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SPORTS Hornets take title at Union 42 GREAT EATS Super way to spend day 38

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Stats show 3 in 10 county adults smoke

Life lessonsHerman and Bobby teach community about disabilities

Blooming good ideasBridesmaid Tosha Frederick of Hillsboro collects ideas, samples and flowers at the Leader Wedding Fair held Sunday. For details and more photos, see Page 2.

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Sally Herman with her service dog, Bobby, a Newfoundland.

Kerr: Suit settled; project can begin

By Kim RobertsonFor the Leader

Former Fox School District music teacher Sally Herman had her ca-reer cut short after she was injured

in a serious traffic accident and began suf-fering from a number of health problems, including convulsions.

However, the Festus woman didn’t give up education entirely, taking every chance she gets to talk to children and

Just a week before the American Lung Association gave Missouri an “F” in smoking prevention, the Jefferson County Health Department had

to cancel a quit-smoking class because not enough people showed up.

Chrissy Oberle, health education coordinator for the Health Department, told the agency’s Board of Trustees on Jan. 23 she was dismayed by both pieces

By Patrick MartinFor the Leader

Two men have been arrested in con-nection with a string of vehicle break-ins that included the theft of a

county shotgun from the unmarked vehicle of Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer.

Investigation into Boyer’s burglarized vehicle leads to trove of stolen items

Officers have recovered 60 to 70 electronic items and other items from a Pevely storage locker rented by a girl-friend of one of the suspects.

A 35-year-old Pevely man was ar-rested Jan. 25 at a rural Festus trailer park

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See THEFTS, Page 5 See SMOKING, Page 19

By Steve TaylorFor the Leader

The Crystal City Council on Jan. 26 approved a settlement with devel-oper Tom Kerr over an easement

dispute that had put a five-year hold on his plans to convert the old PPG Industries silica sand mine into a recreation, retail and industrial complex.

Kerr said he is dropping a lawsuit over the fuss and hopes to extend elec-tricity to the 173-acre site, which is just outside Crystal City, within 90 days.

He said he expects to break ground on a museum in his Crystal City Under-ground complex as well as other projects this fall.

“This (the settlement of the easement lawsuit) will allow me to go forward with what I want to do,” he said. “To be fully developed, this is probably a 20-year project.”

While various promotional events have been held in the facility over the last few years, Kerr said he’s been hamstrung on getting his larger vision off the ground because of a dispute over the entrance

See Kerr, Page 16

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More than 100 people from all over the state turned out Sat-urday at the De Soto Armory

for the annual Missouri Farmers Market Association conference, hosted by the De Soto Farmers Market and city of De Soto.

“It was a wonderful experience. The city came together and supported us in all ways,” said Debby Campbell, the ex-ecutive director of Get Healthy De Soto, which operates the Farmers Market. “We had 105 that turned out for the day, and I can’t tell you how good I felt about the whole experience.”

A variety of topics related to farm-ers markets were covered at the state conference. Jon Hagler, director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture, was the keynote speaker.

“Dr. Hagler gave us an inspiring key-note address, encouraging us to remember our agrarian (farming) tradition and then challenging everyone to go out and be agrarian evangelists,” Campbell said.

The event also included a Jan. 27 bus tour of area farms. Campbell said 55 people took the tour, which included stops at Cyndi Lou’s Produce in Dittmer, which uses high-tunnel growing methods and sells produce at the De Soto Farmers Market; Single Creek Draft Horse Farm in Dittmer, which displayed horse-drawn equipment and the making of maple syrup; and Big River Alpacas in Fletcher.

Campbell said the conference drew a variety of people to town.

“We had people from all over Jeffer-son County,” Campbell said. “We had one person from Hillsboro who came thinking about starting a (farmers) market. We had one person from Arnold (which plans to open a market this spring). We had other people who were just curious. We had people from Kansas City and Columbia and Webb City.

“And, we had seven vendors there, which provided people the chance be-tween sessions to visit and see new prod-ucts that were out and available. Lincoln University and the University of Missouri Extension were there with information.”

Also at the conference, the state

Farmers Market Association elected of-ficers, and Campbell was re-elected its president.

De Soto Farmers Market kicks off on April 21

The De Soto Farmers Market is scheduled to open for its fourth season on Saturday, April 21, with a tractor parade beginning at 10 a.m. at Queen’s Plaza on Main Street in De Soto and ending at the De Soto Amvets, Hwy. 21 and Amvets Drive. Then, a plant sale will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Another plant sale will be held from noon to 4 p.m. the next Saturday, April 28.

Then, the market will resume its normal hours on Saturday, May 5, when a grand-opening celebration titled “Meet Me at the Market” will be held. Starting that day, the market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon every Saturday through Oct. 20 in the parking lot behind St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church, 1004 Rock

Farmers market conference attractedstatewide crowd to De Soto on Saturday

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Ruth Donohue of St. Louis, up close and personal with an inquisitive alpaca during a Jan. 27 tour of area farms.

Cyndi Rousan, a manager with the Jefferson County Soil and Water Conservation District, explains the process of growing produce in a greenhouse to a tour group.

Susan DeClue of Crystal City tries out the brand-new, free “Seasonal and Simple” application, coming this spring from the University of Missouri. The program will enable mobile phone and tablet users to look up farmers market locations and hours of operation.


