ALTON - Rosetta Brown is taking a group of teens to Raging Rivers Waterpark , and she’s asking for your help. “There are quite a few underserved children who have not been able to experience this, so I decided I would make this happen,” Brown, Alderwoman for the 4th Ward, said. For $15, teens ages 12–16 can join Brown on July 8 for a trip to the waterpark. This discounted rate includes bus transportation, entrance to the park and lunch. Brown is asking for donations so that every teen who wants to participate can do so. “I’m very honored and very appreciative of the residents of the 4th Ward,” Brown said. “They are ready to help out however. I do have a core group of volunteers who assist in any way that I ask, and I am very appreciative of them.” The Alderwoman’s office has also partnered with Darlene Croft from Next Step Forward Community Development Corporation and Kennedy Smith from Unity in the Community
A lot has been written about The Beatles, but apparently there are even more goodies to discover about the iconic band, and a new book hopes to help folks do that. …
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Flag Day is nationally recognized each year on June 14 to commemorate the birthday of the American Flag. In 2023, the star-spangled banner is celebrating its 246th year. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs , the flag’s design was approved and early renditions were created in 1777 - however, the first observance of Flag Day didn’t occur until about a century later. The original resolution approving the flag’s design read as follows: “That the flag of the United States shall be of thirteen stripes of alternate red and white, with a union of thirteen stars of white in a blue field, representing the new constellation.” Since then, the flag has gone through about 27 different iterations before becoming the 50-star flag we know today, but it retains the original 13 stripes, symbolizing the 13 original English colonies the United States consisted of during the flag’s initial design. While that original 13-star
From Gensler: 1. Rethinking the design process Today’s design landscape is being underlined by market uncertainty, rising construction costs, and early procurement of materials and equipment. This is challenging designers to adapt and rethink their thought process when implementing traditional schematic design, design development, and construction documentation processes to help clients meet their scheduling goals and […]
As you’re hopefully aware, over the last few years, our Copia Institute think tank, in partnership with Randy Lubin’s Leveraged Play, have been using games and game-like tools for exploring complex realities in the present, as well as exploring potential future scenarios. On the latter front, we’ve done things like our Threatcast election disinformation simulator, […]
While it remains the No. 1-selling beer in the United States year-to-date, Bud Light for the four week period ended June 3 was surpassed by Modelo Especial, according to Nielsen IQ data reporting in-store sales.
For the second time in roughly a year, St. Louis-based video game developer Graphite Lab has reached a publishing deal with gaming giant Atari for a game it has developed.
The parents of a 6-year-old girl who drowned at a Kansas City water park allege in a lawsuit that the park hires young, inexperienced lifeguards and fails to adequately train them.
The ripple effects of a large water main break in south St. Louis last week are still being felt, even after a boil water advisory was lifted in the area.
It all started with a water main break on Friday at Donovan and Lansdowne Avenues due to changes in pressure. Fifteen others followed soon after, and city crews are still working to repair them.
Some have buckled pavement while others resulted in water bubbling up and onto roadways.
As of 2 p.m. Wednesday, the following breaks have been repaired…
Carole King’s Remarkable Life in “Beautiful” Is Perfect to Open The Muny’s 105th Season by Pat Lindsey It never feels like summer until The Muny opens. There’s magic in walking through those gates each June and entering a world of new creative experiences, old memories, and beautiful music that permeates the night air. It’s magical […]
EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville Police Department today announced plans for a stepped-up July Fourth traffic enforcement with a focus on impaired and unbuckled drivers. The safety campaign will run from Friday, June 16, through the early-morning hours of Wednesday, July 5, to encompass three summer weekends leading up to and after Independence Day. “It’s simple: If you’re driving, don’t drink, use marijuana or other drugs,” said Lt. Brandn Whittaker. “Our officers will be working around the clock to keep impaired drivers off the roads and enforce all other traffic laws. We’re doing it to save lives.” Edwardsville Police will join the Illinois State Police and more than 200 local police and sheriff’s departments for the increased statewide enforcement effort. Make sure everyone in your vehicle wears their seat belt. It’s not only the law but also your best defense against an impaired driver. The “Drive Sober or Get Pulled
The Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis will make one of its largest grants allocations ever this year — nearly $4.5 million in grants to a total of 350 local artists and arts organizations. Vanessa Cooksey, RAC CEO and president, and Andréa Purnell, commission chair, announced the new grants today at Old North's Central Print, one of the dozens of nonprofit grant recipients.
From St. Louis Public Radio: One of the early commitments from the $500 million that St. Louis received in pandemic aid was grants for small businesses and nonprofits in the northern part of the city. But the $37 million has been slow to flow to those entities since aldermen and the mayor approved the appropriation. […]
I’ve mentioned a few times that one of the decentralized social media services I’m following closely is nostr, which is an incredibly lightweight protocol, enabling lots of people to (very simply) create their own relays and clients. Unlike Mastodon or Bluesky, Nostr isn’t federated. You don’t join a server. You just get a key pair… […]
The Fed is finally backing off its endless series of interest rate hikes—but only slightly: The Federal Reserve is leaving interest rates unchanged for the first time since spring 2022, signaling a new chapter in the central bank’s fraught fight against inflation. ....The Fed also signaled more rate hikes would come before the end of ...continue reading "Fed finally backs away from yet another rate increase"
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