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 From noon until 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 20, you can sample some of the foods sold at Sappington Farmers’ Market‘s “Sampling Sunday.”
And, you can use this coupon to get $7 off a $30 purchase Sunday only.
Among the foods you will be able to sample:
- Pasture grazed chickens and eggs from Ben Roberts Farms in Syracuse, Mo.
- All-natural yogurt samples from Windcrest Dairy of Trenton, Ill.
- Organically-grown lettuces grown by Damian Sullivan and Amber Price of Leafy Greens Farm
- Grandma’s Nuts
- Dogtown Pizza
- Pappy’s Gourmet jams, jellies and relishes
- Wenneman’s Meats
You can get a free hot drink at Quik Trip with purchase of QTK donut holes in a cup through June 1.
To get the coupon, you must agree to receive an email with a link from Quik Trip.
 Chuck wagon crews from Missouri, Indiana, Oklahoma and Texas will prepare a home-cooked meal over an open fire on Saturday, May 26 in Lebanon, MO.
It’s part of the Wagons for Warriors, and it’s all for a good cause. The event benefits the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Fort Leonard Wood Wounded Warrior Fund.
The wagons will be at Kenneth E. Cowan Civic Center, 500 E Elm, Lebanon from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lunch is served at Noon.
Tickets (for a meal and choice of drink) are $10 and are available at the Lebanon Area Chamber of Commerce and other locations in Lebanon and Waynesville and at Fort Leonard Wood. There is no charge for kids five and under.
For more information contact the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce at 417-588-3256.
Great bands, good food and lots of fun. . .what better way to spend a May Saturday?
That’s what you’ll get tomorrow at the Taste of Maplewood, a street fair extraordinaire held from noon until 9 p.m. on Sutton Boulevard between Manchester and Hazel.
The next phase of the exhibit “Civil War Missouri: A House Dividing” opens tomorrow, Saturday, May 19 at the Missouri State Museum in the State Capitol. A ceremony, sponsored by Missouri State Parks, will begin at 2 p.m. in the museum’s History Hall in the Rotunda. The public is invited to attend.
According to a DNR press release:
This phase of the exhibit features new artifacts including the conserved flag from the 62nd U.S. Colored Troops. Soldiers of the 62nd and 65th Regiment Infantry United States Colored Troops collected their pay to found Lincoln Institute (now University) in Jefferson City after the Civil War. Carolyn Mahoney, Ph.D., president of Lincoln University, will provide remarks during the ceremony. Miller Boyd from the University of Mississippi will give a presentation on the 62nd U.S. Colored Troops and their effort to establish Lincoln University.
This is the third phase of the “Civil War Missouri: A House Dividing” exhibit that tells the stories of individual Missourians during the Civil War. Different artifacts are rotated into the exhibit every six months. The flag and other artifacts of this phase will remain on display until November 2012. The entire exhibit, which will be on display through June 2015, commemorates the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.
The Capitol is open to the public free of charge from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
The Missouri State Museum is part of the Missouri state park system. For more information, contact the museum office at 573-751-2854. For information on state parks and historic sites, visit mostateparks.com. Missouri State Parks is a division of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
 The Mid-County branch of the St. Louis County Library will show Woman of the Year at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012. The branch is at 7821 Maryland Avenue, Clayton.
The 1942 comedy is the first movie of the classic team of Katherine Heburn and Spencer Tracy.
The branch wants viewers to register in advance. They can do so via the Internet or by calling 314-994-3300.
 With the airlines charging for checked bags these days, pack the wrong way and it could cost you.
But every weekend this month you can get packing tips from the pros at the Contain Store–and enter a drawing to win a $15 gift card to the store. Demos are done at 2 and 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Plus, it’s a great time to replace that old suitcase–Container Store is in the middle of its Go Organized Travel Sale. Luggage, bags, travel organizers and gadgets are all on sale through June 24. Spend $100 in store in May and get $15 to spend in June. Small print: Terms and conditions apply; while supplies last.
You can even take a look at many of the sale items in the store’s online catalog.
The St. Louis store is in Brentwood Square at 1769 S. Brentwood Blvd.
 Our new sister site, Living on the Cheap, is celebrating its grand opening with some great giveaways–and there’s still time to enter to win some cool prizes, including $50 in Groupon credits and a $25 Target gift card. Deadline to enter is 11:59 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 17.
Living on the Cheap, a national website created by the editors of all the On the Cheap sites around the country, is chockful of savvy consumer advice. The editors are pooling their collective wisdom to give you the best advice on how to live well without feeling deprived.
You can still find local deals here, but you can also subscribe to our free daily newsletter at Living on the Cheap to hear about how to save money on everything from cruises to car repairs.
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 You can do your part to reduce the more than 15 billion wine corks that end up in the landfill each year.
That figure is from Whole Foods which says you can recycle your corks by dropping them off in their wine department to help save the cork forests.
The corks will be recycled into building materials.
 The Jamestown Bluffs branch of the St. Louis County Library will show the fantasy film Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1, at 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 21, 2012. The branch is at 4153 N. Highway 67, north St. Louis County.
The movie is the fourth in the Twilight saga.
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