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Almost four dozen Jefferson Coun-ty farmers and ranchers showed up at a Jan. 26 public meeting in

Cedar Hill to implore state agriculture officials to recommend keeping the doors open at the U.S. Department of Agricul-ture Farm Service Agency (FSA) office in Hillsboro.

The local office is among three in the state targeted for “consolidation” with other offices. If the closure takes place, local farmers would be directed to offices in Union, Ste. Genevieve or Farmington to obtain government services and pro-grams available to them.

“The least amount of travel time for those of us from Jefferson County would be 40 miles one way to the Farmington office,” said Dittmer resident Cyndi Rousan, 51, after the meeting. “It would be a major inconvenience, especially for new, beginning farmers. There’s a lot of paperwork for them.”

But Rousan said existing farms also must deal with a lot of paperwork in ac-cessing government programs. She said she and her husband, Bruce Rousan, operate a farm his family has owned for at least 80 years.

“They didn’t even consider a part-time office,” she said. “Even that would be better than closing it.”

Donald Webb, 74, of rural Hillsboro also attended the Jan. 26 meeting and echoed Rousan’s dismay if the county office is closed.

“My son and I started utilizing our farm about 10 years ago. Before that

we rented it out,” Webb said. “I’ve been treated very well at the office and it’s in a good location. If I had to go to the office in Union, it would be a 40-mile drive. To take care of business with them, it would talk half a day.”

The decision to close or save the office ultimately rests with the U.S. Con-gress, Missouri FSA officials said.

Still, the turnout at the public meet-ing at Arrowhead Livestock Facility impressed agency officials, said Jasper Grant, a Missouri FSA spokesman. He said the agency’s count on attendance was 46 people.

“It was one of the larger attendances at a public comments meeting,” Grant said. “The group there was well-versed and well-informed. The state director will forward comments to the (federal) secretary of agriculture and, ultimately, it will be up to Congress.”

Those who would still like to com-

Farmers, ranchers pan proposed closing of Hillsboro office

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Stan Bonacker of Windy Hill Farms opposes the FSA office closing. “Counties slated to absorb Jefferson County farmers really don’t want us, as they are afraid they won’t be able to get their own work done,” he said.

ment on the potential closing of the Hill-sboro FSA office have until Sunday to send emails to [email protected] or written comments to Parkside Center, Suite 225, 601 Business Loop 70 West, Columbia, 65203.

The Hillsboro office is among 97 in Missouri. Officials do not know when closures might occur.

Missouri Farm Service Agency officials, from left, Billy Swiney, Ed Hamill and Jasper Grant, during the Jan. 26 meeting to discuss closing the local FSA office.

Missouri FSA executive director Ed Hamill, left, talks over the potential closure with John and Larry Langelier, who operate a family farm on McNutt School Road in Festus.

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into the property. That vision includes a natural history museum with dinosaur models and a visitors center, a conven-tion center, recreational sports areas, athletic training facilities and industrial and warehouse areas.

Areas in the mine would be leased out to independent operators, much as a shopping mall operates.

History of disputeWhen Kerr’s Fiesta Corp. bought the

sand mine, the deed included an easement through the former site of the PPG Indus-tries glass plant. The easement, which has a road wide enough for two vehicles and is about 1,100 feet long, is fenced in and leads from Crystal Avenue to a one-lane bridge over the Plattin Creek. The sand mine is on the opposite site of the creek.

The exact spot of tha t easement fell in to d i spu te once Crystal City negotiated a lease with Jim Kennedy and his Wings Enterprises to build an iron ore processing facility on the former PPG Works 9 glass plant site.

Kerr said when it became apparent that he and Kennedy would not agree on the location of the easement, he filed suit in 2007 in Jefferson County Circuit Court to clear the matter up.

“I honestly didn’t ever want to go to court,” Kerr said. “This shouldn’t have taken five years to figure this out. This has been unnecessary and unproductive. It’s been too long in coming.”

Kerr said the easement dispute blocked him from having Ameren Mis-souri extend underground electric lines through the easement to the mine.

He said the January takeover of Wings Enterprises by Thayer Land De-velopment Co. LLC, a partnership of the Alberici Group Inc. of St. Louis County and MFC Industrial Ltd. of Vancouver,

Canada, sped the process along.“Alberici had a lot to do with it being

settled,” he said. In the end, Kerr said, the easement

will look much like he wanted it to look five years ago.

“They essentially gave me what I asked for,” Kerr said. “We’ll have to move the entrance (on Crystal Avenue) up a little and the fence will jog a little bit here and there, but now I’ll be able to move forward.”

He said once all parties sign off on the settlement, it will take effect 10 days later.

Crystal City Council’s approval came in a 7-0 vote at a special meeting. Ward 3 Councilman Jason Eisenbeis was absent.

Crystal City was named in the suit because it owns the PPG glass plant site. Wings Enterprises, PPG Industries and the Missouri Department of Natural Re-sources also were named as defendants.

By Tuesday, all parties had signed off the settlement except the Department of Natural Resources, Kerr said. A spokes-woman with the DNR said she couldn’t comment on litigation. Messages left with the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, which provides legal work for state agen-cies, were not returned in time for the Leader deadline on Tuesday.

