Feature length family movies will be shown at the Des Peres Branch Library, 5960 Kingsbury, on Thursdays beginning Sept. 17 at 6:45 p.m.
Tag: Education
The Delmar Baptist Church has just closed an extensive summer program for 88 neighborhood children ranging in ages from 5 to 12 years old.
Hamilton Branch No.
I feel very strongly that the state should finance at least fifty percent for public schools; increase corporate tax, pari-mutual betting, sale of alcholic beverage on Sundays, a tax on our natural resources such as lead and copper.
I am for an amendment to the Constitution to permit horse racing and pari-mutual betting, only if the revenue from this source to the State of Missouri, is earmarked for education, and only if a fair share of all education funds are allocated for non-public schools.
The public school system is the backbone of the country.
"This is better than a real school.
In the Delmar Baptist Pre-School summer classes the children spend the morning excitedly feeding some hungry guinea pigs.
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.
`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.
Charles Brown has been living in St. Louis libraries all his life.
Archival article — originally published in The Paper, April 1970.
