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22. Main Street Meets Silicon Valley 24. Vying for a ticket to ride 34. Thro’s Clothing Co. 36. The Art of Syle 42. rEvolution Designer spotlight 50. 2.0 60. Let’s Face it

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Publishers Note News from THE Publisher Tom Hannegan With Spring comes growth Hello Friends,

The StreetScape team is proud to announce this issue and going forward in the future we have gone to a perfect bound spine! Even more exciting, the Summer 2014 edition will increase our distribution by 30%! Take notice of BusinessScape our newest section. If you know or have a business story that needs to be told StreetScape wants to spotlight you, your employees and any special awards/ regonitions and promotions. Send us a head shot and the employee’s name with very a brief description and/or recognition information to StreetScapeMag.com/Contact-Us.

We have two exciting fashion events underway: Tickets for each show are $25 general admission or $35 VIP.

rEvolution featuring Glam, Avant Garde, Vintage, Couture March 29th at the Foundry Art Centre will benefit Connections to Success.

And mark your calendar for July 26, 2014 for Aquatica! It will be poolside on the event lawn at Ameristar Casino Resort Spa .

Designers will feature swimwear, resort wear, lingerie and more! This show will benefit Unlimited Play

I am dedicating this issue to my mom, Mary Lou Hannegan (1936-2013) who died this past year of colon cancer that spread to her liver. Every story in this issue is something that my mom appreciated in life or felt that there is a strong message to be shared. I am truly honored to say that her memory lives on through StreetScape and still encourages the community spirit to be spread!

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A favorite St. Charles tea room has changes hands, treasured by St. Charlesans for some three decades, Miss Aimee B’s Tea Room & The Upstairs Market Place is under new ownership.

Judy Howell and Sherry Pfaender have passed the reigns to local artist and former art instructor Zack Smithey and his wife Brie Smithey.

Built in 1865 by Francis Marten, the Marten/ Becker House was bequeathed to the St. Charles County Historical Society in 1982 when Aimee Becker passed away. After leasing the house for three years, Howell and Pfaender purchased it in 1991 and established what would become a spirited business combining a tea room and marketplace.

Adorned in florals and lace, frivolity and ease, Miss Aimee B’s and its surrounding outdoor gardens have been a destination for a lesson in the social graces, a house that reflects an era of beauty and charm. Ladies of all ages, as well as men have raved about the kitchen where everything is homemade and nothing is fried.

Howell and Pfaender, who started out selling crafts from the home, said they have had several offers and have been considering retirement for some time. “Our dream came true with Zack and Brie,” Pfaender said. “It wasn’t right until now.”

And although the menu won’t change much—Zack has promised this to long time Miss Aimee B patrons—the décor certainly will. A St. Louis artist and graduate of Lindenwood University with a bachelor’s degree in studio art and a master’s degree in art education, Zack taught drawing, painting and studio art for seven years at Francis Howell North High School.

Miss Amiee B’s

Seasoned meets comtemporary Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photos by Michael Schlueter

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Smithey said he considers himself a process artist. In Process art, the means count for more than the ends. The artist sets a process in motion and awaits the results.

In much the same way, Smithey is on a new journey with Miss Aimee B’s. He said he hopes to modernize while complementing the charm of the architecture. “I have a grand respect for the house,” he said. Miss Aimee B’s will get a new coat of paint inside as well

as some new trim. Warm colors and draped fabric will surround his artwork on the walls of the nineteenth century home. He plans to refinish the original 1865 southern pine floors and add his own handmade furniture for a classy but rustic look.

Zack & Brie Smithey, current owners.

Howell said the old house is in need of new life. “I love it. I’m excited. I can’t wait to see what they do,” she said. “We welcome it.”

Pfaender said she believes Aimee Becker would be pleased with these changes, and happy that her home would be a place for the generations, where both the Red Hat Society ladies and the students of Lindenwood can gather.

“Aimee wanted the house to be preserved, to be shared with the community,” she said.

“Zack and Brie are full of energy. We’ll have two generations here now. They will bring new life to her.”

Howell and Pfaender say they have no regrets and are ready to move on to new things. Their children, however, are a little more hesitant. “Our kids are devastated that we’re finally letting go,” Pfaender said. “All of our kids worked here. They spent a lot of time in this house.”

Smithey said the menu will include the same great food, with portions that feed the male appetite, but with new and exciting additions. The Upstairs Marketplace will be converted to a coffee house of sorts and feature assorted coffees and smoothies, Wi-Fi, open mike nights, artistic décor and comfy furniture—“things that foster a creative atmosphere.”

Delicious greens, apples, grapes & trail mix

He hopes to expand the beer menu to include locally brewed beers and additional offerings that appeal more to men. By adding fire pits in little nooks and an outdoor pavilion, Smithey also hopes to hold more events at Miss Aimee B’s such as those held at weekend wineries and live music venues.

Smithey added that he wants it done right and in harmony with the nature that surrounds Miss Aimee B’s. “I think outdoor seating is a necessity at Miss Aimee B’s. I don’t want a big pavilion to prevent true outdoor seating. If the roof of the pavilion is a deck, then we have created an event center without “I want it to have a winery feel but in town disrupting the beauty of outdoor seating. so people can enjoy it. It’s located half-way I want the pavilion to be built around between Lindenwood and Main Street so existing historic trees so they grow up the crowd is a mix. I want to be hosting through the structure. I want to increase art festivals and winery activities and other event capacity without disturbing events here. I want people to seek us out for nature.” events.”

The Smithey’s welcome you to stop in With the St. Charles Historic Preservation to witness the changes as the tea room Commission’s approval, Smithey’s new vi- begins taking on new life. sion of the outdoor area includes a pavilion with a flat rooftop deck that will replace the Miss Amiee’s B is located at 837 First tent outside the restaurant. If allowed, the Capitol Dr, St Charles, and is opened new pavilion is projected to be double the Tuesday -Saturday from 9 am - 3 pm. size of the current tent. “We would like the For more information call: capacity to be between 150 and 200 people,” (636) 946-4202. ¤ Smithey said.

Greens, eggs and ham dressed with homemade lemon dijon vinagrette.

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Children of all abilities showing their strength on one of the Unlimited Play areas

Greatness has no limits

Unlimited Play & Mercy partner to make it happen Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photos by Michael Schlueter Zachary Blakemore has changed the lives of countless children simply by being himself. And it all started on a playground.

Most people in St. Charles County have heard of Zachary’s Playground.

And whether they have special needs children or not, many have been there.

But what they may not know is that there are now 11 accessible playgrounds either standing or in the works in three states since Unlimited Play was founded by Zachary’s mother, Natalie Blakemore, in 2003.

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care system in the U.S., Mercy has been painting broad strokes in St. Charles County with the introduction of internal medicine and specialty clinics and services in several cities. The latest will be Mercy Kids Mid Rivers, a new 25,000-square-foot pediatric outpatient center in Cottleville, set to open this year.

Mercy has donated a half-acre tract of land on the site for what will be the next outdoor play place for children of all abilities.

first playground. It was inspired by Zachary, who suffers from a rare genetic central nervous system disease (Pelizaeus Merzbacher Disease) that confines him to a wheelchair or assistive walking device. Since Zachary, like all children, loved to play, the traditional playgrounds only emphasized his limitations. Then on a trip to the east coast, the Blakemores visited an accessible park and it changed everything.

Since then, Unlimited Play, with partners like Mercy and the Developmental Disabilities Resource Board, PlayCore, Unlimited Play is an award winning nonprofit organization that builds universally ac- Game Time, and the various cities where the cessible playgrounds for children off all abili- parks are located, have continued Natalie’s dream to see her son and all kids, whether ties. Zachary’s Playground at Hawk Ridge Park in Lake St. Louis was the organization’s disabled or not, play together.

“People believed in a mother’s dream. It’s hard to explain. Any mother knows how much it hurts if your child is hurting,” Natalie said. “I learned you can either let it destroy you or you can find a way to fight and make something beautiful. This has given my son the ability to play. I couldn’t give him the ability to walk or talk. But with this, I could finally give something back.”

When Zachary was diagnosed with Pelizaeus Merzbacher, doctors said he would probably live to be 15 and that few people with the disease live into their thirties. There is no cure. There is no medicine. Natalie said she carries the gene for the disease and yet knows no one in her family that has ever had it. She is the oldest of five girls. None of them carry it either. “I can only believe that Zac and I were meant to be together,” she said. “That we have something greater to do.”

Mercy Vice President Don Kalicak said it just made sense to reach out to Unlimited Play. Mercy Kids Mid Rivers in Cottleville will offer general pediatric and pediatric sub-specialty care, after-hours pediatric convenient care, therapy and developmental services including autism-related services, outpatient behavioral health programs, a pediatric rehabilitation gym, and educational and screening programs to maximize children’s health.

“If we have land in the middle of the county, why wouldn’t we try to make a playground work there. This is consistent with how we think. Mercy’s role in the community is to try to do what we can to best serve the All smiles with Unlimited Play

community. This is something where there is a real bonafide need and it’s consistent with our role to serve people.”

Kalicak said preliminary designs are complete for the McAuley Playground, named for the Sister who founded the Religious Sisters of Mercy in 1871 as a 25-bed infirmary for women and children in St. Louis, Catherine McAuley.

Construction will begin in 2015. “When it’s completed, mercy will donate the halfacre to the city of Cottleville. Then the city will take over ownership and make it public,” he said.

Mercy will also donate site improvements, such as the land, electrical and plumbing as well as some maintenance costs. The equipment and construction of the playground will cost about $850.000, Kalicak said. Unlimited Play continues to collect donations for the remainder of the cost.

The Developmental Disabilities Resource Board has already committed to put $100,000 toward the project, Kalicak said.

Mike Matheny’s Catch Twenty-Two Foundation has committed to $45,000. Unlimited Play has also been chosen as one of the charities that will be recipients of proceeds from the Mayor’s Charity Ball, he said.

By the end of the decade, Mercy is expected to have invested nearly $300 million in bringing its health care providers and services to St. Charles, Lincoln and Warren Counties.

Zachary’s Playground opened in April 2007. All equipment meets or exceeds ADA standards. Unlimited Play only builds truly inclusive playgrounds, meaning they only contain equipment that is designed to be accessible for children of all abilities – from the tallest slide to the lowest play panel.

Other playgrounds include Willmore Park and O’Fallon Park, in St. Louis; Hannah’s Playground in Illinois; and McCoy Park, Kade’s Playground, Discovery Playground, Tree Top Playground and McAuley Playground, all in Missouri.

For more information on Unlimited Play or Mercy, visit www.unlimitedplay.org or www.mercy.net. ¤

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Michael Burke

The author, runner, motivational speaker and Cystic Fibrosis sufferer released his first book, “Waiting To Die, Running To Live,” in March, while in the middle of training for his tenth marathon.

Burke takes no less than 36 pills per day and three separate breathing therapies twice a day. If he doesn’t, his lungs would fill with mucous, he would lose lung function, and because of additional complications with his pancreas caused by CF, he would starve to death.

Diagnosed with CF in 1971 (at 14 months old), Burke is living a miracle. But it’s not just the miracle of science. This 44-year-old chose long ago he was not giving up. So far he’s beat all odds against him. His life expectancy was the mid-thirties.

Doctors told his mother and father he would not survive his childhood. At 18, they told him his life expectancy was 20. At 21, they told him 23.

