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Table of Contents
It All POPS! 6. TAB TOP PANDEMONIUM 8. EYE POP-ING STYLE 9. ADD POP IN YOUR LIFE! 10. BAUBLES, BITES & BOOTS
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12. 2015 HAIR TRENDS 14. COKE
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16. FIND THE PERFECT ENGAGEMENT RING 17. IT’S ALL POP•A•LICIOUS 28. EASTER
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20. REMEMBER WHEN?
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MATHENY MANIFESTO
26. SOCIETY PAGES Cover image credits: Mike Matheny and Greg Amsinger
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Photo by: Michael Schlueter Layout Design: Tim Rose
“Pop” into the Meadows...a vibrant, outdoor marketplace and entertainment destination.
The Meadows blends shopping with pleasure as national retailers share space with culturally distinctive merchandise and non-stop attractions in a welcoming, invigorating environment.
More than 30 shops, including big names like Von Maur, Bed Bath & Beyond, Nike, Old Navy, Ann Taylor LOFT, Chico’s, Soma and Victoria’s Secret, as well as regional restaurants, local eateries and small shops, lend unmistakable appeal. An open air plaza invites strolling and relaxing in between purchases, as shoppers take a break from browsing to take in street performances, concerts and other events. The Meadows is truly a unique destination for families and the community to gather, shop and socialize.
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TAB TOP
PANDEMONIUM • Our Tab Top Program raises approximately $25,000 for RMHC St. Louis each year, helping provide a “home-away-from-home” for families of seriously ill children. • Each year RMHC St. Louis collects approximately 45,000 pounds of tab tops. • Collecting tab tops is a great, no-cost way for kids and schools to give back. • RMHC St. Louis’ annual Tab Top Pandemonium will be held on Saturday, May 2, 2015, at the Park Avenue. RMH. Families/schools/organizations from all over MO and IL come to donate their tab top collections. There is a carnival with food and games, and PSC Metal is on-site to weigh the tab top collections. • RMHC St. Louis partners with PSC Metals and Didion Orf Recycling to recycle the tab tops that are collected. • The 2014 largest tab top collector was Brandon Scott who collected 2,412 pounds of tab tops. Tab top collections can be dropped off at any of our three RMH locations during business hours or by appointment. Call 314-773-1100 for more information, or visit www.rmhcstl.com/tabtops for more information
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Eye POP-ing Style Fun, functional and fabulous, classic to edgy frames are hot. All eyes are on your frames! • Chunky but lightweight plastics • Glitter now vs. bling • 2-tone frames are huge • Temples are off the top • Aviators are still really hot, especially mirrored aviators • Colorblock is everywhere • O’mbre • Modern classics • Modified cateye ~ Overland Optical
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P in your O P Life! Looking at your front porch, you need a pop of color... Pop an outdoor pillow on your bench for a splash of color.
You’re dressed and ready to go but need that special anchor to finish your outfit... Pop it with a colorful purse.
Going out on the town for the evening in a cute new dress you bought, but want to have that special pop? Pop on colorful bracelets to add that special charm to your outfit.
You look around your house and see how everything matches, but you need that special pop... Pop a brightly colored vase into your décor to catch everyone’s eye.
Looking for that special something to add a little color into your house? Pop a poppy picture on the wall to give it some great color.
Want to warm up a room? Pop in a bright blue vase with Ranunculus in it for a splendid pop of color. Want to brighten someone’s day? Pop a card into the mail. March | April
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Baubles, Bites & Boots
The Bohnenstiehls’ new shop has something for everyone
Owners, Dave & Sally (above) with friends.
Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photos by Michael Schlueter Two years ago, Sally Bohnenstiehl lost her papa and her sister. She and her husband also lost their jobs. She said Baubles, Bites & Boots is the lemonade she made from lemons. “We’re just old-fashioned shop keeps,” Bohnenstiehl said. The quaint little shop at 107 North Main Street in St. Charles is where she and her husband say just about anyone can come for “something neat, something sweet, something to put upon your feet.” Baubles, Bites & Boots opened in August 2014. “We decided to make lemonade out of 10 StreetScape Magazine
lemons,” Bohnenstiehl said. “I always had a dream of a unique boutique or shop since I was a child. My father was a jeweler in Ferguson. David always wanted a footwear store; we melded the ideas. It’s really an old-fashioned, small boutique where we offer unique things and not a lot of any one thing.” The Bohnenstiehls were born and bred in St. Louis. Bohnenstiehl said her father would be proud. “My father was all about a fair price for a good product,” she said. “Much of our nostalgic jewelry display actually came from my father’s store and is written in his hand.”
