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Debt-ceiling chicken The big news, as far as the media are concerned, is the political game of debt-ceiling chicken that is being played by Democrats and Republicans in Washington. But, however much the media are focused on what is happening inside the Beltway, there is a whole country outside the Beltway – and the time is long overdue to start thinking about what is best for the rest of the country, not just for right now but for the long haul.

However the current debt-ceiling crisis turns out, the current economic turmoil in financial markets around the world should cause some serious thoughts about the long run, and about the whole idea of a national debt-ceiling.

Some people may have been shocked when the credit-rating firm Moody’s recently suggested that the debt-ceiling law be repealed, in order to avoid fiscal crises which can throw world financial markets into turmoil that can injure countries around the world. Anyone who wants to show that Moody’s is wrong should be prepared to show the actual benefits of the debt-ceiling, not its goals or hopes. That will not be easy, if possible at all.

Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.

The United Nations, for example, survives as a glorious idea, despite how corrupt, counterproductive and even dangerous its actions are.

The national debt-ceiling law should be judged by what it actually does, not by how good an idea it seems to be. The one thing that the national debt-ceiling has never done is to put a ceiling on the rising national debt. Time and time again, for years on end, the national debt-ceiling has been raised whenever the national debt gets near whatever the current ceiling might be.

Regardless of what it is supposed to do, what the national debt-ceiling actually does is enable any administration to get all the political benefits of runaway spending for the benefit of their favorite constituencies – and then invite the opposition party to share the blame, by either raising the national debt ceiling, or by voting for unpopular cutbacks in spending or increases in taxes.

The Obama administration is a classic example. When all its skyrocketing spending bills were being rushed through Congress without even being read, the Democrats had such overwhelming major-

ities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives that Republicans had all they could do to get a word in edgewise – even though their words had no chance of stopping, or even slowing down, the spending of trillions of dollars.

Now that the bill is coming due for all that spending and borrowing, Republicans are suddenly being invited in to share the blame for either raising the national debt ceiling or for whatever other unpopular measures will be legislated.

Many years ago, someone said, “If you didn’t invite me to the big take-off, don’t invite me to the crash landing.” This was Obama’s big spending spree, but “bipartisanship” requires Republicans to either split the bill or be blamed if the government shuts down or defaults.

What would happen if there were no national debt-ceiling law?

Those who got the political benefits from handing out trillions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money (plus borrowed money) would also get the clear and sole blame for the resulting skyrocketing national debt and all the unpopular consequences.

Those people who want serious and substantial spending cuts are absolutely right in what they want. There are not only government programs that need to be cut but whole government agencies, including Cabinet-level Departments, that are not merely useless but positively harmful on net balance.

There are a lot of things that could be cut, and should be cut, instead of defaulting on the nation’s debts. But that is not likely to happen, if Obama and his media chorus can instead blame the Republicans for forcing a government shutdown or a credit default.

Regardless of how the current crisis is resolved, Moody’s suggestion of repealing the national debt-ceiling law deserves some very serious thought, because that law is the crucial factor in the political games that allow big spenders to blame others for the consequences of their own irresponsibility.

Those who say that the reckless spending and reckless borrowing of the Obama administration are the roads to ruin are absolutely right. © 2011 Creators.com

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letters to the editor Progress in Ellisville To the Editor: I am writing this letter to say thank you to the city council of Ellisville. With Wednesday’s (July 20) affirmative vote on the resolution to set aside a portion of the land within Bluebird Park for the development of the Ellisville Dog Park, the Ellisville City Council has demonstrated their willingness to truly listen to the residents of the community.

The Ellisville City Council should be commended – they seem to truly work and serve together well, operating for the greater good of the community, with cooperation, with humility and with grace. They have demonstrated that Ellisville is a community that cares and is willing to move forward with the times.

Though I grew up in the St. Louis area, I only moved to Ellisville about four years ago and I am pleased with what I have observed within the Ellisville city government.

Within that time, the city of Ellisville has embraced the Manchester Road Great Streets Initiative, the city of Ellisville has held informative and enlightening “town hall” discussion meetings regarding new development within the city limits and about the future of its revenue stream, and they have passed the Ellisville Dog Park resolution (amongst hundreds of other issues). But in particular, these major initiatives are issues that move Ellisville forward toward what Ellisville can become and is striving to be.

The Ellisville Dog Park is not only going to be a great asset for the city of Ellisville, but I believe it will be an asset to the entire St. Louis western suburban area. Since the Ellisville Dog Park will be open to all people and their four-legged friends in the surrounding communities, it will enhance the lives of many people beyond the Ellisville city limits. And because of this, the city of Ellisville moves to the forefront in forward-looking communities in the area.

Thank you to the city council of Ellisville.

Deborah J. Grosz Ellisville

Letter to Rockwood board member To the Editor: This is a letter to Matt Fitzpatrick who is a Rockwood School District (RSD) board member.

I noticed on the RSD site under school board members your position on spending money wisely was: “Having been a school board member in a much poorer demographic, I know how important it is to be responsible with people’s tax dollars. With little affiliation to any school committee or organization, I offer a fresh unbiased approach toward board governance. After all, board members do not just represent parents of Rockwood School children, but every citizen in the district. As a taxing authority, school boards owe it to the public to see that tax dollars are spent properly in providing the children of this district with a safe learning environment, and a sound curriculum.”

My reply to Matt Fitzpatrick is: I don’t find hiring a superintendent at 40K over the retiring superintendent’s salary along with an 8K auto allowance and the ability to earn a 15K-per-year bonus spending money wisely when the district was running in the red. On top of that the board allows giving the super’s friends 60K in consulting fees and then adding them to the RSD’s payroll to the tune of 260K in salaries plus benefits. I have seen the organizational chart of administrators at RSD and find it overly staffed and overspent with high salaries. I don’t find as an excuse – which I have heard numerous time from board members and our superintendent – that RSD is in line with other county districts.

A lot of other county districts have bloated salaries, wasteful spending and poor decision making too; that doesn’t make it right.

You should run Rockwood like a business, and your business is losing money.

When a business is losing money and the outlook is bleak, you don’t keep spending on big salaries, stellar benefits and high overhead. All salaries should have been frozen many years ago when the income statement started bleeding red ink; instead, the salaries kept going up and the spending continued.

What was the board thinking? Is this how you run your own business or household finances?

All the board has done so far is cut the wasteful spending, took things away from the students and charged more fees for parents. Now you’re looking for a big tax increase from the taxpayers in November?

When 80 percent of your budget is salaries and benefits, you have to adjust spending in that area. Cut some of the top-heavy administration and freeze salaries for all the next few years along with charging employees more of a national average for benefits.

Teachers and non-contracted employees won’t quit if they have good leadership and understand that is the responsible thing to do. Jobs are not plentiful right now! RSD taxpayers are who you report to, they have lost their jobs, had their salaries cut or frozen, are paying more for healthcare and don’t have a retirement plan like RSD employees.

Follow what you stated you stood for when you took the board position. Nix the November tax levy and spend the money wisely.

Thank you.

Rob Thoele Ballwin

Balanced budget amendment To the Editor: Why a balanced budget amendment will not work: During the contentious debate over the issue of raising the debt ceiling, one nonnegotiable demand by Republicans is sending to the states for ratification a new article to the Constitution requiring a balanced budget.

While this sounds good in principle, the track record of Congress in abiding by limitations set forth in the Constitution is not exemplary. The 27th Amendment is a case in point.

The “Compensation Amendment” as it was known was proposed by James Madison as part of the original Bill of Rights. As it did not receive the requisite three-fourths approval by the states, it sat dormant until finally ratified on May 7, 1992.

The Amendment states: “No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.”

The purpose of Madison’s amendment was to ensure that those seeking to increase their compensation would have to stand for election before receiving a salary increase. But today, members of Congress will receive an automatic pay increase unless they vote not to accept one. And the manner in which Congress has circumvented the 27th Amendment’s proscriptive language is instructive when discussing the Republican demand for a balanced budget amendment to rein in future spending.

To circumvent the no increase in compensation until standing for election pro-

vision of the 27th Amendment, Congress passed the Ethics Reform Act in 1991. The Act provided for an annual cost of living allowance, COLA, which is applicable to all employees of the federal government.

(In the case of Congress, it was COLA less one-half percent and automatic unless Congress voted not to accept it.) Since ratification of the 27th Amendment, and with no debate or vote taken, members of Congress have seen their compensation increased numerous times.

In a discussion I had at a Federalist Society meeting in 1996 with Justice Antonin Scalia regarding what I perceived as Congress’ violation of the 27th Amendment, I stated that Congress does not view the increase in their compensation as a pay raise but rather “a COLA.” Scalia’s response: “Oh, so that’s how they did that.”

In other words, a pay raise isn’t a pay raise even when those members of the House and Senate receive more in their pay envelope.

So, how does the foregoing relate to my skepticism regarding the proposal for a balanced budget amendment? As I understand it, a balanced budget amendment would require the federal government to not spend in excess of tax receipts. Kind of like you and me and every business that understands the ramifications of not balancing debt with income. But the language of the proposed amendment would include words to the effect that such a requirement could be suspended “in the event of a national emergency.” And who do you think would define what a “national emergency” is? Congress? The president?

The Supreme Court? That being the case, the ultimate question would come down to interpreting just what “is” is. Now where have I heard that before?

Recognizing the weakness of mankind, Thomas Jefferson observed: “Let no more be said about the confidence of men, but bind them (our representatives and senators) down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution.”

But the chains of which Jefferson spoke can only be effective if we have honest and honorable politicians who acknowledge these chains and willingly wear chains of constitutional constraint. Unfortunately, the record is clear that such is not the case.

And that is why I maintain that with the current makeup of Congress, a balanced budget amendment will not work.

John R. Stoeffler Ballwin

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Fun with sports (Or things to take our mind off the heat and debt-ceiling debate) We decided to write this week about anything other than the heat, or the economy, or the debt ceiling. To be honest, it is very refreshing indeed to focus on poking fun at pro athletes as opposed to banging our heads against the wall of professional politics.

Let’s begin. Three extremely significant events occurred in professional sports last week. The end of July saw the passing of the Major League Baseball trade deadline, the conclusion of the National Football League labor dispute, and the firing of the U.S. men’s soccer coach. All right – two extremely significant events.

Here are our brief thoughts: • Colby Rasmus and his dad were traded to the Toronto Blue Jays last week for Edwin Jackson. Sure there were other people included in the deal, but Colby’s dad, Tony, was the important piece. What is it that you do for a living? Lawyer, stockbroker, doctor, plumber? The next time you are in a meeting with your boss, picture your father sitting next to you disputing everything your boss says.

Now picture your dad using his Facebook account to tell the whole world what is wrong with your boss. Certainly, you are an exceptional stockbroker, but as soon as you bring Dad into that meeting, your boss is pressing the secret human resources button he has hidden under the top right drawer of his desk, and the paperwork on your dismissal begins. That is why Colby was shipped to the Siberia of baseball.

• As far as the impact of the Colby Rasmus deal on this season, it will be exciting to see Jon Jay get a chance to prove himself as an everyday player. It will be interesting to see what Dave Duncan can do with Edwin Jackson. It will be curious to find out if Octavio Dotel has left in the tank. Most importantly, it will be full-out entertaining to listen to Mike Shannon try to pronounce “Rzepczynski.” All in all, we’d say the Cardinals are better this year and worse three years from now as a

result of this deal.

• Everybody tried to pigeonhole the NFL labor dispute as billionaires arguing with millionaires over money. That is not exactly accurate. The average NFL career is just more than three years, and most players make somewhere in the $300k range. It is unclear exactly how beneficial it is in career path evaluations to have spent four years as the third string left guard for the Buffalo Bills, but our guess is not very.

• This extremely short free agent signing period, caused by the labor dispute, is actually pretty fun. The NFL should definitely consider learning from the massive public interest in the shortened window. Next year, the free agent period should be, like, two hours long and take the same form as a speed dating session.

That would be must-see TV. • It is interesting to contrast Rams Coach Steve Spagnuolo’s four pillars philosophy to Patriots Coach Bill Belichick’s work release program. Belichick has taken on more rehab projects than television’s Dr. Drew, and has seemingly always met with success. When will Spags feel like the Rams’ culture is strong enough to bring in some troubled talent?

• Tiger Woods has announced he will be returning to golf this weekend. He recently fired his long time caddie, and that caddie is now writing a tell-all book.

Woods has not won on tour since 2009.

His new caddie is the president of his design company and a longtime friend.

Despite all that, this is likely to be the most-watched golf tournament of the year. Tiger Woods still moves the television dials, and that is why the game of golf really needs him back.

• Bob Bradley was abruptly fired as coach of the U.S. men’s national soccer team last week. People reacted with shock when they heard the news that the U.S. still had a men’s national soccer team.

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Delays coming on Ballas Milling and resurfacing of Ballas Road between Manchester and Conway roads will get underway in mid to late August and should take about three weeks to complete.

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Driving lanes will be done first and shoulder work will follow. There will be delays for motorists as a one-lane road is created during the actual work periods, so late-evening motorists should consider alternate routes.

ELLISVILLE Chickens, sales tax and seat belts The Ellisville City Council during a work session on July 20 held discussions on allowing chickens on private property, sales tax in the Greats Streets Initiative project and enforcement of a seat belt law.

After Ellisville City Manager Kevin Bookout said some residents had complained to the city about a resident having several chickens on his property, the council discussed the possibility of permitting chickens on residential property. Currently, the city allows a maximum of three domestic animals on residential properties and allows only cats and dogs.

Ellisville City Councilmember Troy Pieper (Dist. 2) said he would consider allowing two or three chickens, while Councilmember Michelle Murray (Dist. 3) said she would not be in favor of that.

Ellisville Mayor Matt Pirrello said allowing chickens would require additional city staff and city officials would have to be allowed to inspect homes

“There’s no other way around that,” Pirrello said.

Regarding the Great Streets Initiative, Pirrello said he has been meeting twice a month with officials from nearby communities in attempts to revitalize the Manchester Road corridor. He said the participating cities will do what is called “perpetual funding” in their revitalization and have ruled out adding a sales tax. Pirrello said the cities could place special assessments, such as adding some sort of flat fee on property tax in the corridor.

Some type of legislation will be drafted late in the year to take to the state.

Regarding seat belts, Bookout said several cities in the area have passed a primary seat belt law and asked for council input as to whether Ellisville should do the same.

“I think it’s a good idea to have a seat belt law,” Councilmember Clark Compton (Dist. 3) said.

Murray opposed that idea and said the city has added enough regulations, such as requiring residents to have a doctor’s prescription to purchase certain cold and allergy medications.

“Can we leave people alone?” Murray said. “We keep picking on people. We keep big-brothering people. I am really disturbed by this trend.”

The council did not take action on any of the topics discussed.

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NEWSMAGAZINENETWORK.COM some disabled veterans the go-ahead to use the location of a closed Jiffy Lube at 32 Clarkson Road as a charitable club and collection site. The location will operate now as a distribution center with a drivethrough.

John King, an attorney representing The Disabled American Veterans Missouri Chapter #2, said it will offer for sale clothes and some small furniture items that will be collected at the back of the store between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily. The drop-off of donations will be permitted only during hours of operation, according to the occupancy permit.

