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Area children were allowed to pick out two toys each after a day of games and activities and lunch at the St. Louis Gateway Classic Sports Foundation complex during the Classic’s annual holiday party for kids co-hosted Saturday, Dec. 17 with the Larry Hughes Foundation.
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Eugene B. Redmond and members of the EBR Writers Club were guests of Maya Angelou in her Harlem brownstone for a private dinner party/fundraiser for the Eugene B. Redmond Reading Room at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.
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The Songs of Africa Ensemble will perform a Kwanzaa Celebration on December 30 at Trinity Presbyterian Church and at the First Night St. Louis celebration at Xavier College Church, at the corner of Grand and Lindell.
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Fashion Designer Qristyl Frazier discusses her upcoming line a special viewing of “All on the Line” at the Lane Bryant Store – Brooklyn Fulton Street on December 1, 2011 in New York City. The line will be featured at Lane Bryant stores around the nation in early 2012.
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Fashion Designer Qristyl Frazier discusses her upcoming line a special viewing of “All on the Line” at the Lane Bryant Store – Brooklyn Fulton Street on December 1, 2011 in New York City. The line will be featured at Lane Bryant stores around the nation in early 2012.
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Fashion Designer Qristyl Frazier discusses her upcoming line a special viewing of “All on the Line” at the Lane Bryant Store – Brooklyn Fulton Street on December 1, 2011 in New York City. The line will be featured at Lane Bryant stores around the nation in early 2012.
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Ethiopian community leader Allamaye Huassfaw visited with U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay at Clay’s recent Immigration Forum at Washington University .
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Last Monday Circuit Judge Jimmie Edwards waited with Alderman Marlene Davis, his wife Stacy Edwards and other supporters on the steps of the Innovative Concept Academy that he co-founded during a taping of the Today show that aired December 21. They waited on the arrival of a Wal-Mart truck with products for the school valued at $100,000. The judge was recently selected by People magazine as one of the 2011 Heroes of the Year.
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A group of retired teachers picketed outside the Board fo the Public School Retirement System meeting on Dec. 12, and then presented a statement to the trustees during the meeting asking for cost of living pension adjustments.
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A group of retired teachers picketed outside the Board fo the Public School Retirement System meeting on Dec. 12, and then presented a statement to the trustees during the meeting asking for cost of living pension adjustments.
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Tatyanna Jackson, 10, a fourth grader at Humboldt Academy in the St. Louis Public School District, won the mayor’s annual holiday card contest.
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For Albert Pujols…I wish a reality check to go along with his paycheck
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Former Sumner High football coach Lawrence Walls will be inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame on January 12 in Springfield, Mo. His Bulldogs won state championships in 1973, 1982, 1990 and 1991. His overall record was 247-60-5.
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December 24
Happy Birthday to my lovely wife, Tena Bell-Bada!
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Celebrating park improvements Lewis Reed, president of the Board of Aldermen, was joined by Forest Park Forever leaders and other city officials at the Trolley Room in Forest Park on Monday as they celebrated the passage of Park Improvement Bond legislation and the Forest Park Maintenance Cooperation Agreement.
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Incarnate Word Academy’s Cierra Young (#24) drives by a Notre Dame defender during last week’s first-round action at the Visitation Christmas Basketball Tournament. Young scored 12 points in the Red Knights’ 57-21 victory.
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Parents, children and staff recently enjoyed Open House festivities at the new Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Head Start/Early Head Start Center, located at 150 Edgar St. in Cahokia, IL. The new Cahokia Head Start Center officially opened for business on November 28. The pre-school will provide services to 216 children and families. SIUE officials who attended the grand opening included: Dr. Ann Boyle, provost and vice Chancellor; Phyleccia Reed Cole, associate general counsel, Office of General Council; and Dr. Venessa Brown, executive director, SIUE East St. Louis Center.
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Former Sumner High football coach Lawrence Walls will be inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame on January 12 in Springfield, Mo. His Bulldogs won state championships in 1973, 1982, 1990 and 1991. His overall record was 247-60-5.
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Cincinnati Bengals Brandon Johnson stops St. Louis Rams Carnell Williams during fourth quarter at the Edward Jones Dome.
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More than 50 project homes have been built by students at Ranken Technical College as coordinated by the non-profit organization Ranken Community Development Corporation since the program started almost two decades ago.
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Congressman Emanuel Cleaver
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On November 12, the Alpha Nu Chapter of the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc. held its 21st annual Minister’s Award Program at the Renaissance St. Louis Airport Hotel.
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Karroll Ewing