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Double Dutch jumpers
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‘He was a quiet giant for change’
Taylor Fisher and Nila Simmons, students in the Parkway School District, took a flying leap at the Double Dutch Showcase that BJC HealthCare organized at the Wohl Recreation Center on Saturday, December 9 to promote youth exercise.
Norm White dies of heart attack at 64 By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American
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Action at West Lake Landfill? EPA puts Bridgeton site on top 21 Superfund list for ‘immediate and intense attention’ By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American Residents near the West Lake Landfill, a 200-acre site in Bridgeton where a smoldering underground chemical reaction is within 700 feet of known radioactive waste, got some hopeful news on December 8. The landfill made it on the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency’s list of Superfund sites targeted for “immediate and intense attention,” which includes 21 sites across the country. Resident Dawn Chapman went through multiple different emotions upon hearing the news, she said. She was happy, but at the same time, she was also angry. “I live in a community near one of the most
dangerous Superfund sites in the nation, and finally someone is saying it,” Chapman said. “So why did we have to fight the former EPA administration so [expletive] hard? Finally, it’s validation.” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said the list came out of the recommendations that the See WEST LAKE, A8
Empowering Ferguson
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Police chief finalists face the public By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American
By Jessica Karins For The St. Louis American The Ferguson Community Empowerment Center held a Christmas party on Friday, December 8 to welcome the community to the space and raise awareness of the services it offers. The Community Empowerment Center is located at the former site of a QuikTrip gas station which was burnt out during the protests surrounding a Ferguson police officer’s killing of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in 2014.
Saint Louis University criminal justice professor and Ferguson activist Norm White died suddenly of a heart attack on Wednesday, December 6. He was 64. He and his wife Elizabeth “Liz” were getting ready to leave their Belleville home for an evening rehearsal of a Christmas play they were performing in when he had the attack and died soon afterwards. Norm, a New York native, called himself a “developmental criminologist,” and he spent his life working to change the way people viewed and treated children who are Norm White “immersed in risk,” as he phrased it. Norm had been doing extensive work within the St. Louis Public School District to decrease school suspensions and implement trauma-informed teaching initiatives within classrooms. He was honored for this important work at the St. Louis American Foundation’s 2017 Salute to Excellence in Health Care this past spring. Norm was also supposed to attend a ceremony the morning after he died, where he would have received a leadership award from the Incarnate Word Foundation. “He was a quiet giant in our community for change,” said Jimmie Edwards, formerly
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Urban League, partners host Christmas event at center built at site of burn-out QuikTrip
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Ferguson Police Chief Delrish Moss connected with DaShawn Jones, 2, Jeremiah Jones, 5, Elisia Williams, 4, and Emya Williams, 5, at the Ferguson Community Empowerment Center’s Christmas party on Friday, December 8. The center stands on the site of the QuikTrip that was burnt out during the Ferguson unrest.
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The eight semi-finalists in the search for St. Louis’ next police chief are heading to town this week, and the community will get a chance to ask the final six candidates questions at a public forum on Thursday, December 14. Personnel Director Richard Frank said that no one – not even the mayor – knows the names of the eight semi-finalists. Throughout the search process, the outside search firm has presented the candidates to the mayor and her advisory committee as numbers, not names, along with summaries of the people’s backgrounds. “I don’t even know who they are off the top of my head,” Frank said. He is the only one in St. Louis who has See CHIEF, A6
SPORTS
Cut out to be a barber
Influenza is off to an early start
Midwest Showdown Shootout preview
Keith Shackleford keeps his father’s shop and salon in business downtown
The first full week of the holiday shopping season saw a spike in the number people coming down with influenza in St. Louis.
Terrell Ramey’s Midwest Showdown Shootout is annually one of the top earlyseason showcase events in the Midwest.
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