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August 17, 2019

TOWN AND COUNTRY REAL ESTATE:

Here today and gone tomorrow! 1040 Tidewater Place Court (off of Clayton Road)

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This house with all the gates was built in 1975. It sits on 1.74 acres. It currently has 4,298 square feet of space, includes 4 bedrooms and 3 full baths and 2 half baths.

Here is a description of the house from a real estate website when it was recently on the market:

The house sold on 12/01/16 for $740,000. Now the owners, since 2017, the Olwigs, want to tear it down and replace it with a home that has 5,487 square feet.

HERE IS ANOTHER ONE THAT IS SOON TO BE GONE WITH THE WIND: This one is at 932 Claymark Drive. Off of Clayton Road near Topping. The original Town and Country ranch style house on a large lot has almost disappeared on Claymark.

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This is 932 Claymark. It is 2,266 square feet with 3 bedrooms. It sits on a 1.2 acre lot.

This is an overview of some of the houses that have replaced torn down ranch homes.

The new plans for 932 Claymark are unusual in as much they don’t involve building a “monster house.” But at 4,872 square feet it will be more than the size of the original house.

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PRINCIPIA TO BUILD NEW FIELD HOUSE, EXPAND ATHELTIC FIELDS AND ADD LIGHTS FOR ATHLETE FIELDS . Monday morning August 12 the headmaster of the Principia School, Travis Brantingham, gave a presentation of the proposal they plan to make with the city concerning the Field House and some athletic fields. This was held at the Longview Farmhouse in connection with the monthly resident get together put on by alderwomen Tiffany Frautschi and Lindsey Butler.

Here is the existing field house located at the west end of the property long Clayton Road and behind the tennis courts:

Brantingham explained boy’s sports were exclusively at the Field House due to its size. Girls’ teams have had to play in the high school PE gym with limited seating. The goal was to have all indoor sports teams play and practice in the new field house.

The existing field would be moved back and three new fields including a cricket pitch would be built. New parking lot would be added off Clayton Road west of the tennis courts with a walkway to the field house. The plans include an indoor track and some areas with artificial turf inside the new field house.

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Brantingham said plans called for lighting the baseball field and some of the added outdoor fields. He stated that due to the distance off Clayton Road and direction of the lights, people living on Clayton Road or Mason Road should not having lights shining on their property.

The planned new field house would have 40,000 square feet at a cost around $28,000,000. The new parking lot and fields would likely see the total costs go above $30,000,000

A CHANGE AT PRINCIPIA WITH ENROLLMENT. For the first time non-Christian Scientists will be allowed to enrolled at the Principia School and Principia College. However there is a catch. Only 15 are allowed at each school.

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There are slightly more than 400 students at the College and 400-plus at The Principia School. Allowing 15 non-Christian Scientists would represent a whopping 0.0375% of diversification at the Town and Country school. It is even worse at the College in Elsha, Illinois where the latest enrollment put out by the College is 480. That means a diversification rate of 0.03125%.

FALL BASEBALL CLINICS Here is one thing at The Principia that is open to everyone and taught by someone with professional experience. Pete Paciorek, the new head baseball coach and Director of Community Outreach at The Principia School is putting on fall baseball clinics open to all. Paciorek played nine years of minor baseball including Dodger and Padres teams. He was recently head coach at Principia College and then was in Florida coaching at a baseball school.

Pete Paciorek:

Pete Paciorek is the son of John Paciorek, who in 1963 was 3-for-3 in his only big league game for Houston. His uncle is , who played 18 seasons in the big leagues for six different teams. Tom is probably best remembered for his time with the Dodgers and White Sox. Many may remember Tom doing play-by-play of White Sox games on WGN TV with Ken “The Hawk” Harrelson.

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Pete Paciorek

Fall baseball clinic? Here is Pete Paciorek’s email: [email protected]

MISSOURI BAPTIST EMPLOYEE CAUGHT STEALING NURSE’S CREDIT CARD: Tiennessa Smith, 29, of St. Louis has had a lot of short term jobs. She was a server at Caleco’s in downtown St. Louis. She has also worked at a day care facility. In June of this year she was working as a temporary housekeeping employee at Missouri Baptist/BJC Hospital in Town and Country.

