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The 2013 St. Louis Family Attractions Card is now available!
The card is free, and it can can save you monty on entrance fees, meals and lodging in St. Louis. Some of the deals don’t expire until Jan. 31, 2014.
You can print out coupons from the St. Louis Family Attractions Card website (you will have to give your email address) or go to any Dierbergs, Shop ‘n Save or Schnucks and pick up the brochure at the customer service counter.
Here’s a sample of the savings you can get by using the card:
- St. Louis Science Center: Buy one adult OMNIMAX® ticket and receive one child’s OMNIMAX® ticket free. Fine print: Not valid for groups. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Limit four. Expires Jan. 31, 2014.
- Missouri History Museum: $2 off per person on special exhibition admissions. Fine print: Limit two per coupon. Cannot be combined with any other offers, coupons or discounts. Expires Dec. 31, 2013.
There’s still time to save with the 2012 St. Louis Family Attractions Card.
The card is free, and it can can save you up to $1,000 on entrance fees, meals and lodging in St. Louis. Some of the deals don’t expire until Jan. 31, 2013.
You can print out coupons from the St. Louis Family Attractions Card website (you will have to give your email address) or go to any Dierbergs, Shop ‘n Save or Schnucks and pick up the Family Attractions Card brochure at the customer service counter.
Here’s a sample of the savings you can get by using the card:
- St. Louis Science Center: Buy one adult OMNIMAX® ticket and receive one child’s OMNIMAX® ticket free. Fine print: Not valid for groups. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Limit four. Expires Jan. 31, 2013.
- Missouri History Museum: $2 off per person on special exhibition admissions. Fine print: Limit two per coupon. Cannot be combined with any other offers, coupons or discounts. Expires Dec. 31, 2012.
 St. Louis City/County residents enjoy free admission to the Missouri Botanical Garden on Wednesday and Saturday mornings before noon except for special admission rate events.
With 79 acres of horticultural displays, indoor conservatories and demonstration, formal and international gardens, a visitor can easily spend an entire day at the garden.
The garden is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily: on Wednesday and Saturday the grounds are open early morning hours from 7 to 9 a.m.
On Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve the garden closes at 4 p.m. It is closed on Christmas Day.
Regular admission is $8 for those age 13 and over and free for children 12 and under. $8 adults (ages 13 & over)
St. Louis City/County residents get in for $4 for ages 13-64 and $3 for 65 and over except for Wednesday and Saturday mornings when admission is free for them.
The Missouri Botanical Garden is located at 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis.
2012 is winding down and will soon join the history books but there’s still time to save with the St. Louis Family Attractions Card.
Whether you’re visiting St. Louis or you live here you can save a bundle with the card which is one of St. Louis’ best kept secrets.
Get the card and you can save up to $1,000 on entrance fees, meals and lodging in St. Louis.
You can print out coupons from the St. Louis Family Attractions Card website (you will have to give your email address) or go to any Dierbergs, Shop ‘n Save or Schnucks and pick up the Family Attractions Card brochure at the customer service counter.
Here’s a sample of the savings you can get by using the card:
- St. Louis Science Center: Buy one adult OMNIMAX® ticket and receive one child’s OMNIMAX® ticket free. Fine print: Not valid for groups. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Limit four. Expires Jan. 31, 2013.
- Missouri History Museum: $2 off per person on special exhibition admissions. Fine print: Limit two per coupon. Cannot be combined with any other offers, coupons or discounts. Expires Dec. 31, 2012.
- St. Louis Cardinals: Receive 50 percent off select seats to any Wednesday home game during the 2011 regular season. To redeem, visit cardinals.com/family. Fine print: Offer not valid for Party Suite tickets. Offer based on availability. Additional blackout dates may apply. Expires Oct. 3, 2012.
- Grant’s Farm: Save 15 percent on a total merchandise purchase. Fine print: Offer good one time only and may not be used with any other discount. Valid for 2012 operating season.
The year is marching along and will soon be over but there’s still time to save with the St. Louis Family Attractions Card.
Whether you’re visiting St. Louis or you live here you can save a bundle with the card which is one of St. Louis’ best kept secrets.
Get the card and you can save up to $1,000 on entrance fees, meals and lodging in St. Louis.
You can print out coupons from the St. Louis Family Attractions Card website (you will have to give your email address) or go to any Dierbergs, Shop ‘n Save or Schnucks and pick up the Family Attractions Card brochure at the customer service counter.
Here’s a sample of the savings you can get by using the card:
- St. Louis Science Center: Buy one adult OMNIMAX® ticket and receive one child’s OMNIMAX® ticket free. Fine print: Not valid for groups. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Limit four. Expires Jan. 31, 2013.
- Missouri History Museum: $2 off per person on special exhibition admissions. Fine print: Limit two per coupon. Cannot be combined with any other offers, coupons or discounts. Expires Dec. 31, 2012.
- St. Louis Cardinals: Receive 50 percent off select seats to any Wednesday home game during the 2011 regular season. To redeem, visit cardinals.com/family. Fine print: Offer not valid for Party Suite tickets. Offer based on availability. Additional blackout dates may apply. Expires Oct. 3, 2012.
- Grant’s Farm: Save 15 percent on a total merchandise purchase. Fine print: Offer good one time only and may not be used with any other discount. Valid for 2012 operating season.
Summer’s over but you can still save dough with the St. Louis Family Attractions Card.