The state was involved because of possible environmental contamination in the area caused by the operation of

the glass plant.Kerr said his easement contains no

known environmental issues.“Under the agreement, though, if

any is ever found, PPG will clean it up,” he said.

Kerr: Site needs power, then water removal

For now, Kerr said, he’s happy to be able to move forward.

“I haven’t talked with Ameren about

this recently, but I’m hoping we can get them out here in the next 90 days or so,” he said.

Kerr said getting a three-phase elec-tric line through the easement will be the large first step in his plans.

“We were looking at installing the line underground, but we may have to go overhead now,” he said. “We need three-phase electric because then we can operate heavy equipment, such as pumps. Currently, we have a single-phase line coming down from River Hills (a subdivi-sion built on top of the sand mine), which is good for lighting.”

The heavier lines, he said, are es-sential.

“The first step is to get the pumps going to pump the water out of the mine and get that under control,” he said.

Kerr, 57, who lives in River Hills, has said about half of the 5.5 million square

Kerr: Developer plans museum, convention center, sports arena, warehouseContinued from Page 1

Tom Kerr

Ted Howell photoVolleyball courts set up inside the mine prior to an event in September.

See KERR, Page 17

Steve Taylor photoEntrance to the Crystal City Underground property just outside Crystal City.


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A new restaurant is slated to open this spring in the Richardson Crossing Plaza on Vogel Road

in Arnold.A Weber’s Front Row restaurant is

scheduled to open there in late April or early May, said co-owner Bob Weber, 47, of Webster Groves.

He, along with business partner Jim Ferguson, own and operate the Weber’s Front Row restaurant in Webster Groves. That restaurant has been open for 20 years, Weber said.

Kevin Kilper of the Arnold area, a longtime manager at the Webster Groves store, will be a part owner and manager of the Arnold restaurant, Weber said.

The restaurant will be at 3830 Vogel Road in the spot where a Hallmark store used to operate. It is next door to a Cato store. Also, a Schnucks store is in that plaza.

Weber said it will take a lot of work to convert the space into a restaurant. “It’s a white box right now,” he said. “We’ll do a full build out.”

Weber said he thinks Arnold will be a good location for the second restaurant.

“We started looking for areas to expand and that’s where we ended up,” he said.

Weber’s Front Row serves burgers, sandwiches, pizza, appetizers, salads and more. The menu at the Arnold location will be the same, Weber said.

Kim Robertson photoA Weber’s Front Row restaurant will open in late April in this space in the Richardson Crossing Plaza on Vogel Road in Arnold.

Arnold snares second Weber’s Front Row


Weather problems have slowed work on the Taco Bell under construction in Hillsboro, but

the restaurant’s opening is imminent, a project spokeswoman said.

The target date for the Taco Bell along Business 21, just south of Mc-Donald’s, to begin business had been mid-January.

No Limits LLC-RKM Enterprises LLC of Farmington is the franchisee. The building is largely fi nished, said spokes-woman Tina Umfl eet, but wet weather has

Taco Bell set to open soon in Hillsboro

Kevin Carbery photoRecent wet weather has delayed the paving of the parking lot at the Taco Bell restaurant in Hillsboro.

delayed work on the parking lot.“We’re hoping for opening, probably,

next week,” Umfl eet said “The weather has slowed down construction.”

Earlier in the project, the rugged terrain of the site had been a challenge to overcome, said Marty Brand, the fran-chisee’s maintenance director.

Kern Construction is building the 50-seat restaurant on land requiring grading work and the construction of retaining walls on two sides. In addition, a water main had to be relocated.

The restaurant will employ 15 full-time employees and 25 part-time employ-ees, Brand said.

Midwest Regional Bank recently donated almost $15,000 to several local schools.

The bank donated $930 to Crystal City High School for its Rocket Club, Re-naissance Club and yearbook. It donated $1423.50 to Crystal City Elementary School for its positive behavior support program and book battle.

Festus High School got $320 for its yearbook. Festus Middle School got $1,350 for laptop computers, and Festus Intermediate got $950 for Missouri As-sessment Program medals. Another $500 went to Festus Elementary for upgrades to its computer lab.

In the Jefferson R-7 School District, $1,000 went to the high school for academ-ic excellence award medallions. Another $1,000 was donated to the middle school for its STAR Math software program, and $800 was given to the intermediate school for an intervention program. The elementary school got $1,000 for a white

Midwest Regional Bank donates $14,786 to several local schoolsboard for its special education program.

The bank also donated $2,013 to St. Pius High School in Crystal City for a swing-arm projector. In addition,

Our Lady Catholic School in Festus got $2,000 for a library reading program, and Twin City Christian Academy in Festus got $1,500 for lighting for its gymnasium.

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Festus Middle School principal Tina Thebeau, left, Eisenbeis, and assisant principal Spencer Kearns.

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The De Soto Farmers Market will open for the season on Saturday, May 5, when vendors will sell

homemade produce and handmade items from 8 a.m. to noon at St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church, 1004 Rock Road, De Soto.

The market will be held every Satur-day thereafter through Oct. 20.

This year’s season got a public send-off on April 21, when the De Soto Farmers Market Tractor and Little League Parade was held along Main Street.

The event was a hit, said Debby Campbell, executive director of Get Healthy De Soto, which coordinates the Farmers Market.

