SC2 st. louis post-dispatch ST. CHARLES COUNTY POST Tuesday, june 13, 2000 postnet.comcommunities 5J Law Order Student Spotlight Christian High graduate aims for career in sports medicine ST. PETERS ft ing this description Friday morning in southern St Charles County can call the detective bureau at 636-949-3020. ST.
CHARLES Traffic stop nets Carolina man in possession of meth An officer on a routine traffic stop Sunday discovered a North Carolina felon who police say was in possession of methamphetamine. Charged with possession of a controlled substance is William E. Poindexter, 46, of Winston Salem, N.C. Records show he has convictions in North Carolina for trafficking cocaine, burglary, grand larceny and unlawful use of a weapon. Officer Dan Allen stopped Poindexter in his car.
Because the suspect could not produce a drivers license, authorities said, he was placed under arrest During an inventory search of his car, Allen found a container holding "two white clumps" of a substance later determined to be methamphetamine, authorities said. Michele Munz A help and serve in any capacity. She's an excellent student and always goes above and beyond what's expected of her. Her Christian faith is truly evident in her life." Melissa has been active in her years at Christian. She was involved in freshman basketball, played volleyball, was a member of student council for three years, was a cheerleader during her freshman, sophom*ore and senior years, played soccer during her junior and senior years, and ran track.
During her freshman and sophom*ore years she served as secretary of her class and this year was vice president of her senior class. Melissa has received numerous honors and awards, including being named an all-tourney cheerleader this year, and receiving the Outstanding Christian Character Award and the Christian Growth Award during her junior year. She says her proudest moment came last year when she and David Trotter organized World Vision 30 Famine for her church youth group. "We raised about $3,000 for starving children," she said. "It was cool to know I made a difference." Before heading off to college, Melissa says, she wants to complete an internship for Teen Mania Ministries for a year.
"I'll be heading off to the Honor Academy in August," she says. Melissa says she thinks her greatest talent is her ability to encourage people. "I like to send people notes, smiley faces and anonymous flowers and cards," she says. Her friend Hope Depriest said, "Melissa is special in so many ways. She is incredibly friendly to everybody.
She's always there for you. She's like my big sister. She's always there to help if you need anything." Melissa has lots of friends and enjoys spending time with them They like to attend each other's games and practice a lot. "Everybody's into sports," she says. She spends lots of time with her church friends as well playing Softball and "doing outside stuff." Melissa says her friends would describe her as being "outgoing, smiling all the time and strong both spiritually and morally." Melissa and her family are very close.
"We like to play tennis and talk a lot. We do everything together," she says. Her mom helps with her church youth group and each year the family goes to Destin, Fla. Melissa says they also celebrate birthdays and very special days. She and her family attend Halls Ferry Christian Church.
She has t' i 'J II AVIS RUEBLING Melissa Krenski, a graduate of Christian High SchooL participated in two Mission Trips to Mexico, and will go again this summer to work building homes. Melissa lives in Florissant with her mom. Her sister Rebecca, 24, is a kindergarten teacher in Atlanta but Melissa says, "She's moving back here this summer." Melissa says she really misses her dad, Derrick, who died last May. She said she'd love to spend an hour with him. "We were really close.
I miss him," she says. In her spare time Melissa manages to hold down part-time jobs at American Eagle, caters with "Windows on Washington," and serves as a lifeguard during the summer at Wedgewood Bath and Tennis Club. She also volunteers her time as a candystriper at Christian Hospital Northeast on Saturday mornings. "I take food to patients, deliver flowers and gifts, run errands for the nurses. Basically, I do whatever they want me to," she says.
Melissa also had this to say about herself. BYAVISRUEBLING Special to the St. Charles County Post Christian High School gradaute Melissa Krenski knows exactly what career path she'd like to take. "I want to go into sports medicine and athletic training," she says. "I think it would be awesome to come back here and be a trainer at this school.
They don't have one and they really need one." Melissa attended the new Christian High School on Tom Ginnever Avenue in O'Fallon. Melissa graduated as valedictorian this year with a perfect 4.0 grade point average. "My sister was valedictorian and I really wanted that too," she says. "I've wanted that since I was in sixth grade." Melissa says her favorite subject in high school is English and she says, "My teacher, Carolyn Grube, made it really fun." Grube added, "I've never known a student with such a sweet kind, loving spirit. Melissa is willing to In the 1970s, a grand jury was specially impaneled to hear a case against a county official, and it issued an indictment just before election time.
Banas felt he was able to earn the judges' trust when he received permission in January to impanel a grand jury for three months to investigate allegations surrounding Claywest nursing home in St Charles. The jurors indicted a former employee on charges of abuse, and the nursing home management company and president on charges of failing to report abuse. "The feedback on (the jurors') positive experience was noted by the presiding judge," Banas said. Not everyone is happy, however, about getting a grand jury, said defense attorney Chuck Lampin. While he said he supports the move, other defense attorneys are grumbling about the change.
Having a grand jury cuts down on the time an attorney can continue a case and secure an attorney fee, Lampin said. "A lot of lawyers aren't going to like that," he said. Some argue they won't have enough time to adequately prepare for trial, but Lampin said he doesn't buy that argument since the system works in other counties. He says preliminary hearings are an "invaluable tool" for lawyers. "Obviously as a defense lawyer, I love to be able to have a chance at discovery and to cross-examine all of the main witnesses," he said.
