Good Morning!

This week has a very specific kind of local summer energy.

The kind where a big Show & Shine, a race called The Sweaty Pig, Disney music bingo, and a jewelry buying event all somehow end up sharing the same calendar.

Which, honestly, feels about right for June around here.

There is also a Habitat for Humanity milestone in Wentzville this week that is worth slowing down for.

Here’s what’s happening this week. 👇

Prop O Informational Community Engagement Event: Holt High & Wentzville Middle
📍 Wentzville School District Administrative Center, Wentzville
⏰ 5 PM

The Wentzville School District is hosting a roundtable-style community engagement event about Prop O’s impact on Holt High School and Wentzville Middle School, along with long-term district planning. Parents, staff, and community members are invited.

25th Anniversary Commemoration and Ice Cream Social
📍 City Hall Park, Dardenne Prairie
⏰ 4–7 PM

Dardenne Prairie is celebrating 25 years since becoming an official fourth-class city with remarks from Mayor Widaman, past mayors, cookies, ice cream, and a very reasonable excuse to call dessert “civic participation.”

Summer Family Movie Night: Disney’s Frozen
📍 Life Church Winghaven, O’Fallon
⏰ Kids Zone 7:30 PM, movie at dusk

Life Church Winghaven is hosting a free outdoor showing of Disney’s Frozen with games, crafts, activities, popcorn, cool treats, yard games, and parking attendants to help with arrival. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and prepare emotionally for at least one person to sing.

The Sweaty Pig 5K Race & 1-Mile Run
📍 Zachary’s Playground, Lake Saint Louis
⏰ 8 AM

Unlimited Play is hosting The Sweaty Pig 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run at Zachary’s Playground. The event supports fully inclusive playgrounds, and after the race there will be BBQ, music, and family fun. There is even a free Piglet Dash for kids 5 and under, complete with a T-shirt and plastic pig nose, because apparently the branding department came to win.

Bulk Waste Drop-off Event
📍 O’Fallon Waste Transfer Station, O’Fallon
⏰ 7 AM–3 PM

O’Fallon residents with City trash service can drop off bulky items like furniture, carpet, swing sets, bikes, mattresses, sports equipment, lawnmowers, grills, computer monitors, televisions, and fluorescent bulbs. It is not glamorous, but if you have a garage item that has been silently judging you since 2021, this might be its moment.

Goat Yoga at Lucky Dog Farm - Wentzville, MO
📍 Lucky Dog Farm, Wentzville
⏰ 10–11:30 AM

Goat Yoga of MO is bringing its goat yoga experience to Lucky Dog Farm. No yoga experience is needed, guests should arrive 15 minutes early, and you can bring your own mat or rent one for $5.

Kick Off To Summer
📍 Apricot Lane Boutique, O’Fallon
⏰ 10 AM–7 PM

Apricot Lane is hosting a Kick Off To Summer event with permanent jewelry from Bloom with Becki, Infinity Sweets cookies, Mimosas with Monica, swag bags, and summer shopping. This is very much a “text the group chat and pretend you were only going to browse” situation.

All FORD Car Show
📍 Mid America Veterans Museum, O’Fallon
⏰ 10 AM–2 PM

Mid America Veterans Museum is hosting its annual All FORD Car Show. Spectators get in free, museum admission is free, car entry is a $10 donation, and the day includes a food truck, ice cream truck, raffle, 50/50, and People’s Choice Award.

Sunset Market
📍 Autumn and Blues, Cottleville
⏰ 3–7 PM

Autumn and Blues is hosting a Sunset Market with vendors on the lawn, new arrivals in the shop, food and drink, and live music from Bobby Strickland. Bring chairs if you want to hang around for the music.

Father’s Day Run 6/21/26
📍 FastLane, Wentzville
⏰ Driver’s meeting 11:15 AM, rollout 11:30 AM

Ducking Jeeps scmo is meeting at FastLane for a Father’s Day Jeep run through the Moon route, Lost Creek, Bernheimer Road, Washington, and backroads toward Johnny’s Hideout in High Ridge. Basically, if dad’s ideal day includes a Jeep, a walkie, and a route that sounds like it was drawn by someone avoiding highways on purpose, this is probably speaking his language.

Marks Jewelry Co Presents a Buying Event
📍 Marks Jewelry Co, Wentzville
⏰ Monday–Wednesday, 9 AM–5:30 PM

Marks Jewelry Co is hosting a three-day buying event with National Rarities. They are buying gold, coins, currency, fine jewelry, diamonds, watches, sterling silver, fine art, luxury goods, military memorabilia, old advertising, toys, autographs, and other rarities. No appointment is needed.

Making Herbal Mocktails Workshop
📍 The Chakra Healing Room, Wentzville
⏰ 6:30 PM

Herbalist Corey Tallman of Vibrant Spruce Herbals is leading a 90-minute hands-on workshop on herbal mocktails. Guests will make and taste drinks like a Heart Bloom Spritz, Tulsi Citrus Sparkler, and Elderflower Mojito Spritz, then leave with recipes and enough botanical beverage confidence to make “I brought mocktails” sound impressive.

