The Lewis & Clark Heritage Days will be held on Saturday May 21 and Sunday May 22 in Frontier Park on the St. Charles Riverfront.
There will be a parade on Main Street beginning at 11 AM on Saturday May 21st.
Saturday, May 14, 2005
ST PETER PARISH PICNIC & AUCTION
The St. Peter Catholic Parish Picnic & Auction will be held on May 14 and 15 at the Parish on First Capitol and Second Street. The auction will be on Sunday afternoon about 4 pm. One of the items to be auctioned will be a 1993 Plymouth Voyager mini van.
NEW TOWN GETS BIGGER
Whittaker Homes’ New Town at St. Charles development off Hwy. 370 and New Town Blvd has already planned to have the largest number of homes in the entire metro area. Now, this traditional neighborhood development will be even bigger.
The St. Charles City Council recently approved an additional 1,400 homes and 108 acres in this community. With this new tract of land, The New Town at St. Charles will have approximately 5,700 homes on nearly 750 acres.
The new land, known as Phase 10, is southwest of the current New Town site. According to Greg Whittaker, president of Whittaker Homes, “as with the rest of New Town, the new tract will have a variety of housing types interspersed with commercial and civic uses. Water will be an important focal point in Phase 10 as it is within all the other phases in New Town. In fact, some of the units will be on an island.”
According to Marina Khoury, project manager from Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ), the foremost new urbanism planners in the country, “The design of this latest phase follows the predominant concept for The New Town at St. Charles; to create a compact, diverse and walkable town set in an inspiring and beautiful setting.”
She continues, “Phase 10 is organized around a canal loop that opens up into a large central lake that is itself punctuated by a smaller picturesque island set into it. A system of useful public spaces including formal squares, plazas, informal parks, pedestrian paths and linear greens connect this neighborhood and extends out to the lakes and canals. The water system has a fronting drive such that its frontage becomes part of the public realm, making it accessible to all residents and allowing water views to extend further into the neighborhood.”
Even though the new tract is known as Phase 10, Whittaker said that it is planned to be built after Phase 2 and Phase 3.
Whittaker Homes has sold over 400 units in The New Town at St. Charles and there are over 5,000 people interested on a mailing list. The first closings were in April and there are many more scheduled for the coming months. In addition, over 30 live work units have been sold and a general store, a town hall, St. Charles Christian Church and a 47,000-square-foot YMCA are planned for the first phase.
The New Town amphitheater also is nearly completed. Whittaker has scheduled its first play for the outdoor amphitheater, Shakespeare in the Park 2005. Romeo & Juliet will debut the second, third and fourth weekends of June. According to Whittaker, this is just the beginning of a wide range of cultural events that are planned for New Town.
Whittaker also is having a New Town Grand Opening on June 25 and 26 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the outdoor amphitheater. According to Whittaker, the displays will be open and new sites will be unveiled in Phase II, which has approximately 500 lots total.
“Phase 10 is simply a progression of what we’re already creating at New Town. With the response we’ve had, this new phase makes sense. Of course, it will only add to the economic impact on The City of St. Charles. According to an economic impact analysis prepared by Rubin, Brown, Gornstein & Co. LLP (RBG & Co.), New Town’s direct construction costs are the equivalent of constructing two St. Charles Convention Centers each year for a period of 12 years. This report was based on New Town’s original 638 acres and 4,300 homes, so this new phase will help generate even more income for the region.
Ultimately, The New Town at St. Charles, a $1.3 billion project will be a thriving town with approximately 5,700 residences in ten phases, with a carefully planned mix of homes in addition to a large town center and four neighborhood centers.
To reach New Town at St. Charles, take Hwy. 370 to north on New Town Blvd., 1 ? miles to the entrance on the right. The sales center is open from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. daily. For information, call 636-949-2700 or visit www.newtownastcharles.com.
The St. Charles City Council recently approved an additional 1,400 homes and 108 acres in this community. With this new tract of land, The New Town at St. Charles will have approximately 5,700 homes on nearly 750 acres.
The new land, known as Phase 10, is southwest of the current New Town site. According to Greg Whittaker, president of Whittaker Homes, “as with the rest of New Town, the new tract will have a variety of housing types interspersed with commercial and civic uses. Water will be an important focal point in Phase 10 as it is within all the other phases in New Town. In fact, some of the units will be on an island.”
According to Marina Khoury, project manager from Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ), the foremost new urbanism planners in the country, “The design of this latest phase follows the predominant concept for The New Town at St. Charles; to create a compact, diverse and walkable town set in an inspiring and beautiful setting.”
She continues, “Phase 10 is organized around a canal loop that opens up into a large central lake that is itself punctuated by a smaller picturesque island set into it. A system of useful public spaces including formal squares, plazas, informal parks, pedestrian paths and linear greens connect this neighborhood and extends out to the lakes and canals. The water system has a fronting drive such that its frontage becomes part of the public realm, making it accessible to all residents and allowing water views to extend further into the neighborhood.”
Even though the new tract is known as Phase 10, Whittaker said that it is planned to be built after Phase 2 and Phase 3.
Whittaker Homes has sold over 400 units in The New Town at St. Charles and there are over 5,000 people interested on a mailing list. The first closings were in April and there are many more scheduled for the coming months. In addition, over 30 live work units have been sold and a general store, a town hall, St. Charles Christian Church and a 47,000-square-foot YMCA are planned for the first phase.
The New Town amphitheater also is nearly completed. Whittaker has scheduled its first play for the outdoor amphitheater, Shakespeare in the Park 2005. Romeo & Juliet will debut the second, third and fourth weekends of June. According to Whittaker, this is just the beginning of a wide range of cultural events that are planned for New Town.
Whittaker also is having a New Town Grand Opening on June 25 and 26 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the outdoor amphitheater. According to Whittaker, the displays will be open and new sites will be unveiled in Phase II, which has approximately 500 lots total.
“Phase 10 is simply a progression of what we’re already creating at New Town. With the response we’ve had, this new phase makes sense. Of course, it will only add to the economic impact on The City of St. Charles. According to an economic impact analysis prepared by Rubin, Brown, Gornstein & Co. LLP (RBG & Co.), New Town’s direct construction costs are the equivalent of constructing two St. Charles Convention Centers each year for a period of 12 years. This report was based on New Town’s original 638 acres and 4,300 homes, so this new phase will help generate even more income for the region.
Ultimately, The New Town at St. Charles, a $1.3 billion project will be a thriving town with approximately 5,700 residences in ten phases, with a carefully planned mix of homes in addition to a large town center and four neighborhood centers.
To reach New Town at St. Charles, take Hwy. 370 to north on New Town Blvd., 1 ? miles to the entrance on the right. The sales center is open from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. daily. For information, call 636-949-2700 or visit www.newtownastcharles.com.
RAMBLING WITH THE EDITOR Tony Brockmeyer
SHE’S BUSTED
I am amazed at the actions of certain individuals in their attempts to keep the residents from finding out what is going on in this city and their attempts to keep this newspaper from publishing the news. Some of our advertisers have received anonymous e-mails and threatening letters because of their advertising in the First Capitol News. Usually they just ignore them. However, one of our clients became upset that anyone would do such a thing. Being a computer expert he decided to track the e-mail back to discover who was the author. Lo and behold he tracked it. He determined that the e-mail he received was sent from an e-mail account registered to PAULA EBERHARD listed as Effective Communications Training, Inc. 1202 Country Club, St. Charles, MO 63303. The registration also contained the wording, “29 Dispatching Years of Experience, instructor at Police Academy and the Community College, Supervisor Dispatch and Records.
PAULA EBERHARD is also a close friend of the Mayor and was appointed by her to the City’s Fourth of July Committee. She is also listed as the Assistant Publisher in Tom Hughes’s publication.
KEN KIELTY WANTS $50 AN HOUR FROM CONVENTION
& SPORTS AUTHORITY
A source told us that at a recent meeting of the County Convention and Sports Facilities Authority, outgoing Chairman Ken Kielty asked the Authority to hire him as a consultant for $50 an hour to plan a golf course on property owned by the City on the North end. We were told the property being referred to is the property St. Charles County gave the city after the 1993 flood buy-out from the federal government. The property is in a flood plain and members of the City Council are discussing use of the property. Their plans do not include a golf course. We were not aware that Kielty, a former City Councilman, former operator of the State License office on Raymond Drive, and a confidant to the Mayor, had any experience regarding golf courses. We believe no action was taken on his request at the meeting but it will probably come up again, according to our source.
Kielty is being replaced on the committee. Governor Blunt is appointing Kevin Kast and Tom Wapplehorst to the Authority.
When Governor Holden removed Roger Pryor from the Committee, the members voted to hire Pryor as a consultant until he was reappointed to the board. Now maybe it’s Kielty’s turn.
STEVE POWELL THE CEO OF THE CVB SUBMITS HIS RESIGNATION
At an executive meeting of the City Council Tuesday evening, the Council members were told Steve Powell, the CEO of the Convention and Visitors Bureau, submitted his resignation contingent upon receiving nine months severance pay. The City Council voted to accept the resignation and authorized six months severance pay instead of nine months..
FRIDAY NIGHT FLICKS
IN FRENCHTOWN
Bring a lawn chair or your and enjoy a movie under the stars. Beginning on May 27th and on the 4th Friday of each month through September, the Historic Frenchtowne Association will be offering Friday Night Flicks at the Blanchette Landing. The Landing is on the river and can be reached from the corner of Second Street and Olive.
Music & refreshments start at 7:00PM. The Movie Starts at dark. Admission is FREE, They are planning on showing family friendly movies. To find out the title of the movie that will be showing each month you can go on the internet to HistoricFrenchtown.com.
