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new expeditions

A St. Charles institution is under new owner-ship. Former Soulard’s Restaurant owner, Dan Badock, said he kept what worked at Lewis and Clark’s and added a few things that might prove to be even better.

“I kept the name and a lot of the menu items that people were very attached to,” Badock said. “But, I added some family recipes.” Badock’s brother still operates Soulard’s in St. Louis. The Badock family started Sou-lard’s in St. Louis in 1977.

Badock learned quickly how attached Lewis and Clark’s customers were to the restau-rant’s gumbo and red beans and rice and also the vegetable plate. “The customer base was like, ‘Oh my gosh, you got rid of the gumbo.’ I put those items back on the menu.

I’m not here to change things for the sake of change. I want to keep everyone happy. I quickly learned it’s not what I want. It’s what the customers want.”

But he did add a few things that customers have wholeheartedly embraced, such as his mom’s homemade vinegar and oil, parmesan and spices house dressing and made-from-scratch twice baked potato. “The new items are selling well,” he said. “I thought it was important for the community to identify with the Lewis and Clark’s menu, keep the integ-rity of the menu and add to it where I could. I’m basically blending the best of the Lewis and Clark’s menu with my family recipes.”

Badock upgraded the salmon with fresh, high quality Norwegian with Creole season-

ing. He added homemade pimento cheese dip with garlic bread and fresh vegetables. Red chili now compliments the traditional Lewis and Clark’s white. The American Restaurant and Public House now cuts its own steaks including prime rib, and adds a special dry rub. He added a peppered filet with cognac sauce and a pork tenderloin with raspberry sauce. “Some things are changing behind the scenes in seasonings,” he said. “I’m putting most of my energy and resources into making the food the best quality possible. I’m investing in better quality cuts of meat and seafood.”

The wine list has been expanded and choices of some 45 wines are now available for order by the glass or bottle. Wines are offered such as Escudo Rojo Cabernet and

Lewis and Clark’s Extraordinary Cuisine

Dan Dadock, owner (far right) with Lewis and Clark staff

Grilled Salmon with teriyaki glaze & sriracha cream sauce

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Sea Glass Pinot Noir come from Australia, Chile and around the world.

Of course there are still chicken entrees, as well as many salads and sandwiches. Badock’s wife, Dianne Badock makes all the desserts from scratch like the homemade bread pudding, cheese pie and brownies.

And the place looks a little different. The headless sculpture that has ridden in Sa-cagawea’s canoe for decades above the stair-well is no longer there. The canoe is still there, but in keeping more with the affinity for Lewis and Clark’s extraordinary expedi-tion, Badock has added portraits of the two explorers and a framed map of the route they took between 1803 and 1806.

There is a sign that reads “Thos. Heye & Son, St. Charles”—hearkening back to the original hardware and paint shop that oc-cupied the building.

Likenesses of medals that President Thomas Jefferson gave Lewis and Clark to bestow on the Indians along their voyage are displayed on the first floor, as is an Andy Warhol-type multiple image of Sitting Bull.

Badock hired a professional decorator to cre-ate a themed progression from the first to the third floor of a trip west. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West is the theme for the third floor.

Lewis and Clark’s is open from 11 a.m. till 9:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and from 11 a.m. till 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Drink specials and half-priced appetizers are offered during happy hour from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Whether it’s an intimate dinner for two, or a celebration for forty-two, Lewis and Clark’s Restaurant, located in the heart of historic downtown St. Charles at the corner of South Main Street and First Capitol Drive is avail-able for rehearsal dinners, birthday parties, business meetings, bridal or baby showers, or any other get-together.

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Bazinga!

“Big Bang Theory’s” geeky, neurobiolo-gist, and Experimental Physicist Sheldon Cooper’s love interest, Amy Farrah Fowler, is famous for her witty, yet technically tech-nical, comebacks on the CBS hit comedy.

Mayim Hoya Bialik, who plays Fowler, visited Lindenwood University in April as a guest for the school’s speakers’ series

The 37-year-old actress, author and activist best known for her portrayal of the young Bette Midler in the 1988 dramatic comedy “Beaches” when she was 11, is actually a real life brainiac. The San Diego native was raised as a Valley Girl in Los Angeles and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and Hebrew and Jewish studies at UCLA in 2000 and a doctorate in neuroscience from the prestigious university in 2007. She wrote her thesis on “Hypotha-lamic Regulation in Relation to Maladaptive, Obsessive-Compulsive, Affiliative, and Sati-ety Behaviors in Prader-Willi Syndrome.” She turned down Harvard and Yale.

Bialik said she is actually more like Fowler than the vivacious, confident and often self-centered child performer CC Bloom she played in “Beaches,” remembered fondly for her famous line, “But enough about me, let’s talk about you. What do you think of me?”

Bialik was nominated for an Emmy for Out-standing Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on “Big Bang Theory.”

Bialik also starred in the 1990s NBC sitcom “Blossom,” Woody Allen’s “Don’t Drink the Water,” and HBO’s “Curb Your Enthu-siasm.” She guest starred on some of the best loved television shows of the 1980s and 1990s including “MacGyver,” “The Facts of Life,” “7th Heaven” and “Webster.” She has appeared numerous times on “The Tonight Show,” the “Arsenio Hall Show,” and with Conan O’Brien and Jon Stewart. She event guest starred as the voice of Maria on the “6th Grade Girls” episode of Nickelodeon’s “Hey Arnold.”

“I’m really a more quiet, introverted type,” Bialik said.

Bialik was born to first-generation American teachers and documentary filmmakers. Ded-icated to holistic, green living and parenting her two sons, she is the celebrity spokesper-son for the Holistic Moms Network. She is a certified lactation education counselor and is devoted to a lifestyle of attachment parenting, homeschooling, natural family living, and vegan cooking. She is also the co-founder and chair of the youth branch of the Jewish Free Loan Association (Genesis). She studies Jewish texts weekly.

She wrote a book on holistic parenting “BEYOND THE SLING: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way.” She said her vegan lifestyle and beliefs about green living are a big part of who she is. “I am a bleed-ing heart liberal,” she said. “I don’t want anyone to be sad or dying of starvation. The truth is the amount of food resources we feed to animals could feed all of the people who are starving.”

She said she became an actress sort of by accident and would not necessarily want

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the same for her children. “I was active in school plays in elementary school and I liked it.” But education was always the pri-mary focus in her childhood home. “I was raised by strict old-fashioned parents. My family was strict on education. I wouldn’t want [acting] for my boys. There are many ways to have creative outlets with time and schooling.”

Bialik said she would tell today ‘s children to go for their formal education rather than pursue acting; she would and does encour-age girls to pursue study in the sciences. Bialik recently partnered with DeVry Uni-versity to inspire young women to pursue their educational goals.

Ironically, Bialik’s education and her acting career have merged temporarily with her role on “Big Bang Theory,” where playing a geek and talking like an over-informed nerd comes easier to her than to her costars. When asked whether it would be harder to understand some of the topics on the show and the lines she says as Fowler, Bialik had this to say, “Just ask Jim Parsons (Sheldon) or Johnny Galecki (Leonard). They say they are just memorizing lines. They have no idea what they are saying.”

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Politically, they’re adversaries, or at least they used to be. On air, they’ve been called the “odd couple of politics.” But on their cell phones, in their respective offices and at baseball games, they are, simply put, friends.

KMOX (1120 AM) Radio Co-hosts John Hancock and Mike Kelley square off on air on a semi-regular basis, because for one thing, it isn’t just banter for these two seasoned political pundits. They’ve lived the political Donnybrook, often against each other when they were executive directors of their respective political parties—Han-cock was the Missouri GOP’s executive director from 1997 to 2003; Kelley ran the Democratic Party from 2001 to 2005.

Kelley recalls a combatant relationship where the two would go so far as to inter-rupt each other’s news conferences.

“We understand why people have a hard time believing we have the relationship we have, a good rapport and relationship, but we gen-uinely like each other,” said Kelley.

“He is without a doubt one of my closest friends,” Hancock said of Kelley. “I think there’s still hope for him.”

A former state legislator and the GOP nominee for Missouri Secretary of State in 1992 and 1996, John Hancock has more than 30 years invested in grassroots and electoral politics for the Republicans.

Michael Kelley, on the other ticket, has served as the Political Director of the Mis-souri AFL-CIO, Executive Director of the Missouri Democratic Party, Treasurer of the Missouri Democratic Party and National Po-litical Advisor to Congressman Dick Geph-ardt.

