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Grand Times A Magazine For Mature Jefferson County Readers

Way to go

April 13, 2017

Vol. 18, No. 1

Join us at the De Soto Senior Expo on April 19 The De Soto Senior Expo on Wednesday, April 19, offers a grand prize trip to see the Cardinals in action, as well as a pop-up farmers market, music, games, giveaways, a casino trip and more.

Come and enjoy!

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Seniors, Way to Go Enjoy entries in this year's Way to Go contest, featuring submitted travel photos from around the world.

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Sometimes a photo isn't needed Grand Times columnist Kathleen Brotherton says all the advances in photography can't replace the memory of experiencing some events live.

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Come out in your Cardinal Red

Head to the De Soto Senior Expo on April 19 for a day of fun, info and prizes

By Laura Marlow For the Leader

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t will be a fun and busy day at the De Soto Senior Expo, slated for Wednesday, April 19, at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 13225 Hwy. E, in De Soto.

Admission is free, and seniors from throughout Jefferson County are invited to attend.

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Doors will open at 8 a.m., and free coffee and doughnuts will be available immediately, courtesy of Leader Publications, the event sponsor.

Wear red if you’re feeling lucky that day, because two winners will get a pair of tickets each to that afternoon’s St Louis Cardinals baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, including a meal at Busch Stadium’s Red Bird Club and limousine transportation to and from the game.

Expogoers age 50 or older may register at the Leader booth for the ticket giveaway, and two names will be drawn at random. There is a limit of one entry per person.

The winners and one guest apiece will be taken from the Expo in a Huskey limousine to Busch Stadium for the 12:45 p.m. game.

Only those age 50 or older are eligible to win the tickets, but guests may be any age. The prize package, worth about $500 for each winner, is courtesy of Leader Publications.

Busy day is planned Vendors will be on hand throughout the morning with a wide variety of goods and services of interest to seniors. Many will offer giveaways and drawings for free items. Smart attendees will bring pre-printed address labels, to save time and effort when entering drawings, filling out forms or requesting information.

There will be two sessions of free bingo, with prizes including restaurant coupons and gift certificates.

Music will be provided by J.B. Louis and The Legends, the official band of Leader Senior Expos, which will bring its popular selections of country and vintage rock music to the stage at 10 a.m. Seniors are welcome to sing along and dance in the aisles.

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Sandy Paul of De Soto holds her winning bingo card during last year’s De Soto Senior Expo. Seniors are urged to wear their Cardinal baseball gear. Grand prize winners will leave straight from the expo for the baseball game.

Senior Expo schedule 8 a.m.

De Soto Senior Expo opens Vendor booths open Free coffee and doughnuts, while they last Photo booth, staffed by Jefferson County Photography Club Pop-up Farmers Market opens

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Bingo

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Speaker: Great American Eclipse with Don Ficken A pair of free solar eclipse glasses for each attendee

Eclipse is on the horizon

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A program about the upcoming total solar eclipse will be presented by local expert Don Ficken at 9 a.m. In addition, each attendee will receive a free pair of solar eclipse glasses.

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Pop-up Farmer’s Market

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The De Soto Farmers Market will offer its first-ever pop-up farmers market during the expo.

Local farmers will set up their tents outside the hall and will have a variety of locally grown and produced items available for sale.

Items scheduled to be available at the pop-up market include: ■ Bedding plants: John Weier.

■ Eggs and baked goods: Deb Schweigert.

■ Jewelry made from flatware: Linda Hunter.

■ Hand-woven baskets, including an on-site demonstration during the Senior

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Expo: Marsha Foster with Frog’s Hair Baskets.

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■ Wood products: Ray Underwood.

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■ Cupcakes: Kimberly Clark with the See SENIOR EXPO, Page 3B

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Ada Peterson of De Soto gets a hearing check from Trish Weckherlin at the Miracle Ear booth during last year’s De Soto Senior Expo.