Whether you’re visiting St. Louis or you live here you can save a bundle with the St. Louis Family Attractions Card, one of St. Louis’ best kept secrets. The card is free and can save you up to $1,000 on entrance fees, meals and lodging in St. Louis.
You can print out coupons from the St. Louis Family Attractions Card website (you will have to give your email address) or go to any Dierbergs, Shop ‘n Save or Schnucks and pick up the Family Attractions Card brochure at the customer service counter.
Here’s just a sample of the savings you’ll find at the following attractions:
- St. Louis Science Center: Buy one adult OMNIMAX® ticket and receive one child’s OMNIMAX® ticket free. Fine print: Not valid for groups. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Limit four. Expires Jan. 31, 2013.
- Missouri History Museum: $2 off per person on special exhibition admissions. Fine print: Limit two per coupon. Cannot be combined with any other offers, coupons or discounts. Expires Dec. 31, 2012.
- Grant’s Farm: Save 15 percent on a total merchandise purchase. Fine print: Offer good one time only and may not be used with any other discount. Valid for 2012 operating season.
Once again Barnes-Jewish Hospital is offering free flu shots at a variety of locations (while supplies last) beginning on Sunday.
Adult and pediatric (for those six months and older) will be given from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital in Medical Office Building 2, 10 Barnes West Drive in Creve Coeur. Free parking is available on site.
Free flu shots will also be given from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, Oct. 1-5 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in the Main Floor Lobby at One Barnes-Jewish Hospital Plaza in St. Louis. These shots are adult vaccinations for those 18 years and older. Parking is available in the south garage for $1.50 per hour.
Free adult and pediatric (six months and up) flu shots will also be administered from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1 through Friday, Oct. 5 at Center for Advanced Medicine in the Third Floor Lobby, 4921 Parkview Place, St. Louis. Parking is available in the North Garage for $1.50 an hour.
Also from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1-Friday, Oct. 5 adult and pediatric vaccinations for those six months old and up will be given at the Green Homes & Great Health Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd. Admission to the Health Festival and to get vaccinations is included in the admission to the Garden.
Get more information about this event.
No registration is required to get the free shots. All doses will be administered on a first come, first served basis while supplies last. For more information, call 314-TOP-DOCS or toll-free 866-867-3627. Additional dates and locations will be added in the coming weeks. Check here for additional information and an up-to-date list of free flu shot clinics offered by Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s Hospitals.
If you have any questions or are interested in being a flu vaccination site in 2012, email communitybenefit@bjc.org.
 It’s time for one of our favorite events–Prairie Day at Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit.
The bi-annual event happens from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15. It’s a day of activities and demonstrations that portray prairie heritage. The backdrop is the reserves’ 250-acre re-created tall grass prairie.
Visitors can hike with a naturalist through the prairie to learn about prairie life, check out a teepee, play pioneer games, listen to a live band and watch weavers, spinners and other craft demonstrations.
Admission is $6 for those 16 and older; $3 for Missouri Botanical Garden members and Shaw Nature Reserve passholders and $2 for children 15 and under.
There are exhibits on mammals, reptiles and amphibians and insects. Living history characters will re-enact the lives of early prairie inhabitants. An archaeologist and a flint-knapper will display and interpret artifacts of prairie life. Native plant nurseries will sell wildflowers and seeds.
Concessions inlcude bison burgers, homemade baked goods, root beer and kettle corn.
Missouri Department of Conservation and Shaw Nature Reserve are sponsoring the event.
Shaw Nature Reserve of the Missouri Botanical Garden, in Gray Summit, Mo., located south of Interstate 44 at exit #253; watch for signs to the designated parking area
It’s that time of the year. Flu shots are beginning to show up in drugstores and grocery stores around the area.
They’ll be will be happy to sell you one for $27 plus but why pay that much when you can get one for free?
Once again Barnes-Jewish Hospital is offering free flu shots at a variety of locations (while supplies last) beginning next Sunday.
On Sunday, Sept. 30 adult and pediatric (for those six months and older) will be given from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital in Medical Office Building 2, 10 Barnes West Drive in Creve Coeur. Free parking is available on site.
Free flu shots will also be given from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, Oct. 1-5 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in the Main Floor Lobby at One Barnes-Jewish Hospital Plaza in St. Louis. These shots are adult vaccinations for those 18 years and older. Parking is available in the south garage for $1.50 per hour.
Free adult and pediatric (six months and up) flu shots will also be administered from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1 through Friday, Oct. 5 at Center for Advanced Medicine in the Third Floor Lobby, 4921 Parkview Place, St. Louis. Parking is available in the North Garage for $1.50 an hour.
Also from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1-Friday, Oct. 5 adult and pediatric vaccinations for those six months old and up will be given at the Green Homes & Great Health Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd. Admission to the Health Festival and to get vaccinations is included in the admission to the Garden.
Get more information about this event.
No registration is required to get the free shots. All doses will be administered on a first come, first served basis while supplies last. For more information, call 314-TOP-DOCS or toll-free 866-867-3627. Additional dates and locations will be added in the coming weeks. Check here for additional information and an up-to-date list of free flu shot clinics offered by Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s Hospitals.
If you have any questions or are interested in being a flu vaccination site in 2012, email communitybenefit@bjc.org.
 We’re down to one day left in the three-day weekend but that leaves a whole day to catch some fun and there’s plenty of it Monday.
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