And although the two disagree on just about every political issue, they’ve become poster men for agreeing to disagree. They don’t insult each other, at least not viciously. There is no yelling, animosity or name- call-ing. Just two extremely informed guys from separate parties chewing the political fat in a uniquely calm and pleasantly jocular way. Ok, so they’re not out picking daisies. But they say they have learned over the course of many years of arguing their points to media, the public and each other, how to enjoy the ride and perhaps learn a little along the way while offering their respective takes on local and national issues.

At their day jobs, the two are political con-sultants.

Hancock conducts opposition research, essentially digging up dirt on his client’s op-ponent, and makes no apologies for doing


so. He said he takes the entire public record that exists on a person, entity or organization and, for political purposes, puts it together into a detailed analysis for his clients.

Hancock still gives counsel to the Missouri GOP. In 2005, he established Public Pulse Research, which has handled research, pub-lic opinion surveys and campaigns for cor-porate and political clients in 18 states. He also created the Missouri Pulse Poll, a quar-terly statewide survey that provides public opinion to political and corporate clients. Hancock has been married for 22 years. His son is a freshman at MIZZOU and his daughter a sophomore at Westminster Chris-tian Academy.

Kelley, a political, marketing and commu-nications advisor to candidates and issue-based campaigns in Missouri, owns the Kelley Group, Inc., Show Me Victories and Monarch Consulting. He is known for hav-ing extensive contacts in politics, labor and business and is often called upon by local and national media for insight and analysis related to Democratic Party politics.

The only son and the fifth of six children, Kelley was raised in St. Charles and graduat-ed from Duchesne High School and the Uni-versity of Missouri at St. Louis. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science. Kelley grew up in politics, the son of Bob Kelley, a prominent Democratic politico himself, who

headed the St. Louis

Labor Council for a quarter-century.

At 49 and 37, Hancock and Kelley are no strangers to a

good verbal joust. They did it for years when each was fighting

for the candidates of their own politi-cal parties. “Our first interactions were

more adversarial than anything when we were running our parties,” Kelley said.

But it was more their endearment than their debating skills that landed them the KMOX gig. Actually, they sort of fell into it five years ago when their chemistry caught the eye of a producer on a few appearances with KMOX’s Mark Reardon. After that they be-gan filling in for Reardon and KMOX morn-ing show host Charlie Brennan.

Ironically, the two lifelong political hacks have now done seminars for legislators, na-tionally and, and appearances for law firms and other organizations on disagreeing with-out being disagreeable.

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And surprisingly, there are more than a few things they can agree on.

For starters they say they have even learned a little from each other—just a little. Han-cock will sort of come around on Tax Incre-ment Financing Districts. And Kelley kind of admits that while none of the “main ten-ants of their belief systems” have changed, perhaps he has swayed on “a few issues.”

The important point for their show, they say, is what they can offer listeners. “We can pro-vide insight into why people do what they do because we are political operatives,” Kelley said. “We look at the polls and understand issues on the job every day. We understand the nuts and bolts behind the politics. We know the real facts about why the governor is taking the position he is.”

Hancock agrees. “Rather than just commen-tators, we are actually participants. We are engaged in the political wars.”

But the two admit things have changed a bit since they were in the trenches. “The way the public receives information is radically different than it was 20 years ago. There is a multiplicity of sources. I learned that Whit-ney died on Twitter.”

Again the two agree. “The reality now is that if I need to get a story out, I don’t have to spin the story with a reporter for 20 min-utes. I don’t have to lobby a reporter,” Kel-ley said. “I just dump the story on Twitter. I can create news and manipulate the mes-sage.”

Hancock and Kelley also agree on the impor-tance of St. Charles County in the state and national political arenas. “When it comes to statewide elections, we are a fifty-fifty state. St. Charles is the most important place. It will decide the governor, the senate and sometimes who wins the presidency,” Kel-ley said. “St. Charles is that mushy middle we’re all fighting for. That’s why George [W.] Bush appeared at the Family Arena and not downtown. Those were the voters he needed to reach.”

The odd couple also agrees that politicians may take undue credit for the evils of the world. “I wish the public understood more,” Kelley said. “Ninety-nine-point-nine per-cent of people, I mean almost everyone, is doing it for the right reasons. Even if you don’t believe in what they believe in, you can believe that. I don’t see the malice.”

Hancock concurs. “Politics are no more cor-rupting than having power and money and influence on the table in any other career.”

Whatever the reason, the two say it’s a strange circumstance that something so great has come out of a relationship that began as antagonistic.

“I think he is completely flawed in every political belief he has,” Kelley said of Han-cock. “But at the end of the day he is a good person and loves our country and our state and he is one of my best friends.”

“I think brilliant was the word he was look-ing for,” Hancock said.

Mike Kelley (left) and John Hancock (right)

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There is no better time of the year than NOW to get fresh with what we are feeding ourselves. Missouri is the heart of America’s Farmland. It offers us the best in home grown fruits, vegetables, dairy products, eggs and meat.

In today’s world where we want everything fast and easy, there is good news. Missouri farmers are taking THEIR time to grow product that is healthier and more convenient, so you don’t have to leave your own neighborhood to buy it at an affordable price.

There are over 140 Farmers Markets in Missouri alone. If you want to locate one near you; 57 of them have their own web site; go to www.farmersmarketonline.com.

The United States now has 7,864 markets recorded, which has nearly doubled since 2002. If you visit www.agrimissouri.com you’ll be able to see what their members sell at the markets.

Rural Missouri Magazine held a contest for “The Best Farmers Market in Missouri”, and

the results were; 1st place was Columbia’s Farmers Market, 2nd place was Soulard Market in St. Louis, and third, which was Editor’s Choice was Downtown Sikeston Market.

As you travel the state, some areas become known for their signature product. Some ex-amples are; ST. GENEVIEVE-goats cheese and sausages, BRUNSWICK-honey and pecans, LAMPE-raspberries, AUGUSTA-apples and pumpkins, BETHANY-sorghum, STOCKHOLM-black walnuts, ST. JAMES- grape juice, LAMPE-beans, FARMING-TON- herbs, OSAGE BEACH- mustard, WILLOW SPRINGS- garlic bulbs.

Beginning in mid-May, you’ll see the spring offerings of baby beets, sugar snap peas, green onions, carrots, lettuce, radishes and chives. Summer’s crop will offer you tomatoes, peppers, melons, eggplant, cucumbers, green bean, zucchini and basil. Come fall, you’ll see more broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, Swiss chard, potatoes, dill and pumpkins.

When visiting your market, do not be confused with what is NATURAL and what is ORGANIC. NATURAL means it has not been processed. Most ORGANIC foods will have a USDA Organic seal. This certifies that the food is 95% free from pesticides, fertilizers, antibiotics and growth hormones.

Many folks want to grow their own produce and walk out to their backyard for conve-nience and freshness. City Gardens are now being offered in most areas for those who do not have the green space for a garden. They rent their designated spot and share the gardening experience with other garden-ers. Call your city government to find out if there is one available in your area.

The consumer today wants to know where their food comes from and how it has been treated. This is not possible at your local grocery store, even when they tell you it is locally grown. Waiting for the right buying season in the store, doesn’t mean FRESH, when you have a middle–man in the pro-cess. If you purchase in a store, ask them questions to let them know you are paying attention to their product.

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Benjamin Franklin said, “time is money. It’s certainly true for one St. Charles com-pany that has made time its business.

Founded by William “Bill” Clark in the family garage in Macomb, IL in 1994, Mas-terclock engineers and builds synchronized digital and analog clocks used by large corporations, universities, sports teams, broadcasters, law enforcement and the military. The clocks maintain their extraor-dinary precision by receiving signals from GPS satellites circling the Earth and other sources of accurate time.

Clark owned a radio station before setting out to find a way to incorporate personal computers more fully into the traditional broadcast operations and realized the need to achieve synchronization between the PC and various other pieces of equip-ment. “Live broadcasts required all of the instruments in the facility to be working simultaneously,” Clark said. This led to the invention and utilization of a timing signal known as time code.

Simply put, Clark built the TCR-100 time code reader card. The card went into a PC and kept its clock accurate.

Clark’s first big client was NBC in New York. The broadcast giant needed its instru-ments to work simultaneously, so Clark

developed an engineering application to get that done. The TCR-100 time code reader cards could be installed in comput-ers to enable producers to utilize computer-processing power alongside their existing equipment.

But broadcasting isn’t the only arena for which time is critical. Time is important in navigation, providing legally traceable time, time-stamping data, labor require-ments and financial transactions.