Tiennessa Smith

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A registered nurse at the hospital complained to Town and Country Police that someone had stolen a Master Card from her purse while it was in the staff break room. Detective Katie Exline was able to use hospital security video that showed Smith in the break room area. She was able to match this up with video from a Burlington Coat Factory store in St. Louis showing Smith using the stolen credit card.

This is from the court file:

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INVESTIGATION SHOWS HEROIN ADDICT STOLE MORE THAN $1,300 OF MERCHANDISE FROM THE TOWN AND COUNTRY SCHNUCKS. In another case Town and Country Detective Katie Exline used security video to help identify a heroin addict who was coming out from St. Louis to shoplift hundreds of dollars of products from the shelves at Schnucks on Clayton Road.

This was not a quick case to solve. It was nine months from the time of the crime to charges being filed. Besides liquor, liquid laundry detergent is a big item for drug addicts to shoplift, because they can quickly sell it on the street for 50% of the retail rice.

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Det. Exline was able to identify Jahmil Dorsey, 36, as the thief on 09/28/18 and 10/14/18.

Jahmil Dorsey

10/14/18 Felony Stealing (pending) Town & Country PD 10/04/18 Stealing (pending) Crestwood PD 09/19/18 Stealing (pending) St. Louis CO PD/Fenton 09/13/18 Stealing (pending) St. Louis CO PD/Fenton 06/15/18 Stealing (pending) Ladue PD 06/14/18 Stealing, Poss of Stolen Property (pending) Kirkwood PD 05/25/18 Stealing (pending) Kirkwood PD 05/18/18 Stealing (pending) Kirkwood PD 04/12/18 Stealing (pending) Kirkwood PD 03/13/18 Stealing (pending) Kirkwood PD 02/21/17 Stealing (warrant) St. Louis City PD

Most of Dorsey’s victims were Schnucks stores but in Fenton it was a Walmart. Here are the charging documents from the Town and Country case:

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MASON ROAD TRAIL CONTINUES TO GO NOWHERE FOR THE TIME BEING: At the Monday night August 12th Town and Country Board of Aldermen meeting things got more than a little contentious. When Bill 19-40 calling for spending $16.350 on a new engineering study of Mason Road for the planned 8-foot asphalt of an existing concrete sidewalk, came up on the agenda for a second reading and a vote, Mayor Jon Dalton didn’t want it to happen.

“My instincts are for a continuation for the sponsoring alderman to be here,” said Dalton. Alderwoman Pam Holman of Ward 1 who replaced Lynn Wright both on the Aldermanic Board and as Chairperson of the Parks and Trails Commission was out of town. Holman is a supporter of this big money drain.

A motion to continue the matter to August 26th was made.

Alderman Dr. Matt Reutter indicated he wanted to speak. Dalton abruptly asked if Reuter wanted to speak on the continuance only. It was clear that Reutter wanted to speak on what a waste of money continuing this project is after it was shut down by County Highways 10 months ago. Reutter attempted to say what was wrong with the whole project, as a reason not to continue it but to vote NO on it.

Ald. Jon Benigas stopped him making a “Point of Order” and demanding what this had to do with a continuance.

Reutter was allowed to continue for a very short time. Then Dalton stopped him saying, “I have been patient on this. What does this have to do with a continuance?”

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The vote was 5-to-2 to continue the matter with Ward-Two Ald. Lindsey Butler who lives off Mason Road and Reutter voting NO. The other Ward-2 Alderwoman, Tiffany Frautschi voted for the continuance.

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The City began construction on what was supposed to be 20% financed by the city and 80% by a Municipal Parks Grant, with an 8-foot wide trail from Clayton over a mile to the 500-plus acre Queeny Park. This began in 2015. It was supposed to cost under $100,000 with the city paying about $18,000 and the grant picking up the rest. However a number of owners of large homes on Mason Road refused to give up between 12-to-16 feet of easement for the project. Dalton refused to use eminent domain lawsuits to obtain the ground.

