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Kimburly Brown held a portrait of her son, Jacques Combs, at Families Advocating Safe Streets’ 26th annual New Year’s Eve Candlelight Service to remember local homicide victims at Williams Temple Church of God in Christ. Combs was shot and killed on December 2 at age 25.
Photo by Wiley Price
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Damonie Brown and Demarion Brown sat quietly as they remembered their uncle Ivory Newbern, who was found dead on the riverfront on July 4. The sisters attended Families Advocating Safe Streets’ 26th annual New Year’s Eve Candlelight Service to remember local homicide victims at Williams Temple Church of God in Christ.
Photo by Wiley Price
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Singer Brian Owens and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra musicians Ann Fink, Wendy Rosen, Leonid Gotman and Alvin McCall performed a pop up holiday concert for incarcerated youth at the STL County Juvenile Detention Center. Photos by Kenneth Hibbler
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Graduates of Metro High School who played basketball together and went on to successful careers after graduating from college have formed a group called Untapped Scholars. For its first project, it funded Christmas gifts for four families. The Untapped Scholars are Charonn D. Woods, M.D., physician, who attended Bradley University and Saint Louis University School of Medicine; Darryl Wells Jr., project manager in the oil and gas field, who attended Oklahoma State University; Christian Owens, project engineer and energy consulting, who attended Tuffs University; and Joshua Johnon, process engineer in supply chain, who attended Purdue University.
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Jalien Douglas, Desmond Anderson, Cornell Dabney and Chauncy Gibson are teammates at Lift for Life Academy, a charter school in Soulard raising funds to build its own gymnasium. Marshall Cohen, executive director of the school, said students lose a lot of academic time in transit to rented facilities for P.E. and athletics.
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Webster Groves powered its way to the Class 5 state championship in boys’ basketball with a dominating victory over Lee’s Summit West in the state finals behind the dynamic duo of Courtney Ramey and Carte’are Gordon.
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Andria Harris