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Walter E. Williams is my oldest and closest friend. But I didn’t know that his autobiography had just been published until a talk show host told me last week.

I immediately got a copy of “Up from the Projects,” started reading it before dinner and finished reading it before bedtime.

It is the kind of book that you hate to put down, even though I already knew how the story would end.

The first chapter, about Walter’s life growing up in the Philadelphia ghetto, was especially fascinating. It brought back a whole different era in black communities – an era that is now almost irretrievably lost, to the great disadvantage of today’s generation growing up in the same neighborhoods where Walter grew up in Philadelphia or where I grew up in Harlem.

Although Walter’s memoir is titled “Up from the Projects,” the projects of the era when he was growing up bear virtually no resemblance to the projects of today.

For one thing, those projects were clean, and the people living in them helped keep them clean, by sweeping the halls and tending to the surrounding areas outside of the buildings as well. The people living in the projects then were probably poorer than the people living in the projects now. But they had not yet succumbed to the moral squalor afflicting such places today.

More important, they – and the whole black community of which they were part – were far safer than today. As late as 1958, when Walter was a young taxi driver in Philadelphia, he used to park his cab in the wee hours of the morning and take a nap in it. As he points out, “A cabbie doing the same thing today would be deemed suicidal.”

There were jobs for black teenagers in those days, and Walter worked at a dizzying variety of those jobs. Most of those jobs are long gone today, as are the businesses that hired black teenagers.

While there are greater opportunities for many blacks today, there are far fewer opportunities for those blacks at the bottom, living in ghettos across the country and trapped in a counterproductive and even dangerous way of life.

The times in which Walter Williams grew up were by no means idyllic times, nor was Walter a model child nor always a model adult, as he candidly shows. He even reproduces the documents recording

his court martial in the Army.

How Walter Williams changed for the better – partly as a result of his wife, who “became a civilizing and humanizing influence in my life” – is one of the themes of this book. The other great influence in Walter’s life was his mother, one of those strong and wise black women who has had much to do with providing the foundation from which many other black men and women rose out of poverty to higher levels of achievement.

With Walter, that path was not a straight line but had many zigs and zags, and there were times when he was a disappointment to his mother. But, in the end, he vindicated all the efforts and hopes that she had invested in him.

There were also teachers, and then professors, who played a role in developing his mind – especially hard-nosed teachers in Philadelphia who chewed him out when he messed up and UCLA professors who bluntly told him when his work wasn’t good enough.

None of them was the kind of warm, chummy educators that so many hold up as an ideal. After Walter Williams earned his Ph.D. in economics and went on to become a professor himself, he was scathing in his criticism of fuzzy-minded faculty members who think they are doing students a favor by going easy on them or giving them higher grades than they deserve.

As he began to write about racial issues, Walter was able to draw not only on his research as an economist, but also on his personal experiences in the Philadelphia ghetto, in the Jim Crow South and in South Africa, where he lived for some months during the era of Apartheid.

Few others had so much to draw on, and many of them failed to understand that Walter Williams saw a lot deeper than they did. As a result, his conclusions made him a controversial figure.

When I finished reading “Up from the Projects,” I wished it had been a longer book. But it got the job done – and its insights are much needed today.

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Let’s first establish the fact that the current issue is not one of tax cuts. We’re talking about existing tax rates that have been in force for a decade. No one is talking about cutting taxes for the rich. The issue is whether to allow automatic tax increases to take place… and whether to shield anyone or everyone from these automatic increases. If these Obama Tax Increases take place, they will represent the largest tax hike in American history.

Conservatives take the position that it is unwise and unproductive (not to mention unfair) to raise taxes on anyone at all during a period of economic turmoil such as we are currently experiencing. Further, it would do damage to the employment prospects of the working classes if more of the income of those in a position to create jobs were to be confiscated in taxes.

Liberals take the position that only the so-called “middle class” deserves to have their tax rates preserved, and that the “rich” - defined as those earning over $250,000 annually - aren’t paying their fair share and should have their taxes raised.

Before going into the dry economic realities that are embodied in these diametrically opposed positions represent, let me first share a parable which has made the circuit of viral email. It very clearly and accurately portrays our “progressive” tax system in a way even a Liberal steeped in Academia and Leftist Propaganda can understand it.

Suppose that every day, 10 men go out for dinner. The bill for all 10 comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men — the poorest — would pay nothing; the fifth would pay $1, the sixth would pay $3, the seventh $7, the eighth $12, the ninth $18, and the 10th man — the richest — would pay $59.

That’s what they decided to do. The 10 men ate dinner in the restaurant every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement — until one day, the owner threw them a curve (in tax language a tax cut).

“Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by $20.” So now dinner for the 10 only cost $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill

the way we pay our taxes. So the first four men were unaffected. They would still eat for free. But what about the other six — the paying customers? How could they divvy up the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his “fair share?”

The six men realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would end up being paid to eat their meal. So the restaurant owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same proportion, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so the fifth man now paid nothing, the sixth pitched in $2, the seventh paid $5, the eighth paid $9, the ninth paid $12, leaving the 10th man with a bill of $52 instead of his earlier $59. Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to eat for free.

But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. “I only got a dollar out of the $20,” declared the sixth man who pointed to the 10th. “But he got $7!”

“Yeah, that’s right,” said the fifth man, “I only saved a dollar, too . . . It’s unfair that he got seven times more than me!”

“That’s true!” said the seventh man. “Why should he get $7 back when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!”

“Wait a minute,” said the first four men in unison. “We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!”

