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South St. Louis County News

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Defeating the doldrums of winter

By Carl Hendrickson, For the Call February 21, 2024

The winter months. The weather is often cold and gloomy. We tend to spend less time outdoors and reduce our exposure to sunlight. We tend to find that we have low energy and tiredness and begin to lose...

Healthy Living: Becoming a better communicator

Healthy Living: Becoming a better communicator

By Carl Hendrickson, For the Call January 26, 2024

January 2024. A new month. The beginning of a new year. It is the month in which many of us make resolutions to lose weight, to eat better, to exercise more, to become a better money manager. For some...

Give the gift of advice this Christmas

Give the gift of advice this Christmas

By Carl Hendrickson, For the Call December 15, 2023

As a child growing up in a mining camp in the territory of Alaska, the only way to obtain Christmas gifts was through the Sears Roebuck catalog. I would leave the catalog where my parents could find...

Thanksgiving: The loneliness holiday

Thanksgiving: The loneliness holiday

By Carl Hendrickson, For the Call November 22, 2023

Apfelstrudel – German apple strudel – a favorite dessert of my maternal grandmother. It was Thanksgiving 1946. Gathered around the table were my parents, my brother and me along with my maternal grandparents,...

Remembering our first inalienable right

Remembering our first inalienable right

By Carl Hendrickson, For the Call October 27, 2023

In my latest column that ran in the Sept. 28 edition of the St. Louis Call, I explained why I thought September was the cruelest month. My younger brother contracted polio in September 1964. He was...

Healthy Living: Remembering the ‘cruelest’ month

Healthy Living: Remembering the ‘cruelest’ month

By Carl Hendrickson, For the Call September 28, 2023

In 1922 T. S. Eliot’s famous work “The Waste Land” was first published. This poem was written after the First World War when Europe was a crumbling mess. He opens the poem by stating that the cruelest...

County library, health department partner to provide Narcan kits at library branches

County library, health department partner to provide Narcan kits at library branches

September 3, 2023

The St. Louis County Library and the St. Louis Department of Public Health announced last week that Narcan kits are available at five county library branches, and will expand to all 20 branches by the...

Mercy opens urgent care clinic at Crestwood Crossing

Mercy opens urgent care clinic at Crestwood Crossing

September 3, 2023

The Crestwood Crossing development is now the location of a new Mercy-GoHealth Urgent Care. The new location is in the Crestwood Crossing shopping center, 9952 Watson Road, next to Dierbergs, which...

Healthy Living: We’re all living on borrowed time

Healthy Living: We’re all living on borrowed time

By Carl Hendrickson, For the Call August 31, 2023

We’re all living on borrowed time In 2019, when in my early 80s, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst survival rates of all cancers. Statistically only 4.5%...

How is your Political Awareness?

How is your Political Awareness?

By Carl Hendrickson, For The Call July 27, 2023

I am sure each reader has heard the story of Rip Van Winkle. He goes to the hills to hunt squirrels with his rifle and dog. In the hills Rip comes across a band of funny-looking men with a keg of liquor....

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