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‘Proportional’ Response Argentine attack on a British settlement would be risking not only a British counterattack there, but the danger of a major British attack on Argentina itself. That could mean leaving Buenos Aires in ruins. Today, Argentina’s government is again making threatening noises about the Falkland Islands. Why not? The most the Argentines have to fear is a “proportional” response to aggression – and the Obama administration has already urged “negotiations” instead of even that. When threats are rewarded, why not make threats, especially when there are few dangers to fear? Can you think of any war prior to Iraq and Afghanistan where the United States announced to the world when it planned to pull its troops out? What has this accomplished? “By their fruits ye shall know them.” What have been the fruits? First of all, this constant talk in Washington about not only pulling out, but announcing in advance what their pullout timetable was, meant that Iraqi political leaders knew that a powerful Iran was on their border permanently, while Washington was a long way away and intended to stay away. Should we be surprised that the Iraqi government has increasingly come to pay more attention to what Iran wants than to what Washington wants? Once more, vast numbers of American lives have been sacrificed winning victories on the battlefield that the politicians in Washington then frittered away and turned into defeat politically. What about other countries around the world who are watching what the American government is doing? Many have to decide whether they want to cooperate with the United States, and risk the wrath of our enemies, or cooperate with our enemies and risk nothing. There is no need to respond to a North Korean artillery barrage by wiping North Korea off the map. But there is also no need to reassure the North Koreans in advance that we won’t. What announcing the doctrine of “proportional” response does is lower the price of aggression. Why would we want to do that? © 2013 Creators.com

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Since when has it been considered smart to tell your enemies what your plans are? Yet there on the front page of the April 8th New York Times was a story about how unnamed “American officials” were planning a “proportional” response to any North Korean attack. This was spelled out in an example: If the North Koreans “shell a South Korean island that had military installations” then the South Koreans would retaliate with “a barrage of artillery of similar intensity.” Whatever the merits or demerits of such a plan, what conceivable purpose can be served by telling the North Koreans in advance that they need fear nothing beyond a tit for tat? All that does is lower the prospective cost of aggression. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, should we have simply gone over and bombed a harbor in Japan? Does anyone think this response would have stopped Japanese aggression? Or stopped other nations from taking shots at the United States, when the price was a lot lower than facing massive retaliation? Back before the clever new notion of “proportional” response became the vogue, our response to Pearl Harbor was ultimately Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And Japan has not attacked or even threatened anybody since then. Nor has any war broken out anywhere that is at all comparable with World War II. Which policy is better? There was a time when we followed the ancient adage: “By their fruits ye shall know them.” The track record of massive retaliation easily beats that of the more sophisticatedsounding proportional response. Back in ancient times, when Carthage attacked Rome, the Romans did not respond “proportionally.” They wiped Carthage off the face of the earth. That may have had something to do with the centuries of what was called the Pax Romano – the Roman peace. When Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982, the British simply sent troops to take the islands back – despite American efforts to dissuade Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from doing even that. For more than a century since the British settled in the Falkland Islands, Argentina had not dared to invade them. Why? Because, until recent times, an

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letters to the editor Thank you, voters To the Editor: First of all I want to thank everyone for getting out to vote. I also would like to thank all the Ballwin residents who voted for me. As a candidate running for the first time, I thought the results were pretty good. Your support was deeply appreciated. Thanks again and have a great summer. Karen Glanz Ballwin

Definitions and discrimination To the Editor: In her letter to West Newsmagazine (“Preventing Discrimination,” April 3), Susan Montee starts on a misleading note. Then she tries to sell citizens an initiative that could limit their First Amendment freedom. “Discrimination,” she writes, “is, by definition, unfair treatment.” Not so. Discrimination is the ability or power to see or make fine distinctions. We all discriminate, though that doesn’t mean we always make good decisions. If I am discriminate in choosing my friends – based on common interests – I am simply being selective. Is this unfair to those not chosen? If I pick an inexpensive suit over a more costly one, or I like wool better than rayon, I discriminate. Who is harmed? But definitions aren’t the issue here. Let’s look at Missourians for Equality. Who could possibly be opposed to equality? Slap that word on your cause and you’ll make a passel of friends … unless observers are discerning and discover what you really mean by your use of the term. Who is Susan Montee? She’s a progressive liberal, an early endorser of Barack Obama in 2008. She liked his message of “unity and hope.” She’s a former state auditor and chairman of the Missouri Democrat Party. And who populates her coalition? Well, this “amazing group of dedicated young activists” includes the abortion provider Planned Parenthood; the founder of the St. Charles chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays; and the Mid River Ethical Society, a “humanist” community that focuses on living “ethical” lives and raising “ethical” children (in other words, no mention of God). Other champions of this cause include the LGBT Center of St. Louis, which offers support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex

and allied community of St. Louis and its surrounding area, and the Missouri Gay Straight Alliance Network. In short, this is a coalition of groups affiliated with the homosexual agenda. They want you and me to “stand up for justice and equality” since, according to Ms. Montee, many lawmakers “in Jefferson City have failed to do so.” They want to add sexual orientation and gender identity to Missouri’s non-discrimination policy. Unstated but understood: They intend to eliminate any criticism of deviant behavior. For example, if gender identity is added to state statutes, it could be illegal for a mother to complain that a young man uses the girls restroom at her daughter’s school because he thinks of himself as female. Do family-oriented Missourians want to sail these uncharted waters? Don’t we have enough protections built into our laws to discourage harassment and bullying of any individual? Does it make sense to try to identify every possible group that might possibly be the object of teasing and ridicule? Why not offer language to shield Christian students who are frequently humiliated because of their spiritual views? Where do you draw the line? If we are truly discriminating, we will recognize that initiatives like Missourians for Equality are part of a bigger picture to eliminate all objections to the homosexual lifestyle. One must give them credit. Theirs has been a masterful campaign. These groups are free to push for whatever ballot initiative they feel can benefit them. If they can convince others their cause is just, they may succeed. But when examining these proposals, we should remember that life if full of inequities. Certainly the word discrimination can be used in a pejorative sense. For example, for the most part the world is made for right-handed people. Climb into an automobile and you’ll see the key is to the right of the steering wheel. Is that fair to southpaws? And who decides what is fair? Without question, society discriminates against the left-hander. If LGBT people want distinctive rights, where are special rights for single women who live quiet, productive lives, not crusading for privileges based on sexuality? Let’s face it: What Susan wants is special rights. Once the state makes unique laws for a specific class of people, hasn’t it discriminated against all other groups? True liberty does not categorize individuals. Our founders believed we were all born equals. We don’t need extraordi-

nary measures to prop up disparate groups. Let’s resolve to be discriminating when we contemplate attempts to modify rules that would impact our children and our families. Norman Baxter Chesterfield

Disputing ‘Misconceptions about Old Slave Road’ To the Editor: Please allow me to correct and clarify some statements Karen Fox made in her letter (“Misconceptions about ‘Old Slave Road,’” West Newsmagazine, March 20) relative to her requested renaming of Old Slave Road in Wildwood. Mrs. Fox states that the first misconception is that the road name is not historic. An 1847 atlas map clearly shows a roadway running the path that Old Slave Road follows today. An email dated Oct. 23, 2012, from archeologist Harl to Mrs. Fox states, “A deeply eroded earthen roadway was once visible leading from these bottoms to the Coleman home that was locally know as ‘old slave road.’” My late husband, Charles, bought our property from the Calvins in 1979, knew them well and learned a great deal of the history in this area from them along with many other old-time residents. One of the first areas of the subdivision shown by Mr. Calvin and discussed with Charlie was the slave cemetery and the accompanying history of the naming of the road. It is completely incorrect to refer to the Calvins as “developers who laid out the road to access all the lots in the subdivision.” They were not developers. They raised cattle, horses – showed saddlebreds, in fact – and, owned a plumbing/sewer business. Over the last 28 years that I’ve been here, one area resident told me he’d played ball down our road, across from the lake, over in what was then a pasture and what is now, still a pasture, belonging to the Ross family. That pasture is now a lot having an Old Slave Road address. Another older couple told us our road led up the hill to what was called “the dairy road.” That road takes almost the same path as the one Calvin listed as “Old Trace.” Mrs. Fox states that: “Professional archaeologists hired by the city of Wildwood have concluded that this was not an old slave road.” Interpretation of these documents must be terribly subjective – that was not my conclusion after having studied the documents thoroughly. The last sentence in Mrs. Fox’s letter was: “We appreciate the public’s concern

for this issue.” She didn’t appreciate it the evening of Oct. 30, 2012, when, after the meeting, she approached a Ward 1 Wildwood citizen saying, “Why are you here? This has nothing to do with you – it’s no concern of yours! This a road issue concerning only our subdivision.” The man hadn’t even spoken that evening; he simply came to listen to the information being presented! By thoroughly reading and understanding Chapter 515 of Wildwood City Code “Procedure for Establishing and Changing Street Names,” one will then understand that it isn’t just a subdivision issue. And our Historic Preservation Commission Chair, Mrs. Lynn Martin, who mistakenly said the street name should be up to the neighbors on the road and that it wasn’t a city issue (West Newsmagazine, Feb. 20) better read the code again. The city of Wildwood is no different than any other city that requires, by law, the final decision on a requested name change be in the hands of the elected officials, not just a small number of citizens. Can one imagine the assortment of personally chosen names that could be put on street signs and arbitrarily changed if a city didn’t have some form of control or final oversight? Don’t practice “selective misrepresentation” of historical information. Keep the honor intended for the slaves who are buried in the slave cemetery on Old Slave Road. We’ll probably never know their names but we can remember their having been brought or born here, living here and dying here by retaining what little recognition has been given in the form of a street sign and road called “Old Slave Road.” Sally J. Branson Wildwood

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Remembering Maggie Margaret Thatcher. Maggie. The Iron Lady. The Wicked Witch. Like so many political figures, Thatcher had fans and foes. People adored her for making statements such as, “I am not a consensus politician. I’m a conviction politician.” And they hated her for them. Her detractors claim she single-handedly caused cities to fail when factories closed and that she stole milk from out of the mouths of British children. Her supporters claim she revived Britain’s economy, reinvigorated its foreign policy and re-established the nation’s conservative values. When asked if she was trying to bring back Victorian values, Thatcher proudly replied, “I was and I am.” The time of that statement was 1983, and along with Ronald Reagan, Thatcher was a dominating force in conservative politics. Love her or despise her, one thing about her cannot be denied: She was a game changer. Born a shopkeeper’s daughter, Thatcher rose to become the first woman to lead a major Western democracy. She never questioned that she could play with the big boys, in fact, she held firm to the belief that anything they could do, she could do better. In 1965, in a speech at the National Union of Townswomen’s Guilds Conference, she boldly stated, “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” Ten years later, she was elected as the leader of the opposition in the House of Commons. Dressed in pearls, a gift from her husband to commemorate the birth of her twins, Thatcher strove to portray herself as a lady – but an iron one, who would not back down from what she believed in or what she felt compelled to do. In 1976, in a speech to Finchley Conservatives, she said: “Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my Red Star chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up and my fair hair gently waved – the Iron Lady of the Western world. A cold war warrior. An Amazon philistine. Even a Peking plotter. Well, am I any of these things? ... Yes, I am an iron lady. After all it wasn’t a bad thing to be an iron duke. Yes, if that’s how they wish to interpret my defense of values and freedoms fundamental to our way of life.” She was educated, informed, outspoken and fearless. A woman with a big agenda, she

once stated that she didn’t think there would be a woman prime minister in her lifetime. In 1979, she proved herself wrong. Shattering the glass ceiling of conventional politics, Thatcher became prime minister at age 54. In her first term, she proved that she could take charge not just at home, but also abroad, meeting head-on the Argentine Junta’s invasion of the Falkland Islands. Striving at first to bring about a diplomatic end to the war, she did not hesitate to employ military action when diplomacy failed. The islands that had been seized in April 1982 were back under British control by June. In her second term, she battled the miner’s union and won, ensuring that her trade union reforms would endure despite fierce opposition. Never one to give in, Thatcher’s position on British policy in Northern Ireland earned her, her most hostile enemies – the Irish Republican Army, who attempted to assassinate her in October of 1984. The Iron Lady was not ruffled. Nor was she ruffled when British ministers criticized her positions and policies. “I don’t mind how much my ministers talk, as long as they do what I say,” she famously stated in 1980. Like most strong leaders, Thatcher never saw herself as the likely winner of a popularity contest. Commenting on the 10th anniversary of her election as prime minister, Thatcher said, “If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and you would achieve nothing.” In 1990, she stepped down. A year earlier Reagan’s run as president ended. Their terms in their nation’s highest seats of power ran nearly concurrently and together they became known as the power couple of the 1980s. He called her “the best man in England,” and she described him as having “plain American horse-sense.” In eulogizing Reagan, she declared: “Ronald Reagan carried the American people with him in his great endeavors because there was perfect sympathy between them. He and they loved America and what it stands for: freedom and opportunity for ordinary people.” Although her foes might disagree, Thatcher’s fans strongly believe that throughout her life her guiding light was her patriotism and love of Great Britain and its people.

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News Br iefs BALLWIN Searching for ‘prettiest baby’ Ballwin Days 2013 marks the 33rd anniversary of the festival’s Pretty Baby Contest, an event that has provided over $67,000 for SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Health Center over the years. Since the first contest in 1981, almost 2,000 babies have been nominated for prettiest baby honors. This year’s contestants must fulfill the following requirements: • Be age 3 or younger • Be a resident of West St. Louis County/ Ballwin vicinity • Be among the first 80 contestants to enter; no exceptions Photos of candidates (black and white or color) must be submitted no later than May 27 by email or May 17 by standard mail. Entries must include the child’s name, address and age on the reverse side of the photo as well as a valid phone number where the parents of the contestant can be reached on June 2, between 3-6 p.m. Emailed entries should be sent to: prettybaby_ballwindays@yahoo.com. Entries sent by standard mail should be sent to: Pretty Baby Contest, Ballwin Government Center, 14811 Manchester Road, Ballwin, MO 63011. Photos should be 5-by-7-inches or smaller.