“More reliance on big data means reliance on accuracy of data,” said Masterclock vice president, sales manager and Bill Clark’s son, John Clark. “Accuracy requires reli-able inputs. Consistent reliability requires a stable reference. The more we utilize technology in different aspects of our lives, the more we need to ensure all of the tools we use are on the same page, synchro-nized.”

The company didn’t stop with the TCR-100. As time went on, Masterclock added more products related to the generation and distribution of time code. The Masterclock GPS200 time code generator provided an accurate time code signal referenced to GPS and enabled stations in far-off geographic locations to be synchronized to each other.

The development and growth of the inter-net opened up new possibilities for time distribution using a signal called Network Time Protocol (NTP). NTP data can be sent over standard ethernet connections and includes an accurate time stamp mes-sage. Varying locations could now syn-chronize their systems without needing a GPS reference. But they still needed the accuracy only the GPS could provide. Today, Masterclock offers products that generate and receive time code, NTP and a variety of other signals used by many types of equipment. The company also manufactures both analog and digital clocks with varying features and functions and a suite of accessories to enhance the utility of the displays.

Masterclock recently redesigned the timing system for the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Other clients include Microsoft, CBS radio and television sta-tions, Chrysler, General Atomics, Cana-dian Broadcasting Corporation, Saudi ARAMCO, Estadio do Maracana and the Thailand Tollway Authority.

The company receives approximately 60 percent of sales from the worldwide broadcasting market. About 45 percent of Masterclock’s business is interna-tional with countries such as Japan, India,



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Dubai, Singapore, South Africa and Amsterdam. The company also does a significant amount of business in Las Vegas and Seattle .

John said keeping the business local keeps quality in the product. “In order to maintain and control the quality of every Masterclock device we engineer, we design and build everything we produce in St Charles, Missouri. Nothing gets shipped overseas until it is ready to be installed at overseas locations for overseas customers.

Masterclock was recently awarded the St. Charles Chamber of Commerce’s 2013 Employer of the Year Award for Manufacturing. John also worked with a group of collegians on the Inaugural 2013 University of Missouri at St. Louis (UMSL) International Business Case Competition. John volunteered to lead the effort by offering $5,000 matching grant and wrote the case based on the company’s strategic challenges. Four UMSL students took home first place in the competition in April. Masterclock is also involved with Boys and Girls Club of St. Charles County and Unlimited Play.The company recently donated a clock to St. Charles City Hall to regulate its council meetings.

Masterclock has established a reputation for reliability and good product value. All products are carefully and conservatively designed for many years of use. Our products and systems are modularized and “unbundled.” Customers may buy just those parts or components that are needed.

John said there is never a dull moment in the business of time. “One minute I can be on the phone with an engineer from NASA

discussing very high level timing. The next minute I am on the phone with a volunteer from a local church who is dealing with a preacher that always runs over his time limit on his sermons.”

As important as time is for his company and his family’s future, Bill doesn’t wear a watch. “Time is a totally arbitrary construct,” he said. “That means it’s something created by mankind for his purpose.”

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The cutting edgeLocal chef pairs natural beauty with cutlery

Who would have thought that a child’s gift from his grandfather would, years later, lead to a lucrative, one-of-kind business where the child, now grown, would find his purpose?

That’s exactly what happened when decades ago Nate Bonner’s grandfather gave him a Swiss Army Knife, effectively yet un-knowingly, introducing him to what would become his life’s work.

“My grandfather gave me my first knife. I still have the original package,” said Nate Bonner, owner of NHB KnifeWorks. “It was the utility at first rather than the stylistic aspect that appealed to me. Having multiple tools folding out of something was so cool to me. It was really the match to the fire. After that, anytime we would go to a sporting goods store or K-Mart or anything, I would run to the knife case.”

Soon after—and without telling his par-ents—Bonner’s grandmother bought him a bowie knife. “I had a foot-long bowie knife hidden in my room. I was in second grade. She got in trouble,” he recalled.

Bonner owns NHB KnifeWorks LLC with his mother, Melody Noel, an attorney in St. Louis. He designs the custom knives. She handles the business end.

“I think all little boys are interested in knives,” Noel said. “He just took it more seriously.”

But these aren’t just any knives. Billed as “Not Your Mother’s Kitchen Knife,” the knives at NHB are anything but ordinary.

From paring knives to Damascus and spe-cialty knives, NHB sells works of art that just happen to be useful. Bonner’s knives have even been called “jewelry for chefs.”

NHB of St. Louis specializes in custom made knives and knife handles. The com-pany’s current production line consists of multiple types of steel, all with custom-made handles in multiple knife patterns, including custom patterns.

The irony, Bonner said, is that he started out loving the knife because of its usefulness. And while NHB knives are top of the line in that category, they are exclusive because of their visual appeal.

Along with Tom Stone, who owns Beyond Wood Products, Bonner creates one-of-a-

kind knives that are as attractive as they are functional. While Bonner does the design work, Stone is the science end of the process. He stabilizes the woods and works with the treatments of the ingredients for the knife handles.

The ingredients in the handles might surprise even the most seasoned knife buyer. The company’s current hottest seller has a handle made from morel mushrooms. “The first thing they did was patent the handle pro-cess,” Noel said. “The way they make the handles is very unique. They take inorganic and organic additives and infuse the knife handles with them. They can be recycled cookbooks or cutting boards. They have even started using orchids and hydrangeas. Then, Nate hand-fashions every single one-of-a-kind hand-made handle.”

NHB knives can run from $125 for a paring knife to $325 for a chef knife. There are upcharges for exotic flowers and prices can top $1,000 for a custom made knife in Japa-nese steel. Customers can shop by steel and choose from stainless steel or high carbon steel. “We can also do higher end Japanese steel,” Noel said. “Our primary line how-ever is all American made.”

Bertarelli Cutlery on The Hill in St. Louis is the exclusive distributor for NHB.

Bonner also trained as a chef at the New England Culinary Institute (NECI) in Mont-pelier, VT, and went on to work in restau-rants in Vermont, California and eventually his hometown of St. Louis, where he held several executive chef positions. And a culinary instructor, Bonner said he

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specialized in teaching knife skills which further honed his pursuit of the perfect knife.

As a chef, Bonner said he often found him-self making technical changes to his knives to optimize their performance. It was during this time that he saw an opportunity to com-bine his love of knives, his knowledge and experience in the culinary arts and his desire to create one-of-a-kind, high quality knives. So he set out to create his dream knives and NHB was born.

Bonner said he was never much for tradi-tional school, and even opted to test out of high school in the tenth grade. He went on to art school where he said he “pretty much failed.” It was in the culinary arts that Bonner excelled. Today, he works almost exclusively with NHB, although he still operates “Chef

Nate’s Table,” his private dining business from time to time. He recently made a St. Louis boy’s dream come true with the Make-A-Wish Foundation when he let the young man be a chef for a day.

Bonner said the paring of knives with nature is the marriage of the two things he loves most. “If I’m not in the kitchen, I’m out-doors,” he said. “I’m fly fishing and looking around for insects. I want to capture that natural beauty in its raw form and stick it in something industrial and man-made.”

The knives can also reflect Bonner’s and Stone’s friendship as well as their tastes, however. Bonner said the two will be dining out with their families, and by the night’s

end, they’ve come up with another idea. “We can be out having lobster and the stuff in the handles may end up being something we ate.”

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The need for qualified nurses is driving two local educational institutions to expand their programs to educate them. The presidents and trustees of Lindenwood University and St. Charles Community College have taken the first steps in providing education choices for future nurses in St. Charles County. The two schools have established the LU/SCC Center for Nursing and Allied Health Sciences in Dardenne Prairie, expected to be an epicenter of nurse training in the metro area.

Scheduled to open in August in the 69,000-square-foot building that formerly housed Barat Academy, the center will ease the transition from RN to BSN. Lin-denwood purchased the property at One Academy Place in 2012. The move puts all of SCC’s and Lindenwood’s nursing and al-lied health programs under one roof and will provide vital space to expand nurse training for a growing field that demands skilled workers. When the center opens, Lindenwood will of-fer a Bachelor of Science in nursing degree completion program, which admits students who have earned their associate’s degree in nursing. Lindenwood also plans to offer a Master’s in nursing degree program in the future.

