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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Dear Friends & Neighbors,
Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday as we "fall back"
and set clocks back one hour. This is also a great time to check the things
that keep us safe and ready for emergencies.
Smoke Detectors - Check and replace batteries if needed and make sure the devices
around your house are working properly. The U.S. Consumer Products Safety
Commission estimates that about 16 million homes in the country have smoke
alarms that do not work. In most cases, the batteries are dead or missing.
Nearly 2,700 people die and more than 15,000 are injured each year because of
fires that started in their homes.
Carbon Monoxide (CO)
Detectors - Make sure you have working CO Detectors in your home. According
to the Centers for Disease Control, carbon monoxide is the leading cause of
accidental poisoning deaths in the United States
Emergency Kits - Everyone should have a basic emergency kit in their home with
supplies such as food and water to last you and your family for at least three
days. Other items like a battery-powered or crank radio, flashlights and a
first aid kit should also be included. Daylight Saving Time is a perfect time
to get a kit - and if you already have a kit, to check it to make sure food and
other items are not near or past their expiration dates.
Wednesday, November 9 at 1:00 p.m.- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) will conduct the first nationwide test of the Emergency
Alert System (EAS) and may last up to three and a half minutes. On November
9, the public will hear a message indicating that "This is a test."
The audio message will be the same for both radio and television. A Nationwide
EAS Test will help the federal agencies and EAS participants determine the
reliability of the system and its effectiveness in notifying the public of
emergencies and potential dangers nationally and regionally.
Wise
Avenue Project: As you are aware, the
City is scheduled to rebuild Wise Avenue from Big Bend east in 2012. MSD
has notified us that they have scheduled a sewer replacement project for this
area in 2013. Such a project would damage our newly rebuilt street.
Staff is working with MSD and East West Gateway Council of Governments (TIP
Grant Administrator) on a solution. We may need to postpone the project
to coincide with the MSD work in 2013. I will update you further as we determine
possible solutions.
Operation Food Search: It is time again for the Operation
Food Search Fall Food Drive in Richmond Heights. Employees invite you to
help feed the hungry by sharing canned goods, cereals and other food
items. Collection barrels are available in the lobbies at City Hall, The
Heights, the Library, Public Works and the Public Safety Building. Please give
generously as area food banks are really in need this year. Collections
will be around through November 18.
Friday, November 18 at 5:45 p.m.: - Holiday Lighting Ceremony at THE HEIGHTS
Leaf Vacuuming Schedule: Please find attached 2011-12
Richmond Heights Leaf Schedule. Remember, placing leaves in the gutter is
against the law. Leaves could catch fire when you park your car over them,
and they stop up the sewers. Our Police will ticket you for this. (Just a
reminder).
I leave you as always, if I can be
of any help to you or yours please call or e-mail me. Please share this
newsletter with your neighbors. If you know of anyone who would like to be
added to the list of readers, please have them call or drop me a note. Your
e-mail address will be kept confidential and it will not be sold, disclosed to
others, or used for unsolicited mass mailings (spam). The Quality of Life in
our Neighborhoods is what makes our City special. Thank You for giving us
the opportunity to serve you on the City Council. The 2nd District rocks
because of you, the greatest residents any city can have.
Mike Jones
2nd District Council Member
314.644.1564
mjones@richmondheights.org
Mike Jones
2nd District Council Member
314.644.1564
mjones@richmondheights.org
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
1969 Soccer Pic from Lew
Back Row and Im just guessing. Ruoff, Connolly, Renz, Provaznik and Nails Nolan
Mike Ver, Schnurr, Lewis, Pro?, and ?
Front Row Mat Ver and I dont know the rest....... Help me out.
Mike Verzino
The soccer pic from '69.
Dan Fitzhenry in back row on right
in front of Nails.-
front row next to Matt Ver =
Jim Stewart, Bill Curran, Tom Stewart, CArl Ribaudo
This pic = Perhaps the best athletes
to come out of 1 class in LF history!
Mike Verzino
Monday, October 17, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Bad Luck John in this mornings Post Dispatch Business
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/multimedia/image_fc886329-8b13-5988-9221-8d508b61f3ab.html#ixzz1Z16CJpEm
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Jack Brady Article
In January 1943, Tom Glancy arrived in Australia as part of the 1st Marine Division. He put his gear in a tent and settled down. A few minutes later, another Marine stuck his head in the tent."Any empty beds in here?"