The nine men surrounded the 10th and beat him up. The next night he didn’t show up for dinner, so the nine sat down and ate without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered, a little late what was very important. They were $52 short of paying the bill. Imagine that.

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college instructors, is how the tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction.

Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up at the table anymore. There are lots of good restaurants in Monaco and the Caribbean.

Where would that leave the rest? Unfortunately, most taxing authorities anywhere cannot seem to grasp this rather straightforward logic!

Given the fact that 40 percent of American wage earners pay no income tax, and in fact, some receive back money in credits that exceed any withholding contribution, we can see that the progressive tax structure already soaks the rich and executes a form of wealth redistribution.

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EDITORIAL

There is a Santa Claus This Christmas season, Mid Rivers Newsmagazine is choosing to reprint possibly the most famous newspaper editorial of all time. The piece, written by Francis Pharcellus Church, originally was published in the New York Sun on Sept. 21, 1897, and was written in response to a young girl’s letter to the paper. We hope that you enjoy reading it for the first or the hundredth time, and we wish your family all the goodness that this season can bring.

DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.

Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

- Virginia O’Hanlon Virginia, your little friends are wrong.

They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except (what) they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehended by their little minds.

All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to our life its highest beauty and joy.

Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Virginias. There would be no childish faith then, or poetry, no romance, to make tolerable this existence.

We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe

in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove?

Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see.

Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, not even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.

Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernatural beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

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our community,” said Susan Mays, council chair. “Serving on the extension council is Don’t trash the lights a great way to help make our community a Broken holiday lights don’t belong in the better place for people to live.” trash—but the recycling bin.

The St. Charles County Extension St. Peters residents can put broken holi- Council is the local link between county day light strands in a blue bag and drop residents and the University of Missouri it in the trash cart for trash collection. Or four-campus system. Council members non-working light strands can be dropped assist in planning and carrying out extenoff in a special container at Recycle City sion educational efforts to improve lives. located at 131 Ecology Drive in St. Peters. As public officials, extension council “The program started in 1997 and was members administer a local budget to supthe first of its kind in St. Charles County. port education that meets educational priFor the past three years we have recycled orities. nearly 20 tons of broken light strands. That Candidates must be at least 18 years old is the equivalent weight of 10 police cars and reside in the county. Nominations for that never made it to a landfill,” said David the extension council must be made by Kuppler, manager of health and environ- Dec. 17. mental services. “It is recycling at its best Individuals interested in serving on the and the public has been very receptive to a council can contact Scott Killpack at 970bright idea.”

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Elvis is in the building Elvis is visiting St. Peters next month.

Elvis impersonator Tom Christopher and his band will return to St. Peters to pay tribute to the King of Rock ‘n Roll at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 28, in the Cultural Arts Centre Performing Arts Theatre located in St. Peters City Hall.

Tickets for the performance are on sale now for $16 per person. Refreshments and a cash bar will be available outside the theatre during intermissions. No food or drink is allowed in the theatre.

For more information on this show, call 397-6903 or go online to stpetersmo.net.

St. Charles County

And the nominees are…

Nominations are now being accepted for the January 2011 election to the University of Missouri Extension Council of St. Charles County.

“The University of Missouri Extension Council of St. Charles County is seeking people from all walks of life who are interested in education and the progress of

St. Charles Shaw honored as citizen of year Gary Shaw, managing director - Investments at Wells Fargo Advisors, has been named the 2010 Citizen of the Years by the St Charles Chamber of Commerce. He will be honored at the Citizens of the Year Gala on Feb. 4.

Shaw is on the board of directors of many St. Charles/ St. Louis organizations including: Missouri KIDS (Missourians Who Kare for Injured and Disabled Students), St. Charles County Boys and Girls Club and Arts Foundry of St. Charles.

“The Citizen of the Years recognizes an individual for their continued involvement and support of local civic groups, service organizations, and charities,” said Scott Tate, president and CEO for the St. Charles Chamber of Commerce. “Gary’s service to organizations throughout the region spans three decades. He has supported a number of organizations and has been recognized by local charities for his generosity. Gary has gained the respect of the business community and we are pleased to also recognize him for his service to our community.”

Shaw is also on the Board of Trustees for Lindenwood University, has served on the Blue Ribbon Committee for United Services for the Handicapped and is a past Board Member of the YMCA, past Advisory Member of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, past Board Member of the Missouri Special Olympics and past Board Member of the St. Joseph Health Center Blue Ribbon Committee.

The chamber will also be recognizing the 2010 Lifetime Distinguished Service Award recipients: Mike Ricketts (Humanitarian); Mimi Jackson (Cultural); and Joe Briscoe (Civic).

O’Fallon Winter warm up It’s cold outside—and O’Fallon wants to help its residents stay warm in their homes.

Low-income O’Fallon homeowners who need help with lowering heating bills are encouraged to apply for the City of O’Fallon’s new home weatherization grant.

“With the weather getting colder, we hope people will take advantage of the grant and get their homes taken care of as soon as possible,” said Jessica Hawkins, O’Fallon’s grant administrator. “The grants are available to homeowners living in single-family homes and mobile homes, too.”

Qualified O’Fallon homeowners will be eligible for weatherization improvements to their homes such as additional insulation, caulking, window repairs or replacements, doors, weather stripping, furnace and water heater repairs or replacements and other items designed to boost energy efficiency.

Applicants must meet other qualifications, including income guidelines.

The city of O’Fallon is administering the grant in partnership with the North East Community Action Corporation (NECAC).