Entries can also be delivered in person to Ballwin Government Center at above address no later than May 22. Voting (via pennies) will be held at the Ballwin Days Pretty Baby booth May 3-June 2, ending at 2:30 p.m. on June 2. Each penny donated will be counted as one vote, and special sponsor-donated prizes will be awarded to the top four winners. Awards will be presented at 6 p.m. on June 2. For additional information, visit ballwin. mo.us/ballwindays, or call 227-6551.

More bang for the buck The city of Ballwin anticipates getting more bang for the buck – literally – at this year’s Ballwin Days celebration. The Ballwin Board of Aldermen has approved a contract with Liberty Pyrotechnics of Joplin, Mo., to put on the fireworks displays during the annual event at Vlasis Park. The winning proposal was based on shooting off 1,004 fireworks shells per show, almost 40 percent more than the bidder that put on the display last year. In addition, Liberty’s bid of $4,000 per show was $1,000 under the price quoted by the other two firms seeking the business, meaning the shows will cost $2,000 less than the $10,000 budgeted. A fourth firm also submitted a bid but it was turned in 15

minutes late and was not opened. Linda Bruer, Ballwin’s director of parks and recreation, said the cities of Joplin and Jackson, Mo., were contacted as references. The Missouri Attorney General’s office also was checked with in regard to any complaints that might be filed against the company. Everything checked out, Bruer said. The Ballwin Days celebration will be the weekend of May 31-June 2, with the fireworks displays scheduled on the first two nights.

CHESTERFIELD Jazz Fest schedule announced Lovers of jazz will want to mark their calendars for the Chesterfield Jazz Fest scheduled for Saturday, June 15 from 2-10 p.m. The line-up for the event has been announced as follows: 2 p.m. – St. Louis Jazz All-Stars: Internationally renowned Ptah Williams and Maurice Carnes lead this John Coltrane Tribute 3:30 p.m. – Jeanne Trevor: St. Louis’ first lady of jazz and commercial Grammy award winner 5 p.m. – Bach to the Future featuring the Silverman Brothers: Classic melodies of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart arranged with jazz and world rhythms 6:30 p.m. – Paul Taylor: A true contemporary jazz saxophone force of nature and No.1 Billboard charter 8 p.m. – David Benoit: Five-time Grammy award nominee and top contemporary jazz artist Jazz Fest will take place in the city’s Central Park Amphitheater.

Ammunition approval It takes a lot of ammo to help ensure that police officers develop and maintain a level of expertise with their firearms. The Ballwin Board of Aldermen has signed off on the purchase of some 59,000 rounds to be used in various firearms by the department’s 51 officers during the coming year. Included are practice and duty ammunition for .40 caliber and .223 weapons and 12-gauge shotgun shells. The ammo is used for training and biannual qualification of officers for firearms assigned to them, and for any personally owned off-duty firearms authorized by department policy. Ammunition was purchased under the cooperative procurement agreement in Missouri’s state ammunition contract. Missouri seeks competitive proposals annually on behalf of various law enforcement agencies throughout the state. Total cost of the Ballwin supply is $17,239.

TOWN & COUNTRY Drug take-back events scheduled On Saturday, April 27, the Town & Country Police Department, in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), will host a Prescription Drug Take-Back Event to collect expired and unwanted prescription medication. Increasingly, prescription medications

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WEST COUNTRY Water main replacement along Manchester Road Missouri American Water crews have begun a year-long project to replace about 11,000 feet of 70 to 100-year old, 8-inch and 12-inch diameter water mains along Manchester Road between Henry Avenue and Old Ballwin Road. Crews are working in advance of the Missouri Department of Transportation’s planned Manchester Road pavement resurfacing project slated to begin in early 2014. The first phase of the project will begin on the north side of Manchester Road between Henry Avenue and Baxter Road, and is slated for completion in about three months. During this first phase of the project, lane closures will be primarily in the inside westbound lane of Manchester Road. As construction proceeds west from Henry Avenue, the new water line will be installed in various locations along Manchester Road. Missouri American Water crews will be working from 8:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday evenings through early Friday mornings to minimize daytime traffic disruption. As the project crosses business driveways, crews will work to maintain at least one open driveway lane for businesses that are open in the evening. Local businesses have been contacted along the first phase of the project route. Updates will also be available on Missouri American Water’s Facebook page. The project is part of Missouri American Water’s proactive waterline replacement program. In 2012, the company invested approximately $58 million in upgrading aging water mains in St. Louis County. “Local law enforcement has been a valued partner in helping us plan to minimize traffic disruption,” said Cindy Hebenstreit, Missouri American Water Director of Operations. “We ask drivers to please be cautious in this work zone.”

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Jane Cunningham’s win heralds changes for Monarch Fire Protection District

Steve and Margaret Bour, of Chesterfield, visit with Jane Cunningham on election night.

By JIM ERICKSON On her campaign website, Jane Cunningham acknowledges her victory in the recent Monarch FPD Board election by saying: “Thank you voters for your support in electing me. Your mandate is a clear message that taxpayers want a stronger voice in the operation of the Monarch Fire District. I vow not to let you down.” With those words and others in her campaign platform, Cunningham hints at changes to come.

The election that resulted in Cunningham’s victory was hard-fought and also highly unusual – two well-known Republicans battling it out for one of three director positions on the Monarch Fire Protection District Board of Directors. The outcome, however, was not as close as many had predicted. Garnering nearly 60 percent of the vote in the non-partisan contest, former state Sen. Jane Cunningham defeated Cole McNary, former state representative and 2012 candidate for state treasurer. And, with her vic-

tory, promised to bring concerns about the firefighters’ union back to the fore. “This was a war between the people and the union,” Cunningham declared in her victory speech. “This struggle has been going on for years but it was difficult getting the attention of voters about what was happening.” Cunningham said one of her early priorities when she takes office will be to do a study of Monarch wages and benefits and those in comparable districts. “I want our district to pay well, but I don’t want to overpay,” she asserted. She said she also is committed to “getting rid of waste without compromising services to district residents.” She cited costs of workers’ compensation, overtime, sick leave and legal fees as areas she wants to examine. “I also want to make sure expenditures for goods and services go to the lowest and best bidder and that promotions (of personnel) are based on merit,” she added. Cunningham’s election seems likely to shift the Board’s voting patterns on major issues such as tax rates and budgeting. Evans and Director Steve Swyers regularly voted in opposition to director Robin Harris on those and other often controversial matters. Harris was a vocal supporter of Cunningham’s candidacy while Swyers’ backing was credited by McNary as being

a key factor in his decision to run. Outgoing Board President Kim Evans said she has mixed emotions about leaving her position on the Monarch Fire Protection District Board later this month at the end of her six-year term. “Six years is a long time, but I’m leaving with good and happy thoughts about where the district is now and the progress that has been made,” Evans said Tuesday night while awaiting results of the election that would determine her successor. “I’m sad to be leaving office but I am proud of what has been accomplished,” she noted. A nurse and pediatric case manager with the Mercy health care system, she also operates a company that teaches CPR and the use of automated external defibrillators. The mother of two sons and a daughter, her younger son graduates from high school this year. “I guess you could say my kids grew up while I was serving on the Monarch Board,” she said. Evans has served the past two years as Monarch’s Board president and also has represented the district on the Central County Emergency 911 Board. The latter organization provides dispatching services to fire and emergency medical personnel at Monarch and many other entities in St. Louis County.

Rockwood Board of Education ready to move forward after failed bond issue By CAROL ENRIGHT At the first Rockwood Board of Education meeting after the April 2 election that resulted in a failed $38.4 million bond issue and the election of two new Board members, the Board made clear its intention to leave recent controversy behind and move forward for the good of the district. Bill Brown, who was elected Board president in a closed session prior to the public meeting, read a passionate statement to the community in which he asked, “When does it stop?” Brown alluded to the past year and a half of criticism sustained by the Board and Superintendent Bruce Borchers. During that time a state audit called for the district to revamp a laundry list of practices, particularly as they relate to bond construction projects. The audit also led to the resignation on March 4 of Board Director Steve Smith, whose former employment with Glenn Construction Co. was highlighted as a “conflict of interest” in the audit report. “After witnessing decent people being hurt day after day, after watching a community I love and have always been proud of splintered into a bickering, distrustful mess – when does it stop?” asked Brown. “When do we put aside our differences and

work for a greater good? When do we say, ‘enough is enough’? When is the damage being done equal to the mistakes that brought on such anger and distrust? When does this community rally back and reclaim the pride we had for the first 60 years of my life? “Tonight. Tonight’s the answer to every one of my questions. It has to be tonight.” Brown acknowledged that some may think the district doesn’t deserve a fresh start. To these people, he said, “I will conclude by reminding everyone what is at stake here – the futures of roughly 22,000 young people who are just as deserving of our support as the many thousands who came before them, including an extremely insecure, but eager, first-grader at Ballwin Elementary in 1957 who had absolutely no idea that many years later he would be the president of the Rockwood School Board.” Sherri Rogers, who joined the Board last year, was elected Board vice president. Rogers also made a statement to the room. “The voters indicated they want to see a change in direction,” Rogers said. “I wholeheartedly agree. Going forward, things will be different. This is not a criticism of current or past Board members. These are different times and call for different approaches.” Newly elected Board members, Loralee

Mondl and Jeffrey Morrell, who successfully replaced longtime Board members, Janet Strate and Stephen Banton, echoed Brown’s call for a “fresh start.” Morrell publicly thanked Strate and Banton “for literally 24 years out of their lives in service to this Board.” In an interview after the meeting, Mondl said she felt “very positive” about the ability of the new Board to work together, but added that she was “worried also” in light of the failed bond issue. “I definitely know there’s going to be some hard decisions that have to be made because the bond issue did not pass,” she said. The failed bond issue has clear budget ramifications for the district. (See story on page 20.) Chief Financial Officer Tim Rooney said those will be explored in ongoing budget discussions to set priorities regarding those items that must be taken care of now and those that will be put on hold. The district needs to have its budget finalized before June 30, the end of the current fiscal year. Rooney also discussed the district’s fund balances, which are projected to be $16.7 million above the Board’s target 18 percent of the operating budget at the end of this year. “Some would suggest that we just go $16 million into the bond projects that just

failed and maybe go ahead and just do those, and this could come up as part of a budget workshop discussion,” said Rooney. But he reminded the Board that it had discussed in December using some of the fund balances to avoid making steeper cuts to the operating budget. “If we choose to use the fund balances for capital projects, then that just means we’ll have to make the cuts more quickly in our operations,” Rooney explained. Rooney also reported that the district has made good progress in addressing the state audit recommendations. “I think we really hit it hard at the beginning,” he said. He said he would be providing the Board weekly updates on the audit action plan in addition to the ongoing updates that are posted for public viewing on the Rockwood website. State Auditor Tom Schweich is expected to return to the district at the end of May to check on the district’s progress. At the start of the meeting, Rhonda Costa, the Rockwood parent who chaired the Proposition S bond issue campaign, expressed her disappointment at the failed bond issue and her support of Superintendent Bruce See ROCKWOOD, page 19

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Molly Maid of Chesterfield franchise owner charged with first-degree burglary By SARAH WILSON Molly Maid of Chesterfield franchise coowner Bryan P. Frantz has been charged with breaking into a customer’s apartment on Feb. 22 in a Claytonbrook apartment building in Ballwin. Frantz is awaiting trial on a felony charge of first-degree burglary. “He was not the smartest cookie in the jar,” said Sgt. Jim Heldmann, of the Ballwin Police Department. According to the Ballwin police, residents of the Ballwin apartment building confronted Frantz after he entered the apartment uninvited and began rummaging through items in the kitchen. Entry to the apartment was obtained using a stolen key. One resident said she believes Frantz may have entered the residence by using a key copied from a key the family left in a lockbox on cleaning days.

“... it’s always a good idea to think twice and regulate who you allow access to your home, bonded or not.” – Sgt. Jim Heldmann A resident of the Ballwin apartment said she was working from home when she heard someone come through her front door. She said she initially believed it was her husband, who had been napping with their young son in a bedroom of the apartment. She became increasingly suspicious after hearing someone rummaging through kitchen cabinets. She said she confronted Frantz as he was inspecting her husband’s prescription medication. He initially said he was there to do work at the apartment, but when she told him no work had been scheduled, he ran from the building. “Clearly he thought he could get away, yet his Molly Maid car was still in the driveway,” Heldmann said. Police arrested Frantz several minutes later after tracks in the snow led them to a concrete sewer opening in the area, where police found him in a sewer pipe. The woman said her husband identified Frantz as the Molly Maid representative who had come to the home for a walkthrough before the company was hired and that the company had cleaned their home four or five times in the past year. Each time, workers got access through a key placed in a coded lockbox on the door. “He didn’t take anything or hurt anybody,” the woman said. “My concern is whether he had done this before or could do it again. It’s unfortunate.” The Better Business Bureau issued a BBB

Alert on April 10 acknowledging this complaint as well as others. Frantz told the BBB that his arrest stemmed from a misunderstanding. He said he was intending to go to the home or business of a Ballwin Frantz architect to give him estimates on carpet cleaning or a move out. “I wrote down the wrong address,” he said. Frantz denied the allegations of entering the apartment uninvited, saying that the door was unlocked and that he had confused the family’s apartment with another property he was supposed to inspect for an estimate. Frantz said he walked into the apartment without announcing himself. He said he immediately went into the kitchen to search for a drinking glass in order to get a glass of water. He denied inspecting the medications, saying that they simply were in the area where he was looking for a glass. He said he fled after the resident grabbed on to him and began screaming. “I was scared. What was I supposed to do?” Frantz said. An employee from Molly Maid who declined to give his name said Molly Maid does not have a public statement but that the whole thing was “a complete misunderstanding.” “There was nothing missing from the house,” he said. “He had the wrong house. He actually went in, and the wife started hitting him. The husband started chasing him out saying he was going to kill him. And he (Frantz) didn’t want to stay and get into an altercation.” Frantz said he remains manager of the business. Molly Maid of Chesterfield is registered with the Missouri secretary of state under the name Molly Maid of Wildwood, West Chesterfield and North Franklin County. Richard Bryan Frantz, of Washington, Mo., and Jason Richard Frantz, Bryan’s father, are listed as organizers of Frantz Services, the company that owns the franchise. The Chesterfield Molly Maid franchise has an “F” rating with the BBB, the lowest possible, based on customer complaints. Frantz’s next court appearance is scheduled for April 30 at 9 a.m. at the St. Louis County Court building in Clayton. “Any business can have an employee that slips through the cracks, but it’s always a good idea to think twice and regulate who you allow access to your home, bonded or not,” Heldmann said.

