Annual Picnic September 29 -Featuring Tony Messenger!!

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Our Annual Picnic will be held September 29 from 1:00 pm until about 4:00, in Maplewood. We will provide sandwiches, beverages, and dessert.  We will have music again this year, the popular Laka (pronounced “Lay-ka”) and her band will perform.  Donations can be made at https://www.au.org. or at the event. Membership in AU includes a subscription to the excellent monthly, “Church and State” and costs only $35 per year.

Pulitzer Prize winning St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Tony Messenger will our guest and speaker. Mr. Messenger is the best reason to subscribe to the paper!  He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for his series of columns about debtor prisons in Missouri, and has been recognized with many other awards for his investigative journalism. He is author of “Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice” (Macmillan, 2021).

Come on out, and bring your family for a fun afternoon! Details, including the venue, will be provided to those who RSVP to Pres@stlau.org