Barrelrollman Aims to Break Guinness World Record

Event at Art Hill in Forest Park to benefit Nurses for Newborns.

For the past five years, Andrew Tessier, the face behind The Barrelrollman Organization, has been rolling around the world creating awareness and raising funds for children in need through a fun somersault. Join the team at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18 at Art Hill in Forest Park, as they attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the most people to simultaneously somersault at the same time. Only one roll per participant will be required to set the world record, which calls for 836 rolls to be eligible and break the 835 person record set in Switzerland in 2011. Raising over $2,500 to date for Nurses for Newborns, an organization providing a safety net for families most at risk, The Barrelrollman Organization will be asking for a $2 donation …

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Rogers Middle Student President Looks to Help Others

Each week we show off an accomplished local student.

Name: Courtney Kroeger School: Rogers Middle School Grade: 8th Activities and Accomplishments. Courtney is a president of the student council at Rogers Middle School. She on the Honor Roll, participates in the Affton Reads Book Club—a parent/child book club that Rogers sponsors. She is also a peer mediator, part of a group which works to keep Rogers a fight-free school. She participates in the new Wii Play 60 fitness group and plays volleyball and basketball on the Rogers Middle teams. She also plays on teams at St. Dominic Savio. Courtney has earned the Bronze Award in Girl Scouts and is working on the Silver Award. As student council president, she has presided over several projects, including a canned food drive which collected …

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Nurses for Newborns Foundation Promotes Child Wellness with Nursing Program

Shrewsbury nonprofit is helping to save the youngest of lives.

In 1991, Affton resident Sharon Rohrbach took a simple vision and made it a reality: a dynamic non-profit agency that supports and educates thousands of at-risk families and infants across two states. Nurses for Newborns Foundation, Rohrbach's brainchild, is comprised of registered nurses who travel to the homes of families with infants to offer medical assistance, education and general care before and after birth. Rohrbach founded the Shrewsbury-based non-profit after working in the Critical Care Nursery at St. Anthony's Medical Center. She noticed that numerous babies were returning to the hospital just days after birth, sometimes in grave medical danger.  NFNF serves at-risk families and infants, meaning the baby is in a fragile medical…