Good Morning!

This week has decided the Fourth of July should start a little early.

There is a tropical 10-year anniversary party, an 11-year studio celebration, fireworks in Cottleville and Wright City, and a 190th birthday party with a pie contest and a movie under the stars.

Which is a lot of birthdays for one weekend, but I respect the commitment.

There is also some pretty big food news headed for Wentzville Parkway, plus a Friday night farm tour that ends with yoga and singing bowls.

Here’s what’s happening this week. 👇

You are already halfway to your braiding appointment when you realize you forgot the hair.

We have all been there.

Wash day starts and the edge control is empty.

A new style is planned and you are missing the one thing that makes it work.

And the closest place that actually carries it feels like a drive into the city.

Not anymore.

💁🏽‍♀️ Lake St. Louis Beauty Supply is a locally owned shop right on Veterans Memorial Parkway, and Tam stocks the things you actually reach for: crochet hair, wigs, shampoos and conditioners, edge control, makeup, hair accessories, and men's grooming.

Major brands sit right next to Made-in-Missouri lines you will not find on Amazon.

Here is what you cannot order online: walking in, asking a real person what works for your hair, and walking back out with the right thing today.

No shipping wait.

No guessing on shade or texture.

As one customer put it:

They have even been featured on Studio STL.

And if you are a stylist or a shop, Tam does wholesale ordering too.

Exclusively for What’s Up Wentzville readers:
Use code 10OFF for 10% off your purchase this week.

👉 Skip the drive and the shipping wait.
🔗 Shop anytime at lakestlouisbeautysupply.com
Or stop in at 11100 Veterans Memorial Parkway, Lake Saint Louis. Questions? Or give them a call at 636-265-0765.

Cakebread Cellars Dinner
📍 Bristol Seafood Grill, O’Fallon
⏰ Final night Thursday, June 25

Bristol’s two-night Cakebread Cellars dinner wraps up Thursday with four courses: pistou vegetable soup, lobster and crab puffs, roasted duck breast, and German chocolate cake, each paired with a Cakebread wine. Cost is $100 per person before tax and gratuity, with reservations by phone at (636) 625-6350.

Food Truck Frenzy Fundraiser
📍 Green Tree Elementary, Lake Saint Louis
⏰ 4–8 PM

Green Tree Elementary is bringing dinner and dessert trucks to the school bus loop to help fund a replacement track. Grab food, then head to Boulevard Park for an outdoor showing of A Minecraft Movie, which is a very efficient way to turn “what should we do Friday?” into one complete plan.

Sunset Farm Tour and Yoga with Sound Bath
📍 Lucky Dog Farm, Wentzville
⏰ 6:30 PM

Ashley Campise is leading a summer farm tour followed by a strength-and-stretch yoga session and singing bowls. Cost is $25, and it feels like the sort of Friday night that begins with livestock and ends with everyone speaking more softly than usual.

Pink Houses USA — Free Summer Concert
📍 City Hall Park, Dardenne Prairie
⏰ 6:30–9:30 PM

Dardenne Prairie’s summer concert series continues with Pink Houses USA playing the music of John Mellencamp. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, family, friends, and a cooler if you want—just leave the glass at home.

The RetroNerds at Frankie Martin’s Garden
📍 Frankie Martin’s Garden, Cottleville
⏰ 7–10 PM

The RetroNerds are bringing an all-’80s dance party to Frankie Martin’s Garden. There is no cover, no dress code, and no requirement that you admit how quickly you recognized the opening notes of every song.

Imagination Pottery Studio Anniversary Party
📍 Imagination Pottery Studio, Wentzville
⏰ Starts at 11 AM

Imagination Pottery is celebrating 11 years with painting, lunch, giveaways, prizes, and optional tie-dye shirts. The reservation fee is $10 per person; pottery is purchased separately with pieces starting at $25, and shirts are an additional $13 and up.

Cottle Village One-Year Anniversary Celebration & Firework Display
📍 Cottle Village, Cottleville
⏰ Starts at 11 AM, fireworks at 10 PM

Cottle Village is celebrating one year with complimentary Farmstead Distillery tastings from noon–2 PM, a smoked old-fashioned experience from noon–4 PM, live music from Russo & Co. from 7–10 PM, food, drinks, kids’ activities, and fireworks at 10 PM. Apparently waiting until July for fireworks was simply not on the table.

Friendship’s 10-Year Anniversary LuWoW
📍 Friendship Brewing Company Fli-Hi, Wentzville
⏰ Noon–11 PM, activities begin at 1 PM

Friendship Brewing is celebrating ten years with a full tropical day: limbo, coconut bowling, pineapple ring toss, a grass-skirt hula-hoop contest, outfit prizes, raffles, tropical drink specials, food from Caboose Kitchen, and photo spots. Riddled Liver Band takes over at 7 PM with Jimmy Buffett favorites, so wear the loud shirt. This is its moment.

