St. Louis County Library (SLCL) and Operation Food Search (OFS) will partner to provide after school meals to children at four SLCL branches beginning August 19, 2025.
The four branches will serve a healthy, light meal along with activities for kids and teens Monday–Friday during the school year. Meals must be eaten on-site and will be available free of charge for children ages 5-18.
The After School Meals program will be offered at the following branches starting Monday, August 19:
Lewis & Clark Branch, 9909 Lewis-Clark Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63136
Monday-Friday, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Natural Bridge Branch, 7606 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO 63121
Monday-Friday, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Prairie Commons Branch, 915 Utz Lane, Hazelwood, MO 63042
Monday-Friday, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Weber Road Branch, 4444 Weber Road, St. Louis, MO 63123
Monday-Friday, 2:45-4:00 p.m.
SLCL and Operation Food Search have partnered for several years to address food insecurity in the region. In 2024, SLCL and OFS distributed over 50,000 meals.
For additional information, please visit www.slcl.org/after-school-meals.
Taking on tech scammers
SCLC will host a Tech Talks: Scams and Shams session at 10 a.m. Monday August 11 at the Weber Road Branch.
The class will focus on typical scam emails and phone calls, and discussion will include the ways to identify a scam and ways to avoid them.
The event is being held following a Pew Research report released on July 31, 2025, that shows African Americans and other minority groups are not as alert to possible phone, email, and other scams as white Americans.
According to the Pew survey, 75% of white adults say they know a great deal or fair amount about how to avoid falling for one. The respective percentages for Hispanic Americans (59%), Black Americans (66%), and Asian Americans (66%) adults.
Majorities across age groups say they know at least a fair amount about how to avoid falling for an online scam or attack, but older Americans are less likely to say this. For example, Americans ages 65 and older are less likely than 18- to 29-year-olds to say this (64% vs. 78%).
The report says there are no differences between racial and ethnic groups in experiencing “at least one” of the scams or attacks, Black, Hispanic, and Asian adults are more likely than white adults to have had multiple forms of these frauds happen to them.
About 30% of Black or Hispanic adults have faced three or more types of online scams or attacks, compared with 18% of white adults.
Americans in households across income levels are about as likely to say they’ve ever experienced at least one of the online scams. But those in households with lower incomes are more likely to say at least three have happened.
To register, please visit sclc.org/events.