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Columbus Autism Network gets creative with holiday celebrations Each December, the Columbus Autism Network holds a holiday party at the kidscommons for families within their support group. While COVID-19 canceled this year’s plans, network leaders Heather Baker and Nancy Hiquet, as well as volunteers, made sure festivities still took place. At the beginning of the month, letters from Santa and his elves began arriving at the homes of network families. In addition, Baker organized a holiday scavenger hunt that helped families get out and about safely by taking photos around town. Baker also ...

The Olde Towne Fenton (OTF) Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the Revolution, or NSDAR, awarded its Community Service Award this year to Josh McGuire, president of operations at McGuire Moving & Storage at 8645 S. Broadway in St. Louis for his role in advancing Wreaths Across America, and specifically for getting the wreaths across America. Wreaths Across America is a nonprofit that raises money and uses volunteers to lay wreaths on as many graves of veterans as possible around the holidays. More than 14,000 wreaths will be laid this weekend at Jefferson Barracks National Ce...

  Each December, the global scientific community looks north to the Arctic to see if the predictions for climate change are tracking reality. Each year, it's the same story. The warming trend in the Arctic is exceeding expectations, gathering speed like a runaway train barreling down the tracks toward a destination we really don't understand. What they said, definitively, is that the children born in the Arctic today will be living in an entirely different climate by the time they are 30. In their lifetime, everything will change. Sea ice, which is already dwindling, will likely be nonexis...

Sweden's winter wonderland returns with opening of 31st Icehotel Sweden's winter wonderland ret... Dreaming in a Dream, by Kestutis Musteikis and Vytautas Musteikis, is one of the arty spaces created for the 2020 Icehotel, and conjures up an icy fantasy land populated with weird and wonderful creatures Asaf Kliger 1/11 Toybox was designed by Wouter Biegelaar and Viktor Tsarsk. It contains ice sculptures of toys and stuffed animals Asaf Kliger 2/11 Hang Loose was designed by Edith Van De Wetering and Wilfred Stijge and is conceived as an icy art gallery ...

Comments Off on …and it didn’t go quite as expected Each December we gather together everything we’ve done through the year, and bundle it all up in our annual report. And at the end of every annual report we add a small section forecasting what we’ll be up to in the year ahead — it’s always pretty gratifying to be able to look back at the previous year’s report and think, ‘Yup, that happened’. Not this year, though. Skilled clairvoyants might have been able to foresee some of the parliamentary happenings, or that political events would result in an explosion o...