“We were looking for ways to physically expand our capacity to absorb the very high demand for enrollment in nursing and al-lied health programs,” said SCC President Ron Chesbrough, Ph.D. “The presidents of the two institutions met and spoke about the idea. After Lindenwood University purchased the property, it took a year of planning culminating in the approval of the trustees of both institutions [in April 2013] to get to the agreement that will allow for this collaboration.”

“For SCC, it’s the opportunity to expand enrollments in these high demand programs and to create a virtual hospital learning environment, the first of its kind in our area,” Chesbrough continued. “To have the two providers of higher education in St. Charles County collaborate and cooperate in this way is exciting and good for the county and our students.”

Lindenwood Dean of the School of Nurs-ing and Allied Health Sciences, Peggy Ellis, PhD, said a 2011 report from the Institute of Medicine proposed solutions to the com-plex health concerns in the United States and the need to improve health care. With baby boomers aging and life expectancy on the rise each year, nurses are in constant need. “There are many suggestions within

this report; however one important one is that more nurses are needed at the bacca-laureate level. There is some research that shows that the higher the level of education for nurses, the better the patient outcomes. Therefore, it is important for nurses to enter the workforce with a baccalaureate degree or progress to this degree early in their careers.”

This collaboration provides a mechanism for a seamless transition to a baccalaureate degree for nurses who are prepared at the associate’s degree level from SCCC and other community colleges as well, Ellis said. “If we are in the same building and work-ing together, it will allow students to have an easier road to the baccalaureate degree and greater comfort with the educational process.”

Patti Williams, SCC’s Dean of Nursing and Allied Health, said the landscape of healthcare is transforming in relation to what health care institutions are seeking in a graduate. “One of the recommendations that came out of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report was for an increase in the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80 percent by 2020,” she said. “This public-private school relationship, along with some collaborative agreements with other four-year institutions in the area will provide graduates with the opportunity for employ-ment as well as advanced degrees that are affordable, accessible and will offer ease of transition for students.”

The community college is starting off with the nursing post-licensure courses to allow for higher levels of education for graduates from the school. “Lindenwood will then add a Master’s in Nursing program so that these same students can continue on,” Ellis said. “We are sharing space but will also share resources to some extent. Faculty expertise can be shared between programs through guest lectures, and we can also al-low students to work together on simulated patient case studies to learn the differences and similarities of the different educational levels of nursing as well as the other health care disciplines.”

Once renovated, the center will become a “virtual hospital,” home to four state-of-the-art simulation labs and complete with $100,000 life-like mannequins that respond to treatment, medicine, procedures and disease. The mannequins bleed, give birth and even die. They are controlled remotely

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by an instructor who will induce conditions based on students administering correct or incorrect treatment. The mannequins, which can be any sex or age, can be programmed to have heart attacks, strokes and other life-threatening conditions.

While no formal job offers have been made, Chesbrough said local hospital systems have been very supportive of the collaboration and school authorities anticipate that the local hospitals will get behind the effort. “They are very interested in the graduates of SCC and are interested also in hiring nurses who have completed the BSN. The presi-dents of SCC and LU will be meeting with the heads of all of the local hospital systems to invite their support of this unique partner-ship.”

SCC’s Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) program and the Practical Nurse (PN) pro-gram officially began at St. Mary’s College of O’Fallon in 1970 and 1984, respectively. Both programs transitioned from St. Mary’s to the SCC campus in 1988. Since then SCC has graduated approximately 1,408 from the ADN program and 640 from the PN program.

The nursing program at Lindenwood Uni-versity is brand new. The school just began planning the curriculum in the fall of 2012 and will admit its first class for the 2013 fall semester, Ellis said. “So we have not yet implemented any courses nor graduated any students. It is really exciting to be on the ground floor of planning such a needed program.”

Ellis said the baccalaureate program in nurs-ing will be the only one of its kind between the Missouri River and Columbia. “Our program is a hybrid model which means it will be mostly online with a couple of visits to campus for each course,” she said. “The courses will be offered in eight-week ses-sions making it easier for students to take more than one course a semester without being spread too thin. These two things together allow us to offer a quality program which is also flexible. Most of our students have families and work full-time and need to have as much flexibility as we can give them so we kept that in mind when planning the program.”

SCC will lease approximately 26,000 square feet of the building’s space to house its entire associate degree nursing programs, as well as its Licensed Practical Nursing, Occupa-tional Therapy Assistant, Health Informa-tion Technology and Health Occupational programs.

Lindenwood’s post-associate degree course-work in nursing will start in August at the Center. “We hope to eventually offer other health management degree completion pro-grams such as occupational therapy, health information technology, EMT, and allied health,” Ellis said.

SCC’s Nursing and Allied Health programs consist of credit programs such as, Occupa-tional Therapy Assistant, Health Information Technology and Registered Nurse First As-sistant class. On the non-credit side we offer

Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA), Certified Medication Technician (CMT), Pharmacy Technician and Phlebotomy, with plans to offer Patient Care Technician (PCT) classes and Sterile Processing. Additionally, we are involved in partnerships with Ozarks Techni-cal Community College, Jefferson College and Moberly Area Community College providing clinical support for the following credit programs; Hearing Instrument Sci-ence, Radiological Technician and Medical Laboratory Technician, respectively.

“The role of these allied health science pro-grams is to assist in providing a workforce for our clinical partners and a career path-way for those students in St. Charles County and beyond who are seeking entrance and advancement in the healthcare arena,” Williams said.

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There are only seven of them in the United States and we have one.

Tucanos Brazilian Grill, a dining experience in Brazilian flavor and heritage patrons won’t soon forget.

Started in Provo, UT 13 years ago by a man who had visited Brazil and fell in love with the cuisine, culture and language there, Tucanos is what he brought back.

The St. Charles or greater St. Louis area location is housed at the southeast corner of the Streets of St. Charles (the former Noah’s Ark location) just off Interstate 70 at Fifth Street.

General Manager Casey McClure said local Brazilians love the place. “Brazilians are full of life. They have a great sense of humor, a great sense of having a good time. They not only tell us they love it. They keep coming back.”

From its birth in the Pampas or grasslands of Brazil, to the sparkling beaches of Rio de Janeiro, Tucanos has brought the Brazilian tradition of grilling, or CHURRASCO (shoe-HAS-ko)—a fusion of South American and European cultures—to St. Charles.

Meats at Tucanos are seasoned and cooked on skewers over open-flame grills imported from Brazil. Likening them to a rotisserie, McClure said the grills are part of the reason Tucanos is so exclusive. “You can’t just call someone up and say I want 300 of them,” he said. “There is more to putting one of these together than you think.”

The meat-filled skewers are brought to each table where sizzling portions are sliced onto individual plates. Patrons may then choose as many different flavors and cuts as they like.But diners have not just been sitting idly by waiting to be served. In most instances they’ve already visited the beloved Salad Festival.

Tucanos brings Brazil to St. Charles

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For more information, call 636-724-4499 or visit www.tucanos.com. Hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and closed Sunday.

Too all inclusive and varied to be referred to as a salad bar, the Festival is just that, a festival of food and flavor. Featuring both Brazilian and American specialties, the Festival provides a fusion of distinct flavors, textures and colors. Selections include the Tucanos House Salad, hearts of palm, shrimp, seasonal fruit, fresh mozzarella, quail eggs and many other items. Hot selections such as seasoned rice, pastas, potatoes, stroganoff, feijoada (a traditional black bean stew) and freshly made soups including lobster bisque are also available on the Salad Festival to accompany the meat selections. New Salad festival selections are continually being added.

As if the 15 types of beef, poultry, pork and seafood selections, the unlimited Salad Festival and the Brazilian lemonade in six different flavors weren’t enough, Tucanos provides its guests with the “Cue.” A small, cylindrical, plastic object, striped evenly in red, yellow and green, the cue allows the guest to control how much and how often they are served. It effectively directs the server with green for go and red for stop. When placed on the table, the green side indicates to entrée servers that the guest wants more selections brought to his or her plate. If diners wish to

pause, or are finished with their entrée service, they simply turn the Tucanos Cue over to the red side.

“Want to take a break? Keep it red,” said server James Myers. “Yellow is not an option. Green means go. I’ll keep the meats coming. I’ll be carrying a very sharp knife. Try not to reach in. Don’t rip the meat off. Bigger

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is better everywhere in society but here. We cut thin because we want you to get as much flavor out of the meat as you can without losing it to texture.”

The servers also offer pineapple in between meats as both a digestive aid and to cleanse the pallet, Myers said.

“In every Brazilian restaurant, the cue is always on the green, but Americans like to have more control,” McClure said. “You really can set your own pace.”