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Music from J.B. Louis and the Legends drives Paul Modica of Arnold and Sharron Massey of south St. Louis County to the dance floor during the Festus Senior Expo in June 2016. Jerry Blanton and the band will perform during the De Soto Senior Expo, starting at 10 a.m.

The De Soto Farmers Market will offer its first-ever pop-up farmers market during the expo.

Dramatic vistas, comical poses and small, intimate moments were represented in submissions by 63 different photographers. Our Jefferson County seniors love to snap pictures of their adventures, big and small.

Carole Allen, 54, of High Ridge won this year’s grand prize of $200 when her photo was drawn at random from among all entries.

“Holy crap – no way! I was not expecting this,” was her excited response to the news of her win.

Allen said she is a longtime amateur photographer and loves to take a lot of pictures on trips with her husband, John.

“He is very patient with me,” she said with a laugh. “He knows I’m always going to be four or five steps behind him, snapping away.”

Her winning entry was taken during the couple’s 2015 trip to the Canadian Rockies, and shows Maligne Lake in Jasper, Alberta.

“We were at the lake just as the afternoon sun calmed the water and the

be posted to the Leader’s website at www. myleaderpaper.com.

Thanks to all those readers who took the time to share their travel memories with Grand Times.

For more information about the Expo, call the Leader at 636-931-7560.

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Cupcake Patch.

■ Bedding plants: Jimmy Matheny with Matheny Farm.

■ Fresh pork and baked goods: James and Arlene Byler with Hickory Ridge Farm.

■ Fresh produce: Julie Ott with Julie’s Produce.

Additional farmers market participants may join the list.

De Soto Farmers Market opens for the season Saturday, April 22, at its permanent location, 520 N. Main St., De Soto.

Smile for the Leader Expogoers are encouraged to stop by our fun and free photo booth, staffed by members of the Jefferson County Photography Club, to get their picture taken with a variety of fun props.

Check the Leader’s website, myleaderpaper.com, after the expo to see all the pictures.

reflection of the historic boathouse was too amazing to pass up,” she said. “We loved it so much we went back the following year.”

The following pages showcase as many of this year’s contest entries as space permits. The remaining photos will

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The motor coach will leave from the Expo at about 11:30 a.m., and will return to the same location at approximately 6 p.m. All participants must have valid photo identification.

The deadline to register for the trip is noon Monday, April 17. Call 636-9378481 for more information or to reserve a seat.

Way to Go More than 100 photos were submitted for the Grand Times’ ninth annual “Way to Go” contest, from places far away and as close as the house next door.

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Serene scene wins $200 for High Ridge photographer

By Laura Marlow For the Leader

arole Allen, 54, of High Ridge won the grand prize of $200 in the annual “Way to Go” photography contest sponsored by Times, Leader PublicaGrand Times tions’ magazine for seniors.

Her photo was selected at random from among more than 100 entries from 63 different photographers. The lucky shot was taken during a May 2015 trip to Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, about 400 miles northeast of Seattle. It depicts Maligne Lake, just outside the little

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town of Jasper, on a sunny afternoon.

Allen and her husband, John, always travel in the spring.

“We always have to go in May, because that’s when he can get off work,” she said. “But it works out, because his birthday is May 4 and our anniversary is May 27. So whenever we go, we say we’re celebrating those.”

No matter the destination, Allen said she always has her camera ready.

“There are so many pictures of me with my camera in my hand,” she said with a laugh. “It’s like an appendage.”

She said she does get some good photos with the camera in her phone, but

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she prefers to rely on her trusty Pentax.

“I like the idea of taking them with my camera,” she said. “My husband teases me, because I don’t have a lot of confidence. I know there are other people out there with a lot more talent than me.

But I just really love it.”

The Allens chose Jasper on a whim, but they fell in love with its unspoiled beauty.

“I saw a photo of Lake Louise, and I told John, ‘Oh, we have to go there,’” Allen said. “It turns out, he had always wanted to see the Canadian Rockies, too.”