The grant was awarded by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ Energize Missouri Housing Initiative, which is funded through the Federal Recovery Act. Applications for the weatherization program and additional information are available online at www.ofallon.mo.us/ dept_CDBG.htm, or at the front desk in

the O’Fallon Municipal Centre. For more information, call 379-5411.

SCC Home school classes Starting in January, St. Charles Community College is offering a new Homes School Enrichment program designed to supplement at-home instruction.

The classes—which will be held during the day at SCC—are limited to 15 students and taught by experienced SCC instructors.

“Taking a home school class is an excellent way to bridge learning at home to learning in the classroom,” said Amy Fitzwilliam, program assistant for SCC’s Continuing Education Department.

SCC Continuing Education will host a parent advisory board meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 15, in Rooms 205-206 of the Student Center on SCC’s campus. RSVP by calling Amy Fitzwilliam at 922-8335 or e-mail afitzwilliam@stchas.edu.

Lindenwood Lindenwood receives grant Lindenwood University has received a $25,000 grant from Maritz to continue a glade restoration project at its Boone Home Campus in rural St. Charles County. The grant will continue and expand the existing project, which over that past two years has reestablished an important habitat for a variety of species, some of which are rare or endangered.

“A glade is an opening in a forest, facing south or southwest on a hillside,” said David Knotts, director of the project and dean of Lindenwood’s Boone Campus “It has a desert-like habitat and is home to species like yucca and prickly pear cactus.

Opening up the area by removing the invasive tree growth allows for the rock shelves to emerge, which creates habitats for species that would not be there otherwise.”

Knotts said many glades in Missouri, like the one at the center of the project, have been taken over by invasive growth, such as cedar trees, which are not native to the area. A large part of the project has involved removing the cedar trees to allow for the reestablishment of the glade.

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How Long Should You Retain Tax Records?

Keep tax returns indefinitely and the supporting records usually for six years. In general, except in cases of Bruce Huelskamp, fraud or substantial understatements of CPA income, the IRS can only assess tax for a year within three years after the return for that year was filed. For example, if you filed your 2009 individual income tax return by its original due date of April 15, 2010, IRS would have until April 15, 2013 to assess a tax deficiency against you. If you file your return late, IRS generally has three years from the date you filed the return to assess a deficiency.

The problem with the three-year rule is that the assessment period is extended to six years if more than 25% of gross income is omitted from a return. In addition, the assessment period does not begin to run until a return is filed. Therefore, if the IRS claims that you never filed a return for a particular year, it can assess tax for that year at any time (even beyond three or six years), unless you can prove that you did file, Proving that you filed would, of course, be impossible after you have discarded your returns.

While it’s impossible to be completely sure that the IRS will not at some point seek to assess tax, retaining tax returns indefinitely and important records for six years after the return is filed should , as a practical matter, be adequate.

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By Jeannie Seibert What is considered wasteful and frivolous federal government spending to one faction of the populace is nothing more than a tool of good government to others seeking funding to complete infrastructure projects.

The topic is earmarks.

Earmarks have become the poster child for wasteful government spending and a plank in the Tea Party platform. These are the folks who backed many a successful GOP candidate in November. Now with an incoming majority in the House and a filibuster-proof Senate, the GOP is attempting to follow through on their demands.

In fact, the future of earmarks may already be a fait accompli – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken.) has already announced he would be supporting a moratorium on earmarks for the duration of the recession.

And he’s getting bi-partisan agreement. U.S. Sen. Clair McCaskill (D-Mo.)

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announced she too would support a ban on earmarks.

While these gestures may or may not be symbolic, most believe earmarks are not the source of all that’s wrong with Washington, D.C. - nor are they a substantial percentage of the total federal budget.

As 15-year veteran of the Missouri Legislature now serving his fourth year as the St. Charles County Director of Administration, Chuck Gross has developed a view of earmarks worth noting.

“Earmarks are an interesting thing,” Gross said. “In the (Second Congressional) district they’re not called earmarks. In the district they’re called ‘government’ – for things like the Page Avenue extension.”

While two-thirds of the Page Avenue extension project has been constructed, the final third, from Mid Rivers Mall Drive to Hwy. 40/61 is in dire need of a funding source.

Gross’ experience in Jefferson City convinced him that discretionary spending,

which is what earmarks are, done the way the Missouri Capitol does it, is far superior to the Washington way of allocating federal government largesse. “...We (the Missouri General Assembly) didn’t have an earmarks process like in Washington,” Gross said. “We could not mix budget and non-budget items in the same bill.”

What may have given earmarks a red mark were ones such as in 2009 when $4.3 million in federal funds were dedicated to constructing a turtle tunnel in the state of Florida. Another chunk of change was allocated to fund the Woodstock Museum in upstate New York.

U.S. Senator-elect Roy Blunt who is representing southwest Missouri district in the lame duck Congress has had even more exposure to the Show-Me way vs. the Washington way.

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‘A-caroling we will go...’

Troop 3648 carolling in 1998 (left) and today.

Local families continue making memories through caroling

By Mary Ann O’Toole Holley three, but it’s a short term commitment, a key role, but it’s the carolers themselves Christmas, for the most part, is filled and it’s for a good cause,” Meyers said. that spread the joy in a double-dipping way. with memories.

The St. Louis Christmas Carols Asso- They say caroling for the St. Louis ChristFor several local families, Christmas just ciation began in 1911, when William H. mas Carols Association gives twice to their wouldn’t be the same without old-fash- Danforth and a group of friends decided to community: sharing the gift of holiday ioned Christmas caroling—not at church; bring joy and good will to their neighbors music with friends and neighbors while not at school, but up and down neighbor- by caroling outside their homes. Being collecting funds to help needy children of hood streets. successful businessmen, and philanthropic our area.