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Wildwood considers adopting stricter regulations for outdoor game courts and whether to require residents to remove the game courts during off-seasons. The purpose of the new legislation is to ensure that operating the outdoor game courts does not intrude on other neighboring properties, that stormwater runoff requirements of the lots are addressed, that the Homeowner Association participates in the authorization process, to lessen the visual impacts through the installation of landscaping, to control lighting of the facilities and to help neighbors be good neighbors. “Outdoor game courts are very different than any other type of accessory use that we typically see in a residential zoning district,” said Joe Vujnich, director of planning and parks. “Outdoor game courts bring with them a greater amount of activity, longer hours of utilization, projectiles that leave (Photo courtesy of Sport Court) the court area and go onto other people’s By SARAH WILSON property and then there’s the noise associAfter adopting a new regulation in June ated with them. There is no other type of 2012 to permit outdoor game courts in resi- activity that reaches that level in terms of dential areas of Wildwood, the City Council potential impacts on neighboring properis considering revising its regulations. The ties at these facilities.” intent of the review is to consider a change He said the new legislation would not to the current provision, which requires delay homeowners substantially or overthat the Planning and Zoning Commis- whelm P&Z. sion review any outdoor game court that “The city sees typically about four to five exceeds a size of 1,000 square feet, to any outdoor game courts a year,” Vujnich said. outdoor game court regardless of size. The Council on April 8 voted unaniOther suggested considerations are whether mously to prepare legislation and will have the city should require a landscape architect its first reading at the Council’s next meetto be involved in the process of installation ing on April 22.

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By JIM ERICKSON The Ballwin Board of Aldermen has re-adopted an ordinance requiring disclosure of potential conflicts of interest and making the measure more stringent than state law now requires. Approval came on a 5-2 vote at the Board’s April 8 meeting after debate over an amendment lowering the value of transactions that city officials must disclose if those measures affect the city. Alderman Shamed Dogan (Ward 2) offered the amendment lowering the reporting threshold to $250 from the $500 level spelled out in Ballwin’s former ordinance and in state law. Aldermen approved that change on a 4-3 vote and then approved the ordinance itself. Voicing what appeared to be the consensus of those opposing the lower threshold, Alderman Michael Finley (Ward 1) said he supported the intent of the overall ordinance but believed the $500 reporting level is adequate and that the local measure should be consistent with state law. Among other things, the conflict of interest measure says that if the mayor or any member of the Board has a substantial personal or private interest in any measure, they must disclose what it is and not vote on the issue. Disclosure reports must be filed annually by May 1 and require the listing of any transactions with the city by the elected officials, administrative and purchasing officers, close family members and business entities in which those individuals are involved if those deals exceed $250. Excluded are payments for taxes, fees or penalties and those for utility service. The chief administrative and purchasing officers also must report the name and address of any employer from whom they received $1,000 or more during the preceding year, along with the name and address of any business in which they had an ownership interest and any publicly traded stock in which a 2-percent ownership interest is held.

By JIM ERICKSON What began as a routine meeting for the Ballwin Board of Aldermen ended after a unscheduled closed meeting and an accusation that one member of the Board was engaged in a “witch hunt.” The April 8 meeting appeared to be moments from adjournment when Alderman Richard Boerner (Ward 4) asked what the Board wanted to do with information he had gathered in the aftermath of a closed session a month earlier when compensation for City Administrator Robert Kuntz was reviewed and approved. As Boerner explained it after the meeting, he had sought more detailed information about Kuntz’s salary and benefits but had not received it. According to the record of the closed session, the Board asked and received a copy of Kuntz’s W-2 statement at the March session. Actions from the closed meeting were included in the overall March 11 minutes approved at the April meeting and posted on the city’s website the next day. According to Boerner, the W-2 didn’t contain the detailed breakdown he was looking for. Nonetheless, he and other aldermen voted unanimously at the March session to give Kuntz an approximate 2.3 percent increase in annual salary from $151,540 to $155,097. The Board in late February had approved changes in the Ballwin employee compensation plan increasing the minimum and maximum pay for all other city positions to a level ranking at the 70th percentile among comparable area communities. The action also provided a pool of funds for merit

increases of up to 3 percent targeted at those not affected, or minimally so, by the jump in pay grade ranges. In a subsequent move, the aldermen declared it was the city’s intent to maintain employee salary ranges at the 70-percentile level and that the city administrator’s salary would be reviewed annually and adjusted if deemed appropriate by the Board. On April 8, the aldermen and Mayor Tim Pogue appeared surprised by Boerner’s suggestion about reviewing the information he had gathered but ultimately approved a motion to go into closed session to review it. Kuntz, however, said he would not participate in a process he labeled a witch hunt. He said he viewed Boerner’s actions as a personal attack on his professionalism and integrity and abruptly left the building as the Board went into closed session in another part of the Donald “Red” Loehr Police and Court Center where aldermanic meetings are held. After about 15 minutes, the Board returned to open session, reported that no actions had been taken during the closed meeting and quickly adjourned. Boerner described the closed session as “a good meeting” and that he was “satisfied” with the outcome. He said his only goal was to clarify all the details of Kuntz’s compensation. Kuntz later observed that his salary ranks below the 50th percentile of his peers in other area communities, according to a salary survey the city made as part of the review and approval of the recent employee pay increases.

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Wildwood man wins Chesterfield Arts’ first University Sculpture Competition sculpture is a symbol of the planning process in Chesterfield. This past – and ongoing – development is represented by spires that seem to grow from the ground, similar to the growth of a plant.” Callies’ design consists of four white steel tubes, which form spires that range in height from 10 to 17 feet. Sculpture is a new direction for Callies, 66, who two years ago retired after working for 33 years as an architect for his own firm, Callies Architects. “I enrolled in sculpture classes at St. Louis Community College-Meramec, with an emphasis on outdoor sculpture and public art,” he explained. “I enjoyed creating and making sculptures, and then I noticed the Chesterfield Arts sculpture competition. This was an opportunity to learn and possibly have my work built on a large scale. I worked hard on the design and presentation and was honored and pleased to see my beginning goal realized.” Kelpe Contracting will handle the conRod Callies struction of “Aspire” and will begin the work in May. The plan is for the sculpture By SHEILA FRAYNE RHOADES to be installed by mid-summer in a natuA Wildwood resident has taken top ral, wooded area overlooking a lake along honors in Chesterfield Arts’ 2013 Uni- the Stream Walk in Central Park, near the versity Sculpture Competition. Fine arts Chesterfield Amphitheater. The unveiling students from the St. Louis Community ceremony will take place in September College District, Washington University, during Chesterfield’s final outdoor concert Saint Louis University and Southeast Mis- of the season. souri State University submitted proposals for the competition, and Rod Callies, of Wildwood, submitted the winning design. “We are thrilled to have created an opportunity to help advance the career objectives of the next wave of emerging sculptors through this innovative sculpture competition,” Chesterfield Arts Executive Director Stacey Morse said. “We were amazed at – Stacey Morse the talent and scope of ideas that were presented by all of the finalists. It was a difficult decision, but the concept presented by The budget for the creation of the comRod was a clear choice.” pleted structure is $15,000. The competiLast summer, Chesterfield Arts invited tion was presented by PNC Bank Arts art students from universities and colleges Alive with major funding from the city of within a 125-mile radius of Chesterfield to Chesterfield. submit a proposal for a permanent, outdoor “The support received from the city of sculpture to be installed at Chesterfield’s Chesterfield and PNC Arts Alive as major Central Park. The competition was designed supporters is helping us to give back to to allow students to gain knowledge and artists and the community in a big way,” career experience in the field of pubic art. Morse said. “Rod will gain critical experiThe competition was Chesterfield Arts’ ence in the realm of public art and build first sculpture competition, and Morse a professional portfolio, all showcased said the organization hopes to make it a through this commissioned work of art. biennial event. “The community will enjoy an inspiring Callies explained that his winning design, work of art in the beautiful park setting, “Aspire,” was inspired by a plant’s emer- and all of our partners will know that they gence from the soil. helped to make our vision a reality through “In the planning of a city, people must this project. It’s truly a win-win for everyaspire to achieve their goals,” Callies said. one and a program that we hope to repli“It happens through growth, and so this cate for years to come.”

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Ellisville City Council passes law to legalize deer hunting in city limits By DAN FOX The city of Ellisville has passed a new ordinance allowing the hunting of deer within city limits. Starting next hunting season, Ellisville residents will be allowed to hunt deer on their property with a composite or standard longbow, provided they complete several steps first. Long before letting any arrows fly, the hunter must notify the Ellisville Police Department of their intent to hunt deer on their property. The property must measure at least 3 acres, although neighbors are allowed to combine lots in order to reach the minimum size requirement. Hunters must also complete a “notification of intent to hunt,” which is also given to the police department. Lastly, the hunter must supply the city of Ellisville with documentation of a liability insurance policy of no less than $2 million. The ordinance, which was approved at the City Council meeting on April 3, has been in development for a while, according to Councilmember Dawn Anglin (District 1). “This particular piece of legislation we’ve been working on pretty diligently, I would say for maybe as far back as the last year,” Anglin said. While hunters will still be subject to Missouri’s current laws concerning hunting, there is another set of rules detailed in the ordinance that they must follow in order for the activity to be legal in Ellisville. The

list includes staying at least 150 feet from a church or playground while hunting, always facing away from a dwelling, only hunting from an elevated position and remaining sober while hunting. Also stipulated are rules concerning the retrieval of the deer, as well as cleaning it according to the Missouri Department of Conservation’s guidelines. The Ellisville deer-hunting ordinance is similar in many respects to one passed in October 2012 in Ballwin, according to Ballwin Mayor Tim Pogue. “Last year I started working with the

former Mayor Pirrello, in discussion of the two cities working together, coming up with something (that’s) more a regional approach,” Pogue said. “That way we weren’t necessarily doing one thing and they were doing something different.” Pogue said that the only real difference between the two ordinances is the amount of property required to hunt on in city limits. The city of Ballwin requires only 1 acre of land; the 3-acre minimum now used by Ellisville was a last-minute change by the City Council.

According to Ballwin Police Sgt. Jim Heldmann, during the time that Ballwin’s ordinance has been in place, there have not been any incidents of injury or property damage related to deer hunting. While he said it is too early to tell if the ordinance has had an effect on deer related accidents, he said, in his opinion, the ordinance should reduce the amount of injuries caused by deer. “Anytime you reduce the deer population in the area there’s going to be less chance they’re going to run in front of a car or cause an injury or accident in other ways,” Heldmann said.

ROCKWOOD, from page 13 Borchers who recently announced plans to leave Rockwood for the superintendent’s position at Oak Ridge Schools, a district of about 4,700 students in Tennessee. “I am sad that Prop S did not pass, and I am scared what this holds for our future,” Costa told the Board. “This was not a win for any group. This was a big loss for our district.” She also said she was disappointed that the Board let Borchers “take all the heat” for the district’s recent struggles. After the meeting, Costa speculated on the reasons for the bond issue failing. “We weren’t surprised that it failed, because we went in with that uphill battle knowing that a lot of people didn’t support it and, certainly in my neighborhood, we have a lot of older people who would never pass a bond issue,” said Costa. “But this time, we had a lot of opposition and – besides the opposition – we had a lot of things that happened with the audit.” Costa said she was surprised, however, that only 18,000 out of 80,000 registered voters voted in the April 2 election. Of that 18,000, about 9,500 voted against the bond issue and 8,500 voted in favor of it.

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Rockwood LCFO presents proposed budget in light of bond issue failure BY CAROL ENRIGHT Since December, the Rockwood School Board has been in ongoing discussions about the district’s fiscal year 2014 budget, which must be finalized by June 30. Throughout the process, Rockwood Chief Financial Officer Tim Rooney has presented the Board with different versions of the proposed budget. Each version begins with a projected $5.1 million deficit. Alternate versions have added to that deficit with a wish list of district priorities. All along, the Board knew that the extent of this list was dependent on the outcome of a $38.4 million no-tax rate increase bond issue that failed in the April 2 election. Rooney presented his latest proposed budget at the Board of Education meeting on April 11. The budget reductions the Board approved in January remained the same. In addition, the proposed budget includes $70,000 to support the new late-start schedule at Rockwood high schools, $50,000 for summer school and $154,000 for counseling. Rooney pointed out that the Board decided to move forward with these three items in January. He called other items, such as increased funding for capital improvements, maintenance, technology, professional development and interventions to help struggling students, “decision points” which would be discussed in-depth at the May 2 Board meeting. If the Board decides to forego including these “decision points” in the budget, the district would finish out fiscal year 2014 with fund balances that are about $16 million above the Board’s required 18 per-

cent of budgeted operating expenditures. If, however, the Board decides to include the additional items, the fund balances would be only $8.6 million in excess of the Board’s 18-percent target. Fund balances have become especially critical for the district in the light of the failed bond issue. Opponents to the bond issue have called for the district to use its fund balances to pay for many of the capital expenditures outlined in the bond issue. And the Board has acknowledged that no matter which budget it finally adopts, the district will have to tap into fund balances to avoid the harshest cuts, such as reducing staff and increasing class sizes. A tight operating budget has forced the district into a “triage” approach to maintaining equipment and facilities. Rooney said that the HVAC systems at Rockwood Summit and Marquette high schools are well beyond their useful lives and could fail at any time. He said it would take about 10 weeks to install new units and recommended that the district do so over the summer to avoid a breakdown during the school year. The proposed budget includes $1 million for maintenance, and Rooney asked the Board to approve his moving forward with the projects, which he estimated would cost about $769,000. He said he would present the Board with a proposed budget adjustment at the April 18 meeting that, if approved, would allow him to “prefund” the units this summer, then reduce next year’s maintenance budget by the same amount.