Then Director of Planning and Public Works Craig Wilde kept saying how he was working on getting homeowners to change their minds. He did not get one to flip.

Then it was decided to simply build the trail over the existing concrete sidewalk. T-Hill Construction was on the contract for the job. However, there was one big problem. Neither T-Hill nor the City of Town and Country obtained a permit to do the project from the St. Louis County Highway Department. (Mason is a County road.) The county ordered the work to be stopped in October of 2018 and for the City to replace the “sidewalk” it destroyed.

10 months later no new work has been done. But the city has spent close to a quarter- million dollars in replacing the missing sidewalk and repairing the road shoulder, plus legal bills. None of this was covered by the grant. The County wants a new engineering study after the destruction of the sidewalk and shoulder and the temp replacement before any construction permit will be issued.

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Here are a few of the houses along this section of Mason Road.

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Eight citizens spoke in favor of doing the construction of a trail that does not come close to reaching the County Park. There were all people who could be described as “Daltonites.” In one case three were from the same house.

Will McKnight who had been appointed to the P&Z Board by Dalton after he ran against and lost to Dalton enemy Lindsey Butler, spoke for three minutes on how important this was. So did McKnight’s wife and son. Former Alderman Lynn Wright spoke in favor of the project that she fronted as an alderwoman and the chair of the Parks Committee.

Only two speakers lived along Mason Road or in a subdivision in the area of the planned “trail” to nowhere.

DOING WHAT THE RESIDENTS WANT APPEARS TO BE OFF THE TABLE FOR NOW. The alderpersons also continued the resolution to withdraw the grant application for Federal Highway grant money to resurface Topping Road from Kent Manor to Manchester and install an 8-foot wide asphalt “trail.”

A grant was obtained to do the first half of the road from Clayton to Kent Manor with the Feds giving 45% and the city paying 55%. The city held an Open House for residents about the project after the grant was issued for the first half. The residents were pissed and did not want an 8-ft asphalt “trail” or extra wide sidewalk with 12 feet of their property gong to the project. Most agreed a regular concrete sidewalk was needed.

The first phase of the project could be adjusted to a sidewalk instead of a trail. However the current grant proposal for the second phase clearly indicates the wide asphalt trail only.

The vote on the resolution to withdraw the second grant proposal and replace it later for the sidewalk the residents wanted did not happen as Dalton asked for a motion to continued it. He got a motion and a second and the continuance passed on a 5-2 vote.

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UNAPPROVED CHESTERFIELD NEWSLETTER 337

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Eugene Moore, Jr.

June 16, 2019 Aug. 23, 2018 March 3, 2018 May 22, 2016 May 21, 2015

02/28/00 Armed 1st Degree Robbery Guilty 15-years Prison St. Louis City PD 11/14/08 2-counts of Felony Nono-Support Guilty 2-tears jail St. Louis CO PD 02/18/12 Stealing (Misdemeanor) / Make False Declaration Guilty St. Louis Co PD 14-Days jail 01/19/13 False Declaration/False Info to Police Florissant PD 04/13/13 Felony Stealing Guilty 1-year jail Ballwin PD 04/13/13 Felony Stealing Guilty 1-year jail Brentwood PD 04/21/13 Felony Stealing 1-Year jail Ballwin PD 05/01/13 Felony Non-Support Guilty 1-year jail St. Louis CO PD 02/06/15 Felony Stealing Guilty 6-months jail Chesterfield PD 03/20/15 Felony Stealing Guilty 6-months jail Manchester PD 02/06/16 Felony Stealing Guilty 1-year jail Brentwood PD 02/26/16 Give False Information to Police Brentwood PD 04/27/16 Felony Stealing Guilty 1-year jail Ballwin PD 05/17/16 Felony Stealing Guilty 1-year jail Manchester PD 05/19/16 Felony Stealing Guilty 1-year jail Ballwin PD 08/13/16 Stealing/Trespassing Guilty 1-year jail SES probation St. Louis City PD 08/29/17 Felony Drug Possession St. Louis Co PD 08/22/18 Stealing/Poss of Drug Para/False Info to Police St. Louis CO PD (Fenton) 12/21/18 Forgery/Making False Declaration St. Louis City PD 08/08/19 Stealing Chesterfield PD

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August 10 2:59 AM

This is the Town and Country call ref putting out the spike strips to stop Thomas’ Mercedes from going West Bound in the East Bound lanes of I-64 at 80 MPH.

