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A Missouri Mile With Ann Hazelwood Beautiful Backsides!
Who is watching your backside? I’m not talking about your tush here! I’m talking about the backs of your homes or businesses that you THINK no one sees.
Story by Ann Hazelwood Photos by Joel H Watkins IV
things that most people don’t think that others as the front. It is also nice to see when a busi-
can see. Perhaps they think if it’s out of their ness provides a place for their employees to mind, then it’s out of other’s sight.
I admire those who take pride in the back-
side of their property as well as the front side; especially when the public is exposed to that view as well. We are most likely to be more
conscious of our appearance around the out-
sit, have lunch and park. This sends another
message that the business cares. A close rela-
tive once told me that you don’t have to be
rich to be clean and orderly. Clean and order is FREE and it has a beauty of its own, even if it is without flowers and yard ornaments.
side of our home, then our business, but I so My local photos are good examples of
appreciate it when businesses care that no mat- thoughtful and attractive backsides. Our St.
As I travel the state, I’m reminded that we ter if I enter the front or back of their business; Charles Convention and Visitors Bureau does
are the “show me state.” We not only want to it has the same curb appeal. This means they a great job at presenting a beautiful entrance to be shown, but we want to show off our best have taken care to remove unsightly visuals the backside of their facility as they greet tour-
wherever we work or live. I am also an avid like trash containers, newspapers, weeds and ists from their parking lot entrance. Seasonal walker each morning, no matter where I hap- clutter that give an unpleasant impression. flowers are planted each year and benches are
pen to travel. I may be walking down an al- I also like when there is proper signage and available as they wait for their friends or tours.
ley, trail, side street or back street when I see lighting on the backside of the business as well Proper signage lets them know restrooms and 12 StreetScape Magazine
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admire those who take pride in the backside of their property
tourist information are right inside the door. Many St. Charles businesses show their backside to Riverside Drive along our Katy Trail
and Missouri River. Some have small areas
for their employees to take a break and enjoy the unique view. Customers who park in the
adjoining parking lots are presented with re-
spectable backside entrances. Dumpsters are
supposed to be contained, and owners are encouraged to check each morning for any trash
that may have been overlooked from the night before.
Walkways or alleys are frequent along any
Main Street. The European Accent business
has a side walkway where many arrive from the parking lot to get to Main Street. The view
is also enjoyed by the patio clientele from the Mother Inn Law House next door. The business goes out of its way to provide beautiful flowers and sculptured shrubs each year that
many folks can enjoy and even use for wonderful photo opportunities.
Another family member always reminded me
that when one did needlework or sewing, it should be just as neat and pretty on the backside. Fresh eyes from you are someone else
can help you judge and perhaps offer some helpful suggestions for a better backside.
Backsides can be beautiful; you never know who’s watching! SS
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feel better overall and it’s great to see the tangible results from their efforts. City employees outside the fire department who participated took on Yoga and Zumba.
“We did it on the honor system,” Spurgeon Mike Spurgeon (L) and Ernie Rhodes (R)
Employee Programs St. Charles Gets Fit
It all started when the director of administration and the fire chief started working out. “Chief (Ernie) Rhodes and I started working
out together in 2010 at one of the fire
stations,” said Michael Spurgeon, director of administration for the city of St. Charles.
“We started doing the P90X workout. We
are not fitness nuts, but we both have high stress jobs. Physical fitness definitely took the edge off. We started to see results.”
So one night after finishing their own workout, the two were sitting around
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said. At first employees of the fire
department were asked to track their weight
management through the six areas of the
initial physical assessment which included plank time, push-ups, jump strength, sit and reach, metabolic equivalent of task (or
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how efficiently the body uses oxygen and body composition. “We conducted this physical assessment working with SSM for guidelines,” he said.
to offer employees of the city—namely
Spurgeon said the majority of firefighters
health and fitness program.
of the fire department employees. “The
firefighters and paramedics—some kind of Rhodes set about researching the idea and found an ally in SSM Health Care-St. Louis,
or specifically SSM DePaul Health Center
and paramedics participated, as did most
percentage of employees to make a commitment was certainly impressive and significant,” he said.
which had good information about fitness
Participation in the program was significant
focused first on physical fitness and weight
can have on the people who work in the
and knew the right questions to ask. “We management,” Spurgeon said.
The St. Charles Fire Department used a portion of its training budget to implement a
because of the positive affect being healthy fire department and the jobs they do for the
St. Charles Community. Spurgeon said the city’s investment was money well spent.
physical fitness program in the first quarter
“It’s
or rotating gym memberships for some
positions,” Spurgeon said. “These people
of 2011. The city contributed to shared
employees while others worked out in the facilities available to them in the firehouses.
really
about
the
physical
and
mental stress that goes along with these
go into burning buildings. They come upon
accidents. Being in good physical and
Health & Fitness mental condition is very important. It was an investment in the people who are out there serving our community.”
Other benefits include allaying some concerns employees and employers have about the rising costs of health care. “Healthcare costs are what every individual has on their mind. Statistics show
Spurgeon said he is very pleased with the results the city saw in
follow-up physical assessments. “Some people are really getting into the habit of dedicating time to physical and mental wellbeing. It requires a commitment, not just a one-year deal, but we’re hoping individuals would buy into it and stick with it for a long time.” SS
if you are healthy overall, the costs can, if not be reduced, than certainly controlled to some extent,” Spurgeon said.
The city also offered a couple of bodybugg systems that employees
can trade off between each other to get a headstart to weight loss
and fitness. A watch-like bracelet, the device works by keeping
an accurate daily record of calories consumed vs. burned, so that
the user can gauge their progress and find out what works best for them in the way of exercise and food consumption. The bracelet is
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Rhodes said since the institution of the program, the department has seen a decrease in the amount of on-duty injuries and lost
time. Increases have been shown in the fitness evaluation in both
endurance and flexibility. “Guys have told me they feel better
coming into work,” Rhodes said. “It’s a positive investment in their health. They feel better overall and it’s great to see the tangible
results from their efforts and the decrease in costs.” Rhodes added
Dr. Christy Jenkins,
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The Homestead
Wendy Box (far right) with her team at The Homestead
Unique Home Décor
Dubbed the “Store Where Country and Traditional Home Decor Meet.”
Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photos by Michael Schlueter artistic and love sharing our art with you in before her daughter purchased the business. all of our displays.”
“Mom still works here,” Box said.
The Homestead offers handmade furniture The Homestead offers special ordering of and accessories for every season as well as textiles, bedding, furniture and braided rugs.
The Homestead is located at 401 South Main
Street in St. Charles and sports a dynamic
two candle lines—Warm Glow of Indiana and Milkhouse Creamery of Iowa.
Box said she and her staff are glad to help customers with ideas for their homes. “We
inventory from primitive to country to The store’s styles of napkins and placemats are not interior designers but we really love traditional home décor.
Owner Wendy Box said she strives to bring
are many and varied as is its array of to do this. We are good at putting things bedding.
customers unique home décor at competitive Cabinetry,
together.”
shelving,
tables,
displays, Berber is in this season, Box said, and The
prices, whether they are looking to decorate hutches and buffets are handmade locally Homestead has a lot of it. The store offers
their own homes or to purchase a gift for at Spencer Creek Woodworks of Bowling Berber placemats, ribbons, table runners someone else.
Green, Missouri.
and even Berber stitching on pillows.
”Our passion is to provide an ever-changing The Homestead is home to Box’s family. The Homestead offers indoor and outdoor
inventory that meets new trends for Her mom, Sharon Hickman, worked in the lanterns and a plethora of pictures of outdoor decorating your home,” she said. “We are store for 10 years under the original owner scenes printed on canvass without frames.
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Red is also in this summer, Box said, as
well as Americana colors and “lots of black. About 80 percent of our buys are black or red,” she said.