Protesting Common Core About a dozen protesters stood at the intersection of Valley and Clayton roads in front of Crestview Middle School in Ellisville on April 11 as a Board of Education meeting was going on inside. As they waved posters with anti-Common Core messages and garnered an occasional honk from passing cars, Anne Gassel, Wild Horse Township Republican Committeewoman, Rockwood parent and co-founder of the Missouri Coalition Against Common Core, explained why the group had gathered. “We are protesting the Common Core Standards that have been forced onto our state by the feds,” said Gassel. “They’re kind of middling standards, but they’re being promoted everywhere as these high-quality standards.” Gassel said that the standards were adopted “under the radar” and that she and the other protesters were trying to generate public awareness.

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Counselors of the Year Rockwood recognized three individuals as the 2013 Counselors of the Year: Rhonda Mozingo, Kehrs Mill Elementary, Elementary Counselor of the Year; Tara Beasley, Crestview Middle, Middle School Counselor of the Year; and Marybeth Desloge, Lafayette High, High School Counselor of the Year. Each year, a committee of parents, teachers and counseling staff reviews the award nominations and selects counselors for recognition based on their leadership, innovation and outstanding service to the school community. The committee also selects a Counselor Advocate of the Year. This year, Dr. Mary Kleekamp, principal of Geggie Elementary, was chosen as a result of her exemplary support of guidance and counseling services.

Rockwood Drug-Free Coalition is hosting a medication take-back event on April 27 from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. Residents can bring unused These individuals will have the chance and unneeded prescription and over-theto represent Rockwood in the St. Louis counter (including pet) medications to mulSuburban and Missouri School Counseling tiple locations for safe and proper disposal. Association Awards program. Locations include the Ballwin Police Department (300 Park Drive), Chesterfield Central Park (16365 Lydia Hill Drive), CV EXPIRES 4-15-13 AwardedOFFER for excellence Executive Center (15933 Clayton Road NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER OFFERS Dr. Timothy Roach, Date of issue: in Ballwin), Ellisville Police Department professor of English at St. Client: (37 Weis Ave.), Eureka Police Department Louis Community Col(120 City Hall Drive) and Fenton City Hall Size: lege at Wildwood, was (625 New Smizer Mill Road). awarded the John and Colors: Rockwood Drug-Free Coalition provides Suanne Roueche Excel- Pictures: education, leadership and resources to address and prevent youth substance abuse. lence Award at the League Logos: Roach “We estimate that there are approximately for Innovation annual 400,000 excess prescriptions in Rockwood conference in Dallas. Copy: The League is an international organization community medicine cabinets each year,” specifically committed to improving com- said Renee Heney, Coalition director. “While munity colleges through innovation, experi- we collect 2,500-3,000 pounds of excess mentation and institutional transformation. medicine twice each year, this makes only The Roueches are leaders in the community a dent in the amount of drugs available for college field and early proponents of the idea misuse.” Jim Meyer, chairperson, said parents and that teachers have major responsibility for how well students perform in the classroom. grandparents need to rethink monitoring of Roach was recognized for his outstanding their medication supplies. contributions and leadership to the college. “We latch cabinets to keep our young He joined St. Louis Community College as a children safe, but as children get older, professor of English at the Forest Park campus we tend to overlook the danger that still in 1996. In addition to his teaching duties, he exists,” Meyer said. served as an administrative intern in the office The Eureka Police Department and the of the vice chancellor for education and as a St. Louis County Valley Park precinct also writer for the Higher Learning Commission provide permanent medication drop boxes accreditation self-study process. in their lobbies for all residents, available

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Fighting hunger Rossman School fifth-graders recently raised the money to buy 5,000 meals for starving and malnourished children and then volunteered their time to package the food. This past winter, the class of 30 students raised Rossman School fifth-graders $1,250 for Kids Against Hunger, a food aid organization with a mission to significantly reduce the number of undernourished children in the U.S. and around the world. Then, in March, the students served at a local packaging facility where they filled 25 boxes with enough meals to feed 14 children for one year. The Kids Against Hunger meals, which food scientists formulated to provide the protein, carbohydrates and vitamins children need, will be shipped to a local or international organization that serves starving children and their families. win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title and receiving either a National Merit $2,500 scholarship, corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship award or a college-sponsored Merit Scholarship award.

Presidential scholar Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill senior Catherine Wagner was named a candidate for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. She is one of 3,000 students selected from Wagner the more than 3.4 million high school seniors graduating this year. Candidates are named on the basis of their superior academic and artistic achievements, leadership qualities, strong character and community involvement.

Grand-level recognition A list of Rockwood seventh-grade students recently achieved state or grand-level recognition in the 2012-2013 Duke Talent Search, or Duke TIP. These students are among the more than 64,000 students nationwide who participated in the Duke TIP by taking the ACT or SAT alongside of high school students; and many earned scores that rival or surpass those achieved by older students. Students who received grand-level recognition included: (Crestview Middle) Michelle Li, Gregory Svirnovskiy, Jerry Zhang, (LaSalle Springs Middle) Caroline Goldsby, Trevor Lewis, (Rockwood South Middle) Alan Peng, (Rockwood Valley Middle) Patricia Denn, (Selvidge Middle) Abby Copeland, Nathan McLaughlin, (Wildwood Middle) Shruti Natarajan and Anna Samsonov. School principals and the Rockwood

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Redefining Beautiful Redefining Beautiful, a Eureka High club dedicated to raising the self-esteem of girls through service, is hosting its second Pantene Beautiful Lengths event on Saturday, April 20 at Eureka High. The event will allow community members to come and get their hair cut by the stylists that will be on hand and donate at least 8 inches of their hair, which will be made into wigs for cancer patients by Pantene and the American Cancer Society. In addition, there will be a silent auction with proceeds going to the American Cancer Society. The silent auction will include various hair care baskets, baskets that feature gift cards for area restaurants and a Disney basket that includes two oneday passes to any Disney park.

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By DAN FOX Madi Wise was diagnosed with cancer before she was old enough to understand what it truly meant. The kindergartner was diagnosed with leukemia at the beginning of the 2012 school year. On April 5, her entire school stood in support of her in a gymnasium festooned with student-made decorations and orange ribbons, the color for leukemia awareness. A fifth-grade class at Geggie Elementary had come to the staff, wanting to do something to support their fellow schoolmate. With the help of the faculty, this gesture of support snowballed into a school-wide event, with activities stretching across a whole week. From April 1-4, students participated in fun ways to encourage Madi with activities such as hat day, crazy socks day and orange day. Students also helped to collect money, and with the support of faculty and parents, the school raised $7,667, which was donated to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. The week culminated April 5 when all 590 of Geggie’s students spent their gym periods running enough laps to equal the distance of a 26-mile marathon. After a day of running, the students gathered in the gym to see the fruits of their labor – watching Geggie’s P.E. teacher Pat Grimshaw and teacher assistant Kevin Ronecker get their heads shaved. Grimshaw agreed to the buzz cut if the students could raise $4,000. With nearly double that amount raised for St. Baldrick’s, both Grimshaw and Ronecker agreed to be shaved in front of the students, with Madi snipping off the first couple locks from each man.

“I like it,” Grimshaw said about his new haircut. “It was for a great cause.” Grimshaw, who has been a coach at Geggie for 23 years, said the community’s and kids’ reactions to the call for help was unbelievable. “The percentage of the kids that got involved, that was amazing,” Grimshaw said. “Typically, when we get fundraising activities, we’ll probably have 25-30 percent of the kids participate in it. This was just an unbelievable rally for Madi.” During the head shaving, deafening waves of laughter, shrieks and shouts bounced off the walls, but fifth-grader Ethan Larson said he enjoyed helping out Madi just as much as seeing Grimshaw and Ronecker get a close shave. “Probably making a difference in her life and also shaving his head,” Ethan said when asked what his favorite part of the day was. Lorinda Krey, Geggie’s vice principal, said the students have stunned her with their eagerness to help raise money and support Madi. She was also impressed with the compassion and character the kids showed throughout the week. “They’re so selfless,” Krey said. “It’s about everybody else and what they can do for them.” The community support has meant quite a bit to Madi’s family as well. “Even amongst the bad, we’ve been able get a lot of good, positive things,” said Jessica Wise, Madi’s mom. “Everyone has been very supportive. Even after six months everyone is still encouraging her, and that’s a big deal to us.”

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Former Navy SEAL inspires Parkway students to make a difference By BONNIE KRUEGER When a former Navy SEAL comes to school, it’s bound to capture the imagination and attention of middle school students. But when the Navy SEAL is Parkway North graduate Eric Greitens, who is also the founder of The Mission Continues, a St. Louis-based nonprofit that challenges veterans to serve and lead in communities across America, the message students hear is one they can take to heart and act upon immediately. Greitens recently was a guest speaker for sixth-grade students at Parkway South Middle School. His inspirational message encouraged the kids to find a way to make a difference in their world today – stressing that they are not too young to positively impact the people with whom they come into contact every day. Language Arts teacher Amy Woolf said she loved the impact Greitens made on the students. “What an opportunity for our kids to hear someone with his values, work ethic, compassion speak,” Woolf said. “The icing on the cake was that he graduated from North High.” Woolf added that during the assembly the kids were very engrossed in his message. “All the students were paying very close attention to his every word,” she said. “Once the first student asked a question, I

think we could have been there all day. “Mr. Greitens was very interested in each student’s question and it showed in his reaction to the kids. He is a great role model, hero and Parkway grad.” World Geography teacher Karen Fluchel was strongly impacted by his message as well. “He spoke so well to the students’ levels to help them understand the importance of being a humanitarian and participating in community service,” she noted. “It was amazing to hear all that he has accomplished in his life.” But it wasn’t just the teachers’ singing Greitens’ praises. Student Jewel Zingrich summed it up for most students. “He is a true American,” she said. “He spoke sophisticatedly, honestly and told us exactly how things were and how they were gonna go.” Student Grace Gill added, “I think Eric Greitens is a very good person and I think about all the hardships he went through as a Navy SEAL just to fight for our country.” At age 16, Greitens’ youth leader, Bruce Carl, took him and a few other high school students to a downtown St. Louis homeless shelter. Carl challenged Greitens to make a difference in the lives of others by making a plan and using knowledge and resources to back it up. As a young adult, Greitens put action behind

Eric Greitens visits with students at Parkway South Middle School.

what he had learned and began his humanitarian volunteer work, traveling to Rwanda, Cambodia, Albania, Mexico, India, Bosnia and Bolivia. Along the way, he became an advocate for using power to protect the weak, to stop ethnic cleansing and end genocide. Greitens served as U.S. Navy SEAL officer for eight years. During his lecture, he spoke about his rigorous combat training, including Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training. BUD/S is known to be among the most grueling military training in the world, only approximately 10 percent of the candidates successfully complete it. Greitens said that

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of all the training over this six-month period, he found the “drown proofing” exercise to be the most difficult to complete, and the running exercises to be the easiest. Drown proofing is a method for surviving in water disaster scenarios without sinking or drowning. The intense training prepared Greitens for real-world combat. He served four tours of duty during the Global War on Terrorism in Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, the Horn of Africa and Iraq. After returning from Iraq in 2007, he founded The Mission Continues. ••• Bonnie Krueger is a Parkway Ambassador.

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Lutheran South. This season, Westminster played in Vero Beach, Fla., over spring break and won its six games there. The Wildcats followed that with three victories in the Midwest Classic and reached the tournament semifinals. However, the Wildcats lost 4-2 to much bigger Columbia Hickman. While 35 games certainly is impressive, it was not that close to a state record. According to Missouri High School Activities Association records, Helias, of Jefferson City, won 56 games from April 1987 to May 1989.

High school boys racquetball Over 376 individual high school players competed in the National High School Racquetball tournament held recently in St. Louis. Parkway North senior Marc Hansell placed second out of all high school racquetball players in the nation in the second seed Gold singles division, losing in the championship tie breaker. Hansell earned third place in the Gold doubles division with partner, Parkway Central junior Zack Lazenby. Both players were awarded “All American Athlete” certification by the U.S. Racquetball Association. Hansell and Lazenby remained undefeated during the high school racquetball league season and earned a first place

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PUBLIC HEARING City of Ellisville Notice is hereby given that the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Ellisville will hold a public hearing at the Ellisville City Hall, #1 Weis Avenue, on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at 7:00 P.M. to discuss legislation declaring an immediate temporary moratorium and cessation upon the consideration and final approval of matters relative to development of RPA-2 at the southwest corner of Manchester and Kiefer Creek Roads. Notice is also given that the Council of the City of Ellisville will hold a public hearing at the Ellisville City Hall, #1 Weis Avenue, on Wednesday, May 15, 2013, at 7:00 P.M. to discuss said legislation declaring a moratorium. These public hearings are in compliance with Title IV, Land Uses, of the Municipal Code of the City of Ellisville. CATHERINE DEMETER City Clerk The City of Ellisville is working to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act mandates. Individuals who require an accommodation to attend a meeting should contact City Hall, 636-227-9660 (V/TDD) at least 48 hours in advance.

