Submitted by Sandy Johnson Extension Council Member, St. Charles County The Mole Man In our neighborhood, my husband Bill is known as the “Mole Man”. Our homeowner’s board offered us the option of engaging a critter-catcher service to deal with our mole infestation at the cost of $75 per captured mole. Bill decided that was a hefty price to pay for such a tiny creature. After researching mole traps, he purchased several of them to use for our yard in lieu of using the service. At first, he used them only for us, but he soon had requests from neighbors to extend the service. He now surveys the yards near ours from our backyard deck for signs of moles and places traps whenever he’s asked. We can’t even imagine how much money he has saved us and our neighbors! When Push Comes to Shove My daughter was visiting from Seattle. Her son was a recent college graduate and had landed a job at a financial firm in Clayton. She was here helping him get settled and find a different car, sinc