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Box said some visitors to The Homestead
are looking to re-do their current décor, while others are in the market for accent
pieces for finishing. Still others want new
drapes or gifts for friends or loved ones.
“There are also a lot of travelers who are just looking to pick up that special item from Historic Main Street in St. Charles.”
The Homestead is open from noon to
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formerly the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. The topic was the wild turkey and game management and the trapping of wild birds to re-stock
America. He said at the time there were about 1.5 million wild birds in America. Today, because of the efforts of biologists, conservationists
and like-minded voters, and their resolve to trap and transplant the birds, some 10 million exist in the country.
Braungardt described himself as a young man—barely 20 years old at the time—“born and raised with no electricity, who simply loved God’s creation.”
“My family farmed nearly 1,000 acres with horses, before tractor days,” he said adding that his family on his mother’s side settled the area they called Fort Clark just outside of Moscow Mills, in 1801. “The
first pioneers moved in with Black Hawk Indians. Ferdinand Miller, my
grandpa from seven generations back, helped build the town. Nathan Boone (son of Daniel Boone) was the ranger of the fort. Braungardt lives on the property there where he was born to this day. Dr. Michael Conoyer and Leroy Braungardt
Talkin’ Turkey LeRoy Braungardt
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Braungardt has been named or featured in “Archery World,” “Field & Stream,” “Outdoor Life,” “Sports Afield” and “Sports Illustrated,” just to name a few, during his lifelong hunting pursuit. He was on
“Late Night with David Letterman” and sat in with Regis. He wrote the rules for turkey calling contests in America and won the National Turkey Calling Contest in Yellville, AK in 1971, where some 5,000
people came to visit a town of 1,100 for the event. He has taken many celebrities and community leaders on hunts, including, NFL running
back and football great Walter Payton, where the football star bagged a turkey of his own in 1987. Add former Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, Hoyt Easton of Easton Archery and Tom Jennings of Jennings
He can do 53 separate calls—including moderations in language Archery, and the list of notables for which he carried a bow goes on. and pitch—in six different voices. In 1974, he recorded the first LP in America on turkey hunting techniques, “The Ultimate Help for Bagging Gobblers.”
Braungardt himself has bagged a “Grand Slam”—that is getting one of each of the four subspecies of wild turkey on the North American
Continent—17 times, twice with a bow and arrow. He got his “World
But turkey calling legend LeRoy Braungardt of Moscow Mills, MO, Slam”—which includes the four subspecies plus the Mexican Gould also nearly single-handedly fought for the approval of Missouri and Central American Oscillated—with a bow and arrow. legislation that has saved the state’s top soil and demanded the wisest use of its natural resources for generations to come.
In fact, Braungardt was the first person in the state of Missouri in modern season, in the spring of 1972, to get a turkey with a bow and
Now 72 and married over 54 years, Braungardt is a father of three and arrow since the Indians, he said. “This is documented and authenticated a grandfather of two. He has been hunting since the age of four when by the Missouri Department of Conservation,” he said. his brother-in-law “let me follow along in the weeds and fall down,” he said.
But Braungardt said he is most proud of the work he and his wife
Bonnie Sue Braungardt did to help get a 1-cent sales tax on every $8
A Cuivre River Electric Cooperative lineman for many years, spent in Missouri to go to the Missouri Department of Conservation.
Braungardt was the only private citizen who attended a 1959 convention LeRoy Braungardt sat on the steering committee in 1972 for the tax of biologists with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), that he said would encourage the “wise used of our natural resources— 18 StreetScape Magazine
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Seasonal Hunt air, water, minerals, wildlife and forest—so we may hand them off to future generations in
abundance.” The tax was passed by Missouri
voters in 1976. By 1978, LeRoy had taken his
political interests a bit further and was elected
to the 49th District of the Missouri House of
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Representatives in 1978.
Then again in 1984, LeRoy helped to get another tax passed. This one was 1-cent on
every $10. “No other state in America, no other county at election poles in 1984, no where did voters vote a tax on themselves except voters
in the state of Missouri, to save the top soil
from going to the Gulf of Mexico,” LeRoy
said. “It’s still in place today because over 69 percent of the voters said yes at the polls.”
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state parks and historic sites that existed then and the other half was used to save the top soil. Today, Missouri has provided the example
for 23 other states which now have similar programs, he said.
The Braungardts traveled throughout Missouri
24 hours per day pitching their story that without top soil, there would be nothing
to eat. It worked and the lineman-turnedconservationist-turned-turkey-caller-turned-
legislator had secured his blessed tax money to provide for the land his own family had settled more than a century earlier.
“When I am on the land in complete human solitude, I am not alone,” LeRoy said. “I am
the closest to our creator that I could ever be. All of Earth’s out doors is my cathedral and should be yours. I’ve been on hundreds of
television programs and thousands of radio shows, but anything I get above zero is God’s will.” S S
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The ultimate experience, an extraordinary result and a complete sense of beauty is now available. After two decades in Northwest County, Hollywood Blonde Salon has come to
St. Charles and landed just across from Lindenwood University.
Owner and master nail technician Dianne Hofmeister said Hollywood Blonde Salon
has been making their guests look and feel
Diane (R) owner with associate
Hollywood Blonde Salon
their best since 1992. “Everyone who comes
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through my door is greeted by everyone here,” Hofmeister said. “Everyone feels comfortable here.”
Hofmeister said ladies from three to 93 visit the salon, which is known for customer service.
“From the little three-year-old princess getting
her nails done to the lady in her nineties, we
have a very large client base. I like to see that we take care of women of all ages.”
But women aren’t the only ones who are made
to feel like royalty at Hollywood Blonde. In
addition to their current offerings for men, the salon now features a “Men’s Night” on Wednesday evenings where men can enjoy
“special offerings” including cuts, man-icures, clip and buffs, instant “camo” color in the bowl and hot face towels.
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she sought a method through which they could develop their creativity. “I couldn’t get the kids to write melodies,” she said.
“They would get stuck. These kids are very
smart. They can memorize anything. They
can adapt. They can learn any formula and
put it into use, but I wanted them to be creative.”
As it turned out Matt had written a computer code, while working on his master thesis in
college, which would eliminate the creative roadblocks her students were facing.
Once students have a solid foundation in
Kick Start Music Matt and Kay Johnson
Hans Christian Andersen said, “Where words fail, music speaks.”
music concepts like beat, pitch, rhythm
and key signatures, the code, now known as “Kickstart Composer” helps them to
begin their creative process. The software generates a random 10-note beginning to a
Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson
melody—called a “Melody Development Demo”—which students in Kay’s music
appreciation and theory classes are required toward her master’s degree in music education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
to complete. They simply hit the generate button to get the notes. Students must then add bar lines, time and key signatures and determine tempos. They must decide
A lifetime musician, Kay was honored as whether to use those notes or even whether
For one St. Charles teacher, it was technology the 2012 Teacher Innovator by Duchesne to keep them in that order, Kay said. In that trumped them both.
Kay Johnson, teacher of instrumental music at Duchesne High School in St. Charles,
with the help of her computer savvy
for implementing two programs designed to the end, hopefully they have created a improve her students’ creativity and focus: 32-measure melody. the DHS Band Student Leadership Team and Kickstart.
“Not only do students have a starting point
for their compositions, but they are able
husband, Matt Johnson, is taking students With her background in music and Matt’s to hear what they have written while the to a new level of music composition with PhD in computer science, the couple was set melody is still in progress,” Kay said. an innovative software program the two up for success. What neither realized was the developed, called “Kickstart Composer.”
Currently in her 12th year of teaching, Kay serves as a music teacher and director of the
impact their seemingly primitive computer
application would have on Kay’s students’ potential to compose new melodies.