The Salad Festival can be ordered separately and a full menu of individual items is also available, including specialty desserts and drinks. Tucanos offers catering, box lunches and also features a full bar with cocktail tables and a heated outside patio area.


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It all started with her daily newspaper read-ing. “I read every word in like four newspa-pers every morning before I get out of bed,” said Linda Weisenstein of St. Louis, “even the obituaries and the weddings.”

But what she read in the September 7, 2009 edition of the New York Times would change hers and the people of Belleville, IL lives forever. The article told of people all over the world applying for pieces of the fallen World Trade Center Twin Towers from the devastation of September 11, 2001.

“I thought, ‘Well, why not?’” Weisenstein said.

Two months later Weisenstein took the article to the mayor of Belleville and asked him if the city would be interested in apply-ing for a piece of history.

And two years later the 35-foot-long, 7,100 lb. piece of twisted steel from the World Trade Center wreckage rolled into Belleville to lead the Labor Day Parade.

Weisenstein and others spent that two years dotting every “i” and crossing every “t” required by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to lay claim to a piece of the wreckage. The first was to have a request sent on the official letterhead of the mayor of the city. Next came sketches of proposed sites and answering numerous questions from the Port Authority, the owners of the wreckage. Weisenstein said the process in-volved lawyers and judges because the piece is technically still legal evidence of a crime. The piece of steel still bares the evidence number “JFK Hangar 17 in New Jersey,” she said.

Although Weisenstein lives in the Central West End in St. Louis, she has taken part in

many of Belleville’s events, from Art on the Square—one of the nation’s top art shows—to helping create the Sept. 11 Memorial Walkway of Southern Illinois, a nonprofit organization and committee she helped start up that is still raising money to build the me-morial at the Belleville Engine House 4 and headquarters at the intersection of Illinois 159 and Illinois 15.

When approval was finally granted, Weisen-stein said she felt joy and some relief from the tragedy of that fateful day. “I was so excited a little town in Illinois was going to get such a magnificent piece. This didn’t just happen in New York. This happened to all of us.”

Then began the long wait for Belleville’s turn to get their piece and finally the technical hurdles to actually transporting the piece to Illinois from New Jersey.

Trucker licensing restrictions and the lack of a $2 million insurance policy to transport the piece cross country threatened to hold up the arrival again. But as fate would have it, Greentree Transportation of Alhambra called the committee and graciously offered the services of an empty truck the company had returning from New York. Weisenstein and fellow committee member Sharon Goff put up the $1,850 for fuel for the truck, the city accepted the beam, the Port Authority signed over the deed and the piece was finally headed west.

When completed, the piece of steel will embody the horrific events that took place on September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Cen-ter in New York, at the Pentagon in Arlington County, VA, and on Flight 93 that crashed in Stonycreek Township, PA.

The twisted steel will be the centerpiece for

an Entrance Plaza, a Memorial Walkway and a Memorial to Flight 93 and a Ground Zero Artifact Plaza.

The Entrance Plaza will include a parking lot, a pedestrian gathering area with benches and tables, an orientation kiosk, a monument sign and a restroom. A Memorial Walk-way will chronicle the events of 9/11 with interpretive stations, medallions representing the victims and benches, landscaping and lighting.

And the Memorial to Flight 93 and Ground Zero Artifact Plaza will feature the 35-foot-


One Woman’s MissionBelleville, IL. applies and receives a piece of 9/11 history

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long steel column from the World Trade Center, concrete retaining walls around a pentagon-shaped plaza, flagpoles, a water feature, victim medallions, a time capsule and benches and landscaping.

The Sept. 11 Memorial Walkway Commit-tee’s Design and Construction team was comprised of professional engineers and architects from EWR and Associates, Hol-land Construction Services, TWM and the City of Belleville.

Belleville’s original request was for nine pieces, but in the end only one was granted.

Weisenstein said the Port Authority received over 1,200 requests and tried to accom-modate as many as possible. They limited distribution to one piece of steel to each approved applicant, she said.

A farm kid from Greenville, IL, Weisen-stein’s taking on a two-year project to better a community didn’t really surprise those who know her. She’s been a room parent at Carlyle Elementary School in Clinton County, IL for three decades, where several years ago she built a Polar Express train inside a classroom for Christmas. What may have shocked them though was her doing it

while being treated for Stage 4 Lymphoma. “I’m not a giver upper,” Weisenstein said. “It gave me something to focus on.”

She said the biggest lesson learned for her was how to accept someone else’s giving. She said while going through her chemo-therapy, she suddenly had a “magic porch.” She called it magic because things—like brownies and cards and flowers and chicken soup—would somehow turn up there every day. “People would say, ‘Do you remember when you did this for me?’ and I would not. I had no hair. I didn’t want people to see me like that. But I learned, whatever it is, just

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There was also her brother-in-law, Curt Weisenstein, who died of cancer in 2007. A special needs individual, Curt was famous around Belleville for going around checking everyone’s clocks and then reporting to the mayor what needed to be done. The Weisenstein family donated a 23-foot-tall clock to the city that plays over 300 songs, in Curt’s honor.

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It’s kind of hard to believe you’re in the mid-dle of a major metropolitan area when you walk into the Frenchtown Country Market in St. Charles. Flowers and plants adorn the front and sides of the building leading the way to a propped open front door. Just in-side the door there’s a puppy dog lying on the weathered, wooden floor that served a tinsmith some 150 years ago.

Lori Dorsey owns and operates Frenchtown Country Market, formerly Dorsey’s Corner Store. She moved her shop from 1328 North Second to the new address at 1106 North Second in March. “I changed the name be-cause I had a customer that, every time she

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came in, she would say, ‘I’m down at the market,’” Dorsey said.

The shop is filled with all the staples that a country market should have, surrounded by antiques chosen personally by Dorsey to give the place that small-town old fashioned feel.

A sign hangs on the wall above one of the refrigerated cases featuring Stroehmann’s “Energy-Packed” Sunbeam Enriched Bread. Another reads “Selected Farm Fresh Eggs.” There’s a coffee mill and a coffee bean hold-er, a harvest table, a pickle barrel and a min-iature antique metal scoop for tiny onions.

Candy is stored in an old seed bin and the front counter came out of a general store in Pershing, MO that opened in 1908.

“I had been decorating my home like a country store for years,” Dorsey said. “I had all this stuff. I love coming to work in the morning. I’m surrounded by everything I really like.”

Dorsey set out to be a local, country, gen-eral store for the Frenchtown Neighborhood. So far so good. She carries local products, locally made and the locals love it. Mary Lou Clermont, a border from one of the two apartments above the store, sweeps for Dors-

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Lori Dorsey, Owner


ey and waters her flowers. And local Dale Bazzel has done more work around the place than Dorsey can remember. “He said, ‘I just want to see you succeed,’” she said. Dip ‘n Strip’s Owner Bo Wiechens says she loves the shop.

Dorsey carries Fitz’s Rootbeer; brats and bacon from the Swiss Meat Market out of Herman, MO and Wenneman Meat Market out of Illinois; milk, eggs, sour cream and butter from Pevely Farms Dairy; vegetable plants and flowers from locals, Green Earth, White’s and Ritter Greenhouses; and Grand-pa Spencer’s Sweet and Spicy Mustard from St. Charles.

The market is open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday; 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday; and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, visit www.frenchtowncountrymarket.com.

Dorsey sells bread, cookies, pound cake and banana bread from Connections to Success’ Sweet Success Kitchen just down the street. And all of her produce comes from her fa-ther.

John Goeke Produce Company has been in business since 1961 in Florissant, MO. Dorsey worked for her dad for 22 years before opening her own shop. Now she supports him with her business. Goeke Produce supplies fresh lettuce, peppers, to-matoes, carrots, bananas and potatoes daily to Frenchtown Country Market.

“I’m building on a grocery line for people

who think of dinner at the last minute,” Dorsey said. “We carry pastas, sauces, spices and Amish jams and jellies.” She also carries a variety of wines and beers from Adam Puchta Winery in Herman, MO; Wenwood Farms Winery out of Bland, MO; Mount Pleasant Winery in Augusta, MO; and O’Fallon Brewery.

Dorsey makes her own hanging baskets and carries a full line of bedding and vegetable plants and flowers to go with them. She operates an antique store from the barn out back and sells antique Victorian jewelry in the store.

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Kindles and Nooks and iPads, oh my! While the increasing technological advances in reading devices are changing the world, it apparently isn’t changing the public’s desire for library services. And if you think that libraries are going the way of the telephone switchboard, electric typewriter or video store, you’d be mistaken—at least in St. Charles County.

