where it may best fit in our curriculum offerings,” Floyd said.

FZSD spends $5 million on district updates

By AMY ARMOUR While students in the Fort Zumwalt School District took a summer break, construction workers completed $5 million of renovations and updates throughout the district.

Assistant Superintendent of Construction & Facilities Bill Weber updated the Board of Education on Aug. 19 on all progress completed during the summer.

New security features were added at Westhoff Elementary School. While every school in the district currently uses a video camera and buzz-in front door, Westhoff’s system also features 14 high resolution cameras placed on the exterior and also in the hallways of the building. A reinforcing film was also placed on the glass.

Bernie DuBray, superintendent, met with St. Peters Police Chief Jeff Finkelstein, St. Charles County Sheriff Tom Neer and O’Fallon Police Chief Roy Joachimstaler, as well as representatives from Tech Electronics, to review the new system. Westhoff will pilot the security system before implementing it into other schools within the district.

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Both the main gym and lower gym, along with the commons area, hallways and student lockers at North High School were painted. The entire interior of West Middle and St. Peters Elementary, as well as portions of Progress South Elementary and Twin Chimneys, also received a new coat of paint.

Weber said new lighting was installed in the gym at Lewis & Clark Elementary and in the classroom at J. L. Mudd Elementary.

New concrete overlay was installed at the district office parking lot, as well as Progress South Elementary. And North High School, DuBray Middle School and the district office all received a new roof.

The district also completed several miscellaneous projects. The main office at J.L. Mudd received a makeover.

“The offices were cramped and needed some sprucing up,” Weber said.

The tennis courts at North High were also spruced up.

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Bu llet i n Boa rd FORT ZUMWALT Homecoming Hall of Fame The Fort Zumwalt North High School Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held in conjunction with Homecoming weekend on Sept. 20 and Sept. 21.

The Hall of Fame acknowledges and honors graduates who have demonstrated exceptional personal, community or professional achievements, thereby honoring their alma mater. The hope is that these nominees, and those to follow, will serve as an inspiration for Fort Zumwalt North students in the future.

School officials said inductees receiving this honor were carefully selected after an exhaustive process. The Hall of Fame Class of 2013 includes: 1987 graduate Chris Lockett, 1988 graduate Brian Stull, 1989 graduate Jeff Cook and 1996 graduate of Casey Shiller.

Individual plaques of the inductees will be permanently displayed in the Hall of Fame, outside the main office. The plaques will serve as constant, visual, positive examples for all students as they strive to master the rigors of academia, social/emotional growth and character development.

The induction ceremony will be held at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 20, in the North High Auditorium. Inductees will participate in the annual Homecoming Parade at 9 a.m. on Sat., Sept. 21 and be recognized before the Homecoming football game at 1 p.m.

FRANCIS HOWELL District receives partnership award The Francis Howell School District (FHSD) was recently announced as the recipient of the 2013 Partnership District Award from the National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) at Johns Hopkins University. This is the second Partnership District Award FHSD has received.

FHSD, a member of NNPS, provided detailed descriptions of specific strategies

for helping schools improve their partnership programs to support school improvement goals and students’ success in school.

This information is provided to help other schools improve their own students’ success and partnership programs. Essential elements of district leadership on partnerships include teamwork, leadership, goal-linked plans for action, implementation, facilitation, evaluation and network connections.

“FHSD is demonstrating that researchbased approaches can be used to make every school a welcoming place and to improve student attendance, behavior, achievement, and high school graduation rates,” said Joyce L. Epstein, director of NNPS. One aspect of the application process was to submit examples of the specific practices that improve school partnerships. FHSD submitted a detailed outline the Great by 8 program, a district initiative to mobilize and train community volunteers to assist children in kindergarten, first- and second-grade skills to ensure that they read on grade level by 8 years old. The program was praised by the NNPS for various aspects including: a clear challenge, good plans, evidence of collegial work and support, and program improvement. Readers commended the connections of community volunteers with students on reading. The Great by 8 program will be featured in the 2013 edition of Promising Partnership Practices.

As recipients of this award, FHSD will now be recognized as an NNPS Metlife Conference Partner for 2013. As a Conference Partner, FHSD will receive a certificate, one free registration to attend the NNPS Fall Conference 2013 in Baltimore, and full travel, lodging and related expenses paid for by the NNPS grant from MetLife Foundation. FHSD representatives will also have the opportunity to be co-facilitate one NNPS conference session with a NNPS facilitator, as well as serve on a featured panel.

Athletes celebrate fall season Francis Howell Central (FHC) High School athletes and supporters celebrated

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FHC unveiled new facility upgrades including a synthetic turf playing field, scoreboards, baseball and softball fields, as well as batting cages. During the celebration there were feature performances by FHC cheerleaders, the Sensations dance team and the Spartan Regiment Marching Band.

The celebration also included a parade of all fall student-participants and balloon release, as well as team scrimmages from several athletic teams.

STARS students Three Francis Howell High School students were among a distinct group of aspiring scientists who spent six weeks this summer conducting research with St. Louisarea professionals and professors, as part of the Students and Teachers as Research Scientist Program (STARS) at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL).

Students were paired with top research mentors from UMSL, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Solae Company. The experts from the five institutions took on student apprentices in laboratories and directed students in research projects.

During the six week program, students developed their individual research projects, wrote a technical report, and then presented their results in a seminar setting.

