Posts Tagged ‘Abby Eilermann’

Walgreen’s store in Festus has racked up the largest sale of pharmaceuticals among the nation’s 7,000 stores in the chain with a total of $2.5 million a month. . .A Lambert airport mole reports that officials with Delta Airlines paid a visit there last week (thinking about taking over concourse C?). . .Amy and Bill Komen have bowed Chill Frozen Yogurt on Wydown in Clayton.  You’ll delight in the $500,000 remake of the shop, that vends – among other flavors – blood orange – not to be missed. . .Sally Tippett Rains, wife of The Globe-Democrat.com’s Rob Rains, has collaborated with the Mo. Hist. Museum and SLU to present a “Gone with the Wind” project featuring a conference and display of memorabilia from the blockusting, 1939 epic movie.  The educational celebration of history and the movie will feature a conference Nov. 6-7.  Rains knows the movie’s history from a-z, including her meetings with siren Ann Rutherford and  interviews with: Greg Giese, who played the infant Bonnie, who now lives in Belleville, Ill.,; Cammie King, who portrayed Bonnie Blue Butler.  Rains is also planning a “Gone with the Wind Gala Ball” and a musical poduction, “Fiddle Dee Dee Follies”. . .KMOX radio’s John Carney confirmed that his contract is up on Sept. 1.  (Let’s presume the station is more infatuated with the $350,000 the Blues will pay to air its games.)  Meanwhile, Carney was spotted with two shiners on Saturday night at his World Trivia Championship at Temple Israel.  He explained that the first shiner came from his son; the second from a guest at the event, who accidentally poked him in the other eye. The championship benefited Carney’s Kids Foundation, which has so far raised $300,000 over 5 years. Said the radio entertainer of the amount raised, “It’s not exactly a Bob Costas thing, but I’m much taller than he and I can go on more rides at Six Flags”.

Deanne Lane with Mike Neidorf

Speaking of broadcaster Costas, his annual outing at the Fox Theater to benefit Cardinal Glennon Medical Center, raised an estimated $500,000 Saturday night via a concert with Jennifer Hudson and comic Jimmy Fallon and a dinner.  That’s where the columnist cornered Deanne Lane, former Channel 5 anchor-turned-tubthumper for Centene Corp.  Lane chirped that her and hub Gregg Goodrich‘s son, Griffin, has turned 16 and is on Kirkwood High baseball team. Asked about rumors that she and Gregg had gone splitsville, Lane shot back, “We’ve loved each other since we met in the fifth grade.”  Neidorf left his wife, Neomi‘s kosher kitchen to sup, kibbitz and network among the crowd.  Dining there were Claudia and Channel 5′s Mike Bush, who updated the columnist on their three children, including their son, Matthew, who will marry Elizabeth Herrmann at the Old Cathedral, to be followed by a pouring at Kemoll’s.  Ebulient prez of the medical center, Sherlyn Hailstone, said she hopes to improve the hybrid cardiac cath lab for premies with congenital heart problems. She added, “Another phase of expansion will be a radiology lab and a pediatric intensive care unit.”  Dr. Philip Alderson, dean of St. Louis University’s school of medicine, expressed his vision, “We want to make Father Biondi’s dream come true to become the top Catholic medical center in the U.S.”  Dr. Alderson also said that a new track and field is in the works for the campus. Gina and Jeff Schindler were there with Abby and John Eilermann, chief of McBride & Son homebuilders.  “Banks realize it’s best to work together with people who’ve made it through (this recession)”, John said.  Meanwhile, McBride is jamming with its Paddington Villas in Chesterfield.