But the real reward is in watching students
discover their own creativity, Kay said. “The best was when our star soccer player said to
me, ‘Mrs. Johnson I just made a song. I just
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Information for this article was taken from the city of Wentzville’s website and articles written by John Denny and Gerry Matlock. It was edited by Robin Seaton Jefferson
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Just 60 years after Frontiersman Daniel Boone settled in St. Charles County, German craftsmen and farmers settled in communities in the area including Wentzville.
Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photo by Michael Schlueter a great land owner and slaveholder gave a
day, August 24-26. Held in downtown Wen-
to establish a station to serve the local com-
the festival features live musical entertain-
tract of land along the railroad right-of-way
munity. He laid out the town, which consisted of a narrow tract of ground seven blocks long lying east and west along the railroad.
Railroad construction pushed through Wen-
tzville during the year 1856 and the first train arrived in 1857. Erasmus Livingston Wentz
of New York State supervised the construcThe city was founded in 1855 when the great
movement of pioneers across America was reaching its highest tempo.
A railroad was pushing across Missouri to
the west to carry these settlers and to furnish services for those few who were already es-
tablished in the new area. William M. Allen, 24 StreetScape Magazine
tion and building of the and assisted Allen, the founder, in surveying the present town’s
lots and streets. Allen honored his friend Wentz by naming the town for him.
Wentzville is known throughout the county for its “Wabash Days Festival.” This year’s
events will take place Friday through Sun-
tzville on West Allen, Linn and Main Streets, ment, street performances and demonstra-
tions, carnival rides, games, arts and craft booths, food booths and much more. Now in
its ninth year, Wabash Days is a celebration
of the town’s history and railroad heritage. The festival is reminiscent of old time fairs
and street festivals. The Wentzville Community Club invites residents to join the Wabash Days Parade Saturday, August 25.
The Wentzville area was principally devoted to raising tobacco between 1850 and 1880.
In following decades Wentzville sustained a slow but steady growth as an agricultural
hamlet, primarily in the small services and
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Destination WestPlex General Motors Corporation began con- people and exhausted the list of people who struction of its largest, most modern auto were laid off,” Brune said. “We hired closed assembly plant at the time, providing more to 300 people with the addition of the second than 6,000 jobs when it went into full opera- shift.” tion and Wentzville was forever changed.
Although he was unable to give an exact
July 31, 1981, the last Chevrolet Corvette time frame, Brune said the plant will soon be
rolled off the line of the General Motors St. hiring “several hundred more people when (GM) Louis Assembly plant. Three and a the Colorado comes on board.” half years later the 1984 Buick Park Avenue
to graphics to a box on the back,” he said. The UAW also announced in September that GM would spend some $380 million at the Wentzville assembly plant as part of the
company’s commitment to invest a total of $2.5 billion in facilities nationwide and create or retain 6,400 jobs over the next four years.
The UAW voted in September to close the
Brune said the Wentzville plant will break
Nearly 30 years, several layoffs, and liter- factory in Shreveport, LA, that opened in
ond body shop to accommodate the Colora-
would roll off a new line in Wentzville, MO.
3.1 million-square-foot GM pick-up truck
ally millions of vehicles later, the Wentzville 1981 and in its lifetime was home to the as-
Assembly Center is having another new be- sembly of nine trucks including the Chevginning. Over 7,000 people—some from as rolet S-10, GMC Sonoma, GMC Syclone,
far away as Canada—toured the Wentzville Chevrolet Colorado, GMC Canyon, Isuzu
plant last year when GM facilities across i-Series, the Hummer H3 and Hummer H3T. the country hosted open houses. The events
were in celebration and appreciation of American taxpayer support to keep the automaker afloat following bankruptcy in 2009.
“It was a thank you to the American people for helping us out and to let them see how
their money was spent,” said Tom Brune,
communications coordinator for the United Auto Workers (UAW) of GM in Wentzville.
Brune has worked at the Wentzville plant almost since its opening.
Brune said production will cease there this summer and the new generation of the Colorado will resume in Wentzville.
Brune said the Wentzville plant is on sched-
ground this month for the addition of a sec-
do, and will renovate its existing paint shop this summer.
Wentzville Assembly houses 82 acres of
manufacturing space under one roof with a full mile across diagonally on the floor.
Twenty miles of conveyor chains move vehicles around the facility that hosts over 500 robots doing everything from welding to applying sealer to fitting windshields.
ule to build at least 120,000 full-size vans
A veteran’s wall lines part of the floor with lit-
Wentzville Assembly has been building the
employees who spent time in the United States
this year by its more than 1,800 employees. vans that are used as fleet vehicles such as
school busses and delivery and construction vehicles, since 1995. “Probably 70 percent
of our vehicles wind up at another facility to
But the good news for St. Charles County be up-fitted with everything from tool racks
erally hundreds of names and dedications to
military. Many American flags also grace the floor. “That’s because what’s good for General
Motors is good for the country,” said Brune. “And veterans make good employees.” SS
and the St. Louis region is what’s been going on in the western portion of the county since
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Home Town Beauties Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photos by Lance Tillford
Who would have thought Missouri, and more specifically, St. Charles County, was a “hotbed for hotties,” to put it in 2009 Mrs. America Andrea Robertson’s words?
Current Miss Missouri USA 2012, Katie Kearney can have a positive impact on the whole biology and worked as a research biologist family. She should know. As an ambassador for a pharmaceutical company before
for the Women’s Sports Foundation and a having children. Her husband and high lifelong sports enthusiast and triathlete, school sweetheart, Ryan Robertson played
And with so many beautiful women west Robertson said she tries to lead by example. with the NBA for the Sacramento Kings.
of St. Louis taking crowns, it just might Robertson credits her three older brothers A mother of three, Andrea said keeping her
be. But the women who have won them say with introducing her to all things athletic schedule is all about prioritizing and always that’s not all it’s about.
and for teaching her to be strong, focused putting her kids first. Along with coaching
“I have to say Midwestern women know and competitive. “On rainy days, we were her kids’ basketball and soccer teams— how to bring it to these competitions,” never bored. There was always a ping- which she says she would do full-time if
Robertson said. “You do see so many pong tournament going on in the basement given the chance—Andrea is a competitive beautiful women from the Midwest winning or kicking the ball against the couch. I tri-athlete and has competed in more than
these pageants. And that’s not an easy feat.” honestly thought that’s all there was to life,” 50 triathlons, the longest of which was a Born and raised in St. Charles, Robertson she said.
half ironman.
chose “Fit for Life” as her platform in 2009 Robertson played soccer at the University Up at 4:50 a.m. twice during the week and during her reign as Mrs. Missouri, and of Missouri, serving as a captain for two on Saturdays to train, Andrea said she loves
spread her message that an active lifestyle years. She has a bachelor’s degree in “coaching the kids in sports. I could wake
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Home Town Beauties up and go to sleep just watching my kids broadcasting career.
really surprised. This was my first time and
play sports,” she said. “And I always said I Also a model for West Model & Talent there are so many great girls. It’s a truly
watch a lot more shows from the bike than Management, Kearney said she started once in a life time opportunity. I’m really from the couch. I love doing all of it.”
competing in the pageant system when she very honored and excited.”
