Roosevelt Community Council, St. Louis, MO

Reminder that our once-a-year fundraiser for the Roosevelt Football Breakfasts is this Saturday, 1-5 pm at Riley's Irish Pub at the SE corner of Arsenal & Arkansas. It turns out that we have a number of very nice raffle items as well as brats, hotdogs, potato salad, fruit, and drinks for purchase. (We miss Bill Gilbert but many of the items have been donated with him in mind.) If you plan to come and help, we will be setting up starting at noon, and will be wrapping up, pulling raffle item winning tickets, and cleaning up starting at about 5 or so. Let us know if you can help if you haven't already let us know. The cell # for questions is 314-241-9994.  

The Roosevelt Community Council has been providing a catered breakfast for the Roosevelt High School football team before its Saturday games for a number of years. We call them the “Roosevelt Football Breakfasts.” This event at Riley’s Pub, the afternoon of August 23, 2025, raises the funds to provide the breakfasts. We would love to have lots of alumni come out for this event!! For more information, go to our website and “Contact Us”:  https://rooseveltcommunitycouncil.blogspot.com/ First game of the season: Friday, August 29, 2025 4:30pm at Confluence Prep (rescheduled from Saturday, August 30, 2025); go to the website of the Missouri State High School Athletic Association to confirm Roosevelt’s game schedule. We expect the district’s “clear bag” policy to be in effect. The process for purchasing tickets should be available from the school district soon. 

Roosevelt's game schedule has changed, with the first game moved from Saturday, August 30 to Friday, August 29th. Here's the latest from the MSHSAA website:

 Here's why we do the fundraiser every year:    2015 post

We received an update from the Athletic Director at Roosevelt re a change in the Sept. 20th Homecoming football game:  Due to tornado damage from the May 16th tornado, there has been a change in Roosevelt's Homecoming Game on September 20, 2025. The team will play St. Pius X High School (Festus) instead of Soldan High School.  The reason for this is that S oldan's students are moving to GatewaySTEM to attend classes this fall and their athletes will be participating with Gateway's students. Sumner's students will be attending classes at Miller Career Academy and participating in sports with them as well. This left us without an opponent for our celebration. I put out an all-points-bulletin to the area athletic director's for a "hail mary" in an effort to find an opponent to fill the opening in our schedule. I am happy to announce that St. Pius X (Festus) will be our opponent for our game on 9/20. Here's the updated game schedule: 

  The Roosevelt Community Council will meet at the Five Star Senior Center on Tuesday, July 1, 2025 (first Tuesday), at 3:30pm. Five Star is located at 2832 Arsenal St., and there is parking across the street to the north on the Kutis lot. We are working on plans for our once-a-year fundraiser on Saturday, August 23, noon to 5, at Riley's Pub, Arsenal & Arkansas. We need both volunteers and raffle items such as restaurant gift certificates. "Contact Us" to help.