Kathleen Meyers of St. Charles has by nature, the funds collected during their “It has been a dying tradition, but this served as chairman for the St. Louis caroling in December were used to help year has been breakout,” Meyers said. “It Christmas Carolers Association for 8 years, needy youngsters. seems like people are getting back to more looking after carolers in St. Charles and St. Founder William H. Danforth died in traditional things.”

Peters and providing them with flyers and his home on Kingsbury Place in St. Louis Meyers daughter, Marissa, 13, went collection cans that will benefit 41 chil- on Christmas Eve, 1955. Legend has it he dren’s organizations. was waiting for carolers to serenade him.

“It’s only for two months a year, maybe The Danforth Family continues to play See A-CAROLING, page 12

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‘Anonymous’ attacks MasterCard Worldwide – all data remains secure

By Jeannie Seibert The hottest news tornado leading virtually every journalistic outpost in the world recently has been the ongoing saga of hacker and secret government document leaker Julian Assange. It even touched down right here in our own backyard on Dec. 8 as an O’Fallon-based company was sucked into the WikiLeaks vortex.

By now everyone is aware that Assange’s Web site, WikiLeaks, obtained secret U.S. government documents and twice has dumped hundreds of thousands of pages of sensitive military and diplomatic communiqué onto the Internet.

While WikiLeaks founder, Assange, cooled his heels in a London jail on an unrelated charge, the MasterCard Worldwide computer data center in O’Fallon was deliberately targeted by a group of computer hackers who call themselves “Anonymous.”w The group formed in behalf of WikiLeaks’ rights of free speech, according to various Web site postings, including Twitter.

The cyber vigilantes, armed with a prearranged code, received their order to “FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!” via a Twitter posting. At that point hundreds of hackers simultaneously sent out the codes triggering an untold number of messages to be simultaneously sent to the MasterCard Web site.

“Actually, what happened was that the traffic to our website significantly increased, which made it harder than it would usually be to access the site,” said spokesman Amanda Gioia, of the MasterCard O’Fallon data center in an e-mail. But, “…there was no impact to our systems or our data.” There was also no impact with regard to credit card transactions.

An army of MasterCard IT specialists essentially went into the computer security world’s version of DefCon 5. Working feverishly, data center teams pulled together to keep the servers from crashing – especially crucial during the most active retail sales month of the year.

“It took just a few short hours for the MasterCard Technology teams (to) restore normal Web site traffic to the site,” Giolia’s e-mail to MRN states. “During this time, there was no impact to our systems or our data. In addition, our cardholders could continue to use their cards for secure transactions globally.”

Other corporate Web site servers similarly attacked did crash however.

The same strategy was used on Visa the next day.

Also PayPal and Amazon.com were hit.

Some servers did crash but no Web site was offline for more than a few hours. Because these are all financial transactions-centered

entities, virtual security is taken no less seriously than a high-level military operation’s would be. “…Our core processing capabilities were never compromised,” the MasterCard spokesman’s e-mail states. Customers’ financial information “remain intact, and no cardholder account information is at risk.”

Until now, computer hackers have been written off as pesky, or mischievous, annoying troublemakers. This particular hack attack took on a different dimension.

According to posts on hacker Web sites and Twitter, Anonymous is retaliating for the financial transaction companies’ voluntary decision to sever ties with WikiLeaks’ fundraising Web sites.

While claims that WikiLeaks document dumps have undermined the nation’s security and foreign relations, no government entity has made a move to shut down the Web site.

However, U.S. Senate committee on homeland security Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) on Nov. 28 called for WikiLeaks to be taken off line. Whether or not that can be accomplished legally, Liberman went further requesting financial transaction companies to sever all ties with the leaker’s fundraising links.

In about the same timeframe, the State Department issued a memo alluding to WikiLeaks’ activities as potentially illegal indicating it would consider any entity associated with the Web site to be a coconspirator.

While Amazon.com was the first to drop the WikiLeaks fundraisers links MasterCard followed suit on Dec. 6. Visa eliminated the fundraisers the next day.

Subsequent Twitter postings trumpet the Anonymous hackers’ glee at the chaos they’d caused, dubbed Operation: Payback.

As the Supreme Court decision equated financial donations as a form of free speech, Anonymous hackers think First Amendment rights are being violated as WikiLeaks fundraiser sites are dropped from their former Web hosts: MasterCard, Visa, et al.

First Amendment legal specialist Grant Doty with the St. Louis division of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) doesn’t quite see the legal logic.

“The First Amendment prohibits the government from making a law that would prohibit free speech,” Doty said.

A private entity, a company, a retailer can refuse to do business with anyone or any other entity it deems inappropriate for whatever reason.

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The Missouri Gaming Commission’s Voluntary Exclusion Program (VEP) is going strong. Created in 1996, the program provides problem gamblers with a method to acknowledge their gambling problems and take responsibility for the addiction by agreeing to forever stop visiting Missouri casinos.

A 24-hour, confidential gambling helpline (1-888-BETSOFF) is available for Missourians. The helpline offeres instructions on joining the VEP and referrals to counselors and Gamblers Anonymous meetings.

To join the VEP, gamblers must visit a Missouri Gaming Commission (MGC) office, show a photo ID and sign a piece of paper establishing their identity and verifying their desire to be a part of the program.

Those who join the VEP are removed from all Missouri casino direct marketing lists, refused check cashing privileges at Missouri casinos and denied participation in the state’s casino player programs. The problem gambler agrees that if he or she is discovered in a Missouri casino, he will be arrested for trespassing.