Sach Gamleth worked on “Selectivity of artificial antibodies based on molecularly imprinted siloxane copolymers” with Dr. Srikanth Singamaneni. Derek Koo worked on “Hospital workers’ willingness and ability to report to work during an earthquake versus an influenza pandemic; a study of three hospitals across Missouri” with Dr. Terri Rebmann. And Varun Mohan worked on “Enzymatic activity and kinetics of calcium-independent phospholipase A2” with Dr. Sergey Korolev.

Students also attended lectures by nationally-known scientists, career discussions and a variety of social activities.

Active athletes Student athletes from Francis Howell

High School (FHHS) and Francis Howell Central (FHC) High school recently attended the 2013 Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) Sportsmanship Summit at Platte County High School.

During the summit, FHC was recognized as a MSHSAA 5-Star Leadership School.

The leadership program encourages schools to become even more active in regard to sportsmanship, character education and citizenship. The summit also included a keynote address by motivational speaker and former Minnesota Vikings football player Keith Nord. Nord spoke to students and teachers about leadership, education and achieving personal excellence.

Student leaders were selected to attend the summit based on leadership experience and their personal potential to positively impact the Francis Howell community.

WENTZVILLE Gorton chosen as grand marshal Duello Elementary fourth-grade teacher Jennifer Gorton was chosen to serve as the Honorary Grand Marshal of the Wabash Days Community Club Parade held Aug. 24.

Gorton was selected as the Wentzville School District “Teacher of the Year” for the 2012-13 school year. She is beginning her fifth year with the Wentzville School District, and has previously taught in the Hazelwood and Ferguson-Florissant school districts. Gorton serves as the grade-level chair and has won the Community Builder Award at Duello for the past two years.

The 10th annual Wabash Days is a celebration of Wentzville’s history and railroad heritage.

District makes the grade The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) introduced the new Annual Performance Report (APR) as part of the Missouri School Improvement Plan (MSIP 5).

MSIP 5 is a more rigorous evaluation tool for rating the performance of Missouri school districts. The Wentzville School District scored 96.4 percent in the new evaluation system, the highest score in

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St. Charles County and one of the top 10 scores in the St. Louis metro area.

“These results are further evidence that we have strategically implemented quality curricular programs, and we have a quality staff working with our students to increase achievement,” said Interim Superintendent Curtis Cain. “While this is great news, our work is never done and we will continue to improve in all areas for the benefit of our students.”

The new standard of MSIP 5 measures five areas: Academic Achievement, Subgroup Achievement, College and Career Readiness, Attendance, and Graduation Rate.

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NSDAR partners with Prairie View The Caroline Close Stuart Chapter, NSDAR is partnering with the Prairie View grade school to celebrate Constitution Week. Beginning Sept. 17, the weeklong commemoration of America’s most important document will be observed.

Under the direction of Cynthia Ivancic, DAR Chapter member and third-grade teacher at Prairie View, the school will read stories in the classroom about the founders of the United States and ring bells in celebration of the Constitution. Students will spend the week learning about the freedoms and liberties found in the Constitution.

“We must remember and teach that those who wrote the Constitution believed no government can create freedom, but that government must guard freedom rather than encroach upon the freedoms of its people,” said Ivancic. “The Constitution by itself cannot guarantee liberty. Therefore, Constitution Week is the perfect opportunity to read and study this great document which is the safeguard of our American liberties.”

All the students in the school also helped create a wall-sized flag of patriotism from the outline of their hands.

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SCC St. Charles Community College will display artwork from regional artists through Sept. 20 at “It’s About Time: Past, Present and Future” art exhibition. The opening reception will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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Artists include Jason Bly, Shawn Cornell, Chris Day, Christa Gearhart Denney, Sharon Gibson-Bly, Jennifer Klemp, Katie Millitzer, Adam West and Kenneth Worley.

“The exhibition features a unique collection of drawings, photography, paintings and sculpture – all of which interpret the concept of time differently,” said Christine Holtz, SCC gallery coordinator.

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LINDENWOOD Film series receives grant The Lindenwood University Film Series has received a grant of $3,157 from the Missouri Arts Council to support the series in the coming year.

David Brown, professor of philosophy and director of the film series, said the series received a score of 7.55 out of 10 from the council, an improvement over last year’s score of 6.95, which determines the amount of the grant. The series consists of screenings throughout the year of classic, educational, or thought provoking films in the Young Hall Auditorium. Films are free with a Lindenwood ID card and $5 for the general public.

The Missouri Arts Council is a division of the Missouri state government and provides grants to nonprofit organizations to increase participation in the arts in the state, grow Missouri’s economy using the arts, and strengthen the state’s education through the arts.

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Results of a recent study suggest that drinking four or more cups of coffee per day could prevent prostate cancer recurrence and delay its progression.

Fighting cancer with coffee Four cups of coffee a day might keep prostate cancer away, a new study shows.

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center set out to determine if compounds in coffee and tea might prevent the recurrence of prostate cancer and delay its progression. Results of their study showed that compared to men who drank one or fewer cups of coffee per week, men who drank four or more cups of coffee a day experienced a 59 percent reduced risk of prostate cancer recurrence and/or disease progression.

Researchers said they could not yet recommend coffee to prevent prostate cancer recurrence, as randomized clinical trials and additional studies are needed. They noted also that drinking coffee can cause health problems for some men.

The study did not find a link between tea consumption and prostate cancer, but researchers said since few study participants were regular tea drinkers, further research is needed.