In order to acquire the occupancy permit for the center, the organization agreed to repair the trash enclosure gates on the site and keep it free from debris and to grade and clean out the connection point of the drainage swales along the rear parking lot and south property line. Two dead trees must be replaced as well.

MANCHESTER Bridge closure The Southeast Lafayette Center Bridge, which is the bridge into the Lafayette Center development closest to Manchester Road, has been closed for reconstruction.

The bridge is expected to reopen around Sept. 1. Until then, the detour will be via the north bridge into the center.

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Funding infrastructure improvements The Wildwood City Council at its July 25 meeting approved ordinances to acquire federal funding for the Wild Horse Creek Road bridge replacement over Bates Creek, Woods Road bridge replacement over Hamilton Creek and the resurfacing of Strecker, Valley and Fox Creek roads under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users.

The city has submitted applications to the East-West Gateway Council of Governments, Missouri Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration for 80-percent federal funding for each project, with not-to-exceed amounts for each.

WEST COUNTY Be prepared After operating filled-to-capacity Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training classes in July in response to the May 22 tornado in Joplin, the Metro West Fire Protection District is taking registrations for its September classes.

Designed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), CERT training trains citizen volunteers to assist

their communities after disasters, such as an earthquake, tornado, etc. Topics covered during the training include disaster preparedness, fire suppression, medical operations, light search and rescue, disaster psychology, and terrorism.

The classes, which are offered free of charge, will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Tuesdays Sept. 6, 13, 20 and 27 and all day on Sat., Oct. 1 at Metro West House No. 4, located at Clayton and Hutchinson roads.

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ST. LOUIS COUNTY Heroin town hall meeting rescheduled A town hall meeting to confront the epidemic of heroin and prescription painkiller use by St. Louis area teens will not be held on Aug. 11 at the South County Health Clinic as originally scheduled.

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Two men drown at Castlewood State Park

St. Louis County Police Capt. Steve Sack (left) and Metro West Fire Protection District Chief Vincent Loyal announce at a press conference that the second drowning victim’s body had been recovered.

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By BRIAN MCDOWELL St. Louis County police and the Missouri Water Patrol on July 26 were dispatched to Castlewood State Park in Ballwin to search

for two young men who went missing in the Meramec River, Sgt. Gerard Callahan of the Missouri Water Patrol said. The bodies of both men were recovered, both

victims of drowning. friends who yelled for help when the men The victims are Liys B. Gonzales, 18, disappeared, Loyal said. A fisherman heard and Salvatore Jasso, 20, both of St. Louis. their cries and called police.

Loyal said that according to the victims’ St. Louis County Police Capt. Steve Sack said police got the call around noon friends, neither of the men who drowned and divers started searching the water soon were strong swimmers. According to after that. One body was found quickly in the Missouri Water Patrol, both men had close proximity to the beach where the waded into water over their heads and were unable to swim to shore. men had been swimming, he said.

Loyal cautioned that the beaches at Divers, cadaver dogs and searchers in helicopters then began combing river in Castlewood State Park are not patrolled by search of the other man, whose body was lifeguards. located about 50 yards from where the “If you’re not a strong swimmer, don’t go other victim was found. The second man into the Meramec,” he said.

In the summer of 2006, five children was found at approximately 3:20 p.m. by divers from the Metro West Fire Protection who had been swimming at the same beach District who used sonar provided by the drowned also, Loyal said.

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In down economy, Spirit Airport is ‘still moving up’

By JIM ERICKSON The story about the little engine that could has a counterpart in St. Louis County – but the latter’s engine not only could but has and still is.

St. Louis County’s engine is an economic one more commonly known as Spirit of St. Louis Airport.

With its 50th anniversary just a few years away, the facility now is bouncing back from the business downturn that began three years ago.

“When the economy is bad, aviation in general and business aviation in particular are among the first to be affected and among the last to recover,” said John Bales, Spirit’s director of aviation. “So the fact we’re coming back now is a good sign.”

One key indicator is that after a 15 percent decline in the airport’s fuel sales in 2009, compared with year-earlier figures, 2010’s volume showed a healthy increase.

“The gains so far this year aren’t as large as last year, but we’re still moving up,” Bales said.

While it may seem immodest to describe itself as “The Business Aviation Center of the Midwest,” the airport backs up the claim with an array of facts and statistics, such as: • Being the home for 476 aircraft, nearly 100 of which are jets.

• Providing a wealth of supporting services from four fixed base operators, six aircraft maintenance firms, nine aircraft sales companies, five charter operators and

three flight schools – one for fixed-wing aircraft instruction and two for helicopter training. The availability of maintenance service attracts planes from a wide geographic area for everything from routine checks and parts replacement to heavy maintenance and interior refurbishments.

• Ranking as one of the few general aviation airports in the nation that are selfsupporting. Although the field is owned and operated by St. Louis County, no tax dollars support the airport’s activities.

Income from wholesale fuel sales and, to an increasing extent, revenues from real estate leasing and development, provide funds for operations and reinvestment for growth.

• Recording a projected 120,000 takeoffs and landings this year. While that’s well below a peak of 214,000 reached a number of years ago before the economic slump, it remains the highest of any general aviation airport in the four-state region (Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri) and exceeds the volume of many commercial airports.

• Contributing an economic impact of some $400 million to the area through not only its own operations but also those of the various businesses, both aeronautical and non-aeronautical companies, located on the airport’s 1,250 acres. Employment at those firms totals approximately 3,000.

In addition to the aviation-related companies at Spirit, Bales said a number of other firms have

located on airport grounds because they use corporate aircraft regularly as part of their operations or like the convenience of being close to aircraft charter service.

Virtually all of the businesses at Spirit have long-term leases on the land they occupy but own their buildings and related facilities. Aeronautical firms are on property with direct access to the airport’s runways while non-aeronautical companies are on parcels without that access.

The world headquarters of Wings of Hope, the non-profit humanitarian organization that was nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, also is located on airport property. The group provides air transportation assistance for delivering health care in remote parts of the world and, through its Medical Air Transport program, to those in need in this nation.

Because today’s larger business jets can fly non-stop between St. Louis and Europe and other international destinations, Spirit maintains 24-hour customs service.

Although the passenger count is much less, Spirit may well have as many international flights as Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, Bales said.

“Traffic in and out of here doesn’t include any commercial airline flights, but we handle just about everything else,” he said.

In addition to corporate and charter air travel and flight instruction traffic, air operations include recreational flying, privately-owned planes used for business purposes and air-medical flights.

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“We even handle some cargo flights, although not the heavy stuff,” Bales said.

Spirit can serve also as a refueling stop on long cross-country flights.

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The council over the past 13 years has worked to maintain a set of standards and guidelines for the Town Center plan that were initially ratified in February 1998, while addressing the individual needs of property owners, residents and developers through the process.

For its 10th anniversary, Wildwood held public hearings regarding the plan, after updating and revising it, when property owners who opposed the plan expressed reservations.

The council on July 25 voted not to approve the plan, which at the time included the four exceptions.

Vince Keady, attorney for the Slaviks, asked that the city refer the property back to Planning and Zoning.

“But make no mistake – our clients believe wholeheartedly that the property should retain its commercial designation as downtown district.”

Pete Spanos, of the Spanos property, said that to change the designation to downzone his property “constitutes a taking.”

“I’m baffled that you would question anything that would allow us to retain any conditioning

zoning that we paid for,” Spanos said.

The council later approved a motion to reinstate the four properties for reconsideration.

“I’m not sure I’m ever going to support another citizens’ committee, because if we’re going to ignore our citizens like this, this is ridiculous,” Councilmember David Sewell (Ward 6) said.

Mayor Tim Woerther agreed and said the situation is “very sad, considering councilmembers will not listen to their public.”

However, others disagree, saying the plan is unfair to the property owners.

Councilmember Jim Kranz (Ward 7) said if the city is going to go through with approving the plan, it should at least provide compensation to the four property owners.

“Instead of trying to promote development, Wildwood is trying to get rid of commercial development in Town Center,” Kranz said. “Then if this does pass, these property owners are going to be forced to sue the city.”

He said since the Citizens Committee was handpicked by a select group of people, it does not accurately portray the voice of the citizens.

“I don’t know of any city reducing property values,” Kranz said. “I’ve made it clear at several meetings why I oppose it, and I’m going to fight this to the end, because this is just wrong.”

The city, though torn, at its next meeting plans to move forward with the ordinance and consider the Town Center plan, which currently excludes the four properties.

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Rockwood Stakeholders for Real Solutions holds first meeting District budget concerns at center of discussion

By BRIAN MCDOWELL A potential rise in property taxes on businesses and homeowners in the Rockwood School District has inspired a local group of parents and concerned citizens to take action. Rockwood Stakeholders for Real Solutions (RS for RS) is promising to take political steps to oppose any tax raise and to elect genuine conservatives to the district’s school board.

Eileen Tyrrell, one of the group’s founders, on July 20 at a meeting in Fenton discussed various ways in which she believes the Rockwood School District wastes money, including having too many principals at Eureka High School and allowing Superintendent Bruce Borchers to bring in $1,800-a-day consultants from the Minnesota school district where he was formerly employed.

“It seems like there’s no accountability in the whole district.”

- EILEEN TYRRELL While she praised some of the costcutting measures Borchers has introduced in Rockwood, Tyrrell said he has not done nearly enough to make the district fiscally sound.

“There’s so much abusive spending that it’s ridiculous,” Tyrrell said. “It seems like there’s no accountability in the whole district.”

According to Tyrrell, Rockwood has spent $200,000 for administrators’ vehicles that she said the district trades in once they have logged 100,000 miles.

She said the district is proposing to raise taxes by 65 cents on every $100, which would mean someone living in a $250,000 home could end up paying about $1,600 more than they currently pay in property taxes.

Tyrrell said also that she believes the district should cut funding of items that do not directly affect the education of its students.

“They should cut down some of this bloat before they ask us for another dime,” she said.

Rockwood spokesperson Kim Cranston said the district’s Board of Education passed a resolution a month ago for a tax levy but has not yet settled on an amount.

She said such a measure would provide a sustainable revenue source for the district.

As for when the measure would go before voters, she said, the school board still is looking at a timeline.

“Nothing is written in stone as of today,” Cranston said.

Cranston said Eureka, Lafayette and Marquette each have six principals, a number that falls within Missouri’s recommended principal-student ratios. State law mandates that schools have one principal for every 500 students and says schools ideally should have one principal for every 300 students. All of Rockwood’s West

County high schools comply with the law and come close to the state’s ideal, she said.

Cranston said the district does not purchase cars for any of its administrators, although the superintendent receives a vehicle allowance of $8,000 per year. She said the only vehicles the district owns are those used by the facilities and maintenance department and child nutrition workers.

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The program calls for police officers to notify a homeowner when a garage door is found open at night. When officers find a garage door open, they will leave a notification card in the homeowner’s mailbox and periodically check the home throughout the night.

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Citizens’ Police Academy alumnis seek better police-resident relations

By JIM ERICKSON Some 60 Ballwin residents, most of them alumni of the city’s Citizens’ Policy Academy (CPA) programs held over the past 10 years, gathered at the Ballwin Golf Club recently to consider ways to make their experience of more value to the community.

Organized by Kathy Kerlagon, a 2010 CPA graduate, and her husband Ray, a former Ballwin alderman, the session was the first to bring together alumni of the program. Ray Kerlagon said he hopes the gathering will stimulate ideas on how the Ballwin grads and perhaps their counterparts from similar programs in other area communities can work together to foster better police-resident communications.

Assisting local law enforcement in various ways could be another outcome, he said.

The Ballwin Police Department launched the CPA program in 2000 and has seen 135 residents go through the academy since then. During the program, which traditionally begins late in September, participants

meet one night per week for 10 weeks. Sessions feature officers from different parts of the department discussing their responsibilities and experiences.

According to Ballwin Police Sgt. Jim Heldmann, the program’s goal is to open lines of communication between police and the community. To the average citizen, it may sometimes appear that police are not doing their jobs or are exceeding their boundaries, Heldmann said. Providing residents a firsthand look at the rules, regulations and policies that officers follow helps lessen misunderstandings.

“People seem to love it,” Heldmann said of participants’ response to the program.

He said the academy brings residents and police officers together in a neutral, friendly setting, which enables each to know the other better. Guest speaker at the CPA alumni gathering was Dennis Baker, special agent-in-charge of the FBI’s St. Louis field office. He said many of the cases the FBI pursues are the result of tips from community sources.

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Manchester police to hold dinner to benefit fallen detective’s family

By BRIAN MCDOWELL The Manchester Police Department on Aug. 5 will host a benefit spaghetti dinner to benefit the family of late Manchester Police Detective Dave Prouty, who passed away suddenly on May 24. Prouty was 37 years old and left behind a wife and four children. The family had just purchased a house when Prouty passed away due to complications from surgery.

“When someone dies at 37, no one in his family is prepared for that,” Manchester Police Sgt. Chuck Hunn, one of the organizers of the event, said. “We’re just looking to help supplement what they have.

This just happened out of the blue, and it’s a real tragedy for all of us.”

Prouty was with the Manchester Police Prouty Department for 14 years, starting off as a patrolman and eventually serving on the department’s squad of six detectives. He in the department by surprise. was a firearms and TASER instructor for “It just came from nowhere,” he said. “I the department as well. was just talking to him in the hallway one day. The next day, I find out he was in the hospital, and then eight days later, he’s gone.”

Hunn was close to Prouty’s family, helping them move several times, and that is what inspired him to put together the dinner.

“His 4-year-old looks just like him,” -Sgt. Chuck Hunn Hunn said. “That was his little ‘mini-me.’

There was a lot of love in that family.”

According to Hunn, Prouty was devoted The dinner will be held from 3:30 p.m. to his family. Around the police station, his to 8 p.m. on Fri., Aug. 5 at St. Joseph sense of humor and willingness to speak Catholic Church, 567 St. Joseph Lane in his mind kept all of the members of the Manchester. The price is $10 and includes department laughing and entertained. spaghetti, salad, garlic bread, dessert and “He’s just a guy that put a smile on your drink. Memorial T-shirts will be availface every time you saw him,” Hunn said. able for $15, and all proceeds will benefit Hunn said Prouty’s death took everyone Prouty’s family.

“He’s just a guy that put a smile on your face every time you saw him.”

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The organization recently was named a winner in Toyota’s “100 Cars for Good” program, which has been awarding vehicles to 100 nonprofit organizations based on votes from the public.

Each day for 100 days since May 9, the national program is showcasing five nonprofit organizations on its Facebook page,

facebook.com/toyota. Visitors to the page can vote once a day for the organization they feel is most deserving of a new Toyota vehicle. Friends of Kids with Cancer was one of the organizations highlighted on July 24 and received the most votes that day.

Judy Ciapciak, executive director of Friends of Kids with Cancer, said the organization will be putting the prize to good use.

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By BRIAN MCDOWELL Sarah Steelman always has been a very competitive person.

“Unfortunately, they didn’t really have girls’ sports when I was in high school,” Steelman said.

