Arts + Life Neighborhoods SLIDESHOW: Shriners march in from all over | SLIDESHOW: Shriners march in from all over |
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| By Photos by Rachel Heidenry | |
| Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 July 2008 ) | |
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The Shriners international convention came to St. Louis and held a parade downtown Tuesday. The mini cars roared and the clowns brought smiles to the children. But the joy was also evident among the marchers and drivers and riders. The joy is from giving. Shriners support 22 hospitals for children in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. As the Indy mini cars proclaimed, "We ride so the kids can walk." |
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The Gateway Cup bicycle race starts under the lights in Lafayette Square on Friday. On Saturday morning, the race kicks off a new addition: a 1-mile figure-8 course from The Schlafly Tap Room. Racing is on The Hill Sunday and in the U-City Loop on Monday Info: www.gatewaycup.com
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Head to downtown St. Louis for the Hispanic Festival Inc . The festivities take place from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sept. 5 & 6 and from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sept. 7.
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The Greenway Network is sponsoring a Race for the Rivers (serious paddler), a clean Water Challenge (less intense) and a Race for the Rivers Festival in Frontier Park at St. Charles. So, canoists, kayakers and people looking for fun, check out, http://www.racefortherivers.
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Did the Tour de France inspire you? Do you want to try your hand, er, feet, at miles and miles of bicycling? Check out the Tour of Missouri , Sept. 8-14.
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Check out new club, The Trade (3515 Chouteau, enter at rear), and support the Melanoma Research Foundation, from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. Sept. 15. $5 minimum suggested donation will get you into the first annual Hoosier Games, including washers and wiffle ball. Music and food will also be available.
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Zoo news: Dinoroarus has been extended through Sept. 30. See 16 life-size animatronic dinosaurs that move, roar and spit in a walk-through exhibit in River's Edge. $3 per person, $1.50 for Zoo Friends.
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Cahokia Mounds can be the beginning of a Midwest journey that discovers the civilizations that lived -- and disappeared -- around here hundreds of years ago. | Keith Mulihill, The New York Times
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History, crafts and food (forget funnel cake, we hear fried Oreos will be available) fill the streets of St. Charles at the Festival of the Little Hills Aug. 15-17.
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John McCain should resist temptation and not select Joe Lieberman as his running mate. | Robert Novak, townhall.com
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Nothing like a convention to sharpen the pencils of editorial cartoonists. From the contrast between Biden and Obama to the steadfastness of Hillary Clinton suports, Mike Thompson, Scott Stantis, John Sherffius, Gary Markstein and Chris Britt have plenty to say.
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Are college presidents who are proposing a national discussion of lowering the drinking age slackers or realists? Do fatality numbers so a correlation between a lower drinking age and more deaths or are other factors at play. M.W. Guzy puts the issue in perspective.
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Law Scoop
The Obama campaign claims that Ed Martin's anti-Obama group violates federal election law. Election law experts say that the group may violate the law, but that federal election authorities won't do anything about it until after the election.
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