He’s been to the doctor nearly every four months for 42 years. He remembers his mom taking him out of school to go for his check up at Cardinal Glennon. “We’d go to Burger Chef to make it a fun day,” he said. Then it was off to the hospital all day long for tests. He got to know many of the families there. (There was a clinic in the children’s hospital because there was no reason for an adult facility). Burke said, sometimes he would notice that one of the other families quit coming. It was heartwrenching for his mother.

Taking it on the run Michael Burke chooses life Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photos by Michael Schlueter

“All the doctors could say was, ‘Here are a couple of medicines, but keep him active’,” he said. “Anything to make him cough is good.” It’s one of the reasons he runs even today. Simply put, it makes him cough.

About 30,000 children and adults in America suffer from CF. It is an inherited chronic lung and digestive system disease.

It is caused by a defective gene and its protein product that cause the body to produce unusually thick, sticky mucus that clogs the lungs and leads to life-threatening lung infections; and obstructs the pancreas and stops natural enzymes from helping the body break down and absorb food.

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Archie St. Clair with model of Major Ripley Arnold

Some artists spend lifetimes honing their crafts. They attend a myriad of institutions and study countless hours over works of the masters.

And then there are the Archie St. Clairs of the world—those who were destined to create.

Born in the Outback of Australia in Alice Springs, St. Clair didn’t choose his craft, on the contrary. It was revealed to him through a series of extraordinary events St. Clair “grew up on a horse as a cowboy basically.” He said he left school at an early age and learned quickly how to be self-sufficient and creative in the harsh conditions of the Australian bush. He spent most of his younger years driving cattle and working as a butcher.

By the age of 22, St. Clair had his pilot’s license and covered thousands of miles as a commercial helicopter pilot gathering cattle, horses and wild camels, as well as firefighting and conducting helicopter rescue missions.

Despite more than 10,000 hours of flight, what happened next could never have been foreseen. While on a typical flight on June 21, 1994, a bearing flew out of the freewheeling unit of his helicopter and stopped his rotors from turning. It rendered him basically “a flying rock,” he said. The nearfatal crash left him stranded for 17 hours in subzero temperatures, unable to move and nearly killed by wild dogs, until he was rescued by chance by waving a small flashlight.

A severed spine led doctors to believe he would never walk again.

Archie St. Clair Creates sculptures inspired from his life Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photos by Michael Schlueter

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But St. Clair didn’t believe them. And after spending several weeks in a substandard rehabilitation facility in Australia, he would settle for nothing less than success.

He left the facility. He made his own parallel bars. He started an ostrich farm—all from his wheelchair. His plan was to come to the United States and start a hamburger business. He had been to America on a few occasions for helicopter conventions and originally wanted to rodeo. “I loved it here. You have all the toys and it’s cheaper,” he said. “I can get anything here for work or play. You have the same land mass as

As resident artist for Grapevine, Texas, St. Clair was commissioned to capture the history and unique character of the town. His bronzes, including life-size sculptures, can be viewed on the sidewalks and in the city parks.

St. Clair said much of his work expresses his love for animals and he recreates them with amazing life-like qualities, focusing on minute detail. He credits his earlier careers as stockman and butcher for laying the groundwork in replicating these details.

Just as talented in human form, he has sculpted busts of colorful characters from Texas and Australia.

Now an internationally acclaimed sculptor, St. Clair operates from his studio in the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, accepting commissions from around the globe and boasting a client base including government commissions, bronze art connoisseurs and collectors.

Archie St. Clair with bronze model of Miles Davis

Australia, but there are more people living in Texas than all of Australia.”

other steps of the sculpting process, moldmaking, waxes, casting and chasing.

The ostrich market took a nose dive, as they say. But no matter, St. Clair said, “I had to get out of bed every day to feed the birds, so I got my legs back.” It was during that time that St. Clair slowly regained his ability to stand. It was then he returned to America.

It was back and forth to the Outback until he decided to run a restaurant in Texas. He would also become a state bow champion in the interim.

First, he spent six months in Las Vegas and then it was on to Scottsdale, Arizona where he would take a job from a friend at a foundry and learn everything he ever wanted to know about making molds, metal working and the foundry business. But it was during that three and a half years spent in a wheelchair that he picked up some clay and discovered his talent of sculpting.

From then on this new passion consumed him as he committed himself to learn the

His first monuments were both commissioned by his home country. “The Pioneer” at 1-1/2 life-size is the largest monument of a horse and rider in Australia. It is located in the Northern Territory in the city of Katherine. “The Cunnamulla Fella” in Cunnamulla, Queensland is twice life-size and represents the traditional stockman of Australia. St. Clair’s recent monument work unveiled in Southlake, Texas in 2010.

Standing tall at nine-foot-six- inches, “Sentinel,” majestically represents all firefighters and police officers.

St. Clair named his latest work, “The Maverick.” Inspired by his intimate knowledge of the struggles endured by everyone, he said it does more than inspire. “It speaks to the soul. It reveals the conflicts, the passion, and the dreams within, and awakens the spirit’s desire to soar,” he said.

“The Maverick” depicts a full-bodied woman, wearing a Stetson hat, emerging from the rock in which she is encased.

“This is The Maverick...chipping away and triumphantly rising from the selfinflicted restraints that have imprisoned her for far too long, she represents what every person strives to achieve,” St. Clair said.

“Her testimony to conquering hardship through endurance blazes through this strong, magnetic sculpture of raw, untainted beauty. The Stetson symbolizes the pioneering spirit and fierce independence inherent in people everywhere.”

For more information on Archie St. Clair, visit www.archiestclair.com.¤

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Bringing the best & brightest business ventures to your street Do you have a business story that needs to be told? StreetScape wants to spotlight you, your employees and any special awards/regonitions and promotions achieved this year. Send us your BusinessScape spotlight to StreetScapeMag.com/Contact-Us today and we will feature your story in our Summer 2014 issue!

Meet Jeremy Flagg Encouraged by an unexpected opportunity to find a new career and inspired by the desire to make a better world for his baby girl, Jeremy Flagg began a journey that would lead him to search his own soul and land him in a position to help others with theirs—especially women.

Jeremy Flagg is the coach to recruit when you’re ready to go to the root.

Jeremy is a certified life, leadership, and relationship coach who utilizes the best psychological, human behavioral, and practical disciplines in order to affect positive and sustainable change in his clients. Never satisfied with how things look on the surface, Jeremy is always compelled to go deeper to find the true reasons behind the actions and behaviors we exhibit.

Jeremy Flagg

Jeremy knows that in order for us to create the world we desire we must get past our symptoms and dig into the systems of thought and patterns of behavior that are giving us the results we don’t want, and then altering.

Jeremy’s coaching process is designed to help you C.R.E.A.T.E. the life you love by guiding you to: • Clarify – your model of the world to maximize your focus

• Release – your true potential by interrupting long-standing patterns of thought and behavior to achieve

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• Equip – you with the tools and resources necessary to sustain your success

• Activate – every gift, talent, and skill you have to increase your creativity and resourcefulness • Transform – your life from the inside-out to ensure lasting change

• Empower – your life with purpose, power, and promise as you create a compelling future Flagg has a bachelor of science degree and has been professionally trained by Lifeforming Leadership Coaching in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

For more information on Flagg, contact visit www.jeremyflagg.com. ¤ 18 StreetScape Magazine

Meet Bob Wamhoff President of Wamhoff Financial Planning & Accounting How did you get started in the business you’re in?

Wamhoff was founded in 1975 with a $5000 loan from my mother. I quit a great job at Emerson Electric, I sold my house and moved into an apartment to free up money to get the business off the ground. And, I was very young … only 26 years old at the time. I was an accountant by trade and I knew there was a better way to provide people with exceptional service and provide both accounting and financial planning under one roof. When I started, I was doing tax returns in people’s houses – on their washing machines, in their kitchens, on the hoods of their cars, you name it. I had to work hard to gain people’s confidence because I was so young. It took two years before my father would hand over his taxes to me! Things were lean in the beginning, and I had to learn to watch every dollar coming in and every dollar going out.

I had to learn that dealing with other people’s finances brings out a lot of emotion. I had to be there for my clients, help them work through issues, and do right by them. I earned their trust, and many of those clients from the early years are still with me today.

What is the thing you’re most proud of with your business?

I’m very proud of the fact that we treat our clients as our friends.

I can honestly say that I consider every one of our clients a friend.

When you have that relationship, you go above and beyond to help them, you’re there for them to answer all of their questions – not just about their investments or tax returns, but about the many things that affect your finances as you go through life. We serve our clients for life, and enable them to retire comfortably and enjoy life. Our team is smart, resourceful, and because we have financial planning, taxes, and insurance all under one roof, we can help clients with whatever they may need to reach their goals.

What are your main goals for 2014?

When we relocated our business to St. Charles a few years ago, I was committed to being involved in the community, and we were very proud to be among the first to locate at Streets of St. Charles, one of the most exciting and vibrant places in the area. My goal is to continue serving the community (and that includes clients as well as the organizations we support), growing our reputation and presence in St. Charles in a way that will allow those we touch to enjoy life and reach their goals – whatever that might be.

What is your biggest challenge?

Today, we’re in a situation where government regulations have been put in place as a reaction to the fallout of the economic downturn and situations like the Madoff scam. Our challenge

Bob Wamhoff lies in trying to determine what to do with all the moves and changes the government is putting in place – both in terms of financial planning and taxes – and respond accordingly.

What are your hobbies or interests?

My wife, Diane, and I run a large charity in Honduras called Just Because We Care. We’re focused on providing food, clothing and education to over 200 children in a very povertystricken mountain community. In the 11 years since we founded Just Because, we’ve gone from feeding the children one day per week to today, feeding them five days a week. They’re excelling in school, learning skills that will help them obtain better paying jobs, and we even have 8 students attending college.

While it’s a huge amount of work for us, it’s very much a labor of love. ¤ Spring 2014

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Since 1998, CEO and Co-Founder Kathy Lambert opened Dress for Success Midwest, she and husband Brad Lambert have helped thousands of disadvantaged women start new lives by empowering them to create their own success.

And they’re growing again.

Connections to Success just opened its new location at 3000 Little Hills Expressway in St. Charles. The new 26,000-squarefoot building can be seen easily from both directions of Hwy. 370, Brad said. “Being located along 370, our community visibility has gone up dramatically. Being along a major artery with a big sign has made a big difference,” he said.

It all started when Kathy read an article about Dress for Success New York that told of how the organization provided interviewappropriate attire to women in disadvantaged situations, sort of helping them to level the playing field with the rest of the workforce. Understanding the need for this service locally, Kathy opened the first Dress for Success affiliate in the St. Louis region.

It didn’t take long for Brad to join the team.

The long-time civil engineer left his job and founded Wheels for Success, which awards automobiles to deserving program participants.

Today Dress for Success falls under the growing umbrella of Connections to Success, which helps women in Kansas, Missouri and Illinois transform their image, develop workplace skills and build confidence.

Brad & Kathy Lammert

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For 16 years Dress for Success has been empowering women in need by providing professional clothing, employment retention programs and ongoing support. The organization even started its own cookie and bread making enterprise to help pay for its programs.

Through the Sweet Success transitional employment program, participants learn all aspects of the baking business while supporting Connections to Success’ programs.

From baking skills to sales and marketing, participants gain professional experience, while earning an hourly wage and establishing a stable work history. After completing

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Running Dress for Success and Wheels for Success only led Brad and Kathy to see more gaps in services. They quickly realized that suits and cars could not meet every need.

