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CSAs give people produce and pride in buying local

Support your Local Farmer

Imagine a crate full of onions, po-tatoes, summer squash, tomatoes, cu-cumbers, eggplants and beans, and fresh herbs like basil, oregano and thyme. And it’s all been grown just for you.

That’s not just a dream, but a reality for many local people who participate in CSAs.

Community Supported Agriculture is an arrangement where people buy a season’s worth of produce in advance. In some cases, they receive other locally pro-duced foods, including meat and honey. The arrangement gives farmers working capital up front, while it provides the members with a steady stream of fresh food over the course of the season.

Greene’s Country Store in Lake Saint Louis is just one of many places locally that offers a CSA program. The store is now in its second year of operating a CSA. Owner Randy Greene said the store had built relationships with local farmers and he had interest in starting a CSA. When another member of the lo-cal community approached him about doing just that, he moved on the oppor-tunity.

Greene’s, located at 8612 Highway N, combines products from all of its local growers to provide the CSA. Some peo-ple like knowing that their money helps support local farmers.

But buying a share in a CSA is not a completely selfless endeavor, Greene said. It has many benefits for the members.

“It’s quite a bit cheaper,” he said. “What you’re getting is a much better price vol-ume-wise for what you’re getting overall [than if you bought the same amount by making weekly trips to the store or farmer’s market].”

Plus, Greene said, he is not able to of-fer the same variety of products in his store as what he can through the CSA. He just doesn’t have the capacity.

Another benefit sometimes takes hold of people more than they think.

“It changes the way you eat,” Greene said. “I don’t know how many guys tell me that at the end of the season. You hardly eat anything out of a box. You hardly eat any fast food. You have the food you want. It’s a great way to get away from the prepared food or the pro-cessed food.”

EarthDance, located on the historic Mueller Farm at 233 S. Dade Ave. in Fer-guson, is another place that offers a CSA program. It started offering public CSA shares in 2011.

Assistant Farm Manager Matt Lebon said the CSA grew from about 40 to 60 shareholders within the last year. Earth-Dance notes that members are called shareholders, because they are invest-ing in local agriculture. For their invest-ment, they get returns of fresh, seasonal produce.

And EarthDance doesn’t simply offer run-of-the-mill produce.

“We aim to maximize diversity, so we’re growing not just sweet potatoes, or broccoli or cabbage, but we’re growing everything that grows in this region,” Lebon said. “We’re growing dozens and dozens of crops.”

Shared Bounty CSA in Troy is now in its fifth season. Operator Jim Prouhet said the CSA grew steadily for the first four years and then maxed out and can now include 40 to 60 shareholders each year. They have a waiting list for next year.

Each week from May 13 through Nov. 25 Greene’s CSA members receive a variety of six to 15 kinds of local produce and could include one or two locally produced goods.

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Prouhet grows much of the produce on the farm, but also buys apples and peaches from friends who have orchards, and strawberries from Amish farm-ers near Bowling Green. The CSA includes some value-added products, like cheeses made from locally produced milk.

Shared Bounty started after Prouhet’s family first grew pro-duce and set it out on a wagon as a self-serve roadside stand. He said they then decided to try the CSA.

What people get varies de-pending on which CSA they join. Some have more diversi-fied offerings, but many tend to have a variety of items. Some offer the option of buying a half share, while others don’t. And the length of the CSA season varies as well.

For example, EarthDance’s sea-son is 24 weeks—from May 17 to Nov. 1 and each share includes between seven and 15 vegetables per week plus herbs. EarthDance does not offer half shares.

Meanwhile, Greene’s CSA pro-vides options for full or partial shares, with meat included or

without meat. Each week from May 13 through Nov. 25 includes a variety of six to 15 kinds of local produce and could include one or two locally produced goods.

Greene’s shares vary accord-ing to the season. Early and late season weeks have more stor-age items like preserves, meats and dried products, along with fresh, seasonal produce. During the growing season, most of the share will be fresh produce.

Shared Bounty offers six or seven different items each week and offers full or half shares. The produce is available for more than 20 weeks starting in late May. Prouhet said the share is comprised of “whatever is ready that week.” Recent weeks includ-ed new potatoes, green onions, heirloom cauliflower, cucum-bers, kale, and several different kinds of squash.

Most CSAs, including Greene’s and EarthDance, require the members to pick up their items each week. EarthDance has members pick up their items on Saturdays at the Ferguson Farm-er’s Market. Greene’s has in-store pickup every Tuesday during the

season. Prouhet has farm pick-up, but also offers delivery to as far away as St. Louis County.

While belonging to a CSA can save you money over the course of a season, it still costs several hundred dollars. These CSAs all include information on pricing on their websites.

But the operators say people get a lot for what they pay.

“A full share is 15 to 20 pounds on average every week,” Prouhet said. “A full share is a quite a lot of vegetables. It’s more than most people expect that first week. It’s a lot of food. I think that’s where we run into people who don’t come back. They hate to waste food.”

Greene said it can sometimes be too much, but people learn how to make dishes, and freeze vegetables. He said it just takes a while to adjust, and a partial share is usually enough for a cou-ple without kids.

CSAs are best, Prouhet said, for people who like to cook and “people who like to try a lot of stuff they wouldn’t normally buy.”

More information on these CSAs can be found at greenes-countrystore.com, www.earth-dancefarms.org and www.sharedbounty.com. Informa-tion on these and other lo-cal CSAs can also be found at www.localharvest.org.

