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January 30, 2013 • Community News - St. Charles County • www.mycnews.com
Sports
Gary Baute
Gary Baute, a St. Louis native, may be educated in business but he lives and breathes sports. As a fan or an athlete, Gary is all sports all the time. He hosted a radio sports program on KYMC, emceed the River City Rascals’ inaugural season, and co-hosted the BudSports. com Westplex Sports Hour, among many other activities.
NFC Dominates AFC In Pro Bowl ***National Football Conference 62, American Football Conference 35 The players picked to play in the Pro Bowl are about 100 from the 1646 of the National Football League and are the best of the best. The players picked from the Super Bowl teams are busy preparing for the Super Bowl Game on Sunday February 3 at 5:29 p.m. local time, so they did not get a ticket to the Big Island. If you’re a football fan, you witnessed iconic players and future stars. To name a few: Peyton and Eli Manning, Adrian Peterson, Drew Brees, Reggie Wayne, JJ Watt, and AJ Green. Two former Rams included Richie Incognito, and London Fletcher received the votes. Kyle Rudolph, tight end from the Minnesota Vikings, won the MVP Award and a nice SUV. He was not even supposed to be there and was a replacement for Tony Gonzalez of the Atlanta Falcons. ~~~Not a bad gig in Hawaii
Junior at Holt High Receives Scholarship Created By Jack Buck ***Heading to Southeast Missouri Abigail Corbett, a junior at Holt High School, has been selected as a KMOX/Southeast Missouri State University Student of Achievement. The KMOX Student of Achievement program began 20 years ago when Hall of Fame broadcaster Jack Buck created the scholarship fund to recognize the positive accomplishments of area students. “It’s really exciting to be recognized for doing what I do; my parents always taught me to do as much as you can in the time you have. What little free time I do have I try to spend with my family,” said Corbett. “I’m going to the SEMO softball camp soon, so I’m really interested in seeing the campus, I would love to continue to play softball in college!” The annual award recognizes a select group of students throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in academics, athletics, the arts, community service and leadership. Corbett has a 3.85 GPA and has scored a 27 on the ACT test. She is a member of the National Honor Society,
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Student Council, and DECA. She was the Captain of the softball team this season, and also received All-Conference Honors and has been named to the All-Academic Team for the past three years. In the community she collects food for the Oasis Food Pantry and works with the Girls Grow Strong program. She also volunteers for Special Olympic functions including bowling and basketball tournaments. ~~~Thanks to Matt Deichmann, Community Relations at Holt High School St. Louis Football: Rams Hand Out Hardware ***Steven Jackson Picks Up Three In a vote amongst Rams players, Jackson received the Daniel F. Reeves Memorial Award, which goes to the team’s Most Valuable Player. In addition, SJ39 is the Rams’ recipient of the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award in recognition of Jackson’s commitment to community service. The Carl Ekern Spirit of the Game Award winner made the halfback of the squad a unanimous selection. Picture (from Gary B) is at Ram’s Training Camp as Jackson has Gary B’s back! ~~~Adding more to his collection Lindenwood Women’s Ice Hockey Look for Victories Against RIT ***Women Hit the Ice The Lindenwood women’s ice hockey team is hosting Rochester Institute of Technology on February 1 and 2 and will look to capture a pair of victories against the Tigers. The Lady Lions have had six players record double-digit points this season. Alison Wickenheiser leads the team with 15, followed by Allysson Arcibal with 12, Alyssa West with 11, and 10 apiece for Kendra Broad, Lyndsay Kirkham, and Chelsea Witwicke. As of January 24th, Chelsea Witwicke is fifth in the league in defenseman points with 10. RIT took the first game between the two schools this season by a 5-1 score. The two teams tied in the second contest at 1-1. ~~~Thanks to Jen Lawson, Sports Information-Graduate Assistant
True Life Adventure, A Thrill a Minute The siren call of a lost city in remote southeastern Honduras beckons to adventurers, one past and one present. The tales of their dual quests to discover the White City make for an edge-of-your-seat, nonfiction ride into the wilds. Readers will quickly fall under the spell of “Jungleland,” by Christopher S. Stewart. It’s not easy to turn your back on wanderlust and squelch a desire to live life on the edge. Stewart, a writer and editor with the Wall Street Journal, was thus afflicted. Married, with a young daughter, a mortgage and hoping for another child Stewart yearned for the days when he was able to drop everything and take off for faraway places, reporting and writing about his experiences. In 2008, while researching a story about the drug trade in Honduras, Stewart first heard about Ciudad Blanca, the mysterious lost city and the legend of Theodore Morde, a 1940s American adventurer, and World War II spy, who claimed he’d discovered an overgrown ancient site in the jungle with gold and treasured artifacts, where tribes once worshipped “monkey gods.” In the humdrum of his settled Brooklyn existence, the story niggles at Stewart, and soon becomes an obsession. He discovers that Morde died under suspicious circumstances, though his death appeared to be a suicide. Stewart tracks down Morde’s relatives, and they provide him with a log the adventurer kept that detailed his journey into the Honduran jungle, a perilous four-month trek into a rain-forest rife with poisonous snakes, alligators, wild pigs, jaguars and bandits. The journal of Morde’s expedition, fuels Stewart’s fire to follow the adventurer’s path. With his wife’s blessing, overlaid with worry about the dangers her husband will face, the modern day explorer is off to another world where conveniences like cellphone service and paved roads are non-existent. For over a month, Stewart walks in Morde’s shoes with a 40-plus pound pack on his back driven by an insatiable urge to reach the White City, return and write about his discovery. The pace of this exciting book moves because its chapters alternate between Stewart’s and Morde’s adventures. Stewart’s harrowing journey is fraught with difficulty, and at times he’s so miserable and fear-filled he contemplates ending his quest, as do his companions. But Stewart sees his journey through, and the end result is far different from what he expects, one that forges an even stronger connection between adventurers separated by decades. Reprinted with permission. Missourian Publishing Company. Copyright 2012.
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