Recently, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ran a feature article on the Des Peres Branch Library.
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The J.F.K.
I was greatly disappointed by the feature article written about our children's librarian, Sherry Eckrich.
The Boutique Shop at 323 DeBaliviere is the result of a sewing industry program financed by the Neighborhood Youth Corps and sponsored by Skinker-DeBaliviere for 13 teenage girls.
If you stand on the steps of Hamilton School between 7:30 and 5:30 each weekday, you'd swear another school year was already in session.
Originally published in The Paper, August 1970.
A substantial percentage of the residential structures in St. Louis were over 50 years old when the first local housing code was enacted.
`The Story Lady,' known in real life as Miss Sherry Eckrich, the children's librarian at the Des Peres library, introduces as many as 40 children a day to the world of books and the pleasant experience of having a story read to you on a lazy summer afternoon.
The housing code should be enforced although where there is need for a loan, this money should be made available for improvement of this property.
Charles Brown has been living in St. Louis libraries all his life.