Laurie St. Laurent, manager of the newly constructed Spencer Road Branch of the St. Charles City-County Library District (the original Spencer Road Branch opened in 1980), said more than 275,000 visitors have checked out nearly 700,000 items from the

facility since July of last year. Users have logged over 40,000 hours on its 100 public computers there as well. And the library’s Community Commons has hosted 775 events since the $6 million facility opened on March 21, 2012.

American Library Association (ALA) Presi-dent, Molly Raphael, was quoted recently in an article by Cat Johnson on Shareable.net, as saying that libraries are not dying, but rather, are evolving.

“People who talk about libraries dying out are the ones who remember the libraries of their childhood,” she said. “But the library of

today is not the library of our childhood, and the library that children see today is not the library we’ll see in 20 years.”

St. Laurent described today’s libraries as thriving, and anything but quiet. “Librar-ies used to be places of silence,” she said. “Now it’s full of activity. It’s a community center, not just a place to warehouse books. No one says, ‘Shhh’ anymore, though we do have a silent reading room.”

They have a lot more than that. St. Lau-rent said the average taxpayer gets “huge returns” on the approximately $80 they contribute each year to the library district.

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For instance, each of the three regional branches in the system has larger collections and subject specialties. Kathryn Linnemann in St. Charles is the specialty post for local history and genealogy. Spencer Road in St. Peters is expert in business, public man-agement and nonprofit. And Middendorf-Kredell in O’Fallon specializes in consumer health and government documents.

The district includes four general purpose branches, two Library Express locations, and three mini branches. It also provides an out-reach service to nursing homes, retirement centers, the homebound and the jail.

“Library Without Walls” allows users to ac-cess encyclopedias, business, healthcare, car repair and many other electronic information resources from anywhere in the world.

Library patrons can now set up appointments with librarians who specialize in an area they are interested in through the library’s “Information by Appointments” and “Book a Librarian” programs.

Beginning in July, Zinio will allow patrons to access and download for free 150 popular magazines on-line. The library district pur-chases the subscriptions and licensing rights. Fregal will also allow people to download up to three songs per week per library card

to keep.

The Spencer Road and Kathryn Linnemann branches both offer drive-up services. All other branches offer curbside service. Patrons may call ahead and pick up items through the drive through or from a librar-ian curbside. And for those who come in,

shopping carts are now available while you browse.

The $6 million Spencer Road Branch, one of 12 branches in the St. Charles City-County Library District, was built without a tax increase or bond funding. It was completed through general operating funds of the district, capital project funds and reserves without any incurred debt, St. Laurent said.

Serving over 360,000 residents of St. Charles County, the district checks out over 7 million items per year and has over 2 mil-lion people visit and use its branches.

The Community Commons is fully equipped with meeting rooms where community organizations, businesses and others may conduct business, training and meetings, as well as a large event room that will accom-modate special programs, conferences and workshops. The offices of the Community Council of St. Charles County are housed in the Commons, working to build stronger nonprofit services throughout the commu-nity.

The Houck Business & Professional Center, also housed at Spencer Road, offers study rooms and three professional fully equipped conference rooms that individuals, busi-nesses and organizations may use to meet their needs.

St. Laurent, a 35-year veteran librarian, has worked in libraries all over the country. She came in two years ago and assisted in the planning for the new facility, including handpicking the furniture for the building. A variety of furniture styles were purposely chosen to accommodate different body types and preferences, she said. Adult and children sized chairs are offered throughout the branch. And furniture is lighter weight so that patrons can rearrange it to suit their

needs. Soft but firm bariatric chairs offer higher seating and straighter backs and arms than traditional chairs. These chairs serve older and disabled individuals. Sit-down catalogues, special drawers and pull out counters are also available.

Wi-Fi is available throughout the building and all tables are equipped with plug-ins for laptops, audio/video and Skype. A vending area offers coffee, beverages and snacks.

But maybe most importantly, the district is taking active steps to encourage old fash-ioned learning in new and exciting ways, said Maggie Preiss, children’s resources and marketing coordinator. “We recognize that libraries play an important role in early literacy which is what children know about reading before they can actually read.”Preiss said libraries are often teachers of children’s first teachers, which are their parents.

“Through reading, singing, playing, talk-ing and writing we find ways to make sure children are ready to learn to read when they start school,” she said.

Play areas are becoming more common in libraries, Preiss said, “because play is how children learn a stick can be a wand. We learn that letters are symbols that have mean-ing, that these black squiggles have meaning, through play. By play children learn how the world works.”

The St. Charles City-County Library District is equipped with a well-trained staff with skills in early childhood literacy. St. Laurent said along with offering materials to help adults engage with their children, the district reaches out to local daycares, preschools, crisis nurseries and shelters with model reading and special presentations. “Our foundation has started offering mini libraries

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in crisis nursery, Connections to Success, Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital, Progress West HealthCare Center and the St. Charles County WIC (Women, Infants, Children) Program office.” Early literacy kits, which teach parents how to start encouraging read-ing from the first day, are offered to every new baby born in St. Charles County, she said.

The St. Charles City-County Library District was established on August 1, 1973 by a merger of the Kathryn Linnemann Library of St Charles and the St. Charles County Library District. As one of the third largest public libraries in terms of use in the State of Missouri, the St. Charles City-County Library District has certainly kept up with the times.

While iPads and Kindles continue to gain popularity, and the library system contin-ues to build on its own technological and community oriented growth, library admin-istrators are saying, “Shhhh” to naysayers, because they’re discovering every day that Americans still love good old fashioned books and the ability to gather for the sole purpose of reading.

For more information on the St. Charles City-County Library District, visit www.youranswerplace.org.

October 25, 1982Kathryn Linnemann Branch opens

July 19, 1995Middendorf-Kredell Branch opens

October 26, 1995Deer Run Branch opens

July 31, 1997Boone’s Trail Branch opens (Hwy D)

January 20, 1998McClay Branch opens

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My passion for cheese came to me through being struck by Cupid’s Arrow. As a former advertising executive, I entertained my clients regularly. I took a client to a fundraiser for Slow Food, it was a cheese tasting. I tasted a cheese made by a small Wisconsin cheesemaker and it blew my mind.

I studied cheese, took cheese classes, traveled as far as Italy hiking up in the mountains to visit cheesemakers, I’ve got a complete library of cheese books and have read every one; so when you’re in love you go for it…right!

I joined The American Cheese Society and went to their national conference. In marketing, you look for what’s not being done that needs to be done. I thought these cheeses that are made by family cheesemakers should be available to more people, I actually imag-ined them being sold in supermarkets.

I lived in Hollywood at the time and decided to focus my attention on popular culture and celebrity. This strategy led me to pitch the Oscars to be in their famous Goodie Bag. I was actually chosen for this honor and my gift was to bring the stars my Artisanal Cheese & Wine Pairing Adventure right in their own home.

Well, the media went wild when they learned of my gift. “The Cheesiest Gift in Hollywood History” read the headlines. So I knew I had something and I stopped working in corporate America, a career I had for over 30 years.

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Serve an ounce of cheese per type of cheese per person.Serve 3 to 5 different cheeses.(Any more than this confuses your palate.)Place your cheeses on your cheese board from mild to the most robust. I do my cheese boards clockwise with the first cheese at noon.Take your cheeses out of the fridge at least an hour before serving. This will give you and your guest the best flavors from the cheese. Just like white wine or Champagne, you don’t want it too cold or you miss the nuances.I use unsalted nuts on my cheese board…who needs more salt?I love dried fruit like figs, apricots, raisins and apples with my cheese…there are so many delightful choices.

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Delight in your cheese board with friends and family. Enjoy!

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story by Tamara Tungate

Things have certainly changed since those days! With skin cancer on the rise over the past 30 years and with many young women under 30 being diagnosed, the link to UVA/UVB rays and mela-noma provides overwhelming evidence of how we have gone too far. One in five Americans will develop skin cancer in the course of a lifetime. So in rushes the sunblock saviors! But wait, have you seen how many choices there are on the shelf for sunblock? And there are so many buzz words - sunblock, sunscreen, water-proof, water resis-tant, sweat proof, UVA, UVB, Titanium dioxide, Zinc Oxide, and many more names I can’t pronounce.