Members of the St. Clare of Assisi fourth-grade volleyball team are (bottom row, from left): Anna Perniciaro, Lexi Basler, Ella Baer, Peyton Politte and Drew Cramsey; (middle row, from left) Kinsey Stein, Haile Marquard, Mychelle Wiggers, Audrey Henry and Alexa Rush; (back row, from left) Natalie Kohlmeier, Randy Rush and Pam Marquard.

finish in their divisions as well as achieved first place in the Missouri high school state racquetball tournament.

College women’s soccer Lindenwood University-Belleville found their new women’s soccer head coach at Missouri Baptist University. Kelly Prince will take over the Lindenwood women’s program. “I am very excited to be a part of Lindenwood University-Belleville,” said Prince. “I’m eager to contribute all I can to the university and the women’s soccer program.” Prince previously served as the head assistant coach at Missouri Baptist from 2008 to 2012. Before that, she spent two years as the graduate assistant coach. During her time as head assistant coach, Prince helped to guide the Spartans to a 38-37-2 overall record and a trip to the 2009 NAIA National Tournament. Prince oversaw the recruiting and academic progress at Missouri Baptist. She also organized team training and fitness. In 2012, Prince was also the girls varsity head coach at Normandy High School, leading the team to a first-round district playoff win for the first time in program history. Prince is a 2006 graduate of Missouri Baptist, where she received a degree in history. As a four-year member of the Spartan soccer team, she earned American Midwest Conference Freshman Player of the Year, Player of the Week and First Team All-Conference. Prince went on to complete her master’s degree at Missouri Baptist, earning a master’s in education in 2009.

Volleyball champions The St. Clare of Assisi fourth-grade vol-

leyball team recently won their division for the second consecutive year. Coach Randy Rush has coached this team for two years along with assistants Pam Marquard and Natalie Kolhmeier. The team plays in the West County CYC league, (A) division. The girls went 23-7 this year after starting the season a little slow. They were 2-4 after the first two matches. Last year, the girls finished their season 27-3 and won the third-grade CYC West County division. To clinch the division this year took a come from behind victory. “We went into the final match of the season against Incarnate Word, which we were tied for first place and had played very close over the past two years,” Rush said. “We lost our first set and the girls were able to come back to win the next two sets to win the game and their division championship.” The team consists of Peyton Politte, Alexa Rush, Haile Marquard, Lexi Basler, Ella Baer, Drew Cramsey, Anna Perniciaro, Mychelle Wiggers, Kinsey Stein and Audrey Henry. “The girls bonded well and play very good as a team by helping to support each other. They do not give up,” Rush said. “They work hard in practice and have progressed from just being able to get their serves in and returning the ball to being able to pass the ball, using their hits and going for the ball. “Each of the girls has the ability to make plays and there are times that I watch one of them make a play and I wonder how did they just do that.” Earlier in the season, the team won the Mary Mother of the Church fourth-grade CYC tournament in South County. That tournament had 34 CYC teams from around the city. St. Clair played seven teams and had a 17-1 record in the tourney.

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Sister Act: Katie and Jackie Karl lead strong team for St. Joseph’s Academy By WARREN MAYES The Karl sisters – Katie and Jackie – are scoring goals and doing their part in helping the St. Joseph’s Academy Angels succeed this spring in high school girls lacrosse. Katie, a junior who plays attack, is leading the area in scoring and Jackie, a sophomore midfielder, is third. “I think my ability to score comes from the moves to goal I have learned throughout the years that allow me to beat defenders and go to goal and also the placement of my shots,” Katie said. “I do enjoy scoring. It is really fun to try new moves; to find new ways to score, but I also love to look for my teammates on the field and see them score, too,” Jackie said. All those goals makes Angels coach Jen Bisch happy to have the sisters on the team. Bisch has coached sisters before in her 12-year tenure at St. Joseph’s. Two years ago, Bisch had the Zuniga sisters – Grace and Molly – on the team and the Angels reached the Final Four. So having sisters is good for the Angels, especially ones that can communicate well on the field. “They are the true example of sisters,” Bisch said. “They finish each other’s thoughts and have head flicks and finger points on where to direct themselves on the field. Whenever I need a goal I can count on a KK-to-Jackie connection.” There is no rivalry between the pair. “I love having my younger sister on the team,” Katie said. “We have an understanding of each other’s strengths and weaknesses and are able to help each other highlight those strengths on the field and we are able to help each other through our weaknesses.” The ability to connect with each other helps, Jackie said. “We communicate a lot on the field when she (Katie) is down on the offensive side

and there are also times when I may yell things to her while she is playing defense that I believe could help her,” Jackie said. The girls know their roles and play accordingly, Bisch said. “Katie is very competitive and knew going into this year she needed to step up and become more of a leader on the offensive side of the field, which includes scoring and assisting others,” Bisch said. “Katie’s role as an attacker is to set up our offense. The most important strength is Katie’s speed and agility to knife through various defenders.” A midfielder, Jackie is made for the position, Bisch said. “As a left-hander Jackie has the ability to open up the other side of the field,” Bisch said. “Like Katie, she is able to set up plays for her teammates and herself. Plus, she has the stamina to run the whole field playing both attack and defense.” The girls have been playing lacrosse for a long time. Katie started playing lacrosse the summer before seventh grade when she began playing for the St. Louis Speed. Jackie started playing lacrosse during sixth grade for Metro Lacrosse. “I like the aggressiveness in lacrosse and I like how you are able to do many different moves,” Katie said. Ditto that for Jackie. “I like the intensity in lacrosse and I like how it can be anyone’s game, even late in the game,” Jackie said. “I enjoy being able to try different moves and the speed of the game.” Both girls made varsity as freshmen and expect great things from the team. “I think our team could go very, very far this year,” Katie said. “We started off as a ‘fresh team’ last year and moving into this year, everyone knows each other much better and we have really come together to work as a team. We have a very strong offense and defense that work very well together.”

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Local coaches make moves of their own as basketball season ends who played for McCormack as a senior and helped lead the Cadets to a state championship in 1997, takes over at his alma mater. Shane Matzen stepped down at Marquette to become the school’s new athletic director. Mark Linneman is retiring at the end of the school year. There are two openings at Westminster Christian Academy. Steve Stipanovich has resigned as the girls head coach at Westminster Christian Academy to pursue business opportunities. David Klyn stepped down to move back to Michigan. The high-profile move was McCormack, a 1981 CBC graduate, being shoved aside after 17 seasons. CBC, with three talented juniors, fell short of expectations this season. The Cadets finished 20-8 this season. CBC tied for second in the always competitive Steve Stipanovich, shown here with daughter Metro Catholic Conference. De Smet Jesuit Sadie, has stepped down as girls basketball head coach at Westminster Christian Academy. thumped the Cadets 64-57 in the Class 5 District 4 championship game. It was somewhat strange for Tatum to succeed his former coach. By WARREN MAYES Tatum, 34, who played in college at Saint The high school basketball coaching carousel has been spinning with two jobs Louis University, has an impressive high school coaching resume. He has been the filled and three still open at presstime. It’s been busy in boys basketball. Bob head coach and athletic director at Soldan and McCormack was asked to resign at CBC as had success leading the Tigers, going 108-59. Rocky Streb, the CBC athletic director, was Rick Saurez at Priory. McCormack is the new coach at Priory. CBC alum Justin Tatum, is satisfied the Cadets got the right man to

lead the program. In his first year, Tatum will inherit some terrific talent, much like McCormack did his first year at CBC with Larry Hughes and Tatum. The Cadets have three Division I prospects who will be seniors next season. The talented trio – Jordan Barnett, Patrick McCaw and Ray Doby – has unlimited potential. “It’s a coach’s dream to have kids like that,” Tatum said. Meanwhile, McCormack landed the job at Priory. Before coaching at CBC, McCormack coached Ladue. He had a head coaching record of 385-228. He will remain a physical education teacher at CBC. Priory finished this season with a 4-22 record and did not win a game in the Metro League. Suarez had coached Priory for 13 seasons. Stipanovich is leaving Westminster for personal reasons. The former De Smet Jesuit, University of Missouri and Indiana Pacers standout recently announced his resignation as the girls basketball coach at Westminster. Stipanovich, 52, said he is regrettably giving up the job to concentrate on some business opportunities. Todd Zell, the Westminster athletic director, said he was caught off guard “a little bit” by Stipanovich’s decision. “I knew he had some business ideas that

he has been working on and he just needed to devote more time to it,” Zell said. “We are disappointed but we appreciate everything he did and we wish him the best. “Steve helped take us to the next level. The last two years, his teams have been ranked in the area and very competitive on the state level.” Klyn is leaving Westminster for family reasons. He noted that he and his wife wanted to be closer to family as they begin the next chapter of their lives. At Marquette, Matzen was recently approved by the Board of Education to be the new athletic director. The move becomes official on July 1. Matzen has spent the past 17 seasons coaching the Mustangs. This past season, the Mustangs finished 18-8 this season and earned a share of the Suburban West Conference championship. It was Marquette’s first conference crown since 1996. While Matzen enjoyed his coaching job, the opportunity to move into the administration was one he chose to make. For now, his coaching job remains open. Linneman is retiring after being the athletics director at Marquette for the last 11 years. In 2012, the Missouri Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association named him as the St. Louis area athletic director of the year.

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Lafayette Lancers water polo team wins prestigious Saxon Invitational By WARREN MAYES The Lafayette water polo Lancers flexed some muscles in an early tournament, winning it for the first time. The Lancers played for the fifth year in the Saxon Invitational at Schaumburg (Ill.) High School. Lafayette’s previous highest finish in the tough tourney was fifth place. The eight-team field began with pool play with four teams in each bracket. After round-robin play, the first-place teams in each bracket played each other. The Lancers did not begin pool play on a good note. “We opened with a tough loss to Schaumburg in a game we easily could have won,” Lafayette coach Jamie Waeckerle said. “We started off with an early 2-0 lead, but Schaumburg came back and took control of the game. We started the fourth quarter down by a score of 8-4. “We fought back hard to make it 8-7, and had two more offensive opportunities but came up a little short. We hit the crossbar and post several times throughout the game, which ended up being the difference.” Encouraged by the good effort, the Lancers regrouped and ripped off three victories. Lafayette defeated Wheeling High School 12-6 and followed that with a 13-3 victory over Hinsdale South. Those wins enabled Lafayette to play for the championship. The Lancers responded and defeated St. Charles East 6-4 to claim the title. “We played as well as any team in Lafayette history in those next three games,” Waeckerle said. “The team played with great teamwork (and) with contributions from many players. We defeated Wheeling High School 12-6. We thought that we would be playing our last group game against Hinsdale South for a chance to play for third place. “However, in the game before ours, Schaum-

burg surprisingly lost to Wheeling, and that set up an outside chance that if we won, we could play for the championship. If both Schaumburg and Lafayette were tied with records of 2-1, the tiebreaker was goals against. I knew going in that we needed to win the game and hold Hinsdale South to three goals.” Doing that would be tough, Waeckerle pointed out. “I figured that was a pretty difficult task, so all we told the team was to try to play good defense and win the game,” Waeckerle said. “We took control of the game early and eased to a 13-3 victory.” That win set up the championship game against St. Charles East. “It was close throughout the entire game,” Waeckerle said. “With about 2 minutes and 30 seconds left, Rob Northem scored a goal on the man advantage to take the lead and we never looked back.” Naturally, the Lancers were happy to win the tourney. “The team was very excited about the win,” Waeckerle said. “Many of these players have traveled to this tournament for the last two years, and they have not won a game in the tournament in those two years.” The championship bodes well for the Lancers this spring. “This tournament is a huge springboard for our season,” Waeckerle said. “We have been a very young team the last two years, and we have taken our lumps. I felt this team had the talent to win and be successful, but they needed to learn how to win to gain confidence in themselves. I believe they have gained that confidence and are getting stronger with each game.” Zach Murphy led the team with 19 goals for the tournament. James Murphy added seven while Candice Vorbeck and Mitchell Wells each had four. Matt Mannion was strong in goal for all four games, Waeckerle said.

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Housework for hot flashes Menopausal women who experience restless nights may find they sleep better if they do a bit more work around the house. A study appearing online in Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society, found that higher levels of routine daily physical activity may be key to better sleep for women who have hot flashes and night sweats. Researchers at the Pittsburgh site of the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) had women aged 54-63 wear sleep monitors, keep diaries rating their sleep and answer questionnaires about their daily activities. The results showed that the women who reported higher activity levels also reported better sleep. The positive effects primarily were linked to household activity and care-giving activity – not to sports or other exercise. However, the advantages occurred mainly among study participants who were white and those who were not obese. Researchers said more study is needed to find out why African-American and obese women may not enjoy the same sleep benefits from increased activity.

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Counting cancer survivors The American Association for Cancer Research’s second Annual Report on Cancer Survivorship in the United States shows that in January 2012, there were about 13.7 million cancer survivors in the U.S. and forecasts that by 2022, the nation’s cancer survivors will number 18 million. The increase is attributed primarily to an aging of the population. According to the report, women with breast cancer currently account for 22 percent of survivors and men with prostate cancer account for 20 percent. Patients with lung cancer – the second most commonly diagnosed cancer – represent only 3 percent of survivors. “For patients with prostate cancer, we have a nearly 100 percent five-year survival rate, and breast cancer has made tremendous strides as well, with five-year survival rising from 75 percent in 1975 to almost 89 percent in 2012,” said Julia Rowland, director of the Office of Cancer Survivorship at the National Cancer Institute, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “However, we clearly need to have better diagnostic tools and better treatments for lung cancer.”

Knee surgery not only option for torn meniscus There are many adults with osteoarthritis who opt to undergo knee surgery for a torn meniscus – a condition that causes considerable pain – but new research suggests that physical therapy may be as effective as surgery. The research findings recently were published in The New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. The principal investigator of the study was Dr. Jeffrey Katz, director of the Orthopedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. “Since both the patients who received physical therapy and those who received surgery had similar and considerable improvements in function and pain, our research shows that there is no single ‘best’ treatment,” Katz said. “Patients who wish to

avoid surgery can be reassured that physical therapy is a reasonable option, although they should recognize that not everyone will improve with physical therapy alone. In this study, one-third of patients who received physical therapy ultimately chose to have surgery, often because they did not improve with (physical therapy).” The study involved 351 adults older than age 45 who had knee pain, a meniscal tear and osteoarthritis of the knee.

