County Executive Sam Page will hold his inauguration Tuesday after being re-elected in November to the last two years of former County Executive Steve Stenger’s four-year term.
Page will be sworn in Tuesday in a public videoconferenced ceremony along with council members Ernie Trakas and Shalonda Webb. Trakas, a Republican from Oakville, was re-elected for a second term serving the 6th District of South County, and Webb, a Democrat, defeated 4th District Councilwoman Rochelle Walton Gray, D-Black Jack, in the Democratic primary in August.
The link for the event will go live at 11 a.m. and the inaugural ceremonies will begin at 11:15 a.m. The ceremonies can be watched at https://stlouiscountymo.gov/inauguration/.
The St. Louis Call took home multiple awards this fall at both the news-centered Better Newspaper Contest from the Missouri Press Foundation and the advertising-centered MPAME (Missouri Press Advertising and Marketing Executives) annual contest showcasing the state’s best ads and ad designers.
Call Editor Gloria Lloyd took a first-place award for Best Story About Education for “Assignment makes world headlines,” an article following up on a story after a Mehlville School District teacher gave an assignment asking students to set the price they would sell themselves for as a slave.
The judge commented, “Well-balanced reporting on a sensitive issue. The reporter presented the facts without sensationalizing the event bravo.”