Andrea is a member of the St. Louis was 14 years old to overcome her bashful Kearney said the best part of being Miss
Triathlon Club and TrismartUSA triathlon disposition. “I was trying to improve my Missouri is the people she meets and the
racing team. She serves at her church as part public speaking ability and communication places she is privileged to go to. “It’s the
of the leadership team of Cross Training skills,” she said. “It helped me a lot. You whole experience. The little kids look up Sports Ministry, which plans and organizes have to prepare for interviews and be sports events for children.
comfortable on stage. It forces you out of
Andrea said the Mrs. American pageant had your comfort zone.”
a strong influence on her as an individual Finishing twice in the top 15 in the Miss and as a mother and wife. “It’s all about Missouri Teen USA pageant in 2005 and
strengthening marriages and families and 2006, it didn’t take long for Kearney to showcasing married women as strong, conquer any insecurities she may have had.
active individuals,” she said. After winning Since she was crowned Miss Missouri USA the 2009 title, Andrea went on to compete in November, Kearney has spent a great
in the Mrs. World pageant in Vietnam, deal of time sharing her love for children where she finished as the first runner-up. “I and animals, by working with children’s
show up having faith in my training, just charities such as SSM Cardinal Glennon like at a race.”
Children’s Medical Center, and promoting
Current Miss Missouri USA 2012 Katie animal legislation laws across Missouri.
Kearney will be headed to Las Vegas, NV to She has also visited many schools across the compete for the Miss USA title this month. state to discuss the importance of reading,
The Miss USA pageant will be held June and has worked with USO of Missouri at 3 at Planet Hollywood and aired on NBC.
events such as the “Salute Our Heroes Gala”
A student at St. Louis University, Kearney, to honor local military heroes for their 23, is working toward a degree in bravery, loyalty and heroism.
communications focusing on journalism She said actually winning the Miss Missouri and media studies. She hopes to pursue a crown is still hard for her to believe. “I was
2009 Mrs. America, Andrea Robertson to you and when you know you have an influence on people it is really kind of neat.”
Kearney is a member of Lambda Pi Eta and
Golden Key International Honor Society.
She is the daughter of Tim Kearney, a
former NFL linebacker, and Mauricette Kearney, a teacher.
If she wins the Miss USA title, Kearney
will be sent to New York where she will
live and work amid traveling the nation. A one-year scholarship to the New York 30 StreetScape Magazine
Home Town Beauties Film Academy is also part of the prize as and one she wished every girl could have. who helps people do what I did. I have come
are numerous freebies from cosmetic, hair “It was amazing—probably the biggest full circle to behind the scenes, but still in care, wardrobe, fitness and shoe companies. runway a girl could ever walk. It was still the business. I work on girls that remind me Miss USA is then sent on to vie for the Miss very traditional at the time, in a massive so much of myself. It’s great helping these Universe title. Readers
can
vote Kearney
into
convention hall. It was an overwhelming girls and watching them grow.”
the and exciting and amazing experience for a Tungate said the pageant system is an
semi-finals of the Miss USA pageant at www.missusa.com or www.nbc.com.
Tamara Tungate left Fort Zumwalt High School in O’Fallon, MO in 1981 to attend
Central Visual and Performing Arts High School (also known as Central VPA High
School or Central High School) for her
junior and senior years. The magnet school in St. Louis was founded in 1853. Through
local
tap
and
jazz
dance
competitions, Tungate was introduced into
the world of pageants. For her, they were
primarily talent competitions where she
would discover her love of the stage, acting, theatre and her voice.
It was the beginning of the time of the supermodel when the whole celebrity status of the model emerged. Before those times, models were just models, she said.
“I found I loved the whole arts,” she said, adding that she went on to spend nine
years as an actress at The Muny. “When I transferred to VPA, it was very inspiring.
It’s where I got the passion to get out and
Tamara Tungate
perform.”
Tungate won the Miss St. Louis title at 17 years old, Miss Lake of the Ozarks at 18
and was first runner-up to Miss Missouri a year later. At 21 she won the Miss Missouri
title. In 1987, Tungate—the girl who had
transferred from a small town west of the
Blanchette Bridge to attend a St. Louis arts school on her own—was chosen fourth runner-up to Miss America in Atlantic City, NJ.
She said the experience was phenomenal
girl.”
incredible stepping stone for any young
Following the pageants, Tungate immersed woman, and going up against the best of herself in the theatre, modeling and The the best is far from just a beauty contest.
Muny. “I was more of a blue collar actress. “These are well-educated, smart, savvy, I was always working in commercials and gracious women. If you want to win it, you
industrial or small films. I was always have to become the best person you can be. modeling.”
It demands you become a leader. Even if
Today Tungate is a make-up artist for you don’t win the big title you’ve come out Limelight Studio in Frenchtown, St. Charles, on top. Wearing the crown for a year is not MO. She said she enjoys “being the person the most important thing. SS
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Kasey McCormick,Graduate Fashion Design Student (R) with her design and Florence DeWan (L)
Fashion Design Program Lindenwood University and Professor Florence DeWan are opening doors to the corporate fashion design world that only recently didn’t exist in St. Charles County. Thanks to the efforts of DeWan, who
heads up the Fashion Design Program at
Lindenwood, students of the department
are getting trained in the latest in Computer Aided
Drafting
(CAD)
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by
way
of
Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photo by Michael Schleuter designing, manufacturing, merchandising prestigious New York-based French trend
and marketing of fashion products. DeWan company for the fashion design program holds a bachelor’s degree in fashion at Lindenwood. “In order to be prepared merchandising and a master’s degree in for the workforce in the fashion and
fashion design. She has recently instituted textile industries, students must have some a minor in fashion design at Lindenwood familiarity with the CAD process,” DeWan and
has
developed
many
successful said. “This will open a new door for the
internship programs throughout St. Louis Lindenwood fashion design students in the and out of state for fashion design students. corporate world. DeWan secured some $4 million worth of
fashion design and textile CAD software
from Lectra, the world leader in integrated
Students will have an
opportunity to be trained in patternmaking skills
through
the
software, Modaris.”
technology solutions, including U-4ia and The
nearly
$6
industry-approved
million
in
design
Kaledo software, $2 million patternmaking technology that has been added recently to CAD
software
from
OptiTex,
and Lindenwood’s Fashion Design department
donations of the latest trend books—each repertroire allows students to create prints,
worth between $800 and $2,000—from a patterns and woven textile fabrics and then
Design
to actually assemble them on a model on the computer screen.
“We currently have faculty members with
several years of textile and fashion design experience through the fashion industry,
and this system will enable them to prepare students to work at the corporate level,” DeWan said. “This is a great opportunity
for the fashion design students to receive the most up-to-date CAD experience.”
DeWan joined the department in 2003 following a career as a senior designer for May Corporation and J. C. Penney Company, Inc.
She said it is this long
history of design work that enables her to
help her students ready themselves for the world of corporate design. Lindenwood’s
Design
Department
areas, including design and manufacturing. DeWan has had students featured on During their senior year, each student is Project Runway and in the St. Louis, Los
required to design and execute a collection Angeles and New York Fashion Weeks.
of original designs which will serve as a She started just short of a decade ago culmination of their work and be shown at with 47 students, a few new home sewing
is the annual student fashion show.
currently working to secure a grant for a piece of equipment that will scan a real person into the computer, create a personal
image, and allow designers to see how their creations will look on a particular model, DeWan said.
DeWan said prospective fashion designers
must be artistically creative, but also understand the technical and marketing aspects of the business.
Lindenwood’s
goal is to provide design students with professional-level
“Our main focus is to create a designer,” in she said.
machines and a studio. Today the Fashion
design,
training
patternmaking,
for
careers
Design Program at Lindenwood University has its own CAD lab, two studios, several
computerized Baby Lock sewing machines, five Juki industrial sewing machines and several Imagine serging machines. Today there are over 100 students.
illustration, “I love the constant flow of energy and
“You can create a beautiful merchandising, textiles and more. “Besides ideas that our students bring to class every
garment but if it stays in the closet, what being responsible for the original ideas for day,” DeWan said. “Directing them toward good is it? We focus on basic sewing skills, garments, designers must have a thorough their future is exhilarating.” SS pattern making and a marketable approach. knowledge of fabrics and colors, must be
Designing is good, but how do you design able to make patterns and must understand effectively? Anything can look good on a how a garment is constructed,” she said. hanger. A designer has to understand age, body and type of lifestyle too.”