From costume-type outfits for newborns, like a construction worker or chef, to the mini-picnic basket with a sewing kit inside and a 1907 postcard from Paris on its top, Baubles, Bites & Boots has something for everyone. There are spices and sauces, jewelry, knitted wraps, tunics, ponchos, fleece-lined leggings, and, of course, boots, both for work and for style. There are light-weight, cold weather boots for men and women, tactical footwear for men, and fashion footwear for women. The shop carries Grubs, Corkys and SWAT lines. Bohnenstiehl also offers sugar-free candy and gluten-free chips and dips. There is
olive oil and and olives, flavored sea salt, miniature strawberry daiquiri mixes, and even greeting cards. “We want to show everyone how very diversified we are,” she said. The men’s section offers hair-styling products, gloves, eclectic watches, socks, umbrellas and flasks. There are Mardi Gras masks and crowns, slippers, back scratchers, handmade signs, yo-yos and walking sticks. There’s a pocket knife inside a shotgun shell and a lighter in a tiny rifle. Bohnenstiehl said she buys local whenever possible. Baubles, Bites & Boots carries Adventures in Spices from St. Louis, Mo and Midnight Scent Works from O’Fallon, Mo. The greeting cards are made in Maryland Heights, Mo. But perhaps the most engaging aspect of Bohnenstiehl’s shop is the way she chose to decorate the dual window displays at Baubles, Bites & Boots. She has fashioned one side as a depiction of her mother’s room and the other of her father’s. She fills the alcoves with merchandise that might, in another time or place, represent what the two would be doing at any given time of the year. Leading up to Valentine’s Day, her mother’s room was adorned with beautiful jewelry and a faux fur wrap that she may have worn on a lover’s date. There were bonbons and a greeting card ready to take to her sweetheart. In Bill’s window there were nostalgic items that he may have gathered at various ports during his time in the military overseas. Bohnenstiehl even displayed the engagement card that her father had given her mother, signed, “Night and Day.” It was the way he signed every card to her during their 65-year marriage. Sitting upon the table in Bohnenstiehl’s mother’s window is a picture of her father and vice versa in his. For more information on Baubles, Bites & Boots, call 636-757-3712.
Merchandise display at Baubles, Bites & Boots. Inside Baubles, Bites & Boots. March | April
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2015Hair Trends
The styling team at Belleza
Start growing your locks ladies. Everywhere you look you see long, natural, beautiful hair. It’s sexy; it’s flirty; it’s versatile and is the ideal backdrop to show case 2015 color trends. 12 StreetScape Magazine
“I am loving the longer, softer, more natural bohemian looks,” said Robyn Clark, owner of Belleza Hair Salon in O’Fallon, Mo. Along with all of the long hair, trends are showing ponytails and braids of all types, including the sleek mohawk braid. There are many boho waves - open soft looks that are so loose they can hardly be called a wave at all, maybe a ripple. Trend is also showing soft, half up tousled hair that is natural, sassy and sexy. This gives a client an effortless, go-to look on second day hair. Long hair isn’t the only style capturing this Bohemian trend. “Long lobs (bobs) are classic and still on trend with
Beautiful custom balayage
an added easy wave and soft natural highlights,” said Bri McPherson, a color specialist at Belleza. For those with short hair wanting instant long hair, Belleza offers a wide variety of temporary, halo and, for the most realistic look, Di Biase keratin hair extensions. Visit BellezaBridalandHairSalon.com for more information. Belleza offers the ultimate experience with hair extensions. Clark is one of the few certified specialists in Missouri with additional training for thinning hair replacement. “You will be amazed by the realistic results,” says Clark. The current balayage color trend is a technique in which color
After, instant long hair with a Halo hair piece
is hand painted for a natural, flawless look. Your current ombre’ will transition nicely with this artistic application that grows out beautifully. At Belleza you will experience a warm welcome and a thorough consultation with a highly-educated stylist. Every stylist is knowledgeable on complementing natural skin tones and face shapes, which is ever important to achieve optimal results. You will feel comfortable knowing your stylist will educate you and make sure you are able to recreate your new look at home.
