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Early Bird SpEcial: 2 eggs, choice of bacon or sausage, choice of potato, and toast: ONly $4 7am-9am at South Grand. 8am-10am at the Fox (free parking).

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The Patch is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The Patch neighborhood forms the southern tip of the Carondelet neighborhood. It is defined by Robert on the north, the City Limits to the south, Alabama to the west, and by the Mississippi river to the east.

This section of the Carondelet neighborhood is historic. There are Civil War era buildings in the area, National Register listed stone houses, and Sisters of the Saint Joseph’s headquarters for the St. Louis Province. The area is one that is being developed with regards to business. The Carondelet Community Betterment Foundation is active in the area. Commercial redevelopment activities have focused on South Broadway.

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First Night® in grand Center

What kid hasn’t dreamed of running away to join the circus! We may not all be kids any longer but this year you will get that chance to join up with a “A Traveling Circus”. Ring in the New Year with acrobats, jugglers and jokers at First Night® in Grand Center 2013 – A Traveling Circus on Monday, December 31 from 6 pm to midnight. First Night® is a family-friendly, visual and performing arts festival that takes place on Grand Avenue between Lindell and Delmar on New Year’s Eve.

At one of the biggest New Year’s Eve celebrations in St. Louis you can enjoy 60 performances at more than 12 venues, two free fantastic firework displays and free outdoor shows throughout the evening. Be a part of the region’s most creative New Year’s Eve Celebra-tion and enjoy an evening of singing, dancing and art. Scheduled acts in-clude the Flying Wallen-das crossing over Grand 25 feet above the crowd, Mound City Slickers, Bob Kramer’s Marionettes, Babaloo Music & Fun,

St. Louis Arches, Claire the Clown and the Purina Incredible Dog Show. Outdoor activities are free while a First Night button can be purchased in advance for entry to all indoor activities

For complete information and to plan your evening please go to www.firstnightstl.org

Founded in 1976 in Boston (1991 in St. Louis), First Night® is a com-munity celebration of the coming of the New Year expressed through the arts. First Night’s® mission is to broaden and deepen the public’s appreciation of the arts through an innovative, diverse and high qual-ity program which offers the community a shared cultural experience that is accessible and affordable to all. In order to maximize the par-ticipation of people of all ages, First Night® is a non-alcoholic event.

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Sassy Jac’s is nOw SERVInG DInnER EnTREES!we have food, drink, and event specials frequently.

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"Happy New Year!" That greeting will be said and heard for at least the first couple of weeks as a new year gets under way. But the day celebrated as New Year's Day in modern America was not always January 1.

AnCIEnT nEw YEARSThe celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago. In the years around 2000 BC, the Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon (actually the first visible cresent) after the Vernal Equinox (first day of spring).

The beginning of spring is a logical time to start a new year. After all, it is the season of rebirth, of planting new crops, and of blossoming. January 1, on the other hand, has no astronomical nor agricultural significance. It is purely arbitrary.

The Babylonian new year celebration lasted for eleven days. Each day had its own particular mode of celebration, but it is safe to say that modern New Year's Eve festivities pale in comparison.

The Romans continued to observe the new year in late March, but their calendar was continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchroniza-tion with the sun.

In order to set the calendar right, the Roman senate, in 153 BC, declared January 1 to be the beginning of the new year. But tampering continued until Julius Caesar, in 46 BC, established what has come to be known as the Julian Calendar. It again es-tablished January 1 as the new year. But in order to synchronize the calendar with the sun, Caesar had to let the previous year drag on for 445 days.

THE CHURCH'S VIEw OF nEw YEAR CELEBRATIOnSAlthough in the first centuries AD the Romans continued celebrating the new year, the early Catholic Church condemned the festivities as paganism. But as Christianity became more widespread, the early church began having its own religious observances concurrently with many of the pagan celebrations,

and New Year's Day was no different. New Years is still observed as the Feast of Christ's Circumcision by some denominations.

During the Middle Ages, the Church remained opposed to cel-ebrating New Years. January 1 has been celebrated as a holiday by Western nations for only about the past 400 years.

nEw YEAR TRADITIOnSOther traditions of the season include the making of New Year's resolutions. That tradition also dates back to the early Babylo-nians. Popular modern resolutions might include the promise to lose weight or quit smoking. The early Babylonian's most popular resolution was to return borrowed farm equipment.

The Tournament of Roses Parade dates back to 1886. In that year, members of the Valley Hunt Club decorated their carriages with flow-ers. It celebrated the ripening of the orange crop in California.

Although the Rose Bowl football game was first played as a part of the Tournament of Roses in 1902, it was replaced by Roman chariot races the following year. In 1916, the football game returned as the sports centerpiece of the festival.

The tradition of using a baby to signify the new year was begun in Greece around 600 BC. It was their tradition at that time to celebrate their god of wine, Dionysus, by parading a baby in a basket, repre-senting the annual rebirth of that god as the spirit of fertility. Early Egyptians also used a baby as a symbol of rebirth.

Although the early Christians denounced the practice as pagan, the popularity of the baby as a symbol of rebirth forced the Church to reevaluate its position. The Church finally allowed its members to celebrate the new year with a baby, which was to symbolize the birth of the baby Jesus.

The use of an image of a baby with a New Years banner as a symbolic representation of the new year was brought to early America by the Germans. They had used the effigy since the fourteenth century.

FOR LUCK In THE nEw YEARTraditionally, it was thought that one could affect the luck they would have throughout the coming year by what they did or ate on the first day of the year. For that reason, it has become common for folks to celebrate the first few minutes of a brand new year in the company of family and friends. Parties often last into the middle of the night after the ringing in of a new year. It was once believed that the first visitor on New Year's Day would bring either good luck or bad luck the rest of the year. It was particularly lucky if that visitor happened to be a tall dark-haired man.

Traditional New Year foods are also thought to bring luck. Many cultures believe that anything in the shape of a ring is good luck, because it symbolizes "coming full circle," completing a year's cycle. For that reason, the Dutch believe that eating donuts on New Year's Day will bring good fortune.

Many parts of the U.S. celebrate the new year by consuming black-eyed peas. These legumes are typically accompanied by either hog jowls or ham. Black-eyed peas and other legumes have been considered good luck in many cultures. The hog, and thus its meat, is considered lucky because it symbolizes prosper-ity. Cabbage is another "good luck" vegetable that is consumed on New Year's Day by many. Cabbage leaves are also considered a sign of prosperity, being representative of paper currency. In some regions, rice is a lucky food that is eaten on New Year's Day.

TOASTInGOne of the most venerable New Years traditions is the champaign toast at midnight to ring in the new year. Toasting can be traced back to the ancient Romans and Greeks who would pour wine, to be shared among those attending a religious function, from a common pitcher. The host would drink first, to assure his guests that the wine was not poisoned. Poisoning the wine was a fairly common practice in ancient ti mes, designed to do away with one's enemies. In those days the wine was not as refined as it is today so a square of burned bread (toast) would be floated in the wine bowl and then eaten by the last person to drink. The bread was put there to absorb the extra acidity of the wine in order to make it more palatable. Eventually, the act of drinking in unison came to be called a toast, from the act of "toasting" or putting toast into the wine.

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