Potential designers should be passionate
about their art, know they are talented and
Through studio and traditional courses, thrive on originality. DeWan recommends internships, and the use of state-of-the-art taking a lot of drawing classes, studying the
software, a fashion design degree from history of design, learning as much as one Lindenwood prepares students to enter the can about multi-cultural art and “getting professional world of fashion in a variety of inspired by something.”
For more information on the fashion design program at Lindenwood University, visit www.lindenwood.edu or call 636-949-2000. Spring 2012 39
National American University New Weldon Spring Campus
National American University (NAU) has been offering working adults a second chance for over 70 years—a second chance at getting the education they deserve. Founded as a school for specialized busi-
ness training in Rapid City, South Dakota in 1941, the school offered secretarial
and accounting classes and programs for many years and has progressively add-
ed more programs that cover business, healthcare, legal studies and nursing
Today the university has over 30 cam-
puses nationwide and offers an array of
online courses and degree programs, giv-
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Tyre Smith, Campus Director (R) with Rolando Sawyer, Assist. Director of Admissions (L)
Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson
Photos by Michael Schlueter
day from anywhere in the world. With its recent addition of a campus in
give them almost half off of the normal tuition rates,” he said.
Weldon Spring, NAU Campus Director NAU also provides financial aid in the Tyre Smith said the university offers day, form of grants, scholarships, work-study
evening, and Saturday classes, allowing opportunities and low interest loan pro-
students to complete their degree without grams through federal, state and local interrupting their lifestyle.
sources for those who qualify.
“Most of our students are juggling their The new campus at 1030 Wolfrum Rd. time between school, work and family. in Weldon Spring, has already enrolled That’s why we offer flexible class op- some120 students since it opened in July
tions, as well as completely online de- and is enrolling about 15 more students gree programs,” Smith said. NAU also each week, Smith said. Class sizes typioffers blended models of learning that al- cally range from 15-24 students. lows students to take on-ground or online classes, or a combination of both.
The university offers several degree
programs that today’s industries are de-
And NAU is particularly military-friend- manding, Smith said. He said NAU is
ly, Smith said. The school offers reduced committed to preparing students for catuition rates for military personnel, de- reers directly out of college. “We do pendents and retired military on associ- that by implementing highly qualified ate, bachelor’s and master’s degree pro- instructors who actively work in the grams. “We appreciate our military so we fields in which they teach, offering their
Education real-world experience and perspective,” Master’s degree programs are offered
he said, adding that program advisory in nursing, business administration and
boards make ongoing recommendations management. The baccalaureate and masto existing programs, ensuring the mate- ter’s degree programs in nursing at NAU rial taught stays current.
are accredited by the Commission on
Bachelor’s degrees are offered in many
Collegiate Nursing Education.
fields including, but not limited to, ac- The school also offers career manage-
counting, information technology, ap- ment classes that assist students in preplied management, business adminis- paring their resumes and portfolios while
tration, criminal justice, nursing, and developing interviewing and job search
healthcare management. Associate’s de- techniques and networking strategies. Its grees are offered in accounting, business lifetime placement service is available to
administration, , computer security, crim- assist and support graduates in their job inal justice, health information technol- searches. ogy, medical assisting, pharmacy technician, and many others.
Diplomas are offered in healthcare cod-
For more information on NAU, call 636229-3200 or visit www.national.edu. SS
ing and information technology areas.
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plans. I thought I would work in the plant
with my father. It was the Vietnam era and I had an active draft number,” he said.
But a speculative guidance counselor by
the name of Jim Sweeney would change all that. “It’s when I learned that someone who
takes an interest in you can really change
your life,” Chesbrough said. “He told me, ‘You need to go to college.’”
Chesbrough listened to Sweeney and a couple of months ago looked the older man up to tell him so. “I called him and said, ‘I have told the story for 30 years that you
changed my life and I just thought I should tell you.”
Chesbrough said Sweeney not only changed his life but enabled him to change others.
“From that early age I thought that I could become an educator and make that impact on someone else. I believe in a transfor-
Ronald Chesbrough Ph.D. President, St. Charles Community College
mative hour of education. I’ve seen lives change by virtue of men and women in high school and college, particularly in the col-
lege setting. Many students here are from the same background as I was. This isn’t
Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photo by Michael Schlueter
St. Charles Community College’s new president could give the young people in his charge a few lessons in survival.
The first of his family to go to college, and
change their trajectory, and community col-
lege can be one of the most transformative settings in higher education.”
father to five daughters, Dr. Ronald Ches-
Coming from a position as vice president
person can make in the life of another.
College, Chesbrough replaced SCCC’s
brough has experienced the difference one The son of a metal plant foreman and a homemaker in a small town in northern
New York, Chesbrough did not necessar-
ily have the aspirations to become a college president when he graduated high school in
for student affairs at Nebraska’s Hastings
second president, John McGuire, when he retired last October. The decision to hire
Chesbrough came after an eight-month na-
tional search that examined 41 candidates for the position.
1974. He had spend his first three years of
According to Hastings College, Chesbrough
schoolhouse with a bell on top and a wood
percent during his tenure there and created
formal education in a red, brick, one-room
stove. “That’s a true story. I really had no 42 StreetScape Magazine
Harvard. They are working to break out and
increased first-year student retention by 10
and served as co-director of the Kemper
Education Program in Social Entrepreneurship. He was instrumental in raising
“I know I’m going to Heaven because by retirement age I will have
coffee shop and all-night computer center.
tive years,” he quipped.
funds for the construction of a student fitness center, student-run
parented at least one daughter under the age of 18 for 40 consecu-
He published and presented nationally on such topics as campus
He says as the college celebrates its 25th anniversary, there will be
comes from service. Also at Hastings, Chesbrough was named to
It is the basis for why we need to think differently.”
safety, student success and persistence and student learning out-
the Council of Independent Colleges Executive Leadership Academy.
Prior to Hastings, Chesbrough worked as a counselor at a private
high school for disadvantaged kids. “I knew I wanted to be in education,” he said. “I was just driven by my desire to learn about administration and leadership.”
Chesbrough lost his first wife, and the mother of his first three
daughters, to cancer in 1997. Two years later he would marry his
second wife, Annie, and go on to have one more biological daughter and to adopt another from China.
“a clear distinction between the first 25 years and the next 25 years. Chesbrough said SCCC will be launching its long term strategic planning process in the coming months and reviewing the potential for new academic programs and perhaps even residence halls.
He said even amid the 20 percent reduction in state funding over the last three years, the devaluation in property values and the slowing
of population growth locally, he is optimistic. “The enrollment at the college has leveled out. But the good news is the college spent
the first 25 years keeping up with growth. Now we can catch our
breath and figure out where we are going next. It will be different this time. We can plan for growth strategically” SS
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When you think of an outfit matching, what comes to mind?
Coordinating Colors Story by Kristy Lee Photos by Michael Schlueter
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other color looks good with this color?” Then
or all gold jewelry. To keep it simple, wearing
designer Ameli Skoglund mixed blues and
colors?” If you keep going, you’ll progress
shoes with our bag or belt or wearing all silver
a colored top and neutrals everywhere else is a
reliable fall back when we’re not feeling very creative with our wardrobe.
If your idea of matching however is to wear
blue with blue and green with green and only mix the two when you’re feeling especially daring, you’re probably in trouble.
Still
wearing track suits in one solid color outside the gym?
You’re probably beyond hope.
