Weekend Wrap-Up - July 13, 2008
 

Anheuser Busch Agrees To In-Bev Buyout

The Bud Light Brigade marches in the Valmeyer Mid-Summer Celebration.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting Sunday night that Anheuser-Busch and Belgium brewer InBev have agreed to a merger. InBev will purchase the longtime St. Louis company for $70 per share / $52 billion overall. The Wall Street Journal reports the new company will be called Anheuser-Busch InBev.

“This is a sad day for everyone who is associated with Anheuser-Busch,” said John Koerber of Waterloo. He was a third-generation co-owner of Koerber Distributing, the Monroe County seller of AB products until it was sold to Illinois Distributing of Belleville a few years ago.

A representative for Illinois Distributing said they will make an official statement tomorrow regarding the merger. Bud Light Brigade spokesman Dennis Knobloch said that initially the merger should not have an impact on the popular local parade band. Additional information will be reported as to the local reaction as it comes in.

The now former-headquarters of Anheuser-Busch, Inc. along U.S. Interstate 55 in St. Louis, Mo.      – photo by Ed Rahe

Stove Fire Smokes Up Columbia Home

Columbia Firefighter Don Sutter exits a home on Meadowview Lane on Sunday afternoon. CVFD firefighters had already removed a pot of burning meat, at right, from the home and placed it on the driveway.

A pot filled with meat left on the stove is believed to have caused a small fire Sunday afternoon on Meadowview Lane in Columbia. The Columbia Volunteer Fire Department responded to the scene and quickly extinguished the blaze.

Driver Escapes After Car Drives Into Hecker Sportsman’s Club Lake


Hecker firefighters begin to search early Sunday morning for possible victims of a car submerged at the Hecker Sportsman’s Club Lake. A passing motorist noticed a car floating upside down at 5:30 a.m. at the lake and dialed 911. After the car was pulled out of the lake, firefighters searched for a victim and also retrieved several items that had fallen from the 2009 Toyota Corolla. The father of the driver of the car was eventually discovered. The father, a man from St. Clair County, said it was his daughter who was driving the car late Saturday night. She was able to safely exit the overturned vehicle and make it safely to shore.

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