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By Brett Auten There is a dynasty of sorts brewing on Hackmann Road in St. Charles. Among the multitude of athletics, clubs, and after school activities available at Francis Howell North High School, it is the color/winter guard that has drawn regional and national recognition year in and year out. Duane Johnson took over operations nine years ago after a 17-year stint in Indiana. After two years worth building and tinkering, the trophies, plaques and honors have flowed in. The most notable notches on the belt have come in the shape of Winter Guard International world championship finalists in 2009, 20013, and, 2014. The Knights’ have dominated the region, being Mid Continent Color Guard Association champions every year since 2009. The MCCGA is a winter color guard and percussion circuit serving independent and scholastic guards and percussion lines from Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Iowa. “You have to have kids who are willing to work, sacrifice their time, and have that competitive spirit,” Johnson said. “We always let the parents know about the sacrifice. For example, we’re on Spring Break right now but they can’t travel. We still have to travel and we still have to compete.” When Johnson arrived in the summer of 2006, the Howell North program was small in stature and didn’t have any national exposure. Slowly but surely, through established training, the exposure came, with 2008 reaching WGI semifinalist status. The year starts in May with three days worth of auditions for the team. The squad is usually anywhere from 12 to 18 members deep. While experience is a plus, it is not necessary. Johnson is always on the prowl for the intangibles. “They have to have some athletic ability,” Johnson said. “We are looking for people with potential, drive and a willingness to win.” Practice begins in the summer, two times a week. Once school starts, practice is bumped up to four times a week, with competitions slated for Saturdays along with the Friday-night performances at every home football game. In the winter time, practice drops to
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Submitted photos The Francis Howell North High School color/winter guard performs in competition. The group has drawn regional and national recognition year in and year out.
three times a week but Saturday competitions can be a nine-hour experience. “We decide each season what competitions we will attend throughout Missouri,” Johnson said. “There have
“You have to have kids who are willing to work, sacrifice their time, and have that competitive spirit. We always let the parents know about the sacrifice. For example, we’re on Spring Break right now but they can’t travel. We still have to travel and we still have to compete.” Duane Johnson
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been winter guard competitions in Dallas, Indianapolis, Nashville and Cincinnati.” Like at most schools, there are two versions of the squad. In the fall, there is the color guard, which performs
alongside the school’s marching band. Modern color guard has evolved over the years into a form of entertainment similar to dance theater. Color guard can be found in most American colleges, universities, high schools and independent drum corps. Color guard uses props, along with movement, to express dynamic passages in the music accompanying the marching band show. Usually marching bands and color guards perform during football games at halftime. Once the reading on the thermometer starts to drop, the shift goes to winter guard where routines are performed with prerecorded music. The most fundamental piece of equipment in color guard or winter guard shows is the flag. There are three primary types of equipment are used in winter guard: flags, rifles, and sabres (other items can be used to demonstrate artistic effects.) Such equipment is used in shows to demonstrate a team’s technical ability. Like almost everything else, the ins and outs of guard have changed significantly over the last 10 years. “It used to be equipment-based,” Johnson said. “Now it is much more dance and artistic-based. I think it is going to grow and evolve and you will see more theatrics combined with athletics and handling the equipment.” The Francis Howell North team will continue competing through April when the national competition is held in Dayton, Ohio.
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Home and property repair, transportation assistance programs available for St. Charles residents St. Charles County Government has several programs available to provide home repair, property improvement and transportation assistance to eligible persons who live in “St. Charles Urban County,” which includes the cities of Cottleville, Dardenne Prairie, Lake St. Louis, St. Paul, St. Peters, Weldon Spring, Wentzville and the unincorporated
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Children’s Trust Fund awardees The Community and Children’s Resource Board of St. Charles County announced at its Feb. 23 board meeting the agencies awarded funds through the Children’s Trust Fund license plate campaign. They are: • Boys and Girls Club ($2,000) for child abuse prevention education. • The Child Center ($2,992) for equipment for assistance in canine therapy costs and sexual abuse prevention training expenses. • Community Living ($2,000) for respite program equipment. • Crisis Nursery ($2,500) for car seat purchases and family support. • Lutheran Family and Children’s Services ($1,000) WINGS program support that works with pregnant and parenting women. • Our Lady’s Inn ($3,454) for assistance with the shelter’s food expenses. • United Services for Children ($1,600) for the parenting skills program. • Youth In Need ($2,954) for support of Head Start/Early Head Start program. Funds distributed through the Children’s Trust Fund-License Plate Fund must be used to support, develop, implement and evaluate child abuse and neglect prevention programs and services in St. Charles County. Child abuse and neglect preven-
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Photo courtesy Community and Children’s Resource Board Fund awardees and board members in attendance were (back row): Larry Marty, board member; Bruce Sowatsky, CCRB Executive Director; Elphanie (Sissy) Swift, The Child Center; Denise Liebel, United Services for Children; DiAnne Mueller, Crisis Nursery; Ron Berrey, Ed.D., board member; Andrea Robertson, board member; Dave Bekering, board member. (front row): Peggy Forrest, Our Lady’s Inn; Michelle Gorman, Youth In Need; Kristen Sutterlund, Lutheran Family and Children’s Services; Kristen Paez, Community Living, Inc.; Molly Dempsey, board member; Luanne Cundiff.
