Francis HowellSchool District

For 65 years, hundreds of volunteers have given their time and talents to help with Old Newsboys Day. The event is held annually the Thursday before Thanksgiving. Volunteers stand on St. Louis-area street corners waving newspapers and collecting donations. This year’s helpers were up with the sun. They started just before 5 o’clock Thursday morning. Standing outside in the cold, collecting cash until all of the newspapers were gone.

At its October meeting, the FHSD Board of Education approved a revised 2021-22 school year calendar that reflects changes to snow days for the current school year. The first three snow days will be made up (consistent with our past practice); the next four snow days will not have to be made up due to extra instructional time in the calendar. In the unlikely event that the District experiences more than seven snow days, snow days 8, 9, and 10 will be added to the end of the school year.