Currently, the Missouri VEP has more than 15,000 enrollees, and according to a Gaming Commission spokesperson, 60 to 80 new people enroll each month.

Rick Cox, a certified compulsive gambling counselor at the state-funded Bridgeway Treatment Centers, said the VEP is not intended to be a fix or a surefire cure for addiction but rather a tool for gambling addicts.

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Every casino is equipped with a list of those in the VEP, and casinos are expected to keep those listed off casino properties.

However, Cox said that the elimination of loss limits has made it more difficult for casinos to keep tabs on who enters the properties, because anyone older than 21 can enter a casino without showing a player’s card.

Relatives of problem gamblers have called casinos to report people on the VEP list who still frequent the casinos, Cox said.

Missouri’s VEP does not technically extend to casinos in other states, although casinos owned by out-of-town conglomerates, like Harrah’s, are expected to enforce Missouri’s program at all its properties.

Cox said he encourages his Missouri clients to get on a voluntary ban list in Illinois, as well.

He said anyone who has problems created by gambling yet continues to gamble has a gambling addiction and needs to take steps to seek help. Currently, there is no way to be removed from the VEP. Cox said that is a positive thing and cited examples of gambling addicts who stayed out of casinos for more than 10 years and resumed the destructive habit within one visit to a casino.

“Anything that puts addicts in action is a problem,” Cox said, adding that for addicts, gambling can affect brain processes in the same way as drugs.

“I’m not saying that all gambling is bad,” Cox said. “But if thousands of people put their name on this list, there is obviously a problem.”

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Bank of America and other financial institutions and brokers allegedly rigged bids, received and provided “last looks” on bids, and submitted non-competitive “courtesy” bids on these investments. The alleged schemes enriched financial institutions or Last week, Attorney General Chris Koster brokers at the expense of state agencies, announced that Bank of America will pay towns, cities, school districts and not-for$67 million nationally under a multistate profit entities. As a result of this misconsettlement for its involvement in a nation- duct, state, local and not-for-profit entities wide scheme to rig bids and engage in other entered into contracts at suppressed rates anticompetitive conduct that defrauded of return on investments or paid higher Missouri municipalities, school districts rates on interest-rate hedging instruments and not-for-profit entities in the purchase of municipal bond derivatives. The multistate settlement is one component of an overall $137 million settlement Bank of America is entering into simultaneously with several federal agencies.

The combined multistate settlements will provide eligible entities the opportunity to receive restitution for the wrongdoing. Approximately 50 Missouri entities are eligible to receive more than $2.6 million under the settlement.

According to a press release from the AG’s office, the settlements are the result of a broad and ongoing criminal and civil investigation that focuses on individual executives at Bank of America, other major financial institutions and certain brokers in connection with the marketing and sale of municipal derivative investments. These derivatives are typically investment contracts that government issuers and not-forprofit entities use to reinvest the proceeds of tax-exempt bond offerings until the funds are needed or to hedge against interest rate fluctuations. The transactions are often awarded after a competitive bidding process or negotiated directly between the financial institution and the issuer.

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Road extension to displace business Plans for an extension of West Clay Road in St. Charles will cause a handful of local businesses to relocate. Steve Noonan, project manager for the city of St. Charles, said the project is currently in the preliminary design phase. At this time there is no funding in place to complete the project.

“Right now we’re exploring other funding sources,” Noonan said.

Noonan said the expansion will displace four businesses located near the corner of West Clay and First Capitol Drive. The effected businesses include Midas, Ponds Plus, Labor Ready, Inc. and Book-XChange. A project task force has been developed to help effected businesses relocate.

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“This settlement recovers money that municipal bond issuers and not-for-profit organizations would have received but for the alleged bid rigging of Bank of America and its co-conspirators,” Koster said in a press release. “Bank of America and its coconspirators engaged in sham bids in which the outcome had been predetermined in order to provide the illusion of competitive bids and fair dealing while enriching financial institutions and brokers at the expense

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Wilbourn is currently ranked No. 3 in the United States at 135 pounds by Win Magazine and is considered to be one of the topranked wrestlers in the country.

Wilbourn began wrestling at age 3 when his father, Terry Moore, set up a wrestling area in their garage. Since then, Wilbourn has trained year-round and traveled around the country winning and placing in several tournaments. He is a three-time Missouri state medalist and a two-time Missouri State Champion. He compiled a perfect 51-0 record his junior year at 130 lbs.

Steven Cross, FHC head wrestling coach, said Terrel’s success comes from a combination of hard work, great technique and outstanding athletic ability.

“He is a simply a freakishly good athlete and makes just about everything look easy,” Cross said. “He appears smooth and relaxed on the mat, then explodes and just runs through his opponent. He’s extremely

quick, very strong and has great balance and agility.”

In club wrestling he is a six-time AllAmerican and has won two national titles in Folkstyle wrestling and one in Freestyle wrestling.

After graduation, Wilbourn plans to attend and wrestle at a junior college or wrestle in the military.

Teacher takes flight Constance Bedsworth, eighth-grade communication arts teacher at Mary Emily Bryan Middle School, recently accompanied World War II (WWII) veterans on their trip to Washington D.C. The trip was sponsored by the Honor Flight Program, a non-profit organization created solely to honor America’s veterans for all their sacrifices.

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Summer school changes The Board of Education recently approved the 2011 summer programs for the Francis Howell School District. The elementary level program will be different than in previous years, but the middle and high school programs will be a repeat of the program held last summer.

