Tuesday, January 15, will be the final day to file Declarations of Candidacy for the City of O’Fallon’s April 2, 2013 election. Declarations of Candidacy will be accepted in the City Clerk’s office at the O’Fallon Municipal Centre (City Hall), 100 North Main Street, O’Fallon, Missouri 63366, from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

The April 2, 2013 election is being held to elect a Mayor to serve a four-year term, and to elect one City Council member from each of O’Fallon’s five wards to serve three-year terms.

Meet author, traveler, retired teacher and historian Ross Malone from 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, January 20, at the historic Heald Home, located in Fort Zumwalt Park at 1000 Jessup Drive, O’Fallon, Missouri 63366. Malone will sign and sell copies of his latest book, Too Good to Pass By: A Look at Some Missouri Places. Copies of his Tales from Missouri and the Heartland also will be available. The book was selected for the Missouri Life Magazine Book List and placed in the Missouri Association of Librarians “Author’s Alley.” Admission is $2 per person at the door and includes a tour of the house. For more information, call 636-379-5605, or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Mush! Get your team together and enter the Human Dogsled Race, which will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, January 26. The race is one of the main attractions for Cabin Fever Daze, O’Fallon’s new winter festival, which will be held on January 25 – 27 in O’Fallon Sports Park.

Cabin Fever Daze admission and parking are free. In addition to the Human Dogsled Race, event highlights include ice skating on O’Fallon’s first outdoor rink, broomball, ice carving, a fire performer, the Snowshoe Obstacle Course, and Fruit Cake Chuckin’. Event hours are: Friday, 4-8 p.m., Saturday, noon-8 p.m., and Sunday, 1-5 p.m.

The City of O’Fallon, Missouri, is seeking vendors for its winter festival, Cabin Fever Daze, which will be held January 25 – 27 in O’Fallon Sports Park. Spaces are available for vendors selling food and beverages as well as hats, scarves, mittens, blankets and other cold-weather related items.

Event highlights include ice skating on O’Fallon’s first outdoor rink, the Human Dogsled Race, broomball, ice carving, a fire performer, the Snowshoe Obstacle Course, and Fruit Cake Chuckin’. Event hours are Friday, 4-8 p.m., Saturday, noon-8 p.m., and Sunday, 1-5 p.m.

Light-hearted, whacky games and old-fashioned fun are in store for the City of O’Fallon, Missouri’s new winter festival, Cabin Fever Daze. The event will be held on January 25 – 27 in O’Fallon Sports Park, with festival hours of 4 - 8 p.m. on Friday, noon - 8 p.m. on Saturday, and 1- 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission and parking are free.

Event highlights include ice skating on O’Fallon’s first outdoor rink (skate rental will be available), Saturday’s Human Dogsled Race, broomball, the Snowshoe Obstacle Course, Fruit Cake Chuckin,’ ice carving, and a fire performer. Festival food and beverages and winter-festival merchandise will available for purchase.

Can you help save a life or three? If you are at least 17 years old and healthy, please donate blood on Friday, January 18, between 11a.m. and 3 p.m. at the O’Fallon Municipal Centre (City Hall), 100 North Main Street, O’Fallon, Missouri 63366. O’Fallon’s “National Volunteer Blood Donor Month Whole Blood and Platelet Drive” is co-sponsored by the City of O’Fallon and the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center. The drive will collect donations of whole blood and platelets or double-red blood cells.

“During winter, the need for blood donations becomes increasingly critical, with fewer people donating around the holidays or because of cold weather,” said Kathy Halstead, Manager of Volunteer Services. “Taking a few minutes to donate whole blood can help as many as three people survive a life-threatening trauma or health condition. Or consider a platelet or double-red cell donation, which is especially important to surgical patients and those with cancer or chronic blood disorders.”

Although City Hall will be closed for business in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 21, volunteers of all ages are invited to register in advance to participate in community service projects from 9 a.m. – noon.

“We encourage those who are available Monday morning to join us for the King Day of Service,” said Alexis Jaegers, O’Fallon’s Volunteer Services Coordinator. “Volunteers will make tissue paper and origami flowers and decorate cards that will be distributed to residents at local care facilities on Random Acts of Kindness Day, February 14.”

Learn the proper way to recycle with Environmental Services Superintendent Jim Wenzara.

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The City of O’Fallon has announced the winner of its Healthy Living Story-writing Contest for kids in grades K – 5. Carissa Carron, a fourth-grader at Warren Elementary School in St. Peters, won the contest with her original story, “Food Fight.”

To enter, students were required to write a positive story that put the focus on healthy living, fitness, eating well, making safe choices, protecting the environment, or any other health-related topic.