The sitting grand jury will begin hearing cases in July, when new computer software for jury selection goes on-line. The jurors will meet about twice a month for either three months or six months, and then a new one will be selected. Out of about 50 residents asked to come to the courthouse for grand jury selection, 14 will be chosen. Jurors get paid $20 a day. viewed by a television crew.
"This is something I promised when I was elected (he took office in 1999), that I'd try to get fiscal responsibility back in city government," said Slyman. "We no longer have that huge debt hanging over our heads." In the center of the room, Buell and Unterreiner were exchanging angry words. Unterreiner, his pile of contracts held tightly under one arm, walked away. He said, "The mayor has opened himself to class-action suits." Closing date on the Ratteree contract is June 26. Ratteree will pay the city $7.2 million, plus $528,000 in related costs.
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The driver's name and other details were unavailable, police said. No one was taken to the hospital. DEFIANCE Authorities look for man who broke in door at home A man knocked in the door of a home in Defiance at 11:15 a.m. Friday while a 9-year-old girl was home .1 The girl's father had just left to go to the post office nearby. The girl reported hearing a vehicle park behind her house.
She started to look out the window when she heard a loud crash. When she stepped into the hallway, she saw a man standing in the living room, authorities said. He ran out of the house and got into the passenger side of a turquoise late-model mini-van. The girl's father returned home within minutes, discovered the broken door frame and called 911. The suspect is described as in his late 40s, with a dark complexion and shoulder-length dark brown hair, authorities said.
He was wearing cut-off blue jeans with a gray, blue and green T-shirt that was possibly tie-dyed. No other burglaries were reported in the area. Anyone who may have seen a vehicle or man match- Corrections In a letter to the editor written by Jeannene M.W. Adams that appeared in Monday's St. Charles County Post, a sentence should have read: "Mr.
Brockmeyer also said that it was important that I trust the person that I choose to represent me." A word was added that changed the meaning of that sentence. In Thursday's calendar story on Sunday's Midtown Garden Stroll, the home of Jamie and Allan Newsham was listed on the wrong street The Newshams live on Madison Street. Golf Ipft Aldermen lake deal on the talk for A Continued from page 1 quet Center, nobody had seen Un-terreiner's contract proposal. Ferrett and the other aldermen pointed an accusatory finger at Un-terreiner in remarks they made before the votes on rezoning and the sale, but did not always mention him by name. They made it known they'd run out of patience with Un-terreiner and his rhetoric.
Reflecting on the lessons of the sale and controversy it created around town for months, Ferrett said, "This has been like the Titanic." Unterreiner arrived at the meeting with an armload of contracts and repeatedly interrupted Sly-man, who warned him he was out of order and told him to be seated. There were moments at the meeting that bordered on the bizarre. Alderman Pearson Buell, 3rd Ward, said: "I know there are questions out there I've heard mem shouted out (by residents attending the meeting) but this is the only offer the city has." While Buell spoke, Unterreiner loudly cleared his throat several times, attempting to disrupt him. At that point Lake Saint Louis Police Chief Michael Force walked over, leaned down and quietly confronted Unterreiner, who was sitting in the front row. Unterreiner could be seen nodding his head.
Make it your government. 7 Know the issues. Election 2000 ST. LDUIS POST DISPATCH mm mmm wmmm mm mmm mi (mmwmwmm mmmn Court Sitting grand jury will hear drug, sex cases Continued from page 1 behind and supporting the defendant "The court system tends to cause victims to have secondary trauma," Smalley said. With a grand jury, "they can get started on that healing process much faster." The commander of the St Charles County Regional Drug Task Force, Lt.
Jeff Finkelstein, has long waited for a grand jury. "We've had situations where our undercovers were seen in the courtroom during a preliminary hearing and spoiled an investigation," he said. "Not only is that bad for the investigation, but it's dangerous for the officer." Finkelstein praised Banas for taking on the project of impaneling a grand jury in the county. Banas said that impaneling a grand jury for these special cases has been his goal since taking office in January 1999. He said he wanted to wait and build trust among the judges before requesting one.
In June, he sent his request by letter to St Charles County Circuit Judge Ellsworth Cundiff, the presiding judge. Ellsworth made the motion to impanel a grand jury at a meeting last week of all the circuit court judges. All voted in agreement Banas said he thanks the judges "for entrusting me with such a valuable tool for the prosecution of sex offenders and drug dealers." Judges in the county had always been leery of prosecutors abusing grand juries for political reasons. Buell said, "I've been cornered all over town. There's a lot of misinformation.
In reality, the city is backed into a corner. This (the Rat-teree contract) is a business deal. Is it the best deal? I don't know, but it's not the horrifying deal it's made out to be." Picking up on the wrangling as well as demands by opponents that the city extend the process and seek more contract bids, Alderman Joseph Cordaro, 1st Ward, complained, "I can't even frequent the local tap anymore because everyone wants to know something. I've taken a lot of heat." Of the Unterreiner initiative, Cordaro said, "There's been adequate time since May 23 to deliver new contracts and yet as of today, we have nothing in hand. To come in after the barn door is open and the horses are gone is too late." After voting was completed and the meeting adjourned, the mood in the room was celebratory among aldermen and city staff.
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