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🌱 Patch AM: Maplewood community remembers Jeanette Stengel of Big Bend Mart
Spotted on the Maplewood calendar: Board of Education Meeting
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- Maplewood community remembers Jeanette Stengel of Big Bend Mart
Today's riddle: Why do fish live in salt water? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Thursday: Humid with a passing shower, with a high of 86 and low of 64 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Friday: Partly sunny, temps: high: 88, low: 69.
- Saturday: Partly sunny, a stray t-storm, with a high of 87 and low of 63 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Stengel, Mary Jeanette Houska (kutisfuneralhomes.com) — Maplewood readers will recognize Mary Jeanette Houska Stengel from her years helping run the family's Big Bend Mart in town, where she balanced work with raising seven children. She is remembered as a deeply faithful, curious, and independent matriarch who traveled widely, cherished her growing family, and stayed mentally sharp into her late nineties, with services set for August 27. 
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- Board of Education Meeting
Maplewood-Richmond Heights MRH Central Office-CO Board Room
7:00 pm - Blue and White Games
Maplewood-Richmond Hgts. High Maplewood Richmond Heights High School, 7500 Lohmeyer Ave, Maple
6:00 pm - Back to School Fair
Maplewood-Richmond Heights Saint Louis, MO 63143
4:00 pm - First Day of School, PreK-12
Maplewood-Richmond Heights Saint Louis, MO 63143
Thursday August 20
Friday August 21
Saturday August 22
Monday August 24
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Meet the Teacher
Hudson Elementary Saint Louis, MO 63119
7:45 am - Prof. Devpt/Teacher Workdays & Transition day →
Ritenour All District
8:00 am - Aquatic Center – Daily Hours* →
Crestwood, MO Calendar, 9245 Whitecliff Park Lane, Crestwood
11:30 am - Grades 1-5 Meet the Teacher Night
Bayless Saint Louis, MO 63123
4:30 pm - OB - Meet the Teacher (time by last name)
Old Bonhomme Elem. Saint Louis, MO 63132
4:30 pm - RE - Meet the Teacher
Reed Elem. Saint Louis, MO 63124
4:30 pm - OB - OBPTO Family Get Together @ Stacy Park
Old Bonhomme Elem. Saint Louis, MO 63132
5:00 pm - UMSL Student Legacy Pinning Ceremony (Orientation Event)
University of Missouri-St. Louis Millennium Student Center and Student Services (MSC), 3rd Floor R
5:00 pm
Thursday August 20
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