The American Academy of Dermatology has issued an alert regarding oral supplements marketed as providing sun protection.

According to a statement from American Academy of Dermatology President Dirk M. Elston, M.D., pills that come with a claim to provide protection from the sun should not be used as a replacement for sunscreen or sun-protective clothing.

“There is no scientific evidence that oral supplements alone can provide an adequate level of protection from the sun’s damaging ultraviolet rays,” Elston said.

Elston said that whether or not a person is taking an oral supplement, the Academy recommends seeking shade, wearing sunprotective clothing and a broad-spectrum, water-resistant sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 30 or greater.

No quick cure Doctors often prescribe exercise for people with sleep problems, but insomniacs should not expect immediate results.

“If you have insomnia, you won’t exercise yourself into sleep right away,” said Kelly Glazer Baron, director of the behavioral sleep program at Northwestern University and author of a study on the effect of regular exercise on quality of sleep. “It’s a long-term relationship.

You have to keep at it and not get discouraged.”

Baron conducted the study after hearing her patients with insomnia complain that the exercise she recommended did not immediately improve their sleep.

“They’d say, ‘I exercised so hard yesterday and didn’t sleep at all,’” Baron said. “The prevailing thought is that exercise improves sleep, but I thought it probably wasn’t that simple for people with insomnia.”

Baron’s analysis of data from a 2010 clinical trial showed the ability of aerobic exercise to improve sleep over a 16-week period in adults aged 57-70 with insomnia, suggesting that insomniacs should allow

four weeks for regular exercise to contribute to better sleep.

The study was published last month in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.

Most meds safe when breastfeeding The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has published new information to guide doctors in determining which drugs are safe for breastfeeding women. According to the AAP, mothers often are advised to either discontinue medications or stop nursing their babies, but most medications and immunizations are safe to take while breastfeeding.

According to an AAP release issued last month: “It is important for breastfeeding mothers to inform their child’s pediatrician about all of the medications they are taking, including herbal products. Not all drugs are present in clinically significant amounts in human milk or pose a risk to the infant. Certain classes of drugs can be problematic, either because of accumulation in breast milk or due to their effects on the nursing infant or mother. The most common products of concern include pain medications, antidepressants, and drugs to treat substance/alcohol abuse or smoking cessation.”

The AAP stated also that vaccinations recommended for mothers during the postpartum period are designed to protect infants and breastfeeding mothers.

Potential ovarian cancer screening Often called “the disease that whispers,” ovarian cancer in most cases is not discovered until it has reached an advanced stage. Now, researchers believe a new screening strategy may change that by detecting the disease before it becomes lethal.

Karen Lu, M.D., of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, led a study testing an ovarian cancer screening method that incorporates changes in CA125, a blood protein known as a tumor marker for the disease. The method involves two stages of testing and is designed to detect changes in CA125.

The 11-year study involved more than 4,000 healthy women aged 50-74 with no strong family history of breast or ovarian cancer. Participants underwent a baseline CA125 blood test and based on results were given a repeat test one year later (low risk), tested again in three months (intermediate risk) or referred to gynecologic oncologist and given a transvaginal ultrasound (high risk).

Cumulatively, 85 women were referred for ultrasound. Of the 10 women whose ultrasounds prompted surgeries, four had invasive ovarian cancers, two had ovarian tumors of low malignant potential and three had benign ovarian tumors, equating to a positive predictive value of 40 percent for detecting invasive ovarian cancer.

“Our findings suggest that using a longitudinal screening strategy may be beneficial in post-menopausal women with an average risk of developing ovarian cancer,” Lu said. “We are currently waiting for the results of a larger, randomized study currently being conducted in the United Kingdom that uses the same Risk of Ovarian Cancer Algorithm in a similar population of women.

If the results of this study are also positive, then this will result in a change in practice.”

On the calendar A head and neck screening will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital. The screening includes a look into the ear, nose and throat to check for problem areas that could increase the risk of cancer. To register, call 928-9355, or visit bjcstcharlescounty.org.

••• “Questions About Your Heart?” will be held from noon-1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at in the large conference room at Progress West Hospital. The “Lunch-and-Learn” event provides participants time to talk with a health care provider while enjoying lunch. Jamie Tueth, D.O., is the featured physician.

Admission is $5 and includes lunch. To register, call 928-9355, or visit bjcstcharlescounty.org.

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St. Dominic looks to go further in state softball playoffs

By JONATHAN DUNCAN A lot of things went right for the St. Dominic softball team during last year’s 21-8 season that saw them reach the Class 3 quarterfinals.

Still, there is a strong sense of unfinished business from the end of the 2012 campaign because of a rain-shortened quarterfinal lost to Centralia that denied the Crusaders a trip to the state tournament.

That feeling is one none of the returning St. Dominic players want to have again.

“It was my first time through districts and it definitely gives me a good idea of what I need to be looking forward to and what kind of competition we’re going to be facing,” said senior pitcher Katherine Lane. “I think we have a very solid squad and can do a really good job this year.”

A major plus for the Crusaders is that Coach Noah Duncan lost just two outfielders to graduation and with 10 returning players, the roster is a year older and a year better in terms of playing level.

“We went to the quarterfinals last year and lost to Centralia in a rain-shortened game there and it really left a bad taste in our mouths,” Duncan said. “Our goal is to go further than we did last year. We’re focused on state.”

