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Category: Back Issues

Bill Triplett, star halfback for the Detroit Lions football team, will be a featured guest at the Des Peres Branch Library, 6003 Kingsbury Ave., at 4:30 Thursday afternoon, May 7th.
Now that the April clean-up campaign is over and the gras seed sown, it’s time to think about your garden.
Neighborhood issues, such as clean up campaigns, beautification, even the lingering Jack-in-the-Box problems, took a back seat to the panel discussion on real estate practices in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area at the joint meeting of the Rosedale-Skinker and Washington Heights Neighborhood Associations, April 14 in the St. Roch’s Assembly Hall.
Virgil Wright, area resident and co-chairman of the Neighborhood Citizens Committee, asks Mr. Henry Lewis, a local pro-owner, “Who put them there,” referring to the number of tenants crowded into small apartments. The occasion was a panel discussion on neighborhood real estate problems. (See page 8 for story on the meeting’;)
Virgil Wright, area resident and co-chairman of the Neighborhood Citizens Committee, asks Mr. Henry Lewis, a local pro-owner, “Who put them there,” referring to the number of tenants crowded into small apartments. The occasion was a panel discussion on neighborhood real estate problems. (See page 8 for story on the meeting’;)
Foodmaker, Inc. has agreed not to proceed with plans for a Jack-In-The-Box Restaurant on the corner of Skinker and Delmar.
Perhaps the least known organization in the neighborhood, the Committee for Environmental Information is making its presence felt nationally every day.

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Community Council Highlights

A $4,500 tax liability, the resignation of the Council’s project manager, and a way forward for the Westminster 1035 Garden highlighted the…

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Arts & Community Calendar

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Why Not Vote?

by Jo Ann Vatcha [Editor’s Note: Fifty years ago, longtime Times editor Jo Ann Vatcha wrote this reflection on voting and the…

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