Anchor in the community Sharon Reed of KMOV comes to STL from Cleveland
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CAC Audited JANUARY 10 – 16, 2013
Vol. 84 No. 41 COMPLIMENTARY
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New Treasurer making change Tishaura Jones is ready for your parking complaints – and contract proposals
Photo by Wiley Price
City Treasurer Tishaura O. Jones celebrated her swearing in at City Hall on January 1 with her father, former Comptroller Virvus Jones, and stepmother, Sable Jones.
By Chris King Of The St. Louis American
“People have been calling and calling this office and not getting called back.”
When Tishaura O. Jones ran for City Treasurer promising change, she did not have in mind changing the parking restrictions outside Macy’s in downtown St. Louis. But in fact that was one of the first things she made a decision to change after reporting to duty after the new year. “Macy’s called me saying the meters in front of their store had been changed from two hours to 15 minutes and they weren’t notified, so their customers
– Treasurer Tishaura O. Jones
were all getting park tickets and were frustrated,” Jones told The American on Friday.
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Fontella Bass celebrated Shalom hosts farewell to musical legend in song and oratory By Chris King Of The St. Louis American
Photo by Wiley Price
Dello Thedford directed the Shalom Church (City of Peace) Choir through some stirring gospel selections at the opening of the musical tribute to the late Fontella Bass held Friday at Shalom in North County.
David Steward mans up for Boy Scouts As regional director, WWT founder will outreach to black youth By Rebecca S. Rivas Of The St. Louis American David Steward, World Wide Technology cofounder and chairman, grew up in the small town of Clinton, MO. And when he was old enough to join the Boy Scouts, there was no troop that allowed children of color in town. However, Steward’s mother and several people in
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NAACP, SLPS partner on early education
“With the distraction of girls and playing basketball, I was just short of becoming an Eagle Scout.”
the community joined together to start a new troop that was inclusive of black and white children in the community. “I so enjoyed – David Steward the experience,” Steward said. “I went all way up to Life Scouts. With the distraction of girls and playing basketball, I was just short of becoming an Eagle Scout.” Those experiences provided leadership skills that See STEWARD, A6
Fitting for a memorial to a legendary singer and musician, the Fontella Bass tribute began with two musicians working on a cue. “Mount Beulah They were not callChurch was where ing across a stage, but across the vast Fontella came for sanctuary at Shalom refuge and to be Church (City of rescued.” Peace). The cue was for drums. – Rev. E.G. Shields Sr. Once the cue was worked out, Fontella Bass’ fabulous extended family was led into the sanctuary by the Normandy High School Marching Band, playing rolls on the rims of their drums. These fine, uniformed youth were following the Bosman Twins, Fontella’s dear
‘We need to demand a little bit more for our children’ By Bridjes O’Neil Of The St. Louis American The St. Louis city chapter of the NAACP is participating in a new Early Childhood Literacy Initiative along with chapters in Kalamazoo, Mich., and Lexington, Ky. The St. Louis NAACP’s local partners in the pilot project are St. Louis Public Schools, Earl Nance Sr. Elementary School, New Northside David Steward
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