Duncan noted that the lineup is pretty balanced throughout for the Crusaders, and at the plate and in the field there will be few holes in the lineup.

Senior catcher Katie Kasubke, a first team all-state selection last year is a major key to the Crusaders, but there is more to St. Dominic than Kasubke’s bat, glove and arm.

“You can’t look at St. Dominic and not notice Katie Kasubke because she’s really tall (5-foot-11) and stands above every-

body” Duncan said. “Everybody we play around here knows who she is.”

“She is a key component for us but she’s just one component for us.”

Senior third baseman Adele Linderman and sophomore Jenna Wilmes are back at shortstop. Sophomore Chaney Pollard is at second and senior Megan Tarin is at first base. That infield will provide some strong defensive support for Lane and will hit consistently as well.

Linderman hit a blistering .443 last season as a junior while Wilmes was strong with her bat hitting at a .384 clip.

“They were key for us last year in our success we had last year and I expect them to be key for us again this year,” Duncan said.

Lane will be the hurler on the mound for the Crusaders. She was quite productive as a junior logging a 16-6 mark with a 3.39 ERA in 134 innings pitched.

“Katherine is awesome,” Kasubke said.

“I mean I think the key for us (defensively) is just going to be to make the plays for her and stay solid for her because she works hard out there.”

Kasubke believes that the Crusaders success this fall will ultimately come from doing the fundamentals well game in and game out and not taking shortcuts in practices or games.

“I think the key for us this year is just to work hard,” Kasubke said. “I mean we know we have the talent, so work hard and play as a team to get anywhere.”

St. Dominic opened the season Aug. 28 against Living Word in the Wentzville Holt Round Robin Tournament and then returned to action Sept. 3-4 with Archdiocesan Athletic Conference games at St. Francis Borgia and at home against Bishop DuBourg.

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St. Charles senior victimized in scam In the wake of an incident that cost an 83-year-old St. Charles woman nearly $14,000, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) on Aug. 22 issued a warning urging the public to help educate seniors about scams.

According to the BBB, a man telephoned a St. Charles woman last month, identified himself as her 19-year-old grandson and told her he was imprisoned in Mexico and needed money for his release. The woman said the man instructed her not to tell anyone else about his arrest and explained how to wire $13,800 from her checking account to a bank account in Mexico. She said the man knew her other grandson’s name and other family details, and when she told him he did not sound like her grandson, he said his nose had been broken and bloodied.

Over the next couple of hours, the man called her several more times, including twice while she was in the bank and again when she was on the bank’s parking lot after transferring the money.

Michelle Corey, BBB president and CEO, said the incident illustrates the increasing sophistication of thieves who victimize seniors.

“Gone are the days when the scammers called numbers at random, hoping to get a senior on the other line, and then used vague information to draw them into the scam,” Corey said in the BBB news release.

“Increasingly, thieves are taking advantage of social media and other resources to get the names of family members and other details to help them target seniors.”

The BBB offered the following tips for avoiding the grandparent scam: • If you receive a call from someone claiming to be a family member and asking for money, do not disclose any personal information until you have confirmed who is on the other line. Sometimes, you can confirm the person’s identity by asking a question that the impersonator likely would not know, such as the name of his or her pet or details of your most recent get-together.

• Before sending any money, call a family member to find out the relative’s whereabouts, and notify the family member of the phone call.

• Be leery of requests to wire money through Western Union or MoneyGram or to send payments using prepaid credit cards, such as Green Dot MoneyPaks.

Funds sent through those methods are difficult to track and rarely are recoverable by law enforcement or banking officials.

• In most instances, a scammer will ask that the call be kept a secret, especially

from other family members. If you are a victim of a scam, report it to the authorities.

Grandmother stress One of the longest-running studies on grandmothers in various family situations suggests that grandmas who provide fulltime care for their grandchildren might need help to treat depression and lessen their stress.

A study at Case Western Reserve University’s nursing school tracked the health and mental well-being of 240 grandmothers for more than six years and compared data on those who were primary caregivers for grandchildren aged 16 and younger to those not caring for their grandkids. Participants’ average age at the study’s onset was 57.5 years.

“Although we expected the primary caregiver grandmothers raising grandchildren would have more strain and depressive symptoms, we were surprised at how persistent these were over the years examined in the study,” said Carol Musil, the nursing professor who conducted the research.

“They need support from others, but the most important thing is to maintain and perhaps develop new cognitive and behavioral skills and approaches for handling some very challenging family issues.”

According to U.S. Census data, more than 5 percent of the nation’s households have a grandparent living in the home.

Musil said more than 1 million grandmothers currently are raising grandchildren whose parents do not live in the home.

The National Institute of Nursing Research funded the study. Results were published in Nursing Outlook, the journal of the American Academy of Nursing and the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science.

Age a key factor in elective ovary removal When undergoing a hysterectomy, women often are faced with the difficult choice of whether or not to have their ovaries removed.

According to a peer-reviewed article published in Journal of Women’s Health, aside from a woman’s ovarian cancer risk, the most important factor in the decision is whether she is older or younger than 50.

While removing the ovaries has the obvious benefit of eliminating the possibility of future ovarian cancer, conserving ovaries and the hormones they produce may help prevent heart disease, hip fracture, sexual dysfunction and cognitive decline.

