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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Winings Committee Outspends Opponents' Committees in Ward 3 Race by Thousands

Mark Winings is one of three candidates seeking to succeed Alex Berger as a Ward 3 representative on the Clayton Board of Aldermen.

The committee for Clayton Board of Aldermen candidate Mark Winings has spent two and a half times more money on the Ward 3 race than either of his opponents' committees. The numbers come from documents filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission and the St. Louis County Election Board. The committee Friends of Winings for Aldermen has spent approximately $4,700 on the race, documents show. The Winings committee reported getting nearly $6,100 in monetary and in-kind support. The committee reported getting $300 of in-kind support from Winings' employer, the law firm Lewis Rice. Of the remaining receipts, Winings himself gave approximately $5,100 in funding. Jim Holtzman's committee, Friends to Elect Holtzman, spent approximately $1,800 and …

Friday, December 24, 2010

Resale Store's Proceeds Help Students Get Interest-Free Loans

Clayton's ScholarShop offers discounted clothes for shoppers and tuition money for students.

Clayton's ScholarShop looks like any other department store. It has a women's section, menswear and children's clothes as well as a broad selection of jewelry, ties, shoes and other accessories. It features both famous brands and those that even the most overzealous shopper has never come across. Most department stores, though, won't give away more than 600 interest-free loans and grants to students in the greater St. Louis area. Nor will they receive all of their shop's apparel from high-quality donations. More than 8,000 households and businesses donate clothes each year, and those donations get the ball rolling on funding scholarships and loans, said LaTia King, external director of the Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis. "The net …

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