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On the recommendation of Committeewoman Rose Storey, the Democratic Central Committee has appointed Chester Hines to fill the unexpired term of Committeeman Bruce Yampolsky of the 28th Ward. Yampolsky resigned to take a civil service job at the city’s Department of Health and Hospitals. Hines is a longtime resident of the 28th ward and has a lengthy career in public service.
He and his wife, Elizabeth, and their sons Christian and Christopher live on the 52xx block of Washington Place.
He is currently serving as a commissioner of the Washington Place Improvement Association Taxing District, designed to improve the safety and security of the neighborhood.
He also is a parent volunteer to maintain the public schools’ desegregation program. Hines currently is employed as the director of the Ritenour Family Resource Center.
In this capacity, he is responsible for all the health, human and social services prograMs for the pre-schoolers and school age children in the school district.
He previously served as the acting Director of Health and Hospitals and the Director of Human Services for the city of St. Louis. Hines has a Master of Health Administration degree from the Washington University School of Medicine, an M.A. in Education/ Counseling also from Washington University and a B.A. in Education from Harris Teachers College (now Harris-Stowe).
He has served on a number of committees and boards in the St. Louis area including: MR/DD Resources, Grace Hill, American Cancer Society, Visiting Nurse Association, and the Episcopal-Presbyterian Foundation. Hines has been politically active as well and worked to elect Richard Gephardt president and Vince Schoemehl governor.
He also ran unsuccessfully for state representative in 1986. Hines’ principal goal as committeeman for the 28th Ward is to maintain a safe and secure environment for all to enjoy and to improve neighborhood conditions. Hines and Storey will face the voters in the August Democratic primary election.
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Chester Hines. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, March 1996.
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