tion programs are defined as any community-based educational, family support or resource program designated to prevent, alleviate or reduce the risk of child abuse or neglect in St. Charles County. St. Charles County is one of 29 license plate partners with the Children’s Trust Fund of Missouri. The funds are overseen by the Community and Children’s Resource Board of St. Charles
County and are distributed in the form of reimbursable grants to local agencies providing child abuse and neglect prevention services. Kevin Cantwell, CCRB Chairperson, reports, “The agencies awarded funds through the Children’s Trust Fund grant are working tirelessly in St. Charles County to reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect, and we are pleased to provide support for their efforts.”
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Campbell Montessori provides programs for children of all ages Do you need child care for your toddler or preschooler? Visit Campbell and see the many additional opportunities your child will have if you choose Montessori education rather than a traditional day care program. Campbell provides an environment that promotes not only excellence in academics, but also excellence in the time management and social skills necessary for a successful life. We offer high quality AMI Montessori education for children from 15 months to 12 years, preparing graduates with the confidence in their ability to continue learning throughout their lives. Now in its 25th year, Campbell was established in 1989 as St. Charles Montessori Academy. The original location was on Hawk’s Nest Drive. Campbell Montessori School became a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization in 1997, when it moved to its present site at the end of Shady Springs Lane. Our programs begin with toddler and preschool, which continues through the conventional Kinder-
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Holt High School DECA sponsors annual carnival The Holt High School DECA Chapter will be hosting the 16th Annual Spring Fling on April 3rd at Holt High School from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. This year’s event will feature egg hunts, food, prizes, a coloring contest, a bounce house, games, and appearances from local mascots and the fire department. Admission is free and game tickets are 5 for $1 with plenty of prizes available for the winners. There will also be a raffle for themed baskets, and tickets for the basket raffle are $1 each or six for $5. The free egg hunts will be broken down into two age groups; preschool through first grade beginning at 11 a.m., and 2nd - 5th grade begin-
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Cybill Shepherd stars in faith-based “Do You Believe?” Though she thought the script for “Do You Believe?” was very moving, actress Cybill Shepherd was a little confused when her manager first contacted her about the faith-based project. “I thought my manager was saying ‘facebased.’ But I had to do it: it was a part I have never played. I gave myself a chance as an actor to play that arc with wonderful actors and just a great script,” Shepherd said during a roundtable interview. “It was very moving. I didn’t feel it was proselytizing at all. I feel the message it is sending is very solid.” “Do You Believe?” looks at the current state of faith through a handful of characters. Shepherd said her character, Teri, is stuck up in her grief over losing her daughter. “She doesn’t believe in God. And it kind of reminds me of my mother. When her mother died, my mother said ‘I don’t believe in God. If there was a God, He wouldn’t have taken my mother then,’” the actress explained. “My mother kept saying ‘You’ve got to come see your grandmother.’ I felt that my grandmother almost was gone.” As it turns out, Shepherd’s grandmother wasn’t gone, so she went to Memphis to see her: “And she didn’t seem to hear me. But she died a week later. It’s funny how these things work out where you go ‘Wait a minute. Go see your grandma.’” When her own mother died, the actress continued, she had hospice care and the death she wanted: “She was comfortable. The hospice nurse was the one who called me. Well, my brother called me and said ‘Now come home because your mother will recognize you.’ That’s when I left the Broadway play ‘The Best Man.’”