There were. The newcomer's name was Jack Brady. The two young men started talking. Glancy asked Brady where he was from. St. Louis, said Brady. Where'd you go to high school? asked Glancy. Southside Catholic, said Brady. Never heard of it, teased Glancy, who was a CBC grad.
Glancy was 19. Brady was 18. They were both assigned to the 3rd Battalion of the 11th Regiment. Glancy was a forward observer who would call in targets for the artillery. Brady was an artilleryman.
They went to Melbourne together on liberties. They were tent-mates for almost a year.
In December, they participated in the invasion of Cape Gloucester.
They were tent-mates again when their unit regrouped after the fight.
They were part of the invasion force at Peleliu. They were tent-mates again after that very bloody battle.
Then they were part of the force that invaded Okinawa. When that island was secured, they were tent-mates again as they awaited orders to invade Japan.
When the two atomic bombs precluded the need for that invasion and the war ended, Brady and Glancy were sent to China for 90 days. Then they were on the same troop ship back to the States.
They rode together from the West Coast to Chicago on a train, and then to Union Station in St. Louis. They stood together on the platform and gazed at the crowd.
Glancy saw his family and hurried off to meet them. When he looked back, Brady was gone.
The two men got on with their lives. They put the war behind them. They did not stay in touch. They both went to St. Louis University, but neither knew the other was there.
Brady graduated with a degree in business. He married a girl he had met at the Rail Fence, a hamburger joint on South Grand. He went to work as a salesman at Porter Paint Co. He became a district manager and then a regional manager. He and his wife had five children.
Glancy left the university shortly before he would have graduated. He got a job as a salesman with a steel company. Then he became a liquor salesman. He married a girl from Indiana. They lived for a couple of years in Chicago and then moved to Dallas. They had two children.
Glancy's wife died in 1994. A year after her death, Glancy heard from his high school girlfriend, Beth. She had gone to Visitation. She was a widow and had heard through mutual friends that Glancy's wife had died. He came to St. Louis for a wedding, and the two got together. They married.
In 2006, Glancy and Beth moved into an apartment on the Cardinal Carberry campus in Shrewsbury. Their apartment was in a complex run by Cardinal Ritter Senior Services.
Two years later, Brady moved into the same building. His wife had died in 1999, and Brady's health had begun to deteriorate to the point that his kids thought he should no longer live alone.
The former tent-mates did not know they were living in the same building.
Brady fell and broke his hip and went into the building on campus for rehabilitation. He returned to his apartment and then last year, fell and broke his hip again.
Shortly before that second injury, Beth had a stroke. She went to the rehab building.
Glancy was visiting Beth when he heard a nurse tell another nurse that Jack Brady had fallen again.
Jack Brady?
Glancy went back to his room and got a photo he keeps on his desk. Two young Marines pose for the camera in Australia. They look like kids.
He took the photo and went to the rehab building. He saw his old tent-mate sitting at a table in the cafeteria. When he approached the table, Brady thought, "I think I should know that guy, but I don't."
Glancy put the photo on the table. "Recognize these guys?" he asked.
Beth died last June. Glancy still lives in the independent-living building. Brady lives nearby in an assisted-living building. Glancy visits every Tuesday. They go out to dinner once a month. This Saturday night, they will be at Lester's.
I visited them when they met Tuesday. I asked why they get together only once a week.
"I can't stand him. That's why," said Glancy.
Brady laughed and Glancy joined in.
For a moment, they were young again.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/bill-mcclellan/article_31a10bed-6b30-569a-b393-ab18b1b6c5ec.html#ixzz1WEaPpmyt
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
The Little Flower
Men’s Club will
hold its 26th annual golf tournament on Saturday,
September 24, 2011, at Forest Park
Golf Course. 1:00 p.m. tee time.
Proceeds benefit our school athletic
program. Last year’s tournament
was a success and everyone had a
great time. Please call Leo Bub
(644-3332) or Rod Jacoby (644-
2867) for more information. Hope
you can join us!
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Join the cities of Richmond Heights, Maplewood and Brentwood on August 20th from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. for our rst ever E-cycle drive! Bring your old electronics to our drop-off location to be recycled in the proper way! They will accept many items but for a full list check out this website www.rnaworldwide.com. Most items are free to recycle except larger items like refrigerators and air conditioners.
