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…having a long-lasting positive impact on the health and safety of the De Soto community by encouraging healthy lifestyle choices, through programs promoting physical activity, healthy nutrition, community involvement, and disease and injury prevention.

Trending this Thanksgiving…#TurkeyTrots

Many Americans have decided that Thanksgiving is more than just about being thankful and eating lots of turkey. It has become a day to get moving. As we previously outlined in another posting here, there are plenty of local footraces coming your way this fall. Several of them are happening next Thursday. Whether you do it to justify eating an extra slice of pie or to spend time with family, it is a growing trend.

One local race that we discovered after the previous posting is happening in Festus at the Y. It is open to non-members as well as members, and the registration fee is just $15-20. Click on the graphic below to go to the website, or get the registration form here.

 

TONIGHT’S WORKSHOP CANCELLED Whole Grain Bread Making Workshop

The Bread Class scheduled for tonight has been CANCELLED.

 

Karen Moore, a market vendor, is offering her Whole Grain Bread Making workshop on December 2, 2014. The workshop begins at 6 PM and will go through 8 or 8:30 PM. The workshop will be held at St. Andrew’s UMC and costs $7 per person. Registration is required, so please contact Debby (636-586-4570) or the church office (636-586-2472) to register.

Can’t attend, but still want to help with the cause…

Please share the flyer with anyone that you think might be interested.

2014 Home Tour Preview

The diversity and individual style of each property is a refreshing culinary treat for the eyes. For more information about attending the event, please click here.

Here is your preview

  1. Hope United Church of Christ, built in the late 1800’s, features a stone façade and charming architecture which helps create a serene setting for worship. The warm charm of Hope’s exterior is reflected in its lovely interior and friendly congregation.
  2. The Hinch Home is loft apartment featuring 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, sitting room, kitchen, dining area and living room. The home is very theme oriented. Highlighted rooms include, travel motifs, patriotic, “Grandma’s Room”, Harley sitting room, cowboy nursery and beach vacation master bedroom and bath.
  3. The Chirco Loft Home is a contemporary home in a renovated 100+ year-old building. The original refinished pine floors and exposed brick accent the large open kitchen which has become the family gathering place. In addition, the skylights letting in a lot of natural light just add more charm.
  4. The Whittler Family says that the heart of their home is the dining room. They love their small cozy home which features a half tree hanging on the wall and a beautiful ornament wreath which they got on their honeymoon.
  5. The unique Pierce Home is decorated with the Wizard of Oz theme. “There’s no place like home”!
  6. The McCane Home, the newest home on the tour, features cherry hardwood floor and ceramic tile on the upper level. The home is decorated in trendy shades of black and gray. Lower level highlights include a wood burning fireplace, custom bar and cherry maple kitchen cabinets.
  7. The Home of the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is modeled after the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. A highlight of this beautiful 5 bedroom property is the chapel with 3 stained glass windows designed by Emil Frei.  All rooms are being decorated by various businesses and friends from our community.
  8. The beautiful setting for the LaChance Winery, located on approximately 37 acres, is a must see for this tour. The charming tasting room, which was designed to resemble the “south of France”, overlooks the gorgeous vineyards.

We look forward to you joining us!

Hope United Church of Christ
LaChance Winery grapes

Christmas Home Tour

The Christmas Home Tour is just around the corner. (Literally, depending on where you live in DeSoto!) As in years past, the tour will be the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and this year is sure not to disappoint with 8 homes making feverish preparations. There’s no better time to get you in the holiday spirit. Tickets are $15 if you purchase them in advance, and there are several shops around town where you can purchase them. You can also pick up 2 for $25 for those of you taking your mother, aunt, sister, girlfriend, etc. The tour is an at-your-own-pace sort of affair, but you need to plan for a couple of things.

  • The official time is 9 am until 3 pm. Hosts need to have some sanity that day, so please plan on being finished with your tour by 3 pm.
  • Lunch! 9-3 is a long stretch, and you’ll want to check your tour guide for coupons and specials from area restaurants. You might also put a bottle of water or two in your vehicle because there should definitely be much discussion between homes about what you just witnessed, and all that talking can make you parched.
Now, about those tickets! Tickets can be purchased at:
  • Cherished Memories
  • Public Library
  • Drummond’s
  • 1st State Community Bank
  • Fountain City Grille
  • Lorenzo’s
  • Pogolinos De Soto
In case you’re still not convinced, you can call Debby at 586-4570 or Patrice at 586-0147 for more information. And since everyone wants to know, we’ll do a quick home preview. You’ll have to wait until next week for that though!

Poster

Movie Viewing

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Franciscan Sisters invite you to a very special movie showing in De Soto, Missouri this Monday evening at 6:30 PM. We will feature the highly acclaimed film Food, Inc.

You can watch a trailer for this film here.

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli-the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults. Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising-and often shocking truths-about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

This free film will be shown upstairs at the De Soto Community Center this Monday evening, November 10th at 6:30 PM.  The Sisters will be serving complimentary organic hot apple cider along with Missouri-grown organic popcorn.  There is no need to RSVP for this film showing.

The De Soto Community Center is at 400 Boyd Street.

Let us work to ensure abundance and health for many, many Thanksgivings to come.

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