There were also times that Shepherd didn’t get a chance to say goodbye to someone important. This came up when talking about one of her favorite films: Emile Ardolino’s “Chances Are.” “That was one of my most wonderful experiences with a director. And then I called him, and I didn’t get a call back. It turned out he died of AIDS. He was that generation where you just died. They hadn’t figured out how to keep people alive,” she said. In “Do You Believe?” Shepherd’s character is married to J.D., played by Lee Majors. J.D.’s faith is much stronger than his spouse’s. “Lee Majors is a consummate professional. We had a way of talking about the scenes: we didn’t talk about them. We just figured where we are together. It didn’t take a lot of talk. It was a very wonderful experience working with him,” she said. The climactic scene of the film involves most of the cast on top of a bridge. Once again, Shepherd was grateful for her steadfast co-star. “It was very dangerous what we were doing, out on a bridge in the freezing rain. And dealing with that car on that thing. I didn’t know what a gimbal was. Thank God for Lee Majors because he’s been in a bunch of them. He was very calm,” she said. “Do You Believe?” begins its theatrical run on March 20. Born and raised in South St. Louis, Steve Bryan is now based in Anaheim, California, and has been allowed access to movie and television sets to see actors and directors at work. Though his writing has taken him far from St. Louis, Steve is, at heart, still the same wide-eyed kid who spent countless hours watching classic movies at neighborhood theaters.
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Send your event to editor@mycnews.com and we'll print it! EVENTS March 19: The sights and sounds of Scotland will descend upon Dardenne Prairie when The College of Wooster’s Scot Symphonic Band performs in concert at 7 p.m. at Dardenne Presbyterian Church at 7400 S. Outer Rd. 364. There is no admission fee for the performance, but a freewill offering will be taken. Additional information about the concert is available by phone at 330-263-2048 or by email at dkrain@wooster.edu. March 20-29: “Seussical” Young People’s Theatre will perform “Seussical” in the Donald D. Shook Fine Arts Building at St. Charles Community College at 4601 Mid Rivers Mall Dr. in Cottleville. Performances will take place at 7 p.m.
March 20-21; 7 p.m. March 27-28; 2 p.m. March 21-22 and 2 p.m. March 28-29. For more information or tickets, call 636-922-8233, or visit stchastickets.com. March 21: Poker tournament The Moscow Mills Lions Club is hosting a Texas hold ‘em poker tournament at the Community Building in Moscow Mills. Doors open at 6 p.m. and play begins at 7 p.m. Entry fee is $30 and includes snacks. Outside food and drinks are also allowed. For more information call 636-366-9897. March 21: Trivia night Gateway Area Multiple Sclerosis Society is holding a trivia night and silent auction at Hope Lutheran Church at 1975 S Old Hwy 94 in St
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March 22: Community scavenger hunt Celebration Church community scavenger hunt begins; can you find our Easter eggs? Just use #holyhunt on social media. Look for us on Facebook at Celebration Church Saint Peters, MO. March 22: Coloring contest Children ages 3-5 and 6-8 are invited to participate in the Wentzville VFW Post 5327 coloring contest. Entries are available at VFW Post
5327 at 1414 Hwy Z in Wentzville. Prize baskets will be awarded to winners in each age category, including a grand prize winner. Completed entries must be received by March 22 at the above address. Entries must include the following information: name, age, address, phone, and parent’s name. Winners will be notified by phone. Prizes must be claimed by April 1. For more information, please call 636-639-1648. March 22: Quilt social Sacred Heart Church St. Ann’s Sodality of Troy is hosting their annual quilt social at the Knights of Columbus Hall at Hwy J in Troy. Doors will open at 11:30 a.m., and bingo begins at 1 p.m. Food and refreshments will be provided for purchase. There will be quilt games, money games, door prizes, pull tabs, Pot of Gold, raffles and plenty of fun. Due to state law no one under the age of 16 can be in the building. March 23: Art exhibition opening St. Charles Community College will display artworks by the college’s fulltime and adjunct visual arts faculty at the SCC Art Faculty Exhibition that runs from March 9-April 2. The SCC Art Club will host the opening reception from 6 - 8 p.m. March 23. The exhibition is free and open to the public. The gallery hours are 8 a.m.- 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.3 p.m. Saturday. The gallery is located in the Donald D. Shook Fine Arts Building. Parking for patrons is free in the campus Blue and Yellow lots. For more information, contact Christine Holtz, choltz@stchas.edu or 636-922-8556. March 26: Educational seminar “Pizza and Preplanning” offered by Baue Funeral Home starts at 10 a.m. The event is free and will be held at Dardenne Prairie City Hall. Pizza and drinks will be served. For more information, or to sign up, please contact Melissa at the parks office at 636-755-5308. March 26: Fashion show Members of the Lindenwood University women’s basketball team will trade jerseys for designer fashions as part of the upcoming Hoops ‘N’ Heels fashion show. The inaugural fundraising event benefitting the team will take place at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Lindenwood University Cultural Center, located at 400 North Kingshighway in St. Charles. The cost to attend is $25 per person for general admission and $40 for
