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Tamia Coleman-Hawkins mixes batter for her signature chocolate chip cookies. She buys all of her ingredients with the money she makes from Mia’s Treats Delight. She saves 30 percent from every sale, and she gets to choose how to use the remainder of her money.
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Tamia Coleman-Hawkins puts her chocolate chip cookies in the oven. She started her business Mia’s Treats Delight after taking an economics class in the third grade.
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U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Missouri) and U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Illinois) appeared before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security on Thursday, September 26 in support of H.R. 3435, the Local Public Health and Safety Protection Act.
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Edna Patterson Petty recently unveiled the quilt that Students from the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Center’s (ESLC) Project Success program completed this summer. The Children’s Quilting Project: Healing through Art was made possible through a grant from the SIUE Meridian Society. The creative activity was a collaboration between SIUE, Project Success and the Greater East St. Louis Community Fund. The Project Success Program is a comprehensive after-school tutorial enrichment childcare program, which services children ages 5-14. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services funds the program. It is designed to serve children who are in protective custody and are referred by the Department of Children and Family Services caseworkers
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“We strongly believe that greater attention must be given to the massive out-of-school time opportunities we have to support, protect and prepare our children and teens,” Flint Fowler, president of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis, said of their new Teen Center of Excellence in Ferguson.
Photo by Wiley Price
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In a new category of Multi-Media Reporting, The St. Louis American won first place for its coverage of the Gas Mart protests when two employees kicked a homeless woman outside of the store. The multi-media team that reported the story included Rebecca Rivas, Dawn Suggs, Wiley Price and Ashley Jones.
Photo by Wiley Price
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Standout basketball player Caleb Love of CBC gave a verbal commitment to North Carolina at a press conference at the school on Tuesday night. Love is flanked by his parents Alecia Thompson and Dennis Love.
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee with East St. Louis youth
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SpenDebt wins MAC Tank Pitch competition