According to the article, “A Critical Evaluation of the Evidence for Ovarian Conservation Versus Removal at the Time of Hysterectomy for Benign Disease,” when there is no acute reason to remove the ovaries at the time of hysterectomy and a woman has no increased genetic risk for ovarian cancer, data suggests

that ovary removal should be discouraged in women younger than 50. However, in postmenopausal women, the article states, it is advisable to remove the ovaries to protect against ovarian cancer, as the medical literature shows that elective ovary removal is not likely to have an adverse effect on heart disease, hip fracture, sexual dysfunction, or cognitive function at that stage of a woman’s life.

“As 600,000 hysterectomies for benign disease are performed annually in the U.S. alone, it is imperative that we have clear guidelines for retaining versus removing normal ovaries,” said Susan G. Kornstein, M.D., Journal of Women’s Health editor.

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According to the report, as the number of people aged 80 and older increases in the next 20 years, the number of people aged 45-64 – the most common care-giving age range – will remain stagnant. And in 2050, there will be three times as many people 80 and older as there are now.

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“Frequent binge drinking – on an average of more than two days per week – is associated with increased odds of reporting at least one insomnia symptom,” said Sarah Canham, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who looked at data on nearly 5,000 people aged 55 and older.

Reported symptoms included trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, waking too early and not feeling rested in the morning.

Canham said she was unable to determine whether binge drinking cased insomnia, noting that it is possible that some people with existing sleep problems selfmedicate with alcohol.

The National Institutes of Health supported the study, which was presented at an Associated Professional Sleep Societies meeting.

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By BRIAN FLINCHPAUGH Tommie Monroe started to get a sense this summer that, yes, the third and final phase of Hwy. 364, also known as the “Page Extension,” was becoming a reality.

The dirt was getting higher next to the Dardenne Prairie City Hall.

“A few days there was not much looking out at the parking lot,” said Monroe, the city’s economic development coordinator.

That changed as construction crews and heavy road graders began kicking up dust and moving mountains of earth to form the roadbed for the 9-mile extension route.

The route is nearly adjacent to the City Hall at 2032 Hanley Road. Piled dirt now stands more than 10-feet high and above Hanley Road.

Monroe said he felt like a kid looking at the rising pile, tempted to make an adventurous climb to the top.

And with the rising embankments along the route have come rising expectations about whether Hwy. 364’s third phase will be a catalyst for economic growth in the county, Monroe and other local officials say.

Developers and business people are contacting cities along the route about retail, commercial, residential and mixed-use development possibilities. Signs stuck in the ground along Feise Road in Dardenne Prairie near the route advertise available lots. Phones at city halls have been ringing.

“We’re not surprised, we expected it,” Monroe said. “It seems to us that there appears to be an upswing in the economy.”

Local officials already report an upswing in residential housing and small businesses along the extension route. They also hint at other unannounced mixed-use or commercial developments without disclosing details, pleading “confidentiality” issues.

Mum remains the word.

But the dust also may literally have to settle before there is a good reading on future economic development along the third phase route.

The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission‘s selection of Page Constructors Joint Venture, a team of contractors to build the $118.2 million project, was the culmination of a decades-long effort to complete the extension. The announcement in February prompted inquiries and planning by developers to begin in earnest.

“People had a lukewarm interest in coming out here are suddenly making noises,” said Lake Saint Louis Mayor Ralph Sidebottom.

“I would say there was a lot of develop-

Development Strategies, a planning firm hired by St. Charles County, said in a 2009 economic impact report on the third phase that short-term impacts would come from construction spending and household earnings as the road was built.

“However, longer-term impacts from the project will be generated by the use of the road and by the real estate development Finish the road, and they will come Right now, officials and potential eco- that is projected to occur once the road is nomic players are watching the actual completed,” the report notes in its execuconstruction, which broke ground in May. tive summary.

ment activity that was ready to go,” said Tony Mathews, president and CEO of the Western St. Charles County Chamber of Commerce, which includes Dardenne Prairie, Lake Saint Louis and Wentzville. “It helps when people can actually see what it looks like.”

Interchange improvements are planned at Henke and Bryan roads, Hwy. 94 and Hwy. K. Hwy. K will be expanded to six lanes from Pheasant Meadow Drive to Royallsprings Parkway.

New development underway Even before pavement is laid, Dardenne Prairie, Lake Saint Louis, Cottleville and O’Fallon officials say new businesses have opened and housing starts are on the rise.

Monroe and Mathews report a barbeque restaurant, bank, car wash and vintage furniture store planned or open near Hwy. N and nearby. Along with single-family housing, some apartments are being added, Monroe said.

“Dardenne Prairie is hardly unique because, like a lot of cities, there is a need for multi-family housing,” Monroe said.

Many people, even if they have lost jobs and homes, would like to stay in the area, particularly if they have family living nearby, he said.

Sidebottom said residential development appears to be picking up in Lake Saint Louis, where it has been dormant for some time.

“As far as real estate, there’s been a marked increase in new roofs,” he said.

McBride and Sons, a St. Louis area residential developer, plans to add about 100 new homes in the Mason Glen subdivision off Orf Road, Sidebottom said.

Other subdivisions may develop new homes, he said.

Much of the Hwy. 364 route near the Dardenne Prairie City Hall has been elevated to carry the In O’Fallon, Michael Hurlbert, the city’s extension over Hanley Road.

(MRN photo) economic development director, said there have been inquiries.