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March 28: Charity meat shoot Pauldingville 4H will host a charity meat shoot at noon at VFW Post 5327 at 1414 Hwy Z in Wentzville. Proceeds will benefit the Run for the Wall. For more information call 636-639-1648. The event is open to the public. March 28: Easter egg hunt Wentzville Christian Church is hosting a free Easter egg hunt for the community from 11 a.m. noon. This event is for children up to 5th grade. The church is located at 1507 Highway Z in Wentzville. Visit wentzvillecc.org for more information or call the church at 636-327-6622. March 31: Men’s senior softball league applications due A slow pitch softball league for men age 55 and older in St. Charles is now accepting applications for the 2015 season. The league plays games on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. League play starts May 20 and continues for 12 weeks. For more info and to register call 636-281-0891. April 3: Fish Fry Fridays Fish Fry Fridays at Wentzville VFW Post 5327 at 1414 Hwy Z in Wentzville happen every Friday through April 3 from 4 – 7 p.m. Eat in or carry out. $10 per plate includes: Catfish, walleye, shrimp, coleslaw, fries, hush puppies, carlic cheddar biscuit and green beans or spaghetti. Children’s meals are available too. For more information, please call 636-639-1648. April 4: Golden Games registration 28th Annual St. Charles County Golden Games featuring individual and team events take place May 4 – 9 for athletes 50-and-over. Completed registration form must be postmarked no later than April 4, no late entries or on-site registration. Your $25 registration fee includes: T-shirt, pre-game banquet for participant and guest and as many events as you can schedule (golf events have additional
fee). For more information go to www.sccgoldengames.org or call 636-441-6442. April 7: Community forum A panel of professionals will respond to questions about transportation needs and options in Franklin, Lincoln, Montgomery, St. Charles and Warren Counties from 6 – 8 p.m. at Pitman Reception Center at 1543 Wentzville Parkway in Wentzville. Please RSVP to Deana Tucker Dothage at ddothage@boonslick.org or by phone 636-359-4656. Visit www.morides.org for more information. Space is limited - reservations requested. April 9: Living History Gala A gala commemorating the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War will be held at The Grand Opera House at 311 N. Main Street in St. Charles. The event begins with a promenade up Main Street and Civil War attire is strongly encouraged. Mayor Sally Faith will open the Gala and other dignitaries will present short vignettes and readings from the conflict. St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann, author of “Crossroads: A History of St. Charles County,” will give a brief overview of the Civil War in the county. Dancing will be led by Dance Master, Dr. John Ramsay. Prizes will be awarded for best costumes. Complimentary appetizers
will be served. Cash bar. Reservations are required. Attendance is limited due to site restrictions. Tickets are $30 members/$35 nonmembers and $35 members/$40 non-members (after March 26th). After April 1st—call for availability. To reserve tickets call 636-9469828 or email contact@scchs.org. April 10: Spaghetti dinner The St. Charles Optimist Club will hold its 44th Annual Spaghetti Dinner from 10:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. at Memorial Hall (lower level) in Blanchette Park, St. Charles. The meal includes: Pio’s spaghetti, garlic bread, tossed salad, dessert and assorted drinks – coffee, wine, soda. Tickets will be available at the door for $8, per person, for all you can eat. Advance tickets sales may be obtained by calling Dale Westby 314-550-7723. April 9: Nutrition Series In this one-hour seminar you will determine your percentage of body fat, estimate your individual daily caloric needs and develop a program to help you meet your goals. Class begins at 6:30 p.m. and is $8 for Wentzville residents and $10 for nonresidents. Please call Progress Park Recreation Center at 636-332-9236 for more information. April 12: Dance classes The spring session of social dance
classes is starting at St. Charles Community College the week of April 12. Classes will be held in the College Center dance studio on the SCC campus at 4601 Mid Rivers Mall Drive in Cottleville. Classes will be held April 12-June 7. Learn how to swing, rumba, line dance and more with awardwinning dance instructors Linda Landwehr and Stan Meyer. The eight-week session costs $50 per person. Students, ages 14 and up, should enroll with a partner. There will be a free social dance open house 6:30-8 p.m. on March 10. At this open house prospective students can meet the instructors, preview their dances and learn more about the classes at SCC. To register for the open house, call