In her adult life, the Jefferson City native has tested her competitive instincts by rappelling off cliffs, becoming a certified scuba diver, getting actively involved in her three sons’ athletic pursuits and recently, placing first in her age bracket in the Branson 10K Firecracker Run. But it was her time as a Missouri state senator and as the state’s treasurer that really tested Steelman’s competitive resolve. She has a long record of fighting her own Republican Party for what she considers to be right. She angered much of the St. Louis business community by opposing the use of taxpayer money to build the baseball stadium downtown and filibustering against the idea in the Missouri Senate.

“The net worth of the Cardinals’ owners is $4 billion,” Steelman said. “Building them a stadium was not a good use of taxpayer money.”

She enraged some of her fellow Republican lawmakers also by campaigning to eliminate pensions for Missouri legislators.

“My record shows that I have stood strong when I needed to,” Steelman said, “and that I never worried about political consequences.”

As treasurer, the mother of three banned Missouri from investing with companies that did business with countries that directly supported terrorism. She stopped payment on a check that the head of the Missouri Department of Agriculture under Matt Blunt allegedly wrote to a woman accusing him of sexual harassment.

“I made a lot of people unhappy, but I had to,” Steelman said. “I was in charge of the taxpayers’ money.”

Steelman in 2008 made an unsuccessful run in the Republican primary for Missouri governor.

“I felt like I did my best, said what I believed and fought the establishment,” Steelman said. “I learned a lot from that failure. It’s OK to fail as long as you fight and stand up for what you believe.”

Now, Steelman is taking on longtime West County Congressman Todd Akin in the Republican primary for the 2012 Senate race.

“He (Akin) is a nice guy, but there are differences in what we believe and in our personalities,” Steelman said. “He is a ‘go along, get along’ kind of guy, and that’s the

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last thing we need in Washington. We need someone to rock the boat and stand up to their own party.”

Steelman called the current state of the government “dysfunctional.”

“They have lost all respect for the taxpayer,” Steelman said, “and they’ve disregarded the value of people’s money.

They’re like children that spend their parents’ money with no recognition of how hard parents have to work for that.”

Steelman opposes earmarks, and she favors a total cut of ethanol subsidies. She said she wants to defund the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and repeal Obamacare. According to Steelman, the federal government should encourage job growth, reform the tax system, close loopholes, reduce the capital gains tax, and come up with an energy policy that develops alternative energy and increases oil production.

She said the federal government should operate under the same “Hancock amendment” as the state legislature. The law states that Missouri’s government cannot grow faster than the personal income of its residents and keeps Missouri’s budget balanced.

Steelman draws a strong contrast between herself and incumbent Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill.

“She believes that government is the solution to all problems,” Steelman said of McCaskill, “(and) I believe in the American people. She validates and rubberstamps the Obama agenda, voting for his health care plan, the stimulus, Cash for Clunkers, and she wants to raise taxes. The national debt has tripled during her tenure in the Senate, but she claims that she is this watchdog fiscal conservative.

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Creve Coeur to hold public forum on deer issue

By TED DIXON JR. The city of Creve Coeur on Mon., Aug. 29 will hold a public forum to address the city’s deer population, which some residents consider problematic.

The forum will take place in the council chambers of the Creve Coeur Government Center. City Administrator Mark Perkins said the city has invited Erin Shank, an urban wildlife biologist with the Missouri Department of Conservation, to answer any questions and help explore solutions.

City officials began discussing the issue late in February when Councilmember Tara Nealey (Ward 2) reported to the council that several residents had told her they had spotted deer near their properties west of I-270.

She pointed out that Creve Coeur had no ordinance of any kind pertaining to

SARAH STEELMAN, from page 18 arrogant. She, Washington and the federal government think that they know better than everyone else. With government regulations and Obamacare, the whole tone now is that Washington, D.C., knows better than we do. I trust the American people to rise and fall on their own merit. And that is a clear ideological difference.”

Steelman downplayed recent media reports that her primary campaign was spending more money than it was taking in.

“I felt like I did my best, said what I believed and fought the establishment.”

-SARAH STEELMAN “I’m not going to play by those rules that everyone is obsessed with how campaigns spend money,” Steelman said. “That attitude has gotten our government here – where we’re $14.3 trillion in debt.”

She said she does not want to be beholden to PACs like McCaskill and Akin, and that talking and listening to voters is far more important to her at this point than how much money her campaign is spending.

“We’ve made some investments,” Steelman said. “The amount that we spent on direct mail might have made this quarter look a little odd, but we’re fine.”

She said she has no fear that her primary run will turn out like her last one did.

“I’m motivated to win,” Steelman said, “but I’m not afraid to lose, as long as I am fighting for what’s right and what I believe in.”

deer management and said perhaps the city should study the issue further and implement an ordinance if needed.

Residents who claim to have been adversely affected by the presence of deer on or near their properties have voiced their concerns to the city council as well.

“The destruction of expensive landscaping has been noted, Councilmembers Charlotte D’Alfonso and Robert Hoffman (both of Ward 3) reported in the city’s recent newsletter.

D’Alfonso and Hoffman noted also that residents have expressed concern about vehicular crashes caused by deer.

The city hopes to address several issues at the forum, including reducing the number of deer/vehicle collisions, dealing with overly aggressive deer, and alleviating landscaping damage.

Shank conducted an extensive study of Creve Coeur’s deer population and reported that the animals are mainly found in the southwest corner of the city in an

area of approximately two square miles.

She outlined several options for deer population management and the pros and cons of each. Options she suggested include controlled hunting, sharpshooting and the trap-and-kill method.

Recently, Creve Coeur’s Police and Safety Committee recommended the city use a single deer cage priced at $800.

City officials will study the committee’s recommendation but in the meantime are hoping for input from residents.

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State budget cuts and new federal regulations reach to public and private colleges

By BRYANNA HAMPTON Higher education institutions face new government regulations that went into effect on July 1.

The U.S. Department of Education is enforcing new rules from the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, which define a credit hour for all schools and require institutions to publicize tuition costs and the lump sum of all fees. The rules apply to all higher education institutions nationwide, public and private.

Critics say the rules are intrusive and threaten the independence of private and religious colleges. Although accredited private institutions have been eligible for federal funding, some administrations fear the new regulations imposed by the federal government will change the institution’s original intent.

“We have a different mission from state schools,” said R. Alton Lacey, president of Missouri Baptist University (MBU) in Creve Coeur. “Our funding comes from tuition and donors as opposed to the state, we have a distinctive Christian mission, and we are governed by an independent board of trustees.”

While MBU operation funding is not supplied by the state of Missouri, the school’s accreditations in its different degree programs since 1997 have paved the way for enrolled and prospective students to receive federal financial aid.

But in 2010, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon cut $50 million from the Access Missouri tuition assistance program. The program is the state’s primary needs-based fund for college students and applies to students wishing to attend any accredited higher education institution in the state.

Nixon’s proposed cuts would eliminate financial aid for students attending independent institutions, making it less affordable to attend. Despite rising enrollment at MBU, Lacey said he saw the potential for continued federal budget cuts impeding the students.

“The maximum amounts available to students under the Missouri Access program will decrease about 30 percent for public university students and about 50 percent for those attending an independent university,” Lacey said.

On average, private colleges’ and universities’ tuition costs rose 24 percent between the 1998-99 fiscal year and 2008-09, based on a study from the Department of Education. State institutions’ tuition cost leapt 32 percent during the same time period, but remained 40 percent cheaper: a tuition difference of $12,283 per year at a public school and $31,233 at a private institution.

With costs continuing to rise, current and prospective students are finding it more difficult to afford the price of higher education.

Lacey said he sees the government’s attempt to regulate each state’s available financial aid as making it even harder and limiting options for low-income families.

Administration at MBU in March 2010 organized a letter-writing rally. Students, parents, faculty and staff called and wrote letters to the state government to pronounce concerns.

More than a year later, the effects of the once welcomed federal regulations are still being dealt with.

“Cuts hurt low-income students by reducing the amount of aid available to them to attend a college or university of their choice, be it public or private,” Lacey said in a recent statement. “In Missouri the emphasis has been on growing community colleges, which has had the effect of keeping our first-time freshmen enrollment relatively flat. Going forward, the loss of Missouri Access grant funds may cause a decline in first-time students.”

The St. Louis Community College (STLCC) system is coping also with cuts.

After funding decreased in 2002, STLCC’s growth plans for the Wildwood campus and Harrison Education Center have slowed.

STLCC is funded by state aid, local property tax revenue and tuition costs paid by students.

“State funding is directed evenly to funding the college’s essential services for all students,” said Carla Chance, the vice chancellor for Finance and Business Services for the STLCC District.

While funding has not been detracted for student scholarships, the community college says it is also keeping a close eye on the federal government budget and state Pell grant funding.

Federal cuts cause cuts across the board to make up for losses.

“Annual operating reductions cause reductions in services and limit the number of course sections that can be made available to students,” Chance said.

The Lewis and Clark Discovery Initiative, a program funded by the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA), allowed STLCC to enhance one-third of the system’s science labs with $3.6 million. While the initiative is a construction program for state schools, funding was delayed in 2008 from state budget cuts.

“Over time, the financial burden of paying for college is shifting to the student as state aid and property tax revenue have changed,” Chance said.

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Production to recount Holocaust survivor’s story

Chesterfield resident was hidden from Nazis as a child

By SARAH WILSON Hidden child Holocaust survivor Rachel Goldman Miller, of Chesterfield, said she tells her story to keep her family alive.

“Beyond Me: A Song Cycle in the Key of Survival,” is a multimedia theater piece that spotlights the courageous survival of Goldman Miller. It combines musical, visual and physical elements and interweaves personal testimony, dramatic song, documentary footage and contemporary art.

Composer, singer and actress Susan Tanner Meisel will perform Goldman Miller’s story of how she has overcome numerous challenges in her life at 4 p.m. on Sun., Aug. 21 at the JCC Carl and Helene Mirowitz Performing Arts & Banquet Hall at the J. Goldman Miller, who speaks regularly about being a hidden child during the Holocaust, has lost 93 family members – including her mother, her sister and her two brothers. All were rounded up and deported to Auschwitz in the summer of 1942. Other immeasurable losses in her life include her son, Mark, who died of AIDS. Both experiences are included in the production, as Goldman Miller said her experiences with the loss of her family in the Holocaust as well as with her son’s death are comparable.

“They’re both a holocaust, unfortunately, with the loss of my family and 23 million people who were killed, 6 million of them being Jews,” Goldman Miller said. “And AIDS kills young men and women every day and is killing people in Africa, so that also is a holocaust.”

“You will be forever touched by the incredible presentation of ‘Beyond Me’.”

-Marci Rosenberg “Beyond Me” begins with Rachel at age 5, in 1938, living happily in Paris to which her father had escaped from Poland to avoid the invading Nazis. Later, when the Nazis invaded and annexed most of France, Rachel was forced to wear a yellow star, and SS guards took away her father. Two days later, Rachel’s mother sent her to live with a Catholic family, where she took the name Christine to hide her Jewish identity. The SS officers invaded her home and deported her remaining family members to various camps.

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Paris and her eventual emigration to the U.S., where she lived in five different foster homes in New York City, Los Angeles and St. Louis. Later, she began a life in St. Louis with her husband and two sons.

Meisel, who created the theater piece, was a friend to Goldman Miller’s son, utilizing her background in music psychology while at Harvard and her career in character licensing while at Warner Bros. She first met Goldman Miller when she organized a group at Warner Bros. to design and create an AIDS quilt panel for Goldman Miller’s son.

“After his passing, Rachel shared her life story with me,” Meisel said.

Goldman Miller said she hopes everyone will remember her story for the future.

“I hope it should never happen, but unfortunately, it does happen, with what is going in Somalia and East Kenya. It’s terrible, and it never stops,” Goldman Miller said.

The 90-minute production is co-sponsored by the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (HMLC) and the Jewish Community Center in partnership with St. Louis Effort for AIDS, Food Outreach, St. Louis Breast Cancer Coalition and Shaving Israel, a local nonprofit Goldman Miller started. Michael and Carol Staenberg are underwriting the event.

“You will be forever touched by the incredible presentation of ‘Beyond Me’ and understand the true meaning of the word ‘survivor,’” Marci Rosenberg, former chair of the HMLC, said.

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Kellison Elementary Principal Brian Gentz has served as Gentz the principal at Eureka Elementary for the past six years. Gentz earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, a master’s degree in edu- Roberts cational administration from Lindenwood University and a specialist degree from Missouri Baptist University.

Gentz replaces Dr. Tracy Edwards, Ambers-Phillips who accepted a job in another district.

Pond Elementary Administrative Intern Kelly Roberts has served as a teacher at McKelvey Elementary in the Parkway School District for the past nine years.

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Interim Coordinator of Prevention and Guidance Services Shonda Ambers-Phillips has served as a secondary guidance counselor for Hazelwood East High for the past eight years.

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were among the 330 selected to attend the 2011 Missouri Scholars Academy, a threeweek residential program at the University of Missouri.

The students include: • Andrew Boal, Lafayette High • Jacob Cohen, Marquette High • Christopher Colletti, Eureka High • Nicholas Hakmiller, Lafayette High • Kasey Hancock, Eureka High • Seth Ludwig, Lafayette High • Yunshu (Nina) Luo, Marquette High • Brendan Marsh, Eureka High • Zachary Murphy, Lafayette High • Devin Powell, Lafayette High • Kelly Proctor, Lafayette High • Kyle Schloss, Rockwood Summit High • Kevin Shi, Marquette High • Nicole Sparks, Rockwood Summit High • Matthew Tucker, Eureka High • David Wang, Lafayette High The goals of the Missouri Scholars Academy are to help gifted students achieve their full potential and motivate them to use their abilities to attain high standards of achievement.

Best high school Rockwood Summit High was one of five Missouri schools included on the “Newsweek” list of America’s 500 Best High Schools. The criteria for the selection was based on six components: graduation rate, college matriculation rate, advanced placement (AP) tests taken per graduate, average SAT/ACT scores, average AP

scores, and AP courses offered per graduate.

“We are proud to have made the list for the sixth year in a row,” Dale Menke, Rockwood Summit High principal, said. “This recognition is a reflection of the hard work of our students, teachers, staff and community.”

College Book Award Three high school students were awarded the 2011 Saint Michael’s College Book Award for Academic Achievement with a Social Conscience.

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A group of eight rising Westminster Christian Academy seniors and four faculty members traveled in July to Seoul, South Korea, site of Westminster’s sister school, to host an English camp for 120 students.

The camp draws students who might choose to major in education in college and allows them to gain experience in curriculum writing, lesson planning and teaching techniques.

“The kids get to experience global culture in community with one another, and they get the chance to collaborate on writing curriculum from scratch,” said Dani Butler, Westminster teacher and camp coordinator. Dani Butler said.

Throughout the 2011 spring semester, each of the four teachers collaborated with two of the student team members to create curricular materials. Students gained classroom experience by leading small groups and teaching from the front of the classroom. Westminster teacher Nathan Talley said the opportunity to learn how to teach is one of the unique elements of this experience.

“It’s a hands-on internship under the guidance of lead teachers,” he said.

Students anticipate the two-week trip for the global experience.

“This trip not only allows me to work as a team with other Westminster students and those in South Korea, but it also allows me to experience another culture at the same time,” senior Megan Rasche said. “Plus, helping to teach Korean students English should give me insight into whether I have an interest in a career in teaching.”