Dos and Don’ts• Wear a sunscreen with an SPF 15 or higher every day.• Apply 1 oz. (2 tablespoons) of sunscreen to your entire body 30 minutes before going outside. Reapply every two hours or

after swimming or excessive sweating.• Cover up with clothing, including a broad-brimmed hat and UV-blocking sunglasses.• Keep newborns out of the sun. Sunscreens should be used on babies over the age of six months.• Examine your skin from head to toe once every month.• See your doctor every year for a professional skin exam.• Avoid tanning and UV tanning salons• DON’T forget the neck, ears, and nose. These are hot spots for skin cancer in men over 40.

Thankfully (and about time) the FDA has issued some standards on what a product can advertise regarding broad spectrum sun protec-tion.

First, there is no amount of color you can tan on your skin that is worth wrinkles, hyperpigmentation, leatheriness or even cancer down the road. Short term beauty = long term ugly. Sounds severe, but go to www.skincancer.org for a reality check. About 90 percent of nonmelanoma skin cancers are associated with exposure to ultra-violet (UV) radiation from the sun/tanning beds. If you are in my age range (40+), further prevention of damage is very important and especially educating your partners, your children and grandchildren.

The Basics• UVB rays cause skin to turn red/burning• UVA rays cause wrinkles• SPF 15 thru 50 = how long you can stay out in the sun before you begin to burn from UVB rays. Not how strong it is.• SPF 15 product blocks about 94% of UVB rays• SPF 30 product blocks 97% of UVB rays• SPF 45 product blocks about 98% of UVB rays• Anything higher does little difference. There is NO 100% blocking of UVB rays.

Remember sitting in your lounge chair on a bright sunny day with baby oil slathered all over your body? Maybe you even went as far as a reflector to tan your skin more or a fan to keep you from overheating. All for the sake of getting a tan because you looked “healthier” with a little more color.


Read the LabelIt should include:

• Broad Spectrum Protection• Water or Sweat Resistant. (“Waterproof” and “Sweat

Proof” are now obsolete terms because they are im-possible claims)

• SPF 15 to SPF 50 for UVB protection• UVA (wrinkle rays) protection. There is no rating

for UVA rays so look for ingredients like ecamsule, avobenzone, oxybenzone, titanium dioxide, suliso-benzone, or zinc oxide. Any of those should do the trick.

• Look for The Skin Cancer Foundation’s Seal of Recommendation, which guarantees that a sunscreen product meets the highest standards for safety and effectiveness. Or go online at http://www.skincancer.org/products/categories for specific products.

All the other claims or ingredients boil down to personal choice for your skin type, exposure, age and sensitivity.Remember, an excellent sunscreen is only as good as your application and diligence in reapplying it. I use a moisturizer with SPF 15 every day, rain or shine. During the summer at the pool I use a broad spectrum spray sunscreen and a big hat! For my kids I prefer the lotions that can be applied on wet skin since they are never out of the water long enough to get dry.

And last but not least, if you must have a tan then look to tanning creams, tanning wipes or spray tans. They’ve come a long way from making you look like an Oompa Loompa.

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Fit in FitnessCross Fit Training

story by Brian Byrd


To all my runners and bikers, boxers and weight trainers, how are your bodies feeling? Are you having any joint specific aches and pains? Or maybe you are not getting the desired results from your sport/workout or you’re just bored?

Maybe some cross training is in order. What I find to be very help-ful in training programs is to take a holistic approach that includes all aspects of fitness, strength, endurance and flexibility.

For my runners: Let me point out a few scenarios that may be fa-miliar: Overwhelming hamstring tightness, arch pain, shin splints or low back pain. These are very typical issues associated with the potential over-training. Our bodies tend to reject activities that are overly repetitive, meaning the same movement over and over for sustained amounts of time.

For runners, that translates primarily into the effects of the impact generated on the joints. Over time the constant pounding from the

running creates aches in knees and can radiate into our hips and lower back.

The idea of cross-training is to cycle in activity from another dis-cipline that will allow your joints to rest while also keeping you in good cardio vascular condition. If you treat this training technique as an extended circuit, the results will be very good.

For instance, run for 2 months then rotate in two weeks of intense weight training, focusing on the core and lower body strength and stability. This approach will not only vary the stress on the body allowing it to heal, but it will also add needed strength and balance to your musculature that will in turn improve your running.

For my weight lifters: Some scenarios here may include joint issues, flat muscle gains, tendonitis, and exhaustion. At some point, most intense weight lifters experience irritated elbows and shoulders.

In this case, it is likely from the repetitive pressure and stress placed on the joint from the constant overloading of heavy

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weights. This stress is most apparent in movements where the ex-tremity is fully extended like heavy chest presses or military over-head presses. At the end point of the movement the entire weight is placed on the joint that is furthest from the load.

And like the runner, over time repetition of this joint loading begins to break down the joint integrity, causing pain.

Also, I have seen many times that flat muscle gains is one of the most common issues that weight lifters have. In this case, cross-training in the form of swimming can add many benefits for your program.

You get a huge boost of red blood cell production just like you experienced from weight training but with absolutely no impact to the joint. Swimming uses every muscle in the body with a huge amount of caloric output. Also, with swimming, a different move-ment from the joints allows for more complex movements that help generate synovial fluid, which helps lubricate sore irritated joints.

Having said that, adding in a few days of swimming a month to heavy weight lifting can be very beneficial. Try taking the swim-ming breaks at significant increases in weight when lifting.

For example, if you are scheduled to increase your bench by 10% in the next week, try taking a week off and swimming to let the joints heal and get the benefits of swimming mentioned, then go into the weight increase fresh and rested. The results will be very positive to your overall routine.

For more information or personalized training tips, please send your requests to me at [email protected] Live long and be healthy,


For nearly four decades, the Academy of the Sacred Heart’s Chemin de Fer Auction has transported guests to exciting destinations while encouraging lively bidding on trips, parties, merchandise and more—all for the sake of Sacred Heart education in St. Philippine Duchesne’s first school America. The Chemin tradition is alive and well.

This year, 430 guests journeyed to sunny Australia and the Great Barrier Reef for “A G’Day Down Under” chaired by Academy

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parents John and Melissa Gisi and Michael and Vanessa Fritsche. Serving as Honorary Chairs for the school’s 39th benefit auction were past parents Tom and Carolyn Hughes.

For this festive event, Rauch Memorial gym was covered from top to bottom in colorful drapings. Coral reef, bountiful fish, sea turtles and scuba divers surrounded 44 tables dressed out in shades of ma-rine blue and aqua. In the center of it all, a gigantic jellyfish loomed overhead. The awe-inspiring decorations were the brainchild of Mike and Kathleen Parvis and their creative crew of past and pres-ent Academy parents that began work in January.

Chemin guests feasted on the requisite Shrimp on the Barbie with

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Aussie salad, Queensland apple-cheddar chicken, Outback potatoes, asparagus and white chocolate cheesecake.

From the podium, Head of School Sister Maureen Glavin, emcee Todd Strother and auctioneer Fletcher Lane kept the pace mov-ing. ASH 500 Chairs Bill Timmons and Bob Yanics oversaw another successful sellout for the big raffle with a grand prize of $10,000. The 67 members of the Graduating Class of 2013 contributed to the auction’s success by selling ads for the auction book and by serving dinner.

The Chemin de Fer auction is the Academy’s main fundraising event of the year. The school is grateful to the many volunteers who worked behind the scenes to make the evening a success, and to auction sponsors including: Laurence and Alicia Christopher; the Academy Mothers’ Club; Specialists in Urology—Dr. Kim Berni; St. Charles Orthopaedic Surgery Associates—Dr. Anthony Berni; Mercy Children’s Hospital; Jerry Kelly Heating and Air Conditioning; and Michael and Michelle Todt. Preliminary net proceeds of approximately $200,000 have been earmarked for school operating expenses.

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It just might be the only library of its kind in Missouri or possibly the nation. President of The Family Vision library John Thrower said he hasn’t been able to find a library anywhere that provides solely Christ-cen-tered resources to households in St. Charles County and throughout the United States to reach people with the truth of God’s way and order in the family.

Opened on Fifth Street in St. Charles in 2005, with the mission of “Faithfully Equip-ping Generations,” The Family Vision has grown from just 200 patrons to some 4,000 today and offers nearly 10,000 titles.

Thrower said, “The Family Vision is a unique ministry that strives to reach out to parents and kids to give them a foundational Biblical library basis.”

Along with a wealth of Biblically-based resources on everything from science to healthcare to finances, The Family Vision also offers movie nights, guest speakers, educational seminars and more in its new 12,000-square-foot facility at 2020 Parkway Dr. in St. Peters. The facility includes a con-ference room and multiple classrooms.

