By order of the United States Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Air Force, St. Paul native Billy Starkey has been appointed to a second term on the prestigious Board of Visitors (BoV) to Air University (AU), serving both the US Air Force (USAF) and US Space Force (USSF). Each year, AU confers twelve doctoral, 1,150 masters, and 3,500 associates degrees, and commissions 4,400 new officers. It oversees USAF Test Pilot School, Community College of the Air Force, Air Force Institute of Technology, Air War College, Air Command & Staff College, Squadron Officer College, International Officer School, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Officer Training School, Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), Junior ROTC, Civil Air Patrol (CAP), all enlisted and non-commissioned officer leadership schools, and all specialized programs for United States cabinet appointees, senior executive service civilians, and general officers.

Jim Sidel of St. Paul, past state commander of the American Legion, will be at the St. Paul Public School Veterans Day Program, which will be held on Monday, November 11th at 10:00 a.m. in the high school gymnasium. Sidel is a member of the Carl Mogensen Pose 119 in St. Paul.

MORE THAN 100 St. Paul Elementary students decorated pumpkins as characters from fiction as part of the St. Paul Library and St. Paul Public Schools’ Literary Pumpkin Project last month. The fruits of the project’s efforts were on display in the library’s Community Room last week. Above are three different renditions of Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat.

Recently, the Village of Wolbach relocated the veterans memorial to the west end of main street, near the east entrance to Cottonwood Park. The Legionnaires will be adding to the memorial at a later date. The memorial had been located in the mini-park and was moved to make room for the new community center.

A new, monthly, Monday evening event at the St. Paul Library is geared at giving the community’s toddlers— as well as older children— the opportunity to socialize over a good book: Socialize Storytime.