Chapter Events:
- Tim
North, Chair of the Community Service Committee, is collecting food,
school supplies, and personal hygiene items to be distributed to local
shelters and food pantries. Bring
your items to monthly meetings.
Professional News:
A Big Thank You:
- The
St. Louis Gateway Chapter extends a big
“Thank You” to Bill Becker and the St. Louis Frontenac Hilton for the
TERRIFIC lunch they provided at no charge to the chapter at our
September meeting. The program on
stress management was interesting and relevant, and the Asian-inspired
lunch with its chocolate cheesecake will be talked about for a long,
long time!
Good News:
St. Louis
News You Can Use:
- An entrance fee increase is planned
for Jefferson National Expansion
Memorial (JNEM), effective January 1, 2008. The new fee will be $5.00 per person
for those over the age of 16. The
previous fee was $3.00 per person.
The increase will allow
JNEM to comply with Federal recommendations to simplify and standardize
entrance fees for parks of similar types, to group parks into categories, and
to set fees based on those categories.
JNEM is in the lowest price category nationally for entrance fees, and
the entrance fee at JNEM has not increased since 1998.
The Federal Lands
Recreation Enhancement Act signed by President Bush in December 2004 allows
parks collecting fees to keep at least 80% of fee revenues. These revenues are retained by the park for
specific projects such as repairing, maintaining and enhancing facilities
used by visitors (restrooms, visitor centers); developing, installing, and
repairing interpretive exhibits; and providing visitor services and
signs. Monies from fees collected at
JNEM are being used for the following projects:
1.
Update
fire, smoke and intrusion alarm systems in the Historic Old Courthouse.
2. Replace the roof at the Historic Old
Courthouse.
3. Print park brochures for free distribution
to all visitors.
4. Replace concrete sidewalks on the Arch
grounds.
5. Replace disabled access at the Historic Old
Courthouse.
6. Restore historic stone floor in one of the
Historic Old Courthouse exhibit galleries.
7. Upgrade public restrooms at the Historic
Old Courthouse.
Comments on the
entrance fee increase may be made at http://www.nps.gov/jeff
or sent to the Superintendent, Jefferson
National Expansion Memorial, 11
North 4th Street, St. Louis,
Missouri 63102.
- Take an audio
tour of historic St. Louis
by downloading the Gateway Arch
PastCast tour to your iPod or MP3
player. Established in 1764, and
growing into a vital and booming outpost on the western edge of a new
country, St. Louis was America’s
Gateway to the West during the 19th Century.
Many of the era’s most exciting events took place in the
vicinity of where the Gateway Arch stands today. Go to the PastCast page on Jefferson National Expansion Memorial’s website
at: http://www.nps.gov/jeff/photosmultimedia/pastcast.htm
Downloads become available on June 26 and
continue indefinitely thereafter. The
first download will be followed by weekly additions about successively later
time periods, until the final download is available on July 31. Once available
for download, all tours will be available at any time throughout the summer.
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