Daily Dose: St. Louis Bread Company Hands Out Free Coffee

Plan to swing by a on Wednesday. The company is launching a new program "Warm up Wednesdays" and will give away free coffee to everyone who visits a restaurant Feb. 1. 

The company will also give away free soup to area businesses, community groups, construction site workers and volunteers throughout February. 

Community members are asked to nominate someone who deserves free soup via Twitter and Facebook (tweet @panerabread.com using #warmupwednesday or write on Bread Co.’s Facebook wall). Bread Co. will then use the recommendations and warm up selected businesses each Wednesday of the month.

Also, on the final Wednesday (Feb. 29), Bread Co. is asking customers to warm up the entire city of St. Louis. Customers are asked to bring in three non-perishable food items that day for a free bowl of soup. The donated food items will go to Operation Food Search.

Warm Weather Continues

After the warm weather on Monday, we weren't expecting another beautiful day for awhile. But according to weather.gov, the high should reach 64 today. How will you spend the afternoon? We'd like to take a walk through ! 

If you take any photos of this unseasonably warm day, send them to kalen.ponche@patch.com or post them on our Facebook page. Speaking of which, have you liked our Facebook page yet? You should! We have 581 fans as of Monday night and we'd love to reach 600 by the end of the week. Help us get there by recommending us to your friends. 

Now onto news from the neighborhood:

• St. Charles Suburban Journals has a story about a lawsuit filed by St. Charles County against members of a commission that reviews disciplinary actions against St. Charles County employees. The commissison overturned a decision to fire two correction officers. 

• See several photos of the Fete de Glace held in St. Charles this past weekend in the St. Charles Suburban Jourals. 

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a story that looks at the impact that a lower eturn on investments has had for school districts. In the Francis Howell School District the interest revenue has declined from $2.2 million in fiscal year 2008 to $157,855 in fiscal year 2011, according to the article. 

• Lee Enterprises, the company that owns both the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and St. Charles Suburban Journals, exited bankruptcy but will have to pay higher interest rates on its $1 billion in long-term debt. Read more on Bloomberg.com. 

• St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann was among the attendees at a the Regional Chamber and Growth Association annual meeting at the Chase Park Plaza, according to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

• According to CBSLocal St. Louis, Dierbergs has pulled all hardcooked egg products sold in food bars. Read more about the voluntary recall by Hawkeye Foodservice here. 

• Rick Santorum stopped by St. Charles Community College on Monday afternoon. . . and whether he has a chance to win the nomination. 

• Mark your calendars for these upcoming events this weekend: will be at the Convention Center on Friday and Saturday, and will be at Lindenwood University Thursday through Saturday. 

Sunset Hills-Crestwood Patch Editor  contributed to this piece.