St. Charles Looks to Hire New Sugar Plum Fairy
Laura Coppinger, the woman who played the role for five years, was not rehired last year after she cursed during a drug test.
St. Charles is looking to hire a new actress to play the Sugar Plum Fairy during this year's Christmas Traditions Festival. Last year, the city decided not to rehire actress Laura Coppinger, who had played the Sugar Plum Fairy for five years, because she cursed during a pre-employment drug test. For more news about St. Charles, click here to like us on Facebook. Coppinger said she swore after she accidentally flushed the toilet during her test and learned she'd have to provide another sample, making her late to a job interview, according to an article published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Mayor Sally Faith said at the time that Coppinger violated the code of conduct, specifically that Christmas characters don't know naughty words…
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10:29 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
It's not a matter of Freedom of Speech. It was not the naughty word that she said that caused her not to be hired. It was her inability to meet the requirement of undergoing a drug test that 40+ other new hires for the festival had no problem with. Let's also keep in mind there is always more to the story. We all know full well the media is not 100% accurate. And Jane, nowhere in the story above … more ›