Reminder - RCC Meeting Tuesday, May 3, 2016, 4:30 pm

Just a reminder that the Roosevelt Community Council will meet on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, at 4:30 pm in Room 023 at Roosevelt High School, 3230 Hartford Street. Parking is on the Compton side of the building; enter through the main front doors up the steps off Hartford Street. Building security can direct you to the meeting.

Fundraiser Alert: Please put Sunday, May 29th 2016 on your calendar for our 4th Annual Football Breakfast Fundraiser. This is to raise funds for our football breakfast program for the RHS football team (see entries on our blog/website for more info). The event will be held at Riley's Irish Pub, at the corner of Arsenal and Arkansas, from noon to about 7 pm. We will have brats, hot dogs and sides for sale as well as raffle items, and Riley's will be open for drinks. Set up will start at 11 am. If you would like to volunteer to help (please!), contact William Gilbert, PhD, at turkgobble@aol.com or 314-283-5288. Businesses, we would welcome the donation of gift cards, tickets or similar items for the raffle. Contact Bill about this also.

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Fundraiser at Riley's Irish Pub - Saturday, August 23rd, 1-5pm - UPDATE

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.

First Football Breakfast of 2015

"Football Breakfasts" means providing breakfast for the Roosevelt High School football team before its Saturday home JV and Varsity games. About 85% of the students at Roosevelt are eligible for the school's free or reduced price meal program during the school week, but there are no such meals on Saturdays. The RCC began supporting the breakfasts about 8 years ago , when Mr. Terry Houston, then principal, asked us to provide volunteers for the breakfasts. The breakfasts were his idea: they are a way to both support the team and connect the community to the school. The volunteers help set up, help serve, and clean up after the breakfasts. Currently, the RCC raises the funds for the breakfasts, hires the caterer to provide the food, and recruits the volunteers. We held a fundraiser in May at Riley's Irish Pub in Tower Grove East to raise funds for the breakfasts. The balance of the funds comes from donations. The caterer is Euylan Welch of WelchOne Catering. We al...

Update on 2025 Roosevelt High School Football Breakfasts from the Roosevelt Community Council

Roosevelt High School’s 2025 11-Man Football season was cancelled mid-way through the season after the team’s Homecoming game on September 20, 2025. That game was rained out at half time, due to a thunder storm. As reported by the school’s Athletic Director, the team had suffered some prior injuries and also the loss of some upper class team members, and the school felt that it was unsafe to continue the season with the remaining team members, many of whom were younger and smaller players. The Roosevelt Community Council raised funds in 2025 to provide breakfast to the team before its Saturday games. Usually, this involves feeding 40 to 50 team members and a few coaches for each breakfast. Sometimes, members of the cheerleading team are also present and invited to have breakfast as well. This is an activity we have supported for a number of years, and it has also been supported by several nearby neighborhood associations and a number of businesses, as well as the public, at ...

Roosevelt Community Council, St. Louis, MO

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