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Missouri residents generate approximately five million scrap tires each year, and most dispose of them in a proper manner. How-ever—in cases where they aren’t—scrap tires can become threats to public health and eyesores that pollute the natural beauty of our community.

To present a free and convenient

way to recycle unwanted tires that might otherwise end up in aban-doned lots or area creeks, the Divi-sion of Environmental Health and Protection will host a Tire Round-up on Saturday, July 26 from 9 am to 3:30 pm. St. Charles County residents may bring up to 10 tires per household to Recycle Works Central (60 Triad South in St.

Charles) or Recycle Works West (2110 East Pitman Ave., in Wen-tzville) as part of this partnership with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Tires may be of any size and in any condition, but foam-filled tires cannot be ac-cepted. For more information on this one-time program, please call 636.949.1800.

Bring the whole family to see the animated com-edy, The Nut Job (rated PG), free, on the big screen outside the Renaud Spirit Center (RSC) recreation complex on Thursday, July 24. Free activities for kids will begin at 8 pm, and the one-and-a-half hour movie will start at dusk, approximately 9 pm. Watch as Surly the Squirrel, his friends and even his foes go nuts trying to heist enough food to last through the winter. Concessions will be available for purchase. Bring blankets or chairs for lawn seat-

ing. The RSC is located at 2650 Tri Sports Circle in O’Fallon.

Admission is free, but reservations for the Movie in the Park must be made in advance. Register for the free tickets online at www.renaudspiritcenter.com (course number 40252) or by calling 636.474.2732. Tickets also can also be reserved in person at the RSC or at the Parks and Recreation Administration Office, 400 Civic Park Dr. For more information about the event, please call 636.474.2732.

The St. Charles City Fire & Emergency Medi-cal System (EMS) Department has received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline EMS Bronze Award. The award recognizes an orga-nization’s commitment and success in implement-ing specific quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who suffer a severe heart at-tack known as a STEMI (ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction).

Every year, almost 300,000 people experience a STEMI, a type of heart attack caused by a complete blockage of blood flow to the heart that requires timely treatment. Mission: Lifeline seeks to save lives by closing the gaps that separate STEMI pa-

tients from timely access to appropriate treatments.Agencies that receive the Mission: Lifeline Bronze

award have demonstrated at least 75 percent com-pliance for each required achievement measures for three months (one quarter) and treated at least four STEMI patients for the year. While 75 percent was the requirement, St. Charles Fire EMS actually achieved a 100 percent compliance rate.

“Our Fire/EMS Department is among the best in the country, and the Mission: Lifeline program is helping us improve the quality of care for all STEMI patients,” said Mayor Sally Faith. “I am pleased to see them recognized for their dedication and achieve-ments in emergency medical care for these patients.”

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Historic Saint Charles will host the 16th an-nual STAR DAYS at the Saint Charles Conven-tion Center July 21-25. STAR is the official riding organization of Yamaha/Star Motorcycle enthu-siasts.

STAR DAYS will begin with a flag ceremony representing all the countries in attendance and the many facets of STAR. Each year STAR DAYS has a Vet Ride to honor veterans, Tin STAR ride to honor first responders, and a History Ride to learn about the area. In addition, each year Star Motorcycle hosts four days of Star Motorcycles demo rides. At the live auction Star Motorcycle donates a beautiful Star Motorcycle, 100 percent of the proceeds are donated to Feed the Children. STAR’s annual auction also raises fund to sup-port the Star Family Foundation a Member help-

ing Member foundation that gives financial help to STAR members who have had a catastrophic event in their lives.

Starting in 2001, STAR Touring teamed with Yamaha/Star Motorcycles and Feed the Children to take a stand against hunger. Each year, STAR Touring and Feed the Children bring in 80,000 pounds of food and personal items to the area where STAR DAYS is being held.

For more information, visit www.stardays.org.

For an evening of gourmet food and toe-tappin’ music, come to shady Fort Zumwalt Park on Saturday, July 19, for O’Fallon’s monthly Food Truck Frenzy. The event will be held from 5-8 pm with free admis-sion and parking, and tours of the historic Heald Home at $2 per person. Bring lawn chairs and blankets for seating. Fort Zumwalt Park is just off Veter-an’s Memorial Parkway at 1000 Jessup Dr. in O’Fallon.

Entertainment will be pro-vided, free, by George Portz and the Friends of Bluegrass, and 10 food trucks will be sell-

ing specialty fare: My Big Fat Greek Truck, Taco Truck STL, Deli on a Roll, Russo’s Truckto-ria, the Cheese Shack, Curbside Cookery, StLouisianaQ, L’Ecole Culinaire, Slice of the Hill, Des-tination Desserts. Rendezvous Café & Wine Bar of O’Fallon will sell locally-crafted wine and beer.

Once a month this summer, make a picnic of it at the Food Truck Frenzy in Fort Zumwalt Park, where gourmet fare will be available for purchase from metro-area food trucks and a band will play music, free. The

final Food Truck Frenzy of the summer will be held on Aug.16, with Caribbean pop and steel drum music performed by the Palm Trio, and food truck ser-vice provided by Zia’s, Kona Ice, Destination Desserts, Yo! Salsa, My Big Fat Greek Truck, Steam-roller Bagel & Deli, Wing Nutz, 2 Girls 4 Wheels and L’Ecole Culinaire. Food Truck Frenzy is sponsored by the O’Fallon Parks and Recreation Department.