“Participants lacked the job skills and life skills to excel in their place of employment,” Kathy said. “They needed childcare assistance, further education, mentors and support systems while on their journey to economic independence.”

The team behind Connections to Success

center. “There’s an area we call the garage that has two roll-up doors. We can back our Mystique Boutique semi-trailer into one door and accept large donations into the other,” Brad said. “Not many office buildings have that kind of attachment.”

The new building also includes the Dress for Success Boutique, a couple of large conference rooms for workforce training classes and a health and wellness training center.

a paycheck. It works because we talk about life-long engagement. Change is a long, slow process and we’re willing to walk this journey with them as long as it takes. We never close a file. As long as they want to change and are willing to do the work, we’re willing to support them,” he said.

For more information on Connections to Success or to learn how to get involved by volunteering, contributing or holding a clothing drive, visit www.connectionstosuccess.

Brad said he knows why the whole Conorg or contact Erica at 636-940-8027 or nection works. “We really focus on emlewisandclarks_3rdsq_spr14.pdf 1 2/19/14 1:58 PM ployment. We believe success begins with emails@connectionstosuccess.org. ¤

The 6 pack of special cookies prepared by Sweet Success.

To meet these needs, Brad and Kathy created extensive programming, and in 2001, they named their group of diverse nonprofit programs Connections to Success, which became the umbrella organization housing all of the many services offered to both men and women throughout the areas they served.

Connections to Success has seen several locations over the years in St. Charles County. Starting out in a classroom of Christ Church in St. Peters, the organization has been housed in the Economic Development Center of St. Charles County, a small house at 5th and Pike Streets in St. Charles, an office in Pagedale in St. Louis County and the Old McKinley School in St. Charles.

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Main Street meets Silicon Valley Tech savvy Schilling launches IT incubator Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photos by Michael Schlueter

Randy Schilling is doing it again. The founder of successful IT compaines including Quilogy and BoardPaq, is set to unveil his newest OPO — adding another dimension to his Silicon Valley of sorts on the most historically preserved street in St. Charles County.

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Dubbed a co-working center for digital startups, OPO was named for its location in the Old Post Office building at 119 South Main Street in St. Charles—a 10,000-square-foot facility that will provide regional startups with affordable workspace and access to mentors, potential investors, programming, educational resources and a community of entrepreneurs.

sustainable digital businesses, Schilling said. “It will be a space where entrepreneurs can come in on weekends or evenings and work collaboratively with mentors.” He hopes to have at least 50 startups, some $100,000 in annual startup grants and between 200 and 300 members in its first year of operation. He also hopes to see venture funds saturating OPO’s startups.

Randy Schilling told an audience of community leaders at the City of St. Charles Regional Investors Breakfast in January that the nineteenth century building has been “greatly underutilized since 1964 when the Post Office moved up to Fifth Street.”

Schilling said the time is right for a place to generate ideas and birth new companies, mainly because the capital required to launch a tech startup is so much less than it was just a decade ago. “It can be 10 percent of what it was 10 years ago,” Schilling said.

The OPO adds another high tech dimension to Schilling’s growing number of startups on Main Street. Tourists strolling along the street and even most residents are not aware of the IT companies that inhabit the third floors of several of the boutiques and shops that line the 100 block of South Main Street. Companies such as Hypersoft, Povaddo, SimpleFlame and 3mbassy make up an IT cluster that is evolving.

Schilling hopes the project will promote and grow the regional digital startup community in St. Charles. Schilling has already made great strides in bringing money and jobs to his hometown since he founded Quilogy in 1993. That company had $34 million in revenue when he sold it to a Chelmsford, Mass.-based company in 2010. He headquartered the company—now called Aspect—on historic Main Street where it still resides today.

Schilling purchased the Old Post Office, which is next door to Aspect’s headquarters, last year. He still owns five of the buildings on or near Main Street that used to house Quilogy. Two of the buildings contain Aspect’s offices. A variety of startups are filling up the other three, including Schilling’s latest endeavor, BoardPaq. He has estimated that he has invested around $5 million in real estate on or just off of Main Street in St. Charles, which includes Aspect at 117 S. Main. That building was built by the great-greatgrandfather of Schilling’s wife in 1878.

Taking the lead from entrepreneurial centers like St. Louis’ T-Rex and Lab 1500, and Chicago’s 1871, OPO’s purpose will be to develop programs, establish partnerships and run projects that provide entrepreneurs with the tools they need to build successful,

Today’s capital climate, Schilling said, is a fertile one for angel investors, and the entrepreneurs hoping to court them. Angel investors are individuals who provide capital for business startups, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity.

Schilling quoted Ilya A. Strebulaev, an associate professor of finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business who wrote that plunging costs of technology have made angel investing more attractive. “Specifically, a startup that would’ve needed $5 million to launch 10 years ago can often launch for $500,000 today, thanks to open-source software and cloud computing,” Strebulaev wrote on the Stanford Graduate School of Business site.

“That means the time is right for entrepreneurs to court angels, who usually prefer smaller deals.”

The first floor of the OPO building will be used for co-working and events, and will house conference and training rooms, as well as the OPO Café. “Think of a Starbucks on steroids,” Schilling said, adding that the café will be partnering with Picasso’s, Grandma’s Cookies and Frankie Tocco’s Pizzeria, with three elements in mind—caffeine, pizza and beer.

When Schilling opens the newly renovated building in late summer, he said it will be “restored to its original grandeur” with 18-foot-high ceilings and tons of marble.

Literally millions of dollars in venture funds have already been realized by numerous startups out of Chicago’s 1871 which opened in 2012. The enterprise space fashioned its purpose from the story of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 which they say isn’t really about the fire. “It’s about what happened next: A remarkable moment when the most brilliant engineers, architects and inventors came together to build a new city,” the company states on 1871.com.

“Their innovations – born of passion and practical ingenuity – shaped not just Chicago, but the modern world.”

For more information on OPO, contact Randy Schilling at RandyS@BoardPaq.com, 636-219-9930, 112 South Main, St. Charles, MO 63301, or visit www.OPOStartups.com. ¤

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Vying for a ticket to ride Two St. Louisans among finalists for 2025 mission to Mars Deal or no deal? You are offered the chance to jet off to Mars. You get to be the first human beings ever to inhabit the Red Planet. There are just a few catches. It will take you seven years to prepare for the journey and you can never come back.

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ell two St. Louisans are among 1,058 finalists chosen from 200,000 applicants world-wide who applied for the mission.

And guess what? They are just as sane as you and me, maybe more so.

They’re extremely bright, educated, healthy and happy individuals who just see it as their duty and even privilege to venture forth on behalf of humanity to the great unknown.

“It’s something as human beings we need to do,” said Maggie Duckworth, 29, of Bridgeton, MO. An electrical engineer who owns her own Cosplay costumes company and works at MetLife, Duckworth said she wants to “paint Martian landscapes and write about what the Martian wind sounds like. I want to see the stars from a different perspective, rising over a landscape that nobody’s seen before.”

Think Wright Brothers, Neil Armstrong, Christopher Columbus. And it does bear mentioning that thousands of Europeans agreed to a one-way journey to the unknown.

The boat did go back, but that did not mean they could afford to go with it. And not everyone who read this would have applied for a position on the team with intrepid South Pole explorer Ernest Shackleton in the early 1900s: “Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, and bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honour and recognition in case of success.” And yet many did.

“Think of the people who sailed the ocean when they thought the world was flat,” said finalist Tim Gowan, 26, of University City and an F-15 tooling engineer at Boeing. “It’s that same instinct or drive that is at work here.”

Researchers say that just because they say one-way now doesn’t necessarily mean one-

Maggie (left) & Tim (right) experiencing the St. Louis Science Center’s Planetarium

way forever. They’re hoping technology will have progressed to allow for return trips down the line.

Gowan said he was surprised Mars hasn’t already been colonized. “As a society we are way past due on this. We went to the moon in the sixties. The Mars Rovers are incredible. So is the International Space Station. But we really haven’t been pushing the envelope on where we’re sending man.

We’re launching things but we are not really launching people past our orbit.”

Duckworth said it stands to reason someone from St. Louis will be chosen. “We were the Gateway to the West,” she said. “We’ve put a lot of people in a lot of new places. We have a lot of confidence. Charles Lindbergh came from St. Louis and he made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.”

Mars One is a Dutch not-for-profit foundation—made up of physicists, professors, astrogeologists, biologists, horticulturalists, engineers and others—who believe establishing a human settlement on Mars is possible today with existing technologies. But they’re shooting for 2025.

A mere 140 million miles away, the trip would take about seven months.

In 2011, Mars One incorporated a foundation plan, and started accepting applications last year.

Stichting Mars One is the mother company of Interplanetary Media Group, a for-profit company, which enables the foundation to secure funds from its investors. And they’re going to need those funds. Mars One estimates the cost of putting the first four people on Mars at about $6 billion with subsequent manned missions estimated at $4 billion.

Possibly the greatest source of revenue will come from a reality television show to which Mars One will sell the licensing rights.

Gowan said Spacex (Space Exploration Technologies) has already made a launch vehicle that can be used to go to Mars. Lockheed Martin has been contracted to build the Mars Lander and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) will build the communications satellite.

The astronauts will have three jobs:

construction, maintenance and research.

They will install the corridors between the landers, they will deploy extra solar panels, and they will install equipment, such as greenhouses, inside the habitat. They will spend time on the crops and food preparation. They will maintain all systems within the settlement. And they will study the history, climate change and what if any life is on Mars now. They will speak English.

Scientists believe they will also be able to read, play games, write, paint, work out in the gym, watch TV, use the Internet and contact friends at home. They believe there will be a three-minute time delay, but otherwise communications and media will be much like on Earth. They will simply request movies or news broadcasts they want to see in advance and upload on the local Mars web server.

Mars One will advise the first settlement inhabitants not to attempt to have children in the beginning because of limited medical facilities and the impact of reduced gravity on conception and gestation.

Mars display at the St. Louis Science Center

company wanted it to be enough that people would be serious, but not so much that others couldn’t afford it.

Gowan said he has considered the possibility of the next 11 years without getting romanBecause it’s not feasible to send water, oxy- tically involved with anyone. He said it’s gen and food from Earth to the astronauts, already affected one potential sweetheart. they will produce those on Mars. Research- “She is a lovely girl, but this is a deal breaker ers plan to extract water from the soil, for her,” he said. “It definitely makes my produce oxygen by splitting water into its potential life a unique one. I have to make a constituent parts, hydrogen and oxygen; and few ethical decisions that will make that life use emergency rations of food from Earth different from the norm.” until they are able to eat fresh food that they produce on Mars hydroponically.

Going childless is ok too, he said. “If I have to be without children, I will be ok with The best candidates Gowan said will be that.” Gowan said his founding of the first those who possess a combined skill set with no hazing fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi, at a very wide range of disciplines. Those cho- Missouri University of Science and Technolsen to be astronauts must be 18 and older, ogy, will be enough. “The fraternity is my intelligent, creative, psychologically stable legacy.” and physically healthy—heavy on the emotional and psychological stability. Because Gowan and Duckworth are in Stage 2 of they cannot return to Earth and lives are at four stages of selection for the trip. The stake, candidates must have a deep sense of first stage was the written and video appurpose and personal drive for the mission. plication process. They have made the cut The five key characteristics the foundation to be among 1,058 people vying for the is looking for in an astronaut are resiliency, one-way trip. Next they will be physically adaptability, curiosity, ability to trust and and mentally evaluated. Stage 3 will be an creativity/resourcefulness.

