Posts from — June 2009

In June 2007 portions of the movie “The Lucky Ones” were filmed in downtown Edwardsville at Mojo’s Music. The scene filmed was actually set in Denver, CO so the downtown signs and license plates were changed. The film, staring Tim Robbins and Rachel McAdams, is available at any local Blockbuster.

The 21st annual Tour de Donut in Staunton, IL is set to take place Saturday, July 11, 2009. The bicycle race was chartered by the Mid-America Bicycle Club and later passed down to the Boeing Employee’s Bicycle Club (BEBC).

The premise of the 32 mile race is to devour as many donuts as possible at the two designated en route donut stops. Each donut consumed drops 5 minutes from your overall race time.

The course spans rolling terrain and country roads around Staunton stopping twice at city parks stocked with 1,000 donuts per site. Prizes include top 3 age groupers, cash prizes for most donuts eaten, attendance prizes, and a special award for the partipant from the further distance.

Online registration is required before the event. Come hungry if you want to compete; 2008 tour champion Bradley Meinke consumed 33 donuts and finished with an adjusted time of -25:06!

Above video is a trailer for the film “Tour de Donut: Gluttons for Punishment” a documentary from Jim Klenn and Steve Kelly

The Leclaire Lake Fishing Derby takes place this Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 10am. Show up at, you guessed it, Leclaire Park in Edwardsville just off of Troy Rd. The schedule for the event is as follows:

10am-10:30am Safety and Fishing Tips from IDNR
10:30am-11:45am Fishing Competition
11:45pm Fishing Ends and fish get counted

Prizes for the most fish and the biggest fish! The meeting spot for the event is located at 900 Hale Avenue, Edwardsville, IL 62025.

Event put on by the City of Edwardsville and Parks & Recreation (618.692.7538)

Glen Carbon Homecoming 2009 is this weekend. There will be carnival rides, games, wine bar, beer garden, foods, parade and even a fireworks show. Bring the kids and celebrate summer on Main St.!

Friday, June 19 5pm-12am
7pm-12am Partytime DJ and Karoake
7pm-12am Smash A Car
8pm-12am Well Hungarians (band)

Saturday, June 20 4pm-12am
10am-4pm Garden Tour at Miner’s Square
5pm Glen Carbon Homecoming Parade
5:30pm-7:15pm Exit 12 (band)
7pm-12am Partytime DJ and Karoake
7pm-12am Smash A Car
8pm-12am Topper Harley Band
FIREWORKS at Dusk

Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is this Saturday, June 13th in St. Louis. The annual event helps raise money for breast cancer research. In addition to the typical race this year is an added option to Dine Out for the Cure.

Dine Out for the Cure is going on Thursday, June 11th at over 200 St. Louis area restaurants and cafes. There are several restaurants in the Edwardsville and Glen Carbon area participating including:

• Cold Stone Creamery, Edwardsville
• Fond, Edwardsville
• Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Edwardsville
• Denny’s, Glen Carbon
• Papa John’s, Glen Carbon
• Bandana’s Bar-B-Q, Collinsville
• Denny’s, Collinsville
• Papa John’s, Collinsville

Choose any of these fine establishments and a portion of your bill will go towards finding cures for breast cancer. Fond, is the newly opened fine dining restaurant on Main St. in Edwardsville. Sounds like a great idea for a date night…

We launched a new experiment today at My-Eddy.com. The Twitter Experiment aims to give YOU a voice in deciding what is important news in Edwardsville and at SIUE.

My-Eddy.com has always been a collaborative effort and now we’re taking steps to make it even more interactive. We can’t be everywhere at once and that’s why we want YOU to contribute the news that makes the homepage. In other words, we want you to be a contributing editor-in-chief. Congratulations, you’re hired.

Simply use your Twitter account to broadcast tweets on My-Eddy.com by adding the #myeddy tag to the end of your tweets. We will aggregate the results via Twitter Ticker and post live updates on the My-Eddy homepage. The ticker will scroll through all of the tweets at the bottom of the page, showing each tweet for approximately 10 seconds. It’s a great way to get more followers!