For more information, includ-ing updates and weather cancel-lations, call the events hotline at 636.379.5614.

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St. Louis based Rock School presents the U-19 Bash, a day-long musical event show-casing many of the area’s under-19 musical talent—including St. Charles band Clock-work—while raising funds for the national organization, The Rock School Scholarship Fund. The U-19 Bash will be held from noon to 10:30pm Saturday, Aug 16 at the Chester-field Amphitheater.

The U-19 Bash will feature performances by Clockwork, The Public, Lighthouse Diver, The Moment, Simple Machine, Doppler FX and School of Rock special tributes to Jimmy Hendrix, The Clash & Nirvana. Steve Ewing, lead singer of The Urge, will perform a special selection of Police songs backed by the School of Rock house band.

Clockwork formed in 2011 and has perfect-ed their live show through consistent touring throughout the Midwest, performing at count-less theaters and nightclubs within a 15-state radius of St. Louis. Additionally, large scale

festivals such as SXSW, LouFest, Fair St. Louis, and Red Gorilla, among many others, have ex-posed Clockwork to an ever-growing audience of supporters. They have been fortunate to have shared the stage with Chuck Berry, The Urge, Never Shout Never, Bret Michaels, Paul Banks of Interpol, Lucky Boys Confusion, and Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, among others. Clockwork has received radio airplay on over 150 mainstream and college radio sta-tions throughout the United States and Cana-da, and have signed television licensing agree-ments for their music to be featured on MTV, E!, Discovery, Speed, and Lifetime television network programming, among others.

The highlight of the evening will be a pow-erhouse performance by Jon Anderson, the iconic voice of YES, one of 70s most influential bands in rock-and-roll. For more information about the U-19 Bash, visit www.ticketmaster.com/. For more information about School of Rock, visit www.schoolofrock.com.

The City of St. Peters invites music lovers to enjoy an evening at 370 Lakeside Park for a free concert at 6:30 pm Friday, July 18 featuring Sins of the Pioneers, a multi-generational, roots mu-sic band featuring some of St. Louis’s best mu-sical veterans playing just about every genre - New Orleans Jazz & R&B, Country, Blues, and Rock and Roll. This free concert begins at. at 370 Lakeside Park.

The Gator Island Grill opens at 6 pm with a special menu for the evening including soft drinks, beer and wine. Attendees are also wel-

come to bring their own coolers. No glass con-tainers. Be sure to bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit on.

The free concerts are scheduled for most Fri-days all summer through September 12 at 370 Lakeside Park.

St. Peters’ 370 Lakeside Park is located at 1000 Lakeside Park Drive. From Highway 370, take exit 2 at the Lakeside Park Drive exit. Head north into the park.

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Gary and Courtney Bridges celebrated the grand opening of their new Smoothie King loca-tion with a ribbon cutting on Wednesday, July 9. On hand were Mayor Len Pagano of the City of St. Peters, City of St. Peters Aldermen, Terri Violet, Rocky Reitmeyer, Judy Batemen and Don Aytes, Board Members and Ambassadors with the Greater St. Charles County Chamber of Commerce, loyal customers, family and friends. Smoothie King is located at 4867 Mexico Road in St. Peters.

Identity theft continues to be one of the fastest growing scams in today’s world, and it isn’t only a financial crime. El-ders are at great risk for a vari-ety of identity theft types, often with disastrous effects.

Join author and scam pre-vention expert Art Maines from 10 – 11 am on Tuesday, July 22 at the Middendorf-Kredell Library, 2750 Highway K in O’Fallon, for a lively and informative presentation about the kinds of identity theft el-ders face, personal risk factors, and how to prevent it before it starts. At the end of the talk attendees will have a personal identity theft to-do list to use to upgrade identity security.

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The City of O’Fallon has been rated one of the best places in Missouri in which to own a home. A recent study conducted by NerdWallet, a consum-er literacy/personal finance website, considered “availability, affordability and growth” in assessing O’Fallon. The organization ranked the City as 5th in the state for homeownership.

This is the second time that the website has lauded O’Fallon. Earlier this year, O’Fallon made NerdWallet’s list of best cities for Missouri job seekers, with employers that include CitiMortgage and MasterCard’s St. Louis Operations Center.

“For a national organization to once again put our City in the spotlight is not only an honor, it helps residents and potential homeowners to see what O’Fallon has to offer in terms of true livabil-

ity,” said O’Fallon’s Mayor, Bill Hennessy. “Fami-lies come first in our community, and O’Fallon’s latest ranking as one of the top cities in our state for homeownership as well as for job seekers is extremely important.”

To come up with homeownership rankings, NerdWallet compared 52 communities with populations of more than 15,000. Using U.S. Census data and information from the U.S. Bu-reau of Labor Statistics, the website looked at homeownership rates, select monthly homeown-er costs, monthly household income and popula-tion growth. The study found that the O’Fallon area has a homeownership rate of 82.9 percent, with median monthly homeownership costs of $1,596.

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The Wentzville School District has released the results of the District’s 2014 Communica-tion Survey. More than 1,400 parents, employ-ees, and community members responded to the survey, making this the most complete and comprehensive communications survey ever undertaken by the District.

