Your Ste. Genevieve County
Extension office
Mark the Date
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Blueberry Management Workshop -- Saturday, June 2, 9am to 3 pm, Highland Blueberry Farm, 2607 PCR 616, Perryville, MO.
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CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) training, June 19, 21, and 22, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Ste. Genevieve County Health Department. Free of charge. For more information or to register, contact Howard Dohack at: 573-883-7411/
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Ste. Genevieve County Candidate Forum -- Wednesday, July 18, 6:30 pm, Ste. Genevieve Elks Lodge
News
The Mississippi River Hills Association will hold the first farm dinner (a/k/a "agri-culinary event") on Saturday, June 23, at Meier Horse Shoe Pines in Jackson. Tickets for this "Christmas in June" dinner must be purchased in advance. For more information visit: http://www.mississippiriverhills.org/news2.htm
The Mississippi River Hills project will be showcased nationally! We'll have an exhibit at the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival this summer, which will be held the last week of June and the first week of July on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. We have a great planning committee, and are looking forward to showing off our area of Missouri to all those East coast people who think this is just one of the fly-over states!
Missourians can take advantage of free college savings money. Starting March 1, college savers throughout Missouri might be eligible for up to $500 a year in free college savings money from MOST -- Missouri's 529 College Savings Plan. The MOST 529 plan will begin providing a dollar-for-dollar match on contributions up to $500 per year and $2,500 over a lifetime to the MOST 529 accounts of qualifying applicants. Read more at Sun-Times News.com.
The May issue of The Garden Spade newsletter has been posted.
A comprehensive list of Resources for Farmers Market Vendors from University of Missouri Extension has been posted.
Community Events
Annual King's Ball -- First Saturday in February, VFW Hall
Garden Walk -- May 19-20, 2012. Always the weekend after Mother's Day. Also Bolduc House herb and plant sale.
French Festival -- second full weekend in June; also antique show and sale
4-H Achievement Night -- June 13, 2011. Begins at 6:00 p.m. at the Extension office
4-H Chicken Fry -- July 7, 2011, at the VFW Hall (always held the Thursday night of Fair week)
Ste. Genevieve County Fair -- second full weekend in July; also Civil War encampment
Jour de Fete -- second full week in August (area's largest annual craft fair)
Muny Band Concerts -- Thursday evenings from June to mid-August, Valle School parking lot, downtown
Rural Heritage Day -- October 27, 2012--Celebrate the agricultural heritage of Ste. Genevieve.
Promenade des Arts -- second full weekend in October
Christmas Walk -- first full weekend in December
Fourth Friday Art Walk—studios and galleries are open every fourth Friday, from 6 to 9 p.m., in the downtown historic district.
Young Mothers Support Group -- meets the third Tuesday of the month at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, located on Market Street diagonally from the Extension office
Fun Facts
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2012 is the 200th anniversary of the creation of the Missouri Territory. Ste. Genevieve County was one of the original five counties -- though at that time it's western border reach all the way to Kansas!
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That funny looking chunk out of the SE corner of the county map? That's 14,000 acres of the State of Illinois, left on this side of the river after the Mississippi changed course.
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The first farmers market in Ste. Genevieve began in 1814, on the Courthouse square.