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The Excitement Is On!!!
Jackie Joyner-Kersee Comes Home For Unveiling
UY ItEtilNALB IS. KIDDLE The Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Youth Center is just a dream away for native East St. Louisan and three time Olym pic hero Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
On Tuesday, city officials and JJK board members were on hand to unveil pictures of the future Jackie Joyner Kersee Youth Center.
The center will be located
north of Interstate 64 and 25th & State Street in the Kenneth Hall Park.
The facility is estimated at costing 5 million dollars. The foundation hopes to secure a 5 million dollar enduwuunl to support on going operations.
summer. Phase one will consist of a
multi purpose indoor recrea tion and education center plus baseball and football fields and a wellness center.
Phase two will consist of u performing arts auditorium, track and soccer fields, indoor swimming pool and gymnastic facility to name a few.
"This is a history making event totally unprecedented that we'd have a young lady that's the best athlete in the world come back to her home town to help in the building of a state of the art youth center," proclaimed an excited mayor
Cordon i). Bush, of East St. Louis.
East St. Louis Park District helped in the facilitation of pur chasing the 37-acre of land where the facility will be built.
Edith Moore-Stokes, East St. Louis Park District president stated, "This is a momentous occasion for the city of East St. Louis and the youth around the area. This is the first major development geared toward youth activities and involve ment."
Moore-Stokes concluded, "I remember Jackie when she par ticipated in athletics at the
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Joyner-Kersee (c) poses with her husbend Bob Kersee (r), Mayor Gordon Bush (I) & Foundation membert/gueet.
Currently the foundation has received over 3 million dullars in donations.
The Anheuser-Busch Com panies, The Monsanto Fund and
The Casino Queen have all
pledged 1 million dollars. The ESL Community Fund has
pledged donations of $600,000. Making a special appearance
before she seek gold medals in the heptathalon and the long jump, Joyner-Kersee stated,
"This is a dream come true for me, I just wanted to give something back to the com munity...! wanted to do
whatever I could to make that dream a reality," speaking about the youth center.
Looking pretty confident for her upcoming events. JoynerKersee concluded, "I hope you all know how important you
are to me. Things are going to
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work out for me. 1 wasn't always the best i've been, I had to work hard."
Construction is scheduled in
two phases. Phase one is
scheduled to begin next
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Author: WILLIAM J BOYLE JR at MONCG16
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TO: DIANE B HERNDON at MONSL515
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Diane, can you attend a meeting of the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Youth Center Foundation Facilities Team (the first meeting of this team
reconstituted) on Monday morning at 7:30am? Your input the
Center facilities would be of great help to the team.
east
The meeting will be on Olive at City Place (west of the WHQ, just
of the new Borders and Marriott Courtyard) in the office building behind where City Books used to be (Bill and Jim Roman's office).
Please call me at 4-2950 and leave me a voice mail reply.
Bill
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Ted Dargan/Post-Dispatch
Jackie Joyner-Kersee announces plans Tuesday for a youth center in East St. Louis. The Jackie JoynerKersee Youth Center Foundation will be at Interstate 64 and 25th Street. Backers hope it will open by 1999.
By Margaret Gillerman
Of the Post-Dispatch Staff On the eve of her departure for the
Atlanta Olympics, her final Olympic chal lenge, Jackie Joyner-Kersee returned to her hometown of East St. Louis Tuesday and said she wanted to help other young people achieve their dreams of glory.
The celebrated Olympian announced that she was pushing forward with her "other dream" -- to build a youth center in East St. Louis.
A few hundred supporters gathered in the hot sun on the park site to show their admiration, and they erupted in cheers.
"We love you, Jackie," a chorus of peo ple shouted. "You are our Olympian," the
See JOYNER-KERSEE, Page 2
Author: EMAIL MONSANTO TODAY at MONCOMOl
Date:
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TO: DIANE B HERNDON at MONCOMOl
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o Monsanto Fund Announces $1 Million Gift to Jackie Joyner-Kersee Youth Center
o Monsanto Hosts Intelligence Management Expert
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Monsanto Fund Announces $1 Million Gift to Jackie Joyner-Kersee Youth Center
Following this year's summer Olympics, gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee will return to her hometown of East St. Louis, Illinois to dedicate herself to helping area youth through the establishment of an East St. Louis youth center bearing her name. At a press conference yesterday, Monsanto continued its support of the East Side community with the announcement of a $1 million Monsanto Fund donation to support the Center and particularly the health and wellness facility within the Center.
The Youth Center will provide important recreational and educational programs for children in the area. Fundraising will continue over the next year and groundbreaking is expected next summer. .......
