News Clips: 7/22/10
Shannon Howard | Jul 22, 2010 | Comments 0
• Looking to beat the heat at a local community pool? Season passes for Ferguson’s Splash at Wabash and Hazelwood’s White Birch Bay Aquatic Center are now bargain priced! In Hazelwood, the cost of resident passes has dropped to $50 for individuals and $110 for families of four. Non-residents pay just $95 and $180. In Ferguson, fees have been cut in HALF, bringing resident passes down to $32.50 for individuals and $67.50 for families of four. For non-residents, the cost is $62.50 and $110.
You can swim through September 6 at both pools. For more info, call Hazelwood @ (314) 731-0980 or Ferguson @ (314) 521-4661.
Dellwood will soon welcome a new business: St. Vincent De Paul Thrift Store
• Don’t tell the South City hipsters, but North County will soon have another thrift store. We’re already the premier spot for thrifting in St. Louis, with at least six big retailers and several smaller ones, and now the St. Vincent De Paul Thrift Store is coming to Dellwood. The St. Vincent De Paul Society, which runs two other stores in St. Louis and provides assistance to the poor, is currently looking for volunteers to help man the new Dellwood location, which will open at 10052 W. Florissant in the next few weeks. If you’d like to help, contact Molly Corcoran Kertz at (314) 881-6032.
• Good news for local cyclists! Great Rivers Greenway (GRG) has taken another step toward completing the St. Vincent Greenway, the seven-mile trail that will eventually connect Forest Park to NorthPark. Part of the pathway already winds through the UMSL campus, and now construction has begun on another 0.6-mile section that will meander past UMSL’s soccer fields and Express Scripts headquarters and then head up University Place Drive toward the North Hanley Metrolink station.
At some point, the trail will stretch north on Hanley and connect with the proposed Maline and Coldwater Creek Greenways, but for now, GRG is waiting on the developer who owns several parcels across from the Metrolink parking lot to “obtain financing and begin site development.”
• So you know my “eco-tourism” idea to promote the Confluence as a recreation destination? Perhaps this will help… Yesterday morning, just after midnight, Florissant resident Greg Bernal went fishing in the Missouri River near the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area and caught the biggest blue catfish IN THE WORLD! Weighing a whopping 130 pounds, the mammoth fish beat the standing Missouri state record by 27 pounds and the world record by six pounds, surpassing another fish caught in Alton, IL, in 2005.
Of course, I wish Bernal had released the big beast back into the water, but I guess I can let it slide if somebody will please start promoting NoCo as a destination for world-class fishing… Talk about an opportunity!
• More than 300 people showed up at the St. Louis County Economic Council’s recent forum on the future of Jametown Mall, continuing a public input process that started last year and will continue through September. If you missed the meeting, check out the video below. You might also mark your calendar for September 9, 10, 11 & 14. That’s your next chance to share ideas and hear from local planners during a week-long Jamestown Mall “design charrette” at St. Louis Community College @ Flo Valley. More info on that soon…
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