Local officials said that long-term growth And some officials, including Sidebottom “With O’Fallon, we don’t have as many and Dardenne Prairie Mayor Pam Fogarty, could stem partially from an improved con- clear parcels along the route,” Hurlbert said. say economic activity is expected to pick nection between St. Charles and St. Louis But he said there “may be a couple of counties that will improve transportation things” that may be pending for the city up once the road is finished.

“Certainly, early on there was residential and traffic congestion on other Missouri but haven’t been announced. One potential interest, the commercial side was slower River crossings. major developer, Mercy, a ChesterfieldWhen it’s done, the Page Avenue Exten- based health care provider, has been mum coming on,” Sidebottom said. “I think it’s coming up with a head of steam. But I sion will extend 21 miles from Bennington recently about plans for a 52-acre tract along Place in St. Louis County to I-64 at Hwy. N. Hwy. K near Hwy. N it acquired in 2012. don’t think there will be a huge rush.”

The third phase or final leg extends Fogarty said Dardenne Prairie has been Hospital officials, who could not be planning for the extension’s impact since from Hwy. 94 at Mid Rivers Mall Drive reached for comment, have said the site 2007. City officials hope the extension will through Cottleville, west through southern could be used for a multipurpose medical be a spark for the downtown area. Fogarty O’Fallon and Dardenne Prairie to I-64 at facility or possibly a hospital. Hurlbert said said the extension also could help push Lake Saint Louis. hospital officials have indicated that they Missouri Highway and Transportation may have something before the city by the the population of Dardenne Prairie – a city with 11,494 residents in 2010, according Department (MoDOT) expects to open end of the year. to the U.S. census – toward 40,000 people. Hwy. 364 from a new full-cloverleaf interOfficials have long postulated that the change at I-64 to Bryan Road by Aug. 29, Housing upswing third and final phase of the Page Extension 2014; the section from Bryan Road to Hwy. Lake Saint Louis isn’t alone in noting a would have short-term and long-term eco- K by Oct. 1, 2014; and the section from general upswing in single-family housing nomic impacts.

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In June, there were 50 new housing starts in O’Fallon, the second most since 2008, said Tom Drabelle, the city’s communications director. Drabelle said the new housing starts were scattered throughout the city.

Other proposals along the extension route may be in the offing. Fogarty said city officials are reviewing plans for a 170acre tract at Bryan and Feise roads.

Single-family housing permits are up in St. Charles County in 2013 – ahead of numbers for the same period in 2012 and 2011, according to the Home Builders Association of St. Louis and Eastern Missouri.

There were 1,132 single-family housing permits issued through July of this year, association statistics state. That compares to 876 for the same period in 2012 and 612 for the same months in 2011 – both considered down years in housing starts.

The association’s statistics, however, do not indicate any multi-family housing permits issued in the county in 2013 through July.

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half-cent sales tax increase in August to fund road improvements and city parks.

Two Lake Saint Louis shopping centers – the Shoppes at Hawk Ridge and the Meadows at Lake Saint Louis – are major sources of revenue and city officials hope the extension will prompt more customer traffic and new stores.

But some local voices have been cautious in recent months regarding new, large-scale retail developments.

Greg Prestemon, president and chief executive officer of the Economic Development Center of St. Charles County, said earlier this year that Hwy. 364’s two completed phases have not prompted many big-box retailers to locate nearby.

By the numbers So, while dust clouds continue to rise with ongoing construction, what may be some of the economic impacts of the extension?

The Development Strategies study in 2009 for the county offers some educated guesses.

Economic development The study notes that the $118.2 million Attracting new businesses and new resi- project short-term might create 1,080 jobs dential housing is a significant factor in and $51.2 million in earnings in Missouri, community growth for another reason – tax as well as $21 million in federal taxes and revenue. $9 million in state and local taxes.

Sales tax revenue is a major revenue Over the next 20 years, approximately source for many communities. Lake Saint 2.5 million square feet of office, industrial Louis residents, for example, approved a and commercial space is projected to be

Heavy construction cranes are needed to move and remove rock along the Hwy. 364 extension route at Bryan Road.

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built in the Hwy. 364 corridor, the study notes. About 2,880 new residential units are also projected. Many jobs and firms, however, may simply be shifting from other parts of the region, the study adds.

New roads also may encourage people to follow other new paths.

“We may be putting up an overhead sign,” said Heather Kemper-Hussey, communica-

tions director for Morning Star Church at 1600 Feise Road in Dardenne Prairie.

The church is one of the fastest growing United Methodist Church congregations in Missouri with more than 6.,000 people attending weeklly services. It sits nearly adjacent to the extension route. KemperHussey said the church is trying to increase its visibility.

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••• The 2013-14 Ambush as the club has announced the hiring of its dance team choreographer and director. Ray Parks will serve as choreographer and Alba Brady will serve as director of the Ambush dance team this fall.

Parks was director and choreographer and Brady was an assistant choreographer for the St. Louis Professional Cheerleaders and Dancers Inc. The dance organization directed, choreographed and represented several professional sports teams in the area throughout the years, including the St. Louis Steamers, Storm and original Ambush soccer clubs, the St. Louis Cardinals football team, St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Stampede indoor football and St. Louis Vipers roller hockey. Brady also danced for the Steamers, Storm, Ambush and football Cardinals. She currently is the cheerleading coach for Harris-Stowe State University and the director and choreographer for The Antioch Baptist Church Liturgical Dance Ministry.

