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Saint Louis Public Schools Superintendent Kelvin Adams connected with Zyair Hamilton, 9, while visiting his fourth grade class at Pierre Laclede Junior Career Academy in the city’s Walnut Park neighborhood on the first day of school. Schools continued to open for the fall semester this week.
Photo by Wiley Price
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Rising national blues sensation Annika Chambers headlined the first Blues at the Arch of 2019 on Friday, August 9 at Gateway Arch National Park.
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Mekenzie Rogers of the St. Louis Express won gold medals in the 100, 200 and 400-meter dashes in the Girls 11-year-old division at the Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympics track and field competition at North Carolina A&T University.
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The American Heart Association’s Go Red Goes STEM event exposes students to some of St. Louis’ leading science, technology and engineering companies as they showcase their work and introduce them to career paths.
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Lynnette Moore, a nurse, holds bags of sugar representing the weight she has lost – 63 pounds off and counting.
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Tasha Crusoe-Rogers a equipment Tech at BJC works on a telemetry monitor in it’s new Neuro-Critical Unit. At right is Neurologist Dr. Salah G. Keyrouz.
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St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner -
Mousie happened to catch Marlon Wayans at The Four Seasons when the film, television and comedy star Marlon Wayans was stopped through the STL to promote his new movie “Sextuplets,” which debuted last week on Netflix.
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Michael Brown tried to cool off in the heat while visiting with former state Rep. Betty Thompson and his wife Cal Brown during events to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the Ferguson Police killing of his son Michael Brown and the protest movement it sparked.
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Mary Norwood, the grandmother of 7-year-old Xavier Usanga, spoke to Alderman Brandon Bosley, D-3rd Ward, and Maj. Mary Warnecke, the deputy commander of the Bureau of Investigations for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, on August 13. Xavier was one of 15 children in the region killed by gun violence since May.
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Amber Mitchell, school counselor at Ritenour High School, will receive the 2019 SEMO Counselor of the Year Award at the St. Louis American Foundation’s Salute to Excellence in Education Awards Gala on September 21.
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Lezley McSpadden-Head invited her husband Louis Head and her sister Brittany McSpadden to the podium as she delivered final remarks to the crowd at the Rainbow of Mothers Gala on Saturday, August 10 at Barnett’s on Washington.
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Retired Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson delivered the keynote address for the Rainbow of Mothers Gala presented by the Michael OD Brown We Love Our Sons and Daughters Foundation.
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(L. to R.) Carolyn Kindle Betz, Enterprise Holdings Foundation president, and Chrissy Taylor, Enterprise CEO, are two members of the St. Louis Major League Soccer franchise group that owns St. Louis City SC. Owners not pictured are Patty Taylor and Jo Ann Taylor Kindle.
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Photo by Sid Hastings / WUSTL Photos
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Dr. Eugene Redmond, Toni Morrison, Loretta Dumas (widow of famed writer Henry Dumas) and Dr. Eleanor Traylor, cultural critic, author and longtime friend of Toni Morrison.
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Dannie Boyd shared with Cheeraz Gormon and the audience regrding Michael Brown’s death and the subsequent unrest in Ferguson impacted his life five years later Thursday at Greater St. Mark Church.
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Cathy “Mama Cat” Daniels recalled some of her experiences during the Ferguson unrest as part of St. Louis Public Radio and Cheeraz Gormon’s ‘Living #Ferguson: A Storytelling Event’ Thursday at Greater St. Mark Church.
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Tasha Crusoe-Rogers, a tech staffer at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, works with a tele-ICU monitor in the hospital’s new Neuro-Critical Care Unit, as Salah G. Keyrouz, MD, medical director of the unit, looks on.
Photo by Wiley Price
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Joshua Danrich is the founder and CEO of Mr. Fresh, an air freshener and deodorizer company in St. Louis.
MARISSANNE LEWIS-THOMPSON | ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO
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Next NGA West construction training fair is August 27