You could add our group, Better Living Communities to your list. We have built 38 homes in the Hyde Park neighborhood over the past few years and we will be building 18 more this year. On my first visit to the neighborhood about six years ago, the President of BLC, Ben Berry walked me out to my car after our first meeting. We were talking outside and he said, “Brother Jack, will you do me a favor?” I said I would if I could. He asked me to move back a few feet behind a brick wall. When I asked why, he said, “bullets sometimes fly down the sidewalk and if you’re behind the wall you will be safer.” The area then was punctuated by collapsing brick walls, weeds, piles of concrete, crack dealers, crime and hopelessness. Through the dream of Ben Berry and his Pastor, John Schmidtke, that area today now has new homes, on manicured lawns and the residents have a new pride in their homes and their lives. Crime is still present around the edges, but it has decreased markedly. At that first meeting, I assumed Ben lived in the neighborhood. I thought it strange that such an intelligent and articulate man would live in such a depressed area. Then I learned he didn’t live there. He had an electrical contracting business and a comfortable home in the suburbs. He later told me he had seen a young boy gunned down on a corner near the church and decided he needed to be down there to make a difference. He made a big one. I saw a miracle happen down around Salisbury and North Florissant. I saw Ben bring Democrats and Republicans together. Jefferson City worked with City Hall. Jim Talent and Kit Bond agreed with Mayor Slay and Freeman Bosley to make it happen. I will never forget Ben leading Senator Bond through the littered alleys showing him where our dream was going to happen. He forged friendships with so many leaders like Peter Kinder and Sarah Steelman all who believed and helped make it happen. In 2007, that former war zone of a neighborhood had more building permits issued than any other in the City. Our deveopment spawned others and the neighborhood, by no means finished, has seen great improvements and more are on the way. Ben Berry, a mountain of a man who was always the first to step forward to help anyone in need, who never saw a child he didn’t encourage, who made a difference, died on Tuesday at 58 after a brief battle with cancer. His legacy will be etched in that community and the lives of those who live there for many, many years. I know how much I will miss him. I can only imagine how much the Hyde Park neighborhood is missing him already.