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Local Farmer, Mayor Offer Updates, Perspectives On Effects Of Flooding

St. Louis Public Radio | By Evie Hemphill
Published July 9, 2019 at 2:49 PM CDT
From left, Adam Jones and Herb Simmons joined Tuesday's talk show.
Evie Hemphill | St. Louis Public Radio
From left, Adam Jones and Herb Simmons joined Tuesday's talk show.
From left, Adam Jones and Herb Simmons joined Tuesday's talk show.
Credit Evie Hemphill | St. Louis Public Radio
From left, Adam Jones and Herb Simmons joined Tuesday's talk show.

After a very rainy spring and early summer that have included more than 80 days of flooding along rivers in the St. Louis region, many area residents are still feeling the effects.

On Tuesday’s St. Louis on the Air, St. Louis Public Radio’s Jonathan Ahl talked with guests from both Illinois and Missouri about the impacts they’ve been dealing with in their respective communities.

Joining the discussion were Adam Jones, a fourth-generation farmer on about 900 acres in Missouri, and Herb Simmons, the longtime mayor of East Carondelet, Illinois.

Jones just fought the recent flooding, as about half of his acreage is in the floodplain.

Simmons is the director of St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency.

“St. Louis on the Air” brings you the stories of St. Louis and the people who live, work and create in our region. The show is produced by Alex Heuer, Evie Hemphill, Lara Hamdan and Alexis Moore. The engineer is Aaron Doerr and production assistance is provided by Charlie McDonald.

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Evie Hemphill
Evie Hemphill joined the St. Louis on the Air team in February 2018. After earning a bachelor’s degree in English literature in 2005, she started her career as a reporter for the Westminster Window in Colorado. Several years later she went on to pursue graduate work in creative writing at the University of Wyoming and moved to St. Louis upon earning an MFA in the spring of 2010. She worked as writer and editor for Washington University Libraries until 2014 and then spent several more years in public relations for the University of Missouri–St. Louis before making the shift to St. Louis Public Radio.
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