Permanent Jewelry Pop-Up
📍 Double Dog Bookshop, Wentzville
⏰ 3–7 PM

Tina from Everbound Collective will be fitting clasp-free permanent bracelets and other jewelry at Double Dog Bookshop. The process takes a few seconds, is pain-free, and is only “permanent” until you decide a pair of scissors has entered the story.

The City of Flint Hill 190th Celebration
📍 St. Theodore Knights of Columbus Hall, 2061 Grothe Road, Wentzville
⏰ 6–10:30 PM

Flint Hill is celebrating 190 years with Downstream playing from 6:30–8:30 PM, a cornhole tournament, food, drinks, a homemade pie contest, and a movie under the stars at 8:45 PM. The event flyer lists Back to the Future, which feels like a strong choice for a birthday involving 190 years of local history.

Flint Hill Pie Contest Registration
📍 St. Theodore Knights of Columbus Hall, Wentzville
⏰ Pie check-in 6–6:30 PM, judging at 7 PM

The 190th celebration also has a proper homemade pie contest with fruit, cream/custard, and youth divisions. Store-bought crusts and ingredients are allowed, one entry is permitted per baker, and awards include Best Overall Pie—which is really just a more official version of the argument every family already has.

Wentzville High School Class of 1996 — 30th Reunion
📍 Wentzville American Legion Post 323
⏰ 6–10 PM

The Wentzville High School Class of 1996 is holding its 30th reunion. Registration and payment are required through the links on the event page, and organizers are asking classmates to share the registration form so they can update the class contact list.

Lake Saint Louis 2026 Summer Concert Series: Side Eye Dog
📍 Windjammer Pointe, Lake Saint Louis
⏰ 7 PM

Side Eye Dog is playing a free, all-ages outdoor concert at Windjammer Pointe. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, food, and drinks; glass containers are not permitted.

Steve Ewing Band at Frankie Martin’s Garden
📍 Frankie Martin’s Garden, Cottleville
⏰ 7–10 PM

The Steve Ewing Band is playing a free, all-ages show at Frankie Martin’s Garden. Outside food and drinks are not allowed, which is the venue’s polite way of saying the food trucks and bar would like to participate in your evening too.

Disc Golf Summer Glow
📍 Quail Ridge Park, Wentzville
⏰ Registration 7:45–8:45 PM, shotgun start at 9 PM

St. Charles County Parks is lighting the baskets for an 18-hole nighttime tournament with cash and prizes. Entry is $10 cash on the day of the event, players must bring their own discs, and the field is limited to 72 people. A limited number of LED lights will be available to purchase.

Paint & Sip: Bookshelf Arch
📍 Double Dog Bookshop, Wentzville
⏰ 3 PM

This two-hour guided painting class is currently on a waitlist. Guests paint a clear bookshelf arch using more than ten mix-and-match templates—or their own design—and all supplies are included. If you join the waitlist, consider it a small act of optimism with a paintbrush attached.

Crochet Bookmarks for Beginners
📍 Double Dog Bookshop, Wentzville
⏰ 6 PM

Jen is teaching complete beginners how to crochet a bookmark, including people whose previous attempt at a crochet kit ended with the kit being “yeeted out the window.” Tickets are $13.85, and yarn, a hook, stitch markers, and the patient instruction are all included.

Monday Market at Frankie’s
📍 Frankie Martin’s Garden, Cottleville
⏰ 5:30–8:30 PM

Frankie’s Monday Market is bringing together 45 vendors with boutiques, kids’ items, dog goods, permanent jewelry, baked treats, skincare, custom hats, local honey, beef jerky, and more. There will also be food trucks and live music from Matt Colin, because Monday apparently needed better public relations.

Heritage & Freedom Fest — Carnival Kickoff
📍 Ozzie Smith Sports Complex, O’Fallon
⏰ 4–10 PM

O’Fallon’s four-day Heritage & Freedom Fest begins Wednesday with its carnival and midway. Discounted all-you-can-ride passes are listed at $28 plus fees through June, compared with $37 plus fees on site. The free concerts, parade, and fireworks come later in the week, but this is the night for people who would like the rides before the full holiday crowd arrives.

Wright City’s Annual Firework Show
📍 Wright City Lions Club, Wright City
⏰ Saturday, June 27, 5–9 PM; fireworks after dark

Wright City is pairing its annual fireworks with the Downtown Revitalization Committee’s First Friday-style celebration. Expect games, food trucks and stands, vendors, activities, live music, and fireworks after dark for America’s 250th birthday.

