[delta dental high school all-star baseball game]
More than 30 graduating senior baseball players from nine West County schools played in the fourth annual Delta Dental High School All-Star Baseball Game June 23 at Busch Stadium. Each athlete was selected by his school’s coaching staff and assigned to one of two teams. The All-Star Blue Team, coached by former Cardinals third baseman Scott Cooper, defeated the All-Star Green Team, coached by former Cardinals outfielder Kerry Robinson. Delta Dental hosts the game as part of its Tobacco-Free Nation campaign; all players signed a pledge to be tobacco-free.
[ursuline academy]
Students from the class of 2016, accompanied by faculty members, traveled to Joplin last month to work with Rebuild Joplin. The group hanged drywall, installed siding, tiled a bathroom and more. They also participated in a ceremony welcoming a family into their new home. This was the second year Ursuline students participated in a service trip to Joplin.
[twin oaks christian school & westminster christian academy]
Several students from Twin Oaks Christian School and Westminster Christian Academy were published in Grannie Annie, Vol. 9, a St. Louis-based nonprofit publication that invites students in fourth through eighth grades to research and share stories from their family’s history. They read their stories and exhibited their artwork at The Grannie Annie Book Signing Celebration at the Missouri History Museum. Illustrations and excerpts can be viewed June 16 through Aug. 15 at the Samuel C. Sachs branch of the St. Louis County Library and from Nov. 1 through 30 at the Schlafly branch of the St. Louis Public Library.
[promise academy]
This spring, family, friends, teachers and students cheered as Alexandra ‘Ally’ Nichols received her diploma, the first senior graduation celebrated by Town & Country’s Promise Academy. Ally, who has Down syndrome, entered the school in 2006 as an 11-year-old and will return in the fall as a teacher’s assistant. Founded in 2004, the school provides a faith-based education for students with autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and other developmental delays.
by Stephanie Zeilenga
Pictured: Zack Lazenby of Parkway Central.
