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CAC Audited OCTOBER 4 – 10, 2018
Vol. 90 No. 28
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First-ever million-dollar Salute
COMPLIMENTARY
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Beyond fear of the black male By Curtis O’Dwyer For The St. Louis American Part of a year-long series, presented by The American and the Brown School at Washington University, on changing the narratives and outcomes of young black males in St. Louis. On August 15, 2014, the day after celebrating new beginnings by proposing to my wife, I returned to my city in turmoil. Many mourned the death of Michael Brown. The raw footage on the news and social media outlets depicted outrage and uprising. Ferguson was in a state of Curtis emergency, and I was only O’Dwyer five minutes away in Jennings where I grew up. Bridging our communities halfway between is Buzz Westfall Plaza. Normally shoppers go to this plaza to buy household items, groceries, and clothing, but in mid-August of that year it was almost inaccessible. In the middle of the parking lot, I saw what appeared to be an outdoor police station, national news satellites, and the National Guard’s tanks. A battle was unfolding. This revolution was televised, so the propaganda of the aftermath began to spread. However, many
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Photo by Maurice Meredith
2018 Lifetime Achiever Johnetta Randolph Haley accepts her portrait from St. Louis American photojournalist Wiley Price.
Haley, McMillan, others lauded as $1M in scholarships, grants awarded By Chris King Of The St. Louis American It was the first $1 million Salute — the first time since the St. Louis American Foundation produced its inaugural Salute to Excellence in Education gala in 1994 that
the foundation and its partners and sponsors crested the $1 million mark in student scholarships and educator grants. The signature 2018 awardees — Lifetime Achiever Johnetta Randolph Haley and Stellar Performer Michael P. McMillan — offered admirably concise and powerful
comments near the end of the sold-out event at America’s Center on Saturday, September 29, but it was still a full evening. There were so very many scholarships to award. “Service to others, that’s what my life has been,” Haley said to an adoring audience of more than 1,300. And service to others defines Salute: service to the next generation as universities, colleges and sponsors helped
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Bishop Robert James Ward: ‘An anchor for our denomination’ Beloved Kennerly Temple pastor and COGIC leader passes at 88 n “He was the father figure of the Church of God in Christ in this region, so there is a major void.”
“He will forever hold a special place in the hearts of millions of members of the Church of God in Christ throughout “Our church has lost a great hero in the United States and around the world,” our lives and in our ministry,” Elder said Presiding Bishop and Chief Apostle Edgar “Petey” Madison said of his of COGIC Charles Edward Blake Sr., spiritual father and mentor, Bishop the official leader of the six-millionRobert James Ward. plus member organization that has Early Sunday, September 30, Bishop representation in more than 83 nations. – Bishop Elijah Ward – prelate of the Eastern Missouri “He was the father figure of the Hankerson III First Jurisdiction of the Church of God in Church of God in Christ in this region, so Christ (COGIC) and longtime pastor of there is a major void, said Bishop Elijah the historic Kennerly Temple, a legend Hankerson III, president of COGIC’s within the COGIC denomination – was called home International Department of Evangelism, pastor of Life to be with the God he so faithfully served. He was 88 years old. See WARD, A6
‘A remedy at this site was long overdue,’ Just Moms STL activist says of radioactive dump By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American
DecemBer 6, 1929 – SeptemBer 30, 2018
By Kenya Vaughn Of The St. Louis American
EPA to clean up West Lake Landfill
Bishop Robert James Ward
Many North County residents are celebrating the news that the federal government will clean up the West Lake Landfill, a 200-acre site in Bridgeton where an underground n “We have been chemical event smolders within 700 feet of waiting over known radioactive a quarter of a waste. century for a safe On September 27, the U.S. Environmental and permanent Protection Agency solution to the announced a decision radioactive waste that calls for the at the landfill.” removal of up to 70 percent of the – Karen Nickel, Just radioactive material Moms STL and for disposal at an out-of-state facility. This reversed the EPA’s 2008 decision to capand-leave the waste at the unlined landfill in the Missouri River floodplain. “We are so proud of this community,” said Karen Nickel, co-founder of the grassroots neighborhood watchdog group Just Moms STL.
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