“American Idol”-for-space-exploration-type scenerio. Gowan said the whole world will The application fee, based on a nation’s vote. gross domestic product, was different In Stage 4 those 24-40 people who are left depending on where the potential astrostanding will undergo seven years of intense naut lives. For Americans, it was $38; for training. They will be divided into teams of Mexicans, however, it was only $15. The

four—two men and two women.

“If one person in the team is not cutting it and they get yanked, the whole team is out,” he said.

Skills can overlap, but of the four remaining at the end of the final stage in 2015, two must be able to use and repair all equipment, two will have extensive medical training, one will be trained on Mars geology, one will be trained on the biology of alien life, one will be trained on psychology and physiotherapy and one will be trained on the biology of plant life.

“Four is kind of a magic number of people for sustainability,” Gowan said.

Both Gowan and Duckworth said their families and their employers are supportive of their hopes to live out their lives on Mars.

“I’d like to hope Boeing was proud of me,” Gowan said. “We have a lot of space lovers here. We are an aerospace company. Boeing helped put men on the moon and has helped put rovers on Mars. Parts of the Apollo Space Program were developed by MacDonnell Douglas.” ¤

Marty Johnson, registered nurse

Role Reversal

Traditonal gender roles open up to diversity and change Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photo by Michael Schlueter opposite sex.

Ginger Rogers said, “I did everything Fred did, only backwards and in high heels.”

has been a recession that “has been brutal on male-dominated professions such as construction and manufacturing.”

The tone in Rogers’ statement, though, reflects an age-old battle of the wills.

Helen Reddy declared she would “make her brother understand” in the 1972 hit “I am Woman.” And Reddy might have chuckled a bit when Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer and Aerosmith’s front man Steven Tyler belted out, “Dude Looks like a Lady.”

The national news network reported in September that while the numbers are still relatively small, and there are still obstacles for men to overcome, especially with jobs involving children, more men are taking jobs It was the nineties, and Brewer was attendtraditionally done by women. ing college on a volleyball scholarship. But she soon decided college wasn’t for her. “I Going back to World War II, the fictional felt like I was not getting anywhere. I’ve character “Rosie the Riveter”—the ideal woman worker: loyal, efficient, patriotic and always been an active person. I really think pretty—was used by the U.S. government to outside the box and tend to go against recruit female workers to join the munitions the grain.” industry. Those trailblazing women changed ideas about what women could do. And Brewer said her cousin was aware of her now, because of simple economics and often frustration and suggested she apply at the necessity, that’s happening again, but for the IBEW Local One Union Hall in St. Louis.

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Julie Brewer followed in the masculine footsteps of several of her relatives when she left college and decided to become an electrician, a traditionally male-dominated career path. Brewer’s grandfather and her cousin were both electricians.

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Artistry Student performances and exhibitions: March 10-14 March Music Series April 10-12

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Spring Dance Concert

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For additional information, visit www.lindenwood.edu/center or call the box office at 636-949-4433.

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Julie Brewer at work.

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were vulgar and rude.” But Julie went to the her job steward and the problem was handled quickly.

“There are times when being female in a trade like this makes me feel that I have to work twice as hard to get respect. But after you build a reputation, they know you’re serious and not going away,” she said. “Vision treats me with respect.”

There will probably always be the guy who asks her if she needs any help. And that’s ok by her. “There are always those guys that say, ‘Come get me if you need help.’ I don’t take offense to that because maybe they’ll need help too. I mean, who can do the job all by themselves.”

ABC News reported in September that the number of male nurses in the United States has increased by two-thirds in the last 20 years. Also, the number of male telephone operators has increased by 50 percent; librarians, 45 percent; bank tellers, 40 percent; and male preschool and kindergarten teachers have raised the number of male teachers by 28 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The cousin was Electrician Douglas Brewer, now president/CEO of Vision Electric & Systems of St. Charles.

“Back then there weren’t a whole lot of girls running to the door for this occupation,” Julie Brewer said. “But it intrigued me. I was driven to the challenge of doing what the guys do.

I knew I could do it.’”

Julie said she wasn’t always the only woman on the job. There was a time in her 18-year-career that she saw a few women on the ladders next to her.

“For a while in the late nineties, more women were trying to get in. The economy was on the upswing. I would see more women on the job all over the place. Now I’m like the only female on the job.”

The challenges have changed too.

“At first, the biggest challenge was just to prove myself overall as a

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female in a man’s world, to get them to take me serious,” she said.

“My biggest challenge now is to keep my body in good condition so I can tolerate the heat and cold and the carpel tunnel. The job is physically demanding. I am climbing ladders all day, pulling wire and running many pipes. If I don’t keep myself strong and flexible, it takes a toll on my body.”

Marty Johnson falls into those numbers. The married father of two sons has a bachelor of science in nursing. A registered nurse in telemetry at Progress West HealthCare Center in O’Fallon, Johnson works 12-hour days and has been with BJC HealthCare for 17 years. He said he had male role models at an early age who were in nursing.

To stay in shape, Julie participates in group exercises at the gym, like Zumba, swimming and sand volleyball and fitness training known as Sand Fit. She met her husband on a job at St. Louis University about seven years ago. He is also an electrician. The couple has two children.

Julie said she’s had very little issues concerning her gender. She remembered a time years ago when a few “out-of-town” guys were causing some trouble.

“They were hoosiers. I got followed home a couple of times. They said some things that

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Marty Johnson at Progress West BJC

“I knew I wanted to get into healthcare.

A good friend’s dad was my teacher and he was also a nurse. My friend’s mom, dad and uncle were all nurses. It just didn’t seem that odd to me,” he said.

I’m just a nurse. I don’t really even think about it anymore.”

But it’s the job itself from which Johnson garners his pride. “I never feel stronger then when I’m within the walls of the hospital,” he said. “Like when I have to be more Johnson was considering physical sensitive with an elderly woman. At 7 a.m. therapy and sports rehabilitation while he she may be apprehensive about me being attended the University of Missouri-St. a man, but by the end of my shift, she is Louis, but there were two-year waits on asking if I’m going to be there the next day. both programs. Then, as if by fate, the I genuinely care about these people and university purchased Barnes College of respect them.”

Nursing. “I was already going to UMSL, so I knew all of the biology and chemis- Diversity should be valued in every profestry and anatomy and physiology would sion, Johnson said. “It’s always good to transfer,” he said. have that diversity in any job. I work with a majority of women. But it’s good to have a Obtaining a bachelor of science in different perspective. Guys think differently. nursing is a rather rigorous endeavor.

I may have a different perspective socially Along with all of the science courses, or just for the day to day work. Older men Johnson went on to get his minor in may think they’ve been in my stage of life psychology, taking sociology statistics, and I can relate to them.” as well as adolescent, child and senior psychology. And then come clinicals.

Johnson said there are male nurses in just about every department at Progress West.

Johnson said he is seeing more and more “They are technicians, ER nurses, OR male nursing students than when he nurses, critical care nurses—I’ve had people started the program in 1996. “I’ve kind ask me, ‘Are there any females at this hosof been through the shift. Now, you see pital?’” a lot more guys in the clinical rotations of nursing students than you used to. I He said he doesn’t envy any of his friends used to get called a male nurse. Now who have what society might deem mascu-

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line jobs. “I have a lot of friends in business, finance and other desk jobs. This is a physically and mentally stressful and tough job, but at the end of the day you have literally impacted someone’s life. You get a real sense of self worth and accomplishment that in fact you did something to impact someone’s life.”

The hours aren’t bad either which is one of the reasons Johnson said he never seriously considered becoming a doctor. “You can’t beat the hours,” he said. “A nurse’s schedule is pretty good for planning around your life. Doctors sacrifice so much of their life and family. I cherish that too much. Quite honestly, the majority get into nursing thinking it might be a stepping stone. That has never been on the radar for me.”

Johnson said the job of a nurse is to care about his or her patients. “Empathy and caring about people is universal across the sexes. I know a lot of guys who couldn’t do this job, but I know a lot of women who couldn’t do it either. An unbelievably caring person is at the core of it all.” ¤

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“Our Kenosha Klosed Krotch Union Suits at $1 and up are the limit for comfort.

We wish we could explain here the reason of it. But do try them.”~excerpt from a 1917 Thro Clothing Co. advertisement.

This is just one of the hundreds of genuine, yet laminated clippings of ads Rose Thro’s family has tucked away in the back office of Thro’s at 229 North Main Street in St. Charles, along with the original ledgers dating back to August of 1898 when John Baptiste Thro, and John B. Thro opened the St. Charles men’s clothing store at 137 North Main Street. The ledger lists “Monday Sales” at $46 for August 22, 1898.

Rose’s great grandfather, John B. Thro was the nephew and godson of John Baptiste Thro, who came to America from AlsaceLorraine (in between France and Germany) to work with his uncle. They were soon joined by Adolph Thro and the three brought together their mercantile and clothing experience to offer gentlemen and boys the opportunity to be out-fitted from head-to-toe with personal and courteous service.

And today, some 115 years later, a couple of store openings and closings and literally thousands of satisfied customers, including most of the Boy Scouts in St. Charles County, the tradition continues.

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John Baptiste was much more than a clothier, though he did start out as an apprentice in the cloth weaving business in Europe at the age of 12. The store’s founder served four terms as the city clerk for St. Charles, two terms as city assessor, one year as presiding judge for the St. Charles County Court and postmaster for St. Charles. He was a deeply religious man who would reward the children of the family with dollar bills for recitation of catechism or prayers in German. He went on to see 10 of his grandchildren serve the church--four Jesuits, four Benedictines and two Sisters.

The store remained simply Thro’s Clothing Co. til in 1965 when Rose’s father J. Maurice Thro, Jr. and Frank Netsch started Michelle’s. Frank Netsch is still the president of Michelle’s.

The oldest of eight children, Rose took the helm of Thro’s after her father passed away in 2012. An altruist in his own right,

the old Woolworth’s building at 229 North Main Street in 1977 and opened in 1978. Thro’s has sold uniforms to generations of Boy Scouts as well as students of the Academy of the Sacred Heart.

Historic photo of Thro’s on display in store

In fact, the history of St. Charles and the history of its oldest men’s clothier seem to go hand in hand. “There’s a spirit at Thro’s that you just don’t find in other clothing stores. It has to do with the way you’re treated when you walk through the door,” Rose said.

“You feel more like a friend than a customer. We’ve been treating customers as friends since our family went into business in 1898. The styles may have changed, but the service hasn’t.”

J. Maurice served as a grand knight for the St. Charles Knights of Columbus, an alderman for the O’Fallon Board of Alderman, a board member for St. Mary’s College, as a member and past president of the SSM St. Joseph Health Center Advisory Board and as a founding board member of the St. Louis Bi-State chapter of the National Head Injury Foundation. Rose said her father always loved Main Street.

The third-generation president of Thro’s, J. Maurice worked six sometimes seven days a week and still kept his books the old-fashioned way, Rose said, because of a genuine dislike of computers, here are still

no computers in the store.

Yet clothing endures. “I hope it’s because it’s a good product and good service and we’ve been active in the community,” Rose said. “Even the people who work for us become family. Gerry Prinster has worked here since the 1960s.”

