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Hill 2000 Neighborhood Association Board Meeting August 11, 2021 In attendance: Fr. Jack Siefert, Dan Burghoff, Jen Gianino, Matt Devoti, Joe Aromando, Jim Barnthouse, LynnMarie Alexander Meeting was called to order at 6:35 Introduction to honorary Board member, Fr. Jack Seifert Random topics discussed: 1. Be sure Fr. Jack gets newsletter 2. Engage with LaCollina

Christy Ferguson started the Mensi Project in 2018 at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville to donate unneeded menstrual products to someone who could use them. Now the university is funding the effort.

Jacob Kirn of the St. Louis Business Journal discusses his reporting on the Dome, which faces big maintenance needs even as it's set to soon lose funding for them. Locals' lawsuit against the NFL could change the equation.

Twenty years later, the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and the response to the attack still define America in many ways — and continue to shape the world far beyond U.S. borders. St. Louisans share their reflections in this episode.

The three-day festival "Music at the Intersection" kicks off in Grand Center tonight and will feature the first big live shows for some local venues since the start of the pandemic. It also marks the beginning of a fall season that could include more live events than St. Louis has seen in the past year and a half.

The land of second generation Missouri farmer Matt Arthur flowers thanks to his investment in growing soil. He says:

“We are stewards of our land, committed to a no-till practice of regenerative agriculture. No chemicals, lots of cover crops, a preference for native species. Growing in permanent raised beds: once formed, we never disturb them."

Flowers and herbs, native and medicinal plants, grow on three BLH Farm acres of this Fulton MO hillside.  Honeybees and other pollinators forage on 140 forested acres. Subscription compost collection from nearby St. Louis communities nourishes the BLH Farms' soil. Cut-flower customers can buy through the BLH CSA or online store and at Hy-Vee in Columbia MO.

BLH Farms proudly holds membership and certification through Known & Grown St. Louis. 

THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, and to Jon Valley and Andy Coco, the KDHX Production team. 

Related Earthworms Conversations:

Dr. Elaine Ingham: Soil Science Rocks Plant Health (Oct 2017)

The Work of Ecological Restoration (July 2020)

 

Soul-jazz pianist Dave Grelle takes the stage this weekend at the inaugural Music at the Intersection festival with his band Playadors and Funky Butt Brass Band.

Carol Diaz-Granados, along with her husband James Duncan, have devoted years of time and anthropological research to Picture Cave, and are appalled by the prospect of its auction. They would like to see the property in the care of the Osage Nation. In this episode, we hear from the couple as well as Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers.

Trailnet 2021 Bicycle Education Class Offerings! Tuesday, December 7 (snow date Dec. 16th) 5:30-7:30PM,All About Winter Riding – Come learn with the experts all about winter riding. This class will …

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Apple announced Friday that it would postpone its planned roll-out of user device surveillance technology that had come under heavy fire from the privacy and civil liberties community. We at Freedom of the Press Foundation wrote last month that the technology was a “threat to user privacy and press freedom,” and could, if abused, threaten whistleblowers and journalists working on sensitive stories.

We were far from alone in raising the alarm about Apple's plans. Nearly one hundred civil society organizations signed an open letter to the tech giant urging it to reconsider, joining thousands of individuals, including security researchers, cryptographers, and privacy experts on a second letter. The strength and virtual unanimity of this outcry is heartening, and clearly had an effect. As our board president Edward Snowden put it on Twitter: “Don't ever let anyone tell you that there's nothing you can do when a company announces a plan to screw you.”

But while a delay is welcome, it’s not sufficient. Apple should drop its plans for this backdoor technology entirely. As we previously said about the technology, “No backdoor for law enforcement will be safe enough to keep bad actors from continuing to push it open just a little bit further.” The qualms from the privacy community weren’t nitpicks about implementation details, but a rejection of the underlying premise.

The danger of untrustworthy devices to journalists and sources has never been clearer, as we come off a summer of revelations of powerful spyware targeting reporters and the disclosure by investigators that encrypted messenger metadata was used to identify at least one whistleblower behind a major piece of financial reporting.

