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(Special to the Independent News)
The new Learning Lab at the Emerson Family YMCA on Pershall Road offers an even greater opportunity to serve children in the community. Since 1999 the YMCA YRead Program has provided one-on-one tutoring to over 900 school age children in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area who are below grade level in reading.
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MSHSAA State Championships: Knopf, Davis, Williams Are Missouri State Wrestling Runner Ups
BY JIM WIENERS
Three High School Wrestlers had the opportunity to win State titles at the 78th Missouri State High School Activities Association Wrestling Championships last Saturday at Mizzou Arena, Columbia.
District Basketball Finals Saturday At Riverview Gardens, MS-Berkeley
HAZELWOOD EAST AND McCLUER players getting ready to rebound in last Saturday’s Class Five, District Seven Girls’ game at Riverview Gardens. East won going away, 62-25.
STORY AND PHOTO BY JIM WIENERS
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Correction: Charles Woods Files For Hazelwood School Board
Four candidates have filed for three seats on the Hazelwood School Board. They are incumbents Ann Gibbons, Diane Dowdy and Charles “Chuck” Woods and Tony Weaver, who has filed for the post the past few years.
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Christian Hospital Achieves Many ’07 Goals, Seeks More Gains in ‘08
BY BOB LINDSEY
Christian Hospital, which includes Northwest Health Care, has achieved several of their six-month goals for the second half of 2007 and has announced major goals for 2008 to further improve the “bottom line.”
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Viewpoint: Shootings In Kirkwood Hits Home For All of Us
BY TOM SCHNEIDER
FLORISSANT COUNCIL MEMBER
On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin during the Cold War and proclaimed, “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner,) meaning that all free people of the world were at one with Berlin and their besieged predicament at that time.
Today every one of us are Kirkwood citizens, and we are at one with our brothers and sisters there as they cope with an unimaginable tragedy that happened at their very seat of government.
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