Extreme examples of course, but we’ve all
seen it. If your wardrobe could use a little pick
me up, consider color palettes when you dress. By thinking about a group of colors that
complement one another, you could open up
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to the mall. In the clothing pictured, local yellows with a little bit of red and neutrals to
make pieces that can be mixed and matched
with ease. As a general guideline, pick one or two main colors of similar intensity and wear them with several neutrals.
The colors can
be introduced anywhere, including jewelry, scarves, bags, and shoes. Bronze, wood, and
gold jewelry mix well and are all neutrals. As
long as all of the colors look nice together, you’re probably pulling it off and your look is much more interesting than a blue top and jeans.
If you have a hard time deciding whether or
not colors coordinate, it might help to start with a single color and ask yourself, “What
ask, “What color looks good with these two into neutrals. Eventually you’ll be stuck with black, white, or tan and you should probably
stop there. Once you have an idea of a group of colors, maybe four or five, start looking for
pieces that fit the mold until all the colors are represented.
The idea of using a palette of four or five
colors is not crucial to being stylish, just a way to look at your wardrobe differently and hopefully allow yourself more possibilities. We all know the little black dress can always
stand on its own, but doesn’t it get kinda boring after a while? Be daring with your
color choices and I think you’ll be surprised what you can make work. SS
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Fashion Week 2012 Greater Saint Charles Fashion Week Partner Charities: Wednesday, August 22
Community Living, Inc.
Enriching the lives of people with disabilities. This mission has guided Community Living to be a premier provider of programs and services for people with disabilities in St. Charles County. Community Living’s mission and programs now reach over 800 individuals and their families. From children to seniors, Community Living provides people with disabilities the opportunity to learn, live, work, and play in the community, which makes the community inclusive, diverse and a better place to live. www.cliservices.org
Emmaus Homes
Thursday, August 23
Spirited People Leading Spirited Lives. Emmaus Homes is a faith-based mission of families, staff and volunteers, working together to provide compassionate care to adults with developmental disabilities in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Emmaus provides safe, comfortable homes for 250 residents at its campuses in St. Charles and Marthasville, Mo., as well as in homes in surrounding communities. The Emmaus Mission: Arising from faith in Jesus Christ, the mission of Emmaus Homes is to enhance the quality of life for adults of all beliefs who have cognitive, intellectual and other developmental disabilities. www.emmaushomes.org
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Connections to Success
Saturday, August 25
Connections to success empowers determined individuals with a plan and resources to achieve economic self-reliance. Its programs include Professional Development, Pathways to Success, Wheels to Success and Dress for Success. Dress for Success Midwest provides women transitioning to the workforce with business appropriate apparel as they prepare to enter the professional workforce. www.connectiontosuccess.org Spring 2012 49
Bruce &Heidi
Heidi and Bruce Sowatsky
“My uncle told me the most important thing is to always love her more than she loves you.” When you’re focused on meeting the needs of your partner, your family and others, it
comes back to you multi-fold. It just creates an atmosphere of caring.” “Isn’t he wonderful?” Such was the exchange between Bruce and
Heidi Sowatsky when asked what advice
they would give to young couples just starting out.
Known in the local community for his
willingness to help meet the needs of others, Bruce apparently practices what he preaches.
The two have been married for three decades this month. They’ve raised three daughters,
attended to two unarguably successful
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Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photo by Michael Schlueter careers and helped a lot of other people in the process.
Bruce and Heidi met at the University of
Michigan where they each obtained their bachelor’s degrees, his in psychology, hers
in business administration. Each went on to get master’s degrees in social work and business administration, respectively.
Both Bruce and Heidi lost their fathers at
The Sowatskys met at a dorm party, introduced by their resident advisors. “She was beautiful and still is. She was very
smart and I was very impressed by how confident she was in what she wanted to do with her life,” Bruce said.
“Bruce was tall and skinny and funny and he’s still tall and funny and getting skinnier,” Heidi said.
an early age, Bruce when he was 10, Heidi
The two were married after Heidi graduated
early on the importance of responsibility
Washington
when she was 13. So both said they learned and accountability. “We learned that failure is not an option,” Heidi said. “When your father dies when you’re young, you just
have to keep going. You can’t just curl up in the corner.”
and moved to St. Louis for Bruce to attend University
master’s degree.
to
obtain
his
Heidi hired on as an analyst in the research department of Edward Jones in one of its
500 offices at the time. She retired 22 years later, a senior partner managing the South
Dynamic Duo Central United States branches of the company that now has over 10,000 offices.
During her tenure with Edward Jones, Heidi traveled a lot. She recalled attending a finance conference in New York after just finding out she was pregnant with her third daughter. “I was thinking, ‘How am I going to do this?’”
She said the speaker was a financial expert lecturing on women and
investments. The woman had seven children of her own. During the question and answer section of the lecture, someone asked
the woman how she did it. “She said, ‘I manage my household like I manage my business. I identify the things I’m good at and
the things I enjoy doing and I delegate the rest,’” Heidi said. “So Heidi doesn’t cook. Heidi doesn’t do laundry. Heidi doesn’t clean
the house.” In fact, Bruce was a stay-at-home dad from 1988 to
others, she said. “It’s kind of like that whole, ‘It takes a village’ thing,” she said. “I believe our kids have turned out well not just because of what we as
parents have done, but because they were surrounded by the church and school and people who really cared about their future.”
Though not Catholic, the Sowatskys sent their kids to the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Charles. “I remember the sister told me,
‘The issue is, is religion important in your home? Is faith?’ We are not Catholic but our value system is the same.”
At the end of the day, it’s all about the Golden Rule in the Sowatsky home. “Following what Christ told us to do, to take care of those
less fortunate than ourselves is what’s important,” Bruce said. “In so doing we are blessed and God enriches us more to do more.” SS
1994 to their daughters, Hillary Hentschel, Abby Sowatsky and
Madeline Sowatsky, taking care of car pools, school activities and homework, while working as a therapist in the evenings.
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Though roles were reversed, Bruce’s career has been no less
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Resource Board (CCRB) where he has worked tirelessly for abused and neglected children. He was initially hired to oversee
a federal grant that was awarded to St. Charles County for
children’s resources and spent four years campaigning for a sales tax for children’s mental health services. “The county’s growth
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Art Glass Array
Create and Dazzle with Glass Above - The “Wave” glass artwork. (R) Lisa Becker -owner & artist.
“People have fun here.” That’s what Art Located at 501 North Kingshighway, Art Glass Array owner, Lisa Becker had to say Glass Array has two levels. The lower
about her warm glass studio and gallery in level supports work tables and equipment
St. Charles where professionals and ama- such as kilns, a sandblaster and tile saw teurs alike come to create and dazzle with as well as other supplies, while the upper glass.
Becker specializes in fusing and melting glass and offers a range of classes for be-
level serves as a 1,100-square-foot gallery for local artists to display their work in all mediums.
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Designing
can be as conservative or elaborate as needed .
ginning to advanced techniques. “Art Glass Becker offers an expansive education in unique creation of contemporary glass foArray’s mission is to offer a well-rounded fused glass. “I try to give people a knowl- cal pieces. education in fused glass with the tools and edge base of glass that’s not being offered supplies to support that education in a cre- out there. We are the largest fused glass ative and fun atmosphere,” she said. “Our center in St. Charles County and probably techniques are refined and tested, offering St. Louis,” she said. a professional level of glass instruction and skill.”
to fire into components that they can in-
corporate into fused projects. Students can
formed glass by studying the techniques of watercolor glass and much more.
with glass, Becker opened Art Glass Array ate bowls, platters and wall hangings. They after she lost her job creating stained glass can make a shimmering block of multi-
entryways for a builder when he went out colored glass that will be cut into pendants,
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cycled glass from old doors and windows
Students can learn everything about kiln- stack and layer scrap glass to create sheets
With over 16 years of experience working and processes to cut and melt glass to cre-
of business in 2008.