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Coke Is It! Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photos by Michael Schlueter
At least for Tom Smith it is… “If it’s made to be saved, everybody’s saving it.” This is some of the best advice a potential collector can get from a seasoned saver. Tom Smith, Jr., has been collecting Coca-Cola memorabilia for more than 30 years; and most of his treasures were not meant to be saved. In fact, most people never thought they’d be worth a dime. Suckers! “The only way to tell value is to sell it,” Smith said. Whatever “it” is, he said, there’s always a dollar amount if there is a willing buyer and seller. A financial and political advisor by trade, Smith started collecting when he was 10 years old. He took a part-time job with an auction company in St. Charles. It was his job to clean out the basements of homes that were being auctioned. “I went down there with the rats, and my job was to pull out stuff and put it on the tables,” he said. “I was called a ring man.” Many times at auctions, buyers will purchase an entire box of what they perceive as junk just to attain one item. “They take what they want and leave the rest,” Smith said. “So 14 StreetScape Magazine
I would work the auction on Saturday for $25, load all of the free stuff up, and my dad and I would take it to the Wentzville flea market on Sunday. I had what I call the first dollar store. I would make $30 to $75 on Sunday. It was all profit. By the time I was 12, it was every weekend.” At first, Smith was just in it for extra spending money — for the golden purchase that every young boy wanted to make at the time, a Matchbox car or a Lego set. But then something occurred to him. “I noticed the Coca-Cola stuff always seemed to be first to go. That intrigued me. Whether it was just a bottle opener or bottle caps, they always sold first,” he said. So he started flipping through price guides; and low and behold, the bottle opener that he just sold for a dollar was selling elsewhere for $8. The next Sunday he separated his wares, and a lifelong passion was born. Smith’s first major purchase was a 1937 Coca-Cola serving tray. He bought it at an auction on Pike Street in St. Charles for $50. He took it to the flea market that Sunday and sat it on the tailgate of his dad’s pickup with a “make offer” sign on it.
“It was really just to draw people in. I really had no intention of selling it,” he said. But just six months later, a man offered him $125 for it. That was 1986. He never did sell that tray. Today, Smith owns some of the most sought after Coca-Cola memorabilia in existence. He has it stored in three different locations and is currently working on purchasing a building for a museum. And while he does wheel and deal with collectors all over the world through his website, there are certain items in his collection that he isn’t sure he could ever part with. “I have a couple of things that it would take an inordinate amount of money to get from me.” There is even one piece he wouldn’t discuss with this reporter on the record. Smith owns literally thousands of pieces of memorabilia. He has one of the extremely rare, first coin-operated Coke machines from 1929 with the only original base known to exist. In addition, he has a 1929 salesman’s sample Coca-Cola machine with the phrase, “Serve Yourself – Please Pay the Cashier,” on the side. There’s a 1931 Coca-Cola train set; and then there is the 1924 cardboard Coca-Cola carrier that was pulled from a wall on the tenth floor of the Knickerbocker Hotel in New York City during its renovation.
day. Then again, they may have pretty hefty collections of their own by then. One collects PEZ dispensers and the other Beanie Babies. It’s not all about Coca-Cola. Smith’s dad, Tom Smith, Sr., had the collecting itch long before his son. He got him collecting pinball machines and still comes over to help maintain them, while keeping a stock of his own. The two still frequent auctions and sales together. “It’s always been about doing this with him, going on junking trips. We’re like the American Pickers.” Among the pinball machines and other collectible games that fill the party room in his home, there hangs a sign most native St. Charlsans would recognize. Somehow Smith found – in Kansas City, MO, no less – the old blue and white, porcelainbacked, neon sign that at one time identified the St. Charles Dairy ice-cream store. “I knew that was coming home with me,” Tom, Jr., said. He paid $460 for the sign and spent another $1,000 to have the neon tubes replaced. It was worth every penny, he asserted. Tom, Jr.’s next step is to open that museum and write a book. He’s working on an informational book about no deposit, no return bottles. He already has a website, www.SodaMuseum.com.
Smith himself discovered a Metalcraft Coca-Cola truck with real glass bottles and rubber tires in a grungy basement in St. Charles.
His basement is full of every type and size of soda bottle one can imagine. From the Tab bottles of the 1970s embossed with soda bubbles to the foam-wrapped bottles 1980s’ kids peeled and picked at as they drank the contents, Tom, Jr., has them all.
“There was an old bar in the back. The stools were covered in mold. There was water on the floor. I went behind there, and there were 20 to 30 toys all in the original boxes.”
