Make Creve Coeur More "Loveable" With $500

A community need can be addressed with a grand solution, or sometimes a less complicated answer. Creve Coeur residents and city officials recently heard from Peter Kageyama, a community-building expert and author of the book, For The Love Of Cities, about how people can make their cities more loveable.

Kageyama pointed to a community in Braddock, PA that wanted a place where kids could play in a spraypark. The answer, he said, ended up being a gardenhose.

With that in mind, Kageyama led participants in an exercise. What would you do with $500 to make Creve Coeur a more loveable place?

Some of the suggestions were events, others were stand-alone items:

• Random Acts of Coffee: volunteers hand out coffee at bus stops and to pedestrians.

• A Mobile Mural

• A Creve Coeur Treasure Hunt

• Where Is The Olive On Olive? (think "Flat Stanley" in the form of a 10 foot Olive)

• Spray paint to cover the "jersey barriers" on Lindbergh Blvd.