• Rochelle Brooks cooled off her Papillon dog Midnight with a handful of water on Saturday during the Annie Malone Health and Community Resource Fair held at North Sarah Street and Martin Luther King Drive. The fair was presented in collaboration with the 4th Ward and the Ville Commission.

  • Pictured are Dr. Arnold Bullock, urologist and guest speaker; Isadore M. Wayne, Sr., TEN co-founder/COO; Louis Reed, St. Louis Aldermanic president; Marlene Davis, 19th Ward alderman; Donald M. Suggs, publisher of  The American; and Mellve Shahid, TEN founder.

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  • June 20, 2013

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  • DJ Kut and Mary J. Blige

  • (L to R) Victor Ryan Robertson as Benny “The Kid” Paret, Robert Orth as Howie Albert, Aubrey Allicock as Young Emile Griffith, Denyce Graves as Emelda Griffith, and Arthur Woodley as Emile Griffith (above) in Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ 2013 World Premiere of Champion. 

  • Aubrey Allicock as Young Emile Griffith in Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ 2013 World Premiere of Champion.

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  • Gregg Popovich’s Game 6 blunders could cost the team a banner
  • Min. Anthony Johnson
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  • Ezekiel Elliott

  • Executive Director Halbert Sullivan, 2013 Youth of the Year Antonio Crothers Jr. and event emcee Kirk Williams at Fathers’ Support Center of St. Louis’ “Toast to Fathers” held last Thursday.

  • Executive Director Halbert Sullivan, 2013 Father of the Year William Nelson and event emcee Kirk Williams at Fathers’ Support Center of St. Louis’ “Toast to Fathers” held last Thursday.

  • Alderman Antonio French spoke at a rally against gun violence held Friday on the steps of St. Louis City Hall.

  • Alderman Antonio French, Jasmine Viel, 14, and Prince Lawrence, 11, participated in a candlelight vigil at St. Louis City Hall last Friday to commemorate the six-month anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

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  • Judge Laninya Cason
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  • Keith Elder

  • The Ivory Perry Park Concert Series features King Omowale and the Majestic Lions (June 23), Soulard Blues Band featuring Marty Abdullah (July 28) and Boogie Chyld (August 25).

  • The Kirkwood Pioneers celebrate their first state championship in football after defeating Fort Osage 31-7 in the Class 5 Show-Me Bowl.

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  • Senior guard Martavian Payne (#20) led Madison Prep to the Class 3 state championship in boys basketball.

  • Myrle Mensey and her mother Daisy Edwards won eight Gold medals between them at the Missouri Senior Olympics on June 15, setting state records in their age ranges for five events.

  • Myrle Mensey and her mother Daisy Edwards won eight Gold medals between them at the Missouri Senior Olympics on June 15, setting state records in their age ranges for five events.

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  • Charles Person and Henry “Hank” Thomas received the Margaret Bush Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award from the St. Louis City NAACP at its Centennial Gala. They are two of the original 13 Freedom Riders who went south in integrated groups in 1961 to challenge the segregation of public facilities and services.

  • Jabarri Quarles sized up his putt on the golf course in Forest Park during a tournament organized on June 7 as part of the St. Louis City NAACP’s weekend-long celebration of its centennial. Desegregation of the municipal course in the 1940s is one legacy of civil rights organizations like the NAACP.

  • Adolphus M. Pruitt II, James H. Buford, Hattie R. Jackson, U.S. Rep Maxine Waters (D-CA), John P. Dubinsky, Richard J. Mark, Carol Voss and Tom Voss at St. Louis City NAACP’s Centennial Gala on June 7.

  • Sophomore Napheesa Collier (#24) led Incarnate Word Academy to the Class 4 state title and an undefeated season.

  • St. Louis Mayor Francis G. Slay and St. Louis County Executive Charlie A. Dooley have been in the news for trying to merge the city and county economic development agencies. Recently they got together with Airport Director Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, Laclede CEO Suzanne Sitherwood, Siemens Director Clark Wiedetz, Bridgeton Mayor Conrad Bowers, Laclede Senior Vice President Mike Spotanski to break ground for the new Spire CNG fueling station at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

  • Alfonso Ribeiro and Marshall Faulk at the 2nd Annual Lumiere Place Golf Classic hosted by Faulk.

  • Jackie Joyner Kersee catching up with old friend Maurice Foxworth at the 2nd Annual Lumiere Place Golf Classic hosted by Marshall Faulk.

  • Pastor B.T. Rice of New Horizon Christian Church listens to Dan Isom, retired St. Louis police chief and professor of Policing and the Community at University of Missouri-St. Louis, at the announcement of their new St. Louis Initiative to Reduce Violence.

  • Former New Orleans Saints player Steve Gleason, who now suffers from ALS, with Nicole and Tommy Lemelle.

  • Air Force Airman Christian B. McIntosh is the son of Jamie Freeman of Millman Drive, Ferguson. He is a 2010 graduate of McCluer High School.

  • Air Force Airman Daralyn K. Dalcour is the daughter of Tonia Dalcour of Mendell Drive, St. Louis, and Darryl Dalcour of North Vista Drive, Houston, Texas. She is a 2009 graduate of Ritenour High School.

  • Air Force Airman Leon L. Smallwood Jr. is the son of Michelle and Michael Clay of Pontchartrain Drive, Florissant. He is a 2012 graduate of McCluer North High School.

  • Air Force Airman Tyrone L. Stainback is the son of Anita O’Neil of North Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, and Anthony Johnson of Redder Court, Gainesville, Ga.

  • Shirlyn Myles, COMTO chapter president; Kevin Triggs, chapter vice president; Mary Ann Taylor Crate, chapter secretary; and Elke Campbell, chapter treasurer Sitting: Truan Le, Willard Moore, Jillian Greene and Kobi Key.

     

  • Jillian Greene, Truan Le, Ed Hillhouse (executive director of East-West Gateway Council of Governments), Byron Dyer, Gwen Crimm of Construction Careers Center, Rose Lucas of MoDOT, Rhonetta Brazzill of Metro, Felicia Miller Harris of Added Dimension, Marteana Davidson, Steve Lewis (VP of AGC St. Louis), Willard Moore, Kobi Key, Kevin Triggs of EWGCG, Shirlyn Myles of MoDOT, Mary Ann Taylor Crate – owner of Added Dimension, and Elke Campbell of Metro.

     

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  • More than 5,000 guests attended U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay’s 8th annual Career Fair at Harris-Stowe State University on June 10.

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