Good Shepherd donation Good Shepherd School for Children, in Creve Coeur, recently received a gift of $500,000 from the estate of the late St. Louis philanthropist Edith L. Wolff.

The gift will fund the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Endowment and will be used to benefit Good Shepherd’s education teaching program.

“Mrs. Wolff’s generous support and belief in our mission continued throughout the years,” Jeff Harris, president of the board of directors for Good Shepherd, said. “We are thankful for her tremendous generosity, which will enable our school to continue to meet the needs of area children and their families.”

Wolff, who passed away in 2008 at the age of 93, was a long-time supporter of Good Shepherd. She and her husband owned Wolff Construction Co.

Examining community colleges For the third time in their 110-year history, community colleges are preparing to take a holistic look at their broad and continuously evolving mission with the naming of the 21st Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges.

The American Association of Community Colleges recently appointed Myrtle E.B. Dorsey, St. Louis Community College chancellor, to serve on the commission, which is comprised of 36 individuals who represent a broad array of constituencies and expertise from education, business, policy and communications. The group will work to examine the challenges and opportunities confronting the nation’s higher education sector.

Over the next 10 months, the commission will examine the community college mission in light of current economic realities. President Obama has challenged community colleges to educate an additional 5 million students with degrees, certificates or other credentials by 2020, at a time when beleaguered state budgets have resulted in drastic cuts in state funding to the colleges.

Enrollments have surged by double digits over the past two to three years, reflecting a deep and lingering U.S. recession and persistently high unemployment rate that has caused families to seek lower cost college alternatives and workers to throng to the classroom for new skills or careers.

The new commission marks the third effort to realign the community college mission to reflect national needs and changing times.

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Rockwood’s financial operations earn one-of-a-kind rating

By MARCIA GUCKES The Rockwood School District’s financial practices have earned it not only the highest ranking, but one-of-a-kind status by one of the nation’s major credit rating agencies.

Rockwood is the only school district in Missouri to earn Standard & Poor’s’ highest Financial Management Assessment (FMA) score of “strong,” which means the agency finds the district’s operations and financial methods to be firmly fixed and sustainable.

In addition, Rockwood is one of only four districts in Missouri and 68 in the nation to earn Standard & Poor’s’ “AAA” bond rating, and this is the fourth year in a row that the district has achieved the top ranking.

According to Standard & Poor’s, a district with its “AAA” rating has an “extremely strong capacity to meet financial commitments.” In other words, the company rates Rockwood as a school district that has the ability to pay its debts and is highly unlikely to default on its bonds.

Shirley Broz, Rockwood’s chief financial officer, said that amounts to savings for taxpayers.

“The last general obligation issue we sold will result in approximately $2 million of interest savings over the life of the bond issue payback,” Broz said.

That is because the higher the district’s bond rating, the lower the interest it is charged.

Bonds are like loans that the district issues for capital projects such as construction of new facilities, safety, maintenance,

and renovations of existing schools and certain technology costs. Investors purchase the bonds and the district promises to pay them back with interest within a certain time period.

Other Missouri school districts with Standard & Poor’s’ “AAA” bond rating are Parkway, Clayton, and Ladue.

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Chesterfield teen gets help helping others

By SARAH WILSON Working to achieve the highest rank in Boy Scouts, a Chesterfield teen asked his neighbors to help him help others.

Andrew Clark, of Chesterfield, a soonto-be senior at Saint Louis University High working to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout, recently collected more than 2,500 items and delivered them to HavenHouse St. Louis, an organization that provides shelter and support to patients and their families traveling to St. Louis for medical care.

Focusing on the Green Trails community in Chesterfield, Clark distributed

more than 1,500 fliers encouraging the community to help and then went door to door to pick up the donations.

“I am asking you to help me by purchasing an item or two next time you are at the grocery store,” Clark said in the letter he sent out to the community. “I hope to help those families in need by making their stay a better experience.”

Among the items Clark requested were paper towels, toilet paper, tissues, laundry detergent, hand sanitizers, dish detergent, deodorizers and light bulbs.

HavenHouse St. Louis Director of Community Development Lindsey Gibson said

Clark was very surprised when he picked up the donations, because there were enough items to fill his entire garage.

“Andrew made our day here at HavenHouse,” Gibson said. “And to top it all off, he thanked HavenHouse for the opportunity.

We are consistently blown away by the generosity of our community and how we all step up to help those in need.”

In total, the donations saved the organization an estimated $6,600.

“What an awesome young man,” Gibson Andrew Clark (left) and his friend Drew Larkins said. “He is going to do great things in the gather up donations to donate to HavenHouse world.”

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High school students at Rockwood’s Individualized Learning Center in Eureka meet with a local representative to discuss planning for a career as an auto mechanic at the school’s annual college and career fair. (Photo courtesy of Rockwood’s Individualized Learning Center)

Rockwood’s alternative high school wins silver from national experts

By MARCIA GUCKES Rockwood’s Individualized Learning Center (ILC) in Eureka is the only alternative high school in Missouri to earn silver certification from a national panel of experts on students at risk for not graduating.

ILC Administrator Michael Hylen said the school staff voluntarily asked the National At-Risk Educational Network (NAREN) experts to evaluate the school’s performance.

“Alternative programs are not judged in the same way,” Hylen said. “The staff thought it would be good to know how well we’re really doing.”

Hylen said they were only six points short of earning the highest rating.

“This shows us the areas where we need to focus on in the next three years,” Hylen said.

Like the staff members who volunteered to learn from the NAREN assessment, ILC students volunteer for the alternative high school.

“The school is not for students with suspensions or discipline problems,” Hylen said. “Our goal is to give students hope who might not have any. We are a school for the disenfranchised student.”

According to Hylen the students often have had some kind of social or emotional trauma, a pregnancy, or cannot learn in a traditional setting.

As many as 90 students can attend ILC, but they stay officially enrolled at their home high school and graduate with a diploma from that school.

“We have the same curriculum with the same standards,” Hylen said, “but we do change the structure of the day.”

ILC students study only three subjects at a time for nine weeks instead of the eight or nine subjects for 16 weeks that the tra-

ditional students study. ILC students go to school from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and then go to work-study jobs while traditional high school students go to school from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Classes are limited to 15 students, but Hylen said they often are smaller.

“There are no final exams,” Hylen said.

“Teachers evaluate students on a culminating project or presentation.”

For example, he said they might have to solve a murder mystery in a forensic science class, or put Mark Twain on trial in a literature class, or develop an online cartoon version of “Othello” for a media class.

Hylen said behavior problems also are handled differently at ILC. “There’s no after school suspension,” Hylen said. “Often, just telling students that they’ll have to leave ILC is enough to fix the problem.”

The faculty follows up by helping the student work on developing character, respect and responsibility, Hylen said. The school social worker provides extra support for students dealing with homelessness and other stressful out-of-school situations.

Most of the students make it through and graduate with a high school diploma.

According to Hylen, some of the students may need a little more time than four years to graduate, but in the end, about 95 percent successfully complete high school.

Hylen said most of the ILC graduates, about 65 percent, go to community college or trade school, and many go straight into the work force. A few join the military or go to a four-year college.

The ILC has been helping at-risk students since 1997. More information about Rockwood’s alternative high school program can be found at the ILC’s website, rockwood.k12.mo.us/ilc.

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High school basketball The Kennedy Catholic varsity boys’ basketball team recently had an international experience.

The Celts hosted the Youth Sports Exchange basketball team from Belgium.

The Youth Sports Exchange was founded in 1982 by Robert Hubrecht and is a division of the International Athletic Foundation (IAF). Its purpose is to expose talented players not selected for the national teams to participate in international competition.

There currently are three countries involved in the program – Holland, Belgium, and the U.S. – and they also host volleyball, soccer, baseball, and tennis.

The Celts sent their friends from Belgium home with a loss, as Kennedy scored a 99-57 win.

High school football The St. Louis Rams squad competed in the NFL’s High School Player Development 7-on-7 National Tournament recently in Cleveland.

A total of 24 teams were represented, said Kyle Eversgerd, the Rams’ Fan Development Coordinator.

The Rams squad played seven games in pool play. From there, teams were seeded

in a single elimination tournament. The Rams went 2-5 in pool play and lost their first game in single elimination action.

“If you look only at the record, we didn’t do very well,” Eversgerd said. “We represented St. Louis very well. One loss came in six overtimes, one in two overtimes and a third one we lost 27-24 after trailing 20-0 at halftime. We came back to take the lead 24-20 and they scored a last-second touchdown to beat us.

“All throughout the tournament, people commented on our kids and how they carried themselves athletically and on the field.”

Eversgerd said the players do not have to pay to participate.

“We had a couple of practices at Rams Park before we left with the 12 players,” Eversgerd siad. “We then flew to Cleveland. On the first night, we had opening ceremonies with all the teams. After playing the first day, everyone was driven by bus to Canton and we toured the Hall of Fame.

“You’re talking about junior and seniors in high school who love football, and to have them see the history of the game was fun. It was good to see the look on their faces. Everybody has been asking how we did and granted, we’d have like to have done better, but it’s an experience they’ll take with them the rest of their lives.”

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Kennedy’s Jack Gagan (right) with a Youth Sports Exchange player from Belgium.

The 12 players from the metro-east and St. Louis on the squad attended one of two Rams High School Player Development Camps held earlier this summer at Belleville West and CBC High. More than 350 players attending the camps were under consideration for selection by the Rams’ youth football staff and the Elite Football Academy.

The players were selected from 10 high schools and were chosen based on leadership, character and football skills.

Three West County players played: CBC senior quarterback Dalton Demos, Parkway Central senior receiver Brandon Sheperd, and Devin Roberts, who will be a junior at Warrenton.

Legion baseball The Illinois American Legion District 22 all-stars kept their streak alive over their District 10 counterparts from Missouri in the fourth annual contest played recently at T.R. Hughes Ballpark.

District 22 scored a 4-1 victory and remained undefeated in the series.

Each team decided on four to five players they thought had earned a chance to play in the game, said Seth Rogan, the District 10 manager who coaches Ballwin Post 611.

This was Rogan’s first time leading the allstar squad.

“They always have a strong group of ball players, as do we,” Rogan said about

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District 22 makes a fair amount of changes, but they tend to have a few players play longer than five innings, and their pitchers seem to throw multiple innings.

“We’ve (Ballwin) had a chance to see a number of teams in each district each year, and it’s fair to say both districts have been pretty even from a talent standpoint.”

District 22 scored all of its runs in the third inning off Brett Humphries, of Maryland Heights. The big blow was a three-run home run by Michael Failoni, of Edwardsville.

“You have to credit District 22 with hitting some good pitches,” Rogan said. “I’d say Brett made one mistake, and it was the three-run homer to left. Other than that, he threw well.”

District 10 scored its run in the fourth inning on a sacrifice fly from Tyler Werre (Ballwin) with bases loaded to score Josh James (Ballwin).

“It initially looked like a bases-clearing double, but the center fielder did a good job to keep it to just a sacrifice,” Rogan said.

All in all, District 10 played well, Rogan said.

“I have to give credit to our pitchers. We had eight out of nine scoreless innings,” Rogan said. “Hitting-wise, Devon Hayes from Florissant hit well for us. He had a single and triple.”

Playing at T.R. Hughes was a treat for the kids, Rogan said.

“It’s definitely a step up from the vast majority of fields we’ve played at,” Rogan said. “The players love the true hops and hitting background. It’s also a perfect setting for the families to watch a game after spending most of the summer in bleachers.

“I think it’s a great experience. The kids enjoy playing on these minor league fields, and the parents enjoying seeing their kids out there. I’d like to see if we could add a home run derby or something to make it a little more interesting, but overall it’s a very positive experience.”

Rogan said he enjoyed coaching the allstars.

“All of the coaches from District 10 kept saying if only we could take this team on the road, we’d do some damage,” Rogan said. “They’re a great group of kids and outstanding ballplayers. It was a pleasure coaching them all for a night.”

he has taught the ancient Korean martial art of taekwondo to more than 2,000 students.

He owns and operates ATA Martial Arts of Manchester, 14441 Manchester Road, as well as locations in Rock Hill and Hannibal. His wife, Jenni, is his partner.

A sixth degree black belt, Edwards recently completed a year of rigorous physical and mental training and was awarded the title of Martial Art Master at a ceremony at the Songahm Taekwondo World Championships in Little Rock, Ark. Edwards started his first martial arts school in the northeast community of Paris. After opening his second location in Hannibal in 1994, he quit his day job and became a full time instructor. In 1995, he opened a third location in Quincy, Ill. Eventually the Quincy location was sold and he owns the three academies.

Edwards joins an elite group of masters from around the world. Since its inception in 1969, the American Taekwondo Association (ATA), the Songahm Taekwondo Federation (STF) and the World Traditional Taekwondo (WTTU) have only inducted 266 masters out of more than 1 million people that have started the art. ATA is the nation’s largest martial arts organization with more than 2,000 schools nationwide.

“I am honored to have been called to participate in this year’s journey of self-discovery, “ Edwards said. “It is like earning a doctorate in one’s chosen field of study.

It will benefit my students even more than it benefits me. I have deepened my understanding on Songahm Taekowndo, and will pass on the knowledge to my students.

“It is a truly humbling experience, and the most honored title anyone could hold.

By accepting the mantel of mastership, I will be asked to represent the ATA and its affilitated organizations for the rest of my life.”

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West County triathlete aims for return to Olympics

By WARREN MAYES West County native Sarah Haskins, 30, a USA Triathlon National Team member and Beijing Olympian, has had her share of successes. She has won races and qualified for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Now, the priority for the Parkway South graduate is to get back to the Olympics, and the road begins on Friday (Aug. 5) with the Olympic Trials in London.

“This has been my No. 1 focus this year and is my ‘A’ race this year,” Haskins said.

“My goal is to qualify for the Olympic Team early and not have to worry about qualifying in the second race (in May 2012).”

To qualify, Haskins needs to finish in the top nine overall. Otherwise, she will have another chance next year.

“London is my No. 1 goal, and I will do everything I can to qualify, mentally and physically,” Haskins said.

She was the third American to qualify for the 2008 Games. She finished 11th in China and believes that will help her this time around, but she acknowledged that when she first thought of the Olympics as a young girl, it was not as a competing as a triathlete.

“The Olympics were a dream of mine since I was little, although it was in swimming,” she said.

She appears to be on her way to making the 2012 Games. The U.S. Olympic Committee recently named her its female Athlete of the Month for May following three victories in three starts.

Haskins earned her first career International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Cup win May 8 in Monterrey, Mexico.

She was victorious also at two of the top domestic Olympic-distance races – the St. Anthony’s Triathlon in St. Petersburg, Fla., on May 1, and the Capitol of Texas Triathlon in Austin, Texas, on May 30.

In between her key U.S. wins, Haskins claimed her first career ITU World Cup gold medal after breaking away from the pack midway through the bike and leading wire-to-wire on the 10-kilometer run to top the podium in 1:57:15.

In the Mexico race, Haskins ran alone to the finish line in the 90-degree heat in Monterrey, Mexico. It was her World Cup race of the 2011 season, and in the final leg, she was in the lead.

