ALTON - The Alton City-Wide Litter Clean-Up proved to be a major success last Saturday as volunteers from local businesses and all over the community took to the streets to clean up litter from their neighborhoods. Pride, Inc., a nonprofit organization focused on neighborhood beautification projects, took on a major role in organizing this City-Wide Clean-Up in collaboration with Alton Main Street and several other local organizations. “It was wonderful - thank God we had beautiful weather,” Pride, Inc. Executive Director Pat Stewart said. “It was just really neat ... some of the feedback we’ve gotten from others as far as people driving by and honking and thanking us for what we did.” Supplies such as gloves and bags were provided at registration stations for those who needed them, along with free donuts. While the event was widely successful, Stewart said the amount of trash collected underscores the need for a future anti-littering campaign. &ldquo
Thomas Jefferson’s complex history is now being acknowledged with interpretive panels in front of the Missouri History Museum’s sculpture of the third president. Jody Sowell of the Missouri Historical Museum and history professor Priscilla Dowden-White discuss why the time was right to add context to the 1913 statue — and what we can take from Jefferson’s story.
ALTON - Earth Day is always filled with positive volunteer efforts across the country to eliminate waste and preserve our world for the future. Area bus drivers, led by Victoria Cobb-Bock, tackled a large cleanup area of Alton with the assistance of Boys Scouts Troop 1 in Alton. This group's effort was part of the overall Earth Day effort in the Riverbend. "We had a good time and the boys surprised me with all the effort they put in," Victoria Cobb-Bock said. "We had 25 people show up." Victoria is always on the lookout to assist with any litter cleanup and said she participates in the Earth Day event every year. "This was my sixth year of doing it personally," she said. "This cleanup makes a huge difference. This cleans up a lot of trash that could eventually end up in our river." Victoria's group handled an area near Big Arch, Alton Square Mall, behind Alton Middle School, Humbert Road, James Killion Park at Salu area, Main, and also Hillcrest and Sering areas of Alton. Victoria
He may be 78 years old, but Mick Jagger is still inspired by current music. In fact, there are two young artists he feels are helping keep rock music alive…
Beam him up, St. Louis — William Shatner is coming to the city as part of the first FAN EXPO. Formerly produced as Wizard World, which ran from 2013 to 2019, the convention will feature beloved actors from sci-fi favorites, anime standouts, animation stars and voice actors all in one weekend, May 13 through May 15, at America’s Center (701 Convention Plaza, 314-342-5036). Other celebrities planning to attend are Hook’s Dante Basco, Guardians of the Galaxy’s Michael Rooker, The Mandalorian’s Carl Weathers — also of Rocky renown — and other stars of shows such as Smallville, Sons of Anarchy, Supernatural and Clerks.
Women of Achievement has announced the 2022 Women of Achievement – a selection of 10 extraordinary volunteers from the St. Louis metropolitan region. Four of the women are outstanding, noted African-American women in the St. Louis community: Judith R. Arnold,…
SLATE will stay open late to help families who are unable to visit during typical office hours. And there are opportunities for young people to get jobs this summer.
We’ve written numerous posts about the EU Copyright Directive, because it contains two extremely harmful ideas. The first is the “snippet tax“, an attempt by some press publishers to make sites like Google pay for the privilege of displaying and linking to newspaper publishers’ material – an assault on the Web’s underlying hyperlink technology. The second […]
Virtual Zoom Meeting In attendance: Fatimah Muhammad, Donna Lindsay, Suzanne Cade, Devon Hughes-Gunn, Pastor Cole, Josh Goldman, LaShana, Rebecca Courtney, Katie Kull, Samantha Smugala, Marissa Brooks, Alex Riednick, Adrian Stillman, Sarah Rubenstein, Porscha Anderson, Mackenzie Alberti, Brittany Hubbard, James Page, Mark Pappas, Jason Newsomme, Demetria Parks, Angelica Were, Sam McCrory, Juwanna Brown, Bobby Bonner, S. […]
Virtual Zoom Meeting In attendance: Fatimah Muhammad, Donna Lindsay, Suzanne Cade, Devon Hughes-Gunn, Pastor Cole, Josh Goldman, LaShana, Rebecca Courtney, Katie Kull, Samantha Smugala, Marissa Brooks, Alex Riednick, Adrian Stillman, Sarah Rubenstein, Porscha Anderson, Mackenzie Alberti, Brittany Hubbard, James Page, Mark Pappas, Jason Newsomme, Demetria Parks, Angelica Were, Sam McCrory, Juwanna Brown, Bobby Bonner, S. …
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