The Insider: 2.5.14

Ten members of the St. Louis Blues will play for the U.S. hockey team in the winter Olympics! Only two other teams, the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings, have that many players going to the games. Bleeding blue in Sochi will be Jaroslav Halak, Jay Bouwmeester, Alex Pietrangelo, Vladimir Sobotka, David Backes, T.J. Oshie, Kevin Shattenkirk, Patrik Berglund, Alexander Steen and Vladimir Tarasenko.

Love baking with your kids or girlfriends, but don’t have time? Sweetology takes the work out of baking and leaves the fun parts. The new shop, which opens April 12 at 9214 Clayton Road in Ladue, provides already-baked cakes, cupcakes and cookies for customers to decorate. “It’s like Paint-Me-Pottery, only you get to eat the delicious results!” says DeAnn Bingaman, who co-owns the business with Kara Newmark. The shop, which the owners say is the first of its kind, features a variety of flavors (including a gluten-free option), a choice of buttercream frostings or fondant, and plenty of add-ons, including more than 50 types of sprinkles. And the sweetest thing of all? A portion of the proceeds goes to local charities.

Meds & Food for Kids, an organization dedicated to ending malnutrition and igniting economic development in Haiti, recently reached a major milestone. “We’ve treated and saved the lives of more than 100,000 Haitian children since we began,” says founder and local pediatrician Dr. Patricia Wolff. She travels to Haiti several times a year to provide health care to malnourished kids. She also established a factory there that makes a highly nutritious form of peanut butter that effectively treats malnutrition.

Award-winning transplant anesthesiologist Dr. Wolf Stapelfeldt, formerly with the Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic, now chairs the department of anesthesiology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He joined SLU Jan. 2. His research interests include the development of electronic systems and predictive models to help physicians make decisions about patient care.

Among the local nonprofits celebrating milestone anniversaries this year are Epworth Children & Family Services, 150 Years; Community School, 100 years; Greater Saint Louis Community Foundation, 100 Years; Junior League of St. Louis, 100 years; Craft Alliance, 50 years; Family Resource Center, 40 years. Congratulations… and thanks for all you do!

The much-lauded restoration of the downtown Central Library has earned yet another major award : the 2014 Institute Honor Award for Architecture from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The library is one of only 11 winners nationwide.