Best of '09 from Stephanie Cordle
Date: 1/2/2010 Album ID: 918666
Photos by Stephanie Cordle
Some of my favorite moments from 2009.
TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2009- Matt Botuchis, of Los Angeles, CA, walks past two of the six 14 x 12 foot arches, set up in the shadow of the Gateway Arch Tuesday on the arch grounds.  A crew set up the arches on Tuesday, and a television reality show, rumored to be NBC's The Great American Road Trip will be filming there on Wednesday.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2009- I've gotten a lot of help coming here, not to mention a fiance! says Brian Barfield of Maplewood during a holiday open house for Go! Network at the St. Patrick's Center in St. Louis on Tuesday. Unemployed, Barfield has been using Go! Networks for about six months and met his fiance Jennifer Heida, right, who is also unemployed there about four months ago.  GO! Network is a community, delivering hope and encouragement to the growing population of business professionals who have lost their jobs.

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TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2009- Alicia Doss, 38, smiles after making a tight turn while driving a St. Louis Metro bus during a re-training session Tuesday in St. Louis. Doss was laid off by Metro on March 29, 2009, and re-hired on July 20th.  

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2009- Lonnie Harper of Sullivan, MO, takes advantage of Wednesday's nice weather by photographing elk at Lone Elk County Park in Wildwood, MO.  

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2009- Joesph Lee, left, with the St. Louis Water Department shuts off a fire hydrant at W Green Lea Pl.,  and Harris  Ave., Wednesday in St. Louis.  Left to right playing, Michael Clark, 9, Cortez Shorter, 9, Bryant Lewis, 9, (black shorts) continue to play as the water goes down.

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THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2009- Tim Rolen, center, hooks cable to cut logs so they can be hauled out of the forest Thursday in northern Shannon county, MO.  Rolen is cutting and hauling trees on Pioneer Forest land blown down in a recent storm.  Pioneer Forest is estimating that they will be salvaging wood from the blown down trees for at least a year. 

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2009- Marlon Brown, 50, of St. Louis, a General Motors employee for 23 years, inspects a van body for defects before it heads to the paint department on Wenesday at General Motors in Wentzville.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2009- Rev. Robert J. Carlson, left, smiles as he watches the procession leading into the Cathedral Basilica-St Louis, Wednesday, prior to his installation as the ninth archbishop of St. Louis.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2009- Robert Smith, of Gerstner Electric, INC., radios to a co-worker Tuesday while working on the construction project along Memorial Drive across from the Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis early Tuesday morning.  

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2009- Jerry Estes, center, Wydown Middle School choir director leads a choir class in song Tuesday at the school.  Due to space issues the class is held in what used to be a hallway/atrium.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2009- Wonel Brown, 46, poses for a portrait in the 1969 Chevy Nova he purchased for his son Jamel Brown a month before he suddenly passed away due to an undetected heart defect.   The father and son were going to restore the car together and take it to car shows.  Thanks to donations Wonel has begun restoring the car and plans to take it to the Easter car show at Forest Park.

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THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2009- Mike Brabo, owner of Vesterbrook Farm, spreads some hay Thursday at his Clarksville, MO farm.

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