Salute to Excellence: Festive event with a purpose
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Making sure students belong Tashanna Stanciel is the SEMO Community Based Partner of the Year
her career to serving, advising, and mentoring young people. She now serves at Tashanna Stanciel has guided Big Brothers Big Sisters students and youth in many ways of Eastern Missouri during her career. [BBBSEMO], where she Whether it was helping them navmaintains key education and igate through college financially and employment relationships to socially or fostering a university’s advance its reach and impact. Some diversity on campus, Stanciel has Tashanna of her work is done at the University been up to the challenge. Stanciel of Missouri-St. Louis and her alma During her 16-year career, she mater, Southeast Missouri State has held positions in higher educaUniversity [SEMO.] tion and nonprofit administration. Stanciel, a For her dedication and service, Stanciel has first-generation college student, has devoted By Alvin A. Reid St. Louis American
been named the SEMO Community Based Partner of the year. She will be honored during the milestone 35th Annual St. Louis American Salute To Excellence in Education Scholarship and Awards Banquet on Oct. 1, 2022, at America’s Center. There’s more than just financial aid when it comes to college,” Stanciel said in a recent interview. “It’s important that you can afford it. But do you have a sense of belonging on campus? Are there support systems in place to make
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Frizzy fun Best friends Koa and Kynslee had fun hanging out at Frizz Fest on Saturday September 17th, 2022, in Tower Grove Park. More FrizzFest coverage is in the Living it section.
Vol. 94 No. 26 COMPLIMENTARY
Biden plan could spare 770K MO students
More than 1.4M in Illinois St. Louis American staff An NNPA More than 770,000 Missouri college students, including 502,200 who have Pell Grants, are eligible for student loan forgiveness under President Joe Biden’s recent loan forgiveness plan. The White House reported 1,486,600 Illinois borrowers will be eligible for relief, including 863,600 borrowers who received a Pell Grant. The plan could provide up to $10,000 of loan forgiveness to borrowers who did not receive a Pell Grant, and forgive $20,000 for Pell Grant borrowers. The U.S. Department of Education estimates that more than 40 million borrowers nationwide could benefit from the student debt relief plan, and nearly 20 million might see their entire remaining balance discharged. Last month, Biden announced his plan to forgive borrowers up to $10,000 in debt relief, and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients. “The Biden Administration’s student debt relief
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Lucky Inn Chop Suey has served its northside community for 90 years, and its owners, Robert and Wing Yee vow to keep doing business at 3018 Dr. Martin Luther King Drive until “we just close the door.”
Feeling lucky
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American wins national and state top General Exellence awards First time from the National Newspaper Association
By K. Michael Jones The St. Louis American For the first time in its 94- year history, The St. Louis American received first place honors for General Excellence from the National Newspaper Association, an industry association comprised of more than 1,600 member newspapers nationwide. At the same time, The American won the first place General Excellence award for large weekly
SPORTS
Dixon dazzles in Lutheran North victory
Ricky Dixon helped lead the Crusaders to a blowout win over the Westminster Wildcats 73-0 in a Metro Athletic League contest on Sept. 16.
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newspapers in the state of Missouri, by the Missouri Press Association. Both awards were part of recent Better Newspaper Contests, where The American won more than two dozen total awards. State-wide awards The St. Louis American won 15 industry awards which were handed out last weekend at the Lake of the Ozarks at the Missouri
Press Association annual convention. Five of the awards were first place awards, including: General Excellence, Best Online Newspaper, Community Service, Multi-Media Reporting and Best Video. Referencing the General Excellence category, one of the judges stated “This is the best-looking weekly newspaper I’ve seen in a long time. The coverage is interesting and
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Lucky Inn Chop Suey part of northside history for 90 years By Sylvester Brown Jr. The St. Louis American Lucky Inn Chop Suey at 3018 Dr Martin Luther King Dr. has been in business since 1932. The owner, Robert Yee, 84, inherited the now 90-yearold business from his father, Hing Yee, who n “First it was a came to America from white neighborHong Kong in the early hood, then it was 1900s. a Black neighborHing Yee was an hood, then it was entrepreneur’s entreno neighborhood.” preneur bouncing from city-to-city. From San Francisco, to Texas, to Mississippi, he took odd jobs that included selling coal and ice from wooden street carts. Hing Yee followed a tradition that began in the mid-1800s when hundreds of thousands of Chinese
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LIVING IT
Apology made for role in racist housing practices
‘Ain’t Too Proud’ runs at Fox through Oct. 2
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Redlining, housing covenants and other discriminatory practices played a role in the divide, and St. Louis Realtors offered an apology for its role in creating the situation.
“Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations,” is a musical biography of the group’s formation, success, and adversities told from the perspective of Otis Williams.