One of Rose’s eight siblings worked for Thro’s for a short time. The others chose to work in other fields. Only two Thros still work in the store—Rose and her nephew Jacob B. Thro, who is in college.

Thro’s moved from its original location to

And Thro’s does follow styles. Rose said the store has brought in new lines of active wear in the last couple years as the clothing has gained popularity.

Outdoor menswear lines such as Kuhl and younger college and high school styles in bright colors by Southern Tide have been added, while additions have been made to the Cutter & Buck Clothing and John Forsyth Shirt Co. LTD. brands. Thro’s also offers suit lines for weddings and parties in addition to tuxedo rentals.

Michelle’s has also added mother-ofthe-bride lines. The clothing at the women’s store changes as often as women do, Rose said. Michelle’s is always featuring new scarves and accessories, as well as the latest evening, cocktail and special occasion dresses.

Going into the 21st century, Thro’s will meet the needs of its customers with likely as much enthusiasm as Rose’s great great grandfather did. Rose said she intends to always stay tuned in to what is relevant to Thro’s customers.

“Guys always want to be relevant.”

Rose and her son Jacob B. Thro

In an article several years before his death, J. Maurice was quoted as reciting the basic principals Thro’s still goes by today, “If we don’t have it, we’ll get it. If a customer needs a different size, color, cut, we’ll find it for them. And we won’t tell them it looks good if it doesn’t. We’re honest with our customers.” ¤ Spring 2014

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Style This season, paint your canvas with gallery-worthy artistic prints and bold combos

Photography & Direction: Lance Tilford Styling & Wardrobe: Kristi Pinkham Hair & Makeup: Tamara Tungate Model: Hannah Sides with West Model & Talent Management Shot on Location at The Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, www.foundryartcentre.org

Dress from Joy’s, stone necklace from String Along with Me

Blouse & Shorts from Moss Boutique, Bangles from Nordstrom

Reptile Print Dress from Moss, earrings from J. Crew

Dress from Joy’s, Necklace & Shoes from Urban Outfitters

Dress from Moss, Earrings from Aldo, Heels from Bronx Diba

Before you settle in front of the runway to see your favorite fashions come alive at the rEVOLUTION Fashion Show at the Foundry Art Centre, StreetScape wants you to meet the designers behind the looks. Take an indepth look into who the designer is behind the look and what inspires their designs!

Fink (Fashion + ink) By: Kristen Kempton

I make clothing using fabrics I hand print with my original artwork ~ I screen print small batches (approx 2-3 yards at a time) using silkscreens made from my drawings and high quality water based inks that I mix into custom colors. Each garment is handmade from scratch without the use of sewing patterns so each piece is an original design and truly one of a kind.

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Fink

Fink

Suzanne Lay

Suzanne Lay By: Shannon Dougherty

Suzanne Lay

Suzanne Lay is a women’s ready to wear brand for today’s jetsetting woman. The line based out of St. Charles, Missouri and produced in St. Louis, Missouri by Suzanne Lay, Shannon Dougherty and Maggie Bourne. We use bright colors to create bold looks for today’s enviable woman. We encourage women to dream big! When designing our collection we, as a team, sit down and think about what it would take to pack a bag for seven days and what each person would wear on our inspirational city adventure. Influences from all three partners personal styles is what makes the perfect blend for our successful company.

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Suzanne Lay

Suzanne Lay

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Lauren Bander

By: Lauren Bander

Lauren Bander designs women’s clothing specializing in dresses for every occasion (casual to couture), while beginning to introduce ready-to-wear separates. The designs are feminine and flirty, using lots of fabric and exaggeration to give extra movement and drape to each piece. One of Lauren’s main goals in her designs is to show that high fashion does not have to come from places such as New York or Paris; but the Midwest as well.

Lauren Bander

Lauren Bander

Inspiration is drawn from two places: first, the Red Carpet. Everyone dreams of what it would be like to walk the Red Carpet; wearing Lauren’s designs, you feel as if you’re walking the Red Carpet everyday, because even the most simple piece has a couture feel. Second, the city of Paris. Vividly remembering the architecture, language, culture, and the overall feeling of the city, she uses that as inspiration for all of her designs; hoping to bring a little bit of Paris to St. Louis.

Lauren Bander

Lauren Bander

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Fouché

By: Nicole Fouche

Fouché

Fouche’ was founded in 2010 by Nicole Fouche’ with one vision in mind, Just like with her couture line, to combine her love of modern designs with a Classic twist and make it pop in an artistic wearable form. Fouche’ is a line that is feminine, ladylike and artsy with sex appeal. Nicole favors the long and lean, with a keen interest in silhouette, shape and a passion for the sheer and textural. Best known for her love of Fantasy influence in her design concepts, inspired by her French roots she also creates, handmade accessories such as hats, scarfs and bows. Nicole is not only a Designer of couture dresses, but she has also branched out in 2012 to skirts, tops and jackets. Not only a Designer, but a mother, through her designs Nicole’s greatest hope is to inspire other women to follow their dreams and goals.

Nicole was inspired to create her art she treasured so much in fashion form and continues to do so which has lead Nicole to working as a Free Lance Designer, creating the Label she calls Fouché which stands for the person Nicole was when fashion became one of the exceptional passions in her life which is also her last name. Through her story and designs, Nicole hopes to inspire others to follow their passions.

Despite the obstacles that occur in life, embrace who you are, through what you wear.

Fouché

Fouché

Photo Credit Jessica Clark Photography Fouché

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Turneround Couture

Turneround Couture

By: Amilee Turner

Turneround Couture is a high fashion dress brand that emphasizes old Hollywood glamour and couture.

The brand seeks to embrace elegance, class, and beauty with modern vision for today’s women. Amilee Turner is an established fashion designer, model, and author based out of St. Louis, MO and Kansas City, MO. Having obtained a minor is Fashion Design from Lindenwood University and designing dresses ever since she was a young girl, she officially launched Turneround Couture in July of 2013 and is grateful for the immediate success and attention her brand has received among a vast amount of people. As an upcoming and emerging designer in the Mid-West, she plans to take Turneround Couture to further fashion markets in cities such as Atlanta, Chicago, and New York City.

Turneround Couture

Turneround Couture

Turneround Couture

Vintage Now

By: Deb Maevers

The annual VintageNOW fashion show held in Cape Girardeau, MO is in the process of planning our 5th show which benefits The Safe House for Women. Raising over $100,000.00 for this very worthy organization, each show features 40 models walking the runway representing every women who is or has suffered physical or mental abuse.

There are 2 fashion segments. The casual JUST FOR FUN and the more formal EVENING/PARTY wear (there are over 80 looks!).

VintageNOW features models wearing a mix of vintage & modern clothing. So every one attending can see how you can wear vintage mixed with items from their own wardrobe.

It’s a fun evening of fashion with approximately 1200 people in attendance. This year’s show is Oct. 17th held at the Osage Center in Cape Girardeau.

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America has seen a lot of dances come and go in the last century. From the Charleston to the Jitter Bug to the Bump to Break Dancing to Hip Hop, and so many others in between. But two young St. Louis dancers are ready to break out their own new style, and maybe help a few kids along the way.

Rian Dugar and Tabethia Jones are 2.0 (TwoPoint-Zero), a pair of inventive and passionate self-taught professional dancers from St. Louis who have recently joined forces with the non-profit organization St. Louis School Of Defense (S.S.O.S.D.) to help inner city kids and teens be a part of something positive. The two began teaching classes in the S.S.O.S.D and Dojo Pizza building at 4601 Morganford in the Bevo Mill neighborhood last month.

“Our main focus is to help inner city children and teens that come from dysfunctional families, giving them a place to come to and grow,” Dugar said.

Dugar relates to some of what his new charges are feeling. “I was very self conscious as a kid until I saw ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’ on MTV,” he said. “I saw the emotion and passion the dancers had and it was just amazing. Since then, I haven’t looked back.”

Rian ‘2.0’ Dugar & Tabethia ‘Tabbz’ Jones

2.0 Taking dance industry to another level Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photo by Michael Schlueter

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As it turned out, he hasn’t needed to. Dugar began dancing in his mom’s basement. Unlike many dancers who start out as children taking everything from ballet to tap, at 17, Dugar began teaching himself every dance move he could find on YouTube and cable television.

It would not only change his life, but lead him to create a new style of dance that he believes is going take the dance industry by storm.

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Rian & Tabethia breaking out into new dance form, Hybrid Style Dance

He calls it Hybrid Style Dance, and he’s taken it to New York, Atlanta and Alabama so far. “Other dancers have helped me structure and format the style and now I’m trying to bring it to the forefront of dance.”

Hybrid Dance is simply the art of fusion, Dugar said. “I take different techniques, styles and genres of dance and combine power moves and very strong theatrics and musicality. My ideas of mixing ballet, jazz, modern, breaking, hip-hop and many other styles, allowed me to branch out into the Hybrid Style.”

“It’s the unpredictability of the Hybrid style that makes it unique,” Dugar said. “You never know what move, genre or style I’m going to do next or how I’m going to move my body.

It always leaves the viewer guessing what’s next.”

A guitar player and musician since he was eight years old, Dugar said the music led him to the dance. “I love music so much that when I hear it I get the same feeling in my mind,

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body and soul as I do when I’m playing guitar. What I’m hearing gives me an advantage when I dance.”

Born and raised in St. Louis, Jones grew up an aspiring model, dancer and entertainer. From 2003 to 2010, she honed her craft, dancing and modeling for various local promotion and marketing groups and publications.

Dugar and Jones have already begun taking their message and their dance to local schools in South St. Louis, talking to kids about confidence and pursuing their dreams.

“We try to give them confidence to go out in the world with their heads held high,” Dugar said. “We take the kids in and treat them as family and teach them to dance.”

The 2.0 comes from Dugar’s high school friend who wore a ball cap with “1.0” on it. The friend started calling him 2.0 and it stuck. “To me, 2.0 stands for a higher state of consciousness, a way of life, being positive and going for my dreams and empowering myself.

We don’t do drugs. We eat healthy. It just reminds me of me and my friend having good times together.”

Since Dugar and Jones created Team 2.0, dancing has taken them from the streets of St. Louis, to instructing dance for adults and kids, photo shoots, sponsorships, back up dancing, television appearances, performances at World Of Dance NYC and headlining a show at the Empire State Building.

Because they do their own video and editing work, Team 2.0 has plans to brand its name and concept through dance as well as a new clothing line that will be released later this year. Still there’s more.

“My ultimate goal is to take dancers to a new level, to create something like the Grammys are for musicians or the Oscars are for actors. I want my dancing to be a model for people.”

Dugar said he and Jones have not left each other’s sides since they met two years ago.

When he first saw her, he said she was in the middle of the dance floor at a club he frequented. “It was like a movie. I walked up to her and smiled and then I started dancing. She said, ‘You’re going to be something big one day.’ Since then, we have been inseparable.”

For more information on Team 2.0, visit www.team2.0.com. ¤

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Lakewood campers canoeing

Kids call it “My Camp.” And they mean it. YMCA’s Camp Lakewood in Potosi, MO has hosted thousands of kids since its founding in 1949, who put that very special label on the place. Director Matt Garcia said there’s a good reason for that.

“It means every one of our campers has a home away from home. It means every one of our campers has a special place where they can try new things without being judged. It means every camper knows a place where they have friends, where they feel safe, happy, and wanted.”