According to the survey, the District web-site, www.wentzville.k12.mo.us, is the first place people go when looking for information about the District, and more than 63 percent of respondents visit the WSD home page daily or weekly, and 95 percent said it was easy to find information on the website. The number of parents who say they use the Parent Portal to access student class schedules, grades, and homework has increased by 7 percent since the 2012 survey. When schools are closed because of inclement weather, the District phone mes-sage is still the most prefered way that people want to be notified, and the preferred time to receive the call is between 5 – 5:30 pm. Over 84 percent of those surveyed said the WSD does a very good job of communicating emergency information.

The District’s electronic newsletter the WSD eNews is emailed to parents twice a month,

and 72 percent indicated that they always or usually read the eNews. The top items that pa-trons want read about are upcoming events, student achievement, and extra-curricular op-portunities for students. Almost 40 percent said they visit the District’s Facebook page at least monthly, and the number of people that indi-cated they now follow WSDinfo on Twitter has increased by 300 percent since 2012.

When asked to rate the overall communica-tion between the District and parents, over 91 percent of respondents said good or excellent. A detailed summary of all of the survey results is available on the District website, www.wentz-ville.k12.mo.us.

On Sunday, Aug. 3 between noon and 4 pm during the School Fair at Sacred Heart Catholic School in Wentz-ville, local Chrysler dealer-ship Century Dodge Chrys-ler Jeep of Wentzville will host a Chrysler Drive for the Kids fundraiser.

For every test drive taken during the hours of the fun-draiser, the school will earn $10 from Chrysler brand which will be put toward en-richment programs much in need of funding. More partic-ipation equates to more fund-ing from Chrysler brand. The fundraiser will take place

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www.mycnews.com • Community News - St. Charles County • July 16, 2014 9Movie By Steve Bryan - Rated: R“Tammy”

After watching the trailer for Tammy, it’s easy to feel sorry for actress Melissa Mc-Carthy. Since her star turn in the outrageous Brides-maids, McCarthy has been saddled with thankless roles. Hollywood, it seems, wants to keep her playing brassy and obnoxious characters, at least on the big screen.

That’s one big reason why this film comes as such a joyous surprise. The Tammy robbing a fast food joint in the previews bears little resemblance to the char-acter itself. That clumsy robbery is in the final cut, but the trailer takes it totally out of context. In truth, Tammy is a pretty decent lady who is just having a bad day.

The same can’t be said for her philandering hus-band Greg (Nat Faxon), however. After discovering he’s having an affair with a neighbor, Tammy borrows her mom’s car to get out of town. What she doesn’t count on, though, is having Grandma Pearl (Susan

Sarandon) tag along. Pearl’s got a sizeable bankroll, so the two of them head for Niagara Falls.

Director Ben Falcone knows his wife is a lovely lady, and he wisely shows the real Melissa McCarthy in this comedy. In one scene, Tammy puts on some flattering clothes, showing the beauty that movies like The Heat buried under a heap of profanity.

Turning the outrageousness down does wonders for the film as well. McCarthy plays it straight in many scenes, especially when Pearl does the wild thing with Earl (Gary Cole), the guy she meets in a bar. Forced to wait outside their car, Tammy makes small talk with Earl’s son Bobby (Mark Duplass) as their rela-tives fog up the windows.

Tammy is the first movie that gives the actress a chance to strut her stuff. Director Falcone and his wife explore the character, showing the legitimate reasons she has for being angry. Identity Thief, an earlier comedy, had some of those moments, but not nearly enough to overcome the crassness of that film.

Three cheers for Falcone and McCarthy because Tammy is a winner. This is the kind of movie that McCarthy should make and the sort of role she’s best suited for. There is, of course, a generous helping of raunchy behavior, but the ac-tress rises above it. Here’s hop-ing this dynamic duo comes up with something even better next time.

Tammy, rated R for language, including sexual ref-erences, currently is playing in theaters.

Born and raised in South St. Louis, Steve Bryan is now based in Anaheim, California, and has been allowed ac-cess to movie and television sets to see actors and direc-tors at work. Though his writing has taken him far from St. Louis, Steve is, at heart, still the same wide-eyed kid who spent countless hours watching classic movies at neigh-borhood theaters.

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The Giver by Lois Low-ry, first published in 1993, is on many required reading lists for upper elementary students. Next month, the disturbingly beauti-ful book opens in movie theaters.

Set in an alternative universe where “sameness” and obedience are expected, where families each have one boy and one girl, and feelings like anger and hap-piness are only felt minimally, Jonas faces his special December when he’ll be 12, an adult, and begin pursuing the career his community has chosen for him.

Jonas’ father is a nurturer, helps care for children, and his mother is a higher-up in the Department of Justice. But what will the future hold for Jo-nas? That’s what he has concern about as one day after another unfolds in a society that appears placid and perfect.

Imagine Jonas’ surprise when he’s named “Receiver of Memory,” assigned to be the protégé of a wise, elderly man, the Giver. So begins a journey of discovery, of recall, of pain and pleasure that changes the boy’s life forever in a book that touches you to your core.

Lake Forest Country Club Sponsors Caddie to College Tourney

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Lindenwood Bowling Picks up Some Hard-ware

Recently, the women’s team at Lindenwood University hoisted the Carlson Cup. This follows the championship that the men’s bowling team won at the 2014 Bowling Intercollegiate Team competition in April.

With all these accomplishments you would think the bowling team would sit back and be proud of their feats.

