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NCR Drums Up Support for Oakville Senior Complex

Read the National Church Residences letter sent to ask for support at a meeting about the senior housing complex on Telegraph Road.

Ahead of Tuesday's vote on the future of the senior housing complex on Telegraph Road, a National Church Residences employee is drumming up support for the project from other senior centers in St. Louis.

Service coordinator Anne Nye emailed a letter saying Oakville residences were "raising a big fuss" and organizing against the project, which is already under construction in Oakville. Nye asked supporters to attend the Aug. 27 St. Louis County Council meeting, where the council will hear testimony about whether to reject efforts to change the building's zoning and stop construction.

"This is so sad. I am asking for support," Nye wrote. "It is awful to hear the comments about the work we do everyday."

Karen Twinem, the group's vice president of communications, sent a response to concerned Oakville residents, saying: "We will be neighbors for a long time. We certainly don’t intend to insult anyone, no matter how badly we have been treated. We are determined to take the high road as we believe that is what God wants us to do."

Oakville residents against the construction of the senior center are already planning to attend the meeting in full force to raise their concerns. 

"If they want to be so neighborly, they should have been in the community long before the ground broke on the project," Samantha Parrish-Stormer said on Facebook. "This could have gone a completely different way."

What do you think of the NCR memo? Will you attend the St. Louis County Council meeting Tuesday?


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