It is properly the first business of neighborhood organizations, such as the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, Rosedale-Skinker Improvement Assn., Washington Heights Neighbors, and the Parkview Assn., to deal constructively with problems affecting their domains, but there is a hazard in allowing this to become the only business of such groups.
Category: September–October 1973
Hamilton School on Westminster--PTA will meet the 3rd Wednesday in October.
In the last issue of The Paper we printed a plea for funds.
Recent enrollment figures show that Hamilton School has an enrollment of 749 students in grades 1-8; 72 in the kindergarten.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at St. Roch's on Saturday, November 10th.
Boy Scout Troop 98, at St. Roch's Church, is looking for a scoutmaster.
The Barry Leader Drug Store, long a neighborhood institution, has changed hands, and there's a new face on Skinker Boulevard these days.
A well-known landmark in the West End of St. Louis is under new management.
The Executive Committee of the Rosedale-Skinker Improvement Association, composed of the officers of the organization, has held three meetings since the May annual dinner and election meeting.
Skinker-DeBaliviere enrolled 145 children of various ages in the St. Louis Parks and Recreation Swim Program this summer.
The Neighborhood: A History of Skinker-DeBaliviere, which made its debut at the 1973 Art Fair-House Tour, has recently brought some outside attention to our neighborhood. (Copies of this 51-page booklet are available at the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council Office for $1.00).
Kingsbury Redevelopment Corporation, an outgrowth of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, is still working on its function, the rebuilding of the area between Delmar and DeGiverville, west of DeBaliviere.