“It was really terrific,” she said. “We had a great group of tractors that came out, about 25 of them. And, we had a Civil War re-enactor group there. The Shriners joined us and brought a clown and a couple of mini cars that followed us around, so that was fun. The Back Porch Band rode on the De Soto Farmers Market float and played music throughout the parade. And, several of us walked the parade route and handed out seed packets. We had vegetable seeds and flower seeds. We had 500 seed packets donated to us by the Baker Seed Co.”

Campbell said Main Street was lined with spectators.

“There were at least 2,000, maybe 2,500, people there,” she said. “It was great. We had great weather.”

Campbell said everyone had a great time.

“The comments were great,” she said. “People were just excited. I’ve never seen so many cameras. People were elated. We had one family of participants who had four kids, and one them had a lasso and big cowboy hat, and another rode a toy John Deere tractor and pedaled that thing from beginning to end.

“We had people say it was the best parade they’d seen. We had one truck, it was built by a man and modeled after those from the 1940s. It was supposed to be an old fruit truck, and he had it filled with apples and all kinds of fruit. It was a beautiful truck. There was a tractor with steel wheels, so it had to be put on

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a flatbed and pulled.”The De Soto Little League also par-

ticipated in the parade.“We combined the parade with the

Little League, so we had the Farmers Market in front and then the whole Little League behind,” Campbell said. “That really helped with the (size of the) crowd on Main Street.”

After the parade, the Farmers Market was opened for the first time this season, although it just sold bedding plants.

For more information about this year’s Farmers Market season, go to www.buyfreshlocal.blogspot.com.

Ted Howell photosDylan Henry, 8, pedals his John Deere tractor in the De Soto Farmers Market Tractor and Little League Parade held April 21. Walking with him are Colby and Logan Henry, both 10. See more photos at myleaderpaper.com.

Tractor driver Marie Meyers waves to people along De Soto Main Street.

Members of the Muckdogs baseball team, sponsored by VFW Post 1831, wave during the parade.


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Sam Richards, who championed the idea of a smoking ban in Festus when he served on the Festus City

Council from 2009-2011, asked the coun-cil April 25 to again consider the matter.

Earlier in April, the Jefferson County Health Department asked the city for a smoking ban, City Administrator Happy Welch said. He said that request was scheduled for discussion at the council’s Wednesday night work session (May 2), after the Leader deadline.

Richards said he would like a smok-ing ban enacted for public dining and drinking establishments, was well as for

any enclosed work area.Richards, 67, said the issue is per-

sonal to him for health reasons because he had four heart attacks, a triple bypass heart operation and an implanted defibril-lator, all in his 50s. He was a smoker for 30 years before quitting.

“One of the times I was in the hos-pital and was getting ready to leave, a cardiologist said, ‘Mr. Richards, if you don’t quit smoking, you’re gong to die young,’” he said. “I quit on the spot.”

Richards said he does not like to come into contact with smoke when he goes to a public place.

“Secondhand smoke is not quite as bad (as firsthand), but still can cause lung cancer,” he said. “It’s wrong to expose

children and nonsmoking adults to sec-ondhand smoke.”

Richards said the municipal smoking ban he proposed while on the council failed to gain traction among council members. But he said he believes the cur-rent membership of the council is more receptive to a ban.

“I decided to bring it up again and go for a total ban on smoking in restaurants, bars and all enclosed work spaces,” he said Tuesday.

“I haven’t heard from the council yet. I intend to talk to them about it.”

Council members did not respond to Richards’ smoking ban request, which he made during a public comments section of the meeting.

Richards asks again for smoking banNews

Kevin Carbery photoFormer Councilman Sam Richards at the April 25 Festus City Council meeting.

The city of Herculaneum has agreed to issue merchant’s licenses for two new businesses moving into the city. In separate 6-0 votes, the Board of Aldermen on April 23 granted licenses for Big Times Automotive and Quality Janitorial Supply.

Big Times Automotive is slated to go in at 1461 Commercial Blvd. just north of Phillips 66. James Lee

Times Jr. of Festus said custom hydraulic and custom lift work will be Big Times’ specialty. Basic vehicle maintenance and engine and transmission work also will be done at the shop, he said.

Times said he and a partner will run the business.He said he started working on cars as a child and has worked profes-sionally as a mechanic at Firestone and National Tire and Battery. He said he

hopes to open the new shop as soon as possible.

Herculaneum City Administrator Jim Kasten said a used car sales business for-merly occupied the lot where Big Times Automotive is moving.

Quality Janitorial Supply is going in at 1230 Commercial Blvd. next to the Herculaneum Post Office. The store, which will serve businesses as well as

walk-in customers, will sell everything from floor finishes and furniture pol-ishes to septic systems, oven cleaners and paper towels. Kassie Chapman of Crystal City will run the store. It is expected to open this week.

Kasten said a different janitorial supply company used to have a store at the site. One building sits on the lot.

– Clementine Carbery

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Festus Mayor Mike Cage says he is in no hurry to expedite a sewer tap-on request for a new CVS pharmacy in

Crystal City, slated to be built at the site of the Twin City Motel, 450 S. Truman Blvd., and an adjoining lot at 400 S. Truman Blvd.

