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CAC Audited OCTOBER 17 – 23, 2013
Vol. 84 No. 29 COMPLIMENTARY
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Forest Park Forever starts $30M upgrade Park makes top 10 list of Great Public Spaces By Rebecca S. Rivas Of The St. Louis American
Tara Larthridge recently spent some quality time on Art Hill in Forest Park with her daughter Kulani Larthridge, 18.
For some, Forest Park is a 1,371-acre playground with winding trails, golf greens and ball fields. For others, it’s a cultural and experiential destination. “Yet all agree it deserves to be cherished and protected,” said Lesley Hoffarth, president and executive director of Forest Park Forever. “And that’s the mission of Forest Park Forever.” Forest Park recently made the top 10 list of Great Public Spaces for 2013, established by the American Planning Association. The association called Forest Park, the “heart” and “crown jewel of
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The Black Rep’s next act Theatre takes residency at HarrisStowe’s Emerson Performance Center By Kenya Vaughn Of The St. Louis American The Black Rep has found a new home for its 37th season: the Emerson Performance Center at Harris-Stowe State University. “To produce African-American theatre at an African-American institution of higher learning just adds to the sweetness,” said Ron Himes, founder and producing director for the Black Rep. “And to be able to have a wonderful, beautiful, comfortable theatre for our patrons to be able to see the work that we do is the cherry on top of this cake.” The 250-seat theatre is the ideal size for the Black Rep’s subscription base and attendance aver-
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Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI, spoke recently on “The Three Keys to Closing the Disparities Gap in Alzheimer’s Disease” at the Washington University School of Medicine’s eighth annual Norman R. Seay Lecture.
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Tasting St. Louis Isalle Brown, 3, Royn Brown, 2, and Kimanee Payne, 6, enjoyed a snack while watching entertainment on the Children’s Stage at the recent Taste of St. Louis held downtown.
Board to vote on NorthSide $391M TIF for updated McKee project to be taken up Friday By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American After two hours of debate on October 11, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen voted in favor of moving forward with developer Paul McKee Jr.’s NorthSide redevelopment plan
and $391 million TIF agreement. The two bills – one to update the redevelopment plan and another to activate two areas in the TIF agreement – will go before the aldermen again on Friday for a final vote. The board and Mayor Francis G. Slay previously approved the NorthSide redevelop-
ment plan and TIF agreement in 2009. However, several residents sued the City of St. Louis and McKee, challenging the NorthSide TIF and redevelopment plan. Because the lawsuit, which was settled in
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Health ‘inequities,’ not disparities Dr. Wilkins delivers Norman R. Seay Lecture at WUSM By Sandra Jordan Of The St. Louis American Dr. Consuelo H. Wilkins thinks we should shift our focus from health “disparities” to health “inequities.” “Disparities are differences, and it doesn’t really speak to what the causes of the differences are,” Wilkins, MD, MSCI, said when recently giving the eighth annual Norman R. Seay Lecture, presented by the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, the Department of Neurology, and John C. Morris, MD, director at
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