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A prospective seller walks with a shotgun to get into line during the City of St. Louis Gun Buy Back Day in St. Louis on December 23, 2017. City officials decided to do a gun buy back after homicides hit a 20 year high. So far St. Louis has recorded 203 murders for 2017, with a majority of them involving a gun. Police are offering up to $200 for an assult rifle.
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The girl students from the Academy Journalism program at Pierre Laclede Junior Career Academy were active in the Girls Rock Week introduced to the school this past semester.
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The lifetime activities class at McCluer High School completed a project-based learning project making several bean bag toss boards. The students designed, built and finished the details of the boards using only hand tools: clamps, handsaws, hammers, squares, and tape measures. Materials were donated by the Carpenter Apprenticeship Program.
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Lutheran North’s Canaan Brooks (4) rushed for 138 yards on 24 carries against the Titans of Trinity Friday night at Lutheran North. The Crusaders of Lutheran North would defeat the Titans of Trinity 48-46 for the Class 2 District 2 Championship.
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The St. Louis American Small Schools Offensive Player of the Year is junior quarterback Isaiah Williams of Trinity.
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The St. Louis County Council Chairman Sam Page, Vice Chair Hazel Erby and Councilwoman Rochelle Walton Gray listened at a council meeting on January 3. They have formed a formidable partnership and created a highly effective council coalition that has disempowered County Executive Steve Stenger.
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Rev. Traci Blackmon, executive minister of Justice and Witness at United Church of Christ and pastor at Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, was a member of the clergy who traveled to bear witness at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11-12.
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At Woerner Elementary School, Mrs. Freddie Johnson’s 5th grade students Demarcus Merrill, Jason Conejo, Austin Lopez, Hunter Tebeau and Dion Krasniqi learned how static electricity works from using an experiment from the Newspapers In Education (NIE) section of The St. Louis American. Johnson and Christopher Gardner, a teacher previously at Vogt Elementary School, received Golden Apple awards this year for their creative use of the newspaper’s NIE program.
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Alice Prince, executive director of the St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment (SLATE), joined an action in North St. Louis on October 3 when protest leaders canvassed North St. Louis to introduce citizens to social services and to register voters.
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Students at Hazelwood Central High School will receive a boost to their robotics program from the Monsanto Fund, which awarded a one-time $9,500 grant to the group, called the RoboHawks, to support its FIRST Robotics activities. FIRST Robotics challenges teams to design, build, and program their own robots to perform prescribed tasks against a field of competitors – immersing young students in real-world engineering experiences. Monsanto Fund program officer Michelle Insco said the fund, Monsanto’s philanthropic arm, is “committed to investing in the next generation of scientists and engineers like those at Hazelwood Central through hands-on education programs like FIRST Robotics.”
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Jennings Junior High School 7th grader Airyka Harris, 13, talked with teacher Angela Keys before school ended for the holiday break.