For more information call 655-3662.
Tri-city E-Cycle Flyer
Monday, August 1, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Beard Award-winning chef unwinds with his family at a backyard barbecue
What does a James Beard Award-winning chef cook when he comes home to St. Louis for Memorial Day?
His choice of condiments provides the first clue: "Hey, you got any Maull's?"
Yes, the grill is covered with — what else? — pork steaks. Chicken thighs and bratwurst will soon take their place. It's quite a departure from the ever-changing foie gras plates chef Patrick Connolly made at the four-star Radius restaurant in Boston and from the crispy duck leg he currently serves at Bobo restaurant in Manhattan's West Village.
But it's a standard menu for a St. Louis backyard barbecue, even though the three Connolly brothers aren't exactly a standard St. Louis family.
This afternoon's host, Dan, 28, is an offensive lineman for the New England Patriots who last year set an unusual NFL record: longest kickoff return by an offensive lineman (71 yards, against Green Bay). In the off-season, he lives with his wife and daughter in a modest two-story home in Glendale. The other brother, Christopher, 31, biked 5 miles to the party from Mesa Cycles, where he works and competes on one of Mesa's road teams.
Patrick, 33, is the least-frequent attendee at the family get-togethers, owing to the all-consuming schedule of an elite New York City chef.
Patrick's first food job was at the St. Louis Bread Co. at Chesterfield Mall while he was a student at St. Louis University High School.
"I attended SLU briefly and Lindenwood even more briefly," he recalls. He got his first cooking job at Tucker's in west St. Louis County, then moved to Dressel's in the Central West End to work first as a bartender and then as a cook.
He and Christopher both worked at Dressel's on and off for about five years.
"Two things happened while at Dressel's that convinced me to move on and pursue a cooking career," Patrick says. "I bought a copy of 'The French Laundry Cookbook' from Left Bank Books (just down the street from Dressel's), and instantly I knew I wanted to pursue it as a career. Then Tony Bourdain did a VIP book signing for 'A Cook's Tour' at Duff's through Left Bank and a friend snuck me into it.
"I was already planning on attending culinary school, and when I asked him for advice on what to do upon finishing school, he said, 'Don't go for money or title. Take even the (most excremental) job at the greatest restaurant and learn as much as you can.'
"So I went on my way prepared to work nonstop for little money and with little social life. I ran into him in LaGuardia airport last year and thanked him for the sound advice he once gave me."
In 2002, Patrick enrolled at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, R.I., which is renowned for combining culinary and liberal-arts programs. Again, however, classroom learning didn't appeal to him, although he managed to pack in enough kitchen training to land a job at a restaurant in Providence.
"I got a little worried when my paychecks started to bounce," he says. So, following Bourdain's advice, he researched the 10 best restaurants in Boston and papered them with résumés, landing a line-cook position at Radius. Within four years, he'd worked up to executive chef, and in 2007 he was nominated for the James Beard Rising Star award for chefs under 30. The following year, he won the James Beard Award for Best Chef-Northeast.
"I'd known I'd be leaving Radius for about six months before that," Patrick says. "It gave me a good opportunity to find a new spot."
Bobo had been open for about nine months but was struggling for an identity, having already gone through two chefs.
"I'd been doing the four-star, multicourse thing for a long time and wanted to do something new," Patrick says. Bobo's menu concept was based on food served at a dinner party, giving him broad range.
His food has been a success, and Patrick will be working with Bobo's owners to open another restaurant in a few months. The concept for that restaurant hasn't crystallized, but he expects that the space — a former paper store at West 10th Street and Greenwich Street, a few blocks from Bobo — will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner and have some sort of retail element. He also plans to work with Brooklyn Grange, a program that's putting farms (or at least large vegetable gardens) on New York City roofs, both for produce for the restaurant and as an educational outreach for local schools.
It's getting pretty crowded now at the family party, possibly because the Connolly boys' mother is one of 12 children and Dan's mother-in-law was one of 15.
Patrick stands at Dan's kitchen counter, rapidly and methodically juicing limes for a pitcher of margaritas. "We should steep a couple of those chiles in the tequila before we make the drinks," he says.
He's soon back at the grill, except this time he's roasting green onions, various colors of bell peppers and asparagus.
The augmented drinks and the roasted vegetables may not be part of the standard menu for a backyard barbecue, but this is no standard backyard barbecue chef.
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