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Neighborhood children ran through a St. Louis Fire Department shower sprinkler to stay cool during the Betty Jean Kerr Community Resource and Health Fair on Saturday, July 20, when the heat index was around 100 degrees.
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If you can’t get under a sprinkler like these youth at the Betty Jean Kerr Community Resource and Health Fair on Saturday, July 20, when the heat index was around 100 degrees, you can get information on cooling sites by calling 1-800-427-4626 or (if on a land line) 2-1-1.
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‘Canfield Drive,’ which premiered at The Black Rep in January, will play The National Black Theatre Festival in North Carolina.
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Afua can mark an item off of her bucket list after meeting Verdine White,
bassist and co-founding member of the legendary band Earth, Wind and
Fire, following the band’s phenomenal performance Sunday night at
Stifel Theatre.
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Noted artist and SIUE alumna Edna Patterson Petty, of East St. Louis, helps a Project Success student with quilting.
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Congratulations to the St. Louis Eagles 2021 girls basketball team on winning the championship at the Nike Tournament of Champions in Chicago. The Eagles defeated the Minnesota/Wisconsin Force 43-36 in the championship game. The Eagles were also the runners-up at the Run for the Roses Tournament in Louisville. The team members are (in alphabetical order), Amelia Bell (O’Fallon), Marshaun Bostic (Gateway STEM), Kierra Brody (Rock Bridge), Jaliyah Green (Wentzville Holt), Brooke Highmark (Westminster), Samya Johnson (McCluer North), Ari Jones (Fort Zumwalt West), Lindsay Mason (Francis Howell Central), Vanessa Polk (John Burroughs), Jasmin Rayner (John Burroughs), Saniah Tyler (Incarnate Word). Not pictured are head coach John Albert and assistant coach Marvin Hay.
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The 5’9” 190-pound Mookie Cooper is an electrifying performer who is one of the top prospects in a talented crop of Class of 2020 players in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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Manny Pacquiao (right) lands a hard right hand to the face of Keith Thurman. The 40-year-old Pacquiao defeated Thurman via unanimous decision to win the WBA World Welterweight Title.
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Pernell Whitaker (right) taunts Oscar De La Hoya during their fight in 1997. The defensive wizard often bent down extremely low in order to avoid his opponent’s punches.
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St. Louis Regional Chamber Vice President Gisele Marcus -
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner at a July 11 press conference.
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Eliminating the fees was suggested by Lt. Col. Troy Doyle of the St. Louis County Police Department, who is acting director of County Justice Services, who called the fees predatory.
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Taylor Wayne, a student at Brittany Woods Middle School in the University City School District, and Caleb Farr, a student at Andrews Academy, participated in the Aim High program at John Burroughs School last week. About 380 St. Louis-area middle schoolers enrolled in a tuition-free summer academic and character-building summer enrichment program.
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Joshua Rhodes, Shyla Granberry, Antoinette Bates, Kahalia Adams, Jayla Fitch, Catalina Mundin, Taylor Marshall, and Gyasi Bromley-Perry are studying abroad this summer on Quest scholarships.
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Shyla Granberry from Carnahan High School is taking an intensive course in Japanese while she lives with a host family in Tokyo on a Quest scholarship.
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Wellston Mayor Nathan Griffin thanked St. Louis County Executive Sam Page at a St. Louis County Council meeting on Tuesday, July 23 for negotiating with the Trump Administration to postpone planned demolition of public housing in an attempt to save most of the dwellings.
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Wellston residents attended a St. Louis County Council meeting on Tuesday, July 23 to support Mayor Nathan Griffin, who thanked St. Louis County Executive Sam Page for negotiating with the Trump Administration to postpone planned demolition of public housing in an attempt to save most of the dwellings.
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Wellston residents Herman White, Sammy Alford, Anna Thorp and Edward Arch live in Wellston Place Apartments and are part of a community effort to stop the Trump Administration from demolishing about 200 public housing structures in Wellston, which would displace about 530 people or 174 families.
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Future Muny Managing Director Kwofe Coleman worked at the theater as an usher during his teens.
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Muny Managing Director Kwofe Coleman and President and CEO Denny Reagan -
Earth, Wind and Fire performing before a packed house at Stifel Theatre Sunday night. Photo by Wiley Price/St. Louis American
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Damya Long, who is going to be in the 9th grade at Gateway STEM High School, learned about being an entrepreneur while developing her visual art skills at Aim High St. Louis this summer.
Photo by Wiley Price