Ups and downs of youth sports injuries New research shows that from 2000 to 2010, there was an overall decline in sports and recreation musculoskeletal injuries among children aged 5-14, but the number of football and soccer injuries continued to rise. Researchers reviewed National Electronic Injury Surveillance System data on injuries such as broken bones, sprained joints and torn ligaments sustained by children aged 5-14 during eight activities. Overall, injuries declined more than 12 percent and in six categories, including bicycling (38.1 percent); roller sports, including in-line skating, roller skating and skateboarding (20.8 percent); and jumping on trampolines (17.5 percent). Football and soccer injuries, however, increased by 22.8 percent and 10.8 percent, respectively. According to study author Dr. Shital Parikh, an orthopedic surgeon at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, the findings “may reflect the changing pattern of childhood activities in the U.S., as organized sports are encouraged, often at the cost of free play.” Decreases in bicycle, roller sport and trampoline injuries may reflect the effectiveness of programs that encourage helmet use, adult supervision, protective gear and education, Parikh said.

Saving at the pharmacy According to a story in the May issue of Consumer Reports, failing to comparison shop for prescription drugs could result in paying far more for medications than is necessary. The nonprofit Consumer Reports – the

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On the calendar “Knee Replacement. Is It Right For Me?” will be held from 6-7 p.m. on Thursday, April 25 and again from 6-7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8 at Desloge Outpatient Center, 121 St. Luke’s Center Drive in Chesterfield. Admission is free. For more information, call (314) 542-4848. ••• Dr. Seiichi Noda, a cardiothoracic surgeon, will discuss treatment options for those with heart valve disease or disorders from 6:30-8 p.m. on Thursday, April 25 at SSM St. Clare Health Center’s Fr. Krings Conference Center, 1015 Bowles Ave. in Fenton. Admission is free, and a

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Area hospitals among the first to protect the heart during radiation treatment By DAN FOX Even a little radiation exposure can harm the heart over a prolonged period, so doctors are finding other ways to eliminate the danger when treating breast cancer patients. Concern over protecting the heart was raised by a recent study from the New England Journal of Medicine, which has drawn a potential correlation between treatment of cancer in the left breast and heart disease. But even before the study’s release, area hospitals were helping to make radiation therapy safer for patients. The study, which collected data from 19582001, includes 2,168 women who underwent radiation treatment for breast cancer. The research shows that within the first five years after treatment the risk of heart trouble increases in step with the average dose of radiation delivered to the heart, continuing for at least several decades. “The risks of radiation-induced heart injury are well known,” Dr. Amit Bhatt, a radiation oncologist at St. Luke’s Hospital, said. “So even before this New England Journal of Medicine article came out we were well aware that radiation had some effect on the heart.” Bhatt said the treatment of cancer has advanced significantly in he past decade. According to Bhatt, the standard procedures used presently in hospitals have already reduced the amount of radiation the heart is exposed to. Current imaging equipment has replaced 2-D X-rays as the main way of locating the area needing radiation. These machines present doctors with an accurate, 3-D display of the treatment area and help to focus the radiation where it needs to go. One way to remove the heart from the radiation’s line of fire during left-breast treatment is through a technique that carefully monitors the patient’s breathing. When the lungs are filled with air, it creates additional space between the left breast and the heart. The

movement of the diaphragm and lungs while taking a breath is enough to move the heart away from the radiation. “You don’t need a whole lot to get that distance between the breast and the heart,” said Dr. Kathy Balgan, radiation oncologist with Mercy Hospital. Another way to avoid the problem is for the patient to shift to their point of view. Standard radiation therapy has breast cancer patients lay on their backs while the doses are administered, but Balgan said another way to help avoid stray radiation is to let gravity do some of the work during treatment. By having the patient lay facedown on a specialized table during the therapy, the left breast is allowed to hang away from the body. This leaves only the areas needing treatment in the path of radiation. While other organs and muscles may lie in the path of the radiation during treatment, they aren’t affected as harshly as the heart is, according to Bhatt. Due to their close proximity to the chest wall, lungs receive a dose of radiation, but do not show any problems related to long-term treatment. The best way for doctors to make sure their treatments are successful is for them to make the therapy all about the patients, according to Balgan. Overall health is equally important, according to Thomas, as factors like diabetes, smoking or high blood pressure can increase the risk of heart trouble. “Cardiovascular diseases are common,” Thomas said. “People with these other cardiovascular risk factors have a higher chance of having a cardiovascular event. It’s important to minimize the other risk factors.” But Dr. Maria Thomas, chief resident in radiation oncology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, said that while the risk is there, chances of the radiation causing any longterm damage is rare. Still, experts agree that if precautions are available, they should be taken.

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By KATE UPTERGROVE One of the things residents of West County treasure most is their green space. Large yards, common grounds, community parks, century-old trees, and even well-manicured municipal parkways – all contribute to the enjoyment and beauty of communities. So it’s not surprising that Earth Day celebrations are a high priority in late April. Officially Earth Day 2013 is April 22, but local celebrations and activities kick off as early as April 19. Here’s a look at what’s happening. On April 19 from 11a.m.-2 p.m., Chesterfield Mall is hosting a Shred It to Fix It document shredding and electronics recycling drive to benefit Rebuilding Together St. Louis. A donation of $5 per box or bag is all it costs to responsibly recycle paper, cardboard or small appliances. Larger appliances such as TVs, computers – really anything with metal in it – will be accepted for a donation of $5 per item. All computers and TV monitors and screens must be whole. This event is sponsored by American Document Destruction, RNA Worldwide and Chesterfield Mall with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Rebuilding Together St. Louis. The collection site will be located on the parking lot near Jared, the Galleria of Jewelry. On April 20, Parkway School District gets in on Earth Day fun with an open house and e-scrap recycling event on the campus of Parkway West High, 14653 Clayton Road in Ballwin. In addition to the chance to recycle anything with a plug or batteries – for free – participants can also: • Learn about sustainable products and services offered by local businesses and

organizations. • Participate in hands-on educational activities. • Learn about exceptional sustainable projects being done by Parkway. • Enjoy live music performed by Parkway’s own Thayne Bradford. • Dine on cuisine offered by The Wolf. Special exhibitions include a Home Energy Efficiency Discussion with Smarthouse Home Energy from 10:30-11 a.m. and a flight demonstration presented by the World Bird Sanctuary from 11 a.m.-noon. Republic Services is sponsoring the free electronics recycling drive, which will be held in the adjacent parking lot at Parkway’s Early Childhood Center. Acceptable items include speakers, keyboards, mice, wires, appliances, monitors, computers, laptops, batteries and more. On April 23, West County-based Friends of the Children’s Eternal Rainforest is hosting the “Wild About Conservation!” Annual Awareness & Fundraising Forum, from 6-9 p.m. at the Saint Louis Zoo’s Living World. The event is free and open to the public. Keynote Speaker Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy is a world-renowned scientist, explorer and the founder of “Nature” on PBS. Lovejoy will present “The Land of Gold and Cinnamon: Odyssey of the Amazon,” a talk about the 500-year history of the legendary Amazon rainforest, its place among the great forests of the Americas, the challenges facing these habitats and the solutions presented by conservation initiatives such as the Children’s Eternal Rainforest. Dr. Peter H. Raven, president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, will provide a brief introduction for Dr. Lovejoy at the start of the presentation. Although the event is free, VIP tickets are available for $50 each and include a private cocktail reception with Lovejoy and Raven. For more information, call (314) 941-1257 or visit friendsoftherainforest.org. On April 27, the city of Chesterfield is hosting its popular Earth Day Festival inside the Chesterfield Amphitheater from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Activities will include numerous vendors selling up-cycled and recycled art and craft items, a kid-friendly recycled art project with Chesterfield Arts, a food and personal care item drive to benefit Operation Food Search and a bicycle drive sponsored by St. Louis Bicycle Works, which donates bikes to children and adults in need. Native trees such as redbuds, dogwoods, elderberries and many other varieties will be given away along with a variety of other items. Items that can be recycled at the drivethrough recycling area on the Central Park parking lot include: See EARTH DAY, next page

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By KATE UPTERGROVE On April 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the West County YMCA, 16464 Burkhardt Place, ICE Ministries of Eureka will host a very special fundraiser in honor of a remarkable young girl. Hannah Smith is one of two area youth selected as a 2013 Children’s Miracle Network Ambassador. She is also a member of West County Assembly of God, which is where she met Todd and Sheri Harris, organizers of the April 27 event. Hannah’s journey toward her role as a CMN Ambassador is one no child should have to go through. On Dec. 15, 2011, Hannah was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. Her entire right femur was filled with cancer. In January of 2012 she began chemotherapy at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. In March, she had a rotationplasty on her right leg. “Doctors removed her right leg from about 2 inches below her hip to 2 inches below her knee,” explained Hannah’s mom, Krista Sands. “Then they reattached the lower portion of her leg, rotating it so that what used to be her calf is now her thigh and her ankle is now her knee. It’s kind of hard to wrap your head around it without seeing a picture.”

But what would faze most adults, Hannah took in stride, literally. “She is a pillar of wisdom, humor and strength,” Sands said. “She’s amazing.” Hence the reason physicians and staff at St. Louis Children’s Hospital nominated Hannah to be the 2013 CMN Ambassador. She was selected while her cancer was in remission and publicly introduced on Jan. 16, 2013. But on Jan. 30, Hannah was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia. It was a devastating blow. “She had already dealt with a recurrence of the osteosarcoma,” Sands explained. Two tumors had been removed from Hannah’s lungs. “What she’s really fighting now is the AML.” Helping Hannah in her fight is the love and strength of her family (she has three adoring siblings), her friends at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and CMN, and countless of other friends the Smith and Sands families have gathered along the way. “There’s no way we could survive without the kindness of people and their support,” Sands said. She said neither Hannah nor her family had any hesitation about committing to CMN; they only wish Hannah could attend more events. “I fully believe in paying it forward,” Sands said. “You never know when it’s going to be your child who needs one of our local hospitals. We never in a million years would have guessed that our child would have cancer.” In support of the family, Todd Harris hopes to see the Y filled with on April 27. “It’s going to be a talent show featuring music, gymnasts from Olympiad Gymnastics, a dance troupe from Mozingo Music and more,” Harris said. “The event is free, but donations will be accepted.” Prayers are also very much accepted. In fact, Prayers for Hannah is the Facebook page where Sands and Hannah share her courage and journey.

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and lay the sod in the June-August period, Brandt recommended. • Substitute fescue. For homeowners who are open to change and perhaps do not really care for the straw-like color of dormant zoysia in cold-weather months, reseeding with tall fescue is an option, Brandt said. It is OK to re-seed in the spring, but those who do should be prepared for uneven results, because early hot temperatures can take a toll on the new grass before its roots develop adequately. The best time for seeding and rejuvenating lawns with coolweather grass such as fescue is in the fall, Brandt said. The specialist offered another word of caution for those with fescue lawns: Take it easy on spring fertilizer application. Too much nitrogen, with spring moisture or over-watering – especially in the late afternoon or evening – can set up conditions ripe for fungus development.

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By JIM ERICKSON So, Mother Nature has not been very kind to your landscaping the past couple of years. Some treasured plantings have gone to the “Big Greenhouse in the Sky.” Your yard – once the envy of neighbors – resembles a patchwork quilt of barren spots and brown spots, with the only green being where early emerging weeds have established residence. Is the situation hopeless? Not at all, according to Nathan Brandt, horticulture specialist with the University of Missouri Extension in St. Louis County, who said, “The goal should be to have the right kind of plant in the right place.” That is not easy in this area, not just because of weather extremes but due also to the hard clay, alkaline soils that prevail. “It’s almost like trying to grow something on concrete,” Brandt said. According to Brandt, weather conditions in 2011 and 2012 predictably took a toll on many shrubs and trees, especially those not well suited to the area. But even more numerous have been calls from people whose zoysia lawns suddenly were having problems homeowners never had seen. After all, zoysia is supposed to thrive even in dry conditions and with little care. Right? Not always, it seems (see accompanying story). For those who have a tree or shrub that needs replacing, Brandt had some advice. Generally, he said, “Don’t put the same kind of plant in place of one you just lost. Make a switch, but use ones that are more prone to do well here.” Brandt suggested several options. In the evergreen category are boxwoods,

junipers and yews. “Yes, you see a lot of those around here,” he said, “but the reason is that they simply do better in weather conditions and soils common to the area.” If you have these plants and one or more have been damaged, trim off the ailing portions. Often, the evergreens will bounce back, and replacement can be avoided, Brandt said. As for flowering shrubs that do well locally, the horticulturist suggested: The viburnum group. “They have a lot to offer and are relatively fast growing,” he said. “The Korean spice viburnum blooms in March and April and can be used as a foundation plant, for a border or a hedge. The arrowwood viburnum is somewhat faster growing, and its red color in the fall is great.” Smooth hydrangeas. “These plants like quite a bit of sun and have big blooms from June through August,” Brandt said. “They aren’t used as frequently here as other hydrangeas, but they do well in clay soils.” An even bigger advantage is that other hydrangeas bloom on second-year wood, which often does not happen because the original wood dies during the area’s colder winters, he explained. Lilacs. “These are really nice shrubs for the area. They can deal with full sun and have attractive early flowers. They need a little pruning to keep them attractive, but you can have them just about any size up to about 9 feet,” Brandt said. As for trees, Brandt recommended: Green hawthorn. A medium grower reaching a height of about 30 feet, the tree has white blooms in the spring with red berries that attract birds. It is good also for providing fall and winter color. Eastern red bud. The versatile tree has gorgeous spring blooms and reaches a maximum height similar to that of the green hawthorn. Lacebark elm. It provides good shade and good fall color. A hardy tree, it handles adverse weather well and has few insect or disease problems. Golden rain tree. While not native to the area, it handles conditions here well and grows to 30-40 feet in height. It displays yellow blooms early in the summer. Ginko. Growing 50-80 feet tall, it is not a fast grower but is extremely hardy. It displays attractive yellow leaves in the fall and, when the foliage begins to drop, it does so quickly. Anyone who plans to acquire one should make sure it is a male cultivar.

