2016 Entertainment Guide

2016

Entertainment Guide Dining & Date Night Family Fun Arts & Culture Outdoor Entertainment A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO

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Find your idea of a

Good Time!

Find your weekly Entertainment & Event information every Thursday.

Whether you are looking for date night ideas or family fun, you will find this information for the Edwardsville/Glen Carbon and surrounding communities in The Edge.

Amy Schaake Director of Advertising

618.656.4700 Ext. 35

Roller Skating • We do Amazing full Birthday party packages starting as low as $65 The Masterworks Chorale, Children’s Choruses, and Jazz Ensemble Masterworks Broadway Pops Lindenwood Auditorium - Belleville Saturday, February 27, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, February 28, 3:00 p.m.

The Masterworks Children’s Chorus and Youth Chorale Voices of Spring St. Paul United Church of Christ in Belleville Sunday, April 17, 3:00 p.m.

The Masterworks Chorale and Orchestra Of Conflict and Triumph: Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass Stella Markou, soprano Elisabeth Bieber, mezzo-soprano Don Frazure, tenor Brandon Smith, baritone St. Clare Catholic Church, O’Fallon, Ill. Sunday, May 1, 3:00 p.m.

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• Public skating sessions Fri: 7-10pm $7adm.

Sat: 11am-1pm 1-5pm 7-10pm $6adm.

Sun: 1-5pm $6adm. $2 Tuesday: 6-8pm $2adm.

All sessions Skate rental is extra $2 for reg. skate rental $3 for rollerblade rental • Youth roller hockey K-8th grade • We also offer: Private parties, Fundraiser, Semi private birthday parties and field trips.

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Happy Hour Specials Tuesday thru Saturday 3-6 pm $2 Domestic Beer Bottles • $3.00 Well Drinks 6 Wings and a Domestic Beer $5.99

We accommodate large groups • Catering Availabe on and off site 102 W 9th St, Alton • 618-433-8288 • www.bcgrill.com

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• Area’s Largest Game Room • Party Rooms Available • Miniature Golf • Bumper Boats & Cars • Water Wars • Go-Karts • Bumper Cars • Birthday Parties

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The MJCHF invites you to hear one of the most General Colin L. Powell to Speak at the Mannie Jackson Center respected leaders in American history. for the Humanities Foundation admired, Inaugural Dinner

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SIUE Meridian Ballroom To RSVP visit www.mjchf.org/colinpowell

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To RSVP and purchase tickets, visit www.mjchf.org/colinpowell Tickets are first come, first serve. Tickets will not be sold at the door.

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The Edwardsville Flea Market at the Montclair Shopping Center.

Edwardsville Flea Market offers a little bit of everything

By MATTHEW KAMP For the Intelligencer For Dan Vetter and Rick Ellis, flea markets have been a passion.

Now, it’s how they make their living, too.

Vetter and Ellis purchased Edwardsville Flea Market, located at 1506 Troy Road in the Montclair Shopping Center, on June 1.

“We’ve always been flea marketers — purchasing, buying, reselling. We never had gotten into it where we had a booth and we were keeping our supply going all the time,” Vetter said. “Once you get into it and start going to the estate sales and auctions, it’s a lot of fun.”

The two have gone from owning a shelving unit - or two - in the store to owning it.

“It was about three or four years ago that we started in the flea business,” Vetter said. “We had a shelving unit here in the store, then moved up to a booth and then two booths. We’ve been in it for about four years and it’s a passion.”

The retail portion of the business isn’t new to

Ellis. He was in retail management at London Fog and JCPenney for 12 years.

But, as Ellis explains, flea markets offer a different shopping experience.

“The one thing I love about flea markets is you have your antiques, vintage wear. It’s so much different than going to buy a new item at a store,” Ellis said. “A lot of people are going green, and they are wanting to rebuy new items from countries other than the United States.

This is a lot more fun. You don’t have the same items that you are looking at every single day.”

At its opening, the Edwardsville Flea Market has 33 vendors, not including two more that were on the way, and 52 units.

Vendors range from the metro east area to Greenville, Litchfield and St. Charles, and they bring a variety of items.

“Ourselves and the vendors will go to estate and yard sales, auctions and buy up the merchandise. We will then clean it up and resell it,” Ellis said. “There’s a lot of work in it.

You want to make sure everything is clean and presentable to your customers. It’s a joy just to

do that.”

Vetter added, “Getting them back to where they were is the fun part.”

Items range from comic books to household items to a 6x4 painting from an 82-year-old woman from Belleville.

The two are also working on bringing in more items for the back-to-school rush later this month.

“We are trying to get into a little bit more furniture, affordable items for the college students,” Vetter said.

Since the June 1 purchase became finalized, Vetter and Ellis have kept busy.

“We are stepping it up a notch,” Ellis said.

“We came in and remodeled, started staging items, organizing, making it more presentable and having a clean atmosphere. That all counts.

