I recently dined at a small town Missouri pizza chain called Pogolino’s Pizza Place.
The restaurant is located in a two-story house on a side street near downtown Desoto, Missouri. Inside, the restaurant’s walls were lined with booths not unlike those at fast food hamburger joints; hard plastic shells with generic tabletops. The tables were decorated [...]
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Saturday, December 4th was the 12th Annual YMCA Christmas House Tour in Festus, Missouri. The tour featured eight homes in Festus, Crystal City and Pevely. I had the pleasure of visiting four of those eight homes. This small town girl grew up in a Ford family. From my Dad’s Ford F350 work to my brother’s first sports car (a Ford Probe) to the Ford Aerostar that I learned to drive in, my family has always driven Fords. Yesterday was a 5K in Festus, Missouri called the “Partners in Wellness 5K Fun Run/Walk”. Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Twin City Days and the Jefferson County Family YMCA (a branch of the YMCA of Greater St. Louis) worked together to sponsor this run. A family friend gave up his private pilot’s license and his personal airplane a few years ago in exchange for a Yamaha motorcycle. When he still flew, it wasn’t uncommon for him to fly families to other cities during emergencies or to help hospitals deliver organs to patients for transplant. As I drove into the small, hilly town of Desoto Missouri for their Saturday farmers market in June, I noticed an immaculately-renovated historic Texaco filling station. The pump at the station indicates that gas is just $0.42 per gallon. Later that day in 2010, in another small Missouri town, gas was $2.49 per gallon. I was never very [...] A week ago I attended the Desoto, Missouri Farmers Market. Desoto is a small town located thirty miles or so south of St. Louis, and its farmers market was a really strong one. This morning I ran a 5K race in Festus, Missouri sponsored by an organization called Get Fit Festus. Festus is a town of just under 10,000 people. It’s located roughly an hour south of St. Louis in Jefferson County on Interstate 55. |
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