Garcia is known as “Mufasa” at camp. (All camp counselors and staff have special camp names.)

Garcia said Camp Lakewood is known throughout Missouri and beyond for providing a well-rounded experience for campers which helps them to grow into well-rounded individuals. “Our tagline for camp is ‘Growing Great Kids’ and we structure our programs to do just that.”

But it’s more than that. “Meanwhile,” he said, “they are in an incredibly fun and safe environment where they feel comfortable to be their ‘favorite me’ and not be judged.”

More than six decades ago, Camp Lakewood opened as a boys’ summer camp when Joseph Sunnen, developer of the Sunnen Products Company, purchased land and built a lake for a YMCA camp that was adjacent to what was then the original YMCA Trout Lodge. Trout Lodge was a small conference center at the time. “Mr. Sunnen had a love for children, nature and his family,” said Camp Lakewood Program Director Jill “KC” Engel. “Mr. Sunnen personally supervised the construction of a one-mile dam to impound the Fourché Renault River to form a 360-acre lake.”

Growing Great Kids Camp Lakewood: a place for kids and teens Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photos by Michael Schlueter

There have been many changes since then that have grown YMCA Camp Lakewood into one of the nation’s largest and best camp facilities, she said.

Camp Lakewood’s summer overnight camp for kids ages 6-17, puts an emphasis on unplugging electronically and connecting naturally, said Engel.

With the 360-acre lake and over 5,000 acres of forest-covered hills, caves and creeks,

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campers have many opportunities to explore nature, make new friends and learn new skills.

Campers outside a mudcave

“Camp is a place that is a home away from home, where lifelong friendships are found and accomplishment, belonging, and character are cultivated,” she said.

Camp Lakewood is also home to the Triangle Y Ranch for equestrian programs, an Arts & Crafts center, high-adventure activities and a Nature Center for environmental education.

Counselors at Camp Lakewood are trained in CPR and First Aid, and lifeguard-certified staff supervise all waterfront activities.

Garcia said counselors are selected for their personal ethics, morals and values, ability to communicate on a camper’s level, and ability to address a child’s feeling of homesickness or desire to “fit in.”

“Our camp counselors are from all over the world, giving campers insight to diverse cultures and allowing them to gain knowledge and appreciation of the world around them,” Engel said.

Camper in crazy sunglasses

Programs at the camp are age appropriate and include Traditional Summer Camp Program (Main Camp or East Camp), Ranger or Junior Ranger Programs, or Trail Blazer Trips. Older campers can choose to work on leadership skills in the Leaders In Training Program (LIT) or train to become a counsel-

or in the Counselor In Training Program (CIT). We also have 4-day, 3-night programs like Mini-Camp for the youngest campers; Tween Camp for ages 9 and 10 who may not be ready for a weeklong camp program just yet; Pre-Teen Camp, for campers who want to try out East Camp for the first time; and Ranch Camp for campers who love horses and want to learn more about them.

All campers have the opportunity to participate in traditional camp activities like swimming, horseback riding, caving, tower climbing, zip lining, canoeing, archery, arts & crafts, campfires, and a multitude of other pursuits.

Counselors get campers engaged in activities, and guide them to set, accomplish and exceed goals they set for themselves, while teaching them to not be afraid to fail.

“Camp Lakewood is a place for kids to feel free of judgment, where they can challenge themselves to try new things and push themselves farther than they would ever imagine,” Engel said.

But it’s also a place to just relax and have fun, Engel said.

Campers listening to campfire tales

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Carol Meckfessel and her daughter Dawn Schmidt are taking Meckfessel’s father’s lifelong hobby and sharing its bounty with the world with Sycamore Creek Vintage Postcard Art. Meckfessel’s father was a collector of picture postcards—a deltiologist to those in the know. And if there was a king of such a hobby, St. Louis’ Walter E. Welp would have been it. Welp amassed more than 500,000 cards throughout much of the twentieth century.

His collection dated from the late 1800s to the 1930s and featured subjects from various national holidays to religious themes, to animals, to children, to reproductions of masterpieces and historical events.

His collection was considered the second largest in the nation and the third largest in the world, Meckfessel said.

It all started when Welp just matter-of-factly one day decided he wanted a hobby. Meckfessel said stamps and coins didn’t really interest him so on a whim he answered an ad offering postcards. That was 1939. After that, he bought the cards when he traveled, he joined numerous collecting clubs and always kindly offered to display his cards at libraries and banks to encourage postcard collecting in the St. Louis area.

At one time, he had a fabulous display of about 100 panels of cards at the old Mercantile Bank on 8th and Locusts Streets downtown. In 1964, a 35-minute movie titled “Postcard Fantasy” was made featuring Welp and his collection.

Dawn Schmidt (left) and Carol Meckfessel (right)

Capturing memories

Postcard collection brings family closer

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“I remember as a little girl going into antique shops with my dad,” Meckfessel said. “I remember he just kept growing it. He purchased other people’s collections. And he was so organized. He could find any card at any time. Me and my sister Elsie Trampe were just raised with postcards all of our lives. Now I see the beauty in them.”

When traveling and setup became more difficult, Welp would invite groups to tour his home in Bellefontaine Neighbors in North St. Louis County where the whole of the top floor was adorned with his collection.

“In the seventies, he would have an annual open house for the garden club and the

Gateway Postcard Club,” Meckfessel said. “He was one of the charter members of the Gateway Postcard Club.”

Meckfessel said her father loved St. Louis history and decorating. He was a sales manager at Consumers Glue Company in St. Louis. He called it his first and last job and retired from the company after 55 years of service, she said.

“When post cards were first designed, they served as a greeting to a friend or loved one,” Meckfessel said. “No written messages were ever included. The cards marked a special occasion like a birthday or anniversary, holiday, a visit or trip, and they came beautifully embossed or enameled. Some had feathers, appliqués, lace, real hair, or bits of straw or metal attached to give reality to the picture. Some were three-dimensional, but all were done in exquisite details and colors.” The majority are of German origin.

The years between 1903 and 1914 were considered the “Golden Era” of postcard collecting, Meckfessel said. The 1940s were the linen era, and the 1960s brought the advent of the chrome cards with shiny finishes.

Welp died in 1993. Some of the collection was sold by the sisters, but much of it still remains. That’s where Meckfessel and her daughter come in. The two have fashioned wall-hangings from reprints of thousands of collector cards and are selling them at area tradeshows, flea markets and antique shows.

Like Welp, Meckfessel has always held a great interest in art and as she put it, “the warmth and beauty of simple images.” At her various jobs, Meckfessel has designed folk art, made antique quilts and done stenciling and woodwork.

The apple didn’t fall far from the tree for her or for her daughter. Schmidt has a degree in commercial art and at one time ran the art department at Sportsprint in Ferguson. So with her own creativity and a love of antiques, she figured out a way to share her grandfather’s collection and preserve a little history at the same time.

The process starts with a sheet of lumber that Schmidt paints and then cuts into ornament-sized, 4x6 and 5x7 plaques. After much sanding, beveling edges and decoupage, Meckfessel takes over.

She picks the cards, copies them and affixes them to the wood, embellishing them with glitter and vintage buttons.

“It started as a way for me to make extra income to pay for Christmas,” Schmidt said, “but now it’s grown into so much more.”

Meckfessel said with the diverse nature of the vast collection, the two are able to focus on different holidays, depending on the time of year and the event they are attending.

The ladies just recently added 1940s pinups to their stock.

For more information on Sycamore Creek Vintage Postcards, email supchuck84@yahoo.com. ¤

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StreetScape Book Review Review by Ann Hazlewood Fourth in the Colebridge Series, the members of the Jane Austen Literary Club decide to make a quilt.

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The Cheese Matters The Cheese: Gouda Story by Barrie Lynn | The Cheese Impresario www.TheCheeseImpresario.com Gouda or GAOW-duh as they say in Holland, is traditionally a creamy cow’s milk cheese most of us have tasted.

There are spectacular handcrafted Gouda’s now available and made in the United States. I’ve been loving the flavored versions of Gouda for an additional kick in pairings with fine beverages.

I’ve come across a cheesemaker, Marieke Penterman, whose cheese I absolutely love.

I first served her cheese at the VIP party for Wine Spectator’s New York Wine Experience event. People had never heard of Marieke and her raw cow’s milk Gouda’s.

I had the pleasure of watching people leave my table, pop a piece of Marieke’s cheese in their mouth, turn around and ask me for more. Marike was named Grand Champion at the 2013 US Cheese Championship Cheese Contest beating out thousands of cheeses from all over the world!

I’ve created a pairing of one of Marieke’s Goudas with a fine Tennessee Whiskey by a family-owned company.

Holland’s Family Cheese : Thorp, Wisconsin Cheesemaker: Marieke Penterman Honey Clover Raw Milk Gouda - Cow

Marieke Penterman and her family moved from Holland to the pristine terrior of Wisconsin to make authentic Gouda cheese.

Marieke’s cheeses are considered farmstead cheeses because she and her husband, Rolf have their own herd of cows. They also make only raw milk cheese. They decided on using raw milk because more of the flavors and good microbes are still a part of their cheese. You can actually taste the difference between raw milk and pasteurized cheese. In the United States, raw milk cheese must be aged a minimum of 60 days to be sold. Marieke ages her cheeses in her special curing room on Dutch pine planks for even more flavor.

This libation is a stellar creative accomplishment by Phil Prichard.

I was expecting a sugary sweet chocolaty flavor and quite the contrary, Prichard’s Double Chocolate Bourbon Whiskey brought me the depth of flavors Tennessee whiskey is known for as well as an almost essence of cocoa bean.

This is a Gouda you’ll want to pair with loads of libations. It’s Marieke’s Honey Clover Raw Milk Gouda. It is her rich fullbodied Gouda with an additional ingredient. Organic honey clover herb is added to deliver surprisingly not a honey taste…but a sweet grassy flavor to this extremely rich rich cow’s milk cheese.

The pairing with the Gouda brought out the hint of cocoa as well as the caramel, vanilla and some baking spices in the whiskey. The whiskey carried the richness and complexity of the raw milk along with the sweetness of the honey clover herb right onto your palate.

Tennessee Whiskey Pairing: Benjamin Prichard’s Double Chocolate Bourbon Whiskey –ABV 45% Master Distiller: Phil Prichard

As a celebration with friends and family, this is a pairing people will love and appreciate the artistry in each of these delights. I had dinner with Phil and Connie Prichard when I was visiting Tennessee and I could actually feel their passion for the delicious spirits they distill.

I’m told Prichard’s works with the well loved, Olive and Sinclair Chocolate Company out of Nashville. Their natural chocolate is combined with Prichard’s exceptional Double Barreled Bourbon in Phil’s proprietary method.

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LET’S FACE IT 2014 Spring Trends Story by Tamara Tungate Think of designer fashion shows as a visual moving art piece on the runway. New makeup and hairstyle trends are carefully plotted out by some of the best artists in the country to compliment the designer’s vision. This top tier industry has every influence on what trickles down onto the racks and makeup shelves of your favorite stores. We are more swayed by the designers than we realize.

So here is the buzz for spring that the shows kicked into gear…

1. Sky Blue This clothing color seemed to dominate the most at shows and from my experience looks good on the majority of women. Coral and orange accents brought even more vibrancy of spring to the pallets.

