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Mayor Slay Gets Dirty in Brightside’s Butterfly Garden
Mayor Slay Gets Dirty in Brightside’s Butterfly Garden The setting could not have been more perfect for Mayor Francis G. Slay to reveal a new City sustainability initiative, Milkweeds for Monarchs. On Earth Day, with Brightside’s purple coneflowers and giant Monarch gleaming in the background, Mayor Slay, along with representatives from the Missouri Botanical Garden, […]
Brightside Featured on City Corner
Brightside Featured on City Corner Learn more about what Brightside St. Louis is doing to make St. Louis a cleaner, greener and better place to live. Executive Director Mary Lou Green explains on STL TV’s City Corner!
St. Louis grows older; Brightside celebrates with Cakeway to the West
St. Louis grows older; Brightside celebrates with Cakeway to the West Brightside St. Louis is proud to announce our involvement in the city’s 250th birthday celebration. We were voted to participate in the Cakeway to the West, an event described as ‘one part public art exhibit, one part scavenger hunt and one part history […]
Daffodil Planting Day sponsored by BMO Harris Bank
Daffodil Planting Day sponsored by BMO Harris Bank Please mark your calendar for Saturday, October 26. This will be Daffodil Planting Day sponsored by BMO Harris Bank. In conjunction with Saint Louis University’s Make a Difference Day, SLU students, BMO Harris Bank employees and Brightside St. Louis volunteers will be planting 25,000 daffodils in the […]
It’s a milestone year for Forest ReLeaf of Missouri!
It’s a milestone year for Forest ReLeaf of Missouri! A guest blog post by Donna Coble, the Executive Director at Forest ReLeaf. This October marks their 20th year of service. We can’t thank them enough for all that they have done for our city. For the past 20 years our small nonprofit organization has been […]
20 neighborhood gardens enhanced through Neighbors Naturescaping
20 neighborhood gardens enhanced through Neighbors Naturescaping Thanks to the generosity of the Employees Community Fund of Boeing St. Louis, Forest ReLeaf of Missouri and Peabody Energy, 20 neighborhood gardens will be enhanced through our Neighbors Naturescaping program. Parks, school grounds, neighborhood entrances, medians, street barricades, vacant lots and community gardens will be planted with 8,500 […]
St. Louis will soon have more beautiful, sustainable open space!
St. Louis will soon have more beautiful, sustainable open space! Thanks to The Robert J. Trulaske, Jr. Family Foundation, Philpott Family Foundation and Emerson, St. Louis will soon have more beautiful and sustainable open space! The primary location will be the highly visible Gardens at Lake Louie along I-64 at the Chestnut/20th Street entrance into […]
Blooming in 2015 – our very own Young Friends group!
Blooming in 2015 – our very own Young Friends group! Brightside St. Louis is thrilled to announce that we’ve been selected as the 2014-2015 partner charity of Launch St. Louis! Throughout the next two years, Launch St. Louis will help us build and launch our very own Young Friends group. “This is a significant milestone […]