Viva Cuba Celebrates 25th anniversary with trolley tours and the “Queens of the Chili” Viva Cuba, a local beautification organization, celebrates 25 years of projects at this year’s Cuba Fest on Smith Street during the October 17-18th celebration of family fun, crafts, food, music, and activities. By royal decree, on Saturday, October 17 at 11:00 [...]
• 1984 Began Annual Beautification Day. Entire community involved in maintaining ongoing projects and planning new ones: 2009 was the 25th beautification day. • 1987 Major thoroughfare through Cuba (Hwy. 19) became the first Adopt-a-Highway in Missouri. Viva Cuba adopted and landscaped 1.5 mile stretch at a cost of $30,185. It was a joint effort [...]
If you have made it to our blog, you know that in 2009 Viva Cuba launched a new website cubamomurals.com. We hope you have taken the time to look over our site and signed up for our future email newsletter. And if you haven’t already, come see us in Cuba. Below is the official news [...]
MoDOT films Cuba’s Adopt-a-Highway Project A film crew attracted attention in Cuba during their filming along Hwy. 19 in 2008. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Adopt-A-Highway program, the Missouri Department of Transportation’s community relations staff visited Cuba to interview and film Viva Cuba, the first group to join the statewide program. During the [...]