The nonprofit Home Sweet Home collects and delivers used furniture donations to families in need; the Purple Martin birdhouses in Forest Park are one of the largest, urban, Purple Martin colonies in North America; a visit to Washington Early Recognition Center (WERC), which identifies and treats adolescents with serious mental illnesses; and Piedmont, MO, enthusiastically claims the title of “Missouri’s UFO Capital.”
Monday, April 14, at 7 pm on Nine PBS and livestream.
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Home Sweet Home
This non-profit collects donated used furniture and delivers items to families in need throughout the St. Louis community, helping to turn places to live into homes.
Purple Martins
This is the time of year when insect-eating purple martins return to Forest Park. The birdhouses there make up one of the largest urban purple martin colonies in North America thanks to the years of work by John Miller.
Schizophrenia Center
Washington University’s Dr. Daniel Mamah is the director and founder of WERC, the Washington Early Recognition Center, which identifies and treats adolescents in the early stages of schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses. As with other serious illnesses and conditions, early intervention can lead to better long- term outcomes.
UFO Town
Hundreds of UFO sightings were reported around the small town of Piedmont in the 1970s. Today the town enthusiastically claims the title of “Missouri’s UFO Capital.”
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Support for Living St. Louis is provided by Betsy & Thomas O. Patterson Foundation.
The WERC story is supported by the Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation.
