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CAC Audited DECEMBER 5 – 11, 2013
Vol. 84 No. 35
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COMPLIMENTARY
Troupe’s ‘Pearl’
Expert: feds should clean up landfill
St. Louis author co-writes Earl Monroe’s autobiography By Ishmael H. Sistrunk Of The St. Louis American
Co-authors Quincy Troupe and Earl Monroe with Margaret Porter Troupe holding up a copy of their book “Earl the Pearl: My Story.”
Like an exhilarating jazz interlude, Earl Monroe dazzled NBA fans on the court with his improvisational style of play. Before LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson or even Julius Irving, there was Earl “the Pearl.” Ask those who saw Monroe play and they will tell you he was poetry in motion, brilliance on the basketball court, music in the flesh. So there should have been no surprise that when Monroe finally decided to tell his story he enlisted the services of celebrated St. Louis poet and author Quincy Troupe,
Radioactive waste makes West Lake federal problem, says Alvarez By Bridjes O’Neil Of The St. Louis American International nuclear waste expert Robert Alvarez says the Environmental Protection Agency “erred” in its 2008 decision to leave “highly radiotoxic” waste at the West Lake Landfill site in n “Convince your elected officials of Bridgeton. Alvarez, a senior the absolute scholar at the Institute necessity of for Policy Studies in putting this facility Washington, D.C., presented a 17-page report under the control on the site at the of the federal request of the Missouri government.” Coalition for the Environment during a – Robert Alvarez recent public meeting held at the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 513 in Bridgeton. Karl Brooks, Region 7 administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said at a previous public meeting that radioactive waste at West Lake Landfill does not pose a public health threat “as long as people remain outside the
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Christopher Reiter – son of Paul Reiter, longtime circulation manager for The St. Louis American – shows his cousin, Caleb Schoene, 11, one of the new bookhouses in his father’s memory that have been established in the Dutchtown neighborhood where Paul Reiter lived and was killed in 2011.
See LANDFILL, A6
Help for the neediest Photo by Wiley Price
Reiter’s family donates bookhouses
By Clarice Evans For The St. Louis American
Police support effort to empower children By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American Dutchtown children may begin to notice new birdhouse-looking structures filled with books on certain street corners. They’re called “bookhouses,” where neighborhood families can borrow or even keep the children’s books inside. On Wednesday, Dutchtown residents and police gathered for the grand opening of six bookhouses, which are meant to commemo-
n “It’s about showing that we care and showing we are not going to forget Paul Reiter.” – Police Capt. Dan Howard
rate the life of Paul Reiter, longtime circulation manager for The St. Louis American, and to reach out to children through reading.
Community Women Against Hardship partners with The American
Reiter’s family and The St. Louis American paid for the structures, and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department will maintain the mini-libraries with books. Reiter’s son, Christopher Reiter – along with his sisters, nieces and nephews – helped “cut the ribbon” on one of the bookhouses at the corner of Virginia Avenue and Liberty Street, just blocks from Reiter’s house.
See REITER, A7
Today we are asking you to make a choice: sit idle and wait for the government to fix all the problems that plague the poor, or pitch in and lend a helping hand to build better, stronger communities. The choice is yours; we hope you will decide to help encourage these families during this season of giving and for days to come. Send all donations to CWAH, 3963 West Belle Pl., St. Louis, MO 63108 or call 314-2897523. Case 9 – Ms. N. is a mother raising three boys, ages 16, 14 and 6, as she struggles with MS. She aspires to live past her condition, as she has already pursued some college-level training and desires to provide for her children by giving them a safe, nurturing environment to grow. She just recently moved into Section 8 housing and is in
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