Festus City Administrator Happy Welch said CVS officials put in the request for the tap-on April 23, seeking quick approval from Festus.

Matt Fogarty, project manager for Premier Civil Engineering, attended the April 25 Festus City Council meeting on behalf of Missouri CVS Pharmacy LLC.

Fogarty said CVS wants to attach to the Festus sewer system because the proposed CVS site is currently served by a private sewer system. Using a private system could

Kirk Biehle, owner of Biele Street Pub at 42 E. Main St. in Festus, is in the process of selling his business.

The buyer, Justin Knoke received approval of a liquor license in an 8-0 vote of the Festus City Council at its April 11 meeting.

On Tuesday, Knoke, 35, of Mapaville said he and Biehle were still working out the details of the sale. He plans to name the business Thirty 3 Bar and Grill.

“This (33) is my uniform number since I was 12 years old,” Knoke said. “I played baseball and softball. I wanted the (business) name to be tied to me, but not use my name.”

Biehle, 36, of Festus has owned the bar for about nine years.

“It’s a good time for me to sell the business,” Biehle said.

At the April 11 meeting, Festus Police Chief Tim Lewis said he had no objections to issuing a new liquor license.

Knoke said the bar, which shut down as the Biele Street Pub on April 25, will remain closed for renovations for several weeks. He hopes to reopen as Thirty 3 Bar

Festus offi cials are lukewarm to request for CVSlead to legal problems down the road in the event of sewer-line backups, he said.

“They came to the city (April 23) with a deadline of (April 25),” Welch said. “They wanted a letter from the city approving the sewer connection before they closed on the property deal.”

Cage noted that a Walgreens phar-macy sits in Festus across the street from the proposed CVS. “They want to tap into a Festus sewer line and that can only hurt a Festus business,” the mayor said. “I think we need to discuss this among ourselves.”

Welch said CVS must go through the normal process to seek the tap-on. He said the matter is scheduled to be on the council’s May 9 meeting agenda.

-- Kevin Carbery

Steve Taylor photoA CVS pharmacy has been proposed on the site of the Twin City Motel and an adjoining offi ce building.

Biele Street Pub in Festus is changing hands

and Grill in mid-May.“I’m going to remodel it and give it a

more modern look,” he said. “I wouldn’t expect a lot of changes. It’s still going to be a bar and grill.”

This will be his fi rst time owning a bar, he said.

“I had some money to invest and thought this would be a good investment, Knoke said. “I contacted them after fi nd-ing out they were looking to sell.”

-- Kevin Carbery

Kevin Carbery photoBiele Street Pub is expected to reopen soon as Thirty 3 Bar and Grill.

Metro Business College in Arnold will hold a job search workshop from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, May 10, at the college, 2132 Tenbrook Road. The workshop will

Metro Business College to hold job search workshop include resume writing and interview skills. Participants should bring their most recent resume. For more information, call Holly Steen at 636-296-9300.

BUSINESS

Thursday, June 28, 2012Jefferson County Leader16


Terry Long of Imperial juggles three jobs – all related to produce – start-ing each day about 5:30 a.m. and

going to bed about midnight.He has a part-time job managing the

Arnold Farmers Market, which is in its ninth week, after kicking off on May 5.

Long also is a contract worker at Monsanto, where he works in plant and seed propagation.

And, for the past two years, he also has operated Long’s Produce Farm in the Hillsboro area, where he rents about a half-acre to grow a variety of vegetables.

“I spend about 35 hours a week farming, after work every night and on the weekends,” he said. “Farming is a lot of work.”

Long, 38, who worked for about 11 years as a union carpenter, said he hopes eventually to make farming his full-time job.

“My goal is to be able to produce food year-round,” he said.

Long said his family always had a garden, and he long dreamed of farming.

“I like plants,” he said. “I have an associate degree in horticulture. I came out of high school in Illinois in 1992, and that (horticulture) is what I wanted to do. I worked in a nursery that summer and then I worked for a landscaping company while doing my degree. I stayed in that field until 1999.”

After that, he began work as a car-penter.

“But, in winter 2010, when the economy was really bad, I decided I went to school to grow stuff and there were no jobs (as a carpenter), so I started getting into vegetable growing.”

He raises tomatoes, squash, zucchini, corn, pumpkins and other produce.

Long also grows five variety of pep-pers, including the gypsy pepper, which, he said, is a mild, cooking pepper used in a lot of Bosnian and Croatian dishes.

“I also grow Caribbean red peppers, which are hot peppers,” he said.

Long sells a lot of the produce he grows at the Sappington Market.

He also sells some at the Arnold Farmers Market.

Long’s wife, Melinda (Boatwright) Long, a 1992 Fox High School gradu-ate, sells homemade baked goods at the Farmers Market, including zucchini, poppy seed, banana, blueberry and apple bread; blueberry and apple pie muffins; and yeast dinner and yeast cinnamon rolls.

“People have been coming back looking for me, so people are enjoying the food – which I love,” she said.

Melinda is a substitute teacher in the Fox district and also helps with the farm, as do the Longs’ two daughters, Megan, 9, and Peyton, 6.

“We get up early and do it before it gets hot,” Melinda said.

Growing food is a passion for manager of Arnold Farmers MarketHe bleeds green

Melinda said she and her girls also like farming.