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HONORS & AWARDS Sharon E. Sagarra, of Creve Coeur, has attained the highest distinction in the field of medical practice management– fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives. Sagarra is the practice administrator of Benrus Surgical Associates in St. Peters and president of Medical Group Management Association of Greater St. Louis. Her fellowship paper is titled “Dealing With Long-Term Absences of Employees.” She will officially receive her fellowship at the national MGMA conference in San Diego in October.

Achieving fellowship through ACMPE demonstrates an individual’s willingness to embrace greater challenges and drive practice performance to new levels.

••• Jeff Gilbert, SVP of commercial lending at Frontenac Bank, has been nationally recognized as one of the “2013 Rising Stars in Banking.” A national trade magazine, NorthWestern Financial Review, solicited industry nominations and selected eight bankers who epitomize problem solving, great client service and knowledge in the banking industry.

Gilbert, the only banker recognized in Missouri, was specifically cited for his abilities as a problem solver, detailing his leadership role in creating a loan to convert an underutilized warehouse into a profitable ice rink, helping the warehouse owner secure long-term financial stability. Gilbert also plays a key role in reducing Frontenac Bank’s special assets.

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Com mu n it y Event s HOLIDAY ANGELS NEEDED The Crisis Nursery is looking for local Holiday Angels to participate in the 2013 Holiday Hearts Campaign. Join the effort and grant holiday wish-list items to deserving children and families in need. Supporters may choose to sponsor a family or purchase items off of the Crisis Nursery Holiday Wish List. For more information, call 314-2925770 or visit www.crisisnurserykids.org.

CLASSES/MEETINGS “Domestic Patriots-Women of Valor”, a tableau about the women who contributed to the Revolutionary War, will be presented at the Sept. 21 meeting of the Caroline Close Stuart Chapter, NSDAR held at the Lake Saint Louis Banquet Center. Chapter members will also recognize Constitution Week by conducting a “Bell Ringing” at the meeting in celebration of our Constitution.

The cost is $18 for lunch. To make reservations, call Karen Wisner at 314-772-9486.

••• “Strategies to Healthy Living” workshop with Dr. Jason Hamed on September 17 at 6:15 pm at The Chiropractic Wellness Connection. RSVP by calling 636-978-0970.

••• Staying Home Alone will be held from 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m., Tues., Sept. 10, 2013 at Dardenne Prairie City Hall.. This parent-child class, led by a St. Louis Children’s Hospital instructor, will help parents and children determine the child’s readiness – physically, mentally, socially and emotionally – to stay home by themselves and help prepare them for this experience.

Pre-Registration is required. The cost is $25 per family Call 314-454-KIDS (5347) or 800-678-KIDS (5437). Press 3 and give: Class Date and Class Location.

••• Babysitting 101 will be held from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m., Sat., Nov. 16, at Dardenne Prairie City Hall. This class, taught by a St. Louis Children’s Hospital instructor, is an introduction to the basics of babysitting.

A 28-page workbook and light snack are

provided. Topics include: the business of babysitting, child development, safety and first aid, fun and games. The cost is $30 per child.

FREE OUTDOOR CONCERT Serapis will perform a free concert at 6:30 p.m. on Fri., Sept. 6, on the docks at 370 Lakeside Park in St. Peters. Mid Rivers Newsmagazine is the media sponsor and Commerce Bank is the business sponsor for the concert series. For more information, call 397-6903.

CRAFT FAIR The St. Joseph School Band’s annual Fall Craft Fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 19, at St. Joseph-Cottleville.

The fair has more than 100 vendors with booths available inside and outside. All proceeds will benefit St. Joseph’s Band.

Those interested in having a booth at the fair can contact Laura Tepen at 447-3082.

GOLF TOURNAMENT Sts. Joachim and Ann Care Service ninth annual Golf Outing will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Mon., Sept. 16, at Bear Creek Golf Club in Wentzville. The cost is $125 per individual or $500 per team. There will be prizes and a silent auction. Sponsorship opportunities are still available. For more information, call Karen Runge at 441-1302, ext. 263 or email krunge@jacares.org.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Saint Charles Riverfront Arts (SCRA) will partner with the St. Charles Parks and Recreation department to host free “Artists Workshop” series starting Sept. 11. The six-week series will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays from Sept. 11 through Oct. 16 at the St. Charles Parks and Recreation’s Memorial Hall in Blanchette Park. Professional instruction in drawing and watercolor painting, along with all artists’ materials, will be provided. Class size will be

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••• The 19th annual MOSAICS Missouri Festival for the Arts will be held Sept. 13 through Sept. 15, on North Main Street in St. Charles.

The festival will be held from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fri., Sept. 13th; 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sat., Sept. 14; and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sun., Sept. 15. The free, family-friendly festival will have activities for everyone including fantastic art, great entertainment and the opportunity for children to create their own artwork. For more information, call 314-4825476 or visit www.stcharlesmosaics.org.

GARAGE SALE The Francis Howell Parent Club of 2014 will host its third annual Spectacular Finds Vendor/Craft/Garage Sale from 8 a.m. to noon on Sat., Sept. 28, at Francis Howell Middle School. Vendors will be selling various craft items and product lines along with the indoor garage sale. For more information, contact Nancy VanDenBosch at 224-723-8319.

BENEFITS The Hooray for Play Gala will be held at 6 p.m. on Sat., Sept. 14, in the Discovery Ballroom at Ameristar Casino. The gala will include performances by Circus Harmony, a live and silent auction, a short awards ceremony and music by TNT & The Hard Drives. Tickets are $125 per person and will include a sit down meal, open bar, appetizers, gourmet popcorn stand, sundae station and tickets for attendance prizes.