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Dontrell Thomas

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07/28/03 Speeding 15-19 MPH over limit Guilty MO Hwy Patrol 05/04/18 DWI pending St. Louis County Assoc Circuit Court MO Hwy Patrol Fail to Drive in a Lane 08/10/19 DWI and other charges MO Hwy Patrol

Thomas is an operations manager at Boeing, in the F-18 division.

Julie Silvestri 1740 Wild Horse Creek Rd Chesterfield, MO

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Dylan Franklin June 28, 2018 July 18, 2018

09/14/11 Taking Wildlife Illegally Guilty $299 fine MO Conserv. Dept 03/03/15 Careless & Impudent Driving Guilty $500 fine Troy PD 03/14/18 Felony Possession of Controlled Sub pending Festus PD 06/02/18 Felony Stealing Over $750 Guilty Plea 6/03/19 Arnold PD Sentencing scheduled for 08/19/19 01/01/19 Destruction of Property/Trespassing Pending Jefferson CO SO 02/09/19 Felony Possession of Controlled Sub pending Arnold PD 06/06/19 Fail to Drive on Right Side of Road accident MO Hwy Patrol 08/09/19 Felony Stealing Over $750 Chesterfield PD

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Michelle Hester 12/23/17

09/13/15 Liquor Violation / Resisting Arrest St. Louis City PD

Bayer has had 10 traffic cases in various municipalities over a four-year period.

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Jonathan Enright 01/09/16 09/04/14

06/28/01 DWI Arrest Refused Breath Test 04/25/08 Felony Distribute Controlled Substance Guilty Maryland Hts PD 05/04/09 DWI Guilty 4-years prison immediately place MO Hwy Patrol Camden CO On 5-years SES probation after 120-days shock jail time 03/31/14 Moving Violation reduced to Illegal Parking St. Charles CO SO 01/23/15 Moving Violation reduced to Illegal Parking St. Charles CO PD

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Tyrone Shivers, Jr.

Shivers has had 3 moving violations reduced to Illegal Parking in St. Charles Co. His father served long periods in prison including two times for Armed Robbery, one in St. Louis and one in Richmond Heights.

Brandy Duke

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04/28/18 Driving While Revoked (pending) Manchester PD 11/19/17 Poss of Drug Paraph (pending) Ellisville PD Williams has 15 traffic cases between Ballwin, Ellisville and Manchester

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POLICE BLOTTER FOLLOW UP: We ran this Chesterfield Police Blotter item in our July 27 Newsletter concerning the arrest of Candice Coleman.:

Candice Coleman

We then received this from someone in St. Louis area media:

I came across a post about Candice Coleman. There is more to this story. Candice is a restaurant media rep. She goes around all these restaurants, eats free, goes to their events, and then gets air time on local radio stations to pimp these restaurants. It's no clue she was hammered when the bill is probably taken care of by gift cards or comps. Maybe more than meets the eye!

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PURSUIT AFTER THE ROBBERY: We have learned more about the events around a police blotter item we posted two weeks ago.

We have heard from different police sources that the suspect in the black Dodge pickup truck had been committing a number of thefts from lawn service trucks in subdivisions where the employees are busy cutting grass and not in view of their truck and trailer.

We also heard that Chesterfield Police chased the suspect and truck, but Chesterfield has a very restrictive pursuit policy and the chase was terminated and the suspect escaped. I wrote to the Chesterfield Police media relations officer, Sgt. Keith Rider and he was not saying much:

From: Keith Rider [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2019 8:39 AM To: John Hoffmann Subject: Re: media info request

I’ll have to look at it when I’m back at work on Monday. Not familiar with this one

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From: John Hoffmann Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 3:33:12 PM To: Keith Rider Subject: RE: media info request

Is there nothing further on this? I understand the suspects have been hitting lawn service trucks in West County regularly and Chesterfield pursued the suspect/vehicle until it was called off for safety reasons.

