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🌱 Patch AM: What Ladue students learned from Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan’s visit

And check out Garage Sale on the Ladue Patch calendar

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Good morning Ladue! We're back in your inbox this morning to keep you in the loop with what's happening in and around town. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • What Ladue students learned from Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan's visit
  • How a Ladue seventh-grader is celebrating faith, sports and service

Also on today's calendar: Garage Sale and 3 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Some rain and a thunderstorm, with a high of 70 and low of 50 degrees.
  • Saturday: Partly sunny and delightful, temps: high: 73, low: 51.
  • Sunday: Mostly sunny and nice, with a high of 75 and low of 52 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan inspires MICDS students with story of perseverance (firstalert4.com) — Students at MICDS in Ladue heard Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan share his story of perseverance, from refugee to acclaimed actor, during a campus visit Thursday. His talk, tied to his memoir tour and hosted with The Very Asian Foundation, emphasized resilience, representation, and not fearing failure, leaving many local students feeling inspired.
   

• Bar mitzvah: Reid Mandel Swillinger (stljewishlight.org) — A Ladue Middle School seventh-grader, Reid Mandel Swillinger, will celebrate his bar mitzvah on October 10 and is active on several local sports teams, including the Ladue Jr. Rams and Ladue Middle School hockey. He also recently began volunteering with Special Blues Hockey, helping athletes with intellectual and developmental disabilities enjoy adaptive hockey and raise funds for equipment and ice time.
   

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Other local events
    Tuesday October 6
  • MS Home Volleyball Games
    Ladue Middle Saint Louis, MO 63124
    4:15 pm
  • Wednesday October 7
  • MS Cross Country Meet
    Ladue Middle Saint Louis, MO 63124
    4:15 pm
  • MS Away Volleyball Games
    Ladue Middle Saint Louis, MO 63124
    4:15 pm
  • Thursday October 8
  • HS: Chamber Orchestra Concert
    Ladue Performing Arts Center - main theater stage
    7:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

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  • Former 7UP headquarters in Clayton to be revived as apartments (fox2now.com)
  • Page's proposed St. Louis County budget includes cuts and pushes dire need for new revenue (stlpr.org)
  • Brinton Vision Addresses LASIK Credential Verification in St Louis as WCRS Directory Lists Dr. Jason P. Brinton (commercialappeal.com)

University City

  • Media Coverage: September 2026 (umsl.edu)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig?" — Because he was such a boar! (Thank you Theresa H. for sending it in!)
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