Proceeds go to the Historic Frenchtowne Association and they always welcome donations.
I am amazed at the actions of certain individuals in their attempts to keep the residents from finding out what is going on in this city and their attempts to keep this newspaper from publishing the news. Some of our advertisers have received anonymous e-mails and threatening letters because of their advertising in the First Capitol News. Usually they just ignore them. However, one of our clients became upset that anyone would do such a thing. Being a computer expert he decided to track the e-mail back to discover who was the author. Lo and behold he tracked it. He determined that the e-mail he received was sent from an e-mail account registered to PAULA EBERHARD listed as Effective Communications Training, Inc. 1202 Country Club, St. Charles, MO 63303. The registration also contained the wording, “29 Dispatching Years of Experience, instructor at Police Academy and the Community College, Supervisor Dispatch and Records.
PAULA EBERHARD is also a close friend of the Mayor and was appointed by her to the City’s Fourth of July Committee. She is also listed as the Assistant Publisher in Tom Hughes’s publication.
KEN KIELTY WANTS $50 AN HOUR FROM CONVENTION
& SPORTS AUTHORITY
A source told us that at a recent meeting of the County Convention and Sports Facilities Authority, outgoing Chairman Ken Kielty asked the Authority to hire him as a consultant for $50 an hour to plan a golf course on property owned by the City on the North end. We were told the property being referred to is the property St. Charles County gave the city after the 1993 flood buy-out from the federal government. The property is in a flood plain and members of the City Council are discussing use of the property. Their plans do not include a golf course. We were not aware that Kielty, a former City Councilman, former operator of the State License office on Raymond Drive, and a confidant to the Mayor, had any experience regarding golf courses. We believe no action was taken on his request at the meeting but it will probably come up again, according to our source.
Kielty is being replaced on the committee. Governor Blunt is appointing Kevin Kast and Tom Wapplehorst to the Authority.
When Governor Holden removed Roger Pryor from the Committee, the members voted to hire Pryor as a consultant until he was reappointed to the board. Now maybe it’s Kielty’s turn.
STEVE POWELL THE CEO OF THE CVB SUBMITS HIS RESIGNATION
At an executive meeting of the City Council Tuesday evening, the Council members were told Steve Powell, the CEO of the Convention and Visitors Bureau, submitted his resignation contingent upon receiving nine months severance pay. The City Council voted to accept the resignation and authorized six months severance pay instead of nine months..
FRIDAY NIGHT FLICKS
IN FRENCHTOWN
Bring a lawn chair or your and enjoy a movie under the stars. Beginning on May 27th and on the 4th Friday of each month through September, the Historic Frenchtowne Association will be offering Friday Night Flicks at the Blanchette Landing. The Landing is on the river and can be reached from the corner of Second Street and Olive.
Music & refreshments start at 7:00PM. The Movie Starts at dark. Admission is FREE, They are planning on showing family friendly movies. To find out the title of the movie that will be showing each month you can go on the internet to HistoricFrenchtown.com.
Proceeds go to the Historic Frenchtowne Association and they always welcome donations.
THE CITY DESK - Rory Riddler City Council President
Public Art Initiative Has
Something For Everyone
And Says A Lot About Our Town!
There are reports that Daniel Boone liked to sing and talk to himself when he was alone on extended hunting trips. He did so despite the danger of revealing his location to any hostile Indians, just to hear another voice. Like any of us under similar circumstances, he was probably lonely. Sometimes it’s these little anecdotes that help us remember our larger than life-size heroes were also human.
St. Charles is blessed with having been home to many such famous people. I felt it was time we honored a few of these individuals, but in a way that reminds us they were real people…that there was a time when you could walk up to a man like Daniel Boone and shake his hand.
Tuesday night the City Council gave preliminary approval to a two pronged public art initiative. The first part of the initiative is a multiyear project to recognize at least six of our hometown heroes. Over the next six years, the City will commission one life-size bronze statue per year of various individuals from our early history.
A national hero like Daniel Boone seemed a good place to start. While the Nathan Boone Home has been the focus of Daniel’s life in our county, the elderly Boone was a familiar sight in our village as well. Boone could be seen transporting prisoners here as syndic (a combination Justice of the Peace and militia officer under the Spanish), moving furs downstream by boat to sell and coming here to pick up supplies. Boone also lived in St. Charles for a time, though the location of the residence is unknown. In 1809, one of his grandsons by Nathan, James Boone, was sent to school in St. Charles and boarded here in the home of a Frenchman. The young boy got so homesick that Daniel Boone and his wife rented a room in the village and had their grandson stay with them while he attended the school.
The concept is for the statue to be just as you would have seen Daniel Boone on the streets of St. Charles at that time. The series of statues aren’t meant to be placed on a pedestal, but eye level and approachable. The fourteen-foot tall statues of Lewis & Clark are perfect for their setting, but not every work of public art has to be of monumental size. We want visitors to be able to imagine what life was like when men and women like Boone brushed the dust from their clothes, wiped the sweat off their brow and sat down in the shade of tree.
The first commission will take close to a year to complete. A preliminary list for future years would include, Jean Baptist du Sable, Saint Phillipine Duchesne, Mary Easton Sibley, Alexander McNair and James McKay. Others could be honored in later years.
I mentioned the public art initiative was two pronged. The second part is to sponsor an annual outdoor art competition for sculptors through the Foundry Art Center. Ten winners would be selected and after an initial showing at the Foundry, the works would be put on display at ten public places around town for a year.
During that year the works would be listed on the Foundry’s web site for sale, but can not be removed until the end of the year, when a fresh batch of winners will replace them. The winners will be juried and appropriate safeguards against anything offensive will be in place. This same model is being used successfully in a town in Michigan, which has gained quite a reputation as a center for the arts with its “Art Round Town” program.
In that community, over the years, favorite pieces were bought by local businesses and philanthropists to grace other sites. Councilman John Gieseke has suggested that pieces could also be purchased and donated to an eventual sculpture park somewhere in the community. Through the year, residents and visitors would be able to vote on their favorite through the web site or in person at the Foundry. A “People’s Choice” award could then be given out at the end of the year, perhaps with prize donations from sponsoring businesses.
I’m excited about the prospects for these two programs. Public art says a lot about a community. It is also one of the great traditions of Western Culture. Greek sculptor Polyclitus was hailed by a famed Roman writer as having “perfected” the art four hundred years after his death. He also apparently knew how to handle the art critics of his day.
One story goes that Polycritus set the critics up by working on two statues at the same time. One he finished according to his own tastes, not listening to the numerous suggestions he was given from visitors to his workshop. For the other statue he took the advice of everyone, and made it conform to their suggestions. When the finished statue was widely panned, especially in comparison with the first, he pointed out (probably with a good measure of satisfaction) how trying to please everyone ended up pleasing no one.
Boone probably would have enjoyed the little joke. “Better mend a fault than find a fault,” he used to say.
Something For Everyone
And Says A Lot About Our Town!
There are reports that Daniel Boone liked to sing and talk to himself when he was alone on extended hunting trips. He did so despite the danger of revealing his location to any hostile Indians, just to hear another voice. Like any of us under similar circumstances, he was probably lonely. Sometimes it’s these little anecdotes that help us remember our larger than life-size heroes were also human.
St. Charles is blessed with having been home to many such famous people. I felt it was time we honored a few of these individuals, but in a way that reminds us they were real people…that there was a time when you could walk up to a man like Daniel Boone and shake his hand.
Tuesday night the City Council gave preliminary approval to a two pronged public art initiative. The first part of the initiative is a multiyear project to recognize at least six of our hometown heroes. Over the next six years, the City will commission one life-size bronze statue per year of various individuals from our early history.
A national hero like Daniel Boone seemed a good place to start. While the Nathan Boone Home has been the focus of Daniel’s life in our county, the elderly Boone was a familiar sight in our village as well. Boone could be seen transporting prisoners here as syndic (a combination Justice of the Peace and militia officer under the Spanish), moving furs downstream by boat to sell and coming here to pick up supplies. Boone also lived in St. Charles for a time, though the location of the residence is unknown. In 1809, one of his grandsons by Nathan, James Boone, was sent to school in St. Charles and boarded here in the home of a Frenchman. The young boy got so homesick that Daniel Boone and his wife rented a room in the village and had their grandson stay with them while he attended the school.
The concept is for the statue to be just as you would have seen Daniel Boone on the streets of St. Charles at that time. The series of statues aren’t meant to be placed on a pedestal, but eye level and approachable. The fourteen-foot tall statues of Lewis & Clark are perfect for their setting, but not every work of public art has to be of monumental size. We want visitors to be able to imagine what life was like when men and women like Boone brushed the dust from their clothes, wiped the sweat off their brow and sat down in the shade of tree.
The first commission will take close to a year to complete. A preliminary list for future years would include, Jean Baptist du Sable, Saint Phillipine Duchesne, Mary Easton Sibley, Alexander McNair and James McKay. Others could be honored in later years.
I mentioned the public art initiative was two pronged. The second part is to sponsor an annual outdoor art competition for sculptors through the Foundry Art Center. Ten winners would be selected and after an initial showing at the Foundry, the works would be put on display at ten public places around town for a year.
During that year the works would be listed on the Foundry’s web site for sale, but can not be removed until the end of the year, when a fresh batch of winners will replace them. The winners will be juried and appropriate safeguards against anything offensive will be in place. This same model is being used successfully in a town in Michigan, which has gained quite a reputation as a center for the arts with its “Art Round Town” program.
In that community, over the years, favorite pieces were bought by local businesses and philanthropists to grace other sites. Councilman John Gieseke has suggested that pieces could also be purchased and donated to an eventual sculpture park somewhere in the community. Through the year, residents and visitors would be able to vote on their favorite through the web site or in person at the Foundry. A “People’s Choice” award could then be given out at the end of the year, perhaps with prize donations from sponsoring businesses.
