Visitation, Funeral Services Scheduled for Clare Blase

The Nerinx Hall student and Shrewsbury native had supporters from Creve Coeur to the National Hockey League.

Update: Friends and Family Mourning Clare Blase

The Nerinx Hall student and Shrewsbury native had supporters from Creve Coeur to the National Hockey League.

Students and staff at Nerinx Hall held a memorial service Friday to honor the life and memory of Clare Blase, a freshman student who died following a nearly two year fight against an aggressive form of cancer. She was just days away from her 15th birthday, according to her obituary in St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Blase's story was chronicled in September on Patch, ahead of the 2012 Pedal The Cause event. "Pedal the Cause gives me hope,” Blase, of Shrewsbury, said at the time. “To me, hope means that I can look forward to being around the people I love for a long time. We need to find a cure so parents don’t have to hear the sad news that their child has cancer.” Blase's battle against adrenocortical carcinoma has served as a source of …

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Traffic Alert: Watch Out For Pedal The Cause Riders Sunday

The annual fundraiser to benefit cancer research in St. Louis hits area streets Sunday.

Drivers Sunday will want to take particular care on roads winding from downtown St. Louis all the way to the Western reaches of St. Louis County, as bicyclists hit the pavement. They're supporting Pedal The Cause, the annual fundraiser that benefits local research at the Siteman Cancer Center, the Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes Jewish Hospital and Children's Hospital. Courses open as early as 7:00 a.m. Sunday morning. You can find specific turn-by-turn courses for the event on the Pedal The Cause Website Organizers have warned participants that this is a ride, and not a race, per se, and that the event is taking place on open roads. In some cases, there will be event marshals along the course to provide guidance. The …

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Going the Distance: Creve Coeur Woman's Story Of Survival Leads To 'Ironman'

Teri Griege's fight against cancer will be highlighted this weekend on NBC.

In 2009, Teri Griege had just come off a disappointing performance in the Louisville Ironman, by her standards. One year before, the Creve Coeur woman who had already run the Boston Marathon and the Chicago Marathon, finished just a single spot away from qualifying for the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. But in 2009, Griege finished the grueling test of running, swimming and biking ten minutes off her previous pace in the same competition. Two weeks later, she went to the doctor for a colonoscopy, to find out why her training had been, in her opinion, "off," and why her injuries weren't healing. Four hours later she learned she had stage 4 colon cancer, which had metastasized to her liver. The bucket list Griege chose a course of …

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