by Rob Tayloe
During the late afternoon on March 02, 2024, about 80 people had the pleasure of seeing and hearing the Grammy-award winning Melissa Etheridge, as she came to the north side of St. Louis county, to assist in fundraising to revise a former shopping center into a new magical facility, that currently has a bank, spaces for your offices to rent, a rehab center, a training center, a Cathy’s Kitchen To-Go, a child care center, and eventually a black-box theatre… all thanks to the hearts and visions of such as Cathy’s Kitchen Restaurant & Diner’s owner Cathy Lucas Jenkins, her husband Jerome, and so many other wonderful people here.
I love this area, and as my dad & his brothers & sister were raised in Berkeley, and then me in St. Ann, and I now live in Ferguson, I’ve a high affinity for this area… and such as this development is simply grand, there is much to be proud of in our area.
As Melissa stated herself during this wonderful event: “This is the sort of thing that changes communities. This is not a band-aid. This is not just teaching someone to fish. This is teaching them to own the fish market.”
Thanks much to Cathy, Jerome, Melissa, and EVERYONE ELSE involved in this development, that is yet another step forward for OUR community!