Though it didn’t start off to be a resource for homeschoolers, the group makes up a large portion of The Family Vision’s client base. The library offers over 10,000 gently used homeschool curriculum items for purchase.

Thrower, who homeschooled his own four children, said The Family Vision relies on the grace and provision of God to accom-plish its goals, “We hope to build families with our resources, so that the works of God will be passed on from one generation to the next,” he said.

The six-member board of The Family Vision believes there are a number of people outside the church who might benefit from Godly principals with respect to dealing with the difficulties of everyday life and the world. “For a lot of issues in the world the church has its place. But we wanted a place where adults or families and children can come and can have materials available for them to answer some of the questions like, ‘What is Biblical Finance,’ or how to manage money according to God’s principles. There is also information on gardening, health, child train-ing and marriage.”

The Family Vision also offers a “Library Online,” which allows anyone within the U.S. to use the library via its online catalog and has even gone to members of the U.S. military at addresses overseas.

The library’s newly-remodeled, 12,000-square-foot facility includes a conference room and multiple classrooms. Thrower said he hosts events and classes frequently, which give patrons opportunities to learn and to fellowship together.

For instance, the library’s version of Earth Day this year was “Creation Day,” wherein participants watched videos and talked about God’s creation of the world. Valentine’s Day at The Family Vision saw an old fash-ioned cake walk.

Recently, the library began hosting an open mike coffee house night from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Fridays evenings where people fel-lowship through music and talk in a casual atmosphere.

Entrepreneurial classes for those aged 15 and up will begin in June. Local business people will give a thumb nail sketch of how


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to run a business. The seven-week class will be held from 10 a.m. to noon, for seven weeks beginning June 6. A six-week Intro-duction to Electricity class begins June 5 for those 8 years old and above.

A cross between summer and Bible school, Vacation Liberty School, held June 24 through 28, is a week-long half day pro-gram designed for children ages 11-14 to experience the origin, nature, principles and benefits of liberty from the perspective of

way, we will take your children on an explo-ration of the founding principles of personal and economic freedom.”

Liberty School culminates in the library’s 7th Annual Freedom Celebration June 28 where “Evidence Sings” will perform. The event usually draws about 250 people for a day of music and food.

The library was originally paid for from a trust fund started in the 1970s to help indi-

Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. The library is closed on Sunday. For more information call 636-447-6900 or visit www.TheFamilyVision.org.

viduals adversely affected by drug and alco-hol abuse. When that folded, the Christians involved with the fund started The Family Vision. Though Thrower said that fund has been handled frugally, it will eventually run out. But that fact is not stopping the board of The Family Vision from moving on with

faith, hope and charity.

Thrower said the library’s mission is to educate and excite kids about America’s “founding beliefs and principles, and to em-power them with the knowledge and will to preserve these ideas and liberties. Through instruction, performance, discussions and games designed to teach in a fun, interactive

what they call God’s work. “God has given The Family Vision a great dream. We feel strongly that God is leading us to establish more lending libraries in the region. We see potential for more libraries in the St. Louis area and possibly throughout the Midwest,” he said.

While the leaders of Family Vision have not yet nailed down the locations, they do know what they believe. “We do know that a TFV Library would be a great benefit to the

Christian community in any city throughout the US,” Thrower said.

To accomplish its plan for growth, The Fam-ily Vision has started a program called 3in3 and is seeking community and individual donations. Simply stated, the board wants to establish two more operating libraries by De-cember 2015. “That would give us a total of three libraries in our region in three years.”

Thrower said, “The Family Vision challeng-es you to make the Word of God central in your family life, and to make the Scriptures your primary reading material. We challenge you to begin building a family library for yourself and your children, using the Scrip-tures as your standard. It is our hope that our resources help equip you and your children to select resources filled with Biblical truth.

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story by robin seaton JeffersonPhoto by michael schlueter

He is one of the most a highly decorated American Army helicopter pilots to have flown in the Vietnam War. She earned degrees in engineering, psychology, soci-ology and anthropology and was regular Army and military intelligence.

The two met in the officers’ club at Fort Rucker in Dale County, AL.

“I had just finished my final Cobra check ride and completed training in that when I saw the most beautiful blonde I’d ever seen. The Drifters were playing,” Tom Kuypers said of his bride of 35 years, Pat Kuypers.

That was 1978. Tom had already been to Vietnam twice. He had earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in statistics. He was taking his Cobra Transition Course on the AH-1G HueyCobra helicopter. She was completing her air traffic control tower operator training.

Not surprisingly, the two come from a long line of over achievers. Their parents had interesting histories as well.

The daughter of a WWII U.S. Navy pilot, LCDR Eugene Tougas, Pat had been all

over the world herself by the time she met Tom. She was born in St. Louis, but spent her first birthday in Cuba and her second in Japan.

Her father was a dive bomber. He was shot down and imprisoned in Japan. Her mother, Elsie Tougas, was informed through a letter from the U.S. Navy that her husband was missing in action and presumed dead. Another letter—which Pat still has—from President Harry S. Truman—would inform Elsie that her husband was alive.

Pat’s maternal grandmother, Helen Olson, was a WWII Army nurse. Her aunt was a Rockette and Miss Rhode Island.

Tom was the son of a former “hoofer”-turned-salesman and an English professor and Denver Post reporter-turned-stay-at-home-mom.

Tom said his father, Fred Kuypers, actually danced on stage with Fred Astaire at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, CA. The elder Kuypers went to Southern California University on an athletic scholarship.

When that ended and the stock market crashed, he took off in his 1928 Chevrolet Coup with a buddy and ended up broke in Gunnison, Colorado. That’s where he met the future Mrs. Kuypers. With a PhD

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in English, she was teaching the subject at Colorado Western State.

Tom and Pat Kuypers married on March 5, 1978. They honeymooned in Iran. Pat was working with the state department and Tom was a contract officer representative. The two were there as protests against the Shah’s rule mounted during the spring and summer of 1978, and when the Iranian Government declared martial law.

“Iran was the equivalent of the Watts District,” Pat said. “Our landlord asked us if we had a car. He told us to park it down the street so when it gets blown up it won’t damage the building.”

Today Tom and Pat live in a 118-year-old, all-brick house on Jefferson St. in St. Charles that’s currently under consideration for the National Registry of Historic Places. After retiring from the Army, Tom went on to put 20 years in at MacDonnell Douglas and Boeing. Pat owned and operated a jewelry and accessory shop on Main Street in St. Charles.

And while there isn’t the danger of fire-bombs or the excitement of flying military aircraft, the two have found plenty of ways to stay busy in their retirement. For instance, they spent nearly two decades renovating their classic residence on Jef-ferson St.

With its multiple porches and balconies, including a “spooning porch,” gentlemen’s drawing room and ladies’ parlor, their home is a good draw for local house tours. The ballooned valances on the front windows came from the Classic Car and Carriage Restaurant, an old favorite for St. Charles.

The Kuypers also show their AKC Nation-al, International and World Class Champion Shelty from time to time.

They keep up on politics where it interests them, but mostly argue amongst each other (they both know when to give in, they say). “Basically we agree on a common ground.” Tom wrote a letter to a woman who was picketing a Marine recruiting station. He said he told her the “guys in the recruiting station have nothing to say about policy. The troops take the brunt while the politi-cians set the policy.”

Tom said one of the characteristics he loved instantly in Pat was her “outgoing, spar-kling personality. She’s very opinionated.”

“I just think all the politicians should have to wear jackets like racecar drivers,” she said. “Then we would know what compa-nies they represent.”

Tom and Pat raised one daughter. Pat named her Shahla, after her best friend in Iran—the one who had the courage to burn the Shah’s pictures during the revolution.

Pat said when Shahla Kuypers was a child she saw a photo of her parents in their Army uniforms. “She asked, ‘Do I have to do that?’ I told her it was her choice to do whatever she wanted. She said, ‘I don’t want to do that.’”

Shahla became a neonatal ICU nurse. “She’s does the day-to-day combat,” Pat said.

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JULY4 Riverfest 2013 5-10:30 pm Frontier Park Parade 10am / Fireworks 9:20pm

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20 Food Trucks in Frontier 5-8pm Frontier Park www.stcharlesparks.com

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16-21 Katy Trail Bike Ride www.mostatepark.com/ 2013-katy-trail-ride

18 Food Trucks in Frontier 5-8pm Frontier Park www.stcharlesparks.com

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