2. Soft Berry and Orange lips Picking the right shade of Berry and Orange can absolutely flatter your skin tone and bring a clean fresh appearance. If the orange shade scares you then sheer it out with gloss or Chap Stick.

3. Transparent, Feminine Figure skimming silhouettes accented with flounces and ruffles celebrate the female form with sheer draping and ethereal movement. If chosen well these designs will make all shapes and sizes flattering.

4. Waves and Curls Thank goodness the obsession with stick straight hair is fading! Coming back into style are waves and curls. Try twisting your hair around the barrel of a curling iron for a more natural, beachy wave affect.

5. Embellishments The lovely thing about spring is the soft edges and free flow movement. Feminine applications and embroideries decorate everything from accessories to leather jackets and trousers as well as coats, pretty dresses and tops. The applications range from oversize crystals to fabric flowers.

6. Rucksacks Becoming popular this year, these practical bags will continue to be fashionable. With a wide range of patterned and printed bags out there, backpacks are no longer just functional; they are a style statement.

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7. Cat Eye This trend has various incarnations and requires a steady hand. The dramatic winged looked is better off on younger faces. A short upward flare at the corner is much easier to achieve and flatters just about every eye, giving the illusion of an eyelift.

8. Glowing Skin Nothing screams health and freshness better than radiant skin. Steer clear of bronzing your face and explore illuminators. Illuminators can be used over makeup in select areas (cheeks, bridge of nose, cupids bow), in primers before makeup is applied or even mixed in with foundation or crème blush. Just remember, a little bit can go a long way.

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Seated with a glass of cold water with lemon, I had just had a wonderful scalp massage with a deep conditioner, my hair perfectly coifed, and was now seated in the makeup chair….what a perfect start to Date Night with my hubby.

It was “Blow Out Friday” at Cary O’Brien’s. It’s something new they’ve started at the salon, and I recommend the experience to anyone needing a mini-makeover for a special night out or to just learn how to better style your hair. It’s a lot of fun and very relaxing.

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Fit in Fitness Looking for a new workout, a new you

Story by Brian Byrd Photo by Brian Byrd Is it time to start thinking about fitness different already?

WOW I feel like we just go things rocking and rolling good in the gym for the winter time, and if Mother Nature pays attention to the calendar, it should start warming up soon.

Yes, that means FRESH workout and fitness ideas straight from my overactive brain. So yes, you have one heck of a workout to look forward to, but, first, let’s look at a different way to think about your fitness.

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successful fitness program is variety, never doing the same thing twice, always introducing new ways of moving the old bones and new ways of challenging the “normal” way of getting fit.

That is all true, but how about a new way of looking at the entire picture?

If you had the opportunity to go to any area wellness service provider and it be affordable, would you? If every time you had a tight muscle or just wanted to explore new and different ways of approaching your health, what would it take to get you to Fig. A explore those options? A viable solution is coming very soon.

Enter the FITCLUB Rewards program.

This program is the merging of service providers, Health and Wellness retail businesses and clients, and may be the answer to getting a more complete picture of how you can better approach maintaining your health and fitness.

The program creates an oasis of resources that will be, literally, at your fingertips. Picture this, you walk into the local health food store and see a table tent holding brochures and those brochures, in short, tell you that, for a very small price, you can have access to any local Fitness or Wellness service provider at a significant discount, would you take a look?

Well, that is as simple as it is. Our rewards program gives its members 20 opportunities to take better care of yourself. For instance, you will have access to local chiropractic, massage, personal training, dance classes, nutritionists, registered dietitians, doctors and many more industry professionals.

The program is regional so participating companies can be right in your neighborhood or wherever it makes sense for you to use it.

Every time you use your FITCLUB Rewards card to see a provider, you get a stamp, and once you’ve reached 20 stamps you can now take your card into any participating company and receive a “reward” for taking better care of yourself!

It’s that simple. This could be the push you need to really take a good look at your overall wellness. That reward could be so many things, from discounted fitness apparel or a discount on your organic groceries at the local health food store and even free personal training. As long as they are a participating business, there is a reward to be had for your diligent self-care.

So to go along with this great new opportunity for getting into shape and keeping your body running like a Swiss clock, let’s get into some workout ideas. Last time it was all about slow moving heavy lifting.

Now let’s change the pace and focus on putting some spring back in your step! If you know me, I’m a big fan of getting outside and using parks for spring and summer work and that has not changed one bit, but I’m going to give you some options here that could be used inside or out.

Things to add into your routine:

• Different ways of achieving cardio • Less heavy weight training

• Body weight strength movements • And always CORE

So from the confines of the gym we take things outside. To start trimming down the extra winter coats that we all tend to put on during those cold months of bounty, I attack it head on with taking on hill sprints.

That’s right, find the steepest hill you can find or look for stairs if you can’t find any ideal hills. I take my mile tracker with me when I run hills or stairs to track the distances. I still like using miles as my measure instead of trips up the hill or stairs.

The agility ladder is another great tool for

changing your style of movement. Of course, this can be done inside, but for those who don’t have the room to spread out inside, working this outside is fantastic.

There are so many combinations of jumps and footwork moves that can be done on this simple device that incorporate high heart rates and strong core and legs. Again, the time commitment is very low. The agility ladder offers a very efficient way of getting cardio.

Get up, get out, and kick the dust off to create a new atmosphere for your health this year. The spring has lots to bring with a different way of looking at your fitness, and the introduction of the FITCLUB rewards program goes hand in hand with your renewed dedication to self care this season!

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Screenings save more than just lives, gives peace of mind Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photo by Michael Schlueter

Antioxidants, more exercise, clean eating, smoking cessation—they’re the contemporary buzz words for cancer prevention. And they’re plastered all over the news, the Internet and magazine covers, while doctors and cancer specialists are screaming in the background on seemingly deaf ears, “Get screened!”

breast exam and mammography for breast cancer; and a number of options for colon cancer. The PSA test for prostate cancer also is an option for men, though the benefits of that test are less clear.

The ACS indicates that for colon cancer alone, regular screening could save more than 30,000 lives each year in the U.S. Add to this the potential lives saved from cervical While they concede there isn’t a screen- and breast cancer screening tests, and the numbers are staggering. ing test for every cancer, American Cancer Society (ACS), Siteman Cancer “Unfortunately, many people don’t get Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medi- screened, especially for colon cancer,” said Lannis Hall, MD, PhD, a radiation oncolocine all agree there are a number of gist at Siteman. “This is the one screening very effective tests that people should begin to have at certain ages, including tool that is really underutilized. It baffles me it’sJohn the best one that we have.” the Pap test for cervical cancer; clinical because Daymon

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Dr. Hall asserts that while lung cancer is the number one preventable disease—by smoking cessation or never smoking to begin with—colon cancer is the second because physicians not only have a screening tool but one that can be therapeutic.

The purpose of screening is to find cancer early so treatment can be more effective.

But the benefits don’t stop there, Dr. Hall said. Screening tests can also help prevent some cancers by finding and treating abnormal changes in cells before they have a chance to turn into cancer.

The single best test for colorectal cancer detection is colonoscopy, Dr. Hall said. When the flexible sigmoidoscopy is used, polyps can not only be found but removed at the

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same time. “Polyps are precancerous tissues. This tool can visualize the colon and remove abnormal tissues that over time might develop into cancer,” she said. “Ninety percent of the time this test catches all abnormalities. If we screened everyone over 50, we would significantly reduce colon cancers and deaths.”

The ACS recommends that men and women generally be screened for colon cancer beginning at age 50. However, depending on personal family history—such as a first degree relative that had colon cancer—some individuals may need to start earlier or be screened differently. The ACS recommends each individual speak to their doctor about what is best for them.

Dr. Hall said she often treats people who could have been spared either cancer treatment or death had they been screened. She said people may be scared off by the prep for the screening because the individual can’t eat beforehand and has to complete a colon cleanse.

“The majority of people developing these colon cancers that are advanced have not had a colonoscopy,” she said. “So many people are discouraged by the prep for colonoscopy, but treatment is hard.

There’s surgery and radiation and chemotherapy and maybe it could have been prevented.”

Dr. Hall said colon cancer usually does not present with symptoms until the disease is advanced, another reason it’s important to be screened early. Polyps can be growing for years before a patient has blood in their stool or bloating, she said.

Lung, breast and colon are the most common cancers in women, in that order, Dr. Hall said. While prostate, lung and colon are most common in men, in that order. A women is more likely to die of lung, breast and then colon cancer, in that order; while men are more likely to die of prostate, lung and then colon cancer, in that order.

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The ACS recommends yearly mammograms starting at age 40 and continuing for as long as a woman is in good health to detect breast cancer. Clinical breast exam is recommended about every three years for women in their 20s or 30s and every year for women 40 and older. Women should know how their breasts normally look and feel and report any changes promptly to their health-care provider.

Breast self-exam is an option for women starting in their 20s.

Less than two percent of all women in the U.S. need to be screened

by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) because they are at higher risk for breast cancer.

Screening for cervical cancer should begin at age 21 for most women, according to the ACS, which recommends women between the ages of 21 and 29 have a Pap test every three years.

The ACS recommends women ages 30-65 should have a Pap test plus an HPV test every five years or a Pap test alone every three years. Women over age 65 who have had regular cervical cancer testing with normal results should not be tested, according to the ACS.

past the age of 65. Women who have been vaccinated against HPV should still follow the screening recommendations for their age group.

At the time of menopause, the ACS recommends all women Once testing has stopped, it should not be started again. Women with should be informed about the risks and symptoms of endomea history of serious cervical pre-cancer should continue to be tested trial (uterine) cancer. Women should report any unexpected for at least 20 years after that diagnosis, even if testing continues bleeding or spotting to their doctors. ¤ 66 StreetScape Magazine

FAST, CLEANSE, REJUVENATE

IT’S WHAT THE BODY NEEDS

Story by Dr. Christy Jenkins

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or centuries, health professionals that are oriented toward natural approaches have emphasized the importance of fasting in order to get the gastrointestinal system to balance and cleanse the body. They suggest that fasting enhances

digestion and absorption and strengthen the body’s toxifying and eliminative capacities.

They believe that during the fast the body burns up accumulating wastes and self-cleanses. The inner cleansing process facilitates cellular repair building and general metabolic functioning.

With improved nutrient absorption, toxin elimination, and cellular metabolism, our whole organism experiences a surge in health and well-being. We enjoy increased vitality, increased resistance to infections, less incidence of chronic degenerative disease, a slowing of the aging process and a longer, healthier life.

At a glance you might consider these claims to be exaggerated, faddish, or extreme. In taking a closer look, however, we see that fasting is not a radical, outlandish practice. In fact, in its most conservative and common sense form, fasting is what occurs every night when we’re asleep. It’s not without meaning that your morning meal is called “breakfast.”

How to Fast, Cleanse and Rejuvenate: One-Day Fluid Fast Consume only water, herb tea, vegetable broth and freshly made juice. A one-day fast is relatively easy; give it a try!

If you are underweight, you can still fast. Especially if you consume 80 ounces of clean water and juice at least 80% of vegetable juice and 20% fruit juiced fresh.

Check with your health care provider before starting a fast, to determine if your body can handle abstaining from solid foods. If you are unsure if you have diabetes or other metabolic concerns, please contact Dr. Jenkins for a cardiovascular screening.