The program for students in grades K through 5 will focus on assisting students who are struggling in the areas of reading and math. Students will be identified through district assessments and an invitation to attend will be provided to those students meeting the criteria as a struggling learner. The number of students that can attend will be limited.

The elementary program will be held at four of the district’s elementary schools this summer, with transportation being provided. Invitations to participate in the program will be mailed to parents beginning in mid-February 2011.

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The high school students will be able to enroll in courses that they have failed in the current school year. In addition, credit advancement classes will be available for students who are seeking to earn an elective credit during the summer.

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Candidate filing for the April 5, 2011, election to the Francis Howell School District Board of Education opened at 8 a.m. on Tues., Dec. 14, and will continue until 5 p.m., Jan. 18.

The three-year terms of directors Mike Hoehn, Mark Lafata, and Mike Sommer will expire in April 2011.

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Holiday Pet Adoption event set for Dec. 18

By Amy Armour Families looking to welcome a new puppy or kitten this holiday will have the chance to meet about 100 furry animals on Dec. 18.

The seventh annual Holiday Pet Adoption event will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Dec. 18, at the St. Charles County Pet Adoption Center, located at 4850 Mid Rivers Mall Drive in St. Peters.

“The center offers dogs, cats, and rabbits to loving homes throughout the year and strives to pair the appropriate pet with the right family,” said Doug Bolnick, public information officer with St. Charles County Community Health and Environment. “The Holiday Adoption event is a nice way for those seeking pets to interact with the animal they desire, so that families can select the one they feel has the right personality for their home.”

At this time the shelter has nearly 100 pets available for adoption.

“Most people come to the adoption event because they have been thinking of getting a dog or cat and have decided to make it a fun holiday occasion for the family,” said Theresa Wilson, with the St. Charles County Pet Adoption Center.

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member at Christmas time because the kids are home, parents are on vacation or have some time off and it’s a great time to get a new pet.”

The event will include cats, kittens, dogs, puppies and rabbits. The animals are all different breeds, ages and sizes.

“We always have a variety and there is no way of knowing exactly what will be here on any given day as we get different animals every day,” Williams said. “Typically we will have dogs such as beagles, labs, shih tzus, poodles, shepherds, boxers, etc.”

Williams said she hopes to get at least 40 animals adopted on that day. In the past, the Adoption Center has adopted out between 35 and 45 animals during the one day event. The Pet Adoption Center has placed more than 25,000 pets into loving homes in its 10 year history in St. Peters.

The animals at the St. Charles County Adoption Center come in as strays and are made available for adoption after a legal holding time, or are brought in by owners who can no longer keep them.

“We also get animals from other shelters that don’t have as much success with adoptions as we do,” Williams said.

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EARMARKS, from page 10 Wadlington said his boss wasn’t ready to funded as mandatory expenditures. The rid the country of earmarks in one fell other entry of note in this category is the swoop. interest paid on the national debt.

“Earmarks that are transparent, aboveThen there’s that looming cloud on the board and there for people to review, are mandatory spending horizon – the baby requested and justified, is a more efficient boomers. A massive population has already use of federal dollars,” Wadlington said. begun entering the ranks of entitlement “Congressman Blunt believes an earmark program recipients. needs to stand on its merits, is appropriate Ever since U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick for federal expenditure and appropriate to Moynihan (D-NY) began sounding the the community it’s meant to serve.” alarm back in the 1970s, entitlement Wadlington said Blunt was disappointed reform has been the political hot potato no when his southwest Missouri district had one wants to seriously tackle. Each time satisfied all the stated criteria in making a the topic is broached, it’s shot down with case to government bureaucrats to allocate accusations that reformers just want to take stimulus funds for a away seniors’ Social shovel-ready highway Security and Medicare. expansion project that This is perhaps the practically mirrors this single most incumbent area’s Page Avenue issue with which the extension. new Congress must The request was deal. denied.

In the meantime, in “We’ve had projects St. Charles County and ignored by the federal West St. Louis County government that a conit remains up to each gressman or senator person whether the had better insight on,” area has benefited from Wadlington said. “Yes, Akin’s earmarks made reform is needed but either as an individual this is Congress’ job.

Dan Wadlington or with co-sponsors.

We need more transAkin has snagged the parency, more openness. (Blunt) believes type earmark in which most local governwe need to do away with earmarks made in ment and economic development leaders the dark of night with no accountability.” wanted. Infrastructure investment begets Meanwhile, U.S. Congressman Todd retail and residential development. That Akin (R-MO Dist. 2), maintains that, used means construction jobs on the front end responsibly, earmarks are a more efficient with the hope of permanent jobs after conuse of federal funding than “letting a gov- struction is complete. ernment bureaucrat make those decisions,” Some examples include two separate according to Akin spokesman Steve earmarks, $237,000 and $245,000, to the Taylor.

Hwy. 141 upgrade and relocation project.

“The budget-busters are the entitlements,” What’s helped Page Avenue extension Taylor said. get as far as it has was more than $1 milAs an example, the FY-2009 budget* lion in earmarks. broke down as: Another $142,500 went to Sts. Joachim Medicare and Medicaid – 19 percent & Ann Care Service to beef up the TriSocial Security – 20 percent County Outreach Center in St. Peters.

Defense – 23 percent Chesterfield pulled down more than $7 TARP – 4 percent million in earmarks to fund an energy and Other mandatory – 17 percent water infrastructure project. Maryville UniInterest – 5 percent versity and Hwy. 61 are seeing improveOther discretionary – 12 percent ments on opposite ends of Akin’s district.

The difference between discretionary In all, Akin has initiated more than $7.5 spending and mandatory spending is sig- million in earmarks. Those with whom he cosponsored total $91.6 million out of all nificant to note.