He owns a set of every experimental bottle from 1967 to 1978 that was saved by the senior fellow for Exploratory and Fundamental Research at Monsanto in Connecticut.
That toy is worth $4,000 today.
He has Coke bottles from the 1890s and 1907 that he said the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, GA doesn’t even have. He even has one of only 72 “X” bottles that were inadvertently lost before they could be tested at the Laurens Glass Company in Baltimore, MD.
He does have some rules for his purchases. “It has to be something that, if I had to sell it tomorrow, I could make money. To me, it’s about preservation of history,” he said. “It’s not affected by the stock market. It’s a retirement plan.” The collection could also put his two sons through college some
There’s no doubt about it. This collection of his — it’s the real thing.
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Finding the Perfect Engagement Ring Set a Budget... The old two-month salary rule is gone. Decide what you are comfortable spending without going into major debt. Decisions, Decisions... Choose your cut - oval, round, princess- cut, etc. and her favorite precious metal. Choose the color of the diamond; black, chocolate, yellow, pink or the traditional white and any accent stones. Research Jewelers... Are they knowledgeable about precious stones? Design or Choose... You may purchase a ring that is already set or a loose diamond and design the setting yourself. Whatever ring you choose, she will love it because it is especially for her...
Is it time to POP the question?? If so, visit Zander’s Jewelry. With a large selection of bridal sets and wide variety of diamonds of different shapes and sizes, they are committed to makeing all of your bride-to-be’s dreams come true. Kim Zander is a GIA Certified Appraiser. In today’s world of jewelry retailers, buyers, and sellers, the GIA Graduate Gemologist Degree stands as a benchmark of professional integrity and competency. This internationally-recognized degree qualifies those who have received it as fully knowledgeable of diamonds, diamond grading, and gem identification. Zander’s Jewelry is one of the few retailers in the region that has earned this mark of professional excellence. So…after you “Pop the Question”… POP into Zander’s Jewelry to find the right ring for your special day! ~ Zanders Jewelry
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POP•A•Licious Popsicles were accidently invented in 1905 by Frank Epperson when he was 11 years old. Frank patented the “Frozen Ice on a Stick” in 1923.
Indian traditional medicine uses soaked poppy seeds ground up into a fine paste with milk as a moisturizer.
Americans consume approximately 17.3 billion quarts of popcorn per year.
Angie Dudley introduced cake pops to Americans on the Martha Stewart Show in April 2008.
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Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photos by Michael Schlueter
Local artist Zack Smithey is giving adults something to hunt this Easter season. He’s calling it the “Easter Art Hunt,” and it’s the first of its kind in St. Louis. Smithey started producing 1,000 pieces of art in January that he will be hiding in plain sight all over the Lou the week before Easter. That’s 200 pieces per day for the five days leading up to Easter. “If you find a piece, it’s yours to keep, sell or trade,” he said. “They won’t be hard to find. They will simply be hidden like eggs are for kids.” 18 StreetScape Magazine
Within the Easter Art Hunt series will be several smaller series with varying styles and subjects, he said. “I wanted to do something playful, more than going to a gallery. People will be participants in the event.” All of the pieces are square, from 12 x 12 inches up to 48 x 48 inches in size. Each piece will have a description attached to the back with an explanation about the Easter Art Hunt. Every piece will be featured on a website specifically designed for the Easter Art Hunt.
“I am working with a company to create a website where people can register the art that they find. When somebody registers their piece, it will show where and when the piece was found, along with a picture on a map,” he said. There could even be a story about how it was found. About two months after Easter, Smithey will combine a charity fundraiser with an art show dubbed, “Easter Art Hunt: Buy, Sell, Trade,”using the Easter Art Hunt pieces, Individuals and businesses will be able to sponsor the pieces for a minimum $20 sponsorship. One hundred percent of the proceeds will go to charity.
Here is how the sponsorship works: If a person or business decides to sponsor a piece for $50, $10 will automatically be donated to the approved local charity of their choice, and the sponsor will get their name or business added to the Easter Art Hunt website. Smithey will have a diverse list of local charities for sponsors to choose from. The remaining $40 will be donated only if the person who finds the piece of art decides to bring the piece to the art show. A single piece can be sponsored by multiple entities. Smithey said the show can only happen with the participation of the individuals who find the art. Incentives for them to return the art include the donation made in their name and the sponsor’s name, the opportunity to see all of the other pieces that were found, and the chance to display, trade or auction their piece.
