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CAC Audited MAR. 30 – APR. 5, 2017
Vol. 89 No. 2 COMPLIMENTARY
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Connecting learning with life
Salute to Health Care
OB/GYN of the ‘cool’ Dr. Jacqueline Turner is 2017 Stellar Performer By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American
Photo by Wiley Price
Fifth grade social entrepreneurs Karon Hunt, Savion Wilson, Jamar Aaron, Paul Thomas, Mya Wilson, and Ja’Nyah Smith from Farragut Elementary School presented their winning design to transform a rundown teacher’s lounge into a quiet study lounge to two of the judges of Saint Louis Public Schools’ Love of Learning Design Challenge. Six teams of finalists from grades 5-12 were asked to find workable solutions for homelessness, food deserts and lack of safe spaces.
SLPS students offer design solutions to problems of homelessness, trauma, food deserts By Sandra Jordan Of The St. Louis American Problems like hunger, food deserts and homelessness often make their way into schools, where adults do what they can to address these burdensome needs confronting
students. In a unique learning experience, Saint Louis Public Schools turned to its students to propose ideas on how to use space to address issues in the schools and the community. Students became social entrepreneurs in the district’s first Love of Learning Design Challenge.
“That’s the beauty of the design-thinking process, it starts with empathy,” said Glenn Barnes, the social studies curriculum specialist who came up with the concept of the design challenge. “So they have the ability to make a connection between their head and their heart to an issue that is important to them.”
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‘The black man is back’ By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American
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City voters face sales tax increases Prop 1 could fund MetroLink, Prop 2 a soccer stadium
Brother Shahid convenes Tauheed Youth Group, April 6-9 After being in prison for 30 years, Victor Ali doesn’t want to see anyone follow in his footsteps of being a “hard-headed kid who didn’t listen to his mother” and got caught up in street violence. “So many of our youth are taking early trips to prison forever or ending up in the n “We are graveyard,” Ali said. “If going to take you are a loose screw back our on society, the devil’s streets.” going to get you.” When Ali got out of – Brother prison a year and a half Anthony Shahid ago, he immediately joined local activist Brother Anthony Shahid in educating youth at schools, jails and in the community about the grave consequences of street violence. He joined the Tauheed Youth Group, a mentoring group for high-risk, African-American young men and women that Shahid founded in
Dr. Jacqueline Turner has delivered somewhere around 5,000 babies during her 30 years practicing in obstetrics and gynecology. “It has happened on many occasions, when I’ll go to a delivery and have a room full of relatives of the patients and will have delivered babies for everyone in the room – which is a great feeling to have,” Turner said. “We take care of a lot of families that way.” Growing her private practice is one of Turner’s proudest professional achievements, she said. When she completed her residency at Harlem Hospital, Turner came to St. Louis in 1987 to serve at Grace Hill Community Health Center, where she stayed for more than seven years before she went into private practice. Dr. Jacqueline Over the years, she added a nurse practitioner and a second Turner doctor to her practice, called West End Ob-Gyn. Then in 2008, they became part of the BJC Medical Group and relocated to her current office near the St. Louis Community College - Forest Park campus. “If I had to describe Dr. Turner in one word, it would be ‘dedicated,’” said Amy Elliott, a patient who has been with Turner for 12 years. “Her patients come first to her, and she treats each of us with the same level of respect and care. She is truly a caring individual, and her level of professionalism deserves to be recognized.” On Friday, April 28, Turner will receive the Stellar Performer Award at the Salute to Excellence in Health Care Awards Luncheon, an event that raises money for college scholarships
By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American
Photo by Wiley Price
Brother Anthony Shahid organizing youth in Canfield Green Apartments during the early days of the Ferguson unrest.
While there are a whopping six propositions on the April 4 municipal ballot in St. Louis city, two are getting more attention than the others – one relates to MetroLink expansion, and the other to building a soccer stadium. Proposition 1 is a half-cent sales-tax increase that is expected to generate $20 million a year. The bulk of that – $12 million – will go towards building an 8-mile MetroLink extension from North City to South City. The extension basically runs from Cherokee Street, up Jefferson Street, through downtown and just beyond the new National Geospatial Agency site. The remaining $8 million would go towards public safety, job training, a youth empowerment fund and neighborhood revitalization. Propositions 1 and 2 are connected, and the link is a bit confusing. Whenever the sales tax increases, then the city’s “business use tax” –
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