As they said in the movie Home Alone, “I don’t think so.”

Last week incoming freshman Michael Cof-fey won the boys’ title at the 2014 Teen Masters Championships at Sawgrass Lanes in Fort Lau-derdale, Fla.

The Melbourne, Fla. native and 2013 Junior Team USA member dominated the event. Cof-fey finished with an average of 220.29 over 42 games and a match play record of 11-6-1 to emerge 533 pins ahead of second. Coffey will

face girls’ division champion Kelly Skalacki in a one-game Grand Championship match that will air on ESPN as part of the Professional Bowlers Association Champion’s Challenge telecast from World Series of Bowling VI in Las Vegas during the 2014-15 PBA season.

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River City Player Flirts with Triple Crown Sounds like a broken record, but the Rascals

Catcher Josh Ludy should have been called up by the Cardinals when Yadier Molina went on the disable list.

He continues his clutch hitting with a .368 av-erage along with cracking 15 round trippers. His runs-batted-in count is at a hefty 48 mark. By the way, those statistics leads the entire league in each category.

The past week the team has played especial-ly well, resulting in a tie for the top spot in the league at the All Star break.

STANDINGS: WIN LOSS GB LAST 10 (as of 7/13)RASCALS 32 18 … 8-2Grizzlies 33 19 … 4-6Boomers 28 23 4.5 6-4CornBelters 26 24 6.0 4-6Aviators 23 27 9.0 4-6Slammers 20 31 12.5 4-6ThunderBolts 17 33 15.0 1-9

RASCALS HOME SCHEDULE: (All games @ 7:05 pm/Sundays 5:05 pm)• Wednesday, July 16 Frontier League All-Star Game @ Gateway’s Ballpark• Thursday, Friday, Saturday, July 24, 25. 26

vs the Greys• Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, July 27, 28, 29

vs the CornBeltersFor more info, visit www.RiverCityRascals.com.* Great first half

Gary Baute, a St. Louis native, may be educated in business but he lives and breathes sports. As a fan or an athlete, Gary is all sports all the time. He hosted a radio sports program on KFNS, emceed the River City Rascals’ inaugural season, and co-hosted SportsRa-dioSTL.com, among many other activities. Currently he broadcasts a radio show on 590 ‘The Man’ and 1380 ‘The Woman.’

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EVENTS July 16: Free Financial Education- Charge It Right 6:30pm, O’Fallon Family YMCA, 3451 Pheasant Meadow Dr. in O’Fallon. PNC Bank and The O’Fallon Family YMCA have part-nered to provide monthly Free Financial Education courses for members of the community. For ad-ditional information, call PNC Bank at 636.272.2449.

July 16: Music on Main5–7:30pm, N. Main St., 100 N. Main St. in St. Charles. Bring your lawn chairs to this free outdoor concert. Food and drink to purchase. Music by Miss Jubilee & The Humdingers.

July 19: The Child Center, Inc. Chevys Fundraising Event11am-10pm, Chevys, 3005 Hwy. K in O’Fallon. 20 percent of proceeds from each meal will benefit the Child Care Center, Inc. To print the flyer, or for more information, visit www.the-childcenter.com.

July 19: O’Fallon Food Truck Fren-zy 5-8pm, Fort Zumwalt Park, 1000 Jes-sup Drive in O’Fallon.Free admission and parking. Live mu-sic by George Portz and the Friends of Bluegrass. Ten food trucks will be in attendance. Bring lawn chairs and blankets for seating. For more infor-mation, call 636.379.5614.

July 19: Dardenne Prairie Free Con-certs, Music by Trilogy Dardenne Prairie City Hall Park, 2032 Hanley Rd. For more informa-tion, visit www.dardenneprairie.org, or contact Melissa at the Parks office at 636.755.5308.

July 19: Dardenne Prairie Free Movie Series, Ghostbusters Begins at Dusk, Dardenne Prairie City Hall Park, 2032 Hanley Rd.For more information, visit www.dardenneprairie.org, or con-tact Melissa at the Parks office at 636.755.5308.

July 20: 5th Annual Cardboard Boat Race at Alligator’s Creek4 – 6 pm, Alligator’s Creek Aquat-ic Center, 403 Civic Park Dr. in O’Fallon. Race entry fee is $10 for residents and $12 for non-res-idents. For more information, call 636.272.1626 or 636.474.8130, or visit www.ofallon.mo.us/parks&rec/alligators-creek-aquatic-center.

July 21-25: St. Dominic High School Football Camp (grades 9-12)6-8pm, Stadium, 31 St Dominic Dr. in O’Fallon. Cost is $65, to register visit www.stdominichs.org.

July 24: Bingo Party and Luncheon 11am-1pm, Carrington Place of St. Charles, 2150 West Randolph St. in St. Charles. Lunch served at 11am, game play to follow lunch. For more information, call 636.946.9891, or visit [email protected].

July 24: Dive in Movie: Frozen (Rat-ed PG)8:30-10pm, Alligator’s Creek Aquatic Center (in Civic Park), 403 Civic Park Dr. in O’Fallon. Cost is $3.50 for resi-dent children and seniors (55+) and $4.50 for resident adults. Non-resi-dent admission is $4.50 for children and seniors and $5.50 for adults. For more information, call 636.272.1626 or 636.474.8130 or visit www.ofallon.mo.us/parks&rec/alligators-creek-aquatic-center.

