VOL. VI, No. 40; Tuesday, May 15,
2007
Dear
Arthur,
Today's newsletter includes
(Note: You can now click on the blue hyperlinks below to go
directly to the story!):
Upcoming
Events for Balance of
2006-2007 School Year
Update on Urban Go-Team
Final session last week
for Middle School Model U.N.
Civitas Picnic at Junior High Park on Maplewood on
Saturday, May 12
Middle
School Teachers final Meeting at Chevy's in Crestwood on Monday, May 21
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Upcoming Events
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Mon.,
05/21/07 |
4:00 PM
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Chevy's in
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Middle School Teacher Meeting
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Rev., April 16,
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Urban Go-Team Begins Documentation
of Hadley Township
area
 Last Saturday, May 12,
a Civitas Urban
Go-Team crew gathered vital information in
the Hadley Township area of Richmond
Heights prior to planned demolition of the neighborhood in
six months. We focused on the first of five sub-areas
within the neighborhood, photographing every home and other
structure that may well be in the line of a bulldozer.
Special thanks to DuBourg junior Jeff Yeckel who once again did
an outstanding job behind the camera, capturing the essence of a
neighborhood and memories that are slated to be erased by the
end of the year.
 To the left is a photo of Jeff
speaking with a resident on Douglas Way in the northeastern
section of Hadley Township. It appears that residents have
been receiving conflicting information about who will be
affected by the buy-out and what recourse they might have to
"fight city hall" and the developer regarding "fair value" for
their home. While it is not the role of Civitas to take
sides in a neighborhood conflict, we do want to facilitate
bringing information to light, especially when students can be
part of that process. Considerable change is expected this
summer and Civitas is looking for more students who want to
follow this story as well as study the general issue of "the
rich and the poor" in St. Louis.
While our special one-week Urban Go-Team
project will be from Monday, July 30 - Friday, August 3, we
are would like to work with interested students in
June and July on special issues in the Hadley Township
area. If you are interested
in either participating in Hadley Township
activities or in
our one-week Urban Go-Team "rich and poor" session,
please call us at
(314) 367-6480 or e-mail us at [email protected].
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Middle School Model U.N. Wraps Up This
Week
clicking here.
Our final middle
school activity of the year is our teacher meeting at Chevy's
Restaurant in Crestwood next Monday, May 21 from 4:00 PM -
6:00 PM. See the article below for more details.
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Good Time had by all at Civitas Picnic!
 The food was terrific; no hitter in
softball made an out, no pitcher threw a ball; the conversation
was replete with intellectual dialogue and pedestrian
gossip. It was another terrific Civitas spring picnic
last Saturday at Junior High
Park in Maplewood. Special thanks
to Bobbi Clemons
for making arrangements to have the picnic at the park and for
also supplying all the food and beverages!
The picnic
was our final high school activity for the 2006-2007 school
year. We want to thank all students and teachers who
collaborated to make this another successful year. As we
look forward to next year we will post our preliminary calendar
for 2007-2008 within the next three weeks.
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Final Middle School Teacher Meeting
next
Monday, May 21 at Chevy's Restaurant in Crestwood
Now that all middle school Spring 2007 sessions are history,
middle school teachers can gather at Chevy's Mexican Restaurant
in Crestwood on Monday, May 21 to celebrate the
end of the school year; to reflect upon how the school year went
and to brainstorm ideas for improvement next year.
In
previous years we have met at the Chevy's on Olive Street Road
near I-170, but with the heavy construction in that area now, we
are going with the more reliable Crestwood
Chevy's.
The address of the Chevy's is 158
Crestwood Plaza; St. Louis, MO 63126. The phone
number is (314) 968-8485. You can access a map of the area
by
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2006-2007
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Directions
Previous
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General Assembly
Countries
Security Council
Countries
Conference (Feb., 2007)
on "The Nuclear Club"
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