So she set to work at one of her favorite pastimes.

“If I could be a travel agent in a next life, I would. I love to plan vacations,” she said. “I did all the research and planned it all, and we had a wonderful time. It was beautiful weather the whole time.”

They enjoyed it so much, in fact, they returned a year later, in May 2016.

“But, you know, that time, the weather was exactly the opposite,” Allen says.

“It was cool and cloudy. I got some good shots, but nothing like this one.”

Allen said her prize money will go into her travel fund. She and her husband are planning a trip to Utah in six weeks.

“We’re flying into Las Vegas, then we’ll drive down and see Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon and Zion (national parks),” she said. “We’re really looking forward to it.”

They’re also saving for a 2020 trip back to Jasper, a gift for the oldest of their three grandchildren.

“When our granddaughter, Brianna, graduates from Northwest High School, we are taking her and a friend there for a graduation trip,” Allen said.

The other grandchildren are 8 and 1.

“It’s a good thing they’re so spread out in age,” Allen said with a laugh. “It’ll give us time to save for their trips, too.”

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Grand prize drawing winner Carole Allen of High Ridge took this photo at Maligne Lake in Jasper, Alberta, Canada, in May 2015. “We were at the lake just as the afternoon sun calmed the water,” she said. “The reflection of the historic boathouse was too amazing to pass up.” Allen’s photo won her the $200 grand prize in the annual “Way to Go’ contest sponsored by Leader Publications.

The calm after the storm Dan Thomure of Imperial captured this shot during a family vacation in Destin, Fla., in 2016. “We headed to the beach after a thunderstorm to get some family photos,” he says. “This photo was taken when I caught my 3-year-old granddaughter in a pensive moment. When I showed her the photo later, she said, ‘That was right before I put my face in the water.’”

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I could get used to this ocean view Walter Harmon, 67, of Arnold took this snapshot from an infinity pool overlooking the Pacific Ocean during a 2010 trip to Costa Rica.

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Racing the sunset Terri French-Detmer, 55, of Pevely took this picture during a December 2011 surprise trip to Scottsdale, Ariz., to celebrate husband Don’s 40th birthday.

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Mimi Stecher, 57, of Fenton took this snapshot of Neuschwanstein Castle in Schwangau, Germany, during a September 2016 European vacation. “This trip was memorable for so many reasons,” Stecher says. “But, above all, I traveled with nine family and extended family members. We drove all over Germany, from Munich to Berlin, in two large vans for 10 days and had a wonderful time.”

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Susie Stanton, 50, of Arnold likes to travel with her grandson, Jake. This photo was taken during a 2012 trip to the Grand Canyon, as the youngster faked a fall into the chasm.

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Ramona Fitchpatrick, 62, of Barnhart visited Hawaii at least once a year during the three years her son-in-law was stationed there with his family. She took this shot in February 2016. “This ScenicAds-2016.qxp_ScenicAds-2013 3/20/17grandson, 6:41 AM Page is my youngest Shia4 Lewis,” she says. “He loves trees and water.

During the time they lived in Hawaii, this tree on the North Shore became one of his favorite spots to play. When he got tired of the tree, he played in the water.

Wonderful time, and lots of precious memories were made on each visit.”

Don’t mind us; we’re just tourists Katie Stamm, 55, of Fenton took this photo with her phone camera during a memorable vacation to Cozumel, Mexico, in February. “I traveled there with some close neighbors and had one of the best experiences ever in all of my many travels,” she says. “On that morning, we decided to get up very early to catch the sunrise on the east coast of the island, and I am so happy we did. A couple of gun-toting Army guys came strolling down the beach just as I decided to catch some of the first rays of a gorgeous sunrise. Happily for us, they just kept walking on down the beach and didn’t stop to chat.”

St. Francis reflection Peggy Haberberger, 67, of Imperial took this photo during a vacation to Italy in 2010.