I’m excited about the prospects for these two programs. Public art says a lot about a community. It is also one of the great traditions of Western Culture. Greek sculptor Polyclitus was hailed by a famed Roman writer as having “perfected” the art four hundred years after his death. He also apparently knew how to handle the art critics of his day.
One story goes that Polycritus set the critics up by working on two statues at the same time. One he finished according to his own tastes, not listening to the numerous suggestions he was given from visitors to his workshop. For the other statue he took the advice of everyone, and made it conform to their suggestions. When the finished statue was widely panned, especially in comparison with the first, he pointed out (probably with a good measure of satisfaction) how trying to please everyone ended up pleasing no one.
Boone probably would have enjoyed the little joke. “Better mend a fault than find a fault,” he used to say.
THE PEOPLE SPEAK - Letters To The Editor
Dear Editor
An Open Letter To The Citizens of Wards 2, 4, 5, 6:
“These are the times that try men’s soul’s.”
Yes indeed! Very true. These words could have been written here in our town the evening of Wednesday, May 4th. They do indeed apply, and have applied many times in the history of our civilization. These are the opening words of the first of Thomas Paine’s “Crisis” pamphlets, which was distributed to Washington’s men just before he crossed the Delaware for his surprise attack on Trenton. The writings of Thomas Paine were a significant factor in rallying the ragged, starving, freezing army at Washington's winter quarters and in bringing many British sympathizers over to the American cause. The pen is indeed mightier than the sword. We are still finding that out today. Edmund Burke, an English statesman and political philosopher around the same time wrote, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” There are some people here in our town today who are heeding this warning and are trying to do something, trying to get at the truth. A beloved itinerant preacher 2000 years ago said, “The truth shall make you free.” The man who condemned this beloved itinerant preacher 2000 years ago asked, “What is the truth?” There are people in our town today who are asking the same question and who are searching for the truth. There are also people in our town, people in high places, and people of wealth, who are working hard to obstruct the search for truth. People who do not live in our city and do not care about it’s residents. The truth shall make you free. THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO FEAR THE TRUTH ARE THE GUILTY!
I have lived in this town for thirty-three years in two separate periods. I had the fortune (or perhaps the misfortune) to be living in Washington D.C. all during the Watergate era. I was happy and pleased to watch my hometown newspaper do daily battle against the powers of corruption and cover-up in the White House. I would ask ALL the citizens of St. Charles to consider that it was two dedicated and unflinching news reporters and a newspaper called the Washington Post that brought a power hungry president to his knees.
We are facing similar evils in our town today, and after Wednesday night’s hearing the scene is beginning to resemble my days in Washington. While it is not the Washington Post, we are fortunate to have a newspaper which makes up for in courage what it lacks in size. We have another newspaper in town but it is not our paper. Although it is called the Post, it bears no resemblance to the Washington Post of the early ‘70s, and is working against us in our fight for truth and freedom.
Our newspaper, the First Capitol News, is homegrown, St. Charles born and bred, and has for some years now been waging war on the side of, “Truth, justice and the American way.” Read it! Support It! And if the spirit moves you, express yourself within it’s pages. It costs nothing to do so except your time and effort.
Our town is being invaded, in fact has been invaded, by powerful interests outside our boundaries. Their agenda is not your agenda. Don’t let them fool you. All that glitters is not gold. One convention center does not a city make. These ringleaders who headed up the Mayor’s cheering section at last Wednesday’s hearing are trying to take over your city. Help us drive them beyond our borders to where they came from so we can once again have a government of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, and for the PEOPLE of St. Charles.
People of Wards 2, 4, 5, 6: wake up! Remember, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Do Something! You CAN do something! Ask yourself, “Is my City Councilman representing my interests? Or is he representing those foreign interests?” Do you really approve of the actions of your Councilman Wednesday night? Tell him what you want. You elected him. You’re paying him. He’s supposed to be working for you. If he is not, you have the option of removing him and replacing him with someone who WILL work for you.
Join our fight and help us take back our city.
Glen Dashner
TONY:
After reading the article about the firing of Officer Mayer in the First capitol News, I later read the article about his firing in the “other” paper.
If one did not know the true details about this incident, as you have reported it, one could think there were two different incidents being reported on.
In my opinion, in the other paper, one is lying and the other is swearing to it. Amazing how the truth can be twisted to fit their purpose.
Keep their feet to the fire by keeping us informed to the truth as it really is, not as they want us to perceive it.
An avid reader
PJ
Dear Tony:
I hope you can publish this in your “Letters” section.
I think the City of St. Charles should be ashamed of the actions of one of our so-called “Movers and Shakers”, Tom Hughes. Where does this pious “Pray-every-morning-in-the-shower” Christian come off boycotting the “National Day of Prayer” breakfast by declining to emcee the function and cancelling the two tables his company paid for at the event? His behavior is despicable and exposes this so-called “Christian” for the person he is in real life: A diversity intolerant and a religious bigot. Your public relations firm has a lot of work to do to spin you out of this one, T.R.
Mr. Hughes has based his success and wealth on a life in Christian faith. He needs to come down from the heavens that he feels he occupies currently and return to Earth where there are many religions and races that pray everyday to their God for strength. You need to understand Mr. Hughes, “National Prayer Day” was founded years before you probably were born. It was not set aside for your personal promotion and aggrandizement. And by the way, the word “Christian” does not exclusively appear anywhere in the denotation of this special day.
An ashamed St. Charles citizen.
Dear Editor:
I have heard that ex-Councilman Dan Gould is one of the new owners of Oliver’s Restaurant on North Main Street. You remember Dan Gould. He is one of the people who dis your newspaper and has been trying for several years to keep the First Capitol News from informing the citizens about what is going on in OUR CITY.; Didn’t he or his friends send out threatening boycott letters to your advertisers? Now is your chance. Let him have it. Maybe you can do like the labor paper and have a do not patronize section and run it each week. You can have Dan Gould’s Oliver's Restaurant in the do not patronize list. Go to it!
Rod McGomery
Editor’s note:
Sorry Rod. That is not our style. Other people may get off doing things like Dan Gould and his friends, but not us.
If Dan wants to invest his money in Oliver’s Restaurant we wish him well.
However, if he wants the Restaurant to be a success we would suggest that he advertise in the First Capitol News. Since we are the most read newspaper in St. Charles, it would be a wise decision. We would be happy to accept his advertising and help him grow his client base..
An Open Letter To The Citizens of Wards 2, 4, 5, 6:
“These are the times that try men’s soul’s.”
Yes indeed! Very true. These words could have been written here in our town the evening of Wednesday, May 4th. They do indeed apply, and have applied many times in the history of our civilization. These are the opening words of the first of Thomas Paine’s “Crisis” pamphlets, which was distributed to Washington’s men just before he crossed the Delaware for his surprise attack on Trenton. The writings of Thomas Paine were a significant factor in rallying the ragged, starving, freezing army at Washington's winter quarters and in bringing many British sympathizers over to the American cause. The pen is indeed mightier than the sword. We are still finding that out today. Edmund Burke, an English statesman and political philosopher around the same time wrote, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” There are some people here in our town today who are heeding this warning and are trying to do something, trying to get at the truth. A beloved itinerant preacher 2000 years ago said, “The truth shall make you free.” The man who condemned this beloved itinerant preacher 2000 years ago asked, “What is the truth?” There are people in our town today who are asking the same question and who are searching for the truth. There are also people in our town, people in high places, and people of wealth, who are working hard to obstruct the search for truth. People who do not live in our city and do not care about it’s residents. The truth shall make you free. THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO FEAR THE TRUTH ARE THE GUILTY!
I have lived in this town for thirty-three years in two separate periods. I had the fortune (or perhaps the misfortune) to be living in Washington D.C. all during the Watergate era. I was happy and pleased to watch my hometown newspaper do daily battle against the powers of corruption and cover-up in the White House. I would ask ALL the citizens of St. Charles to consider that it was two dedicated and unflinching news reporters and a newspaper called the Washington Post that brought a power hungry president to his knees.
We are facing similar evils in our town today, and after Wednesday night’s hearing the scene is beginning to resemble my days in Washington. While it is not the Washington Post, we are fortunate to have a newspaper which makes up for in courage what it lacks in size. We have another newspaper in town but it is not our paper. Although it is called the Post, it bears no resemblance to the Washington Post of the early ‘70s, and is working against us in our fight for truth and freedom.
Our newspaper, the First Capitol News, is homegrown, St. Charles born and bred, and has for some years now been waging war on the side of, “Truth, justice and the American way.” Read it! Support It! And if the spirit moves you, express yourself within it’s pages. It costs nothing to do so except your time and effort.
Our town is being invaded, in fact has been invaded, by powerful interests outside our boundaries. Their agenda is not your agenda. Don’t let them fool you. All that glitters is not gold. One convention center does not a city make. These ringleaders who headed up the Mayor’s cheering section at last Wednesday’s hearing are trying to take over your city. Help us drive them beyond our borders to where they came from so we can once again have a government of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, and for the PEOPLE of St. Charles.
People of Wards 2, 4, 5, 6: wake up! Remember, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Do Something! You CAN do something! Ask yourself, “Is my City Councilman representing my interests? Or is he representing those foreign interests?” Do you really approve of the actions of your Councilman Wednesday night? Tell him what you want. You elected him. You’re paying him. He’s supposed to be working for you. If he is not, you have the option of removing him and replacing him with someone who WILL work for you.
Join our fight and help us take back our city.
Glen Dashner
TONY:
After reading the article about the firing of Officer Mayer in the First capitol News, I later read the article about his firing in the “other” paper.