Ai Ueda from Japan was closing fast, but Haskins reached the finish first, broke the tape with her hands, and burst into tears.

“I was getting so close to the wire, and I had so much adrenaline running through me at the end of the race, I didn’t realize that I won until the very moment I crossed the

Parkway South graduate Sarah Haskins recently won the ITU World Cup.

finish line,” said Haskins. “I was shocked once I crossed the line first because several other women were catching up with me on the run. … With a race being so close, it makes the win much more special.”

Haskins won the St. Anthony’s Triathlon in 1:52.

She closed her merry month of May by winning the Capitol of Texas Triathlon in1:59.36.2.

“This race was the second in the Lifetime Fitness Race to the Toyota Cup Series.

My goal is to win the Series this year, and securing a second win for the year was a

great feeling,” Haskins said. “I recently raced my third race in the series in Minneapolis and have two more to go. The race in Chicago is at the end of August and one in Dallas is at the beginning of October.”

Haskins competed in her first triathlon in St. Louis in June of 2003 upon college graduation and became a professional triathlete less than a year later in May 2004.

She swam on the Parkway Swim Club for nine years and ran cross country and track in high school. Haskins was a Missouri high school state champion in cross country and swimming for Parkway South.

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Unlocking the Past A look back at three local unsolved murders

By BRIAN MCDOWELL An unsolved crime that no longer is being actively investigated is officially classified as a “cold case,” and that is a designation that applies to various violent crimes that over the years have occurred in West County.

To tackle its collection of cold cases, the St. Louis County Police Department took the unusual step of hiring Joe Burgoon, a retired St. Louis homicide detective who combs through evidence using the latest in law enforcement technology. Burgoon spends three days a week going through police reports and incident logs, reviewing open cases and sifting through evidence collected from crime scenes and stored at the police property lab in Clayton.

Some of the evidence he handles has not been touched or seen by anyone since the 1970s.

He describes his job as “a lot of hurry up and wait.”

Generally, a case involving homicide or sexual assault that has not been solved after two or three years of investigation will wind up on Burgoon’s desk. His efforts are funded by a grant police obtained from the Department of Justice.

Burgoon said that today, some of the older cold cases are being solved using the latest in DNA detection technology, which was either non-existent or cost-prohibitive when detectives originally investigated the cases. He sends batches of evidence to a highway patrol facility in Jefferson City for DNA testing and potential matching with DNA found in the FBI database. Assisted by legislation that requires all convicts entering the prison systems in various states to submit DNA samples, Burgoon’s revisit-

ing of such cases has resulted in some success.

For instance, in 1977, the body of 16-year-old Velda Rumfelt, who had been raped and strangled, was found near Six Flags in Eureka. According to Burgoon, DNA on some of the victim’s clothes was linked to Gregory Bowman, a former instructor at a welding school who was doing 30 years in an Illinois prison for raping and murdering two women. Using the DNA match, investigators got Bowman to confess to the rape and murder of Rumfelt, and he was sentenced to death, although that sentence later was reversed.

A man who sexually assaulted a Chesterfield woman on her lawn in 1988 was found to be serving time in a Missouri jail for assaulting a police officer, thanks to DNA evidence that Burgoon found and tested. The man’s stay in

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“I have cops tell me all the time, ‘If we had this years ago, that really would have helped,’” Burgoon said.

Following are noteworthy West County murder cases currently among those listed in the cold case files.

1990- Covenant Theological Seminary, Creve Coeur Elizabeth Mackintosh was studying at Covenant Theological Seminary on Conway Road in Creve Coeur to be a minister. She also did maintenance in the building.

According to Creve Coeur Police Capt.

George Hodak, one night in 1990, Mackintosh was working in the chapel basement when she was bludgeoned in the head and dragged to a nearby men’s room. There, she was stabbed in the throat and strung from the ceiling with a cord around her neck. She choked and bled to death.

From the beginning, police suspected the attacker was not an intruder. They did not think anyone who broke into a building would have been comfortable enough to stay there that long.

“We believed he had a comfort level with the area,” Hodak said. “It was done by someone familiar with the place.”

Police interviewed everyone who was in the building at the time of the crime, and all were cooperative. But when police started to zero in on a particular individual, he suddenly became uncooperative and soon moved out of the state.

“We know he had some anger issues with the victim,” Hodak said. “The problem was always that there was no physical evidence.

It was all circumstantial, so we never had enough evidence for the prosecutor to do anything.”

Detectives have gone back and attempted to definitively prove the suspect’s guilt using DNA, but their efforts so far have been unsuccessful. The suspect still lives out of state and has not been connected to any major crimes since the incident, but Creve Coeur police keep a close eye on him, albeit from a distance.

“We’ll always keep tabs on him,” Hodak said.

Squad, he spent five days investigating the case, but Walsh’s assailant never was caught.

“We asked to run the case for another week,” Felgate said. “Unfortunately, we had no good leads and weren’t able to obtain evidence.”

The investigation officially remained deactivated until 1990, when Felgate joined the Ellisville Police Department as a detective and reopened the case.

“This one just haunted me,” Felgate said.

“I couldn’t let it go. The victim was an innocent, divorced lady trying to eke out a living working the night shift.”

Felgate declined to go into specifics but said the reinvestigation led him to a person of interest. That suspect never was arrested but is no longer alive, he said.

“In my heart, I do know who did it,” Felgate said.

Walsh’s murder is the only officially unsolved homicide in the history of Ellisville.

1993- KC Masterpiece, Chesterfield Chesterfield was the site of the unsolved abduction of Amy Bohn, a 20-year-old waitress at the KC Masterpiece restaurant that used to be located near Chesterfield Mall.

Bohn left the restaurant on Oct. 4, 1993. A blouse was later found near the spot where her car had been parked that night. Her half-naked body was found the next day in a cornfield outside of Hermann, Mo., her head and hands tightly wrapped in electrician’s tape. Police a short time later found her car in a subdivision near Chesterfield Mall.

The crime against Bohn never was solved. By all accounts, she was a young woman who worked hard and lived a clean lifestyle. Burgoon said police to this day have no idea who abducted Bohn, nor how or why she was taken from Chesterfield to Hermann. The only suspect in the case was cleared by evidence.

Burgoon said part of the reason why the case remains unsolved is because of all the jurisdictions involved. Since Bohn was taken in St. Louis County and her body was found in Montgomery County, police agencies in both areas did their own work 1980- Dairy Queen, Ellisville to solve the crime. Burgoon said the resultOn an evening in April 1980, Margaret ing confusion led to much evidence going Walsh, night manager of the Dairy Queen missing. at Clayton and Clarkson roads in Ellisville, Burgoon said he thinks the case should had just closed the restaurant and was be turned back over to the Chesterfield walking out the front door when she was police, but Chesterfield police spokesperaccosted. The unknown assailant forced son Lt. Steve Lewis pointed out that the Walsh back into the Dairy Queen, where case originally was investigated by the St. she was shot and killed. The back of the Louis Major Case Squad and not by the restaurant was ransacked, and some money Chesterfield Police Department. was missing from the cash registers.

“It would be nice to put a fresh pair of Current Ellisville Police Chief Tom Fel- eyes on it, “ Burgoon said. “With the techgate at the time was a detective in Man- nology we have now, I still think that’s chester, and as part of the Major Case probably solvable.”

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“Business aviation is a tool, plain and With this year’s Missouri River flooding simple, and in a global economy it’s at various points upstream, Bales acknowlneeded,” he said. “It’s a time-saver and edged receiving questions from people it’s more convenient, especially when you wondering about a repeat of the 1993 levee consider that business aircraft can get in breach and flooding that inundated the airand out of places that commercial aviation port and most of Chesterfield Valley. Bales either can’t or doesn’t serve. And when response is that the current levee is seven you have several business executives or feet taller and much stronger than the levee managers traveling together, it can be a was in ’93. money-saver, too.”

“No one can guarantee that a particuBales observed that most air travelers lar event like what we had in 1993 won’t today probably would prefer to avoid the happen again, but I’m not concerned about long lines and hassle associated with com- a repeat,” he said. “There’s a good system mercial airport security checks. in place and I’m very comfortable with it.”

“The fact that you can come out here, park close by, walk into the terminal, go directly to your corporate plane or charter flight and take off appeals to a lot of people,” he said, but noted that that does not mean security is not a priority at the airport.

“9/11 changed a whole bunch of things,” Bales said. “We have locked gates and security cameras all over the place now.

And you can see why corporate travel offices and charter operators are going to know and have tight control over who’s getting on their planes.”

Bales said some of the airport’s larger charter flights, including those serving the St. Louis Blues hockey team, are subject to security screening similar to what prevails at commercial airports, and Spirit is equipped to handle the task. The airport also contracts with St. Louis County police for on-site, 24-hour protection.

The airport executive sees more change and growth in the future. Now being built is a semi-enclosed structure that will permit testing of engines any time of the day or night. The “ground run-up enclosure” will The Federal Aviation Administration control provide more flexibility for aircraft repair tower operates around the clock to direct air operations at Spirit of St. Louis Airport. and maintenance operations while not (West Newsmagazine photo) SPIRIT AIRPORT, from page 13

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By MARCIA GUCKES The first weekend in August is a special one for shoppers. It is Missouri’s eighth annual back-to-school sales tax holiday weekend.

The savings officially start at one minute past midnight on Fri., Aug. 5 and end at midnight on Sun., Aug. 7. During this time, shoppers will not have to pay the state’s 4.225 percent sales tax on certain items.

In addition, shoppers in St. Louis County and St. Charles County will not have to pay county sales taxes and many municipalities are giving shoppers a break that could add up to a savings of almost 8 percent.

In general, the items shoppers can save on are clothing, school supplies, personal computers, computer software, and computer peripheral devices.

Here is a more detailed list: • Clothing – any article costing up to $100 including cloth and other materials needed to make school uniforms or clothing. This does not include accessories such as watches, watchbands, jewelry, handbags, handkerchiefs, umbrellas, scarves, ties, headbands and belt buckles.

• School supplies – up to $50 per purchase including items such as books, paper, pencils, backpacks, calculators, and art supplies. This does not include items such as sports equipment, furniture or phones.

• Computer software – up to $350.

• Personal computers – up to $3,500.

• Computer peripheral devices – up to $3,500 including items such as disk drives, modems, speakers, printers and video cards.

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A total of 169 cities and 50 counties have decided not to participate in the sales tax holiday. In West St. Louis County the cities that have opted out are: •Ballwin •Des Peres •Ellisville •Town & Country •Twin Oaks •Manchester St. Charles County cities not participating in the sales tax holiday are: •Flint Hill •New Melle •St. Peters Shoppers in these cities will not have to pay state or county sales taxes but they will have to pay city sales tax.

Missouri is among 19 states and the District of Columbia that offer statewide backto-school sales tax holidays.

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By MARCIA GUCKES Parkway’s new superintendent will be starting his 35th year in education in a new job and in a new state. Keith Marty, PhD, started his career in 1976 as a social studies teacher and coach at a high school in Plymouth, Wis. Since then, he has risen through the ranks in Wisconsin schools and earned a doctorate in education from Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee.

For the last 10 years, Marty has been the superintendent of Menomonee Falls, a 4,500-student school district in suburban Milwaukee.

He has signed on with Parkway for three years at a starting salary of $220,000 per year.

Marty moves to Missouri with his wife of 35 years, Diana. Marty has four grown children and three grandchildren. His three sons, one of whom is returning from two deployments in Afghanistan and another of whom is on his way to Afghanistan in August, all are military men. His daughter, who is his youngest child, just graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in nursing.

Recently, Marty sat down with West Newsmagazine for a 30-minute interview.

Here are the highlights.

Q: Why do you think the board chose you to be Parkway’s superintendent?

A: I was 10 years in one district. I think this board was pleased that I had worked in one district for a long time and worked through major issues. I think my background in strategic planning was a factor.

I also will tell you that Menomonee Falls, like Parkway, was very active in a student volunteer program, so we brought students from the city just like the program does here.

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By MARCIA GUCKES One of the scariest things about going off to college is leaving old friends, but there are ways to ease the pain. Who better to know how to make new friends at college than those who have been there? And how better to reach them than by Facebook?

West Newsmagazine asked a recent college graduate to ask her friends for tips on how to make friends in college. Within a couple of hours, she had 18 responses from all across Missouri, several universities and colleges, and even one of her grade school teachers. Here are some of the best tips she received: • If you don’t smile, people won’t want to approach you. So, even when you’re walking to class and think no one is watchingsmile. (Dana Hagen, Chesterfield, Missouri State University) • Remember that a lot of freshmen are in the same boat as you and they will be looking for new friends too. Don’t be scared of the situation and trust that you will find people that have the same interests as you.

(Bryce Osman, Jefferson City, Truman State University) • Be open. Don’t be afraid to talk to all sorts of people. They’re all nervous too.

You may have to be the first person to approach someone. (Meggi Caldwell, High Ridge, Truman State University) • Don’t be afraid to join things, even if you’re not much of a “join-er.” Meet people with interests similar to your own, but also people with completely different interests! And the best way to do that is to join different groups. (Erin McKee, Kirkwood, Truman State University) • Go to sporting events and sit with the crazy fun fans! Go to the cafe and be brave – ask to join a table. When you’re a freshman, no one knows anyone else so you have nothing to lose. Oh, and don’t go home every weekend. Sure-fire way not to make

new friends is only hang out with your old ones every weekend. (Tiffany Tocco, Wildwood, Lindenwood University) • If you live in the dorms, just leave your door open when you aren’t doing anything.

I’ve met more people that way than just about anything else. (Francis Dalek Flammang, O’Fallon, Truman State University) • Room with someone you don’t know from high school. You can still hang out with your long-time friends. Talk to anyone and everyone you meet, especially those who live on your floor – those will be some of the strongest friendships you form in college. Join as many clubs that interest you while maintaining a good balance with schoolwork. (Adam Roling, Jefferson City, Truman State University) • Don’t let “cliques” hold you back.

Being in a certain group in high school kind of defined who you were. At college, you can have friends in all sorts of circles, and broaden your horizons while doing it!

(Debby Huebert, Boonville, Truman State University) • Join an organization or group. I know this sounds cliché, but it’s absolutely true!

You will meet people you have something in common with (the group) and there will be people in the organization of all different ages. You will meet upperclassmen who can help guide you through college and the organization and you will meet other freshmen who are dealing with the same problems you’re dealing with. (Emily Gannon, Oakville, Truman State University) • Hang up some pictures of you, by yourself or with others, doing goofy things.

People are bound to ask you about them.

(Pat Miller List, Eureka, retired teacher) • If you want to be friends with the people you were randomly assigned to live with, don’t eat their food even if they tell you to help yourself. (Lindsey Nilsson , High Ridge, Truman State University)

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A: I’m an educator, so I think you have to start with kids. We start with students but then we also have to be responsible in terms of how we spend local taxpayer resources.

We have a responsibility to educate students at high levels. There’s a price to pay for that, and hopefully we will be conscientious that we’re spending dollars appropriately and for all children.

Where do parents come in? Again, it’s about emphasizing that we’re about kids and parents play a role. We want parents to be active. We want parents to raise questions, and we don’t always expect them to agree with us.