It’s crucial, then, that the developers of our technology and software keep their interests aligned with the privacy needs of their users. Apple has marketed itself on these very values, and indeed has often led the field towards more privacy preserving practices. This proposal could have been a dangerous move backwards; dropping it would be a step towards regaining user trust.

Trailnet is participating in the National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project for the ninth year in a row!  As we continue to collect count data each consecutive year, we are able to show changes in bicycling and …

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The Blues Hall of Fame member and soul singer worked in relative obscurity for decades before receiving her due in recent years, propelled by a 2005 collection of radically reinterpreted classic rock songs. She is now widely considered one of the great song interpreters. Her most recent release, "Blackbirds," is a collection of songs first popularized by other Black women.

St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum interviewed St. Louis native Carl Power, the author of the new book Home, Land, Security. It was part of an ongoing partnership that Rosenbaum has had with Left Bank Books to interview authors of fascinating books. Power's book details the concept of deradicalization by traveling around to world to talk to people affected personally by terrorism and white supremacy.

Post-Dispatch columnist Benjamin Hochman discusses the Cardinals' triumph in the 2011 World Series in this encore epsiode. Listeners also share their stories about Game 6, Hochman's pick for the greatest game in World Series history.

Edison Agrosciences is the St. Louis based agricultural biotechnology company working to develop alternative rubber crops. In this encore episode, here why it believes sunflowers can become a source of homegrown rubber.

Author and punk musician G'Ra Asim discusses his new book in this encore episode, and how he feels about moving back to St. Louis, the city he left as a 10-year-old.

In 2018, the Tower Grove Neighborhoods CDC purchased a long-time nuisance property at 3800-02 Gravois in our continued attempt to stabilize the southern part of Tower Grove South, known as The Wedge. The property is our first mixed-use (commercial/residential) building. We invested a lot into the property because this corner is important to the stabilization and growth of the neighborhood. 

3800 - 3802 Gravois before
3800 - 3802 Gravois after
3800 Gravois after
Future home to James Jackson Group Home consignment shop
3802 Gravois after
Future home to The Popcorn Bar STL

Completed in late 2019, the upstairs residential units were rented to amazing tenants. The pandemic set our plans back a bit, so the commercial spaces waited for the perfect tenants. Our goal for the commercial spaces was to add value to the residents of the area. We knew the importance of finding the perfect tenants (non-profit organizations/local businesses) versus just getting the spaces filled. It was a long road, but we are happy to announce that both spaces have been filled!

3800 Gravios, the larger of the two spaces, will become a consignment furniture store run by a local non-profit organization. The James Jackson Group Home for Pregnant Teens provides services to help pregnant teens develop skills necessary to independence and life as healthy productive adults, as well as responsible and capable parents. The store will benefit an amazing cause, and an affordable furniture store in an area with a high amount of affordable rentals will benefit the neighborhood as well.

3802 Gravois is the first retail storefront for a great, local, family-owned business. The Popcorn Bar STL will bring healthy snacks and jobs into the area. After running a successful business at Soulard Market, the PopCorn Bar STL is expanding into Tower Grove South.

We are excited to welcome both of these businesses to the Tower Grove Neighborhoods CDC family! We can’t wait for them to open up over the next couple of months. 

A huge thank you to ArtScope and the neighborhood kids for creating a great mural for 3800 Gravois as well.  A little art makes a big difference in communities! 

To see more projects like this completed, please donate to Tower Grove Neighborhoods!

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We are continuing this week’s “Communities Forward” podcast, with our two guests from last week who are the Co-founders of BlackTea. BlackTea is an audio and visual media organization founded in St. Louis, MO by two young Black women that aim to raise political, social, and cultural awareness while engaging communities in a conversational and […]

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George Washington Carver is best known for his innovative work with peanuts. But this Missourian is also responsible for advancements in biofuels, plant-based meats, alternative medicines, and so much more.

Hampton, a formerly four-lane thoroughfare, now limits traffic to one lane in each direction, with the addition of a center turning lane plus wider parking lanes on the sides. The city has plans for a somewhat similar transformation along Lindell Boulevard by Forest Park.