Places to Go,
Things to Do
April
events: Fitness Weekend,
Earth Day and more
Right
off the bat in April, there is the Spirit of St. Louis Marathon's
Family Fitness Weekend. This includes two big adult marathon
events, but there's plenty of fun for kids also.
The fitness weekend
will be Friday, April 2, through Sunday, April 4.
Also in April,
there will be St. Louis Earth Day and lots of activities in
state, county and local parks. The Trailnet's Bicycle Fun
Club has announced its 2004 spring and summer bike rides.
This year, Trailnet has designated several rides as of interest
to kids.
And, it isn't
too early to plan for events in early May. The 25th annual
Storytelling Festival, which will be held May 4-8.
In each edition,
Young Saint Louis.com gives advance notice of Places
to Go, Things to Do around the St. Louis area. We give
special attention to events with interest to kids.
The events:
Spirit
of St. Louis Family Fitness Weekend
St. Louis is playing
host to the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials to pick our country's
women's marathon competitors. That event will be Saturday,
April 3.
That's the same
day the Read, Right, Run marathon program is completed. The
kids get to mingle with the women who will make up the U.S.
women's marathon team.
The local Spirit
of St. Louis Marathon will be run on Sunday, April 4.
That's the same
day that there will be lots of different runs. There are four
kids' runs of varying distances from the Diaper Dash for 2-year-olds
to the half-mile run for kids 7 to 10. That day, there also
will be a half-marathon, a marathon relay and a 5K Run/Walk
For complete details,
visit the marathon group's website at www.stlouismarathon.com.
YSL.com
had earlier stories about the Read, Right, Run program. For
the one in the March, 2004, edition, click
here. For the one in the November, 2003, edition,
click here.
St.
Louis Earth Day April 25
For a rundown
of this event, see the separate special report in this edition
of YSL.com.
Also, for complete
schedules, visit www.stlouisearthday.org.
This event includes lots of individual activities besides
the final St. Louis Earth Day Sunday in Forest Park.
Trailnet's
Spring, Summer, Fall Schedule
Trailnet is an
organization that helps to create biking paths in the St.
Louis metro area. Then, it also organizes rides to use those
paths and others on both sides of the river.
This year, Trailnet
has a whole Kids Ride Series on Sundays with themes of special
interest to kids.
The Kids Ride
Series kicks off with a Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Bicycle
Ride Sunday, May 16, from Hartford, Ill. A second Kids Ride
in May will be the Strawberry Bicycle Ride and Festival on
Sunday, May 23, at St. Jacob, Ill.
The overall Trailnet
ride schedule is underway now. For a complete schedule of
both Kids and Family rides, visit www.trailnet.org/events.html.
Conservation
area programs for April
There's a big
Wetlands for Kids event on Saturday, April 3, from 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. That will be at the August A. Busch Memorial Conservation
area in St. Charles County.
Kids get to see
and touch wetland critters and crawl through a Duckwing Maze.
There are also live birds of prey and you can create wetland
art.
Archery and air
rifle practice will be at the shooting range. And you can
watch dog retrievers at work. The event is free.
There are other
special programs in April at other Missouri Department of
Conservation areas in metro St. Louis.
Two of the areas
are associated with hunting. There's Busch Shooting Range
and Training Center in St. Charles County. The Jay Henges
Shooting Range and Training Center is located off I-44 in
High Ridge, Mo.
In April, both
will have basic rifle orientation sessions. The Busch orientation
will be Wednesday, April 14. The Henges center has sessions
on Thursday, April 15, and Saturday, April 17.
Also, the Busch
center will provide an introduction to archery. That event
is set for Saturday, April 24.
For reservations,
call (636) 441-4554. You can check schedule of center
events by visiting www.mdc.mo.gov/areas/ranges/busch
or www.mdc.mo.gov/areas/ranges/henges.
Each of the MDC
areas has a website location where you can check events. They
are:
Also
Storytelling in early May
The 25th annual
St. Louis Storytelling Festival will be held May 5-8.
One special event
during the festival will be storytelling by kids. The Ruthilde
Kronberg Youth Storytelling Concert will be Saturday, May
8, at 10 a.m. It will be in the Cowboy section of the museum
in the base of the Gateway Arch.
For a complete
schedule, visit www.umsl.edu/~conted/storyfes