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When the food supply to the body is temporarily curtailed, the entire digestive machinery takes a rest. There is a slowdown in hydrochloric acid and pepsin secretions from the stomach in the liver; and intestinal peristalsis. Thanks to the reduction in this metabolic processes, we’re able to build an energy reserve, some of which is used for the inner process.

This vital self-cleaning activity can’t really take hold when we eat three meals a day, seven days a week, especially when we commonly overeat and frequently snack between meals and eat late at night. How can an oven’s self-cleaning mechanism get to work when the oven is continually cooking? Proteins and fats require three to five hours simply to work their way out of the stomach. When you go to bed an hour or two after dinner or a hearty bedtime snack, do you think that you’ll actually be resting and rejuvenating in your sleep?

According to “nature cure” concepts, in an overburdened digestive and eliminative system, incompletely processed food retains and stores as cell waste. These accumulations impair normal metabolic processes, clog elimination routes, and result in toxicity. This is how excesses do their damage and why so many of the common diseases in America today are the result of excess.

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People You Should Know

The Worthington Pair George and Sharlotte Worthington are team players. It’s why they’ve been married for almost four decades. It’s also why the two make such good neighbors.

The Worthingtons came to St. Charles to help the city with development in the early seventies and ended up finding love, a successful business venture and lots of friends.

At the time, George was working in the engineering department for University City, MO when he found out the city of St. Charles had obtained a federal grant to do some redevelopment projects in the area. “St. Charles needed someone to represent the city’s interests in construction on the ground with its plans, goals and objectives. The project included everything from the river to Fourth Street and then from Clark Street to Reservoir Street south of Boonslick Road. The project was for streets, roads, sidewalks and sewer lines, public infrastructure, roads and utilities.”

Born and raised in Oklahoma, Sharlotte came to the city in 1970 to serve on its redevelopment authority as well. “My mom said I’d probably come up here and get married and never come back again,” Sharlotte said.

As it turned out, her mother was right. “That’s how we met. We were both working at the redevelopment authority,” Sharlotte said.

George (right) & Sharlotte (left) Worthington

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Sharlotte echoed George’s words about the condition of the downtown area at that time.

“There were a lot of people who lived in this neighborhood that did not have hot water.”

The city wanted something better for the historic area along the river and things were about to change in a big way. “The city had already established the directives,” George said. “We

just helped make it happen.” He said he and Sharlotte were a part of the design concept for Kister Park and its rest area and gazebo on South Main, and Berthold Square Park next to Lewis & Clark’s restaurant at First Capitol Drive.

George was born and raised in the Shrewsbury Webster Groves area, the oldest of four children. His father was a mechanical engineer. His mother was a school teacher in St. Louis. George has a degree in forestry with some civil engineering. He spent three years in the Army, two of them in France in the mid-1960s.

Sharlotte’s father was a construction worker and owned a restaurant in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her mother was a homemaker. Sharlotte was born the oldest of two. She had worked on a similar project to the St. Charles Redevelopment Authority in Oklahoma before coming to Missouri.

Following their work on the Authority, George decided he wanted to work for himself. It was the late seventies and it was a lean period for energy consumption in the nation’s history. He said it started when his mother, Virginia McCormick Worthington, now 97, called him asking for his advise in helping her purchase a wood-burning stove.

“That just happened to be the time of a rebirth of the wood-burning stove,” George said. “Those were the times of high price of oil and energy. There was a new interest in alternate heating and energy efficiency.” The couple opened Worthington Trading Co. at 147 North Main on December 4, 1979. The store specialized in energy-efficiency-related products such as stoves, fireplaces and ceiling fans. “This was before you could buy those things everywhere,” George said. “But within a couple of years there were 50 dealers in the St. Louis area doing what we did.”

In 1983, Worthington Trading Co. moved to 222 N. Main Street, the old Bruns Machine Company building. When they purchased the building it still had all hot water heaters and oil heat.

The couple still owns the building today. Though the Worthingtons closed their shop in 2007, the building has housed many businesses, including an antique shop, a pool hall, a gym, a dance store and currently a performing arts studio and a lingerie and bra shop.

The Worthingtons play as hard as they work. “We have probably as many friends half our age that we have our age,” Sharlotte said.

George likes hunting and fishing, but is an expert woodworker.

He builds classical and acoustic guitars and has built a harpsichord and clavichord. He’s also a gunsmith and can build old time rifles. He’s currently restoring a 21-foot classic wooden motorboat.

Sharlotte can be seen about Main Street planting flowers in the pots atop the trash cans and she’s even been known to sweep the street or scrape gum off of the sidewalk. “I like working on projects that make things nicer,” she said. “Mostly I see it as contributing. The best things about it is there’s usually someone

to help. I mean I don’t do it by myself.”

George agreed. “There are some really incredible people on this street that really do care about this street and are interested in more than just to come here and make a dollar.”

Sharlotte contributes to PreservationJournal.org with the site’s creator Holly Haddox. The “Preservation Journal” focuses on the restoration of Main Street during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. She also contributes to RendezvousinStCharles.com.

Sharlotte was one of the contributors to the City of St. Charles’ recent production “Memories on Main” now airing on the city’s cable channel and available on DVD at the St. Charles County Historical Society.

One of the ways the Worthingtons stay on the go is eating clean. “Years ago we adjusted our eating habits – avoiding fried food and sliced bread, reducing quantity and eating more fresh vegetables. It’s been so long it is just normal,” Sharlotte said. “I break any self-imposed rules when it comes to chocolate, though, especially homemade fudge at Christmas time.”

Chocolate is not the only sweet in the Worthington home, however. “It’s like a friendship with some icing on the cake,” George said of his relationship with his wife. “We let each other be who we are but have a common goal of staying together because we like each other. I don’t have any regrets.” ¤

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on his own that his life expectancy was 18.

His parents had just let him live his life until Few children with CF lived to attend el- then, not worrying about what could happen. ementary in the 1950s. Today, advances As long as his took his medicine, stayed active and kept up on his checkups, his parents in research and medical treatments— let him lead as normal a life as possible. such as “The Vest” that contains air tubes, that with vibration mimic poundAfter he found out, he said he felt like he ing on the chest to loosen mucous; or stronger antibiotics—have extended life needed to do as much as he could before his life was over. “I had this immediate sense for children and adults with CF. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation reports that of doom. Like why should I try hard at anymany people born now with the disease thing,” he said. “I really thought I needed to can expect to live into their thirties, for- see things before I was dead.” ties and beyond.

So he traveled around the country, working in sales for an upscale hotel. Although People with CF can have a variety of symptoms, including very salty-tasting he did well for himself, he said he pretty skin; persistent coughing; frequent lung much ignored his condition, didn’t go to the doctor regularly and didn’t keep up with his infections; wheezing or shortness of medicine or how his disease was progressbreath; poor growth and weight gain; and frequent greasy, bulky stools or dif- ing. Even a severe illness that left him hospitalized, with reduced lung function and ficulty in bowel movements. a significant weight loss didn’t wake him up, he said.

Particularly worrisome to CF patients are lung infections because the germs “For me it was the mental battle that was cannot escape the lungs the way they do from healthy lungs. “You know the the biggest challenge,” he said. “I thought, ‘Now I’m 18. My life expectancy is 20. kind of mucous you have when you Now I’m 21. My life expectancy is 23.’ I have the flu or pneumonia, that totally disgusting, thick mucus? That’s what I lived everything short term. I was just kind have all the time,” Burke said. “Germs of avoiding the whole thing.” get stuck in this mucous and they grow Then out of the blue, a business man, who and colonize and resist. If that colony had somehow found out he suffered from gets out of hand, it makes you sick.

CF, called him and asked him to speak at a You get pneumonia. When you get an infection, the infected piece of the lung black tie fund raiser for CF in Virginia. He dies, and the spot on the lung forms scar realized he didn’t know what to say because he had not kept up with anything about his tissue.” disease. That’s when the light came on.

The old treatment was to take antibiot- “I started doing research on the new medications and on life expectancy. I found out ics all of the time, Burke said. But that at that time, 28 was the new life expecantibiotics are hard on the body and tancy. I had just turned 30,” Burke said. “I he became immune to many of them.

Today, he takes two very strong inhaled realized I had just spent the better part of antibiotics called Tobramycin or Tobi, and Pulmozyne. Hypertonic saline is the third treatment that makes him cough in order to clean out his lungs.

On average, Burke takes 13,000 pills per year to control his CF-induced pancreatic issues. The pills contain an enzyme that helps his body digest food. He must take four pills every time he puts any food in his mouth. His medicines, without insurance, would run about $25,000 per month.

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14 years making decisions on something that never happened. That’s when I made a promise to myself. I was not going to live in fear anymore.”

Burke had always been active. He played baseball and soccer, biked in college and even ran for a while when he was living in Detroit, MI. But then he got serious.

After moving back to St. Charles, Burke started working harder than ever and getting serious about his medicine. His wife Rene Burke, who he said has been where the “unease goes to get crushed” between his “rock and a hard place.”

“She willingly came into my life knowing I was beyond my life expectancy,” Michael Burke said of his wife. “I said, ‘It’s not going to get easier. I’m going to get sick.

Dying is the easy part. Living with this thing is the hard part.’ But if I take care of myself, she’s in the fight. If I don’t, if I miss an appointment, she says, ‘This isn’t the deal we made.’”

Michael said his purpose now, and the reason he wrote the book is to let others like him know that avoidance is no way to live. He said no matter what disease a person is facing, they should find something they’re passionate about, totally immerse themselves in it and it will make them want to take their medicine so they can live their passion.

“I wrap my arms around my life. I can’t avoid it. I’m reminded every day if I do nothing, I will lead a limited life. I embrace it, understand it and put a goal to it,” he said.

“I want to run with my running friends.

Taking medicines is what I need to do to do that. They have other things they have to do. I just take a little more.”

Today, Michael is training for his tenth marathon. He’s completed 12 half marathons and competed in a 70.3-mile Ironman Triathlon.

For more information on purchasing “Waiting To Die, Running To Live,” by I.H.S. Publications, visit www.michaelpatrickburke.com. For more information about Cystic Fibrosis, ways to get involved and donate, visit www.cff.org. ¤ GROWING KIDS CONTINUED “Eating spaghetti with just your face or hands is deemed appropriate, and dressing up in a zany costume to sing songs around a campfire is classified as normal. Campers feel open to try new things and share their thoughts and opinions.”

Garcia said camping at Lakewood is more than all of the activities it offers. The ABC’s of camping— Accomplishment, Belonging and Character—are incorporated into these experiences.

“The feeling of belonging, learning how to make friends and being part of something special are critical self-worth experiences,” he said.

“Building character and having a good moral base from which to draw is a very important component of a well-rounded, well-adjusted and well-balanced child. Camp life is full of opportunities for children to learn positive character habits that will last a lifetime.”

Children of all nationalities and denominations are welcomed at Camp Lakewood.

“We pride ourselves on the cultural diversity of our campers and counselors,” Garcia said.

The YMCA also welcomes and encourages individuals of all abilities to experience Camp Lakewood. “Our Inclusion Services Department takes applications and conducts assessments. This process provides us with the information needed to allow us to arrange for appropriate staffing or other reasonable accommodations,” he said.

YMCA Trout Lodge and Camp Lakewood is located 75 miles south of St. Louis between Potosi and Steelville, Missouri. Camp Lakewood is a branch of the YMCA of Greater St. Louis and is accredited by the American Camping Association.

The address is 13528 State Hwy AA, Potosi, MO 63664.

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