Meramec Regional Planning Commission

05/31/2026

🚨 $1.625 billion is available to specialty crop farmers through USDA's Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers program. These payments provide financial support to allow producers to pay for production and marketing inputs in the face of significant market disruptions and elevated input costs during the 2025 growing season. The deadline to apply is Aug. 7, 2026.

On June 1, producers with a http://Login.gov account can access and submit their pre-filled application at fsa.usda.gov/ascf, and beginning June 8, producers can request their pre-filled application from their USDA Farm Service Agency county office. Payments will be issued as applications are submitted and approved, beginning as early as the first week of signup.

🔗 https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2026/05/29/usda-announces-enrollment-period-and-payment-rates-specialty-crop-farmers

05/30/2026

05/30/2026

Enjoy dining out? Want to give back to your community? Join us for "Dine Out for The Community Partnership" during the month of June. Just visit the participating restaurants on their date and mention The Community Partnership or show this flier. The restaurant will then donate a percentage of the sales back to The Community Partnership. It's as simple as that and you don't have to cook!

05/30/2026

Special thanks to Dr. Wiggins for his great work with DRA. Four Meramec counties—Crawford, Dent, Phelps and Washington—are part of the DRA service area, which provides additional funding opportunities, to address basic infrastructure projects.

05/30/2026

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Thank you to our co-sponsors
Bourbon Youth Athletic Association
Crawford County R-I School District
And the continued support of Meramec Regional Planning Commission

05/30/2026

One piece at a time…that’s the way the Rock Island Trail is happening. Another section in Gasconade County is now open to the public! Thank you to the Gasconade County Commission and MoDOT’s Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) for making this possible!

05/30/2026

We’re at the Gerald-Rosebud Fireman’s Picnic today! We will be here until 4 and a little rain won’t scare us so come on by and say hi! Today we teamed up with First Impact to spread the awareness!

05/29/2026

Congratulations to both of our MRCF Community Grant recipients. We shared an article on the Dent County Fire Protection District earlier. Here is more information on our other recipient Owensville's The Table of Grace Soup Kitchen!

OWENSVILLE—Meramec Regional Community Foundation (MRCF) awarded Table of Grace, Owensville, with a $1,000 grant for its newly created soup kitchen. The check was presented at MRCF’s Invite-a-Friend luncheon April 28 at MRPC in St. James. This year, the MRCF board reviewed a total of 14 grant app...

05/28/2026

https://www.meramecregion.org/abbreviated-cpr-class-to-be-held-june-13/

Pre-registration required ST. JAMES—MRPC and the Region I Homeland Security Oversight Committee are holding an abbreviated friends and family CPR class on Sat., June 13 at the MRPC office, 4 Industrial Drive, St. James. This class provides hands-on CPR training, practice with AEDs, an introduction...