Griffin & the Gargoyles - Jammin’ Concert Series
📍 Civic Park, O’Fallon
⏰ 6:30–9 PM

O’Fallon’s free Jammin’ Concert Series continues with Griffin & the Gargoyles at Civic Park. Food options listed include Go Gyro Go, CluckOinkMoo Sliders, Kona Ice, Philly Pretzel Factory, Beverly Ann’s, and the O’Fallon Mobile Concession. Parking is free, leashed pets are allowed, and outside food and drinks are allowed as long as there is no glass.

Disney Music Bingo
📍 B&B Wentzville Tower 12
⏰ 7:30–8:30 PM

B&B Wentzville Tower 12 is hosting Disney Music Bingo for all ages. It is free to play, first come first served, and includes prizes for winners, which means someone in this town is about to be rewarded for knowing the Hannah Montana catalog better than they ever planned to admit publicly.

Disney Channel 2000’s+ Music Bingo
📍 Frankie Martin’s Garden, Cottleville
⏰ 7 PM

Think & Drink Entertainment is bringing Disney Channel 2000’s+ Music Bingo to Frankie Martin’s Garden. Expect Hannah Montana, Camp Rock, High School Musical, Wizards of Waverly Place, and the very real possibility that your brain has been storing lyrics for twenty years just waiting for this moment.

100th Home Dedication
📍 101 Haven Pointe Drive, Wentzville
⏰ 4 PM

Habitat for Humanity of St. Charles County is dedicating its 100th home. The event celebrates the families, volunteers, donors, and community support behind a milestone that is quietly a very big deal.

Cakebread Cellars Dinner
📍 Bristol Seafood Grill, O’Fallon
⏰ Wednesday, June 24–Thursday, June 25

Bristol Seafood Grill is hosting a Cakebread Cellars wine dinner with four courses, including pistou vegetable soup, lobster and crab puffs, roasted duck breast, and German chocolate cake. Cost was listed at $100 per person, with reservations by phone.

2026 Show & Shine @ The Iron Turbine
📍 The Pavilion at Iron Turbine, Moscow Mills
⏰ Saturday, June 20, 11 AM–4 PM

The Pavilion at Iron Turbine is hosting a Show & Shine with cars, trucks, bikes, customs, food, drinks, and live music. There is no registration required for show vehicles, but they ask drivers to arrive by 10 AM. Lawn chairs are welcome, which is the official signal that this is a “walk around, point at engines, and pretend you understand more than you do” kind of afternoon.

Fourth of July Celebration
📍 Rotary Park, Wentzville
⏰ Saturday, July 4, fireworks at 9:30 PM

Wentzville’s Fourth of July Celebration will include the parade and free fireworks visible from Rotary Park. The fireworks are scheduled for 9:30 PM, so this is your friendly early reminder to start forming strong opinions about parking.

America 250 Concert Series: Breakdown Shakedown
📍 Wentzville Community Club
⏰ Saturday, July 18, 6:30 PM

The America 250 Concert Series continues with Breakdown Shakedown at the Wentzville Community Club. It is another free summer concert with regional music, kids’ entertainment, and food trucks.

St. Charles County Fair
📍 Rotary Park, Wentzville
⏰ Tuesday, July 28–Saturday, August 1

The St. Charles County Fair returns to Rotary Park for five days of rides, animals, exhibits, rodeo, motorsports, food, and the annual reminder that fair week has its own weather system.

Some places are technically easy to find.

They have an address.

They have a sign.

They show up on Google.

And somehow you can still drive past them for years without realizing what is actually going on inside.

That is kind of how Imagination Pottery Studio feels.

It is right here in Wentzville at 1463 Wentzville Parkway, but it is tucked on the backside of the building, which gives it a little bit of “you have to know where you’re going” energy.

And once you do know, it is one of those spots that makes you think, “Why have we not done this before?”

The setup is simple.

You pick a piece.

You paint it.

They glaze and fire it.

Then later you get to pick up the finished version and act mildly shocked that you made something that looks like it belongs in your house on purpose.

That is the best kind of local outing.

Low pressure.

Actually fun.

And you leave with something besides a receipt and a vague memory of saying, “We should do things like this more.”

They do pottery painting, clay hand building, adult classes, birthday parties, bridal showers, baby showers, and even summer art camp.

So it works for a surprising number of situations:

A rainy afternoon with kids.

A birthday that does not require turning your house into cleanup duty.

A low-key date night.

A moms’ night.

Or just one of those “I need to do something with my hands that is not scrolling” kind of days.

I also like that it is creative without being intimidating.

You do not have to be artistic.

You do not have to arrive with a vision.

You can walk in, pick something useful or ridiculous, choose a few colors, and let the afternoon do what it does.

And honestly, there is something kind of satisfying about having a local place where the whole point is to slow down and make something.

No giant production.

No long drive.

No complicated plan.

Just a small Wentzville studio hiding behind a building, quietly offering a much better answer to “what should we do?” than another lap around Target.

They are closed Mondays, but current hours are listed as Tuesday through Thursday 1–6 PM, Friday 1–8 PM, Saturday 11 AM–6 PM, and Sunday noon–5 PM.

Not a bad little card to keep in your back pocket for the next time everyone wants to get out of the house but nobody wants to make a whole thing of it.

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