If one did not know the true details about this incident, as you have reported it, one could think there were two different incidents being reported on.
In my opinion, in the other paper, one is lying and the other is swearing to it. Amazing how the truth can be twisted to fit their purpose.
Keep their feet to the fire by keeping us informed to the truth as it really is, not as they want us to perceive it.
An avid reader
PJ
Dear Tony:
I hope you can publish this in your “Letters” section.
I think the City of St. Charles should be ashamed of the actions of one of our so-called “Movers and Shakers”, Tom Hughes. Where does this pious “Pray-every-morning-in-the-shower” Christian come off boycotting the “National Day of Prayer” breakfast by declining to emcee the function and cancelling the two tables his company paid for at the event? His behavior is despicable and exposes this so-called “Christian” for the person he is in real life: A diversity intolerant and a religious bigot. Your public relations firm has a lot of work to do to spin you out of this one, T.R.
Mr. Hughes has based his success and wealth on a life in Christian faith. He needs to come down from the heavens that he feels he occupies currently and return to Earth where there are many religions and races that pray everyday to their God for strength. You need to understand Mr. Hughes, “National Prayer Day” was founded years before you probably were born. It was not set aside for your personal promotion and aggrandizement. And by the way, the word “Christian” does not exclusively appear anywhere in the denotation of this special day.
An ashamed St. Charles citizen.
Dear Editor:
I have heard that ex-Councilman Dan Gould is one of the new owners of Oliver’s Restaurant on North Main Street. You remember Dan Gould. He is one of the people who dis your newspaper and has been trying for several years to keep the First Capitol News from informing the citizens about what is going on in OUR CITY.; Didn’t he or his friends send out threatening boycott letters to your advertisers? Now is your chance. Let him have it. Maybe you can do like the labor paper and have a do not patronize section and run it each week. You can have Dan Gould’s Oliver's Restaurant in the do not patronize list. Go to it!
Rod McGomery
Editor’s note:
Sorry Rod. That is not our style. Other people may get off doing things like Dan Gould and his friends, but not us.
If Dan wants to invest his money in Oliver’s Restaurant we wish him well.
However, if he wants the Restaurant to be a success we would suggest that he advertise in the First Capitol News. Since we are the most read newspaper in St. Charles, it would be a wise decision. We would be happy to accept his advertising and help him grow his client base..
COMMENTS & COMMENTARY by Charles Hill
Where History Comes Alive Everyday. Well let’s hope not because the person who has Main Street in our current economic slide is history and I for one would rather he not come back to life on our Main Street. For years now we have had to endure the failed marketing campaign that benefited the few while the majority suffered, not anymore, the King is gone. We didn’t have to hunt him down and pull him out of a spider hole, he did the honorable thing and resigned. That surprised me because I didn’t think his ego would allow that. Like so many in the City, those who work for the City don’t realize they are accountable to the residents and not each other. The King truly believed he was the one and only authority and the stakeholders in Main Street was merely his product to sell. Powell counted on taxes collected from City residents to fund friends and family, and took credit saying the increase in his budget was a creation of his.
Now that the past is the past we must look to the future and not relive history. The new Convention and Visitors Bureau director, who ever it may be, needs to understand that St. Charles is not a world-class destination. The new director has to understand that we might be historic but most people are not looking for history lessons when planning a trip.
Now history might be part of the trip but fun will probably be on the top of anyone’s list. Even the State data shows history is a distant fourth place. On the top is shopping and that is where the Merchants on Main must step to the plate.
Folks we need to look more dynamic and we have to offer much more to our visitors. We need to find some other storefronts and create a dynamic shopping experience. From North to South we need to create uniform shop hours. Hours that are conducive to our customers not we the storeowners.
I would call on both leadership groups to call the CVB and ask for a focus group study to find out what we can do to help. Let’s face it; we have complained enough to get rid of our biggest obstacle. Let’s take advantage and strike while the open minds are still open. If we as a united front approach the CVB and actually try to find what our assets and shortcomings are we will be going in the right direction. We need to find out what local residents would like from their Main Street because we are their Main Street. All the money that is invested in our streets and sidewalks comes from them. So shouldn’t we at least find out what they think and what they would like to see. This is the time for us to move Main Street to the next level to quote one of the Kings favorite sayings. Of course he has this level so low it wouldn’t take much to raise the bar.
Now that the past is the past we must look to the future and not relive history. The new Convention and Visitors Bureau director, who ever it may be, needs to understand that St. Charles is not a world-class destination. The new director has to understand that we might be historic but most people are not looking for history lessons when planning a trip.
Now history might be part of the trip but fun will probably be on the top of anyone’s list. Even the State data shows history is a distant fourth place. On the top is shopping and that is where the Merchants on Main must step to the plate.
Folks we need to look more dynamic and we have to offer much more to our visitors. We need to find some other storefronts and create a dynamic shopping experience. From North to South we need to create uniform shop hours. Hours that are conducive to our customers not we the storeowners.
I would call on both leadership groups to call the CVB and ask for a focus group study to find out what we can do to help. Let’s face it; we have complained enough to get rid of our biggest obstacle. Let’s take advantage and strike while the open minds are still open. If we as a united front approach the CVB and actually try to find what our assets and shortcomings are we will be going in the right direction. We need to find out what local residents would like from their Main Street because we are their Main Street. All the money that is invested in our streets and sidewalks comes from them. So shouldn’t we at least find out what they think and what they would like to see. This is the time for us to move Main Street to the next level to quote one of the Kings favorite sayings. Of course he has this level so low it wouldn’t take much to raise the bar.
Put St Charles First
By Jerry Haferkamp
Today I am going to apologize to the people who avidly read this column and those who have attended our meetings. This will be my last column under the PSCF header. I am also resigning as Chairman of the group.
The reasons are obvious to the group since I’ve stated for months that I was tiring of efforts to inform the public and being harassed for my effort by the 60 or 70 who would fall on their sword or drink the kool-aid to keep their benefactor in office. It is their support of what had been going on under this mayor’s realm that has pulled this city down to the level it has now attained.
I think the culmination was when I saw the 60 or so who showed up at the administrative hearing to help promote the suppression of information at all costs. When four Councilmen voted to stick their heads in the sand and not get information from the actors involved, you have to seriously doubt that they have the interest of our citizens at heart.
I read with interest the two pages in the Hughes publication devoted to Carrie Caskey’s recall of events. Her writing sounded credible. She did express her view of events admirably. The problem arises when you see that she did it in her format, which did not allow for questions that should be addressed and answered.
I don’t know if someone else will start writing under the PSCF logo, but be aware of the pitfalls, not the least of which are the character assassination by the nameless bomb throwers on the stchuckwatch computer site. Just to let you know how they operate, this past week I was called an idiot, primarily because I didn’t go to college. He or she let it be known that anyone who didn’t is of inferior intelligence. Another stated he had to be intelligent because he made over $100 grand a year. Hell, I know some truck drivers that make that and they didn’t even finish high school. Now some of you hardworking men and women that didn’t get to college know what the Mayor’s fan club thinks of you. When I explained that I didn’t go to college but I did go to Vietnam, I was scolded for bragging about my military service. Before I decided to mention no more about my military record, I was branded a bag of hot air because someone who obviously was unable to attain rank didn’t like the fact that I was promoted so quickly.
One of the posts urged viewers to “dig up dirt” on me so they can publicly “embarrass his ass”. Another urges flooding my mail with vindictive letters. I can hardly control my shaking. They accuse me of associating with “perverts, wife beaters and felons”. I don’t even know anyone accused of being a pervert. I’ve been to Richmond Heights, but never knowingly “associated” myself with anyone who was involved in domestic violence. Yeah, “Big Tone” did do 29 or 30 days in a camp on a felony conviction. What’s that got to do with the price of rice? A football player named Little killed someone and you worship him on Sunday afternoons.
I don’t know if someone will take up the column to keep the residents informed, but I can’t support radicalism on either side of an issue. Nothing good comes of it.
PSCF was started with the intent of keeping the public informed. As time passed, it started becoming a place for folks to come if their particular ox was being gored, but after we helped them, they didn’t return. Later the makeup of the group changed to something I couldn’t accept. My decision came when attempts were made to force me into assisting with the recall of our Mayor. I didn’t then and I won’t now. We learn to live with our mistakes. There are many in town that can hardly wait to show her the door, but a nearly equal number would like to treat our Councilmen likewise. It will all shake down at the next mayoral and council elections.
Mr. Brockmeyer has told me this is a column the readers really like. I know they like to read the truth, and I gave it to them, like it or not.
Note to the anonymous bomb throwers at stchuckwatch: Don’t go slapping each other on the back. My resignation was due mostly to the radical bent the PSCF meetings had taken. I encourage you to keep trying to dig up dirt on me. You’ll find nothing, and it will take up enough of your time that it will spare some other honest citizen from your attacks. May God bless a few of you with enough guts to start signing your names to your attacks. You may even get some credibility.
A new day is dawning at the CVB. Via con Dios, Steve.
Editor’s note
Jerry we are sorry to see you go. A lot of our readers will be disappointed. They enjoyed reading your column. I can understand why you feel the way you do. Anytime that you wish to restart your column we would be happy of have it in the First Capitol News. We realize that you have received rough treatment and wish to give up the good fight. We would just like to leave you with a thought . . . .
DON’T QUIT
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will.
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill.
When the funds are low, and the debts are high.
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit.
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns.
As every one of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about.
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow.
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out.
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are.
It may be near when it seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit.
It’s when things seem worse that you must not quit.
Author unknown
Today I am going to apologize to the people who avidly read this column and those who have attended our meetings. This will be my last column under the PSCF header. I am also resigning as Chairman of the group.
