The Nov. 25, 1911, football game between Kansas and Missouri in Columbia is considered by many as the first homecoming game ever played. Coach Chester Brewer invited alumni to "come home" for the game.
By W. J. O'CONNOR A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch.
WOOD RIVER - Wood River will host its Visit With Santa and His Furry Friends Day from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 26, 2002, in Downtown Wood River. Wood River Police Chief Brad Wells said the event was started when they learned parents found it difficult to locate an area spot to take their child to see Santa. Santa will be present at the event for children and there will also be a petting zoo for families to visit with their young ones. The Christmas event will be centered at 55 E. Ferguson Ave. in Wood River in the building and lot next to the Rolling Pin. Residents are asked to visit shops and restaurants during the post-Thanksgiving afternoon. “We had a great time and the kids had a great time last year!” Chief Wells said. “This is also another way for members of the Police Department to connect with the community. We thank the Wood River Economic Development Committee for helping us organize and Tim O’Donnell for the use of his building.”
BETHALTO - Today, on Thanksgiving Day, the Community Hope Center in Cottage Hills extends thanks to Ace Hardware of Bethalto for a significant $2,500 donation from rounding up at the cash register for part of November. The donation will help the Community Hope Center deliver Thanksgiving food items and also assist with its annual Christmas distribution. Ace Hardware of Bethalto has a generous round-up policy for charities and recently, Ray Johnson, Ace Hardware's general manager, presented the donation check to Steve Thompson, finance manager of the Community Hope Center in Cottage Hills. Molly Mathis, office manager at the Bethalto Ace Hardware, said she is proud of the store for this charitable effort. Right now, the store is rounding up for the Bethalto Police “Christmas For All Program.” “During the regular part of the year, we round up for Children’s Network,” Mathis said. “We always try to help the Community Hope Center during the holidays
The scramble over $519 million in settlement money from the NFL entered a new phase Wednesday, the day after negotiators struck a tentative agreement on how to divide the money between.
By Austin Huguelet and Kelsey Landis St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It's dex night and I would like to be out in the desert with my telescope since the moon is down all night. Unfortunately I'm sick and I hurt my leg and the weather is apparently lousy, so instead I'm sitting at the computer clicking aimlessly at whatever catches my eye. This means I'm going ...continue reading "The curious case of the decline and fall of “internet”"
Sure, ‘tis the season to be jolly. Fa la la la and whatever. But sometimes, holiday gatherings with the family (as delightful as they can be), remind one of how nice it would be to bolt off to somewhere secluded and far away from your extended family’s racial slurs.
This holiday season, pet-loving St. Louis drunks are once again afforded a unique opportunity to spread joy in the world simply by doing what comes naturally: drinking beer. That's thanks to Raise a Pint for Pets, the annual booze-based charity campaign that aims to help out our furry friends in animal shelters. For the sixth year in a row, Urban Chestnut has teamed up with Purina to merge alcoholism with altruism.
Every hour, Jennifer Crane must hit a quota. As an outbound packer at STL8 Amazon Fulfillment Center in St. Peters, she has to build, pack and label 70 boxes an hour. It amounts to 3,000 packed boxes per week.
Casa Don Alfonso invites St. Louis residents and guests to indulge in a festive holiday season marked by the delicious traditions of Italy’s Sorrento Coast. Working closely with the renowned
If you could prevent millions of children from falling back into poverty, would you? Most of us, I imagine, would answer “yes” without hesitation. But not Congress. For nearly a year, lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have dithered as the policy directly responsible for a dramatic decline in poverty last year lapsed. It’s time for Congress […]
This is off the beaten path, isn't it? But I was over at Google's Ngram Viewer trying to remember what I had planned to look up, and while my neurons were betraying me I started entering dirty words. That was interesting, so I got more rigorous about it. Here are the most popular current obscenities, ...continue reading "Raw data: What popular obscenity has grown the most?"
The center-left mindset of favoring quantitative analysis and just-so mathematical solutions is particularly myopic when it comes to fossil fuel pollution.
The White House sent out some talking points to help you deal with your Fox-loving uncle on Thanksgiving Day, and I wish they hadn't. This is one of the most tiresome memes ever. But if you're going to do it anyway, for God's sake please proofread it: Two typos in a single sentence? It should ...continue reading "The White House needs a copy editor"
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