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Dear City Employee - April 2011

Election Day is April 5, 2011 St. Louis Earth Day will be celebrated on April 17, and Administrative Professionals Day is April 27.

April 1, 2011 | 2 min reading time

This article is 14 years old. It was published on April 1, 2011.

seal_stl_cityseal_stl_city1Voters will go to the polls on Tuesday, April 5 and cast ballots on a number of important issues.  Your vote on April 5 will help shape the City's economy and the region's education system.  Make sure your voice is heard.  

A number of events are celebrated each April.  One of those events is Earth Day.  The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970.  Twenty million Americans from all walks of life participated and launched this modern environmental movement.  Join the 27,000+ expected attendees at the 22nd Annual St. Louis Earth Day Festival, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 17 in Forest Park on the Muny Grounds.  This year's theme is "Be the Change."  For details, visit http://www.stlouisearthday.org .

April 17, 2011, will also mark the 10th anniversary of the swearing in of Mayor Francis G. Slay as Mayor of the City of St. Louis.  Happy 10th Anniversary, Mayor Slay!

Since 1952, each April office workers are honored.  The theme for this year's Administrative Professionals Day is "celebrate all office professionals."  Downsizing has forced all of us to pull together and work harder and smarter in the workplace so the hard work and sacrifice from everyone is being recognized this year on April 27.

Look for Newsgram tweets about other events coming up in the days and weeks ahead.

The deadline for May Newsgram is Wednesday, April 20.  I encourage all City departments to continue to find news items to publish monthly in Newsgram.  Ideally, every department will designate one person to submit for publication staff news, photos, information on events and any information you would like to share with your fellow City employees.  Tell everyone what's going on!

Newsgram is created by City employees for City employees.  Send in your news.  The website team will be conducting training for new contributors, once per month.  Training sessions will be from 2 - 5 p.m. at the Carnahan Computer Lab, 1114 Market Street, Room 935.  Sessions are on a first-come, first served basis.  Email Benjamin Durnell for a schedule of available dates.

Also, Newsgram is tweeting!  Let Newsgram know if you are tweeting.  Please feel free throughout the month to send in tweets of 140 characters or less for posting on the Newsgram Twitter account.  Email them to newsgram@stlouiscity.com .  Be sure to check out the new "Snippets" item which highlights select tweets from the month.

Cathy Smentkowski

Newsgram Editor

Department of Public Safety

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