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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

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Feels like we're doing something really wrong if we need a World Water Day but here we are. Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.

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I am getting ready to move and just found this gem. Is there a place I can contribute?

I hope to bring that sensibility with me. Thanks for the kind words.

If it's not too big, I can help in the next couple weeks. I'm moving out of town in mid-April though.

yep, the dreaded and invasive callery pear. aka Bradford pear :-( The good news is that you can get a free native tree if you take that down! I believe MDC is still doing that program.

The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 21/03/2025

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The punk florists' latest exhibition immerses visitors in darkness, bathed only in the glow of X-rays and CT scans of plants and flowers.

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Avant-garde botanists AMKK illuminate the inner worlds of flowers

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Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

SLPS School Board Candidate Forum tonight! Join the 4th Ward Dems at SEIU at 6:30pm

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Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

STL City residents: all fees are waived for you! For more details about this event visit: stlcityrecycles.com/electronic-recycling-event/

Electronics Recycling Event
April 12 8am-11am
1640 S. Kingshighway 63110
MRC professionally recycles almost anythign with a power cord or battery!
NOT ACCEPTED: smoke detectors, glass lamps, light bulbs, fluorescent tubes, alkaline batteries, magnetic media, and optical discs
Document Shredding will be available!
*limit of 2 document boxes*
Fees waived for City residents. *ID required*
Saint Louis City Recycles
Common Seal of the City of St. Louis
MRC Midwest Recycling Center

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Root tea of sassafras has long been used as a folk remedy for a variety of ailments. Science has cast doubt on its efficacy and has shown that safrole, an oil in sassafras, causes cancer in laboratory animals. The FDA banned sassafras tea, roots, and oil in commercially produced foods and drugs. 4/4

Sassafras is the traditional flavoring for root beer and thickening agent (filé) for Creole gumbo. 3/4

The sassafras fruit is eaten by many species of birds, including bobwhite, woodpeckers, mockingbirds and catbirds, flycatchers, and wild turkey. The leaves and twigs are browsed by woodchucks, deer, rabbits, and bears. Rabbits may eat the bark in wintertime. 2/4

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Sassafras flowers sprouted from a twig pruned this winter! Fun facts about sassafras albidum from the MO Dept of Conservation: Female spicebush swallowtails can "taste" leaves with their forelegs, and when they land on a sassafras leaf, they know they have found a suitable egg-laying site. 1/4

NPR @npr.org · 12/03/2025

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The Trump administration has shuttered, fired or targeted for resignation individuals, offices and agencies that could serve as a check on President Trump. Supporters say that is exactly the point.

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Trump is trying to remake the presidency. Here's why

The Trump administration has shuttered, fired or targeted for resignation individuals, offices and agencies that could serve as a check on President Trump. Supporters say that is exactly the point.

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Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

St. Louis, it's time to accept that AFT Local 420 is not to be trusted. They endorsed Teri Powers. 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 And Cousins. Who can resurrect that sorry excuse for a union? And, for the good of the city, please do not vote for TP.

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Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Sassafras! I grabbed a twig and stuck it in water after the tree in our demo garden was pruned this winter. It's about to bloom! And it has baby roots starting! Who needs a sassafras?

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Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Y'all! This is amazing for St. Louis: River City Outdoors has a lending library for outdoor gear and educational materials! Check it out: rivercityoutdoors.myturn.com/lib.../inven...

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Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

When I drive instead of riding my bike, I nearly always take a left there. Not my first, won't be my last bad life choice. Ha!

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Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A bicycle frame was found in Brightside's garden! If this is yours and you would like to claim it, please visit the office and tell what is on the sticker in the post. Office: 4646 Shenandoah Ave. 63110 M-F 9-4 If you can't make it into the office, please call: 314-772-4646

Found Item
Abandoned bicycle frame in the demo garden!
Please stop by Brightside's office to let us know what the sticker says and claim your bicycle frame!
We will donate it after one week.

Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I don't think we have a choice at this point.

Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

An amazing high school student is organizing that project so they probably just don't understand all of the county/city stuff yet.

Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

That's funny. In 1999 I worked at the Black Dog Cafe and abandoned all the owner's recipes for my own. The customers appreciated that a lot more than the owner did. It even made the paper.

Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

That's so sad. Was this at home or away?

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Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Once in a while these turn out alright.

Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Good stuff! Please go to the link in the post and put it all in that survey. Let's get these ideas into the right spot!

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Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

There were quite a few metrics tracked over time for sure. Unfortunately, some of the goals were not trackable and that is being addressed in the updated plan.

Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is for all who work and live in St. Louis City. Let us know what is most important to you. Please share your thoughts about how STL City can reduce harmful pollutants and become more resilient to our changing climate: tinyurl.com/stlscp-survey Please share with your neighbors and friends!

How can St. Louis City become more sustainable? Take our community survey! Share your input at: www.tinyurl.com/stl-scp

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Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Daffodils in the snow, spring is on the way.

Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It's a Jarmusch on 35mm kind of night.

Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I was so surprised that I took a photo of salt on my street!

Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

That right there is salt covering my street. Never have I ever seen that before a storm in #STL city!

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NPR @npr.org · 08/02/2025

McMahon has a limited background in education, and a long career as a business executive. She'd be stepping into an agency the president hopes to dissolve.

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Linda McMahon led WWE and the SBA. The U.S. Education Dept. may be next

McMahon has a limited background in education, and a long career as a business executive. She'd be stepping into an agency the president hopes to dissolve.

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Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We have excellent organizers in MO and consistently vote statewide for transformative policy that makes it on the ballot by initiative petition. Unfortunately, most people outside of the major cities also vote for Republicans who immediately dismantle that policy.

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Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Feel free to message me with questions. I may not know the answer, but I might.

Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

They should. People often call my office if they can't get through to CSB. I think it's pretty common that they are overloaded.

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Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Goose attracts a lot of attention with his antics. Our newest neighbor saw him playing with his old deflated soccer balls and decided to get him a new and improved giant football! It's bigger than her yorkie!

Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

When you ride your bike to work but the bike racks are still covered in snow and ice.

A lot has changed within the personnel department, specifically in hiring. I don't know what they are required to say, or not on the postings. I'm sure it's guided by ordinance in some ways. I do know that there are typically 20-35 new hires every two weeks.

And it's likely not mandatory.

Pretty sure that's a drug test.

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You know about Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Trash is very low on that pyramid for many residents and in the face of politicians because of that. I agree that the city needs to make many clear declarations. I said that the day after the election. Unfortunately that doesn't take care of the trash.

Jean Grows @jeangrows.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

You know what though? People are gonna be mad about their trash not being picked up regardless of what else is going on. You can't imagine the amount of calls the city fields about trash on any given day, much less when it's piled high in alleys citywide. I take some of those calls. It's rough.

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Saturday's sunrise finally brought warmth to melt the ice!