“This was a trip to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary,” says her husband, George. “The photo is of the St. Francis Cathedral in Assisi, reflected in a window framed by vines of a restaurant across the street.”

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Rolling in Betty Todd, 68, of High Ridge took this photo at Venice Beach during a March 2014 vacation to Florida.

Lonely cloud Evelina Yulianova, 32, of House Springs snapped this shot somewhere over Nevada in May 2015. “We were flying home from my friend’s destination wedding in Las Vegas and I saw this lonely little cloud from the airplane,” she says.

Peaceful time Maureen R. Brown, 51, of Hillsboro took this picture on Christmas Day 2016 at Ft. Myers Beach in Florida. “I had Christmas dinner with family,” she says, ‘then went to the beach to watch the sun set over the ocean with my loved ones.”

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Got your back Dawn Selsor of De Soto sent in this photo, taken during a trip to Central America.

“My husband and I visited Ambergris Caye in Belize in July 2016,” she says. “It is truly the most beautiful, relaxing place we have traveled to. This photo was taken by my husband, Matt, as I was enjoying the view from the infinity pool at our resort.

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Way out there Dawn Peery, 58, of Crystal City took this picture of family members walking out a jetty toward a lighthouse during a 2016 trip to Minnesota.

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Jedda Farrell, 71, of Arnold sent in this photo of herself and another retired Fox C-6 School District teacher with their husbands, taken in February on the street in Tombstone Ariz., right outside the infamous OK Corral. From left are Farrell; her husband, Jim Farrell; and Judi and John Nassif.

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Down by the old mill stream Will Solomon, 72, of Imperial captured this peaceful scene during an October 2016 visit to Eminence. “The mill at Alley Springs is a few miles outside of Eminence,” he says. “It is a really beautiful place, and fun to photograph.”

Yes, that’s a real alligator From left, Craig Dexter of Imperial and Jim Bush and Mark Clauss of Oakville with Coco the alligator on the ninth hole of the Playa Mujeres golf course during a vacation to Mexico in October 2016. The photo was taken by a groundskeeper. “What were we thinking?” Dexter says.

With Daddy Mark Shreves, 57, of High Ridge took this picture Nov. 28, 2006, on the island of Antigua. “This trip was so memorable because, after my divorce, I was able to spend some quality time with my kids on a cruise ship in the Caribbean,” he says.

Girls only Beth Hudson, 54, of Herculaneum took this photo at the Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson, Ariz. “I was there in October of 2015 visiting with my sisters on a fabulous ‘girls only’ trip,” she says.

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Seagoing scene Jane Haas of Arnold captured this scene during a three-week vacation to Alaska in the summer of 2005. “Resurrection Bay, Alaska, is one of our favorite vacation places,” she says, “because of its gorgeous natural colors in the water and mountains in contrast to the crisp white fishing boats, and because of the serenity there.”

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Pat Sebaugh, 65, of Hillsboro captured this view of Niagara Falls from her room at the Hilton hotel on July 12, 2016. “This was a trip on our bucket list,” she says. “It was a retirement/65th birthday trip from my husband. We traveled there with some of our best friends and had a fantastic time. The falls were amazing!”

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Overwhelmed with emotion Sandy Roth, 56, of Festus took this photo during her afternoon commute from Kuwait City in July 1994, while she was working there just after the Persian Gulf War. The photo shows Kuwait Towers in the distance across Kuwait Bay. “I had been driving home from work down Arabian Gulf Street, and ‘Can You Feel the Love Tonight,’ the theme song from Disney’s ‘The Lion King’ came on the radio,” she says. Although the movie had been out over a month, being a bit isolated, it was the first time I had heard the song.”

The lyrics of the song – “There’s a calm surrender to the rush of day, when the heat of the rolling world can be turned away” – spoke to Roth in an immediate way.

“The song, the surroundings, the situation and being so homesick,” she says.

