Locals to Perform at St. Louis Thanksgiving Day Parade

Mehlville High School's band and Oakville High School's dance team will be performing Thursday.

Move over Macy's, St. Louis is having its own Thanksgiving Day parade featuring kids from Mehlville and Oakville.  Ameren Missouri's 27th annual Thanksgiving Day Parade starts at 8:45 a.m. Thursday and will be broadcast live on KMOV-TV Channel 4's "Great Day St. Louis." The parade will start on the corner of Washington Avenue and Fourth Street in downtown St. Louis.  Mehlville High School's marching band will be competing in the Battle of the Bands Contest with other St. Louis-area bands.  The Oakville High School Golden Girls will be one of the first performers of the parade, only a few entrants behind the fire trucks.  With more than 120 participants in the parade, be sure to stick around for the South County YMCA Starlites. This all-…

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Mehlville Motherhood

Dance Teams: Little Girls are Watching

Why a Mehlville mom thinks the dance squads need to refocus their style.

My husband and son were decked out in all green and ready to cheer on Mehlville, while I grumbled around the house, trying to dig up some black and gold maternity clothes. We were headed to the Oakville-Mehlville football game, with our family split on loyalties. I went to Oakville, but since we live in Panther territory, there was a lot of trash talking in the days leading up to the game. The atmosphere at Oakville High School was great, with the crowd excited and engaged in the game. We had a fantastic time and my 4-year-old daughter only had eyes for the cheerleaders. My 1-year-old laughed and clapped every time the Tiger mascot did a silly dance, and my 6-year-old son continued taunting me, even as Oakville was winning. We settled in …

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LuAnn Smith

9:06 am on Friday, September 30, 2011

watched the video......this was a dance done for a talent show apparently at the school....NOT A DANCE DONE BY THE SCHOOL'S DANCE TEAM!   more ›