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- A Fond Evening of Fondue
- Updated: May 16, 2012 - 7:55 am
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Our grand boys have late April birthdays — Miles recently celebrated his 10th and Reed his 8th. As the once little ones become bigger ones, it’s increasingly difficult to have alone time with them. This year I capitalized on a free evening and took them to a restaurant to celebrate their birthdays.
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- On Guard for 70 Years
- Posted: May 16, 2012
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Last fall Gary Smith, a coxswain and current vice commander with local Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 3-7, responded to a call for help from a couple of boaters on the Missouri River who had made some bad choices and suddenly found themselves facing serious danger.
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- Dream Big, Read!
- Posted: May 14, 2012
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If you could be anything you want, do any kind of work or have any kind of hobby, what would it be?
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- Friends for 40 Years
- Updated: May 08, 2012 - 4:34 pm
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A couple of Emmaus Homes residents were already hard at work in the pottery shop on the Marthasville campus Monday morning, decorating items that will be for sale later this month at the first Friends of Emmaus Spring Festival.
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- Mother Times Seven, Blessed Beyond Compare
- Updated: May 08, 2012 - 4:41 pm
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It’s hard to imagine Melissa Buhr being the mother of seven. She’s pert and pretty, with hair the color of ginger, and a fresh-scrubbed complexion, nary a dark circle under her eyes.
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- Low Incidence, High Results
- Updated: May 04, 2012 - 1:50 pm
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The school day had barely begun Monday morning at South Point Elementary School in Washington when a student in Ann Heinrich’s “low incidence” classroom for children with intense special needs was lying face down on a soft rug, wood blocks strewn around him.
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- Ten Years, 1,000 Backpacks
- Updated: May 02, 2012 - 10:09 am
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Never underestimate the power of a fuzzy and cuddly stuffed animal to alleviate a child’s fears and insecurities, especially at a time when they are feeling the most vulnerable.
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- Momentous Prom, Thanks To a Class With Class
- Updated: May 02, 2012 - 10:08 am
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Autumn Iskow and Mikey Boyce are good friends, and this Saturday they’ll make memories to last a lifetime. Cameras will be clicking as their parents record a special event — Washington High School’s prom being held at America’s Center Atrium in St. Louis.
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- ‘Let’s See What God Can Do’
- Updated: April 27, 2012 - 2:42 pm
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Standing in the back of the new Immanuel Lutheran Church sanctuary in Washington, even while it is still under construction, one of the first things you are impressed by is its size.
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- Happy Birthday, Big Guy
- Updated: April 25, 2012 - 8:10 am
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Each April I don my “Twist of Fate” duds, crank up the country western and direct my vehicle to Longmeadow Rescue Ranch, a few miles west and south of Union.
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- Celebrating Nature and Reading
- Updated: April 25, 2012 - 8:12 am
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Ashley Wolff wanted to be an author/illustrator her whole life, and today she is — a nationally acclaimed one, at that — but she wasn’t successful overnight. It took a steady supply of the four P’s:
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- NOVEL IDEAS
- Updated: April 20, 2012 - 2:15 pm
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With 30 pages to go, I set “A Land More Kind Than Home” aside because I didn’t want it to end. Hats off to Wiley Cash, a debut author sure to have a hit on his hands with a thrilling, chilling Southern novel set in the backwoods of North Carolina in the 1980s.
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- Nourishing Bodies and Souls
- Updated: April 20, 2012 - 2:12 pm
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Folks were lined up outside the basement door of the Presbyterian Church in Union one Tuesday evening as a small group of volunteers put the finishing touches on the dinner to be served — chicken alfredo with mixed vegetables and salad, plus cake for dessert.
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- Peace, Love and The Place
- Updated: April 17, 2012 - 4:23 pm
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Debbie Scott, Union, remembers The Place fondly. If you don’t know what “place” she’s referring to, you’re probably either younger than 50 years old or you moved to Franklin County sometime after the late ’70s.
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- ‘Confidence’ Comes Through
- Updated: April 17, 2012 - 4:27 pm
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Taking to the color-blocked tarp that had been rolled out on the gym floor, members of the Washington High School Winter Guard team had the attention of the entire school. And for the next 5 1/2 minutes they held it.
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