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Brightside St. Louis volunteers busy cleaning and greening downtown
Brightside St. Louis Volunteers Busy Cleaning and Greening Downtown It’s Friday. And as another week comes to a close, we’d like to take a break to “smell the roses” and thank the volunteers who did so much for us the past several days. We certainly didn’t get photos of everyone who helped, but the below […]
Thank you to Bausch & Lomb and their Global Day of Caring!
Thank you to Bausch & Lomb and their Global Day of Caring! Last week, a group of employees from Bausch & Lomb helped with our work around St. Louis City Hall and the Old Municipal Courts Building by trimming the Knock Out rose bushes that they actually planted several years back. This marks the seventh […]
Skinker-DeBaliviere cleans and greens during Blitz
Skinker-DeBaliviere cleans and greens during Blitz Thanks to volunteer Becky Homan for the photos and the story. Brightside’s Blitz 2012 is nearly history. But for some in the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood, last Saturday’s last day of the Blitz clean-ups came with some cool surprises. Gardening gloves got dropped through the mail slots of people who donate to […]
Missouri native plants bloom in this late-April peek inside our St. Louis Demonstration Garden
Missouri Native Plants Bloom in This Late-April Peek Inside Our St. Louis Demonstration Garden Spring has sprung in the nearly one-year-old Brightside St. Louis Demonstration Garden! A cool sunny April day last week brought out volunteers to help weed the space, as they do each week. The sun also helped open yellow blooms of lanceleaf coreopsis […]
Brightside’s Mary Lou Green on STL TV Live
Brightside’s Mary Lou Green on STL TV Live Our very own Mary Lou Green on STL TV Live talking Blitz, demonstration Garden and more. Enjoy! And hope to see you cleaning up the neighborhoods this weekend…
Thanks to Wash U APO pledges!
Thanks to Wash U APO pledges! The Brightside St. Louis Demonstration Garden is looking great, thanks to the pledges from Washington University’s co-ed service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega. View pictures of Wash U’s fantastic group of young people working hard to make their city a little bit brighter here. (And fan our Facebook page while you’re […]