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Dear City Employee - Feb. 2011

Black History Month, City's Birthday, Mardi Gras

February 1, 2011 | 2 min reading time

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

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Since 1976, the month of February has been celebrated as Black History Month in the United States of America. A number of commemorations and special observances will take place throughout the City of St. Louis. Look for Newsgram tweets about them in the coming days and weeks.

Feb. 14 will mark the 247th anniversary of the founding of the City of St. Louis. Traditionally, in honor of the occasion, the French Society of St. Louis places a wreath at the statue of Pierre Laclede located in Washington Park just off Market Street  (between City Hall and the old Municipal Courts Building). This year's brief ceremony will begin at 11 a.m.

A number of exciting Mardi Gras events will take place in St. Louis during the month of February, such as the Family Winter Carnival on Feb. 12, Taste of Soulard on Feb. 26 & 27 and the Barkus Pet Parade on Feb. 27.  Mardi Gras Season will end with the Fat Tuesday Parade on March 8.  For more information about all the St. Louis Mardi Gras events, visit http://www.stlmardigras.org/.

The deadline for March Newsgram is Wednesday, Feb. 16. 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 website contributors, once per month. Upcoming dates are: 2/16, 3/23 and 4/20. Training sessions will be from 2 - 5 p.m. at the Carnahan Computer Lab, 1114 Market Street, Room 935. Note: There are only 10 computers in the lab so the sessions are on a first-come, first-serve basis. E-mail Benjamin Durnell to sign up.

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. E-mail 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

(314) 589-8132  

 

 

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