Berkeley setting up 1st of 5 centers for youths - The first of five neighborhood youth centers - one for each ward in the City of Berkeley - has been purchased from the Doddlesdale subdivision and moved to Jackson Park in the second ward. Berkeley bought the Doddlesdale home for a bargain price of $350, because the homeowner, Frank Kruger, former mayor of the city, interceded in the sale to
Edward Stocke of Harmon Lane, Berkeley, views dirt mound being built to insulate nearby homes from noise of aircraft landings and takeoffs. Brownleigh subdivision residents, however, say the mound does not shield the noise and is merely a dump for dirt being removed during airport construction.
Smiles of success are beamed by Berkeley High School Ecology Club members and Berkeley officials at the newly-created recycling center at the Berkeley city garage, 5860 Middleway - open 24 hours a day. From the left are - Councilman Nick Congemi, Mayor Ronald Taylor, Linda Whitmore, Debbie Laburay, Paul Price, Jim Wyre, Mark Williams, Shawn Keller, Mrs. Paul Price Sr. and Rep. William Friese.
Eyes and ears: Berkeley police Sgt. Denis Beaudoin, left, and street department worker Wayne Staff recently put up Neighborhood Watch program signs in four Berkeley neighborhoods. The Berkeley City Council recently approved the program designation for six residential blocks after residents had received crime prevention and Operation I-Dent training, Beaudoin is the city's crime prevention officer.
Booster club formed - Louise Looper and William Belton are members of the "Berkeley Boosters" parents group, which says the city's schools are not the educational equals of others in the Ferguson-Florissant School District.
Nine-year-old Nicholas Dorsen, his brother Robert, 12, and sister, Wendy, 2, don't appear to be having much fun in their tree house, and it's probably because Berkeley city officials have told their dad the tree house must come down. The Dorsens are shown in their yard at 3810 McKibbon rd.
Berkeley's new welcome signs display the new city insignia, selected in a contest last November. This sign, on Brown road at the southern city limits, is one of 18 posted recently at entrances to the city and in parks.
Sign painters complete this promotional message for the Berkeley Police Department on an outdoor advertising billboard on Airport road near the Berkeley city hall.
Flanked on both sides by commercial establishments, the center is the first of its kind in the county and is patterned after the storefront centers operated by the St. Louis city police department.
"It's time to change the image that kids have that a policeman is just a guy with a blue shirt, a shiny badge, and a big gun on his hip. Once we convince them we're on their side, the problem is almost solved." That quotation from one of the Berkeley Police Department's juvenile officers highlights the chief reason why the city has become the first county municipality to establish a police community relations center.
Berkeley's first "homestead" lottery house, 6142 Jackson Ave. in the Kinloch-Park subdivision. It will be occupied next spring by the Michael Scallions family, which will be responsible for bringing it up to city code requirements within six months.
"We will be moving into the house about the same time my wife has her second baby," said Michael Scallions, 24, jubilant winner of the first $1 house