The reasons are obvious to the group since I’ve stated for months that I was tiring of efforts to inform the public and being harassed for my effort by the 60 or 70 who would fall on their sword or drink the kool-aid to keep their benefactor in office. It is their support of what had been going on under this mayor’s realm that has pulled this city down to the level it has now attained.
I think the culmination was when I saw the 60 or so who showed up at the administrative hearing to help promote the suppression of information at all costs. When four Councilmen voted to stick their heads in the sand and not get information from the actors involved, you have to seriously doubt that they have the interest of our citizens at heart.
I read with interest the two pages in the Hughes publication devoted to Carrie Caskey’s recall of events. Her writing sounded credible. She did express her view of events admirably. The problem arises when you see that she did it in her format, which did not allow for questions that should be addressed and answered.
I don’t know if someone else will start writing under the PSCF logo, but be aware of the pitfalls, not the least of which are the character assassination by the nameless bomb throwers on the stchuckwatch computer site. Just to let you know how they operate, this past week I was called an idiot, primarily because I didn’t go to college. He or she let it be known that anyone who didn’t is of inferior intelligence. Another stated he had to be intelligent because he made over $100 grand a year. Hell, I know some truck drivers that make that and they didn’t even finish high school. Now some of you hardworking men and women that didn’t get to college know what the Mayor’s fan club thinks of you. When I explained that I didn’t go to college but I did go to Vietnam, I was scolded for bragging about my military service. Before I decided to mention no more about my military record, I was branded a bag of hot air because someone who obviously was unable to attain rank didn’t like the fact that I was promoted so quickly.
One of the posts urged viewers to “dig up dirt” on me so they can publicly “embarrass his ass”. Another urges flooding my mail with vindictive letters. I can hardly control my shaking. They accuse me of associating with “perverts, wife beaters and felons”. I don’t even know anyone accused of being a pervert. I’ve been to Richmond Heights, but never knowingly “associated” myself with anyone who was involved in domestic violence. Yeah, “Big Tone” did do 29 or 30 days in a camp on a felony conviction. What’s that got to do with the price of rice? A football player named Little killed someone and you worship him on Sunday afternoons.
I don’t know if someone will take up the column to keep the residents informed, but I can’t support radicalism on either side of an issue. Nothing good comes of it.
PSCF was started with the intent of keeping the public informed. As time passed, it started becoming a place for folks to come if their particular ox was being gored, but after we helped them, they didn’t return. Later the makeup of the group changed to something I couldn’t accept. My decision came when attempts were made to force me into assisting with the recall of our Mayor. I didn’t then and I won’t now. We learn to live with our mistakes. There are many in town that can hardly wait to show her the door, but a nearly equal number would like to treat our Councilmen likewise. It will all shake down at the next mayoral and council elections.
Mr. Brockmeyer has told me this is a column the readers really like. I know they like to read the truth, and I gave it to them, like it or not.
Note to the anonymous bomb throwers at stchuckwatch: Don’t go slapping each other on the back. My resignation was due mostly to the radical bent the PSCF meetings had taken. I encourage you to keep trying to dig up dirt on me. You’ll find nothing, and it will take up enough of your time that it will spare some other honest citizen from your attacks. May God bless a few of you with enough guts to start signing your names to your attacks. You may even get some credibility.
A new day is dawning at the CVB. Via con Dios, Steve.
Editor’s note
Jerry we are sorry to see you go. A lot of our readers will be disappointed. They enjoyed reading your column. I can understand why you feel the way you do. Anytime that you wish to restart your column we would be happy of have it in the First Capitol News. We realize that you have received rough treatment and wish to give up the good fight. We would just like to leave you with a thought . . . .
DON’T QUIT
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will.
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill.
When the funds are low, and the debts are high.
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit.
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns.
As every one of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about.
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow.
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out.
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are.
It may be near when it seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit.
It’s when things seem worse that you must not quit.
Author unknown
CRESCENDO CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS THE BACH SOCIETY OF ST. LOUIS
Returning to St. Charles by popular demand for the first time since November of 2000, The Bach Society of St. Louis under the direction of A. Dennis Sparger will perform at the First United Methodist Church of St. Charles, 801 First Capitol Drive, on Sunday, May 22, 2005 at 3:00 P.M. Since 1941 the Society has been an active and vital part of the choral scene in St. Louis, affording local audiences the benefit of hearing Bach music sung in the spirit of Bach himself. In their first production, the Society presented Bach’s Mass in B Minor, then hosted a Bach Festival a couple of years later. Since that time the Society has presented more than 150 public concerts in which Bach choral works were balanced by those of Haydn, Mozart, Handel, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Brahms, Berlioz, and Rachmaninoff, as well as by those of contemporary composers, often times featuring soloists of international renown.
Part of the Society’s strong appeal to audiences is its wide range of programming that presents varied historic periods in contrasting and entertaining musical styles. The May 22 program in St. Charles will illustrate that practice of combining periods and styles exquisitely performed to delight its audience. The program will begin with two motets by Mendelssohn and Bach, followed by French, English, and Russian music. After intermission the chorus will sing contemporary sacred and secular music, including spirituals. The concert will end with two deeply loved favorites which both lift and touch the heart, “Londonderry Air” and Leonard Bernstein’s “Make Our Garden Grow.”
Dennis Sparger has served the Bach Society as Music Director and Conductor since 1986. His professional training includes a 1981 Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from the University of Illinois, following a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Eastern Illinois University. Dr. Sparger also serves a larger constituency as associate producer and writer of JOY!, a weekly program of sacred choral music heard on KFUO-FM CLASSIC 99.
A non-profit organization, the Crescendo Concert Series was a joint project initiated in 1999 by St. John United Church of Christ, St. Charles Presbyterian Church, and First United Methodist Church. It has been supported for the past six years through generous grants by the Arts and Culture Commission of the City of St. Charles, by corporate sponsors such as Target Stores, Whittaker Homes, and Parkside Meadows Retirement Community, by individual donors, and by advertising purchased by local businesses and merchants.
Individual adult tickets are $12 and student tickets are $5. They can be purchased by sending a check or money order and a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Crescendo Concert Series, P.O. Box 1613, St. Charles, MO, 63302-1613 or at the door. Group rates are available by calling (636) 724-2507. For additional information consult
Said George Morris, president of the Crescendo Concert Series Board of Directors, “The Bach Society of St. Louis brings to our city some of the finest choral singing to be heard in this area. People of St. Charles City and County have shown that they are eager for first-class performances by professional musicians and ensembles.”
Morris continued, “2005-2006 promises to be an exciting year of performers from afar. Next season’s Jupiter Quartet is based in Boston. Home base for the New Pro-Arte Guitar Trio is England. Manhattan Brass comes from New York, Chanson was formed in Minnesota, and Andres Diaz, renowned cellist, lives in the Philadelphia area.” All concerts are on Sundays at 3:00 p.m. at various venues throughout St. Charles. Also, new next season will be introduction of pre-concert talks beginning at 2:30 p.m. conducted by Nancy Rubenstein, PhD, who has taught music history and appreciation at local universities and currently serves on the Crescendo Concert Series Board of Directors.
Season tickets for next year, the best value offering five concerts, are $50 and may be purchased at this concert or by mail order. Morris concluded, “Ticket revenue is only a small part of the income needed to present a concert series, even when conducted entirely by volunteers. We are also grateful for generous gifts from individuals and from our advertisers and co-sponsors of some concerts. We encourage lovers of fine music to support our efforts.” Tax-deductible donations can be made by sending checks to the Crescendo Concert Series.
Part of the Society’s strong appeal to audiences is its wide range of programming that presents varied historic periods in contrasting and entertaining musical styles. The May 22 program in St. Charles will illustrate that practice of combining periods and styles exquisitely performed to delight its audience. The program will begin with two motets by Mendelssohn and Bach, followed by French, English, and Russian music. After intermission the chorus will sing contemporary sacred and secular music, including spirituals. The concert will end with two deeply loved favorites which both lift and touch the heart, “Londonderry Air” and Leonard Bernstein’s “Make Our Garden Grow.”
Dennis Sparger has served the Bach Society as Music Director and Conductor since 1986. His professional training includes a 1981 Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from the University of Illinois, following a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Eastern Illinois University. Dr. Sparger also serves a larger constituency as associate producer and writer of JOY!, a weekly program of sacred choral music heard on KFUO-FM CLASSIC 99.
A non-profit organization, the Crescendo Concert Series was a joint project initiated in 1999 by St. John United Church of Christ, St. Charles Presbyterian Church, and First United Methodist Church. It has been supported for the past six years through generous grants by the Arts and Culture Commission of the City of St. Charles, by corporate sponsors such as Target Stores, Whittaker Homes, and Parkside Meadows Retirement Community, by individual donors, and by advertising purchased by local businesses and merchants.
Individual adult tickets are $12 and student tickets are $5. They can be purchased by sending a check or money order and a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Crescendo Concert Series, P.O. Box 1613, St. Charles, MO, 63302-1613 or at the door. Group rates are available by calling (636) 724-2507. For additional information consult
Said George Morris, president of the Crescendo Concert Series Board of Directors, “The Bach Society of St. Louis brings to our city some of the finest choral singing to be heard in this area. People of St. Charles City and County have shown that they are eager for first-class performances by professional musicians and ensembles.”
Morris continued, “2005-2006 promises to be an exciting year of performers from afar. Next season’s Jupiter Quartet is based in Boston. Home base for the New Pro-Arte Guitar Trio is England. Manhattan Brass comes from New York, Chanson was formed in Minnesota, and Andres Diaz, renowned cellist, lives in the Philadelphia area.” All concerts are on Sundays at 3:00 p.m. at various venues throughout St. Charles. Also, new next season will be introduction of pre-concert talks beginning at 2:30 p.m. conducted by Nancy Rubenstein, PhD, who has taught music history and appreciation at local universities and currently serves on the Crescendo Concert Series Board of Directors.