Becker can show students how to use re-
or learn how multiple firings can lead to a
Glass is one aspect of décor that never goes
out of style. “It attracts people because of the play with light. And it’s timeless. There
are not a lot of glass pieces that go out of
Design date like curtains or paint colors,” Becker of glass is created, formed and shaped. The work of Lisa Becker of Art Glass Arsaid.
Glass fusing or melting predates glass
Becker said there are hundreds of forms to ray will be available for sale at The Art Fair use in the process.
blowing and is particularly popular right Glass Array offers birthday parties for innow, Becker said. “All elements of glass dividuals 13 years of age and older, and
at Queeny Park September 2 through 4 and at the MOSAICS Festival of the Arts in St. Charles September 16 through 18.
have their rise and their fall. Fusing is hot girls’ nights out where guests bring in food Art Glass Array is open from 9:30 a.m. to
right now. Everyone is asking how they and drink and make glass pendants or other 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to
can tweak glass to fit with what is popular items. And Becker said she can always tai- 3 p.m. Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the market.”
lor a party to fit the occasion.
Sunday. SS
In its most basic form, fusing glass—also Becker offers free estimates and can assist
called slumping or warm glass—involves a client in creating or designing a stained
molding and manipulating glass inside a glass window custom made to fit their style. kiln. Glass is fused at between 1,350 and She can work with the client, builder, ar-
1,550 degrees Fahrenheit into a flat round chitect or interior designer. “Designing can
shape. It is then put on a clay form and be as conservative or elaborate as needed
heated again. The glass then sinks into the and can be made to fit almost any budget,” clay form. Through the firings, a new piece she said.
For more information on Art Glass Array, call Becker at 636-724-0288.
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The "2012 Beyond the Best Top 50 in Business Awards" will be held at The Columns Banquet Center in St. Charles October 18. Doors will open at 6 p.m. Sponsorships are still available which include tables of 10 at the Columns, free Ad in StreetScape Magazine and a business logo provided on a video screen and at the table the night of the event. Plaques are also presented to companies the night of the event. For sponsorship and ticket information please contact: Mary Ellen Renaud 314.660.1975 or Tom Hannegan 636.299.3585
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Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photo by Michael Schlueter
Lindenwood University is offering young women an opportunity that girls in St. Charles County just a few years ago could never have dreamed of. The school’s athletics department has added
Women’s Gymnastics to its sports reper-
toire, making it the 83rd institution in the country to offer the sport.
Women’s Gymnastics Lindenwood University
Gretchen Goerlitz, a seasoned gymnastics
coach from Centenary, will head up the pro- new department is a candidate to become an
als as a team in 2011 and in 2010 guided
athletics department.
Collegiate National Champions. She also
gram—Lindenwood’s 27th addition to its NCAA Division II member which would alThe Lady Lions will begin competing dur-
ing the 2012-2013 school year as a non-
low them to be eligible for qualification to NCAA Regional and National Championships in the 2013-2014 schoolyear.
divisional program vying for qualification Goerlitz is no stranger to building a gymto the USA Gymnastics Collegiate National nastics department.
She revitalized the
Championships, which includes NCAA Di- program at Centenary where she helped the
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five individual qualifiers to the USAG
coached seven gymnasts to All-American honors and Centenary Gymnast Jessica Lieblich to an individual All-Around qualifi-
cation to the NCAA Regional Champion-
ships. Under her guidance, her team won the Ladies Cup award in both the 2009-2010
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pay close attention to the character of each girl
and 2010-2011 school years.
to the character of each girl. I try to fit them The new Lindenwood coach has a skill all together like puzzle pieces to ensure we named after her on the uneven bars in the
have a phenomenal environment where we gymnastics code of points, which is used
can have fun, grow together, and push each around the world. She has a bachelor’s deother on a daily basis.”
Goerlitz said working with young gymnasts inspires her. “Growing the sport is some-
gree in psychology with an emphasis in cog-
nitive neuroscience and a master’s degree in exercise physiology.
She said preparation is key to building win- thing that I am completely passionate about, Goerlitz said she’s never found another ners. “I want to make sure we’re completely to be able to increase the opportunities for sport that compares to gymnastics. “It’s a
prepared at that first meet when we walk out young women and give them a positive combination of everything. You have to be
onto the floor. The way to do that is to set experience to help prepare each student- fast and powerful and strong. But you also goals. There is no precedence so we get to athlete for the battles of life is an incredible have to be elegant and graceful. It’s not only set the standards and educate the administra- gift that inspires me…I have faith that I am a sport. It’s a performance.” SS tion about the sport. I’m excited about that.” prepared for it and that I am the right leader Goerlitz was hired in July and since then has
for the job.”
been recruiting what she believes will be a The 27-year-old has been a gymnast most winning first team for Lindenwood. “Just of her life. She said her parents first real-
like anything, you begin with the end in ized they had an athlete on there hands was mind and take it one step at a time to reach when she would flip herself upside down off your end goals.” Within five years, Goerlitz of the coffee table and do handstands against
said she hopes for Lindenwood to be the first the walls of their home in Neenah, WI. “I
Division II school to qualify to the NCAA taught myself a back hand spring on the Regional Championships.
couch when I was five,” she said.
Besides being an excellent gymnast, a can- Before heading up gymnastics at Centena-
didate must be coachable and work well ry, Goerlitz was a graduate assistant coach with her team members. Goerlitz started at Texas Women’s University. Six athletes
building her team by getting the word out, earned All-American honors on the floor in the gymnastics community and through exercise under her tutelage. Her floor team social media, clubs and coaches, that Lin- also set a new school record to help clinch
denwood University now had a team. She the USAG Collegiate national Championvisited gyms, watched clips from potential ship title. athletes and even spent some time on YouTube choosing her Lady Lions.
As a competitor at Utah State University
herself, Goerlitz qualified for the NCAA
“I look for girls that are inspired by chal- Regional Championships as an individual lenges and who thrive in an environment All-Around performer. She holds the third
where hard work and great team chemistry highest score in the school’s history with a is the norm,” she said. “I pay close attention 9.95 on the floor exercise.
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People You Should Know
Dennis Atkins Dennis Atkins recently broke the 70,000mile mark in a near-lifetime of running. Atkins recently broke the 70,000-mile mark get lost at times. Then I just feel the raised in a near-lifetime of running. At 56, he’s numbers and letters on the mailboxes until I been running since 1978. He’s finished 15 find my way home.” marathons, numerous half marathons and has raised over $70,000 for people with
disabilities. He doesn’t allow himself any excuses, because, well, he doesn’t think he has any.
A hereditary eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa is a progressive retinal condition that leads
to incurable blindness. Starting with night
born with a certain amount of photosensory
peripheral vision and finally his central vision.
few areas in the body that doesn’t reproduce.”
blindness, the disease first destroyed his
A retired branch claims manager for American One of Atkin’s sisters has the disease. The Family Insurance, Atkins knows just where other does not. he’s headed, even if he can’t see to get there.
Story by Robin Seaton Jefferson Photo by Michael Schlueter
In 1978, he was playing on a competitive
Atkins is blind. Diagnosed in July of 1979 softball team when he began to lose the ball
with retinitis pigmentosa, Atkins can now during night games. “I just thought I needed see only shadows in certain light conditions. glasses,” Atkins said. But doctors had another
What he can see—or rather what he said God explanation. They told him he would be blind allows him to see—is enough. “The Good in two years. Ever the optimist, Atkins said, Lord allows me to see the black expansion “It’s been a huge blessing to me that I ended
cells. They don’t reproduce. It is one of the Atkins had to give up driving in 1998. He had cataracts removed at 39 and 41 years of age.
“It’s pretty scary,” Atkins said. “I’ve gone through three phases. A lot of people with disabilities go through these.”