The Gala will benefit Unlimited Play.

Sponsorship opportunities are still available. For more information, call 449-1770.

••• The fifth annual Art Uncorked will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Sat., Sept. 21, at Kathryn Linnemann Library in St. Charles. VIP guests will arrive at 6:30 p.m. for a reception that includes an exclusive wine tasting, special presentation and gift bag. General admission opens at 7:30 p.m. when guests can interact with local artists, sample wine, food and beer, and bid on coveted items from the silent auction. Online tickets can be purchased at stchlibraryfoundation.org.

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ITNStCharles fourth annual Relax for Rides will be held from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sun., Sept. 22, at Wine Country Gardens.

The afternoon will include a light buffet lunch with one complimentary drink and complimentary chair massages. There will also be live entertainment, a silent auction and a vacation raffle. Tickets are $40 per person or $75 per couple. The annual wine tasting fundraiser will benefit seniors and adults with disabilities in St. Charles County.

Sponsorships are still available. To register, call 329-0888 or visit www.itnstcharles.org.

••• The American Legion Post 312 will host a dedication ceremony for a Memorial Mural at 3 p.m., Sun., Sept. 15, at the Fox Hole Lounge at 2500 Raymond Drive, St. Charles. The mural depicts members of all branches of the Armed Services along with their various pieces of equipment, ships, aircraft, and armored vehicles in World War II, Korean War, Vietnam, Gulf War and Afghanistan. For more information, contact the Post at 314-947-7666.

PRAIRIE DAY Dardenne Prairie will host Prairie Day beginning at noon on Sat., Sept., 21. Prairie Day is a little different each year, but one thing remains the same: Families and friends can gather together for food, fun and entertainment. As in years past, there will be fun activities and shows in the Family Fun Tent for the kids. Adults and kids alike will enjoy walking through the booths and seeing all the goodies for sale, gathering information, and playing games.

The live entertainment and food are sure to please everyone.

DAY TRIP Lunch & Wine Tasting at Wine Country Gardens will be held from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Wed., Oct. 2. The fee includes transportation by Mid American Coaches, lunch and gratuities, wine tasting and time to walk the gardens. Registration is due by Friday, Sept. 13. Call Melissa at 755-5308.

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By SHEILA FRAYNE RHOADES Since opening in 2011, Rib City in Cottleville has become a favorite destination for barbecued ribs in St. Charles County. A sister restaurant is located in Des Peres.

Both the lunch and dinner menus at Rib City include a large variety of lip smackin’ good food. In addition to the previously mentioned award-winning barbeque baby back ribs, there are thick and juicy St. Louis-style spare ribs; sandwiches of lean pork, beef, juicy chicken and smoked turkey breast; burgers; grilled fish; and hot dogs. The restaurant’s four signature barbecue sauces – Sweet, Tangy, Hot, and Carolina Mustard – add to the options.

Rib City’s Cottleville location has garnered quite a reputation also for its delicious barbecued pork steaks.

“Pork Steaks are such a big tradition in the Midwest that we decided to add them to our menu as a daily special,” explained Gregg Matthes, Rib City owner. “They are 18 ounces and so tender you can eat them with a fork. We are the only Rib City in the nationwide chain to offer these.”

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served with garlic toast and choice of two sides, which include fresh green beans, homemade baked beans and cole slaw.

“Customer favorites are, of course, the baby back ribs, so tender they fall off the bone,” Matthes said.

“Pork steaks and St. Louis ribs are favorites, too.

Two popular lunchtime sandwiches and my personal choices are the Sloppy City (old-fashioned, chopped barbecue) and Kickin’ Chicken (lightly breaded, tossed with buffalo sauce and topped with pepper Jack cheese and spicy ranch).”

Great starters include fried okra, cheese fries, chicken tenders and onion rings. All desserts – including Key lime, coconut crème and pecan pies and chocolate mousse – are homemade.

Rib City also has a full bar stocked with plenty of libations to enhance the barbecue dining expe- Rib City is known for its award-winning ribs and St. Louis-style barbecue. rience. Daily Happy Hour specials include $3 Jose Cuervo margaritas on Tuesday and Thursday.

“We don’t charge for the use of the room; we only Monday through Thursday, diners may enjoy specials request your reservations be made,” Matthes said. such as $1 off appetizers and bar drinks.

On Thursdays in September, Rib City will offer a 20 “Almost every night we have specials,” Matthes said. percent senior citizen discount on dine-in orders. Seniors “Wednesday is draught beer night at super low prices. If always enjoy a discount of 10 percent off any dine-in order beer is not your thing, we also serve Clos Du Bois wines. Monday through Friday, and veterans, policemen, firemen Our well drinks are Dewar’s, Smirnoff, Bombay, Jim or anyone who is a public servant in uniform receives a 50 Beam, Jose Cuervo and Bacardi.” percent discount on their meal.

Rib City has a “come on in and feel at home” atmo“We owe them a great deal and appreciate their service to sphere and accommodates about 120 guests. The restau- us,” Matthes explained. “There are specials offered at both rant also offers take out, drop-off business lunches, and lunchtime and dinner.” full scale catering. Special events can be held in the restauRib City also makes this promise: “If you have to pick up rant’s large banquet room, which seats around 60 people. a knife to eat our baby back ribs, then we’ll pick up your bill.”

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