“I’m concerned most with the act of creating and not necessarily as much with the final product. It’s all about the journey,” he said. Art for the Easter Art Hunt will primarily include paintings, some drawings and maybe even some sculptures. “It’s really free for exploration. If I get an idea, I will do it. Nothing is set.” Smithey admits there is nothing he can do if the finders choose not to play the game. “It doesn’t matter. It will happen. Once I set it on the street, it’s out of my control.” For more information on Smithey, visit www.zacksmithey.com or find him on Facebook.
Hunters should expect to find pieces around the hot spots of St. Louis – hint, hint – South City, Delmar, Maplewood, Washington Ave., Grand Center and Lafayette Square, among others. Smithey said the enormity of creating 1,000 pieces of art is just the kind of challenge he needs. “I’m always thinking. It’s just something that happens all day every day.” He said he keeps lists of things he wants to accomplish both for the day and for the rest of his life. The lists are not fancy – just simple, blank looseleaf pieces of paper he keeps on a clipboard. He saves them all. “There are tons of things on my lists. They get revised every day. Things get added on and things get taken off. I have lists of potential inventions I’m working on. There are different styles, techniques and subjects I want to explore. There are to-do lists and daily lists. When one page is full, I start a new page. Everything in life that I would like to do or want to explore further makes it on the list.” Some day Smithey said he plans take all of the lists and make a series of art from them. Smithey considers himself a process artist. March | April
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Remember
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Tom Hannegan is well known for taking trips down “Memory Lane” and often starts a conversation with, “Remember when...?” As a life long citizen of our area, he wants to tickle your memory and invites you to reminisce with him. If you’d like to share the special things you remember about the St. Charles and St. Louis areas, please send an email to GraphicArts@StreetScapeMag.com or message us on Facebook. We may share it on our Facebook page or even in an upcoming issue. • Remember when... there was a single house with a pond where Sun Valley Apartment sits? • Remember... Wet Willies? • Remember when... there was no shopping on Sundays? • Remember... when the Cine 4 was the only movie theater in St. Charles?
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POPinto a New
Networking Group! Prepare by asking for referrals for strong networking groups from colleagues, or search online for your local Chamber of Commerce.
Research the kinds of businesses that are part of the group. Know who you want to network with and what message you want and need to share. Rehearse your “30-second elevator speech”; be sure to mention events and what types of businesses and organizations you want to connect with. Take lots of business cards and any promotional/marketing materials. Arrive on time to network before the presentation. Listen attentively. Follow-up after the event by making the connections that you promised in a timely manner. 20 StreetScape Magazine
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After you is the place to turn when you want to transform your corks into art, décor, even clothes!
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It may take a while to save enough corks to complete these projects… but you will have fun along the way! Or you can purchase bags of corks online or at your local hobby stores.
Cork Monogram by: a LO and behold life Make a beautiful masterpiece by using many beautiful shades of cork… Found on 9bytz.com Frame Art with corks...Found on Uploaded by user drivenbydecor.com A great little project! A Mini Memo Strip that would also make a great little housewarming gift… Pinned from ritamay-days. blogspot.com
Or spell out a word… Found on 9bytz.com
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In the summer of 1974, the ballule’s creator, French architect, Gilles Ebersolt, presented his 400-square-meter, inflatable structure at the Tabarka Festival in Tunisia. At the age of 25, Ebersolt initially entertained the idea of an alternate way of flying or sailing on trees. He was famous for saying, “I like to go boating. Why should sailing only be accessible to sailors? I wanted to discover new media; water is a medium, the ground and the air are also media. Trees must become the media of sailing.” At the time, Ebersolt imagined a sort of enormous, pneumatic sledge capable of hurtling down wooded slopes.
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Having some fun inside a giant, inflatable ballule… huh?
Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photos by Michael Schlueter It’s a zorb. It’s a globe. It’s a human sphere. It’s a ballule? Well, it started out as a ballule anyway. Ballule is the French name for those human hamster balls you’ve probably seen rolling across the Internet and wondered about. The transparent plastic zorbs are made to roll down a hill or across water. And it’s caught on. 22 StreetScape Magazine
Along with several other inventors, Ebersolt met with a group of Dutch plastic artists; and the group experimented with elongated objects that floated on the sea with a person walking inside them. The shape was soon changed to a sphere and made into an allterrain device. It is unclear if Ebersolt was the originator of the zorb, though most sources list him as such. The Dangerous Sports Club—a British group of adventurers and extreme sports pioneers based in Oxford and London – invented modern bungee jumping in 1979. They are also credited as having constructed a giant sphere, in the early 1980s, with a gimbal inside it supporting two deck chairs. Ebersolt argues, however, that in January 1981, his design was registered at the Conseil des Prud’hommes as the first professional contact for the technical and commercial development of the zorb. Nevertheless, from 1982 to 1985, Ebersolt participated in numerous events – in particular, a stint on the program “That’s Incredible” for ABC in the United States. Additionally, comedian, actor, and martial artist Jackie Chan used one of Ebersolt’s ballules in his 1991 film, “Armour of God II: Operation Condor.”
Zorbing, orbing, globeriding, sphereing, orbing—whatever it’s referred to in 2015—has become a festival and party sensation. Today the human spheres are quite sought after for recreation or the sport of rolling downhill inside them like an oversized hamster. Zorbing has been seen on the popular reality television show, “The Amazing Race.” It was also seen on the “Late Show with David Letterman” in 2010. Letterman tried it out in the studio before his guest, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, rode on 53rd Street outside the CBS studios in New York. Zorbing is mostly done on gentle slopes, but doesn’t have to be. It can be done on level surfaces, inside or outside, and even have more than one rider. Some riders have constructed inflatable, wooden or metal ramps.
It’s been more than forty years since an architect who wanted to soar above the trees invented the zorb. He doesn’t seem too concerned about quibbling over whose zorb came first. He’s creating something new. “The story has no mysteries,” Ebersolt wrote on his website. “Let the legal professionals decide about the extent of the infringement. Meanwhile, with a team of inspired architects and passionate designers, I am developing sustainable ways of living for users attracted by playful creations that respect the environment: habitats off the ground (anchored in the treetops), efficient houses, an arts research centre and a plantation of oaks in the Limousin. For more information on Fun Services, call 636-939-0030.
Some zorbs are double-sectioned, with a ball inside of a ball. They generally have two tunnel-like entrances. Most are lightweight and flexible plastic. Some orbs have straps to hold the rider in place, while others leave the rider free to walk the orb around or be tossed about freely as it rolls. A typical orb is about 10 feet in diameter. The inner and outer orbs, if there are two, are connected by numerous nylon strings. The commercial enterprises available for zorbing or renting zorbs are growing all the time. Currently, in the United States, zorbing at commercial locations allows riders to pay a fee for each ride or for a whole day’s activity. There are facilities in Tennessee, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, several franchise-based companies, such as SphereMania and Orb 360, as well as others jumping on the bandwagon, like OGO Inc. and Downhill Revolution. Fun Services Midwest offers eight-foot inflatable spheres for rent in St. Louis and St. Charles counties. The company entices potential riders to “become a human hamster” on its website www.funservicesmidwest.com. Owner Zach Wilson said the company has over 250 rental items and 500 types of products and services. Fun Services offers zorbing entertainment all over Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma for company picnics, church festivals, school carnivals, birthday parties, family reunions, grand openings, and basically any event their customers can dream up. March | April
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The Matheny
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Mike Matheny debuts his new book
February 2, 2015 Lindenwood University’s J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts Cardinals Manager Mike Matheny held a meet & greet and signing of his new book at Lindenwood University. The book titled, “The Matheny Manifesto: A Young Manager`s Old-School Views On Success In Sports and Life,” is based on a letter he wrote in 2008 to the parents of a youth baseball team. Matheny was joined by MLB Network’s Greg Amsinger.
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“The Catch 22 Foundation has been able to use the platform that baseball has provided to Mike to filter the generous donations from community members and give dollars straight to the needs of disadvantaged kids.”
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Society
The Crystal Ball February 7, 2015 • St. Charles Convention Center The Boys & Girls Clubs of St. Charles County celebrated the 50th Annual Crystal Ball, February 7, 2015, at the St. Charles Convention Center. The event was attended by over 400 guests who enjoyed a silent, and a live auction, as well as a delicious dinner. Music and entertainment was provided by Arvel and Company. The big event of the evening was drawing the winning ticket for the 2015 Chevy Camaro Raffle. And the winner was Rod Hamann. Proceeds from the event will help provide valuable programs and assist with operational expenses of the Club.
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