Celebrate America 250 — Free Hot Dogs & Ice Cream Social
📍 Lincoln County Fairgrounds Banquet Hall, Troy
⏰ Sunday, June 28, 5–8 PM

This free family event is keeping the pitch very simple: hot dogs, ice cream, and a birthday party for America. Sometimes a three-part plan is all a Sunday evening needs.

Wentzville Fourth of July Celebration
📍 Parade through downtown, free swim at Progress Park Pool, fireworks at Rotary Park
⏰ Saturday, July 4 — parade at 10 AM, swim noon–5 PM, fireworks at 9:30 PM

Wentzville’s July Fourth schedule includes the America 250 parade, a free swim for eligible residents and season-pass holders, and free fireworks from the new Rotary Park viewing location. Rotary Park will not have food vendors, rides, or music, so bring chairs, plan parking, and understand that the evening’s entire job is to put fireworks in the sky.

Heritage & Freedom Fest
📍 Ozzie Smith Sports Complex, O’Fallon
⏰ Thursday, July 2–Saturday, July 4

After Wednesday’s carnival kickoff, the festival continues with Family Night Thursday, Country Night Friday with Walker Montgomery, LOCASH, Lauren Alaina and fireworks, then a July Fourth parade, Rock Night headlined by KANSAS, and another fireworks show. Admission to the festival and concerts is free.

Liberty Rocks — A Star-Spangled Celebration of Freedom
📍 City Hall Park, Dardenne Prairie
⏰ Saturday, July 4, music 11 AM–9 PM

Dardenne Prairie’s July Fourth lineup includes DJ Danny T, Pirates in Paradise, Jessie Vaughn, Real Rock Revival, and Almost Skynard. The music is free, and coolers are allowed as long as there is no glass.

Gioia’s Deli, Swig and Benefit Meals are planned for Wentzville Parkway. The Board of Aldermen approved plans for a new retail building west of Walgreens near Wentzville Parkway and Meyer Road. Gioia’s would take the largest space, Swig would get a double-ordering drive-through, and Benefit Meals would sit between them with prepared grab-and-go meals. No opening date has been announced yet, so for now this is mainly an invitation to start thinking about hot salami and dirty soda in the same parking lot.

There are two kinds of Sunday mornings.

The first involves coffee, a slow breakfast, and everyone pretending Monday is not already visible from here.

The second involves getting up early to look through folding tables full of old tools, records, furniture, toys, plants, glassware, signs, kitchen gadgets, and at least one object nobody in the family can identify.

The Wentzville Flea Market is for the second kind.

It happens every Sunday at the Wentzville Community Club grounds at 500 W Main Street, and 2026 marks its 50th year.

Fifty.

Which means people were treasure hunting there before Facebook Marketplace, before Craigslist, and before you could stand in somebody’s driveway and send three increasingly specific texts asking if an item was “still available.”

The market is part outdoor sale, part indoor flea market, and part weekly reunion for people who know that the best finds rarely come with barcodes.

Some vendors return regularly.

Others show up with whatever came out of a garage, workshop, attic, garden, or collection that week.

That unpredictability is the whole point.

You may find the exact piece of furniture you have been looking for.

You may find a box of mismatched Christmas ornaments, a tackle box, three cast-iron pans, and a framed picture of someone else’s dog.

Both can be successful trips.

This is not a place to shop efficiently.

It is a place to walk slowly, look underneath things, ask “what is this?” and discover that the vendor has a twelve-minute answer prepared.

It is also one of those rare outings where kids can bring a few dollars and practice the ancient art of negotiating over something they did not know existed five minutes earlier.

The official schedule says the market runs from 7 AM–1 PM every Sunday, rain or shine. The main building opens at 6 AM, buyers are welcome beginning at 7, and the serious treasure hunters know the good stuff does not always sleep in.

There are indoor and outdoor vendors, first-come spaces for sellers, and reserved vendor spaces from April through November. The Community Club is volunteer-run and nonprofit; money from the market helps maintain the property and support organizations in the community.

One important rule: animals are not allowed on the property, so leave the four-legged bargain consultant at home.

And check the market’s Facebook page for weekly weather updates before heading out, because “rain or shine” still occasionally needs an asterisk when Missouri gets ambitious.

Bring cash.

Bring walking shoes.

Bring enough room in the vehicle for the thing you definitely were not planning to buy.

Then tell everyone you are only going to look.

The flea market has heard that one for 50 years.

That’s what I’ve got for you this week.

If you know of a local event, fundraiser, hidden gem, business update, or something people around Wentzville should know about, send it my way and I’ll do my best to include it in an upcoming issue.

As always, thanks for reading, sharing, and helping make Wentzville a great place to live.

See you next Thursday,
Skyler