Week in Review: Santorum Stops at SCC, Chick-fil-A Opens, New Yogurt Shop and Clothing Store Planned
We know you're busy, so here's a roundup of some of the recent stories featured right here on Wentzville Patch.
Too busy last week to stay up to date on all the news happening in and around Wentzville? Not to worry. Patch has your back.
In case you missed them, here were some of the top headlines from the last few days:
- St. Louis Archbishop spells out future plans for success of local Catholic schools.
- General Motors' largest-ever order of Chevrolet Express cargo vans will go through Wentzville's GM plant as AT&T plans to buy 1,200 cargo vans from the company.
- Chill Yogurt Café, a new frozen yogurt restaurant, will open a Wentzville location and move into space along Wentzville Parkway at the end of March.
- Ross Dress for Less, a discount department store, is in the process of opening its first Missouri location in Wentzville.
- We introduce our newest weekly feature: Friday Food Critic. This week's restaurant was Stefanina's.
- The Wentzville School District is no longer offering 2 percent milk under new federal regulations. Wentzville schools are prepping for new federal requirements set to kick in next school year by changing its lunch and breakfast menus.
- More than 150 were in line for Chick-fil-A's 'First 100' campaign.
- Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum made an unexpected campaign stop at St. Charles Community College. He spoke on the importance of education and small business. Hundreds, meanwhile, turned out to see the presidential hopeful. For a live blog on the event, CLICK HERE.
- Ranken Technical College, which plans to open a satellite campus in Wentzville, is in the process of touring prospective locations for its new facility.
- Our Next Generation columnist wrote a story on what motto his future daughter's boyfriends should abide by: "If You Wouldn't Touch Your Grandma There, Don't Touch My Daughter There."
- Timberland artists were featured at the Lillian Yahn Gallery through the month of January.
- Early week temperatures neared a record for Wentzville.
- The presidential primary is set for the Feb. 7 ballot, Super Tuesday, but Missouri's March 17 caucus will help choose the Republican presidential nominee. The vote, however, is largely irrelevant.
- State Sen. Scott Rupp said any of our liberties could be up for grabs and altered, even if the call for a constitutional convention was called only to address a specific issue.
- The St. Charles County Council tabled a resolution Monday that would have enabled it to remove a council member if the council member is not present for an extended period of time.
- Holt High School midfielder Julie Ireland has committed to play college soccer at the University of Central Missouri.
- St. Charles County Patch sites began polling its readers on a weekly basis to gauge their interest in the election, its candidates and what issues are most important to them.
- Patch introduced a new feature that allows you to look up movie times on Wentzville Patch. If you're a movie buff, you should consider blogging for Wentzville Patch.