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Support Brightside on Give STL Day
Support Brightside on Give STL Day For over 30 years, Brightside St. Louis has been committed to improving the quality of life for St. Louisans by developing programs that clean and beautify neighborhoods throughout the city. Programs like Blitz clean-ups, Graffiti Eradication, Neighbors Naturescaping, and Project Flower Shower are successful because they are powered by […]
The Brightside of St. Louis Earth Day Festival
The Brightside of St. Louis Earth Day Festival What better way to spend your weekend than strolling through beautify Forest Park and learning about area organizations that share the mission of St. Louis Earth Day? This year, Brightside St. Louis will join the celebration by stocking an informational booth with lots of educational resources and […]
ArborMeisters Homebrew Festival
ArborMeisters Homebrew Festival In celebration of Arbor Day, the Garage Brewers Society has partnered with our friends Forest ReLeaf of Missouri for a beer festival on Saturday, April 26th to showcase home-brewed beers, each one created to include at least one “tree” ingredient. All proceeds will go toward Forest ReLeaf to assist in “planting trees, […]
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 […]