Season tickets for next year, the best value offering five concerts, are $50 and may be purchased at this concert or by mail order. Morris concluded, “Ticket revenue is only a small part of the income needed to present a concert series, even when conducted entirely by volunteers. We are also grateful for generous gifts from individuals and from our advertisers and co-sponsors of some concerts. We encourage lovers of fine music to support our efforts.” Tax-deductible donations can be made by sending checks to the Crescendo Concert Series.
MY COLUMN - Mike McMurran Sports Editor
It has been brought to my attention there are far more regular readers of this weekly, and more specifically this column, than I ever imagined. Therefore I am going to make a concerted effort to step up the quality of narratives produced. Starting with this one.
Who would have ever guessed that some would be taking bets on which Green brother, Tom Green or Tim Green was the State Representative responsible for hitting me on the back, repeatedly, with an aluminum baseball bat. No way! Had you paid close attention to the teaser, I stated from “Florrisant.” Both Green brothers are originally from Spanish Lake, although Tom now makes his home in beautiful St. Charles City. Timmy still represents the Spanish Lake area, only now in the Chamber across the hall from the House. Tommy had his seat stolen this past November; his opponent, and her party used some of the most unethical, and possibly illegal campaign methods I have ever seen used. But I digress. No, it was not either of the Brothers’ Green. Although separated in age by a dozen years, I did graduate from the same grade school as both brothers. Between the years of 1968 and 1980, St. Aloysius produced all three of us. It is now closed; there is no correlation between the two, thank you.
No, my story deals with, at the time was one of the most powerful and influential politicians in the State. It all started, innocently enough, at a softball game at a park in Berkeley. The teams involved were “Dave Godat’s Auto Body” and “B.J.’s Bar and Grill.” The exact year I am not sure of, yet I suspect it was between 1978 and 1980. At the time I was a “lean, mean fighting machine,” with very little common sense and even less good judgment (funny how some things never change). The position I was assigned to play defensively was catcher. My duties were simple enough: catch the ball from the pitcher and return it to the pitcher. I could do that. Of course I took it upon my self to step up my job description a tad. Should there be any play at the plate I was going to block the plate as efficiently as I could – collisions worried me not. As fate would have it there were not one, but two “collisions” at the plate. The umpire gave me a gentle warning after the first, a more formal “if it happens again you’re out of the game” ultimatum after the second. No problem, I knew when to lay low.
I was clearly “fortune’s fool.” I lead off the next inning and reached base with a hit. Somehow I ended up at third base and one out. The batter sharply hit a grounder to the second baseman; I was sure I could beat the throw to the plate, and I almost did. Funny how things seem to go in slow motion sometimes. It was if it happened yesterday. I remember racing to home plate and seeing the catcher catch the ball. There he stood, ready to cleanly tag me out. I remember the umpires warning too. “If you nail another person at home plate you are out of the game.” Ah, but he was speaking defensively, and I was in an offensive position. Naturally, I threw my body at the catcher in an attempt to dislodge the ball from him. Heh, that’s how they do it on television! And it worked; I knocked the catcher back about 5 feet or so and separated him from the ball. The umpire had no choice but to call me safe. Wrong! Not only was I called out, I was thrown out of the game. I felt terrible. As I walked back to the dugout, head hung in embarrassment, our captain went out to argue his case. My ejection meant we no longer had the necessary number of players to complete the game; we would have to forfeit. I really did feel terrible.
I knew I had to try and plead my case to the umpire, so I ran out to the discussion being held at home plate. As soon as I got there, our captain had obviously had enough discussion as he proceeded to throw a punch at one of the players on the other team. Fortune’s fool! This was entirely my fault, and I knew it, so I had to do the honorable thing, I threw a punch, and landed it on the opposing teams biggest player. He went down, I went down, and unlike the brawls you see on television involving baseball players, this one was for real! It was ugly. Suddenly I felt a rather sharp, stinging sensation in my back, unlike I had ever felt before. The feeling repeated itself again and I realized someone was hitting me in the back with something. It was uncomfortable enough it took my attention away from matters at hand – as it was designed to do. There was this old man (probably 50, as I am today) standing there with an aluminum bat, challenging me, and telling me to get off his son. I did as he instructed, not because of the instruction, but more because my back was hurting so much, and even more so I had every intent to remove the bat from the gentleman.
Everything happened so quickly, or so it seemed. Before I could get to the gentleman with the bat, Berkeley’s finest showed up in full riot gear, no kidding. After things were sorted out I was asked if I wanted to press charges. Me, press charges? Hell, I started the whole thing, why would I press charges? “Do you know who that guy was who was assaulting you?” asked the officer. Sure I knew, it was the biggest guy on the team’s dad. Even I figured that out. It seems the gentleman was the owner of the sponsoring franchise, “B.J.’s Bar and Grill.” My new friend was none other than the honorable James “Jay” Russell.
Strange as it may seem, I was contacted repeatedly by the old Globe-Democrat, to confirm the story. I didn’t even have to tell them what happened, just confirm what they had heard had happened. No way man! This man was one of the leading Democrats in the state; not that I was afraid of him, hell, he had already assaulted me with a bat – no, this had to do with respect for a man and his position. Until this article only those present knew what had happened.
A few years later I was working for the railroad and was transferred to Jeff City. One of the local drinking establishments was a place called Madison’s Café. The front was a restaurant, the back was a bar. Most, no all of my time was spent in the back. I made friends with some of the locals, almost all of whom worked in State Government. One evening I spotted someone who looked familiar and asked if anyone knew who it was. “That’s Jay Russell, one of the most powerful and influential men in the entire state,” I was informed.
I walked up to him, asked him if he remembered the time he hit me in the back with a baseball bat, and both of his colleagues (no kidding now) reached into their coats, just like on television. As it turned out he did remember, and he bought me a drink or six.
Why tell this story? I don’t know. I think it has a theme – and the theme is loyalty, I think. No way I could turn on what I considered to be “my party,” no way in the world. Interestingly, The Post never contacted me. Funny how their perspective on things has changed so drastically. At least here in St. Charles they seem to cater to “the other side” now. Just thought I would share that with you.
Who would have ever guessed that some would be taking bets on which Green brother, Tom Green or Tim Green was the State Representative responsible for hitting me on the back, repeatedly, with an aluminum baseball bat. No way! Had you paid close attention to the teaser, I stated from “Florrisant.” Both Green brothers are originally from Spanish Lake, although Tom now makes his home in beautiful St. Charles City. Timmy still represents the Spanish Lake area, only now in the Chamber across the hall from the House. Tommy had his seat stolen this past November; his opponent, and her party used some of the most unethical, and possibly illegal campaign methods I have ever seen used. But I digress. No, it was not either of the Brothers’ Green. Although separated in age by a dozen years, I did graduate from the same grade school as both brothers. Between the years of 1968 and 1980, St. Aloysius produced all three of us. It is now closed; there is no correlation between the two, thank you.
No, my story deals with, at the time was one of the most powerful and influential politicians in the State. It all started, innocently enough, at a softball game at a park in Berkeley. The teams involved were “Dave Godat’s Auto Body” and “B.J.’s Bar and Grill.” The exact year I am not sure of, yet I suspect it was between 1978 and 1980. At the time I was a “lean, mean fighting machine,” with very little common sense and even less good judgment (funny how some things never change). The position I was assigned to play defensively was catcher. My duties were simple enough: catch the ball from the pitcher and return it to the pitcher. I could do that. Of course I took it upon my self to step up my job description a tad. Should there be any play at the plate I was going to block the plate as efficiently as I could – collisions worried me not. As fate would have it there were not one, but two “collisions” at the plate. The umpire gave me a gentle warning after the first, a more formal “if it happens again you’re out of the game” ultimatum after the second. No problem, I knew when to lay low.
I was clearly “fortune’s fool.” I lead off the next inning and reached base with a hit. Somehow I ended up at third base and one out. The batter sharply hit a grounder to the second baseman; I was sure I could beat the throw to the plate, and I almost did. Funny how things seem to go in slow motion sometimes. It was if it happened yesterday. I remember racing to home plate and seeing the catcher catch the ball. There he stood, ready to cleanly tag me out. I remember the umpires warning too. “If you nail another person at home plate you are out of the game.” Ah, but he was speaking defensively, and I was in an offensive position. Naturally, I threw my body at the catcher in an attempt to dislodge the ball from him. Heh, that’s how they do it on television! And it worked; I knocked the catcher back about 5 feet or so and separated him from the ball. The umpire had no choice but to call me safe. Wrong! Not only was I called out, I was thrown out of the game. I felt terrible. As I walked back to the dugout, head hung in embarrassment, our captain went out to argue his case. My ejection meant we no longer had the necessary number of players to complete the game; we would have to forfeit. I really did feel terrible.
I knew I had to try and plead my case to the umpire, so I ran out to the discussion being held at home plate. As soon as I got there, our captain had obviously had enough discussion as he proceeded to throw a punch at one of the players on the other team. Fortune’s fool! This was entirely my fault, and I knew it, so I had to do the honorable thing, I threw a punch, and landed it on the opposing teams biggest player. He went down, I went down, and unlike the brawls you see on television involving baseball players, this one was for real! It was ugly. Suddenly I felt a rather sharp, stinging sensation in my back, unlike I had ever felt before. The feeling repeated itself again and I realized someone was hitting me in the back with something. It was uncomfortable enough it took my attention away from matters at hand – as it was designed to do. There was this old man (probably 50, as I am today) standing there with an aluminum bat, challenging me, and telling me to get off his son. I did as he instructed, not because of the instruction, but more because my back was hurting so much, and even more so I had every intent to remove the bat from the gentleman.