“It’s very gratifying seeing some-thing you start from seed to see how much it grows and see what it produces,” she said. “The harvest part is my favorite part.”

Dissected trampolines provided greenhouse material

The Longs have an unusual green-house at their Imperial home.

Terry Long made it out of six old trampolines that he got through Craigslist. He took the trampolines apart and used the round sections to make the frame for the 30-foot-long greenhouse.

Then, he used heavy-duty plastic to cover it.

“I saved the jumping surfaces (from the trampolines) to use as a shade cloth,” Long said. “I can pull that over areas with plants that need shade. I use springs (from the trampolines) to hang up baskets or water lines or lamps.” Long said he needed a greenhouse and the idea to use trampolines to build one just came to him.

“It keeps them out of landfills, which is where they were destined,” he said. “And, they’re galvanized, pre-formed and strong.”

So far this season, the Longs have sold potatoes from their farm at the Ar-nold Farmers Market, which is open from 9 a.m. to noon every Saturday through Oct. 22, except for Sept. 15, during the annual Arnold Days Festival.

It is held on the Fox Schools campus on Jeffco Boulevard in Arnold.

More than 100 people have been turning out each week, Long said.

The Longs expect to sell gypsy pep-pers at the Farmers Market this Saturday, June 30, Melinda said.

Tomatoes will be in shortly, so the Longs will be selling them at the Farmers Market soon, she added.

Arnold Farmers Market expects 10 vendors Saturday

About 10 vendors are expected to sell produce and homemade items at the market on Saturday, including a couple of new ones, Terry Long said.

Also, Erb Equipment will have some pieces of equipment on display at the market.

The Longs have product liability insur-ance on the produce they sell.

When the Arnold Farmers Market was set up, the city required all vendors to have insurance, but those rules have been relaxed to encourage more vendors to participate, Arnold City Administrator Matt Unrein said.

“We want to make it easier for the smaller backyard enthusiasts who may have a bigger crop of tomatoes than they can use to come in and sell it,” he said. “The way we had an insurance requirement, they almost had to have their own business to be able to sell there. So, we changed the rules. We still encourage them (vendors) to have insurance. It protects them as an individual, but the insurance requirement has been relaxed.”

Unrein said he believes the Farmers Market will continue to grow.

“The crops are just starting to come in, so in the coming weeks we will see more vendors,” he said. “As the season progresses, more and more (items) will be available (at the market).”

Unrein said he thinks the market has worked out well.

“We’ve been very, very pleased with how it’s been maturing,” he said.

Ted Howell photoPeyton, 6, Megan, 9, and their dad, Terry Long, work in the greenhouse.

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About 900 day lilies were sold Saturday to benefi t the Kimms-wick Visitors’ Center, says Susan

Thomas, director of the center.Carrol Wrather, 76, of Kimmswick

donated the day lilies for the sale, which raised about $2,800, Thomas said.

“It was a very, very good day, for a one-day sale,” she said.

Thomas said she’s not sure how many people turned out for the sale, but estimated that more attended this year than last.

“It was probably more than last year because sales were greater,” she said. “We did extremely well.”

Wrather has thousands of day lilies on his property, at 6005 Fourth Street, including hundreds of varieties.

“He has an absolutely beautiful yard, and he has over 650 varieties of daylilies,” Thomas said. “Every year he chooses about 100 different (varieties) for the sale. He has to rotate them, so the plants have a chance to propagate. So, what we sold this year won’t be available again for four or fi ve years.”

Wrather sells day lilies every day at his home, but once a year he donates day lilies for the sale to benefi t the Kimmswick Visitors’ Center, Thomas said.

“It really gives people a wonder-ful opportunity to get a lot of different plants,” she said. “People didn’t’ come in and buy just one or two plants. Many people bought 30, 40 or 50.”

At $3 a blossom, day lilies raised $2,800 at Kimmswick

Most of the day lilies sold for $3 apiece, she said.

--Kim Robertson

Ted Howell photoBobbie Kassman of High Ridge, a six-year fan of this sale, and her friend, Deb Roberts of Cedar Hill, look for day lilies.

Carrol Wrather digs day lilies.

Madeleine Korn, 14, of De Soto with her day lily selection, “Subtle Message.”

Carole Price has a tough time choosing just one day lily.

Thursday, June 28, 2012Jefferson County Leader36

WednesdayMy Leader YUMMY! Wednesdaymyleaderpaper.comOnline recipes, tips and answers

from Kathleen Brotherton

Tony and Sue Lang began raising tilapia about 10 years ago after Tony read a story on the Internet about the Rev. Larry Rice

and his tilapia raising operation.Thus inspired, Tony ordered seven of the fi sh

from a fi sh farm in Florida. He shelled out $350. His wife said she was convinced he would

never recoup the expense.She was wrong.Today, the Langs have an inventory of roughly

500 fi sh on their farm in House Springs. Their operation, the Duda-Lang Farms, includes Sue’s maiden name.

Sue said they’ve sold about 1,000 fi sh since the beginning of the year.

The farm sells to people who want some of the fresh fi sh on their dining table as well as to people who want to raise tilapia for their own, Sue said.

Customers come from as far as 400 miles away.

Adult fi sh typically sell for $4 to $5 each. Babies, or fi ngerlings, go for about 50 cents each.

All fi sh are sold whole and alive.

