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Vol. 84 No. 47
CAC Audited FEBRUARY 21 – 27, 2013
INSIDE On The Web
Former Tempations member passes Damon Harris (born Otis Robert Harris, Jr.) died Monday evening at the age of 62.
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POLITICAL EYE
Lewis Reed sends Mayor Slay Valentine’s Day message
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Chief George endorses Lewis Reed ‘Lewis Reed can help rebuild this city’ By Fire Chief Sherman George For The St. Louis American After 11 years, Mayor Francis G. Slay has clearly shown that he does not have solutions to the problems of our city. That alone is enough for us to vote him out of office. But when you add the fact that he is a major part of the problems in our city, our community should rush to support aldermanic President Lewis Reed for Mayor. In 1999 I became not just the first African-American appointed Chief of the St. Louis Fire Department, I became the first African-American Fire Chief in a major city in the state of Missouri. This was an achievement earned after 32 years of distinguished service, not by special favors. I was chief for eight years, See GEORGE, A7
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Aldermanic President Lewis Reed has been endorsed for Mayor by former Fire Chief Sherman George. The election is March 5.
Reed campaign dumps “pay to play” documents on Slay admin. to media on a lover’s holiday.
MSD study finds disparity
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BLACK HISTORY
Recommends increasing goals for minority firms, workers By Rebecca S. Rivas Of The St. Louis American
Remembering Dorian Bell Amon Lawyer, activist, publisher, writer, friend passed January 24 after a bout with cancer. Photo by Wiley Price
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Opening eyes to science SPORTS
Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, a chemist by training, informed and entertained youth with a chemistry demonstration at the grand opening of the university’s Institute for School Partnership MySci Resource Center on Monday. The center was refurbished with the help of a $2.2 million grant from the Monsanto Fund.
A study released Friday found that the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) had not been employing as many African-American subcontractors as they could have on construction contracts from 2007 to 2012. The release of the disparity study marks the end of a long debate on whether or not MSD needs to increase its goals in hiring minority- and women-owned businesses, especially in light of the $4.7 billion in mandated improvements the district will be making over the next 23 years. The disparity study, conducted by Mason Tillman, recommends that MSD increase its goal for hiring minority-owned businesses (MBE) to 30 percent on building construcSee MSD, A6
Broner wins by KO but loses with his mouth Adrien Broner won in a stunning 5th round KO of Gavin Rees on HBO. However, his “Money May” wannabe persona is holding the young boxing star back.
Scholarship helping dreamer become nurse
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April 15 deadline for Deaconess Foundation Nursing Scholarship
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absolutely loved it,” Holmes said. “I have always had a passion for caring for people, and nursing was the right career choice for me.” The St. Louisan is in her senior year at Saint Louis University and plans to pass the boards and begin working as a By Sandra Jordan registered nurse as soon as Of The St. Louis possible. American “Right now I work on the cardiovascular floor at It’s a high school Barnes as a student nurse counselor’s sign of a job technician so I hope to well done when a student continue my work there as shadows someone workan RN,” she said. “I have ing in a profession that always had an interest in becomes her vocational pediatric oncology. I love pursuit. That is the case children and forming relafor Alexandria Holmes, a Alexandria tionships with patients.” Deaconess nursing scholHolmes, a Holmes said the ar who attended Nerinx Deaconess Deaconess Scholarship Hall High School in nursing helped her to pursue her Webster Groves. scholar educational goals in nurs“We were to choose ing. three career professionals to follow for a day. I followed a See NURSE, A6 nurse at Barnes in the ER and
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‘Drum majors for the disenfranchised’ New Direction Ministries and partners serve homeless men By Bridjes O’Neil Of The St. Louis American Last December, Pastor Tommy Tucker of New Direction Ministries and his wife, Elder Denise Tucker, began operating an Emergency Winter Homeless Shelter for men. Homelessness in St. Louis city disproportionately affects men, Pastor Tucker said, though a vast amount of resources are allocated to homeless women and children. The shelter, located at 3517 St. Louis Ave. at Grand, sits in the heart of North St. Louis, an area Pastor
“Our goal is to get out into the community to reach those people in that dark place that most pastors really don’t want to go to.” – Pastor Tommy Tucker
Tucker said has succumbed to “deplorable conditions.” See MINISTRIES, A7