Monthly News Clip Contest

Monthly News Clip Contest

Sep 2009: Region 7
1st Place Feature/Multiple Picture: “Refuge for East St. Louis kids”
Emily Rasinski/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Fifteen-year-old Shawn Rogers does pull ups in the small workout area ajoining the main room at the Christian Activities Center in the Olivette Park neighborhood of East St. Louis. The neighborhood is a complex of 240 apartments where some of the city's poorest live, 97 percent live in poverty. Nearly 200 kids come to the center each day where they are provided with a hot meal daily along with tutoring and classes in martial arts, choir, cheerleading, drama, fine arts, computers and bible study.

Judges’ comments for the category

First Place: A nice look at the inner workings of the Refuge for St. Louis Kids and a nice collection of moments. Second Place: The reopening of the bakery. It was nice to see community support. Third Place: The lottery. Good overall documentary of the night.

Clyde Mueller, Natalie Guillen, Luis Sanchez Saturno

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R7 regional point tally

(year to date; the top 10 places are shown, plus ties)

700
J Forbes/Saint Louis Post -Dispatch
510
Rick McFarland/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
468
David Carson/St. Louis Post Dispatch
442
Stephen Thornton/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
400
EMILY RASINSKI/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
316
Benjamin Krain/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
252
Larry Singer/The El Dorado News-Times
240
Eric Keith/Saint Joseph News-Press
Michael Woods/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
220
Tanner Spendley/Texarkana Gazette