A Personal Look at the controversial hormone diet supplement hCG
The following is an investigative project written and researched by Samatha Sonderen for a senior year project at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is a Florissant native who served an internship with the Independent News and www. flovallynews.com this year.
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Valley of Flowers Photos: Heat didn’t Stop the Fun
2012 Valley of Flowers Queen Monica Wilson, sponsored by Don Henefer Jewelers.
Although this year’s Valley of Flowers festival was one of the hottest in memory, especially the parade Sunday, people still had a good time. The parade route was as crowded as ever, and although parade participants were often seen chugging from their water bottles, the queen candidates, past queens and candidates, and last year’s court managed to look beautiful throughout the day.
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Recent Independent News intern write a personal essay on Race and colorblindness
A Personal Essay: What a colorful world.
B y Samantha Sonderen
My best friend Alexis has never let me down. She’s just like me. We save the same country music stations in our presets. We share boy trouble, family trouble, ups and downs of all sorts. She wears her hair straight; so do I. We fit together like puzzle pieces, but one thing we will never share is skin color. She goes home to a black family, and I go home to a white one. I have friends that pretend to be colorblind in public, yet make black jokes privately, and I’ve been taught “everyone is your equal.”
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Hazelwood Fire Dept. Reaches High And Low for Technical Rescue Training
Members of the Hazelwood Fire Department recently completed a course in the Roco Rescue Training program. This program is designed to give firefighters the tools and skills needed to manage a rescue from a high angle such as a commercial building rooftop or a confined space such as a holding tank or deep culvert. This class not only provided a complete refresher for firefighters who had already taken the course, but also involved new recruits who had not yet received the training for certification.
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A Boomer’s Journal: Sometimes, Questions of Life Have No Answers
By Tom Anselm
Oftentimes my wife Jill says “when I get to heaven, God willing, have I got some questions for Him.” I think I only have one, but it covers a lot of territory. It is “why?” More specifically, “why do bad things happen to good people?”
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A ‘Closed’ Sign Doesn’t Stop the Dining Divas at Frontenac Grill
By Lisa Kampeter
You know it’s not a good sign when you go to a restaurant’s website, the same restaurant at which you are planning to have that night’s dinner, and it says “closed for a private party.” Well, the Dining Divas were a bigger group this month but not so big that we’d need an entire restaurant.
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