He said the first phase is denial. “My first thought was, ‘They’re wrong. I’m not going to go blind.’”
joints in the street and I follow those through up getting 34 years in with American Family
Then as the years past and his vision
offices in Wichita, Kansas and St. Louis,
he had left. “I was ok. I could still drive and run.
the subdivision,” he said.
The rest of the time, he just feels his way, averaging eight or nine miles a day. “I can’t
Insurance.” He managed American Family Missouri during that time.
see anything so I just feel the cracks in the A sister disease to macular degeneration,
street with my legs, and where the curb meets retinitis pigmentosa slowly kills the retinol and
deteriorated, he started to count what blessings I told a few friends, my parents, and my wife and step son. But I was still hopeful. I didn’t want to be different or treated differently.”
the street and the crest of the street or slight photosensory cells. “There is no cure. They are
But the denial soon abated. And it was in 1998,
can feel dips in the streets at intersections. I and with micro chips.” Atkins said. “You are
period. I lost the freedom of driving. It was the
incline in the height of the street,” he said. “I working on transplanting photosensory cells
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that Atkins hit bottom. “That was my lowest
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People You Should Know lowest of lows. I felt like it was all over. I said, in 1977. But he went on to complete his MBA ‘Oh Lord, what am I going to do?’”
Atkins said he spent about a year and a half
and doctorate in business administration by correspondence, while legally blind.
in the second phase of his disability. Then he Mostly, Atkins said he’s thankful for the voice realized he still wanted to enjoy his life and he still has to share with others with disabilities,
went on to the third phase. “I said, ‘Yes, I have or those who have lost loved ones or even their this disease, but I’m going to figure out a way jobs. “We all have huge hurdles to overcome. to do everything I want to do anyway. If I fall I meet people all the time who have it a lot
down or hit a parked car, I will pick myself up worse than me. I meet people with their legs and go on.’”
“A very strong faith in God has always
amputated or those who have lost both vision and hearing.”
propelled me throughout my life,” he said. Atkins
offers
motivational
presentations
“And I was blessed to be surrounded by a tailored to the specific needs of the group
large, very positive nucleus of friends and he is addressing. His talks help others by family.”
So he ran on, through the years, through the
blindness and through the fear. “I go out and run especially when I’m afraid or scared. It gives me a high. I feel strong.”
It was July 15, 1978, when Atkins started
keeping track of the miles he ran on his personal calendar. He said he averages about 2,100 miles per year. And he loves it more than ever.
“I run because I like the birds. I like the fresh air. I can feel the sun. I love running when
it’s snowing. I love running when it’s raining. One of the biggest issues with anybody with
a disability or a person getting older is that they have this fear that they can no longer do
something but I’ve learned not to give in to my fears.”
He said he runs because it is something he
can do well. Although he may be limited in driving or reading books or even in focusing
providing insight to them on how to set goals and overcome fears and life’s challenges. His audiences are business people, church
members, service organizations and disability and professional groups.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors
of the Delta Center for Independent Living
earned his first degree from Missouri Western
we will soon look beyond the challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease and focus more of our energy on creating moments of joy.
and the Missouri Statewide Independent
When a person has short-term memory
position.
are not able to create a perfectly wonderful
Living Council, which is a governor appointed
And for now, that’s quite enough. “Having
loss, his life is made up of moments. We day with those who have dementia, but it
the opportunity to help others and see them
is absolutely attainable to create perfectly
nothing but great joy. I think the big picture
smiles on their faces, a twinkle in their
overcome their fears and challenges gives me
wonderful moments – moments that put
is that I can make a difference. I’m blessed,
eyes, or trigger memories. Five minutes
absolutely I am blessed. Don’t get me wrong. I would love to have my vision back. But I can use my life to encourage others.” SS
For more information on Dennis Atkins, call
later, they won’t remember what you did or said, but the feeling you left them with will linger.
816-273-7205 or email him at Datkins7659@ charter.net.
on television, (he said he attempts this for Chiefs or Rams games) Atkins runs for fun. He
Jolene Brackey has a vision. A Vision that
For more information on Dennis Atkins, call 816-273-7205 or email him at Datkins7659@charter.net.
Title Creating Moments of Joy for people with dementia Author Jolene Brackey Publisher Purdue University Press
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Nicki Dwyer
Story by Cillah Hall, Editor-in-Chief
Long-time Central West End resident who shares her love of the vibrant, historic neighborhood StreetScape: Your blog was recently named also wrote a column on what was available one of the five best Neighborhood blog by the in neighborhood shops...so you see, I had Riverfront times. What do you write about?
already started down this path before.
Nicki: I write about what interests me in the StreetScape: You have lived in the CWE for Central West End, whether it is a new shop a long time. How is it now compared to when or restaurant, a neighborhood resident I think you moved there? everyone would like to know, events, and
perhaps some historical information since I Nicki: After Jim and I were married 44 years
have lived in the neighborhood for so many ago, we lived in a three-family apartment years. On Sundays, I post a single photo building in the 4600 block of McPherson. showing something from the garden.
The neighborhood was sparsely populated
StreetScape: How did you get started?
in better condition than others. There was
Nicki Dwyer
have held (if you can get a loan of course), the
shops and restaurants seem to be doing well. Projects such as the redevelopment of the
Chase Park-Plaza, the creation of Park East Tower in Forest Park Southeast, etc. etc. have been hugely successful.
StreetScape: What are you passionate about?
at the time and there were areas that were
Nicki: I am passionate about my family of
a group of “urban pioneers” that over time
the joys of gardening in small spaces, and
Nicki: When my husband Jim and I moved made a huge difference in the landscape of the into our CWE condo four years ago, I neighborhood. Many houses which were in
realized that most of the homeowners were disrepair on the private streets were renovated.
from somewhere else and I became the This was much easier to accomplish then as
“go to” person for what was where in the City Bank, now Bank of America, stepped
course, friends, the ease of urban living, cooking. I was the Food Editor of Mary
Engelbreit’s Home Companion for seven years and so I still love experimenting with different ingredients and recipes.
neighborhood. An old friend, who had lived out on a limb to make loans to people like us,
StreetScape: What is your favorite holiday?
I worked on projects for Mary Engelbreit realized it was in their interest to help develop
Nicki: People who know me would probably
set the blog up. I am deeply indebted to her for today’s banking environment.
have always hosted Christmas Eve dinner, and
in the CWE years before and with whom who were just starting out. I think the bank
encouraged me to give it a try. She helped me the neighborhood. That wouldn’t happen in believing that I could do it. Many years ago I The neighborhood has never looked or felt
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think that Christmas is my favorite, since we it is also my birthday. But Thanksgiving is the
favorite because there is less pressure and all
Presents 2o12 Greater Saint Charles Fashion Week
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house. I also love the 4th of July. We started a Children’s Parade on Lenox Place and invited the neighborhood fire truck to lead it, when my
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StreetScape: Who do you most admire? Nicki: This is tough because I know so many
wonderful people. I really admire all the small business owners that I know in the Central West
End. The fact that they believe in themselves and their idea so much that they can make a
living doing what they love is inspirational. My sister Sandy who created an exercise
business in San Francisco that has endured for 30 plus years after taking classes from Martha Rounds here in St. Louis, falls into this
category. Without any help whatsoever she has
carved out a niche doing something she loves, and supported herself doing it.
StreetScape: You’ve experienced a lot over the
years. Knowing what you know now, What would you tell your younger, 20-year-old self? Nicki: Try to worry less and realize that what my mother always said, “It’s the things you
don’t worry about that actually happen” is really true. Looking back you can see things
Designers:
have a way of working out probably the way they were meant to from the beginning. It
usually takes longer than you ever think to get
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to the place you were meant to be, does that I’m still trying. SS
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