Post-Dispatch photos: Thursday, May 10, 2012
Date: 5/10/2012 Album ID: 1469059
Photos by Christian Gooden/
Photographs by staff photographers
John Powers, a five-year volunteer with Forest Park Forever, helps plant native perennial wildflowers along the banks of Forest Park's river system along Grand Drive on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. According to Kim Kreitling, the Forest Park Forever's Nature Reserve steward, a grant from Boeing paid for $10,000 worth of plants to construct a 10-foot buffer along the river to abate fertilizer runoff, keep geese away from the water and prevent erosion.
Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
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Yolanda Neal of Healthy Soul Catering makes pound cakes on Thursday, May 3, 2012, at Homer G. Phillips senior apartments in St. Louis. Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com
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Yolanda Neal of Healthy Soul Catering on Thursday, May 3, 2012, in St. Louis. Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com
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Bobby Reidelberger shows Robert Purbey and Lisa Collier desktop computers at the Best Buy in Fairview Heights on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Reidelberger, who was born with spina bifida, has been working at Best Buy for six years.  
Photo by Emily Rasinski,  erasinski@post-dispatch.com
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Bobby Reidelberger talks to a customer about cameras at the Best Buy in Fairview Heights on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Reidelberger, who was born with spina bifida, has been working at Best Buy for six years.  
Photo by Emily Rasinski,  erasinski@post-dispatch.com
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Normandy High School senior Eboni Boykin (left) talks over a civics assignment in an advanced placement class with junior Kimberly Overton on Thursday, May 3, 2012, in St. Louis. Boykin has spent a majority of her life bouncing between homeless shelters and attending more than fifteen schools. She will be attending Columbia University in New York on a full scholarship later this year.
Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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Normandy High School senior Eboni Boykin looks for one of her teachers after school is dismissed for the day on Thursday, May 3, 2012, in St. Louis. Boykin has spent a majority of her life bouncing between homeless shelters and attending more than fifteen schools. She will be attending Columbia University in New York on a full scholarship later this year.
Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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Normandy High School senior Eboni Boykin talks with her mother Lekista Flurry about her day at school while grabbing a quick meal at home and prior to heading to her job at Johnny Rockets on Thursday, May 3, 2012, in St. Louis. Boykin has spent a majority of her life bouncing between homeless shelters and attending more than fifteen schools. She will be attending Columbia University in New York on a full scholarship later this year.
Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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Business manager Jenny Holzum stands alongside Harry, a 10-year-old Percheron Draft Horse, in the stable of the St. Louis Carriage Company just south of downtown St. Louis on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. The horse was involved in a horse-napping over the weekend in which a man hit the driver over his head and took the horse. According to Holzum, the horse found its way home and the suspect was apprehended.
Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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Students from Grand Center Arts Academy including (left to right) Tyler Smith (orange shirt), 14, Julian Faulkingham (plaid shirt), 14, and art teacher Megan Clayton work alongside students Hannah Hebblethwaite-Corman (yellow shirt), 14, Bella Pittman, 14, Demarco Saffold (red shirt), 13, and Lasette Garcia, 15, while assembling a new art installation piece at the intersection of North Grand Bouleard and Samuel Shepard Drive on May 9, 2012, in St. Louis. The art piece is titled A Chromatic Confluence and was conceived by a design studio named Thoughtbarn. According to artist Lucy Begg, the idea behind the art piece is to create an area of confluence where all visitors to Grand Center can come together. Begg says that the piece will be completed by Friday for the Art Walk.
Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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2011 Citizen of the Year Frankie Muse Freeman mingles with the crowd after  her induction ceremony Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at the Emerson Performance Center on the	Harris-Stowe University campus. Freeman is an American civil rights attorney and was the first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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Ruth and Harry Ornest, holding court during their reign with the St. Louis Blues, July 12, 1985.  Photo by J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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St. Louis Blues owner Mike Shanahan at a game in January of 1987, agonizing from the owner's box. Photo by Scott C. Dine/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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R. Hal Dean, chief executive officer and board chairman of the Ralston Purina Co., gestures as he delivers his state of the company address at the annual checker day rally.  Dean told employes that the St. Louis-based firm had completed its second best fiscal year.  Photo by Lloyd Spainhower/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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