Please keep in mind the mission of My-Eddy.com:

Provide information on Everything Edwardsville. Whether it be cool events, local restaurants, concerts, breaking stories, or SIUE news our goal is to provide a one-stop view into what Edwardsville is all about. We hope you’ll help us continue to make Edwardsville a great place to be!

No soliciting! Solicitors will be drawn and quartered in the town square!
If you’re unsure, ask first by direct messaging me @myeddy

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Teary eyes and running noses will be the victims. The culprit? Mounds and mounds of horseradish on just about any kind of food you could ever want.

The 2009 International Horseradish Festival will take place this weekend in Collinsville, IL. Horseradish is a close relative of mustard, technically a vegetable, that when mixed with vinegar creates a spicy sensation that makes each drink of water bigger than the last one.

The event features free entertainment, food booths, root toss, root sacking contest, Bloody Mary contest, horseradish cooking contest, washer tournament, fishing derby, the Annual Root Derby, and a Little Miss Horseradish Pageant. Festival schedule is as follows:

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM / “Lucky” Dan “Naked” Mike (Entertainment Stage)
11:00 AM – Opening Ceremony
11:30 AM – Fishing Derby Winners Presentaion
12:00 PM – Root Sacking Contest for kids 12 and Under
12:30 PM – Root Derby
1:00 PM – Professional Storyteller Ron Adams
1:00 PM Washer Tournament ($12 per team entry fee – register on site day of Tournament)(JC Diamond)
2:30 PM – McArther’s Tae Kwon Do Demonstration Team
3-6 PM Arlington Greens Root Golf (JC Diamond)
3-6 PM Root Toss (JC Diamond)
3:00 PM – Callison Distributing Bloody Mary Cocktail Contest
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM / Quarter Draw Band (Entertainment Stage)
4:00 PM – Root Sacking Contest for All Ages
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM / Catfish And The Big Boss Blues Band (Entertainment Stage)

Sunday, June 7th, 2009
11:00 AM – TheBank of Edwardsville Amateur Recipe Contest (Prize Money will be awarded for the TOP 3 Horseradish Recipes)
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM / The Backstreet Cruisers
12:00 PM – Heavenly Rhythm Dance Studio Performance
1-4 PM Arlington Greens Root Golf (JC Diamond)
1-4 PM Root Toss (JC Diamond)
1:30 PM – Root Sacking Contest for kids 12 and Under
2:00 PM – Little Miss Horseradish Festival Pageant
3:00 PM – Sherry’s School of Dance Performance
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM / Rx Blues Band
4:00 PM – Root Sacking Contest for ALL AGES

All Weekend Long: Between bands and during set breaks music and entertainment will be provided by Collinsville native Brandon Sims of Elite Entertainment.
FACT: Collinsville, Illinois produces approximately 60% of the world’s horseradish each year. The Southern Illinois area grows 80% – 85% of the world’s horseradish.

Anyone have a kleenex I can borrow?

99 samples of beer in the tent, 99 samples of beer….take one down, and then walk around…98 samples of beer still to drink. Well, not 99, but there will be over 60 beer styles to sample at the upcoming Saint Louis Brewers Heritage Festival, affectionately known as Brewfest.

The event features over 10 local brewers including AB, Schlafly, Morgan Street, Mattingly, Alandale, O’Fallon, Buffalo and Trailhead Brewing Company. This is the 3rd year for the event and looks to be the biggest yet with live music, local food vendors, and of course unlimited sampling!

Friday, June 5, 6pm – 10pm

Saturday, June 6, 12pm – 4pm

Saturday, June 6, 6pm – 10pm

The event takes place in Forest Park, St. Louis, MO and tickets cost $30 in advance or $35 at the festival. With so many great beers on tap you’ll want to bring a designated driver to make sure you find your way home!

*Designated drivers get into the event FREE