🌱 State Investigates Transgender Clinic + Your New Super Bowl Snack

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But first, today's weather:

Mostly sunny. High: 47 Low: 25.

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Here are the top three stories in St. Louis today:

1. "Recipes with Rachel" shares her go-to Super Bowl snacks. The Show Me St. Louis team concluded their Super Bowl snack coverage Friday morning when Rachel Tritsch joined Mary Caltrider in the studio to share her mini cheesecake recipe. See the full recipe here and tackle your game-day eats! (KSDK.com)
2. Missouri officials are investigating a St. Louis transgender youth clinic. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and attorney general Andrew Bailey are investigating whistleblower complaints against a transgender health center for children. A former case manager, Jamie Reed, stated, “I took the job because I support trans rights and firmly believed I would be able to provide good care for children at the Center. ... Instead, I witnessed the Center cause permanent harm to many of the patients.” (KOMU 8)
3. The St. Louis “ballroom” scene is an underground world of glitz and glam. The competitions, known as Balls, celebrate queer identity and expression. Participants compete in categories such as "Vogue," a highly stylized, acrobatic dance style, and "Runway," where competitors strut like supermodels. The scene can be elusive, however, with no website and mostly word-of-mouth to spread the word. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Today in St. Louis:

• Students On The Go! Running Club At Collegiate School Of Medicine & Bioscience (8:30 AM)
• Play Dates At Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (10:00 AM)

From my notebook:

• Need a part-time job or want to start a meaningful career? St. Louis County Parks is hiring!
  A wide variety of positions are available, both full-time and part-time. (St. Louis County Parks via Facebook)
• Here’s some Super Bowl weekend trivia for you: St. Louis ranks 13th in the nation for top NFL athlete hometowns, with 155 NFL players and 27 Super Bowl players hailing from our city since the 1966-67 season. Check out more Super Bowl stats from across the country in this new BeenVerified study. (BeenVerified)
• This weekend’s St. Louis Symphony Orchestra concert will open with Felix Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave). Sir James MacMillan conducts this work as well as his own "The World’s Ransoming," featuring SLSO English horn Cally Banham and music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tickets start at $15! (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra via Facebook)
• Are you single, coupled, or maybe it's complicated? Join Pride STL for food and fun at their Valentine's Dinner & Drag Show this Tuesday, Feb. 14th! Each ticket includes a chance to win one free night and dinner at the beautiful Lemp Mansion! (Pride St. Louis via Facebook)

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