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sional. We want them to understand that our mission is about kids and their responsibility is to grow and be the best that they can be.

In that, we have responsibilities to make sure they do their jobs well, to provide them with the best resources.

I think my responsibility is to make sure that everybody has a voice and everybody has a sense that there’s a purpose in what we’re doing and that everyone understands everybody else’s role.

I think we need to help one another understand that every public is important but no public is more important than our students.

Q: Are there any changes that you think you’d like to make in Parkway?

A: I have introduced, and see as a complement to the district’s strategic plan, a facilities strategic approach that I’m calling Facilities Planning 2020. It focuses on not just the present but making sure those needs we identify are properly addressed with what we’re going to be doing with students in the future, meaning that our buildings are probably going to have more technology.

Q: What part do you think you’ll play in Parkway’s future?

A: The superintendent needs to be an advocate for the district’s strategic plan.

The district has put together Project Parkway, which is really well designed to address the needs of students for the 21st century and serving the needs of all kids.

I think I need to be always reminding people, ‘This is our plan and you have a role in it.’ I need to hold people accountable to that plan. The board is holding me accountable, so I think I need to hold other people accountable.

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Beverly McKee of Wildwood returns items to the Daniel Boone branch of the St. Louis County Library using one of the two automated return windows.

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By JIM ERICKSON Odds are that steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie never envisioned the thousands of libraries he funded a century ago having the automated checkout and return systems now in place in St. Louis County Library locations.

All but two of the county library branches now have an automated checkout system.

Instead of having to wait in line for a library staff member, customers can simply walk up to a machine, scan their library card and place three or four items at a time on the machine.

In less time than it takes to read this sentence, the system records what they want to check out. The machines also provide a printed receipt listing the title of items checked out and their due date.

At the Daniel Boone branch in Ellisville, automation goes one step further and checks books in when people return them.

After pressing a button to start the process, a cover slides open and customers are asked to place their returns on the platform where each item is scanned and swept onto an automated materials handling conveyor belt.

Currently, the Daniel Boone branch is the only branch with automated return equipment, but plans are underway to add the feature at other locations.

According to Eric Button, the county library’s community services administrator, public reaction to the automated systems generally has been positive.

“We’ve had some people say the return system takes more time than when all items being brought back could be dumped in a return bin at one time,” he said. “But other than that, comments have been quite favorable. The kids really like it.”

Always quick to latch on to new technology, youngsters have been seen instructing

their parents on how to use the equipment, said Lynn Grimshaw, assistant manager at the Daniel Boone branch.

The automated systems have helped library locations manage a 30 percent increase in usage during the past three years, Button said.

“When the economic downturn began, we saw an increase in activity very quickly,” he said. “The problem was that our budget actually has gone down slightly since then so we didn’t have the funds to hire more people.”

The new equipment has not meant a cutback in employees. Instead, staff are better able to respond to customer requests for help because they are not tied so tightly to checking books in and out.

Button said the equipment will pay for itself in five years with savings from not having to hire more people to maintain the desired level of service – money that was not available anyway.

A technology grant from the Missouri State Library, which administers funds received from the federal government, helped pay for the systems.

Accompanying the obvious benefits of the system are some not as readily apparent. With the automated check-in at Daniel Boone, items are back on the shelf much faster, often within minutes of the customer returning them and in no case longer than 24 hours later. With manual check-in, it took as much as five or six days for an item to be back on the shelf.

Among the circumstances that led to the Daniel Boone branch being the first to have both automated checkout and return systems is the fact that it is the most heavily used branch in the county library system, with just under 1 million items circulated last year and volume this year certain to top the million mark.

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By SARAH WILSON The summer months are hot, and the air conditioning bills are high, but window films can help. And not only to they reduce cooling costs, they also can provide a new look for any room.

A window film is a thin, transparent sheet that can act as a supplement to the inside of a window and change the amount of heat and light that transmits into the home.

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Solar films act as a solar “blanket” for Warranty windows, keeping the interior cool in the summer and warm in the winter, according to Robert Kersten, president of Quality Glass Tinting in Valley Park. He said he is constantly scanning the globe for new products and techniques in the solar film industry. “(Solar films) take out more heat than light and UV rays, so they look natural in the glass and you really can’t tell they’re in there, because they don’t look dark,” Kersten said. “They’re also great for renewable energy.”

Santo said with solar films, there are a variety of colors from which to choose.

“But you don’t necessarily have to have color to get protection,” Santo said. “A lot of times, in residential homes, people are asking to control temperature and fading, but they don’t want to have to change the look of the glass.”

Security films can be used in any residential or commercial property and offer extra protection by holding the glass together in the event that it would break, such as during bad weather conditions or a break-in.

“It doesn’t keep glass from breaking, but it holds it together and holds it in the frame if it did,” Santo said.

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Downspouts also should be cleared of debris and checked to make sure water flow is directed away from the home toward appropriate drainage.

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Years ago, shingles were limited to the basic three-tab shingles and architectural shingles in limited colors. Now with a new generation of roofing products, shingle manufacturers realize the aesthetic value of shingle styles and offer products for any type of house, allowing homeowners to get creative and explore their options.

Many roofing materials are now greener and created from recycled products, according to Lee Allen, president of Allen Roofing & Siding, which has been in business since 1972.

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The festival is from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Sat., Sept. 10, at the Saint Louis Science Center. The family-friendly event, Pictured are sisters Sandy Butler (left) which raises money for brain tumor and Tracy Zotta at last year’s ABTA research, takes place near the perma- festival. nent dinosaur exhibit. Admission is $50 for adults, $40 for children ages 13-17, $30 for children ages 3-12 and free for younger children and brain tumor survivors. The ticket price includes admission and full access to the main building of the Science Center plus 3 OMNIMAX® Theater movies, event t-shirt, buffet dinner and dessert catered by Ces & Judy’s Catering, a full selection of beverages, music, raffles, a silent auction and more. A pre-event VIP reception also is available. For details, visit abta.org/stlouisfallfestival or contact Beth Quick-Andrews at (314) 416-0404 or abta@qabs.com.

BENEFITS Sneakers with Soul, a program to provide shoes for children in need, runs from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily through 12 p.m. on Sun., Aug. 7 at Manchester United Methodist Church (corner of Hwy. 141 and Manchester Road in Manchester). Donors may drop of new shoes in sizes for children/youth aged 5-18. Containers will be

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••• Support Dogs, Inc. hosts a trivia night at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.) on Sat., Aug. 6, at the Moolah Temple (12545 Fee Fee Road in Maryland Heights). A silent auction, prizes and beverages are featured.

Reservations are required, and participants should be 21 years old. Tickets are $25 per person/$200 for a table of eight. Call (314) 997-2325 or visit supportdogs.org.

••• St. Mark Presbyterian Church hosts its annual ABC sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Fri., Aug. 12, and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sat., Aug. 13, at the church (601 Claymont Drive in Ballwin). There is an early-bird sale from 7 to 8 a.m. on Friday for a $5 admission fee. Call 394-2233 or visit discoverstmark.org.

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••• BeneFitness, an all-day fitness event to promote good health and working out and to benefit local charities, is from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sun., Aug. 14 at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) Staenberg Family Complex in Creve Coeur. The event is open to the community and features a full schedule of fitness activities. Charities benefiting are the St. Louis County Department of Health/Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program; Hope Happens (a research division of Washington University for neurological conditions); NAMI/ St. Louis – National Alliance on Mental Illness; and Missouri Baptist Medical Center Cancer Research Program. The cost is $36 in advance/$40 on the day of the event. To pre-register, send a check made payable to BeneFitness4all to 2275 Schuetz Road, St. Louis, MO 63146. Or, call (314) 569-4097.

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••• The Chesterfield Department of Parks and Recreation hosts a free showing of “Toy Story 3” at dusk on Fri., Aug. 5 at the Chesterfield Amphitheater. Visit chesterfield.mo.us.

••• The Eureka Parks and Recreation Department hosts a showing of “Toy Story 3” at 8:45 p.m. (back to school bash is at 7:30 p.m.) on Fri., Aug. 5 on the lawn of City Hall. Admission is free. Call 938-6775.

••• Monarch Fire Protection District and Chesterfield Mall host a safety fair from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sat., Aug. 6, at Chesterfield Mall near Dillards. Attractions include Monarch fire equipment, auto extrication demonstration, air rescue helicopters, a County Bomb & Arson robot and more.

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••• The city of Wildwood hosts a movie night at 8:45 p.m. on Fri., Aug. 12 at the Town Center Plaza. There is a free showing of “Wall-E” with complimentary kettle corn, Kona ice, soda and water. Visit cityofwildwood.com.

LIVE PERFORMANCES The city of Ellisville presents Klose ‘Nuff in concert at 7 p.m. on Thurs., Aug. 4 at Bluebird Park. Admission is free. Visit ellisville.mo.us.

••• The city of Manchester presents a concert by Well Hungarians at 7 p.m. on Fri., Aug. 5 at Paul A. Schroeder Park. Admission is free. Visit manchestermo.gov.

••• The Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce presents a concert featuring Billy Peek from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tues., Aug. 9 at Faust Park. The concert is free and concessions are available for purchase. Call 5323399 or visit chesterfieldmochamber.com.

••• The Chesterfield Department of Parks and Recreation hosts Soulard Blues Band in concert at 7 p.m. on Sat., Aug. 13 at the Chesterfield Amphitheater. Visit chesterfield.mo.us.

••• The Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce presents a concert featuring Yessir from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tues., Aug. 16 at Faust Park. The concert is free and concessions are available for purchase. Call 532-3399 or visit chesterfieldmochamber.com.

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SPECIAL INTEREST The Town & Country Community Relations Commission seeks talented artisans and craft vendors for the Town & Country Talents and Treasures Holiday Boutique taking place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 12 at the Longview Farm House.

Visit town-and-country.org and click on “Holiday Boutique” for an application, or contact Mary Olsen at olsenm@town-andcountry.org or (314) 587-2804.

••• West County Center hosts a Girls Night Out from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. every Thursday through September. Live music, drink and food specials outside on the patios of Restaurant Village, including McCormick & Schmick’s, Bravo and Red Mango are featured. Visit shopwestcountycenter.com for details.

••• A lifeguard training course for those aged 16 an older is from Aug. 5-Aug. 20 (six classes) at the Wildwood YMCA. Upon completion of the course, official lifeguard certification is awarded to participants. The fee is $175 for YMCA members and $220 for non-members. To register, call 4586636 or visit ymcastlouis.org.

••• Westward Hoe Garden Club hosts “Gathering Plants with Lewis and Clark” by Susan Reisel at 7 p.m. on Tues., Aug. 9. Call 391-6469.

••• The Garden Guild, a floral design club consisting of accredited judges and designers belonging to the Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri and National Garden Clubs Inc., hosts a flower show movie matinee from noon to 3 p.m. on Thurs., Aug. 18, at Friendship Village (15201 Olive Blvd. in Chesterfield). The judged event includes arboreal, annuals, perennials, roses and container-grown plants. For information on the free event, call 537-0469.

••• Chesterfield Arts presents the 2011 Jade G. Bute Adult Writing Contest with entries due by 5 p.m. on Wed., Aug. 24, sent by email to nancy@chesterfieldarts. org. The contest is open to Missouri and Illinois residents aged 18 and older. The genre is non-fiction, and the topic is “A Beginning” – any beginning that transformed the writer’s life and touched him/ her on an emotional level. The entry fee is $10 per entry, and there will be cash awards of $150 for first place, $100 for second place and $50 for third place, plus honorable mention certificates. For rules and specific guidelines, email Bud Hirsch at hirschwrites@sbcglobal.net.

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By SUZANNE CORBETT Burhan Papila knows pizza is an international favorite; it has been his culinary specialty since he first mastered it in his native country of Turkey, before taking it to England, Canada and Ballwin, where his family opened Pizza Pizza eight months ago.

“We have different kinds of pizzas,” said Idil Papila, who oversees the kitchen. “Everything is hand-tossed and homemade.”

Pizza Pizza’s dough is the basis for a classic Italianstyle pizza, topped with real cheese and a choice of more than 40 different fresh ingredients. Among the most popular pizza picks are the Double Cheeseburger with Bacon Crumble and the Chicken Mushroom Melt, which combines mesquite chicken, mushrooms and red onions with provel and mozzarella cheese.

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Pide is not too spicy, unless individually ordered that way. At Pizza Pizza, there are several pides that have gained rave reviews from customers, such as the Spinach and Beef Pide (Ispanakli Kiymali), a mildly seasoned ground beef with onion, red pepper paste and butter. A variation of the Spinach and Beef Pide is the Lahmajun is a Turkish-style pizza served with onion, parsley, and lemon– Kimali Pide (Beef Cubes Pide) that replaces a specialty at Pizza Pizza. ground beef for beef chucks, adding green pepper, parsley and tomato. chicken wings, boneless chicken bites and fried shrimp.

Lahmajun is another style of pide that tops the Pizza Papila said to keep a look out for sandwiches, such as Pizza menu. Described as a traditional Turkish food, doners, in the near future.

Lahmajun is a flatbread and round-like pizza assembled “They’re like gyros, but different – they’re Turkish,” on dough, similar to the thin crust that St. Louis pizza- Papila said. lovers appreciate. Lahmajun is made with one topping – a Pizza Pizza is an independent pizzeria where owners are mix of finely ground beef with onion, garlic, tomato, pars- able to create unique pizzas and dishes, such as doners, ley and green pepper – which is spread over the top and which takes the pizza experience beyond national pizza baked until crisp. Lahmajun is served with a side of fresh chains. As a result, Pizza Pizza brings a one-of-a-kind parsley and lemon wedges, a delightfully refreshing dish experience, which reflects the sign that hangs on its dining and one of Pizza Pizza’s best buys. room wall – “Independent pizzeria: It’s a difference you While pizza is the menu’s focus, Pizza Pizza also offers can taste.”

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SHOWERS REBUILT

WE DO IT ALL!

• Powerwash/Stain • Decks - Fences • Interior/Exterior Paint • Install/Repair Decks - Fences Concrete Work • Full Remodeling

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CEDAR PRO DECK STAINING

BY BRUSH ONLY

BATHROOMS REMODELED

“Water Damaged Showers a Specialty” Tub/Shower Conversions

Tile & Bath Service, Inc. 25 Years Experience • 14770 Clayton Road • Visit our Showroom

636-394-0315 www.tileandbathservices.com Senior Discount Available

Residential

Commercial

“Professional Tree Service” Certified Arborist on Staff Tree Trimming & Removals • Stump Grinding 20 Years Serving the St. Louis Metropolitan Area Bonded

(636) 230-3626

www.completetrees.com

Since 1930 Upholstering, Repairing and Refinishing

17322 Manchester Road

(636) 458-3809

Since 1995

Insured

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Turn OLD into NEW! Exterior & Interior Doors Kitchen Cabinets Antique to Modern Furniture

"No Mess, No Stress"

Decks • Fences • Play Sets • Gazebos Work Guaranteed 17 Years Experience • References Free Estimates 314-452-2204

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On a VOP call PrOfessiOnal!

Home Repairs • Plumbing • Electrical Carpentry • Painting • Windows & Doors Appliances • Roof Repairs • Decks & More!