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Over the Fence
Joe Morice
Brand name obsessions I once sold cars during the seventies recession. I had been injured in my chosen profession and managed to get a job selling Dodges. After this experience I often remarked, “Everybody should try this for a while.” If it doesn’t make them aware of wishful thinking about automobile price markups by otherwise rational human beings, nothing will. Some folks actually believed they were marked up fifty percent by the dealer. What was even funnier was after they finally faced facts and bought a new car, they would still tell their friends they bought it for much less than they actually paid. Perhaps the strangest discovery was consumers’ tenuous fixation with brand names. While there are brands that are better
than others, it really doesn’t apply to American cars as much as some folks want to believe. Yet, this phenomenon sold many Chrysler products, GM cars and Fords back in the seventies when brand name preferences often overshadowed poor quality. While I sold Dodges at one dealer, another dealer down the street sold Plymouths. Listening to a customer tell me how much he detested one and loved the other evoked major effort to keep a straight face. He had obviously never toured a Chrysler plant. If he had, he would’ve seen the same cars inching down the assembly line having Dodge or Plymouth emblems installed. Except for some minor cosmetic differences, their parts were interchangeable…or at least the ones that didn’t fall off. I once noticed a Dodge emblem on one side of a new car and a Plymouth emblem on the
Editor’s note: Joe Morice is currently recovering from illness and has taken some time off. Until his return we will run some of Joe’s favorite columns.
other. Somebody at the factory was having a little sport, apparently. In pre-Iacocca days, quality control only noticed cars that didn’t have all four wheels. After a few years of selling these dinosaurs, it soon became apparent that brand names were everything. A good friend of mine buys Fords and won’t have anything else. The Ford buyers seemed more obsessive than most, for some reason. In a shop I once ran, one of my mechanics was so fanatical about Fords; he was caught installing Ford spark plugs in Chevys. I’ve often commented on my uncle, the Buick nut. He bought Buicks all his life and fervently chattered about them. They lasted years although this may be because he seldom drove over 40 mph, if at all. Mostly, he waxed it until the bugs wouldn’t stick to it. What I discovered was that brand-name fanatics would brag for hours about how great their favorite Ford, GM or Chrysler product was but keep a life-long secret of how many times they were in the shop for repairs. I also noticed how much American car manufacturers counted on this. It eventually cost them a large portion of their customers to Japanese car manufacturers. I attribute much of
this to women that had entered the working world of rush-hour traffic jams and believed American automobile brand-name preferences fell into the same category as man’s fanatical love of favorite football teams. Women wanted cars that didn’t break down and put them at the mercy of mechanics that charged them for replacing the air in their tires. Honda, Nissan, Toyota and some others capitalized on this fact. Ford, Chevy and Chrysler apparently figured ignoring it would make it go away. The Japanese won, Hirohito was avenged and the UAW fell further into denial. My new refrigerator quit after 13 months. The warranty was twelve months. After I called the repair number, a technician showed up in a van with a GE logo. My refrigerator was a Hotpoint. I didn’t buy it because it was a Hotpoint. I bought it because it was on sale. The technician told me GE owned Hotpoint. “Oh well,” I thought. “Ford bought Jaguar and Fiat bought Chrysler. GM bought… what? Better champagne for corporate jets?” This very astute technician determined within minutes that the circuit board was bad. A new one cost $160. “Yikes,” I
chirped. “My old ‘fridge didn’t have a circuit board and lasted twenty years.” He obviously felt bad and told me he would try to cut me some slack on the labor. After he replaced it, he entered some information on his laptop computer and said, “You’re in luck. GE found out these circuit boards were defective and they’re replacing them at no cost.” I gratefully shook his hand and avoided asking which starving country made the defective ones. He even told me how to make my noisy dishwasher quiet again. It turns out, GE is the only remaining appliance outfit that still retains company repairmen and doesn’t farm repairs out to private contractors and to my good luck…they’re honest! It seems I now have a brand name obsession, too. Life is weird. Joe Morice is Community News’s blue-collar philosopher. He was born and raised in Missouri and spent most of his childhood on a farm and adulthood operating heavy equipment. He has no formal training as a writer, unless a lifetime of writing about any and everything counts. The opinions expressed in this column are Joe Morice’s alone and do not reflect the opinion of the owners or staff of Community News.
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