Post-Dispatch photos: Thursday, December 29, 2011
Date: 12/29/2011 Album ID: 1386801
Photos by Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Photographs by staff photographers
Berna Eastman, right, and Annie Malone perform a gwaze dance to a group of attendees to a celebration of Ujima, the principle of collective work and responsibility recognized on the third day of Kwanzaa  Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011 at the Missouri Botanical Garden. On Thursday Ujamaa, or cooperative economics is recognized.
Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
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Diana Franco of Ballwin holds her candle steady as she protests Town and Country's hiring of sharpshooters to kill deer to control their numbers Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011. About 65 proponents of non-lethal deer population control gathered at the corner of Clayton and Mason Roads Wednesday night with signs and candles.
Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
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A Paper Kite butterfly lands on an orchid Wednesday, December 28, 2011, in the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield, MO. Over a thousand Paper Kites are on display in the 85 degree conservatory, part of the Snow in the Tropics exhibit through December 31. Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com
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Jim Peregrin of Green Rugs weaves a rug for a customer Wednesday, December 28, 2011, at Crestwood Court in St. Louis, MO.  We're really spoiled being here, said Peregrin of the workshop space filled with looms and hanging handmade rugs. Artists and other small shops in the mall, including a dance studio, a vintage resale, a costume designer, a photography studio, and a paint-your-own ceramic store, among others, have been occupying the mall as part of ArtSpace, which encouraged occupancy with low rent prices. Now, some tenants are planning to close or leave after they received notice that their leases would not be renewed. Since they know the end is near, said Peregrin of some of the closed shops, they're just giving up...it's not that we're giving up, we just don't know what to do. He said rent prices for other malls, as well as other commercial spaces, is unaffordable to many small shops. Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com
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Susan Halloran works on a ceramic wreath Wednesday, December 28, 2011, at the Ceramics & More pottery studio at Crestwood Court in St. Louis, MO.  Behind Halloran, pictures from the last store before the studio moved in still remain. I'm sorry to see it goÉyet another transition, said Halloran of the closing store. The studio, which has its share of regular customers, will close on February 28, 2012. Artists and other small shops in the mall, including a dance studio, a vintage resale, a costume designer, a photography studio, a rug maker, among others, have been occupying the mall as part of ArtSpace, which encouraged occupancy with low rent prices. Now, some tenants are planning to close or leave after they received notice that their leases would not be renewed. Customers who paint regularly at the studio were upset, said Halloran. It's gotten to be somewhat of a community. Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com
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Interior of Crestwood Court Wednesday, December 28, 2011, in St. Louis, MO.   Artists and other small shops have been occupying the mall as part of ArtSpace, which encouraged occupancy with low rent prices. Now, some tenants are planning to close or leave after they received notice that their leases would not be renewed. Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com
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Mike Schmaltz of Heroes Contracting reaches out to grab a brush tossed to him by his assistant on the ground while tuckpointing a building at the intersection of Cherokee Street and Ohio Avenue on Wednesday, December, 28, 2011 in St. Louis. According to Schmaltz, a portion of the building wall collapsed recently and he was hired to do repairs before eventually rebuilding the wall.
Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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Portrait of runner Jennie Schmitz who exercises in Vibram FiveFingers -- those funky sock-like shoes with individual toes -- taken Saturday, December 17, 2011, in Creve Coeur Lake Memorial Park  in Maryland Heights, Mo.  Schmit has been running in them for the last 41/2 and wouldn't run in another pair of shoes. I went from running with a typical heel strike to a forefoot  strike. My legs feel much stronger when I run, said Schmit. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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Chris Mavromatis of Crestwood eliminated shoes from his running workouts after repeated injuries.  He now trains barefoot, running on Grant's Trail Tuesday December 20, 2011.

Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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Chris Mavromatis of Crestwood eliminated shoes from his running workouts after repeated injuries.  He now trains barefoot, running on Grant's Trail Tuesday December 20, 2011.

Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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St. Joseph Academy's Sydney Stipanovich and Incarnate Word Academy's Taylor Manuel tangle for the loose ball in the first half of the Visitation Academy Christmas Tournament final Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011.
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Incarnate Word Academy's Gwen Adams, left, encounters pressure from St. Joseph Academy's Maddie Stock, center, and Sydney Stipanovich as she drives the ball in the first half of the Visitation Academy Christmas Tournament final Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011.
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