Built Better to last longer!

Garages • Sheds Playhouses And More

Custom Woodworking • Bars • Bookshelves Mantels • Doors • Stairs • Media Kitchens • Basements • Baths

Update Existing Landscapes

PLUMBING

636-391-6905

Must be presented upon initial appointment. Certain stipulations apply.

Thru 8/31/11. Cannot be combined with any other offers.

Cleaning Fences, Concrete & Vinyl Siding

Custom-Designed & Built Decks • Porches • Gazebos

Tuckpointing • Leafgard • Repairs

Our Reputation is Our Guarantee

Deck Restoration Co.

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Roofing & gutteRs

The highest quality wood or metal stripping & refinishing services since 1978. Free estimates.

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We’re the place to check out first.

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WEST claSSifiEdS Assisted Care a preferred home care choice since 1987. College degreed professionals provide care/companionship. why accept less? Competitively priced options. Care managers and clinical staff available. Bonded & insured. aaa screened. Call Gretchen at stafflink (314) 477-3434 www. stafflinkusat.com

Cleaning Service CLEAN AS A WHISTLE

XTREME CARPET CLEAN

Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly Move in & Move Out

• Carpet Cleaning • Spot/Stain, pet odor removal • UpholStery & mattreSS Cleaning Carpet restretChing & repairs

AFFORDABLE PRICING

Call now for free Carpet Cleaning speCial

$10 OFF New Clients

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House Cleaning done, reasonable, references. 25 plus years experience. ask for liz . 636-284-0143.

Call 314-426-3838

KEEPING IT CLEAN

Our work is guantreed.

Flexible cleaning schedules, move-in/ move-out cleaning, residential & commercial cleans. Bonded, insured, screened employees. petfriendly. Discounts for seniors and new customers! FREE Personalized estimates.

Call 314-852-9787 KeepingItClean.biz

Computer Services

Home Helpers is your #1 source affordable, dependable care by compassionate caregivers. ♥ Senior Adults ♥ Recuperative Care ♥ Alzheimer’s / Dementia Care ♥ Bathing/Personal Care ♥ Transportation ♥ Meal Preparation ♥ Housekeeping ♥ On Call 24/7 Insured/Bonded & Carefully Screened West County 636-391-0000 www.homehelpersstl.com

we fix slow and crashing computers, remove and prevent viruses, recover and transfer data, setup home networks and more. Fixed or it’s free! 15 years of real experience. Call Matt 314.226.4279 or visit us at YourPcDocs.com. specializing in home offices and small Businesses. County Computer Consulting llC, can support your computers and networks. Call ray for more information at 636-391-3853 or www. CCC-llC.BiZ. CHAMBERS COMPUTER

Complete Certified Computer repair. on site repair, Free Pick-up & Delivery. only $59 per hour. Call Mike today at 636- 220-2395. www.chamberscomputers.com.

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Automotive

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Cash Paid On The Spot Call Sam 314-302-2008

call Mike at 636-675-7641 Service at your home or office for: • PC problems or set-up • PC won't start or connect

•Spyware •Adware •Virus Removal •Hardware •Software Upgrades

$30 diagnostic charge only for first ½ hour Day, evening and weekend appointments available.

Flooring Accounting

CPA Firm For SmAll BuSineSSeS

affordable accounting, tax, Payroll & Guidance solutions

Call Tom at 314-448-4264 tom@tomdunncpa.com

wooD Floor reFinishinG add instant equity to your home Professional Floors of st. louis 25 year old fully insured company serving entire metro community sanding, refinishing, repairs, new installation, most manufacturers available.

Free estimates 314-843-4348 profloorstl.com

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Business Opportunity is eCo friendly important to you? Do green products and natural ingredients sound like an interesting home business? we were green when it was just a color! 25 yrs old, no mlm, inventory or overpriced junk. let’s talk 636-234-4911.

CARPET REPAIRS Restretching, reseaming & patching. No job too small. Free estimates.

For Sale '03 Kawasaki Vulcan - this 800 Classic is sharp! Black, Vance hines pipes, hyper-charger, leather bags and tachometer. like new! 10K+ miles. $4,300.

Call Gary at 314-440-6069.

inside sales: Part time person to set appointments for professional market. accounting knowledge helpful. experience in cold calling very helpful. excellent pay. ellisville office. 636271-9190.

Garage Sale Garage Sale: Kids toys, clothes, furniture, high chair.

Misc. household. little tykes Playground. name brand adult and kids clothes. saturday, august 6, 8am-3pm. 2186 willow ridge lane, Chesterfield 63017.

Garage Services west CountY GaraGe Door serViCe Proudly serv-

ing west County since 1980. springs, cables, electric openers.

Door replacement. evening & weekend service available. Call 636-388-9774

Hauling Skips Hauling & demolition!

Serving the Bi-State Area including St. Charles County.

Appliances, furniture, debris, construction/ rubble, yard waste, excavating & demolition! 10, 15 and 20 cubic yard rolloff dumpsters. All type clean outs & hauling! Affordable, dependable and available! No conditions! 20 yrs. service.

Toll free 1-888-STl-JUNK (888-785-5865) or 314-644-1948

J & J HAULING

WE HAUL IT ALL Service 7 days. Debris, furniture, appliances, household trash, yard debris, railroad ties, fencing, decks.

Garage & Basement Clean-up Neat, courteous, affordable rates.

Call: 636-379-8062 or email: jandjhaul@aol.com

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"If you want to change the world, be that change" wings of hope is the largest volunteer humanitarian charity in the Midwest, providing assistance to children and adults worldwide. Key volunteer positions are available with flexible hours Monday – Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Benefit from the satisfaction gained by helping local people and promoting peace throughout the world.

• A& P Mechanics: 8 hours/week • Development Administrator: general office skills – 12 hours/week • Facility Administrator: oversee maintenance of existing facility, grounds and equipment – 12 hours/week • Hangar Administrator: maintain computer-based Faa paperwork systems –25 to 30 hours/week • Social Media Coordinator/Webmaster: maintain internet presence on FB, Youtube and w-o-h website – 8 hours/week International Headquarters located at Spirit of St. Louis Airport in Chesterfield, MO.

Contact Anne Volland (636) 537-1302

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Home Improvement Don's Handyman - Services PLUS For all repairs & remodeling needs. over 25 years experience.

Free estimates. Call Don 7 days a week 314-581-7485.

P o w e r wa s h s o lu t i o n s house wash: one story includes vinyl siding, soffit, facia, gutters exterior, up to 1800sf for $135. two story up to 2500sf for $175.

Call 636-675-1850. www.pwsno1.com.

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SOLUTIONS

Minor Repairs, Carpentry, Electrical, Painting, FREE Estimates, West County Area

call 636-236-8784

(636) 227-1173 ROOM TRANSFORMATIONS! Let us give your home a fresh new look, by selecting paint colors, designing new window treatments, rearranging existing furniture, adding accessories or new mouldings!

Over 25 years experience

Call 314-283-1760

30 yrs. Experience- Free Estimates

Expert Advice Over the Phone, CALL NOW!

HOME MAINTENANCE Repairs • Installations Improvements • Hauling • Mulching

PLUMBING • ELECTRICAL • CARPENTRY

Heating and Cooling

Total Bathroom Remodeling Cabinetry•Plumbing•Electrical 20 Years Experience

Handyman

Reliable Home Repair

For Rent

Marketing Consultant: 13th Floor Gifts, llC looking for selfstarter to identify/enroll clients in fundraising program. Must be able to set own appointments and work independently. Pt with Flexible hours. Commission & Bonus. email: job@13thFloorGifts. com.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED - Nobel Prize Nominee

Handyman Corner Inc.

(314) 892-1003

Destin Florida area. Beautiful 3 bed, 3 bath condo or home, Gated Gulf Front community. includes beach front cabana, 3 pools, tennis courts & more.

Call for special spring/summer rates and availability. to view pictures please go to www.vrbo.com /127089 or /148365. For additional info Call 314-922-8344.

Help Wanted

(636) 230-3588 CELL: (314) 799-4334

All Around Construction LLC - all interior and exterior remodeling and repairs. historic restoration, molding duplication. Finished basements, kitchens, baths and decks. liability, workmens comp, and ePa certified in lead removal.

18 years exp. Call 314-393-1102 or 636-237-3246.

F R E E E S T I M AT E Flat Hourly Rate - No Surprises

Handyman PDQ

Repairs • Assembly All Electrical and Mechanical Plumbing • A/C • Appliances

636.394.1271 www.handymanpdq.com

No Excuses For A Dirty House!

************ 2009 Prices At DIRT CHEAP POWER WASH 1 Story Ranch Homes Power Washed For Only $95.00!

Call Mike Today

314.378.9064 We Also Clean And Stain Decks/Fences!

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WEST claSSifiEdS Lawn/ Landscaping MORALES LANDSCAPE LLC. Spring Clean-Up, Mulching, Aeration, Trimming, Edging, Weeding, Leaf & Tree Removal, Sod Installation, Planting, Grass Cutting $25 & Up! Retaining Walls, Paver Patio, Decorative Gravel, Stone & Brick work, Drainage work & More! FREE ESTIMATES

636-699-5189

• Retaining Walls • Paver Patios • Mulch • Professional Lawn Mowing 1st Cut FREE with 1yr agreement!

Free Estimate

314-280-2779

Professional Outdoor Services • Mowing and Fertilization • Landscape Installation & Retaining Walls • Brush Pruning & Clearing

636-466-2050 LUIS GODINA

Lawn Mowing & Maintenance

CLEAN-UP! Trim Bushes • Mulch Sodding

Mike's Lawn Service Dependable, Responsible Mowing, shrub trimming, mulch, spring yard clean-up Seeding/ Fertilzation References

Call 636-346-9704 Valley Landscape Co. Mowing, leaf removal, mulching, tree & brush removal, stump removal, trimming, planting, garden tilling, and gutter cleaning! (636) 458-8234 •Retaining Walls •Driveways •Walks •Concrete & Pavers •Sod •Hauling •Mulch •Topsoil •Rock •Decorative Rock •Bobcat Work •Grading •Drainage •Erosion •Pool Fill-Ins Specializing in Retaining Walls and Paver Patios

314-849-5387

Fully Insured • Free Estimates • Residential & Commercial Member of the Better Business Bureau

PEDRO MARTINEZ LANDSCAPING

A Cut Above! Aeration, power raking, bush & tree removal, fall clean-up. Gutter cleaning. Mowing, mulching, bush & tree trimming, edging, retaining walls, patios, and more. 636-237-5160 or 314-243-4623.

Moving & Storage

Painting Services

ABC Moving & Storage, Inc in Chesterfield. Residential, commercial, corporate Relocations.

Local/Long Distance moving from a simple piece or multiple truckloads. We do it all! Custom packaging & crating. Call today for a FREE ESTIMATE (636) 532-1300.

Jim's Paint & Trim Service Interior & Exterior painting, crown and decorative moulding, wallpaper removal, texturing, drywall and rotten wood repair. Call 636778-9013 Gary Smith

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Call Gary 314-805-7005

Karen's Painting Looking for a job done right the first time? On time? Neat & organized? Someone who respects your home like her own? Interior & exterior painting. Free estimates. Discounts on empty properties. Call KAREN 636352-0129

KEViN'S PaiNT SERVicE Expert & Professional. New & old house interior/ exterior painting, drywall & acoustical ceiling repair. 25 years painting experience.

Low rates/ Free Estimates. call Kevin 636-322-9784

A & B Painting - Residential painting services. Quality work - Reasonable Rates. Free Estimates. Call 314-540-7303.

Pa I N T I N g includes paint Call Today

314-651-0261

UNDERWOOD LANDSCAPING

since 1992

A-1 Custom Painting & Wallpapering

Lawn Care & Installation.

Bobcat Services

Family Owned & Operated.

10+ years experience.

Fully Insured.

Call Ron 636-299-3904

10% DISCOUNT* on all bids accepted before August 31, 2011

Retaining Walls!

Concrete/Flatwork • Paver Patios

We handle your design needs, professionally trained. Faux finishes, texturing, marbling, graining. Interior & exterior, insured, FREE estimates. All work done by owner. 26 years experience. Call Ken or Hugo at 636-274-2922 or 314-640-4085

We Use Environmentally Friendly - NO VOC Paints

Planting & Plant Removal. Free Estimates. Insured.

dUNN'S laNdScaPiNG 636-337-7758

M I E N E R LANDSCAPING

Spring Clean-Up! Rock walls, patios, pruning, chainsaw work, e tc. Fr iendl y ser vice, with attention to detail.

C a l l T o m 636.938.9874

Drywall Cracks Repair Wood Trim Repair Masonite Replacement Exterior/Interior Specials

FREE Estimates Mulching • Lawn Mowing & Fertilization • Retaining Walls & Paver Patios

636-230-0185

• Landscape Design & Installation

I LOVE TO PAINT!!

Professional Painting

Fast Free Estimates

Wall & Ceiling Combo Special!

• Paints, Glazes and More • • Cabinetry & Furniture Too • • Affordable Quality •

• Drainage Work • Landscape Lighting • Mole Trapping (636) 296-5050

DON’T PAY MORE!!

Free Estimates

David (314) 732-FAUX (3289)

Call Ellen in Classifieds

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Interior/Exterior • Wallpaper Dry Wall • Crown Molding & Trim

25 years experience Fully Insured • Owner/Operator

3 rooms $490

314-365-7524

Painting & RePaiR

Interior and Exterior Painting Power Washing

FULLY INSURED

www.stlouishousepainters.com

636-527-2501

Prayer ST. JUDE NOVENa May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us. St. Jude, Worker of Miracles, pray for us. St. Jude, Help of the Hopeless, pray for us. Say prayer nine times a day; by the 8th day prayer will be answered. Say it for nine days. Then publish. Your prayers will be answered. It has never been known to fail. Thank you, St. Jude. SKS

ST. JUDE NOVENa May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us. St. Jude, Worker of Miracles, pray for us. St. Jude, Help of the Hopeless, pray for us. Say prayer nine times a day; by the 8th day prayer will be answered. Say it for nine days. Then publish. Your prayers will be answered. It has never been known to fail. Thank you, St. Jude. RM

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$215,000

Across from Greensfelder Park Horses Permitted • Mostly Pasture

314.842.2218

free Report reveals what you need to know before you list your home for sale.

Free recorded message 1-800-506-6297 ID# 1003

Pet Services

Convenient

Dog Grooming

Full service grooming in your home...

Reasonable rates • Free consultation All services available Keep your pets stress-free at home - great for older dogs Ask about discounts for rescues!

Call for appointment

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POOP SCOOP’N SERVICE

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Tim Meyer, Coldwell Banker Gundaker 636-394-9300

FoR SAlE By owNER 175 Cascade Terrace Drive • Ballwin, MO 63021

$195,000 - NEW Carpeting & Vinyl Siding

• 2 story, 3 bedroom, 2.5 baths • Walkout, carpeted basement with custom window • Vaulted master bedroom incl. walk-in closet, private bath and high ledge with socket (great for flat screen TVs) • Designer deck that offers great views in all seasons • 2 entrances from the 2 car garage • 2 attics • Tiled baths and entry foyer • Kitchen inc. breakfast bar, 2 pantries and counter • 6 panel doors • Covered Porch Walk out basement & deck Neighborhood pool • Subdivision swimming pool & walking trails - Buyer's Agents Welcome • Parkway School District

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Piano Lessons PIANO LESSONS: Masters Degree in Composition w/ Piano major, 5 yrs. in Europe, 30 yrs. teaching experience, all ages. Taught music theory and piano at college level.

