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ALTON - A local organization has built a frisbee disc golf course at the Alton Fire Department.

Something Bigger Than Yourself is a nonprofit that donates to local children’s homes, hospitals and nursing homes. Now, they’ve expanded their reach to include first responders. The frisbee disc golf course will be exclusively for the firefighters to enjoy during their downtime.

GODFREY — Something Bigger than Yourself is planning a historic water balloon fight while seeking 501(c)(3) nonprofit status...

Jay Brook Lipe, of Godfrey, founder and chief executive officer of the group, is planning a battle using 7,777 water balloons on Monday, Aug. 1, at Alton Catholic Children's Home. He had the inspiration a few years ago.

ALTON — Something Bigger Than Yourself is bigger than ever with seven U.S. children’s homes, including the Catholic Children’s Home in Alton, in the benefit concert’s organization that recently became incorporated.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer Jay Brook Lipe, of Godfrey, who first began helping the Catholic Children’s Home in 2008 when he and his daughter, Samantha, who’s a freshman...

ALTON — Local punk rocker Jay Lipe believes every person can contribute something to make the world a better place, so he created “Something Bigger Than Yourself.”

Something Bigger Than Yourself was started by Lipe to help children who have been interred into children’s homes due to tragedy and abuse...

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GODFREY — Something Bigger than Yourself is planning a historic water balloon fight while seeking 501(c)(3) nonprofit status...

Jay Brook Lipe, of Godfrey, founder and chief executive officer of the group, is planning a battle using 7,777 water balloons on Monday, Aug. 1, at Alton Catholic Children's Home. He had the inspiration a few years ago.

 To celebrate this year's success, Lipe is hosting a party, which is free and open to everyone, on Saturday, Dec. 8, at Roper's Regal Beagle in Godfrey. Music will begin at 2 p.m. with lauded singer/songwriter Matt Taul as well as Krickett and the Grilled Avocados, Lipe's own band, Peanut Butter Jam, and several other acts from across the St. Louis area. 

 Beginning in 2008, Lipe started Something Bigger Than Yourself, an organization designed to provide holiday dinners, musical and sporting equipment, and plenty of smiles to less fortunate children, both locally and out of state.