Any details?

John Hoffmann

From: Keith Rider [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 3:42 PM To: John Hoffmann Subject: Re: media info request

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It's still an ongoing investigation. Our Officer who attempted to stop the vehicle was able to get a license plate, unfortunately the plate came back as stolen

From: Keith Rider [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 3:53 PM To: John Hoffmann Subject: Re: media info request

It was on green trails, not long after the initial robbery.

CAR CLOUTING OVER THE WEEKEND: Chesterfield had 10 unlocked cars entered. 3 vehicles were forced open. One was a truck at a motel and one of the two suspects was arrested. There was one car stolen that was left unlocked with the key in it.

Town and Country dodged a bullet. They had some officers on overtime after midnight due to the car crimes throughout the area. A detective working OT observed a Dodge Charger with Illinois license plates. The detective followed the car down Clayton Road and then saw it turn down a driveway off of Topping Road. The detective watched it and saw that the driver had his foot on the brakes. When the Dodge pulled out the detective tried to stop it but the Dodge sped off at a high rate of speed. A license plate check showed the car was stolen in Illinois. For the safety of others, no prolonged car pursuit was not conducted. There were no reported car break-ins in Town and Country over the weekend.

This was the driveway the suspects drove down in the middle of the night.

BACK TO SCHOOL! IT’S TIME FOR THE CHESTERFIELD RESIDENTS ON THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY LIST: For the third straight year there were no sex

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Maryville University Matthew Jules Gewinner, 28, was charged on 10/05/10 with Felony Possession of Child Pornography involving both boys and girls. He was convicted on 06/23/14 in St. Louis County. Gewinner gives an addresses listing Maryville University in Town and Country along with one on Lanvale Drive in south Webster Groves.

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63005 There are five registered sex offenders who live in Chesterfield’s 63005 postal zone. There are 33 registered sex offenders who work in the 63005 zone of Chesterfield.

17919 Wild Horse Creek Road Lee F. Aguera, 29, Poss of Child Porn Age at time of Offense 17 10/14/07

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25 Chesterfield Lakes Road Joel Jay Weinman, 55, Sexual Exploitation of Minors & Obscene Matter in Interstate Commerce; 01/01/92; Age at time of Offence 27.

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2232 Kehrsglen Ct George Richard Fox 2nd, 77 Possession of Child Porn 02/26/08; Age at time of Offense 66

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1300 Christmas Valley Drive Tyler A. Walters, 34, Sexual Exploitation of a Child (Conviction in Vail, Colorado offense occurred 04/20/10) Age at time of Offense 25

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63017 Three new sex offenders added to the list in 2019. Beside the below 12 offenders who live in Chesterfield there are another 29 Registered Sex Offenders who work in the 63017 zip code.

621 Highland Park Drive Apt H Matthew Michael Banner, 30, Possession of Child Porn; Age at time of Offense 22.

Matthew Banner

15557 Century Lake Drive Joe Michael Bartlett, 64, Sodomy of 13-year-old boy. Age at time of Offense 38, Jan. 01, 1994.

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14072 Calcutta Drive Alan Anderson Bjerke, 31, Deviate Sexual Assault of 17-year- old girl. Age at time of Offense: 17.

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1600 Westmeade Drive Jacob Alan Dearing, 26, convicted for Exposing Himself to a 15-year-old girl on 06/15/16 at the U.S. Army’s Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska. Age at time of offense 23.

Jacob Dearing

645 Clovertrail Drive Donald Franklin Dimmich, 71, Child Molestation of 13-year-old female. Age at time of Offense: 50

Donald Dimmich

15726 Hill House Road Joseph Everett Hendrickson, 78, Sexual Misconduct with 7- year-old female. Age at time of offense: 55 year-old (1997)

Joseph Hendrickson

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14276 Forest Crest Dr. Nathaniel Robert Lockwood, 30, Sexual Assault on 21-year- old female. Age at time of Offense 18.