When a customer walks through the door and sees a nice place to shop, they are going to spend more time there and come back a second time.”

The Edwardsville Flea Market is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

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Our smoke-free environment combines with our 200 gallon salt water aquarium at Creve Coeur and 400 gallon at Edwardsville, with live coral reef, live music and bistro-style setting to bring the atmosphere of Bourbon Street, N’awlins to Creve Coeur, Missouri and Edwardsville, Illinois.

Welcome Home Cajun Food Lovers.

The Rest of the Story...

Realizing a life long dream can be exciting and challenging. My dream was to own a restaurant business that would allow me to build on my passion for people.

I spent 28 years in Corporate America developing my business and customer service skills. After a short involvement with a franchise, I felt constrained in presenting a dining experience indicative of the Southern and N’Awlins hospitality that I had come to know. I wanted to make good on a burning desire to create and deliver a dynamic dining experience to every customer. In mid-2008, I began the journey as Gulf Shores Restaurant and Grill with a commitment to serve quality food, with superior service in a smoke-free environment.

The selection of the restaurant’s name, Gulf Shores Restaurant and Grill, was based on the great recipes, foods, families, and friends found in that area. Many of you know it from experience….a simple life, where great food and friends meet, greet and relish the next opportunity to do it all again. I hope that you will discover that the best food doesn’t have to come from chefs in fancy restaurants, but from families in local towns with recipes that date back centuries. Simple recipes that allow the true nature of freshly prepared, hand-battered, and hand-cut seafood to come through.

If you are looking for a place to go and want to experience great home cooking with soups, desserts, seafood and Cajun/Creole meals prepared fresh, then my restaurant is your everyday Gulf Coast cuisine place. We are your local, family fishing village where people live well, share great food, and enjoy the presence of each other.

I am pleased to make St Louis & Edwardsville our home and to be at your service. I graciously look forward to serving you again, again, and again. As they say in the Big Easy, “Laissez les bon temps roulez” or “Let the good times roll.”

Happy Hour Mon - Friday 3-6 pm (Live Music Friday) Sun: 10:30am - 9 pm Mon-Thur: 11am - 9pm Fri-Sat: 11am - 10pm

Lunch served M-F 11-3pm Dinner menu available for lunch.

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Bill Tucker/Intelligencer

The entrance lobby of the Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities on North Main Street in Edwardsville.

Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities now open

By BILL TUCKER Of the Intelligencer A little more than a year after its ground breaking ceremony, the Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities opened its doors.

Jackson is an Edwardsville High School graduate who went on to achieve success with the Honeywell Corporation and as owner of the Harlem Globetrotters.

He purchased the old Lincoln School for $200,000 in 2012 and since helped Lewis and Clark Community College, which the center is a part of, raise more than $2 million for its renovation.

Jackson went to elementary school in the building when segregation was the order of the day.

Now, he’s looking to continue efforts to move the cultural ball rolling forward and the building on North Main Street will do just that.

“The formation of this Center will result in programs that give people a better understanding of societal differences and how we should embrace those differences,” Jackson said in a press release. “Without that understanding, people throughout the world will continue to have conflicts

with other cultures.”

In addition, the Center will host speakers, youth programming and educational activities including those involving science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Dr. Ed Hightower, former superintendent of the Edwardsville District 7 School System, is serving as the Executive Director of the Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities Foundation.

He views the Center as a start to making relationships more positive among people.

“The Mannie Jackson Center for Humanities will serve as a ground for discussions and dialogue about respect, dignity, understanding and forgiveness, with the goal of improving and changing relationships,” Hightower said in a press release. “Young people will be provided with a range of opportunities to engage in activities that promote tolerance, respect, dignity and self-worth.”

In a press release issued Friday, plans for a 1,200-seat conference center, hotel, parking garage and STEM Center were announced and Hightower said all could be operational by 2017.

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Above, the large conference space at the Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities. Below, one of the classrooms.

Continued from Page 14 Lewis and Clark currently holds an option on the property where Rusty’s sits, across the street from the Center. A future phase of the project will include a parking structure on that property, as well as the preservation of the remnants of one of the oldest brick buildings in Madison County, according to the release.

The conference center and hotel are slated to be built along North Main Street just northwest of the current building, and an existing brick building along North Main will be utilized for the STEM Center, which will aim to incorporate math, science, technology and engineering into the humanities.

Hightower said in the release that Director and President Mannie Jackson has already acquired those properties and has been a huge supporter of the project that bears his name.

The project is expected to add $81 million in economic growth and 846 jobs to the area, Hightower said.

The Center recently announced that it will conduct its inaugural dinner on March 31 at SIUE’s Meridian Ballroom.

General Colin Powell will be the featured speaker.

Tickets for the event are $200 per person and can be purchased at www.mjchf.org/colinpowell.

The Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities is a division of Lewis and Clark Community College and is supported by the Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities Foundation, a 501©(3) organization.

For more information, visit mjchf.org.

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