Discretionary spending - the category sponsored earmarks of $1.5 billion from under which earmarks fall - is about one- 2008 through 2010.

For a complete list of earmarks, visit third of all federal spending. These allocations go to fund the FBI, Coast Guard, www.legistorm.com. housing, education, space programs, highways, defense and foreign aid. *Sources: Government Accountability Conversely, mandatory spending accounts for two-third of all federal dol- Office (GAO), Congressional Budget Office, lars spent. Entitlement programs, veterans’ the Office of Management and Budget benefits and food stamps, for example, are (OMB) and the U.S. Treasury Dept.

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MEAAA hopes to win funding through ‘Likes’ on Facebook Mid-East Area Agency on Aging recently learned it had won a grant from the Meals On Wheels Association of America (MOWAA)/Subaru “Share the Love” grant program.

The winning essay describes how Bob Turner of St. Peters took on meal delivery after retiring from Delta Airlines and serving in Korea where he earned a Purple Heart. Turner delivered meals weekly for 17 years to homebound seniors in his neighborhood, accompanied by his wife, Eleanor, after she retired 8 years ago.

When Bob Turner underwent a nine-way heart bypass, Meals on Wheels became part of his rehabilitation.

The ritual of delivering a hot lunch and a smile helped sustain Bob just as much as it sustained the dozen people on his weekly route, Eleanor Turner said.

After Bob’s heart rendered him too weak to drive, Eleanor took the wheel with Bob as a passenger.

“He was eager to get out there, even when his health declined,” Eleanor said.

“We were often the only people these folks would see for weeks on end.”

Bob Turner died in October, leaving a legacy of compassion after delivering nearly 10,000 Meals on Wheels in St.

Peters. of the holiday competition – which relies Eleanor Turner plans to take over the on getting the most Facebook users to route solo come January, news that was “Like” our story. met with jubilation by the homebound Winning that portion of the contest could earn this Meals On Wheels program up to seniors on the Bob and Eleanor’s route.

“That day Bob passed, everyone was an additional $500.

The money comes at a critical time for asking about him,” said MEAAA/St. Peters Home Delivery Coordinator Mary Evans, this Meals On Wheels program, and the who has been on the job for 15 years. “I more than 140 other grant winners nationdelivered Bob’s route myself that day and wide. The country’s economic downturn heard from folks that he had been in each of has made it more difficult to raise money to continue feeding our community’s hometheir thoughts and prayers. We miss him.”

MEAAA is now entering the next phase bound and other hungry seniors.

Eagle Days set to take flight Last year, eagles were spotted in O’Fallon – but there was an element of luck involved.To ensure eagles are spotted, there’s Eagle Days.

Eagle Days is set to take flight in just a few short weeks.

Eagle-lovers of all ages are invited to the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, 10950 Riverview Drive, St. Louis, Jan. 15 and Jan. 16, to watch eagles fishing, riding ice floes, soaring overhead or roosting in nearby trees. Eagle Days runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, with an educational program, featuring a live eagle, repeated every 20 minutes from 10 a.m. to 2:40 p.m.

Visitors are welcome to view eagles through spotting scopes

MEAAA plans to use the money to make up for the $300,000 decrease in state funding this year which is expected to worsen next year.

Without the support of volunteers and private contributions, some of the MEAAA routes will have to go to frozen meals, with five frozen lunches delivered on Mondays.

This means no human contact for many homebound seniors for a week at a time.

Anyone interested in delivering meals should e-mail chamacher@mid-eastaaa. org or call 207-0847, ext. 118.

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All activities are free.

Nature and history will intersect, as visitors enjoy Lewis and Clark living history demonstrations at both Bridge entrances. The Missouri Bridge entrance will feature re-enactors from the Discovery Expedition of St. Charles. Visitors can glimpse how Lewis and Clark and their crew lived more than 200 years ago. The Illinois side will feature re-enactors from the Lewis and Clark State Historic Site. Both entrances will showcase life-sized replicas of boats.(called “pirogues”) used during the expedition.

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Benefits of losing weight and keeping it off • Improving blood sugar levels • Increasing self esteem Many contestants have successfully reached or surpassed their goals, while Even though the others have more weight they want to lose. first Biggest Winner Regardless of where you are at in your St. Charles County weight loss program, it is important to eat contest has ended a balanced diet and get regular exercise to and the winners have have continued success at taking control of been announced, the your health. journey toward a Maintaining weight loss is about changHayes healthy lifestyle has ing your mindset toward food and finding only just begun. ways to keep your body active through During the last 12 weeks, Barnes-Jewish exercise. As you move into a new year and St. Peters Hospital and Progress West a healthier lifestyle, remember: Healthcare Center have shared the benefits from losing weight. They include: Maintain a healthy diet • Reducing the risk of recurrence of variThe basics of healthy eating are simple. ous cancers Focus on eating fruits, vegetables and • Lowering risk of sudden death from whole grains, and keep red meat to a miniheart disease or stroke mum. Be aware of portion sizes. Focus • Lowering the risk of Type 2 diabetes more on trying to substitute unhealthy • Improving sleep patterns foods as often as possible – not necessarily eliminating them altogether from your • Lowering cholesterol levels diet.

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AUDITIONS Open auditions for the O’FallonTheatreWorks’ production of the musical, The Amazing Adventures of Dan Daredevil, will be held from noon to 2 p.m. on Sun., Jan. 9, in Civic Hall, located at 305 Civic Park Drive in O’Fallon. The play will be performed on the stage at City Hall over the weekends of April 29 – May 1 and May 6 – May 8. This spoof of radio’s “golden age” by Tim Kelly calls for six men and nine women who can sing. For more information, visit www.renaudspiritcenter/otw or contact Darren Granaas at 474-8150.

