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Cool Down St. Louis, a regional non-profit agency helping the elderly, disabled and critically ill children with their high electric bills and the purchase of air-conditioners, this summer, announced a week ago that it only had about $200 in the bank. Today, the cooling assistance charity announced that the first annual “Shake Our Cans and […]

Cool Down St. Louis, a regional non-profit agency helping the elderly, disabled and critical ill children with their high electric bills and the purchase of air-conditioners this summer, has announced that it will host the first annual “Shake Our Cans and Cool Down The Needy” special collection outside of Busch Stadium on Friday, June 28 […]

Heat-Up St. Louis, Inc., the region’s non-profit energy assistance charity recently received about $18,000 in small donations in part from some member churches of the St. Louis Metropolitan Clergy Coalition and customers from The Pasta House Co. restaurants. The family Italian restaurant chain recently donated more than $13,000 from its “Buy A Flame, Heat A […]

The annual Hardee’s Rise and Shine for Heat fundraiser sold 20,000 Sausage and Egg Biscuit sandwiches and raised more than $25,000.00 and the Schnucks Scan and Give fundraiser raised more than $8,000 in donations to help Missouri and Illinois residents who still cannot afford to pay their winter gas, electric, propane and oil home heating […]

The St. Louis Metropolitan Clergy Coalition has announced that its membership is encouraging more than 1,700 congregations of various faiths to remember the bi-state area needy, who have difficulty paying their gas, electric, propane and oil home heating bills this winter. During Super Bowl Weekend, February 2, and 3, area congregations may participate in the […]

The request by Laclede Gas, a gas utility provider for more than 600,000 customers in eastern Missouri, to obtain a $36.1 million rate hike within less than a year of receiving at least one other to be used for administrative costs, such as salaries, is corporate greed at its worst, and it literally takes food […]

J. Kim Tucci, president of the Pasta House Co. which owns company and franchise restaurants in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, and the Dominican Republic has been elected chairman of the board of directors for Heat-Up St. Louis, Inc., a non-profit energy assistance and advocacy program helping the elderly, disabled and low-income families in parts of Missouri […]

Heat-Up St. Louis, a not-for-profit, 501 (c) (3) energy assistance charity established one year ago to warm thousands of cold homes of the bi-state area\’s elderly, disabled and low-income families is also attempting to help the area unemployed people impacted by the September 11 terrorists\’ acts and the local weakened economy.The group which has only […]

The Laclede Gas Company\’s announcement that the average gas bill will be reduced by about $54.00 is good news for now, but they are also basing that reduction on a mild winter and the reduction does not take in other variables. A prediction of 35% reduction is not enough considering Laclede made more than $30 […]

St. Louis – Missouri: Heat-Up St. Louis, Inc., a nonprofit energy assistance program, established to help low-income and elderly people in the St. Louis region, voted unanimously to oppose Laclede Gas Company’s proposed non-gas $39 million rate hike. The rate hike would add an average of $4.90 per month to the typical residential customer’s bill. […]