East St. Louis is one of the most economically disadvantaged communities in the United States. Its leaders believe that projects like the Youth Center will help to restore hope where it counts most, with young people.
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Through many existing programs, Monsanto has long been an active contributor to the improvement of the East Side community. Involvement with the Youth Center presents another opportunity for Monsanto to play a positive role. "We are pleased to be able to continue our commitment to our neighbors and to the well-being of young people by investing in this important project," said Russell F. Sackett, plant manager of the W. G. Krummrich plant in Sauget, Illinois, just south of East St. Louis.
Given that Monsanto has a number of businesses with expertise in health and wellness, Monsanto will play a special role in the development of the Youth Center wellness clinic. The clinic, through volunteer services, will provide athletic check-ups, first-aid, wellness information and other services to children and adults using the Center.
Monsanto Hosts Intelligence Management Expert
"Monsanto's intelligence can allow it to surge ahead," William Miller, President of Global Creativity Corporation told Monsanto people at a luncheon in St. Louis July 9. Miller explained that a corporation's "most fundamental asset is the collective and individual intelligence" of its people.
The luncheon seminar, "Leapfrogging the Industry through Intelligence Management," was sponsored by the Monsanto Public Policy Institute.
Before Miller founded the Global Creativity Corporation almost 10 years ago, he served as Senior Consultant for the Innovation Management program at SRI International. He has written numerous books on innovation and knowledge management.
Miller identified three critical elements of intelligence management that can fuel a company's rise to the top of its industry: expand intelligence, promote innovation and exercise integrity. He challenged Monsanto, at both company-wide and individual levels, to achieve sustainable competitive advantage in these three ways.
Miller explained ways to develop intelligence, by releasing old paradigms, developing greater intuition, and creating and transferring new knowledge. He said that "intelligence feeds innovation with new information and knowledge." Miller offered measures of intelligence management to help "convert knowledge and wisdom into innovations."
Strengthening a company's integrity and values will increase a company's power, according to Miller. He noted that "individuals must have integrity with themselves, with others and with humanity."
A videotape of the presentation is available for loan from the Monsanto Information Organization -- contact Karen Chapman by e-mail or phone: (314) 694-1490. If you would like your own copy of the video, contact Steve Klutho by e-mail or phone: (314) 694-6520.
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Jackie returns to start youth center
By Barrett Marson
Belleville News-Democrat
EAST ST. LOUIS -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee took a day off before participating in her fourth straight Summer Olympics to come back home.
The three-time Olympic gold medal winner, who is nursing a hamstring injury and trying to reha bilitate her leg, came to Kenneth Hall Park to officially announce her dream. Joyner-Kersee, with help from her friends, plans to build the $10 million Jackie Joyner-Kersee Youth Center on 37 acres at the park off 25th Street.
The center will be a recreational and educational center for the com munity, Joyner-Kersee said.
"This truly is a dream come true for me," she said as her foundation announced plans for the center. "This center is not just about recre ation, but education."
Joyner-Kersee said she would be directly involved in fund-raising.
"I think it's vital that 1 be active for funds to come in," she said.
Though she injured her ham
THE PROJECT: Drawing dramatizes what the center will look like.
string before the Olympic trials in June, Joyner-Kersee is in fine form to run in four days, said her high school coach and mentor, Nino
Fennoy. "Everything is on go," Fennoy
said. "She's focused. Unless some thing transpires between now and Saturday, I don't have any question marks."
Fennoy said Joyner-Kersee ran
with injuries in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics. She has spent most of the past three weeks in the St. Louis area training for her Atlanta appear
ance. Fennoy said it is a testament to
Joyner-Kersce's commitment that she would attend the ceremony while preparing for the games.
"The youth center project is just as dear," he said. "She felt this pro
ject was dear to her.
Chants of "We love you, Jackie," came~from the crowd of about 200 people.
Already, the nonprofit group that will operate the center has raised about $3.6 million. AnheuserBusch, the Casino Queen and Monsanto Fund each contributed $1 million. The Greater East St. Louis Community Fund also contributed $600,000.
Joyner-Kersee's husband. Bob Kersee, said a nationwide fund-rais ing effort is underway.
"It's going to take die community, corporate sponsorships and the nation" to build the center, Kersee said.
The Jackie Joyner-Kersee Youth Center Foundation will pay $37,000 for the 37 acres.
Nidra Loving, IS, said the center will help keep children her age off the street.
"It will keep kids out of trouble," the East. St. Louis resident said. "This place is empty. They need to put stuff out here. It's going to look really nice."