July 24: Movie in the Park: “The Nut Job” 8pm, movie begins at approximately 9pm, Renaud Spirit Center (RSC) outside, 2650 Tri Sports Circle in O’Fallon. Event is free, but pre- reg-istration is encouraged. For more in-formation, call 636.474.3732, or visit www.renaudspiritcenter.com.

July 25 through August 29: Sherry Salant, alcohol ink paintings5:15 am – 9 pm Monday – Friday; 7am – 5pmSaturdays; 10am – 5pm Sundays.O’Fallon Cultural Arts Gallery in the Renaud Spirit Center, 2650 Tri Sports Circle in O’Fallon. Free gallery ad-mission and parkingFor more information, call 636.474.2732, email Darren at [email protected], or visit-www.ofallon.mo.us/parks&rec/cul-tural-arts.

July 26: Christmas in July Craft Fair and FundraiserPresented by Tri-County Citizens Advisory Board to Probation & Pa-role. 9am-3pm, Calvary Church, 3998 Mid Rivers Mall Dr. in St. Peters. For more information, call Nancy Corbin at 636.916.0029 or 636.288.4725.

July 26: Foundry Bluegrass Fest6pm, Foundry Art Centre, 520 N. Main Center in St. Charles. Fea-turingOzark-born musician and songwriter Dale Pyatt, St. Charles’ own Cousin Curtis and the Cash Rebates, and St. Louis’the Lonesome Pines Bluegrass Band. Cost is $20, $15 for Foundry Member. For more information, visit www.foundryart-centre.org/performances

July 26: Free Night: Lego Movie7-10pm, John Weldon Elementary School, 7370 Weldon Spring Rd. in O’Fallon. For more information, visit www.graceriver.cc

July 27: O’Fallon Parks and Recre-ation Night4:05pm, game at 5:05pm, T.R. Hughes Ballpark, 900 T.R. Hughes Blvd. in O’Fallon. Tickets are $10 ticket. For more information, call 636.240.2287, ext. 242, or visit www.rivercityrascals.com.

July 27: Dream On Worship Series8, 9:15, 10:45am, SunRise United Methodist Church, 7116 Twin Chim-neys Blvd. in O’Fallon. For more in-formation, visit www.sunrisefamily.org, or call 636.978.2727.

July 27-Aug.1: Vacation Bible School at Wentzville Christian Church6-8:30pm, Wentzville Christian Church, 1507 Highway Z in Wentz-ville.Children, ages 3 to 5th grade. Jungle Safari is a VBS filled with fun ac-tivities and adventure! Event is free; please register online at wentzvillecc.org/VBS or call the church office at 636.327.6622.

July 30: Korean Mission: Kong-Duc Presbyterian Church Visit from Seoul, Korea Dardenne Pres-byterian Church, 7400 State Hwy N in O’Fallon. Reservations will be-gin on July 13 and end July 27. Call Dardenne Presbyterian’s church of-

fice at 636.561.4347 for reservations.

Aug. 2: Western St. Charles County Chamber Back to School Family Fair8am – 1 pm, Morning Star Church, 600 Feise Rd. in Dardenne Prairie. Free school supplies for children and fun activities. For more information, visit www.westernstcharlescoun-tychamber.com.

Aug. 2: St. Louis International Chil-dren’s Film Festival: My Dog the Champion1 pm., Lindenwood University, Young Hall. Appropriate for all ages. For more information, visit www.cin-emastlouis.org/about-festival.

Aug. 3: St. Francis of Assisi/Immac-ulate Conception Portage Picnic12pm – 7pmWashington & 2nd. Streets in Portage Des Sioux. Chicken and beef dinners, $10 for adults, $5 for children. Bingo, theme basket raffle, garden tractor pull, children’s games, and live music. For more information, call 314.623.3299.

Aug. 9: St. Louis International Chil-dren’s Film Festival: Welcome to the Space Show1 pm., Lindenwood University, Young Hall. Appropriate for ages 8 and older.For more information, visit www.cin-emastlouis.org/about-festival.

Aug. 9: Troy Area Chamber of Commerce Memories on Main Street8am-4pm, downtown Troy. 35 classes of cars, live music, vendors. For more information, visit troyon-themove.com, or call 636.462.8769.

Aug. 9: National Night Out5:30-8:30pm, Dardenne Prairie City Park, 2032 Hanley Rd. Enjoy life size games such as Tic Tac Toe, Con-nect Four, Kerplunk; a showing of the Lego Movie and more. For more information, contact Melissa Nord-mann at 636.755.5308, or [email protected]

Aug. 23 Summer Concert Series: Funky Butt Brass Band7-10pm, Dardenne Prairie City Hall, 2032 Hanley Rd. For more informa-tion, contact Melissa Nordmann at 636.755.5308, or [email protected]

Aug. 24: Center for Autism Edu-cation 11th Annual Golf Tourna-ment.11:30am-6pm, Bear Creek Golf Club, 158 Bear Creek Dr. in Wentzville. Cost is $380 for a foursome, includes 18 holes of golf with cart, lunch, dinner and beer. For more infor-mation, or to register, contact Tony Bryan at [email protected] or 636.978.7785.

August 28: Ralph Kaufman Golf Tournament to benefit children’s charitiesRegistration 10am, Whitmoor Coun-try Club, 1100 Whitmoor Drive in St. Charles. Lunch at 11am, shotgun start at noon. Register online at www.ralphkaufmanmemorial.com.