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On the level Jim Voss, 65, of Barnhart took this photo during a visit to Lake Tahoe. “Driving around the lake on a cloudy overcast day, we stopped at a little place with some rock formations,” he says. “I climbed down to the shore and lay on the ground to get this ‘floor level’ shot.”

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Ken Krull, 53, of Fenton captured this serene vista aboard a boat headed toward Marco Island from Key West during a Florida vacation in March 2016.

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Lisa O’Heron, 50, of Arnold submitted this photo, taken on Fort Walton Beach during a family vacation in Florida in 2013. From left are husband Pat, son Ben, Lisa, son Andrew and daughter Cassie. “The photo was taken using a tripod and timer,” Lisa says. “It did double duty as our family Christmas card.”

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Above the fruited plain Colleen Thompson of Imperial took this picture in May 2016 atop Pike’s Peak in Colorado, following a cog railway ride above the clouds.

Sheila Michael, 60, of Barnhart took this picture during a vacation in Costa Rica. “We stayed in this treehouse near a small town as we headed north to the Arenal Volcano,” she says. “We sat on the deck in the dark, looking for wildlife in the jungle below. That night, we saw things we could not identify; but the next morning we were awakened to the sound of something we knew – howler monkeys. After that, we saw monkeys everywhere!”

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Street scene During a visit to some life-long friends in Germany, Linda Bone of Arnold was treated to a memorable road trip in 2011.

“We spent a couple of days in Lugano, Switzerland; then in Lake Como, Italy; then in St. Moritz,” she says. “The grand finale was Milan, Italy. I am blessed!”

She snapped this view of a busy street in Milan, complete with a clown selling balloon animals on the corner. “It was a gorgeous view and an amazing city,” she says.

Virginia and Tim Rice of De Soto were fishing on Bull Shoals Lake early in the morning on Nov. 3, 2016, when Virginia, 71, was distracted by the beautiful sunrise. Luckily, she had her camera close at hand to capture this shot.

Wide open spaces Pat Scroggins, 58, of Festus took this picture while visiting Canyonlands National Park in Utah on May 17, 2016. “My wife, Kelly Scroggins, is in the left corner of the picture,” he says.

Lonely lighthouse

Romance Robert Banes, 65, of Arnold said after enduring a couple of years of financial hard times, he and his wife, Rachel, celebrated their improved circumstances with a trip to Michigan in September 2014. Rachel snapped this picture at a lighthouse in South Haven. “Of all the memorable places we saw around the state of Michigan, watching the sun set at this beach park along Lake Michigan and the lighthouse was the most romantic,” he says.

Taking it all in Patricia Rimkus, 62, of De Soto and her husband, Tom Van Dyke, took their “dream vacation’ to Alaska in July 2013. “While taking an excursion in Juneau, I was able to capture another excursion boat, along with two orca whales surfacing,” she says.

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Karen Hanson, 51, of House Springs took this picture of a lighthouse just off Paradise Island in the Bahamas in November 2016, during a 25thanniversary cruise with her husband, Greg. Their two daughters, Nicole, 20, and Katelyn, 14, went along on the trip.

“You can see the Atlantis Resort, there in the background,” Hanson says. “We had gone there for the day and were just leaving. We didn’t even know the lighthouse was there until we were right up on it.”

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Some memories are so indelible, no camera is required to preserve them nyone who takes a family trip or an exotic vacation will take Kathleen a camera along. But over the Brotherton years, what that camera looks like has changed dramatically.

No longer do people lug a clunky old box camera with even more clunky flash attachments. In those days, you had a big camera bag and it surprised. For example, the time I used was stuffed. You had your camera, your a digital camera at a Native American flashes, at least one package of ice-cube- museum and found when I returned home sized flash cubes and extra rolls of film. that I’d left the video running while I was You were limited to one picture per flash walking through the museum. Most of cube, so you hoped you got it right the my video was of my feet and the floor of the museum. first time.

