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I’m Going to Saks... To Support My Favorite Local Charity July 29 Saks Fifth Avenue held a kickoff party to celebrate the commencement of Saks Fifth Avenue’s three-month-long program, “I’m Going to Saks...To Support My Favorite Local Charity.” Between August 1 and October 31, clients who use their Saks credit card can donate 10 percent of their total purchase to one of five local nonprofits. Friends of Wings, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Humane Society of Missouri, HavenHouse and Food Outreach. The St. Louis Saks store is one of two Saks Fifth Avenue stores nationwide participating in the charitable campaign. Photos by Emma Birge-Osborne/ALIVE Scene Team.
Kathryn Warnick & Asha Zimmerman
Representatives from the charities
Festival of Nations August 28 & 29 This free cultural event was founded in 2000 and has grown into the largest multicultural festival in the St. Louis region. Dozens of booths filled with a diverse selection of food and drink lined Tower Grove Park and attendees enjoyed nonstop ethnic music and dancing, highland games and arts and crafts. The event also featured “World Bazaar,” a shopping extravaganza of fabulous foreign finds. Photos by Emma Birge-Osborne/ALIVE Scene Team.
Erika Ochs & Stephani Stella
Bhutanese dress-tying demonstration
Margaret Saitoti
Irish Dancers