WINTER SCHEDULE The winter schedule is now in effect at the new Heritage Museum at Heritage Park, located at 1630 Heritage Landing in St. Charles County. The center is now open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays. For information about scheduling a group tour, contact Ryan Graham at 9497535 or e-mail at parks@sccmo.org.

HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS The city of O’Fallon’s 19th annual Celebration of Lights will be held until Dec. 30 at Fort Zumwalt Park. The whole family will enjoy the thousands of twinkling lights

and charming holiday scenes throughout the park. Families can take a ride on a carriage, a train or a sleigh-hayride. All rides require reservations. To schedule a 30-minute carriage ride, call the Carousel Farms and Carriage Company at 390-4403.

Train rides are available on Monday nights only. The cost is $7 per person for ages 12 and up, $5 for ages 1 to 11, and free for infants up to 11 months. For additional information, call 379-5614, or visit www. ofallon.mo.us/COL.

TRIPS A Day in Eagle Country will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wed., Feb. 2. Board the motor coach at 7:30 a.m. at Civic Hall located 305 Civic Park Drive in O’Fallon for day-long adventure of wildlife and bald eagle-spotting. Travel through scenic woodlands and along spectacular limestone bluffs in the Mississippi Valley where wintering eagles prefer to roost, and make a mystery stop before returning to O’Fallon at 6 p.m. The cost of $75 for O’Fallon residents and $84 for non-residents includes transportation, a continental breakfast, lunch at rustic Pere Marquette Lodge, gratuities and escorts. Register by calling 474-2732, or by visiting www. ofallon.mo.us/parksandrec.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Liberty Productions presents the Charles Dickens Classic A Christmas Carol at 7 p.m. on Thurs., Dec. 16 and Fri., Dec. 17; and at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sat., Dec. 18 in the Francis Howell Central High School auditorium, located at 5199 Hwy. N. Admission is free. For tickets, directions or more information visit www.LibertyProductions.org or call 734-7870.

• • • Young People’s Theatre of St. Charles Community College will present The Nutcracker at 7 p.m. on Fri., Dec. 17; at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sat., Dec. 18; and at 2 p.m. on Sun., Dec. 19 at the Donald D. Shook Fine Arts Building Theater on the SCC

campus. The cost is $7. For more information, call 922-8233.

• • • Emerging local artists will be featured in a mixed media exhibition from Dec. 10 through Jan. 14 at The Foundry Art Centre located at 520 North Main Center in St. Charles. Beyond the Resume will showcase the works of artists who have received their Master of Fine Arts or a Masters of Arts from an area university within the last three years. For more information, call 255-0270.

• • • An introductory acting class for young students will be held on Tuesdays from Jan. 11 through April 26, at the Foundry Art Centre, located at 520 North Main Center in St. Charles. Students, from first through eighth grade, will learn basic acting techniques and short-form improvisation using monologues, short scenes and educational

games to develop their creative energy into acting for the stage. Classes will be taught

by Becca Helms. The cost is $180 for members and $200 for non-members. For more information or to register, contact Angela at 255-0270 or angela@foundryartcentre. org.

Pets Pets can have their picture taken with Santa Clause from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., Dec. 16 at Baue Pet Services Tribute Center, 4175 Shady Springs Lane in St. Peters.

No appointment is necessary, however appointments may be made by calling 875-5700. Both human and pet snacks will be provided. A $5 minimum donation is requested, which will go to the St. Charles Humane Society, to benefit those dogs and cats who may not have a home this Christmas. For more information, please contact 314-520-7237; or online at baue.com.

County again offers free tree recycling after the holiday After the Yuletide celebration, give one more gift by recycling your live Christmas tree so that it may be turned into mulch or fish habitat.

Again this year, St. Charles County is partnering with area municipalities to offer residents this free service at various sites from Dec. 26 through Jan. 18.

Be sure to remove the tree stand, decorations, and plastic bag or cover before leaving your tree at one of the locations below: Live trees will be accepted at the following locations: In St. Peters * Laurel Park (upper parking lot), enter via McClay Valley Rd. * St. Peters Golf & Recreation Center, 200A Salt Lick Rd. * St. Peters Earth Centre, 115 Ecology Dr. St. Peters locations are open 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mon. thru Sat., Dec. 28 to Jan. 18 In Wentzville * Progress Park (parking lot), 968 Meyer Rd. Open 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., seven days a week, from Dec. 26 to Jan. 18 In O’Fallon * Civic Park (upper parking lot), 400 Civic Park Dr. * O’Fallon Sports Park, 3589 Hwy. K. Open from dawn to dusk, Dec. 26 to Jan. 18 In Lake Saint Louis * Founders Park, 7 Freymuth Rd. Open during daylight hours, Dec. 26 to Jan. 17 In St. Charles County * Quail Ridge Park (Group Picnic Area), 5501 Quail Ridge Pkwy. (Wentzville) Park hours are 7 a.m. to one-half hour after sunset, seven days a week, from Dec. 26 to Jan. 22 In addition to live trees, non-foil gift boxes, wrapping paper and Christmas tree lights may be recycled at Recycle Works West, 2110 E. Pitman Ave., in Wentzville, or Recycle Works Central, 60 Triad South Dr., in St. Charles. Hours are 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday. For more information about St. Charles County recycling programs, call 949-1800 or visit www.scchealth.org/es.

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