Manchester & Strecker. Call Arthur 636-458-0095

Plumbing MASTER PLUMBER. Water Heaters, Code Violations, Backflow Preventers.Basement bathrooms, Outdoor faucets. Licensed & Bonded, Fully Insured. No Job Too Large or Too Small. (314) 288-9952.

ANYTHING IN PLUMBING - Good Prices! Basement bathrooms, small repairs & code violations repaired. Fast Service. Call anytime: 314-409-5051

or Call Direct 314-732-6891 Recycling

Roofing

WE BUY SCRAP METAL Copper, Alum, Brass, Stainless Steel, Lead & Car Batteries.

FREE drop-off for steel, vinyl & cardboard.

25 Truitt Dr., Eureka, MO 63025

Open M-Sat 9-5.

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Roof Doc SAINT LOUIS

Roof Repair & Replacement Specialist

Call for a FREE Estimate

314.489.2068

GILLS Tree Service

• Emergency Storm Service • Stump Grinding • Bucket Truck Service

[636] 274-1378

Trees Trimmed & Removed

Insured

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230 Killarney Lane 16174 Clayton Hollow Ln 17142 Hidden Valley Forest Over 4,000 sq ft, 5 bed, 4.5 Spread out in this easy-care Create memories in this 1.5 story designed for easy bath atrium on 3 lush acres 4 bed, 3.5 bath updated home on 6.67 acres. entertaining & relaxed living. with gourmet kitchen.

15 Lawrence Drive 418 Conway Commons Ln Revel in luxury- this 7 Discover tranquility!

Quality custom 1.5 story on years young 1.5 story in 1 acre in Town & Country. Ladue Schools has it all!

1022 Carole Lane Enjoy this charming home loaded with updates and large peaceful backyard.

2325 Todforth Way Embrace endless possibilities from exquisite custom home on 1 acre.

882 Wellesley Place Drive Live comfortably in the heart of Chesterfield. This home has every essential.

1816 Pickfair Drive Take pride in ownership!

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1558 Huntington View Dr. - Ballwin - $169,900 Unique ranch in wonderful Country Lane Woods! Lush landscaping and gardens, vaulted ceiling, 2story windows, brick fireplace, finished LL, park-like backyard!

801 Aramis Drive So many updates & upgrades- this home feels like new in Creve Coeur.

597 Cedar Hill Enjoy 9+ usable acres close to everything & incredible 5 bed/5 bath atrium ranch!

209 Christina Marie Drive Consider this move-in ready, spacious ranch in vibrant O’ Fallon area.

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1416 Mont Dore Dr. - Ballwin - $215,000 Spacious ranch with finished walkout LL! Gleaming wood floors, fireplace, 2 sets of French doors to rear deck. Most sought after model in subdivision!

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305 Remington Way Dr. - Ballwin - $415,000 603 Charbray - Ballwin - $260,000 Gorgeous meticulously maintained 2-story in Stately 2-story in Whispering Oakwood!

Remington Place! Over 3,600 sq. ft of first class Tons of potential! Brick exterior, screened in upgrades and pristine features. Must See! porch, large level corner yard!

Linda Dillon 314-422-5650

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Personal Service.

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For Service that’s Head-of-the-class

Full Service • Buyers • Sellers • Relocation • New Homes • Your Local Office: 636-391-1122

12 Flagstick Ct. - Sunset Hills - $600,000 Stunning 2-story on Tapawingo National Golf Course. Upgrades everywhere! Must see kitchen and view of golf course.

Integrity Land Title Co. 11715 Administration Dr, Ste. 103 St. Louis, MO 63146 Office: 314-291-8102

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1351 Arbor Bluff Circle - Ballwin - $330,000 331 Jefferson Ave. - Valley Park - $185,000 Fabulous 2-story in Arbor Bluffs subdivision! Updated ranch on over an acre! Vaulted ceilHuge kitchen and bfast room with bay win- ings, formal dining room, finished LL! dows, wood floors. Must see!

Call today for your Financing Needs: Wendy Wallach Cell: (314) 374-0737 Wendy.Wallach@wellsfargo.com

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54 Thornhill Dr. Eureka $1,999,999

200 Saint Andrews Dr. Saint Albans $1,695,000

55 Chesterfield Lakes Rd. Chesterfield $1,150,000

1390 S Mason Rd. Town & Country $939,000

14778 Brook Hill Dr. Chesterfield $749,900

14229 Manderleigh Woods Dr. Town & Country $749,750

171 Bon Chateau Dr. Town and Country $599,900

2357 Brookhollow Lane Wildwood $585,000

7310 Forsyth Blvd #202 University City $519,000

624 Stonebrook Ct. Chesterfield $475,000

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709 Turrentine Trail Creve Coeur $469,900

14661 Amberleigh Hill Ct. Chesterfield $464,900

328 Woods Mill Terrace Lane Chesterfield $389,500

933 Baintree Lane Ballwin $369,900

1532 Candish Lane Chesterfield $349,900

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15243 Lochcrest Ct. Chesterfield $346,368

1802 Sagez Ct. Wildwood $340,000

16602 Chesterfield Farms Dr. Chesterfield $339,900

15023 Willmont Ct. Chesterfield $325,000

1445 Bald Eagle Rd. Glencoe $324,900

218 River Bend Dr. Chesterfield $299,900

612 Claymont Dr. Ballwin $278,900

537 Rustic Valley Dr. Ballwin $227,000

833 Ginger Wood Ct. Ballwin $219,900

6 Monarch Trace Ct #302 Chesterfield $200,000

21 Nassau Circle St. Louis $186,500

1581 Autumn Leaf Dr. Ballwin $159,000

1029 Dolores Ave. Olivette $159,000

236 Pralle Lane St. Charles $153,000

222 Hillsdale Dr. Ballwin $139,900

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www.prudentialalliance.com Chesterfield/Wildwood

636-537-0300

17734 DRUMMER LN WILDWOOD 2sty, treeded lot, great rm, wet bar, fireplace & built-ins, wonderful kitchen, 42 cabinets, granite. $569,625

17892 WESTHAMPTON WOODS DR WILDWOOD Elegant 1.5 story 4BR, 4.5ba home. Kitchen w/center island, 42 cabs, 2 sty GR w/flr to ceiling windows. $489,000

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2325 CRIMSON VIEW CT ELLISVILLE Sharp 2sty home with 4BR, 3.5ba, 3 car gar. Updated throughout, wood flrs, 42 cabinets, MFL. $379,900

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774 BORDEAUX CIRCLE ST ALBANS Stunning 1.5 sty villa, 3 car gar, 2 decks, patio, 2 sty GR, cust cabinetry & granite in gourmet kit. $524,900

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855 Carillon Ct. $355,000 St. Louis

1317 Parkview Valley $289,900 Ballwin

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6801 Plateau $142,500 St. Louis

1895 Lunenburg Dr. $194,000 Saint Peters

2118 White Lane Dr. $700,000 Chesterfield

458 GUNNISON GORGE WILDWOOD Impeccable 2sty,gourmet kit w/granite, ss, gas cooktop, light cherry cabs. Screen prch, fin W/O LL. $360,000

193 RIVER BEND DR CHESTERFIELD 4BR, 4ba in River Bend Estates. Move-in ready. Wood flrs, granite counters. Updates throughout.$346,500

366 SHETLAND VALLEY CT CHESTERFIELD Ranch villa, open flr plan, stunning kitchen, main floor master, family rm w/fireplace, fin W/L LL. $339,900

1955 CLAYMILLS DR CHESTERFIELD Wonderful 3BR, 2.5ba ranch. Updated kitch w/custom cabinets, center island & gas cooktop. $279,000

16336 NANTUCKET SOUND CT WILDWOOD Cul-de-sac in Nantucket Subd! Fin W/O LL, deck, patio. Wide plank flooring on main floor. $264,900

14305 QUIET MEADOW CT E CHESTERFIELD Updated Townhouse in gated community! 2BR, 3.5ba! Updated kitchen w/granite countertops. $259,900

15009 CLAYMOOR CT #3 CHESTERFIELD Charming 1st floor unit with 2BR + den & 2 baths. Formal LR & separate DR. Updated kitchen. $172,500

824 TIMBER GLEN LN (BALLWIN) Beautiful ranch off Kiefer Creek, updates galore.3c gar, aggregate drive. $424,999 1280 HANNA RD (BALLWIN) Beautifully appointed throughout, exceptional home, 3BR, 2.5ba, 2 car garage. $249,900 16349 FULLERTON MEADOWS DR (BALLWIN) Open flr plan 2 sty in Rockwood Schl Dist. Screen porch. $239,900 18238 CANYON FOREST CT (CHESTERFIELD) Newly completed custom ranch.

Lovely wood flrs on main level. $899,000 716 STONEBLUFF CT (CHESTERFIELD) Beautifully appointed villa ranch, numerous ammenities, gourmet kitch. $649,900 17603 AILUNTHUS (CHESTERFIELD) 1.5sty home in pristine condition. Updated thruout. Gleaming wood flrs. $625,000 16427 BRANDSFORD PT (CHESTERFIELD) 2 sty w/full brick front exterior, quiet cul-de-sac, level lot. $579,000 2221 STONEGATE MANOR CT (CHESTERFIELD) Beautiful 2 sty, 4BR on level lot. Expanded kitchen w/island. $550,000 17463 HIGHLAND WAY (CHESTERFIELD) Beautiful 2 story 4BR/5ba in Wildhorse Subd/Highlands. Great home. $479,000 738 STONE MEADOW DR (CHESTERFIELD) Beautifull appointed villa/ranch, W/O, fin ll, gourmet kitchen. $359,900 14580 CROSSWAY CT (CHESTERFIELD) Gorgeous 4BR/3ba 3000 sft home withh open flr pln on park-like lot. $324,900 1597 MILBRIDGE DR (CHESTERFIELD) Detached 2 story Villa! 3BR/3.5ba! Updated kitchen, private patio. $298,850 2423 BAXTON WAY (CHESTERFIELD) Lovely wood floors & open spaces in this gracious 2BR, 2.5ba ranch villa.$237,700 200 AMBRIDGE CT #201 (CHESTERFIELD) Gorgeous updated 2BR/2ba condo in Baywood! Great open flr plan.$195,000 2335 MANORGROVE (CHESTERFIELD) Delightful 2 bedrooms, 2 updated baths in Broadmoor.2 parking places. $160,000

14308 CONWAY MEADOWS CT #303 (CHESTERFIELD) Wonderful open floorplan ranch condo! 2BR, 2ba. $159,500 14443 BANTRY LN (CHESTERFIELD) Spacious 2BR,2ba condo, garage, main flr laundry, great rm w/fireplace. $109,900 208 FOX CHAPEL LN (CLARKSON VALLEY) Exceptional 2 sty w/numerous updates & additns. Marble foyer. $649,946 230 PENNINGTON LANE (CLARKSON VALLEY) Stunning 1.5 sty with lovely inground pool. 2 sty great rm. $599,900 1579 TERRA VISTA (CREVE COEUR) Attached villa waiting for you to complete.

Upgraded fixtures, wood flrs. $320,000 1523 TOWNE DR (ELLISVILLE) Updated, spacious & private! Move-in ready 2-sty.

Private park-like backyard. $238,000 841 SURREY MEADOWS CT (ELLISVILLE) Beautiful ranch home on a culde-sac lot. Vaulted great room. $217,000 1412 VIRGINIA DR (ELLISVILLE) Over 3,400 sq ft living area in Ellisville. Brick ranch 3BR, 2ba w/LR, FP. $210,000 1331 PARKVIEW EST DR (ELLISVILLE) Lovely 8 yr old townhouse close to shopping, parks & highway. $144,900 312 CLAYTON CROSSING #201 (ELLISVILLE) Pristine 2nd flr condo unit, freshly painted, newer carpet, MFL. $119,900 134 CARMEL WOODS DR (ELLISVILLE) Beautiful updated 2BR townhome. Fin walk out lower level. Patio. $113,500 712 EMERALD OAKS CT (EUREKA) Open spacious ranch on cul-de-sac, vaulted great rm & kitchen. $234,500 935 QUEENSBRIDGE RD (MANCHESTER) Stunning renovation. Gourmet kit, butlers pantry, main flr laundry. $225,000 11827 CHARLEMAGNE DR (MARYLAND HEIGHTS) Shows great 2BR, 1.5 bath townhome. Neutral décor. $110,000 10367 OXFORD HILL DR #5 (ST LOUIS CO) Great price. Secured building 1BR, 1.5ba plus 1 reserved gar space. $73,000

440 KILLEARN LN (TOWN & COUNTRY) Beautifully appointed throughout, meticulousloy maintained 1.5 sty . $699,900 715 AUBER RIDGE CT (UNINC STL COUNTY) Lovely 2-story loaded with updates. 4BR/3.5ba W/O LL. $229,900 1865 SEVEN PINES DR (WEST COUNTY) Updated 3BR/2ba home priced to sell.

Great ranch home w/fin LL. $199,900 395 LARIMORE VALLEY DR (WILDWOOD) Custom 1.5 sty, 2.4 acre lot, ingrnd pool, gazebo, porch. $1,549,900 1506 QUAIL HOLLOW CT (WILDWOOD) NEW price.1.5 story on premium 1+acre.

Panoramic views. Tall ceilings. $634,000 1309 KATSURA CT (WILDWOOD) 1.5 sty, quiet cul-de-sac, backs to trees, open flr plan, 2sty great rm. $509,900 2145 MINT SPRING LN (WILDWOOD) Wonderful brick front 5BR atrium ranch on 3 acres. Granite counters. $499,900 1645 BENTSHIRE CT (WILDWOOD) Wonderful 4BR 2sty on level cul-de-sac lot. Kit with 42 cabinets. $429,900 16262 LONE CABIN DR (WILDWOOD) Stunning 2 sty, level treed lot, screened patio & deck. T-staircase. $369,900 16407 RANCHESTER DR (WILDWOOD) 4BR 2 sty sitting on a park-like lot. Spacious family rm w/fireplace. $350,000 2561 PROSPECTOR RIDGE DR (WILDWOOD) Stately center hall plan 2 sty with 4BR, 2F/2H baths. $340,000 2434 MAPLE CROSSING (WILDWOOD) Updated 1.5 sty, 4BR, 2.5ba, 2 car. Updated kit/baths, main flr MBR. $259,000 1426 EAGLE RIDGE RD (WILDWOOD) Move-in ready 4BR, 3ba custom-built greatroom ranch. $249,900 216 WATERSIDE DR (WILDWOOD) Spacious 3BR, 2 full bath, 2 car garage end unit overlooking lake. $164,900 123 IMPERIAL CROWN WAY #J (WILDWOOD) Fabulous 2BR, 2ba condo w/carport. Cathedral ceiling, lndry rm. $108,900

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