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Helmkamp Continues To Build Internal Structure With Two Key Promotions

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EAST ALTON - Helmkamp Construction’s Director of Operations, Joe Stange, and Project Director, Kyle Ogden, are moving into new roles at the 85-year-old general contracting firm. These new roles are being strategically put into place by President & Owner Rob Johnes to allow for viable growth in the company’s future. “These changes allow for more review, coaching, and accountability at all levels. We’re building the framework and capacity for larger, more complex projects as well as company growth,” said Johnes. The company-level responsibilities of Ogden’s new role, VP of Building and Life Science Construction, include developing standards for estimators, project managers, and superintendents. He will review systems and technology for improvement and new implementations, which Johnes had historically handled. Ogden will also develop and maintain the hiring process while recruiting new project managers, estimators, and superintendents. In his

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New restaurant coming to Ballpark Village next year

2 years 6 months ago
Taco lovers may be spending their Tuesdays in a new spot next summer. Condado Tacos is opening its first Missouri location in Ballpark Village. The Ohio-based restaurant chain specializes in unique tacos, margaritas and tequila in a “colorful and energetic atmosphere,” according to a press release. The Ballpark Village location is set to open in summer 2023. It is one of 12 restaurants the brand plans to open next year. “We couldn’t be more excited to open our newest Condado Tacos restaurant…
Kayla Wheeler

Salmon People: A Native Fishing Family’s Fight to Preserve a Way of Life

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This video was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published.

When the salmon are running up the Columbia River, Native people are there with them. They live, eat and sleep at the river. Their children grow up at the river. They catch salmon for subsistence, for ceremonies and for their living.

This is the life of the Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum, the Salmon People. It is a life Columbia River tribal people have lived for generations and have fought for decades to protect. Over the last century and a half, they have watched as forces eroded their access to salmon. Treaties removed them from their traditional fishing areas; dams massively reduced the numbers of salmon that swam in the waters; environmental contamination further poisoned the well.

And now, as climate change threatens the salmon throughout its life, the stakes of that fight are existential.

Watch the documentary, and read all of ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting’s team reporting on the threats facing salmon and the broken treaties that the government swore would protect tribes’ right to fish.

by Katie Campbell, ProPublica, and Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting

Anheuser-Busch opens $5M training facility at its St. Louis campus

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This article originally ran in the St. Louis Business Journal on Dec. 16, 2022.  Anheuser-Busch on Friday announced the opening of a new technical training center at its St. Louis campus. The more than $5 million investment adds eight jobs to the brewer’s St. Louis-based learning and development team, bringing the total number of employees on the team to 12, officials […]

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Matt Fernandes