Duda-Lang Farms is listed in the Missouri Aquaculture Direc-tory on the Missouri Department of Agriculture’s website as one of only three farms in the state that sells tilapia to the public.

Tony said in addition to selling the fish to would-be tilapia producers, he and his wife also provide instruction on how to get a fish farming operation off the ground. So far, he said, they’ve given out tips to 75 to 100 people.

“There are a lot of people who want to raise their own food,” he said. “They want to know what their food has eaten and how their food was raised.”

If you’re interested in raising your own fi sh dinner, he said, he advises to start off small, maybe with an aquarium and a small bed of plants.

is going on down onfishy

Something

the farmTony and Sue Lang have hooked

a winner by adding tilapia to their family business

Story and photos by Clementine Carbery

The loop system

The Langs use a self-sustaining aquaponics, or loop ecosystem, to raise their tilapia, Tony said.

The fi sh live in large tubs of water inside greenhouses.

Water from the tubs is pumped out into veg-etable and fl ower beds, which share the greenhouse space.

Sue said

the vegetation fi lters the fi sh waste from the water. That waste then nourishes the veg-etables and plants, she said, and the fi ltered water drains back into the fi sh tanks.

Keeping a constant temperatureA spiny-fi nned freshwater fi sh, the tilapia

breed is native to Africa and the Middle East, ac-cording to the Duda-Lang Farms’ website.

Sue said the fi sh have to be kept at a tempera-ture of least at 50 degrees. To ensure the stock remains warm enough, the Langs run heat to their greenhouses and place heaters inside the fi sh tanks when the weather cools, she said.

She said female tilapia lay eggs. Male fi sh fer-tilize them. The mothers then pick the eggs up in

their mouths, where they remain for roughly 10 days until they mature, she said.

Tony said after that, he har-vests the babies.

To do that, he lowers the level of water in the

tanks, which causes the mothers to

drop the babies, he said. The babies then are scooped up and put in smaller containers, he said.

Tony said one fi sh

can produce be-tween 300 and

500 babies every 60 days.

“They are amaz-ing breeders,” he said.

A family enterpriseThe approximately 100-acre farm

has been in Sue Lang’s family for more than 100 years. Her father, the late Tony Duda, was born and raised on it, she said.

Many family members still live on the prop-erty with the Langs including her mother, Jean Duda, and her brother, Tony Duda Jr., and her daughter, Laurie Philipp, and their families.

See TILAPIA, Page 37

Tony and Sue Lang and their tilapia, below

For more recipes, seewww.myleaderpaper.com

37Jefferson County LeaderThursday, June 28, 2012

HONEY SOY MARINATED TILAPIA 2 tilapia fi lets (works well with

mahi mahi also)3 tablespoons honey3 tablespoon soy sauce3 tablespoon balsamic vin-

egar1 clove garlic minced Preheat oven to 350.Mix last four ingredients in a

shallow dish. Add fi sh fi lets, and let marinade in fridge for at least 20 minutes. Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until fi sh fl akes.

Serves two.

HONEY SESAME TILAPIA 6 tilapia fi llets2 tablespoons tangy sweet

mustard2 tablespoons honey1 tablespoon soy sauce1 teaspoon sesame oil2 cups sesame sticks Wash and pat dry tilapia.In shallow bowl, mix together

mustard, honey, soy sauce, and sesame oil.

Place sesame sticks in food processor and crush until it re-sembles coarse sand. Place in large shallow bowl.

Brush each tilapia fillet on both sides with honey-mustard mixture, then coat with crushed sesame sticks.

Place coated fi sh on a non-stick or lined baking tray and bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes.

Sue, 53, said her parents purchased the farm in the 1980s from her late grand-mother, Agnes Duda.

Sue and Tony took it over in 2004.In addition to farming tilapia, Sue

and Tony, 55, raise everything from turkeys, chickens and goats to tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, green beans, onions, potatoes, corn, duckweed and hay.

They also keep beehives from which they harvest honey. Sue makes lip balm from the beeswax from the hives as well.

She said she sells vegetables, honey, lip balm and other items at the Byrnes Mill Farmers Market.

From January to September, the Langs hatch roughly 100 chicks a week, which they also sell. In addition, they sell

Clementine Carbery photosThe Langs’ farm boasts some more traditional residents in addition to the tilapia seen on the previous page. Goats and peacocks also strut their stuff on the House Springs layout.

Tilapia: Some of family operation’s products sold at Byrnes Mill marketContinued from Page 36 about 30 dozen eggs a week.

The farm also has 14 head of cattle as well as peacocks and guineas.

Tony said no chemicals or pesticides are used in his operation.

“It’s a good clean type of food to eat,” he said.

The Langs handle the brunt of the farm work themselves, although they occasionally hire a local person as a farmhand when needed.

Tony works a full-time job as a man-ager of completion support at Jet Aviation

in Cahokia, while Sue dedicates all of her time to the farm.

She said the workload can be over-whelming, but she tries to keep it all in perspective.

“I just do what I can in a day’s time,” she said.

Tony Lang said for him, farm work is relaxing.

“I like doing it. I have a stressful job, a crazy job,” he said. “This is the other ex-

treme. I really enjoy it. It’s my happy place.”He said staying on top of his respon-

sibilities at work and at home might keep him hopping, but he prefers it that way.