Sept. 20: St. Charles County His-torical Society House Tour 12-4pm, St. Charles County His-torical Society, 101 S. Main St. in St. Charles. See inside 18th and 19th century houses and an unbelievable Church. for more information, or to buy tickets, visit www.scchs.org, or call 636.946.9828.

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Sept. 27: Light the Night Fund-raising WalkRegistration at 5pm, walk starts at 7:30pm, Forest Park’s Central Fields.For more information call 314.590.2230 or visit www.light-thenight.org/gat.

Ongoing Events

1st Monday: Gardeners of St. Charles County Monthly Meet-ing6:30pm. Location varies. 314.304.7480.

2nd Monday: Winghaven Civil War Round Table6:30pm, Midwest BankCentre board room, 2299 Technology Dr. O’Fallon. For more informai-ton call Mike at 314.276.5018.

4th Monday: American Legion Post 388 Meets6:30 pm at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 8945 Vets. Mem. Pkwy. 636.219.0553.

Every Monday: St. Peters Ro-tary ClubNoon at St. Peters City Hall, One St. Peters Centre Blvd. www.stpe-tersrotary.org.

Every Monday: The Seasoned Eye Carvers meeting.9am-noon, St. Charles Senior Citizens Center, 1455 Fair-grounds. For more information, visit www.stcharlesareawood-carvers.com.

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday: Fitness First Exercise Classes9:30-10:30am, American Legion Hall, 504 Luetkenhaus Blvd., Wentzville. 314.369.6521.

Tuesday and Friday Evenings: Tae Kwon Do ClassesDardenne Presbyterian Church, 7400 South Outer 364 in Dardenne Prairie. For more in-formation, call 636.561.4347.

1st Tuesday: Fleur de Lis Garden Society6:30pm at the Kisker Road Library, 1000 Kisker Road. Info: Jeanne at 314.605.8563.

2nd Tuesday: Show-me Stitchers Embroiderer’s Guild of America 7pm at the Ladue Chapel. Info: www.showmestitchers.com.

Last Tuesday of every month, St. Charles American Legion Post 312 spaghetti dinner.5pm, St. Charles American Legion Post 312, 2500 Raymond Drive in St. Charles. $5 per person. For more information call Post 312 at 636.947.7666.

4th Tuesday: O’Fallon Garden Club6:30pm at Sunrise Methodist Church, 7116 Twin Chimney Blvd. Info: Barb at 636.978.5930.

Every Tuesday: Kiwanis Club of St. CharlesNoon-1pm at Bogey Hills Country Club, 1120 Country Club Rd. in St.Charles.

Every Tuesday: St. Charles Opti-mist ClubNoon-1pm at Pio’s Restaurant.

Every Tuesday: Quilting Guild at the O’Fallon Family YMCA1-4pm Free. Quilt for local charities. No sewing experience required.

Every Tuesday: Toastmasters Meeting7pm at the Renaud Spirit Center, 2650 Tri Sports Circle, O’Fallon. Info: 636.379.2505.

Every Tuesday: Gateway Spot-light ChorUS7:15-9:45pm at First United Methodist Church, 801 First Capitol Drive in St. Charles. Info: www.gatewayspotlight.org or 636.256.6823.

Every Tuesday & Thursday: Tai Chi at the St. Charles County Family YMCA

8-9am & 10:15-11:15am. No expe-rience necessary. 636-928-1928.

Tuesdays & Thursdays: Get Fit Ex-ercise Classes9-10am and 5:30-6:30pm at Im-maculate Heart of Mary Church Hall, New Melle. 314.369.6521.

Tuesdays and Fridays: TaeKwon-Do Ministry 5:30pm, Dardenne Presbyterian Church 7400 South Outer 364 in Dardenne Prairie. Moses Kim brings Christian teaching into tae-kwondo. For more information, or to sign up, call 636.561.4347.

Every Wednesday: Active Older Adults Game Day at the O’Fallon Family YMCA10am Free. Bring a favorite snack to share. Anybody welcome.

Every Wednesday: Crossroads Cribbage Club 10am Meets at 1380 Boone St., Troy, MO 63379. 636.528.8379.

Every Wednesday: Men’s Golf League5pm, tee off at 5:30 pm at Heritage of Hawk Ridge. www.lakesaintlou-is.com, under the parks and recre-ation section.

Every Wednesday: Charity Bingo6:45pm VFW Post 5077 sponsors, at VFW Hall, 8500 Veterans Mem. Pkwy., O’Fallon. 636.272.1945 or www.vfwpost5077.org.

Every Wednesday. Kiwanis Club of Harvester monthly meeting.

Noon, Fratelli’s Restorante, 2061 Zumbehl Road in St Charles. For more information, please con-tact [email protected]

Every Wednesday, Winfield Foley Firefighters Association Bingo.Doors open at 4:30, bingo at 6:30pm, Bingo hall is next door to County Market in the Winfield

Plaza on Highway 47. For more information, call 636.566.6621 or 636.566.8406.

1st & 3rd Wednesday: St. Charles Area Wood Carvers7pm at Weldon Spring Site Reme-dial Action Project, 7295 Hwy. 94 South, St. Charles. Visitors wel-come!