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CITY AT A CROSSROAD Turmoil in Ellisville thrusts city into the spotlight, leaves residents wondering, ‘What’s next?’ By DIANE E. SAMSON First, it was protests over the proposed use of tax increment financing in bringing a Walmart location to the corner of Manchester and Kiefer Creek roads; followed by angst over the decision of Clarkchester Apartments owners to sell their land to Walmart, displacing about 250 residents. Then it was a barrage of lawsuits, and finally on April 8 all of the drama culminated in an evening of deliberation and a decision. Hundreds of Ellisville residents gathered at St. John’s Lutheran Church the evening of April 8 wanting to know if their mayor was going to be impeached. Many were still wearing badges in support of Mayor Adam Paul, the mayor who was overwhelmingly voted into office just a year before. Paul left the hearing before the City Council began its deliberations. He said there was no need to stay. “The decision has already been made,” Paul said at the time he left. “My attorneys know what is going to happen. I know what’s going to happen. It’s time to go to a real court, not this proceeding that has judge, executioner and jury.” The room was quiet as City Clerk Catherine Demeter called roll for one of the last times for this Council, which voted 5-1 to remove Paul from office. Councilmember Linda Reel (District 2) was the lone vote against impeachment. Paul supporter Herbert Baumann said he believes in what Paul stands for and that the Council is doing whatever it wants rather than listening to the citizens of Ellisville. He compared the situation to what is going on in national politics. “What’s going on here is a microcosm of what’s going on in this country,” Baumann, who is an Ellisville business and property owner, said. “Our elected officials do not listen to their electorate.” Throughout the drama that has plagued Ellisville this past year, Paul has maintained that he has represented the wishes of the people – voting against the use of TIF, as well as the conditional use permit needed to move forward with the Walmart development. Both of those items have been passed by the City Council despite Paul’s opposition. And the approval of the conditional use permit, which was challenged in court, has been upheld. Whether more appeals and court challenges related to Walmart’s development will be forthcoming remains to be seen, but one thing is certain – despite the night’s verdict, Paul is not giving up. He is continuing with his plan to file a suit in circuit

court to regain his office as mayor. That fighting spirit may be what got him into trouble as he came into office last year, young and passionate, with perhaps a greater desire to fulfill his campaign promises to the people of Ellisville than worry about stepping on toes at city hall. Paul maintains that he did nothing wrong, and his attorney, Lynette Petruska, said even if he did violate something in the charter, it shouldn’t be an impeachable offense. Charter is king The Council disagreed, first voting him guilty of six charges, including: • Attempting to replace the city attorney without authority.

• Attempting to circumvent the relocation policy adopted by the Council by contacting a representative of the Walmart developer. • Directing the city clerk to perform actions contrary to the charter. • Circumventing the city manager’s authority by directing officers to remove citizens from public meetings on two occasions. • Failing to competently preside over Council meetings. • Committing conduct unbecoming to the office of mayor. Moderated by Special Hearing Counsel John Maupin, the Council considered each charge and the evidence against Paul heard via testimony and by exhibits of email threads between Paul and city officials such as the city manager, city clerk, city attorney or councilmembers. The councilmembers looked at each charge category and sub-points beneath

each charge. At times, they would vote to remove a small charge, such as one that indicated that Paul asked to be issued a gun and a badge. There was doubt on the Council after testimony as to whether Paul was serious, and the Council voted to remove that charge from the final resolution to remove him from office. Other small charges were removed because the prosecution did not provide evidence supporting the charges. Special Prosecutor Keith Cheung said he did not always pursue a charge because he didn’t feel there was sufficient evidence to prosecute on that issue, not that it wasn’t true. It was up to the Council to remember from three long sessions of testimony which charges Cheung questioned the wit-

nesses about. “It’s a credit to the Council to remember,” Cheung said. “It shows they paid attention and followed it.” Cheung reminded the Council in closing arguments that unlike a criminal case, which has to be proven beyond the more severe reasonable doubt, the burden of proof in a civil case such as this is preponderance of the evidence. This level of evidence is, in layman’s terms, just the amount of evidence required to make the accuser’s claims more likely than not. While the prosecution brought witnesses testifying against Paul, which Pleban crossexamined, Paul himself never testified in his own defense, something less common in a civil case, according to Cheung. He added that the jury, or the Council in this case, is allowed to make assumptions about why he wouldn’t testify, something

not allowed in a criminal case. Pleban said that Cheung could have called him to testify, but didn’t, adding that innocent men tell their stories to unbiased bodies, not a “lynch mob.” Cheung emphasized in his closing arguments that the authors of the city charter wrote it with strict language that was to be followed. Even if Paul was trying to do something good for a resident, for example, calling an agent of the Sansone Group to discuss benefits, he couldn’t, said Cheung. “The evidence can’t be clearer,” Cheung said. “You don’t have that luxury, even if it was for a good reason.” Current Mayor Pro-TemPirrello said he felt Paul got a fair trial, though it wasn’t something planned or enjoyable for anyone. “This is a dark day when you have to go through a process like this,” Pirrello said. “It’s not something you want to go through.” Kangaroo court? While Pleban has called the process a “kangaroo court,” Cheung reminded those in attendance at the hearing that in the United States’ system of government, when it comes to elected officials policing elected officials, the legislative body both brings the charges and decides the verdict. When President Nixon was impeached, he said, Congress both brought the charges and voted to impeach him. He said though it appears unfair, that is the system. He reminded the Council that they have an obligation and duty to fulfill the charter, otherwise, they are no better than anyone else who breaks the charter. In his closing arguments, Pleban said the hearing was about a city attorney and a city manager who were worried about their jobs, and so created a scheme to remove the mayor. They found a friend on the Council who recruited someone to file a complaint to get the ball rolling. “They cook up two charges and (City Attorney) Martin writes them,” said Pleban. “But Adam Paul didn’t leave. He chose to stand and fight for the people who elected him.” Pleban said Paul thought he could recommend a city attorney when he became mayor and that he could save the city some money in legal fees. He also tried to get answers for his constituents. “If you start impeaching mayors for that, they’ll be no mayors left,” Pleban said. Pleban said that this hearing was about a mayor who was trying to represent the people. The crowd applauded in response and Maupin called for order. “It’s about getting answers for your con-

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By DAN FOX Before the verdict on Mayor Adam Paul’s impeachment was delivered on April 8, the city of Ellisville already had its legal counsel ready for the potential appeals process. At its meeting on April 3, the Council passed a resolution that authorized City Manager Kevin Bookout to retain John Maupin and Keith Cheung as special counsel. The resolution gave Bookout permission to enter into a letter agreement with the two attorneys to serve as special counsel for any and all litigation challenging whatever decision the Council would make pertaining to Paul. According to Paul’s attorney, Chet Pleban, the Council’s decision to prepare for the appeal is consistent with other actions that occurred during the case. Pleban referred to an email sent to Maupin from Martin, which contained a predetermined verdict for Maupin and the Council before the first piece of evidence was shown. “It came as no surprise to me that they would be hiring a lawyer to defend a decision that had yet to be made,” Pleban said. However, Mayor Pro-Tem Matt Pirrello said the Council did not pass the resolution to support a predetermined decision. According to Pirrello, the resolution was instead meant to protect against the possibility of an appeal or lawsuit, which Pleban had already promised to do. “Pleban has been all over the news, saying that he is going to appeal this,” Pirrello said. “It cannot be a premature decision if we’ve already been threatened by a lawsuit.” Pirrello said that he doesn’t know the total cost of the appeals process on the city, but the resolution states both Maupin and Cheung would be paid $200 an hour, plus any necessary expenses.

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Cahill said he recognizes that the hurts created by the battle over Mayor Paul will take time to heal, but if both sides recognize the need to compromise, Ellisville will prosper in the future. “Some changes are going to be made over time,” Cahill said. “Hopefully by this time next year, everyone will be on the same page and working well together. No one’s going to be happy overnight.” The one issue Cahill said he would not

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adding that he and Pirrello live across the street from each other and that he holds no compromise on, was the issue of any more ill will against any member of the Council. tax increment financing (TIF). He said he “We shake hands, we’re friends. He’s believes TIFs are unfair to current business doing what he thinks is right, following his owners and that they bring disaster in the conscience,” Voss said. “We have the right long run because TIF businesses leave when to disagree. That’s how our system works.” the TIF runs out, and the town crumbles. Pirrello agrees that the new and old coun“We don’t need to become a town that lives cilmembers will have to work together. on the TIF, because if we live by the TIF, “Personally speaking, I hope we can conwe’re going to die by the TIF,” Cahill said. tinue to move the city forward as we have New Councilmember Gary Voss (Dis- in the past six years,” he said. trict 1) is also anti-TIF and said he does not believe the city should give tax breaks to corporations that make billions. As owner of West County Lanes in Ellisville, he can look at the business climate in Ellisville from the perspective of a small business. “I’m looking to get a better relationship between the city and our merchants,” Voss said. Pirrello said there are no other TIF projects in the works. A few weeks back, the Council voted to reject an additional Sansone project, which was set up like a strip mall. The city is still taking applications for Badge worn by Paul supporters. businesses for the RPA 2 property. (West Newsmagazine photo) Voss said he is also ready for better relationships within the Council. He noted that he will definitely continue He said he has already spoken with the with the Great Streets Initiative (GSI), remaining councilmembers about mending which is designed to bring uniformity, the rift in the city. beauty and accessibility to businesses “We’re all going in a direction that we’ll along Manchester Road as it runs through do what is good for the city,” Voss said. several communities in West County from “We’re going to try to mend this stupid Route 141 to Wildwood. And he said, “I’ll thing. It got a little out of hand and mush- be reaching out to the newly elected Counroomed into something I find idiotic, but cil and trying to find common ground.” that is what happened.” Cahill also has not given up on Ellisville Voss said that, though he felt differently, and can still see a bright future for the city, the Council tried to follow the charter beginning with peace at city hall. and felt that the charges were enough to “It may take some time, but businesses impeach Paul. will start flocking back to Ellisville,” Cahill “Matt Pirrello has always worked very said. “We’re a beautiful community, a great hard for the city and in most cases I think community. We’ve shined in the past, and he’s gone the right direction,” Voss said, we’ll shine again, that’s for sure.”

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Most folks sell their current home when buying a new one, and they have to hope that there is a buyer out there willing to pay their price. The great news for today’s home sellers is that the current housing market is experiencing a stronger demand than we’ve seen in some time. In fact, according to the National Association of Realtors, sellers are receiving offers closer to (if not greater than) the list price, plus the average days it takes to sell a home has dropped by over 20 percent from last year. If you’re thinking about selling your home, don’t miss out on the strong demand in the current spring market. In return, you might be able to buy more than you thought. Here’s what’s new in new homes this week:

Communities, is conveniently located just off Olive Boulevard near the new Hwy. 141 extension. Prices start from the low $200’s for the two-bedroom, two-bath condominiums that range from 1,400 to 1,500 square feet and include 9-foot ceilings, hardwood flooring, granite countertops, marble whirlpool bath, gas fireplace, private laundry rooms and either a deck or patio. The elevator-served, three-story buildings within the gated community have storage rooms and secured, heated underground parking with ample additional surface parking for residents. Homeowners enjoy a swimming pool and clubhouse with fitness center, sauna and business center. For more information call 299-8444.

New story-and-a-half model at Payne Family Homes Payne Family Homes will be offering a brand new story-and-a-half plan this week at four communities. The 2,630-square-foot “Wright” model is part of Payne’s Vision Series and has a main floor master suite and three auxiliary bedrooms on the second floor – plus a loft. Other features of the new floor plan include a dramatic two-story foyer and switchback staircase, open kitchen with large walk-in pantry and breakfast bar peninsula, a spacious master suite walk-in closet, and a main floor flex room that can be used as a formal dining room, office or play room. Optional plan features include a threecar garage, luxury master bath, vaulted or 10-foot ceilings in the great room, loft open to the first floor, “princess” suite, Jack and Jill bath and more. This plan is offered at Ashton Woods in Eureka and Bella Vista, The Meadows at Ohmes Farm and Willow Walk Estates in St. Charles County. Base price of the Wright model ranges from the $220’s to $240’s and varies by community. For more information visit PayneFamilyHomes.com or call (314) 477-1218.

Great buys as Griffey’s Penny Lane closes out Griffey Homes is down to the last few homesites at Penny Lane, its community of attached and detached villas on Spencer Road between Mexico and Willott roads. “We’re nearing completion on a new Windsor inventory home,” reports sales manager Kim Valerio. The detached home, priced at $242,000, has a three-car garage, hardwood floors, 9-foot ceilings, crown molding, luxury master bath. “We also are breaking ground on a threebedroom Nottingham attached villa, with two-car garage, hardwood floors luxury bath, many more upgrades.” The Nottingham is priced at $240,000. “We are at final closeout phase at Penny Lane with two detached villa homesites that will accommodate a three-car garage, one homesite that will take a two-car garage, and there are two free-standing homesites.” At The Charleston at Heritage condominiums Griffey has two third-floor units with vaulted ceilings priced at $139,900 and one remaining garage left to purchase for an additional $15,000. “Our inventory home at Fieldstone Farms in O’Fallon is also nearing completion,” Valerio said. The Bradford III 1.5-story has four bedrooms, loft, Jack and Jill bath, additional second-floor bath, luxury suite, espresso cabinets, granite counter tops, stainless appliances, a three-car garage and brick and stone front elevation. It is priced at $418,900. For information call 936-1923 or email kim@griffeyhomes.com. Visit griffeyhomes.com.