Today almost Early on, black everyone carries a and white film was cell phone that is all you had. When We all ducked except small enough to fit color film became my husband, who didn’t in a pocket and is available, what a revcapable of producing elation that was! see it coming. His color photos 10 times Next came clearer than those of 35-millimeter camer- expression is one the the past, and videos as. You could use the with sound and imkind with a built-in rest of us will never ages that rival movies flash, so that helped forget. or TV. some, and at least Despite the imcolor film was now provements in camthe norm.

But there were many more options eras, some vacation moments don’t end for special lenses, and those could fill up saved for posterity, and yet are quite up a camera bag quickly. I’m a simple memorable. There was the time our famperson, so I always used a point-and-click ily visited a small roadside zoo in Oregon. camera. If the lighting was off, so were The kids and I were all laughing at a big gorilla that was bouncing a tire on the my pictures.

We can’t forget those Polaroid cam- floor of his cage. He stopped suddenly, eras that were so popular in the 1960s and filled his paw with doo-doo, then slung 1970s. Unfortunately, when our kids were it through the bars. We all ducked except small, we took nearly all our family pho- my husband, who didn’t see it coming. tos with a popular camera made by that His expression is one the rest of us will company. I say “unfortunately” because never forget.

Then there was the time I unknowthe company didn’t tell you those blackand-white photos would fade in time and ingly caught my skirt in the car door while that images would become unrecogniz- on the way to the Miami airport. Monsoon rains flooded the streets and highways able after a decade or so.

Video cameras came along, with leading into the terminal, and water rose the first ones so large they needed their to the bottom of the car door.

When I got out of the car one side of suitcase if you wanted to take them on vacation. You really didn’t know what my long, yellow skirt was dripping with you had recorded until you got home. brown, muddy water and I had nothing Sometimes you were in for a big surprise! clean to change into before getting on Later on, when digital cameras be- the plane.

Not exactly a “Kodak moment!” came available, it was still possible to be

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Gator done!

Joyce Shepherd, 69, of De Soto snapped this picture of her granddaughter, Sarah Downs of Hillsboro, holding a baby alligator during an air boat ride, part of a June 2016 trip to New Orleans.

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Lorraine Sartori, 66, of High Ridge was in Gulf Shores, Ala., with her husband in 2015 when they watched an unlikely friendship between man and bird. “We witnessed (the fisherman) catch several large fish. Before long, this amazing heron visited and waited for the man to feed him some bait. It was so fascinating to watch.”

Snowbirds Lisa Cross, 59, of Festus took this picture, one of many beautiful Gulf sunsets she and her husband, Dave, experienced during their January visit to Orange Beach in Alabama. “This trip is special to us because it was our first ‘snowbird’ vacation after our retirements in 2016,” she says.

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1 package active dry yeast 1/4 cup warm water 3 1/2 cups flour 1 1/3 cups margarine or butter 1/2 cup dairy sour cream 4 eggs, separated 1 3/4 cups chopped walnuts 3/4 cup sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 10 1/2-ounce jar (3/4 cup) apricot preserves 1/2 cup sugar Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease 13x9-inch pan. In small bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water (105 to 115 degrees). In large bowl, using pastry blender or fork cut margarine into flour until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in sour cream, egg yolks and dissolved yeast just until soft dough forms.

Shape dough into a ball; divide into 3 equal parts. On well-floured surface, roll each part to 13x9-inch rectangle.

Place one rectangle in bottom of prepared pan. Reserve 1/4 cup of the walnuts. Combine remaining walnuts, 3/4 cup sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over rectangle in pan. Top with second rectangle; spread evenly with preserves. Top with remaining rectangle. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 to 50 minutes or until light golden brown.

In large bowl, beat egg whites until foamy. Gradually add 1/2 cup sugar; beat until stiff peaks form, about 3 minutes. Cover baked pastry with egg white mixture; sprinkle with reserved walnuts. Bake for an additional 10 to 15 minutes or until golden brown. Cool.

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