Everything happened so quickly, or so it seemed. Before I could get to the gentleman with the bat, Berkeley’s finest showed up in full riot gear, no kidding. After things were sorted out I was asked if I wanted to press charges. Me, press charges? Hell, I started the whole thing, why would I press charges? “Do you know who that guy was who was assaulting you?” asked the officer. Sure I knew, it was the biggest guy on the team’s dad. Even I figured that out. It seems the gentleman was the owner of the sponsoring franchise, “B.J.’s Bar and Grill.” My new friend was none other than the honorable James “Jay” Russell.
Strange as it may seem, I was contacted repeatedly by the old Globe-Democrat, to confirm the story. I didn’t even have to tell them what happened, just confirm what they had heard had happened. No way man! This man was one of the leading Democrats in the state; not that I was afraid of him, hell, he had already assaulted me with a bat – no, this had to do with respect for a man and his position. Until this article only those present knew what had happened.
A few years later I was working for the railroad and was transferred to Jeff City. One of the local drinking establishments was a place called Madison’s Café. The front was a restaurant, the back was a bar. Most, no all of my time was spent in the back. I made friends with some of the locals, almost all of whom worked in State Government. One evening I spotted someone who looked familiar and asked if anyone knew who it was. “That’s Jay Russell, one of the most powerful and influential men in the entire state,” I was informed.
I walked up to him, asked him if he remembered the time he hit me in the back with a baseball bat, and both of his colleagues (no kidding now) reached into their coats, just like on television. As it turned out he did remember, and he bought me a drink or six.
Why tell this story? I don’t know. I think it has a theme – and the theme is loyalty, I think. No way I could turn on what I considered to be “my party,” no way in the world. Interestingly, The Post never contacted me. Funny how their perspective on things has changed so drastically. At least here in St. Charles they seem to cater to “the other side” now. Just thought I would share that with you.
FIRST CAPITOL NEWS ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
First Capitol News Athlete of the Week
“I like talking to her, she is really a neat lady.” On Kathy McCoy, mother of his friend Keith McCoy.
Brian Randazzo, Senior, St. Charles High School
By: Mike McMurran
Sports Editor
Good things come to those who wait. St. Charles High senior Brian Randazzo has been waiting for four years to beat state powerhouse Howell – his patience has paid off. “When I looked at the schedule at the beginning of the season, the Howell game stood out as one I really wanted to win,” shared the starting catcher. Not only did the right-handed batter hit safely three times, he managed to score each time he reached base. A three hit, three run and one R.B.I. game has earned him Athlete of the Week honors.
Brian is normally a middle infielder, and that is where he will play next year for Jefferson College in Hillsboro, MO. This year he is catching for Head Coach Charlie Meeker. “We needed a catcher and I had a little experience behind the plate. Anything for the team,” he said.
Its that kind of attitude that originally warranted Brian’s nomination. Even before his game against Howell Brian was nominated for something he has been doing off the field. “Its really not that big of a deal,” he offers. Well, someone begs to differ that ‘it” really is a big deal. One of Brian’s friends is Keith McCoy, the young man from St. Charles High critically injured in last year’s fatal car accident. Brian has been visiting Keith, who is bed-ridden, “as often as I possibly can. I visit Keith and talk to his mom whenever I get the chance.” Keith cannot speak yet but “he is really making progress. He can clearly hear you,” boasts the young man of his friend since grade school. “His mom likes to talk about what’s going on here at the high school, she is really a neat lady,” Brian shared. “I wish I could get over there more, but with baseball and my college classes, well, I just wish I could get over there more.”
In addition to his defensive abilities, Brian’s .444 batting average is tops for the starters. He leads the team in hits (28), runs scored (28) and triples (2). “This team is the greatest,” he says of the Pirates. “Brad Bichel, Kyle Boschert and me have been playing baseball together since we were little kids. This entire season has been almost dream like – I wish it would never end, but I know it will.”
Brian lives with his mom and dad, Rob and Kathy Randazzo. “They are my role models. What more can I say? Everything I’ve ever needed or wanted, especially relating to baseball, they have made sure was made available for me. They have sacrificed for me, how can you ever pay something like that back?” His older sister Jamie attends Lindenwood where she is an education major. Brian wishes to study something business related next year at Jefferson.
Brian’s favorite eating establishment is Applebee’s, and his favorite entrée is their Chicken Parmesan. Of course Brian wouldn’t stop there. “They’ve got some kind of chocolate ice cream thing on top of brownie that’s great, I would have to have that for dessert,” he said. Indulge young man, you deserve it.
Editor’s note: Neither Kathy McCoy nor Brian’s parents nominated him for this award, which makes him an even more impressive young man.
To nominate an athlete contact Mike McMurran at mcmurran@charter.net or 314.280.9189
“I like talking to her, she is really a neat lady.” On Kathy McCoy, mother of his friend Keith McCoy.
Brian Randazzo, Senior, St. Charles High School
By: Mike McMurran
Sports Editor
Good things come to those who wait. St. Charles High senior Brian Randazzo has been waiting for four years to beat state powerhouse Howell – his patience has paid off. “When I looked at the schedule at the beginning of the season, the Howell game stood out as one I really wanted to win,” shared the starting catcher. Not only did the right-handed batter hit safely three times, he managed to score each time he reached base. A three hit, three run and one R.B.I. game has earned him Athlete of the Week honors.
Brian is normally a middle infielder, and that is where he will play next year for Jefferson College in Hillsboro, MO. This year he is catching for Head Coach Charlie Meeker. “We needed a catcher and I had a little experience behind the plate. Anything for the team,” he said.
Its that kind of attitude that originally warranted Brian’s nomination. Even before his game against Howell Brian was nominated for something he has been doing off the field. “Its really not that big of a deal,” he offers. Well, someone begs to differ that ‘it” really is a big deal. One of Brian’s friends is Keith McCoy, the young man from St. Charles High critically injured in last year’s fatal car accident. Brian has been visiting Keith, who is bed-ridden, “as often as I possibly can. I visit Keith and talk to his mom whenever I get the chance.” Keith cannot speak yet but “he is really making progress. He can clearly hear you,” boasts the young man of his friend since grade school. “His mom likes to talk about what’s going on here at the high school, she is really a neat lady,” Brian shared. “I wish I could get over there more, but with baseball and my college classes, well, I just wish I could get over there more.”
In addition to his defensive abilities, Brian’s .444 batting average is tops for the starters. He leads the team in hits (28), runs scored (28) and triples (2). “This team is the greatest,” he says of the Pirates. “Brad Bichel, Kyle Boschert and me have been playing baseball together since we were little kids. This entire season has been almost dream like – I wish it would never end, but I know it will.”
Brian lives with his mom and dad, Rob and Kathy Randazzo. “They are my role models. What more can I say? Everything I’ve ever needed or wanted, especially relating to baseball, they have made sure was made available for me. They have sacrificed for me, how can you ever pay something like that back?” His older sister Jamie attends Lindenwood where she is an education major. Brian wishes to study something business related next year at Jefferson.
Brian’s favorite eating establishment is Applebee’s, and his favorite entrée is their Chicken Parmesan. Of course Brian wouldn’t stop there. “They’ve got some kind of chocolate ice cream thing on top of brownie that’s great, I would have to have that for dessert,” he said. Indulge young man, you deserve it.
Editor’s note: Neither Kathy McCoy nor Brian’s parents nominated him for this award, which makes him an even more impressive young man.
To nominate an athlete contact Mike McMurran at mcmurran@charter.net or 314.280.9189
Hospice Patient Takes Life By The Reins
By Karen Stewart
Barbara Karns found her legs again on the back of a horse.
Karns’ life has narrowed recently to slow movement from her bed to a chair. When she stands, she is stooped.
Horse mementos filling Karns’ Pacific, Mo. home testify to her lifelong love of horses. When her cancer went into remission several years ago, she made her dreams of owning a horse come true.
“I went to buy one horse, but I ended up buying three, and started working and riding them,” Karns remembers. “I was only able to enjoy them for a month before the cancer was back and my legs swelled so I couldn’t ride. My family didn’t want to be there without me, so the horses are big pets now and have the run of the pasture.”
Elizabeth Vega of BJC Hospice was working with Karns on a book of memories to leave behind for her children and grandchildren. “I asked her about a life wish, and she said ‘I sure would like to get on a horse one last time.’ Her eyes just lit up.”
Vega did research and found the Therapeutic Horsemanship program in Wentzville. Joanne McColgan, Karns’ hospice nurse, then visited the facility. The program uses the movement of the horse to help its riders, mostly children, with disabilities. The horse’s gait is similar to the human walk. Riding strengthens and supports the spine and pelvis and helps improve balance, coordination and strength and gently mobilizes the joints. Each session is supervised by a licensed occupational or physical therapist and a North American Riding for the Handicapped Association-certified riding instructor.
“When Elizabeth mentioned this to me, I thought nothing would work out. Then they got the doctor to sign off on this, and I said, ‘Maybe this will happen.’ The day we went, as we got closer to the facility, I said, ‘This really is going to happen,’” says Karns. “It was so good to get out, despite the bad weather.”
Karns’ daughter rode with her. “Horses were a thing she and I got into together,” Karns says. “We were only able to ride together once or twice before the cancer came back.”
Sandy Rafferty, founder of Therapeutic Horsemanship and an occupational therapist, watched Karns ride. “She was so thrilled to be up there. Barbara exhibited great balance, was able to sit up straight and stay centered in the saddle.