Nathaniel Lockwood

1255 Creve Coeur Crossing #6 Brandon Anthony Lojacono, 36, Attempted Statutory Rape 2nd Degree on a 14-year-old female. Age at time of Offense 24

Brandon Lojacono

550 White Road William “Bill” Machino, 59, Child Molestation 1st Degree on an 11- year-old girl on 05/11/98. Age at the time of the offense: 37. He was living in South St. Louis County and was arrested by the County Police. Upon his Guilty Plea on 05/31/2000 he was placed on a 5-year SES probation term. He violated the probation and was sentenced to five years in prison on 03/03/03.

William Machino

1525 Hampton Hall Dr. Jeremy David Rogers, 44, Sexual Exploitation of a Minor Child. The victim was 13-year-old. The offense occurred outside of Columbia, MO and

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Jeremy Rogers

16015 Park Forest Ct Ryan Scott Stanfield, 40, Child Molestation on a 13-year-old female. Age at time of Offense 24.

Ryan Stanfield

1255 Creve Coeur Crossing Lane #A Tony Lee Washington, 50, Sexual Abuse 3rd Degree on a 19-year-old female. Age at time of offense, 18.

Tony Washington

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424 Whitree Lane Karl Frandais Everetts, 57, claims to live at 3516 (rear) Grace Avenue in St. Louis, but claims to be employed at 424 Whitree in Chesterfield. 424

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Whitree is a sinle family house off of White Road. Everetts was convicted of a Criminal Sexual Conduct of a 21-year-old female when he was 30. The offense occurred in Minnesota.

Karl Everetts

LOOK WHO CAME TO CHURCH! Dean Christopher does a lot of vocals for services at his church in South County. In July he had a special guest.

Here is a link: https://www.facebook.com/dean.christopher.169/posts/2482907148433369

LOOK WHO CAME TO A KIRKWOOD BAR:

Hear Kermit doing an impression at the end of this link:

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Here is a sing along with Dean and Dean in English and Italian:

https://www.facebook.com/helen.colston.9/videos/2680751471945483/?epa=SEARCH_ BOX

A LETTER FROM FRANCE! I’M RICH…WELL MAYBE NOT: I guess everyone is use to the internet frauds from Nigeria where someone claiming to be a banker or government officials emails you reporting there has been a large amount of money left in your name, but they would require you to pay a handling fee to have the money sent to you.

Well, the crooks are spending more money and have moved out of Nigeria. This week I received a letter from FRANCE!

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Gosh, they were going to share this load of cash and I would get $13,000,000!

The day after I received this letter I took it to the Town and Country Police to let them know about this new phishing scam using an old school method of delivery, The United States Postal Service. I was informed by a detective I was a little late. I was the third resident to bring this letter to the police station.

WHERE TO BUY WATERMELLON: I wrote about Grey Farms earlier this year and the 42-year-old woman who owns the Southern Illinois company. Their spring watermelons from Texas and Flordia were okay.

Now that summer is here I have heard from a number of people how bad the watermelons are this year. I got a couple of terrible “seedless” melons at Dierbergs from Ochs’ Farms in Missouri. I had some luck with some melons from California and Texas at Schnucks, but then got a couple from Texas I had to throw out. So it was back to Trader Joe’s in Des Peres and in Chesterfield for Grey Farms’ Tsamma seedless watermelons. The last six we have had have been outstanding and they are just $3.99.

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Chocolate Store Gone: I noticed that the Fannie May’s Chocolate store located in Des Peres was gone. They apparently closed at the end of June but the sign didn’t come down until recently.

ADVERTISING EMPTY STORES: The Fun Flags store in the Colonnade Center on Manchester in Des Peres closed at the beginning of the year,

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Next it was the Down Under Restaurant and Bar that closed in May of 2019.

However, last weekend the strip center’s message board by Manchester Road was advertising both long gone businesses.

Perhaps the management at the Colonnade Center just haven’t noticed that two of their tenants went out of business and moved out.

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