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This Month’s Shelter: Heartland Humane Society of MissouriPO Box 113, O’Fallon, MO 63366 • 636-922-0569 • [email protected]

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By Shelly A. SchneiderMissouri is home to about 50 species of

mosquitoes. Some live less than a week, while others may live several months. Community Health and the Environ-ment states it is only the female mosquito that “bites” and she does so to obtain the blood meal needed to lay viable eggs.While mosquitoes usually do little more than drive the family from the out-doors to the indoors, they are sometimes

snamuH .sesaesid suoregnad fo sreirracmay contract malaria, yellow fever, den-gue, and encephalitis; and dogs may get

heartworm. Most of these diseases, with the exception of human encephalitis and canine heartworm, have been fairly well eliminated from the entire United States. Health o�cials said outbreaks of mosqui-to borne encephalitis have periodically

occurred in Missouri. “Canine heartworm is an endemic problem, with costs to animal own-ers escalating each year,” health o�cials warned. “E�ective mosquito control

measures including the elimination of swamp areas, and maintenance e�orts to keep road ditches clear and water free

have done much to control mosquito for disease transmission.”

-toes: floodwater and permanent water mosquitoes. Floodwater mosquitoes lay their eggs on damp soil where flooding will occur or, in some cases, above the water line in tree holes, artificial con-tainers, or other small bodies of water.

When rain fills these areas and floods the in the larval stages, broods of mosquitoes -toes are mainly of the pest variety, and are the first to emerge in the spring months.

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After a lifetime in con-

struction, I feel confi-

dent in saying Fred Weber Jr. was

one of the best managers I ran across. I only worked for him two years but I often wished I would have spent my career in his orga-nization. I’ve never seen anyone better at construction methods, coordination or boldness.

Some of my associates hated him but that wasn’t unusual. I suppose you either loved him or hated him. He was, to say the least, a hard man. One of Fred’s frequent orders was, “Fire the (bleep).” He would not tolerate

anyone not doing their job, being late or leaving early.

Our union, among others, seldom gave him much flack for firing one of our members. They knew that it was usually for a good reason and he also em-ployed a considerable number of them. Despite being worked until I could barely stand, it was a great experience.

Fred sometimes got angry and fired a whole group of employ-ees for one reason or another. By the next day, he hired them back, sometimes before their union business agents got there to argue about it. Most of us as-sumed he wanted to get their at-tention... and he did.

After working over a year run-

ning a crane, I did the unthink-able. We were working 10 to 16 hours a day on I-55 past Arnold, Mo. and I lived fifty miles away. I got home about 9 pm, exhausted. I got a shower, ate a sandwich and hit the sack. I forgot to set the alarm clock for 3:30 the next morning and didn’t get to the job until an hour after starting time. Fred’s stepbrother John Weber and two bosses were standing together with their arms folded, watching me approach. They didn’t look happy. To be late was the main end-all no-no of Fred Weber Construction. The crane was being run by a fellow opera-tor who had the cables tangled and he wasn’t keeping up with the demands of the batch plant it supplied with sand and gravel. It wasn’t his specialty.

I sighed and walked over to face the sad music.

We faced each other for a quiet moment and finally, I blurted, “Well I forgot to set the (bleeping) alarm clock!” They continued staring and said nothing. Sighing again, I muttered, “You want me to finish the day before you fire me or do I leave now?” My boss’s face started twitching in amuse-ment. Suddenly all three erupted in laughter. John Weber said, “At least you didn’t lie about it. Now tell that (bleep) to get off your rig

and get that mess straightened out.”

That was the end of it. I often wondered if he could really tell if I was telling the truth.

One of the dump truck drivers hauling a load of rock screenings down the unopened highway hit a pile of them dumped along the new pavement’s edge to be used later. Fred demanded his driv-ers not waste time and he wasn’t. Unfortunately, his front wheel hit one of those piles at about sixty miles per hour. The truck flipped upside down, spewing its contents all over the landscape. It slid on its roof for several hundred feet be-fore coming to a halt.

I was told the driver crawled out the window and stood up shaking his head and moaning. Another driver made him sit down on a nearby boulder until help arrived. Before long, a helicopter landed nearby and Fred climbed out. He walked over to the shaken driver, bent down and put a concerned hand on his shoulder and asked him if he was okay. The driver grunted yes. “Are you sure,” asked Fred. “I’m okay,” he said.

Fred straightened up and said, “That’s good. You’re fired.”

I’m unsure if Fred ever hired him back but I assume there were no more accidents, although they still drove like maniacs.

One of the foremen in charge of keeping our crew’s time was trying to make himself look good. He turned in less time to the payroll department than we had coming causing a lot of loud complaining. Fred landed in his helicopter and made a grand dis-play of firing him in front of the crew he was cheating. He finally allowed him to come back as a dump truck driver but fired him again for being drunk after being humiliated.

Life was tough for Weber’s su-pervisors if they let their egos get in the way of their clear thinking. Fred demanded the best, paid for the best and got it…or else. He’s gone now but his memory lives on fondly by many and perhaps not so fond by a few.

I regret never having thanked the man but then, he probably would‘ve told me to get back to work.

Joe Morice is Community News’s blue-collar philosopher. He was born and raised in Missouri and spent most of his childhood on a farm and adulthood operating big machines. He has no formal train-ing as a writer, unless 60 years of writing about any and everything counts.

The opinions expressed in this col-umn are Joe Morice’s alone and do not reflect the opinion of the owners or staff of Community News.

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