“Since she has problems walking, to step around the arena without stopping was great,” Rafferty says. “She reached out and patted the horse’s neck, and her daughter came over and added her hand as well. We were so happy to be a part of that.”
“Barbara was very apprehensive at first, and unsure she would be able to get on the horse,” McColgan says. “When they got her up there, you would have never known it was the same person. It was an amazing change.”
“I knew this was important to her, but I had no idea how palliative it would be,” Vega says. “She said she felt herself again.
“Real life is lived in the moment. It can be as simple as getting a dying woman on a horse. People say they don’t want to give a person false hope. She was not sure she could get on a horse. But she did and allowed herself the opportunity to be pleasantly surprised.
“By her own words she is dying, but she is also living. Does she want to do it again? Absolutely.”
For more information on BJC Hospice, call 314-872-5050.
Barbara Karns found her legs again on the back of a horse.
Karns’ life has narrowed recently to slow movement from her bed to a chair. When she stands, she is stooped.
Horse mementos filling Karns’ Pacific, Mo. home testify to her lifelong love of horses. When her cancer went into remission several years ago, she made her dreams of owning a horse come true.
“I went to buy one horse, but I ended up buying three, and started working and riding them,” Karns remembers. “I was only able to enjoy them for a month before the cancer was back and my legs swelled so I couldn’t ride. My family didn’t want to be there without me, so the horses are big pets now and have the run of the pasture.”
Elizabeth Vega of BJC Hospice was working with Karns on a book of memories to leave behind for her children and grandchildren. “I asked her about a life wish, and she said ‘I sure would like to get on a horse one last time.’ Her eyes just lit up.”
Vega did research and found the Therapeutic Horsemanship program in Wentzville. Joanne McColgan, Karns’ hospice nurse, then visited the facility. The program uses the movement of the horse to help its riders, mostly children, with disabilities. The horse’s gait is similar to the human walk. Riding strengthens and supports the spine and pelvis and helps improve balance, coordination and strength and gently mobilizes the joints. Each session is supervised by a licensed occupational or physical therapist and a North American Riding for the Handicapped Association-certified riding instructor.
“When Elizabeth mentioned this to me, I thought nothing would work out. Then they got the doctor to sign off on this, and I said, ‘Maybe this will happen.’ The day we went, as we got closer to the facility, I said, ‘This really is going to happen,’” says Karns. “It was so good to get out, despite the bad weather.”
Karns’ daughter rode with her. “Horses were a thing she and I got into together,” Karns says. “We were only able to ride together once or twice before the cancer came back.”
Sandy Rafferty, founder of Therapeutic Horsemanship and an occupational therapist, watched Karns ride. “She was so thrilled to be up there. Barbara exhibited great balance, was able to sit up straight and stay centered in the saddle.
“Since she has problems walking, to step around the arena without stopping was great,” Rafferty says. “She reached out and patted the horse’s neck, and her daughter came over and added her hand as well. We were so happy to be a part of that.”
“Barbara was very apprehensive at first, and unsure she would be able to get on the horse,” McColgan says. “When they got her up there, you would have never known it was the same person. It was an amazing change.”
“I knew this was important to her, but I had no idea how palliative it would be,” Vega says. “She said she felt herself again.
“Real life is lived in the moment. It can be as simple as getting a dying woman on a horse. People say they don’t want to give a person false hope. She was not sure she could get on a horse. But she did and allowed herself the opportunity to be pleasantly surprised.
“By her own words she is dying, but she is also living. Does she want to do it again? Absolutely.”
For more information on BJC Hospice, call 314-872-5050.
What Do You think About This?
By Daniel Roach
Well. Guess What?? It never seems to end. Latest fiasco, of all things, concerns the Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast held on May 5th, 2005.
This is supposed to be a peaceful, prayer, and breakfast meeting. All dominations are welcome. This a free country and one of our rights is the right to worship as we please.
The St. Charles Chamber of Commerce invited a faith called Bahai to come and speak.
But hold on! A builder of homes in St. Charles County, Mr. Tom Hughes, was to be the emcee. Well, guess what? When he heard about Bahai being there he cancelled two tables he had paid for and refused to emcee the breakfast. Is Mr. Hughes denying these people to speak about their faith? Now what does this say about Mr. Hughes? Freedom of Religion is one of our rights. You have no right to deny this.
It is your right to choose not to emcee the breakfast. Your attitude toward the Bahai Faith Religion is shameful.
Well. Guess What?? It never seems to end. Latest fiasco, of all things, concerns the Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast held on May 5th, 2005.
This is supposed to be a peaceful, prayer, and breakfast meeting. All dominations are welcome. This a free country and one of our rights is the right to worship as we please.
The St. Charles Chamber of Commerce invited a faith called Bahai to come and speak.
But hold on! A builder of homes in St. Charles County, Mr. Tom Hughes, was to be the emcee. Well, guess what? When he heard about Bahai being there he cancelled two tables he had paid for and refused to emcee the breakfast. Is Mr. Hughes denying these people to speak about their faith? Now what does this say about Mr. Hughes? Freedom of Religion is one of our rights. You have no right to deny this.
It is your right to choose not to emcee the breakfast. Your attitude toward the Bahai Faith Religion is shameful.
Phil White, CEO of Telecom Services Installation Chamber Small Business Person of the Year
The St. Charles Chamber of Commerce has announced that Phil White, owner and CEO of Telecom Services Installation (TSI, Inc.) has been chosen as this years recipient of the Small Business Person of the Year Award.
TSI, Inc. is a professional cabling contractor based in St. Charles. Recently entering into the IBEW Local I Union, TSI is a sub-contractor of choice for regional companies such as SBC, Verizon, Charter Communications, Edward Jones, SAVVIS and Monsanto and has been awarded the entire infrastructure cabling for voice, data, audio/ visual and broadcast systems for the new Busch Stadium set to open in April 2006
While currently employing 65 individuals from the St. Charles area in their new 20,000 sq.ft. location at Fountain Lakes TSI, Inc. has earned the distinction of being one of the Top 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the St. Louis Region for the past four consecutive years.
The St. Charles Chamber of Commerce will recognize Mr. Phil White along with the City of St. Charles Employers of the Year during the chambers’ General Membership Meeting on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at the St. Charles Convention Center. Those interested in attending can RSVP to the Chamber office or online by noon Monday, May 16th. The cost for the luncheon is $15.
For more information, please contact the St. Charles Chamber of Commerce at 636-946-0633.
TSI, Inc. is a professional cabling contractor based in St. Charles. Recently entering into the IBEW Local I Union, TSI is a sub-contractor of choice for regional companies such as SBC, Verizon, Charter Communications, Edward Jones, SAVVIS and Monsanto and has been awarded the entire infrastructure cabling for voice, data, audio/ visual and broadcast systems for the new Busch Stadium set to open in April 2006
While currently employing 65 individuals from the St. Charles area in their new 20,000 sq.ft. location at Fountain Lakes TSI, Inc. has earned the distinction of being one of the Top 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the St. Louis Region for the past four consecutive years.
The St. Charles Chamber of Commerce will recognize Mr. Phil White along with the City of St. Charles Employers of the Year during the chambers’ General Membership Meeting on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at the St. Charles Convention Center. Those interested in attending can RSVP to the Chamber office or online by noon Monday, May 16th. The cost for the luncheon is $15.
For more information, please contact the St. Charles Chamber of Commerce at 636-946-0633.
City’s Cable Channel 20 Continues To Win International Awards
SC-20, The Saint Charles City Government Channel, has won several major international awards in the past month.
Jessica Rasch received a Telly Award in the 26th annual Telly Award Competition for her newsmagazine segment “Parks & Recreation Department, October”.
Lani D’Angelo received an Award of Distinction from the 2005 Videographer Awards for her on-camera work in “Greater St. Charles Convention & Visitors Bureau September Events.”
Joe Fields received Honorable Mention in the 2005 Videographer Awards for his short program “Stay Alive! Don’t Drink and Drive.”
Christopher Ferguson’s Program “Public Works and You” has already received an Award of Excellence from the 2005 Communicator Awards and now adds a Telly Award from the 26th annual Telly Awards and an Award of Excellence from the 2005 Videographer Awards.
The Telly Awards is an international video competition that receives over 10,000 entries per year. Judging is done by a panel of over 20 accomplished industry professionals that evaluate entries based on a high standard of merit. For more info visit www.tellyawards.com.
The Videographer Awards is an international awards program directed by communications professionals to honor talented individuals and companies in the video production field. Entries to the Videographer Awards come from all 50 states and numerous countries. These awards are designed to identify communications professionals who are raising the standards of the industry. For more info: www.videoawards.com.
Jessica Rasch received a Telly Award in the 26th annual Telly Award Competition for her newsmagazine segment “Parks & Recreation Department, October”.
Lani D’Angelo received an Award of Distinction from the 2005 Videographer Awards for her on-camera work in “Greater St. Charles Convention & Visitors Bureau September Events.”
Joe Fields received Honorable Mention in the 2005 Videographer Awards for his short program “Stay Alive! Don’t Drink and Drive.”
Christopher Ferguson’s Program “Public Works and You” has already received an Award of Excellence from the 2005 Communicator Awards and now adds a Telly Award from the 26th annual Telly Awards and an Award of Excellence from the 2005 Videographer Awards.
The Telly Awards is an international video competition that receives over 10,000 entries per year. Judging is done by a panel of over 20 accomplished industry professionals that evaluate entries based on a high standard of merit. For more info visit www.tellyawards.com.
The Videographer Awards is an international awards program directed by communications professionals to honor talented individuals and companies in the video production field. Entries to the Videographer Awards come from all 50 states and numerous countries. These awards are designed to identify communications professionals who are raising the standards of the industry. For more info: www.videoawards.com.
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