April 25: Parents Head to Middle School, and What's Crestwood Doing to Market Itself?

1) Sunset Hills Historical Society meets 7pm at the Community Center with a speaker from Great Rivers Greenway, working to put walking trails along the Meramec River. Our sales tax dollars go to this effort, so find out more.

2) Crestwood's Economic Development Commission meets tonight, 7pm, at City Hall to discuss a new sponsorship policy, and for a presentation: Commercial Vacancy Presentation & Discussion on Marketing Efforts. Mayor-elect Jeff Schlink is on this commission. This is the meeting canceled last week due to storm threats.

3) Orientation for Middle School: Parents of fifth graders meet 7pm in cafeterias of Sperreng and Truman schools for tours, meet principals and other key introductions for the coming year.

4) Sappington and Kennerly Elementary schools are having book fair sales all week, beginning at 9:30am and Truman Elementary proposes a TV-Free week, all week.

5) In 1859 work first begins on the Suez Canal, 1901 New York becomes the first state requiring license plates on cars, in 1939 Batman is published for the first time as  a Superhero series in DC Comics, in 1944 the United Negro College Fund is founded, in 1953 Francis Crick and James Watson reveal the structure of DNA in a published paper, in 1959 the St. Lawrence Seaway opens for shipping from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.