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5th Annual Taste Of Maplewood To Held Saturday

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013, 3:03pm

5th Annual Taste Of Maplewood To Held Saturday

MAPLEWOOD, MO. (KTVI) – The 5th annual taste of Maplewood will be held this Saturday, May 18th from 12:00 noon to 9:00 pm. The event has grown over the past 5 years and will feature this year for the first time, a “Best of the Taste of Maplewood”, that will offer local vendors to claim bragging rights to the best food and during in Maplewood.

The festival will feature music from area bands and food from local restaurant in Maplewood.

For more information on the Taste of Maplewood, call 314-781-8588 or go on-line to maplewood-chamber.com/taste-of-maplewood-event-page/.

The event is free and open to the public.

Sutton Blvd., Just South of Manchester Road, Maplewood, MO 63143

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Inc. Yourself Program Aims To Help Entrepreneurs

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Saturday, July 7th, 2012, 9:47am

(KTVI)-A recent report by Kiplinger ranked the top ten cities to start a business and St. Louis was number 5 on the list. The St. Louis Comptroller’s office and St. Louis Community College have been offering free workshops for people wanting to learn more about starting their own business called Inc. Yourself.

The next workshop is Thursday, July 19, at the St. Louis Community College William Harrison Education Center from 5-7pm. Sandra Marks, a Business Development coach, will be the key speaker.

Website: Inc. Yourself 2012

http://youtu.be/7QtQM9k5XNc

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2013 Arts & Education Council Project Grant Applications

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Wednesday, June 13th, 2012, 11:29am

2013 Arts & Education Council Project Grant Applications

The Arts and Education Council provides funding for arts and arts education programs in the 16-county St. Louis region. Funding is provided through grants both directly through the Council and through collaborative partnerships.

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Missouri Governor Appoints New Member To Harris-Stowe Board

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Tuesday, June 12th, 2012, 4:45pm

Missouri Governor Appoints New Member To Harris-Stowe Board

Harris-Stowe State University is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Reginald Dickson, the newest addition to the university’s Board of Regents. Regent Dickson will be sworn in by the Honorable Jimmie Edwards, 22nd Circuit, Division 30, at 10 a.m. during the next board meeting on June 19, 2012, in the Dr. Henry Givens Jr. Administration Building.

Dickson, an alumnus of Harris-Teachers College, is one of the founders of Buford, Dickson, Harper & Sparrow Inc., (BDHS) and serves as the firm’s chairperson, a principal and a member of the investment committee. His Fortune 500 board experience spans more than 33 years and includes serving on the board of directors of the audit committee of Dollar General Corporation and as board chairman at Regions Bank Community Development Corporation. Currently, he serves on the board of Huntington Preferred Capital Inc.

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PNC Arts Alive Awards Craft Alliance $40,000 Grant

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Wednesday, June 6th, 2012, 4:00pm

PNC Arts Alive Awards Craft Alliance $40,000 Grant

Craft Alliance is pleased to announce it was recently awarded a $40,000 grant from PNC Arts Alive. PNC Arts Alive is a two-year, $1 million initiative from The PNC Foundation that supports visual and performing arts groups with the goal of increasing arts access and engagement in new and innovative ways.

Seventeen arts organizations in the Greater St. Louis area were selected for bold thinking around increasing arts access and engagement and Craft Alliance was one of them.

With each session filled to capacity, reaching 220 parents and children, PNC Arts Alive Free Saturdays at Craft Alliance had an incredibly successful first year.

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Botanical Garden Gets $3 Million Grant For Online Database

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Tuesday, June 5th, 2012, 12:25pm

Botanical Garden Gets $3 Million Grant For Online Database

The Missouri Botanical Garden has received a generous three-year, $3 million gift from Monsanto Company to support its work on the development of World Flora Online.

The World Flora is an international collaborative effort involving the leading botanical institutions worldwide to develop the first-ever comprehensive, authoritative and accessible online resource for the world’s approximately 400,000 known plant species.

The World Flora Online will improve access, analysis and management of critical botanical information for policy makers and planners, biodiversity conservation practitioners, botanists, ecologists, geneticists, other scientists and users of plant data worldwide.

The support of Monsanto Company will fund the Missouri Botanical Garden’s contributions to this ambitious endeavor from 2012 to 2015.

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7th Annual Career Fair Will Feature More Than 100 Employers

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Monday, May 21st, 2012, 5:32pm

7th Annual Career Fair Will Feature More Than 100 Employers

The 7th Annual First District Career Fair will take place on Monday, June 4th from 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. at Harris-Stowe State University’s Emerson Physical Education & Performing Arts Center located at 3026 Laclede Avenue.

This jobs event will feature more than 100 St. Louis area employers. The event is free.

For those interested in public service, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management will provide a one-stop shop for interested job seekers to learn about and apply for thousands of federal jobs, worldwide.

Among the St. Louis employers who will be on hand: