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Free Summer Meals for Kids & Teens

Operation Food Search is offering free lunches to kids and teenagers this summer. Summer meals are offered every weekday, in multiple locations in and around Dutchtown:

  • Fox Manor Apartments (4725 S. Spring): 1:20–1:50pm
  • Amberg Park: 3:20–3:50pm
  • Mount Pleasant Park: 4:00–4:30pm

More information and additional locations can be found here.

smOn Tuesday, July 26th, St. Mary’s High School will have snow cones and prizes in addition to the free summer meals. Come down to the Fox Manor Apartments from 1:00–2:00pm for this event.

Final Dutchtown CID Meeting Thursday

UPDATE: This meeting has been relocated to Urban Eats!

Come to Urban Eats at Meramec and Virgina on Thursday, July 14th, from 6:00 to 8:00 for the final public meeting on the proposed Dutchtown Community Improvement District.

Meet your neighbors, learn more about the CID, and find out what you can do to support this revitalization effort. Food and drink from The Original Crusoe’s and Kim Ngan will be provided.

Saturday: Blessing of the Bikes and Dutchtown Bike Tour

Click for flyer. Please note: the correct date for this event is Saturday, July 16th.
Click for flyer. Please note: the correct date for this event is Saturday, July 16th.

Join the Dutchtown South Community Corporation, Downtown Dutchtown Business Association, and Urban Eats for a Blessing of the Bikes and Dutchtown Pocket Park Tour on Saturday, July 16th.

The event begins at 9:30 at St. Anthony of Padua. Participants will be able to have their bicycles, scooters, strollers, and other non-motorized transportation blessed by Franciscan Monks.

At 10:00, meet at Urban Eats and follow your tour guide through Dutchtown’s pocket parks. There will also be opportunity to discuss possible improvements to Minnie Wood and Laclede Parks.

Finally, head back to Urban Eats for lunch, or continue on a self-guided tour of the Christy Greenway.

To RSVP, please visit the Facebook event page or email amanda.dscc@gmail.com.

Neighborhood Meetings on Tuesday

The Gravois Park Neighborhood Association meets this Tuesday, July 12th, 6pm at 3353 California in the old Jefferson Bank Building.

At 7pm on Tuesday, the Dutchtown West Neighborhood Association meets at Grbic Banquet Hall, Meramec and Keokuk.

Both meetings will feature updates from SLMPD’s neighborhood liaison officers, elected officials, and Neighborhood Improvement Specialists. We hope to see you there!

Community Arts Training Institute Comes to Dutchtown

Nominate yourself or someone else to participate in the Regional Arts Commission’s Community Arts Training Institute. This year the place-based program will focus on Dutchtown, as well as the Ville, the West End, and the Ferguson area.

Applicants and nominees should be active in the community. The training sessions provide a comprehensive, professional environment in which artists of all disciplines and people working in community settings can learn how to work together using creative community building tools and tactics.

Applications and nominations will be open through July 5th. Click here to nominate someone, or to apply fill out the online application or download an application.