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Free options extended at Thomas & Suit’s Wyndgate Forest There’s no better place to be in spring and summer than Thomas & Suit’s Wyndgate Forest with its wooded surroundings, pool, sports courts, walking trails and more. Now, you can move into this neighborhood in the prime summertime months with Thomas & Suit’s elegant 2,700-square-foot Sycamore ranch home, scheduled for July completion. This new home has a brick and stone exterior with three-car garage, three bedrooms, a study and 2.5 baths. The open feeling is accentuated by 11-foot ceilings throughout the great room, dining room, foyer, kitchen, breakfast room and hearth room. The stateof-the-art kitchen has stainless-steel appliances, granite countertops, large island and 42-inch staggered dark maple cabinets with crown molding. Topping it all off is a fireplace in the great room and covered porch. The price will be in the mid-$400’s. April is the last chance for buyers to take advantage of Thomas & Suit’s free Ultimate Building Package of popular options. The offer ends April 30. Prices in Wyndgate Forest start in the mid-$300’s. Take Hwy. 40 to south on Hwy. N, 1.5 miles to left on Wyndgate Ridge Drive and right on Paul Renaud Boulevard. Call 561-2120 or visit tshomes.net. Savings up to $50K at several McKelvey locations “Our market homes are very popular and sell almost as fast as we can build them,” opines Jim Brennan, president of McKelvey Homes. “We know that many families want to move into a new home during the prime spring and summer months, so we have a great array of homes, and our prices have never been better, with savings from $8,000 all the way up to $50,000.” Among the market homes now available is the Muirfield 1.5-story, now ready for move in on lot 41 at the Estates at Bellemeade, located near Mid Rivers Mall Drive and Mexico Road in the heart of St.

Peters. With 3,717 square feet, this spacious home has four bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a hearth room with a vent-free gas fireplace, a convenient upper-level bonus room and a three-car garage. It’s priced at $349,624, reflecting a savings of $32,506. In addition, McKelvey has a Muirfield model available on Lot 88 of its masterplanned Magnolia community, with a great location off Bryan Road convenient to both Hwy. 40 and I-70. Price of this Muirfield, with a distinctive, Craftsman-style front elevation on a landscaped walkout site with a great view, is $399,068, including savings of $29,348. Visit mckelveyhomes. com for details and directions. Free golf membership at Kemp’s Ridgepointe in Lake Saint Louis The Kemp Homes Co. has cut the grandopening ribbon on two new leisure lifestyle communities at Ridgepointe in Lake Saint Louis, offering estate homes from the $220’s and freestanding villa homes from the $190’s. And now through May 31, homebuyers not only enjoy grand opening pricing, they also get a free golf membership at Lake Forest Country Club. See the Ridgepointe sales manager for details. Located in separate sections, the estate homes and the detached villas of Ridgepointe are unique in that owners have all the benefits of a single-family home without the yard chores. The ranch, 1.5-story and two-story plans have brick and stone elevations and, inside, upscale touches like optional brick and stone hearth mantels and surrounds. Granite counter tops are standard, along with a long list of sought-after features. This is no “55-plus” community, so families are welcome. Kemp Homes also builds custom homes in Town & Country, Creve Coeur, Ladue and Olivette. The display is open Friday-Monday from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. or by appointment. Call 8873590. Ridgepointe is located just off the newly opened South Henke Road. Details at kemphomes.com.

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BENEFITS West St. Louis County/Eureka Lions Barbecues are from 10:30 a.m.-sundown on Friday, April 19, Saturday, April 20, Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27 at Hwy. 109 at Central Avenue in Eureka. Ribs, pork steaks, chicken, bratwurst, sandwiches are dinners are sold. Proceeds benefit the Missouri School for the Blind, Lions Eye Research and Eye Clinic, JDRF, college scholarships to high school seniors in Eureka, care packages to overseas troops, and the Lions’ summer youth swimming program for children in the community. To order Friday lunch delivery, call 388-5775. ••• Performing for Life Benefit Variety Show to benefit Whole Kids Outreach is from 2-7 p.m. on Saturday, April 20 at Chesterfield Performing Arts Theatre at the YMCA in Chesterfield. Adult entertainers from across the country include dancers,

singers, musicians, magicians and more. Admission is $10. For tickets, call 3915678. Visit performingforlife.org. ••• “Dramatic License Trivia Night” is at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.) on Saturday, April 20 at 703 Long Road Crossing Drive, Suite 6, in Chesterfield. Multi-subject trivia with a cash prize for the top team, a 50/50 raffle and silent auction are featured. Outside food and beverage are permitted; local Missouri wines are served. The cost is $20 per person/$160 per table of eight. Proceeds benefit Dramatic License Productions Theatre, cabaret and education programs. Visit dramaticlicenseproductions.org. ••• The Greater St. Louis Book Fair is from Thursday, April 25 through Sunday, April 28 at West County Center in Des Peres. The charity book fair is the largest of its kind in the Midwest and features millions of donated books, CDs, DVDs, ephemera and more. It benefits the Nursery Foundation of St. Louis and area literacy programs. For a $10 admission, shoppers can attend the preview event from 4-9 p.m. on Thursday, April 25 before the fair opens to the general public. Admission is free for the remainder of the event. Visit stlouisbookfair.org, or call (314) 993-1995. ••• The Crestview Middle School Run for Congo is at 8:30 a.m. (check-in begins at 7:45 a.m.) on Saturday, April 27 at Crestview Middle School. The feel is $20 for runners and walkers. Proceeds benefit Women for Women International’s programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, supporting women in war-torn regions with financial and emotional aid, job training, rights education and small business assistance. Register at bigriverrunning.com. ••• The Kids in the Middle annual gala, “Lights, Camera, Action,” is from 6-10 p.m. on Saturday, April 27 at Ameristar in St. Charles. Hors d’oeuvres, raffles, live and silent auctions, dinner and an open bar are featured. Proceeds support kids whose parents are going through separation and divorce. Tickets are $150 per guest. Call (314) 909-

9922, or visit kidsinthemiddle.org. ••• St. Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness (SLOCA) hosts the Living Out Loud Gala & Auction from 6-10 p.m. on Saturday, April 27 in the atrium of Edward Jones’ corporate headquarters in Des Peres. Proceeds fund major grants for ovarian cancer research and support SLOCA’s educational programs and community awareness outreach. Tickets are $125 per person/$1,250 per table of 10. For reservations, visit sloca.org/auction. ••• The St. Louis Health Equipment Lending Program (St. Louis HELP) medical equipment donation drive is from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Sunday, May 4 at the Walgreens locations at 12006 Manchester in Des Peres and 1302 Clarkson Clayton Center in Ellisville. Manual and power wheelchairs, scooters, canes/crutches/walkers, shower chairs, folding ramps, stair lifts and more are accepted. Find a full list of acceptable donations at stlhelp.org. Tax-deductible donations are cleaned, refurbished and loaned to anyone in need at no cost. Call (314) 567-4700. ••• Take Steps for Crohn’s & Colitis, a fundraising walk, is from 2:30-6 p.m. on Sunday, May 5 at Creve Coeur Lake Park. Families and friends walk for a common cause and increase community spirit. To register, visit cctakesteps.org/stlouis. ••• The Ascension Knights of Columbus Charity Golf Tournament is at 12:30 p.m. (shotgun start) on Monday, May 6 at the Landings Spirit Golf Club. Lunch and dinner catered by Russo’s Gourmet and live and silent auctions are featured. Proceeds benefit Friends of Kids with Cancer and the Knights of Columbus General Charity Fund. Call Tim Ferguson at (314) 550-5270. ••• Good Shepherd Lutheran Church hosts the Hike Against Hunger at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 11 at Picnic Site 1 in Queeny Park. The event raises funds for the church’s Oct. 11-13 MobilePack event. Hikers enjoy a 1.5- or 4.5-mile walk as they help to collect donations. Visit goodshepherdlutheran. com, or email geurkink@sbcglobal.net. ••• The Arthritis Foundation hosts the St.

Louis Arthritis Walk at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, May 17 at Logan College of Chiropractic/ University Programs. Visit arthritis.org. ••• The Bonhomme Lions Car Show is from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sunday, May 19 on the parking lot at West County Lanes, 15727 Manchester Road in Ellisville. Admission is free and there is no charge to display vehicles; food and beverages are available. Proceeds benefit Ronald McDonald House and BackStoppers. Call Gary Voss (Kiwanis Club) at 227-1469 or Tom Kniepman (Lions Club) at 391-7588. ••• Circle Of Concern, in partnership with Lukas Liquor Superstore, hosts Amazing Taste, a festival with the opportunity to sample and pre-order wines, beers and spirits from more than 80 vendors, from 1-5 p.m. on Sunday, May 19 at Wildwood Town Center. Proceeds from all ticket sales and 5 percent of proceeds from products purchased support feeding needy families in West County. A mixology challenge, silent auction, barbecue lunch and live music also are featured. Tickets are $30 if purchased prior to April 15 and $35 thereafter. VIP tickets are $60. Visit circleofconcern.org. ••• The 15th annual Friends of Kids with Cancer Golf Tournament & Auction is at 10:30 a.m. (registration and breakfast at 9 a.m.) on Monday, May 20 at Whitmoor Country Club. Cocktails, dinner and auctions follow the golf. Tickets are $1,200 per foursome, $300 per golfer and $75 for dinner only. Sponsorships are available. Call (314) 275-7440, or visit friendsofkids.com. ••• The Assistance League St. Louis Golf Tournament/Tennis Round-Robin is on Monday, May 20 at Meadowbrook Country Club. Golf begins with a gunshot start at noon, and tennis registration begins at noon, with the round-robin from 1-4 p.m. Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and dinner also are featured. Visit stlouis.assistanceleague. org, or call 227-6200.

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LIVE PERFORMANCES “Almost Maine,” by John Cariani, is at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27 in the Multipurpose Room at St. Louis Community College-Wildwood, 2645 Generations Drive. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Visit stlcc.edu/ww. ••• St. Martin’s Episcopal Church hosts a concert of the Arianna String Quartet at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 28 at the church, 15764 Clayton Road in Ellisville. Admission is free, but donations are accepted. Call 227-1484, or visit stmartinschurch.org. ••• “Listen to Your Mother,” a live show that is part of a national series celebrating Mother’s Day and featuring a series of live readings by area writers, is from 10 a.m.12 p.m. and from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, May 11 at St. Luke’s Hospital Institute for Health Education, 232 S. Woods Mill Road in Chesterfield. Visit listentoyourmothershow.com.

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Menu add-ons give Bones’ French Quarter a Cajun accent By SUZANNE CORBETT When area residents are craving Cajun but find that getting to Bourbon Street in New Orleans requires too far of a drive, the solution is to drive down Manchester Road, where just two miles west of Hwy. 141, Bones’ French Quarter Bar & Grill is serving up foods with a decidedly a Cajun accent. “We wanted to add more Cajun and French Quarter flavors and style to the menu,” said General Manager Ashley Daniels, who with French Quarter’s owner, Brian Armstrong, developed the new Cajun menu additions slated to debut on April 17. “Brian and I sat down and came up with a few ideas. First thing we added was crawdads. Everyone loves crawdads.” Crawdads, alligator, okra and Cajun spice will give French Quarter’s new menu its “French Quarter style” without sacrificing its many customer favorites, such as Bones’ iconic Famous Beef & Brick, a sandwich that can be traced to the original menu created 52 years ago. “The Beef & Brick is still our No. 1 seller. It has an insane amount of beef along with brick cheese. It’s a big sandwich that requires a squishing technique to get it inside your mouth,” said Daniels, who explained that all of the restaurant’s sandwiches are served up in generous portions, especially the newly added po’ boys. “One of our new

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Cajun-style additions we haven’t had before are po’ boy sandwiches. We’ll have crawdad, gator, catfish and Cajun chicken po’ boys topped with pepperjack cheese, lettuce, tomato and our own homemade French Quarter sauce.” Other crawdad options include a sandwich, wrap and a basket dinner that is served with homemade chips and slaw. And as a special event, a crawdad boil currently is in the planning stages. While crawdads certainly are a star attraction at French Quarter, Cajun flavors have given a new twist to classic dishes, such as the Cajun Fried Chicken and the Cajun Spinach Artichoke Dip, both of which are seasoned with the French Quarter’s own secret spice blend. Burger fans who love to kick it up a notch will appreciate the 5 Alarm Cheeseburger, which is seasoned with Cajun spices and topped with pepperjack and jalapenos. Traditionalists can order the Original Bones’ Burger, a one-third-pound burger that is dressed to order with or without the cheese and grilled onions. Either burger pairs well with a bottle of Louisiana Abita beer or any of the other bar-featured domestic brews, which range from craft beers to locally-bottled Anheuser-Busch favorites. And while Cajun influences are carried throughout the menu for lunch, dinner and after hours, French Quarter’s’ breakfast menu remains unchanged, featuring all-American plates such as biscuits and gravy, pancakes and steak and eggs. “Everyone loves our breakfast because it’s the kind of feel-good breakfast Grandma used to make along with our own breakfast specialties, like Brian’s ‘Hangover Slinger.’ You have to try it – it’s amazing,” said Daniels, describing the owner’s take on the St. Louis layered breakfast classic of burgers, potatoes, chili, eggs, cheese and onions. Breakfast is served seven days a week with service start-

Ashley Daniels, Bones’ French Quarter general manager

ing at 7 a.m. and running until 10:30 a.m. on weekdays and till 1 p.m. on weekends. Great breakfast, lunch and dinner and French Quarter’s affordable prices, cozy atmosphere and friendly service have kept customers coming back for generations. “Our regulars have been coming in for years and years,” Daniels said with a smile. “And when I see new customers come in, I know they’ll be back.”

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