As part of their 2016 Pocket Park Project, the Dutchtown South Community Corporation wants you to help create a stop-motion animated film about Minnie Wood Memorial Square and Laclede Park to be screened this fall.

Four pop-up events will be held over the next month. Neighbors are invited to create puppets of themselves performing their favorite park activities, or to build props of new features they would like to see added to the park.

The art stations will pop up at the following locations:

• Friday, August 19th, 6–8pm, Minnie Wood Park
• Monday, August 22nd, 5–7pm, Chippewa/Broadway fountain
• Saturday, September 3rd, 12–2pm, Marquette Park (parking lot across from the rec center)
• Saturday, September 17th, 5–7pm, Universal Foods parking lot (4330 South Broadway)

These events are free to attend. For more information visit the Facebook event page or email amanda.dscc@gmail.com.

Join the Downtown Dutchtown Business Association on Wednesday, August 17th for their monthly After Hours at Urban Eats as they celebrate eight years at the corner of Meramec and Virginia. Come by for live music, food, and drinks!

This is also the first Community Improvement District signing party. Notaries will be on hand to certify signatures for those within the CID wishing to sign the petition.

After Hours starts at 5:30pm on Wednesday, August 17th at Urban Eats, 3301 Meramec at Virginia.

Join Alderman Cara Spencer and CBB Traffic Engineers on Wednesday, August 17th to discuss the preliminary findings of the recent 20th ward traffic study.

Neighbors are invited to provide input on future changes such as one-way street designations and traffic calming measures to make the neighborhood safer and easier to travel for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians alike.

The meeting is on August 17th, 6:30pm  at Thomas Dunn Learning Center. We hope you can attend!

Head down to Iron Barley (5510 Virginia) on August 14th from 12:00 to 6:00 for their 12th Annual Tomato Fest!

Tomato Fest is a community event that features tomato art, unusual tomatoes, food and drink. There will be live music, craft vendors, games and more. All proceeds benefit Lift for Life Gym.

Metro has just launched a new Adopt-a-Stop program. Adopt-A-Stop is a bus stop sponsorship program where businesses, organizations, and individuals are invited to adopt a neighborhood MetroBus stop and help keep the area around it free from litter.

Many residents and businesses already try to keep nearby bus stops clean. Now Metro is offering additional encouragement. Sponsors will be provided with trash bags and other materials needed to keep up their area as well as having their name displayed on a sign.

It is free to sponsor a bus stop. For more information on adopting a stop please visit Metro’s website or call 314-982-1466.