“I thrive on keeping busy,” he said.The Langs also have a son, Jimmy,

who lives in Barnhart, and four grand-children.

For more information on the farm, check the website www.DudaLangFarms.com.

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Thursday, June 28, 2012Jefferson County Leader40 Business

Kim Robertson photosSmugala’s Pizza Pub, 3827 Vogel Road. HotShots, 131 Arnold Crossroads Court. Weber’s Front Row, 3830 Vogel Road.

Eat, eat, eatArnold adds three new restaurants, filling vacant business spaces


Arnold has three more choices for dining out.Two new restaurants recently opened and a

third was scheduled to open Tuesday, after the Arnold-Imperial Leader’s deadline.

A HotShots opened June 4 at 131 Arnold Crossroads Court in the Arnold Crossroads complex at Hwy. 141 and Jeffco Boulevard in Arnold, where a Tilted Kilt used to operate.

Smugala’s Pizza Pub opened June 20 at 3827 Vogel Road, in the Jefferson County Plaza where a Fortel’s Pizza Den used to be housed.

A Weber’s Front Row restaurant was set to open Tuesday at 3830 Vogel Road, in the Richardson Crossing Plaza on Vogel Road near the Schnucks grocery store in Arnold, said co-owner Bob Weber of Webster Groves.

HotShotsThe HotShots restaurant is about 6,910 square feet

and has seating for about 295. Also, the restaurant offers dining on an outdoor patio.Owners are Don and Chris Wilburn of Oakville and

Jeff and Cheryl Huch of Columbia, Ill. Don Wilburn is the general manager and Cheryl Huch is the office manager.

This is the group’s first venture in the restaurant busi-ness, but they have worked in retail and management, Cheryl Huch said.

She said business had been good since the opening.“It’s going very well. We’ve been pleased,” Huch

said.The restaurant has about 30 employees, she said.A grand-opening celebration will be held June 28-

July 1 and will include live music, tournaments and specials.

HotShots has eight locations in the St. Louis area and another in Cape Girardeau. This will be the first in Jefferson County.

It also is the chain’s first franchise in the St. Louis area.

The Cape store also is a franchise, but the other loca-tions are corporately owned, Huch said.

The Arnold HotShots will have the same menu as the other locations, serving burgers, sandwiches, pizza, salads, appetizers and more.

Before the Tilted Kilt operated in the space, a Krieger’s restaurant was there.

Smugala’sThe response has been good at the new Smugala’s

Pizza Pub in Arnold, manager Nickie Saunchegrow of Millstadt, Ill., said Monday.

“We’ve been meeting or beating our projections,” she said.

The restaurant has seating for about 105, including seating for 30 in its banquet room, Saunchegrow said.

It also has a game room.The restaurant offers carryouts and delivery and has

online ordering.It will employ about 35 employees and still is hiring,

Saunchegrow said.Those interested in a job may apply at the Arnold

store or online at Smugala’s website, www.smugalas.com.

“The Smugalas are very good to work for, and we have a lot of very hard-working and dedicated people,” Saunchegrow said.

Owners of the restaurant are Theresa Wardlaw of

Arnold and her brothers, Joe and Jim Smugala, both of St. Louis County.

The three also own and operate a Smugala’s on Watson Road in St. Louis County.

Another Smugala’s is on Telegraph Road in Oakville, but it’s a franchise and has a different owner, Wardlaw said.

In addition to pizza, the restaurant serves burgers, sandwiches, wraps, pasta, salads, appetizers and more.

The Arnold store plans to hold bags tournaments on Aug. 25 and Sept. 22.

Weber’sWeber’s Front Row held a soft opening Sunday,

inviting friends and family for a trial run, said co-owner Bob Weber of Webster Groves.

“We’re pretty happy with the response so far,” Weber said.

The staff was doing some fine tuning on Monday and then planned to open on Tuesday, he said.

He and Jim Ferguson own and operate the Weber’s Front Row restaurant in Webster Groves, which has been open for 20 years.

Another owner in the business, Kevin Kilper of the Arnold area, has been a longtime manager at the Webster Groves store and now is managing the Arnold location.

The restaurant is 4,200 square feet and has seating for 180, Weber said.

It is in the spot where a Hallmark store used to oper-ate and is next door to a Cato store.

It has about 35 employeesWeber’s Front Row serves burgers, sandwiches,

pizza, appetizers, salads and more.The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Monday

through Saturday and 11 a.m. to midnight Sunday.

Professional notesMcDaniel receives teaching award

Jefferson College biology associate professor Patricia McDaniel recently received the 2012 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

The honor is given to the top com-

munity college teachers in the state each year.

She received the award at a Mis-souri Community College Association ceremony held in Jefferson City. As part of the ceremony, recipients were recognized with a proclamation from Gov. Jay Nixon.

MCCA is an organization that allows the state’s community colleges to work together to advance common goals.

The group provides advocacy, educa-tion, information and networking oppor-tunities for the state’s 5,700 community college faculty, staff, administrators and trustees.

Presenting the award to Patricia McDaniel, second from left, are MCAA executive director Zora Mulligan, left; Jefferson College dean of arts and science education Mindy Selsor, second from right; and Jefferson College President Raymond Cummiskey.

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