🌱 Patch AM: How Charlie Taaffe powered Vestavia Hills to a dominant season-opening win.

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• How Charlie Taaffe powered Vestavia Hills to a dominant season-opening win.

Today's riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Friday: A heavy t-storm in the p.m., with a high of 92 and low of 70 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Saturday: Mostly sunny, a stray t-storm, temps: high: 93, low: 71.
• Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 91 and low of 70 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Rebels pull away, knock off Parker in season opener (vestaviavoice.com) — Vestavia Hills High School's Rebels opened their football season with a 32-14 win over Parker, powered by quarterback Charlie Taaffe's four rushing touchdowns and 178 yards on the ground. Photos capture players, band, students, and head coach Robert Evans on a night that also saw key defensive injuries and big plays from Jack Cowan and Daniel Richardson. The Rebels now travel to Benjamin Russell for another non-region matchup.
   

📸 Around Vestavia Hills

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Vestavia Hills

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Saturday August 22
• Cartoon Rewind
  Hoover Public Library - Plaza
  10:00 am
Sunday August 23
• Avadian Credit Union: Pickleball for a Purpose
  Vestavia Hills Chamber of Commerce The Picklr Birmingham 1031 Montgomery Highway Vestavia Hills, AL 35216
  11:00 am
• Pen & Paper RPG Society
  Hoover Public Library - #Friends Meeting Room
  1:00 pm
Monday August 24
• Libby Meet & Greet
  Hoover Public Library - Circulation Lobby
  10:30 am
• Football vs Homewood (9) Parker (JV) →
  Vestavia Hills High School Birmingham, AL 35216
  5:00 pm
• The Monthly Assembly
  Hoover Public Library - Fitzgerald & Shakespeare Rooms
  6:30 pm
Tuesday August 25
• One-on-One Tech Help
  Hoover Public Library - #Friends Meeting Room
  10:00 am
• VHMC: Let's Talk Chemo Support Group
  Vestavia Hills Chamber of Commerce Vestavia Hills Methodist Church, 2061 Kentucky Ave., Vestavia Hills, AL, held in the small dining room
  1:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday August 21
• School of Dentistry D3 Family Day
  University of Alabama at Birmingham - Diversity and Inclusion 1720 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35294
  8:00 am
• BSN Special Interest Session
  University of Alabama at Birmingham - Diversity and Inclusion 1720 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35294
  11:45 am
• Training Interdisciplinary & Emerging Research Scholars (TIERS)
  University of Alabama at Birmingham 1720 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35294
  12:00 pm
• School of Dentistry White Coat Ceremony
  University of Alabama at Birmingham - Diversity and Inclusion 1720 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35294
  3:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Mountain Brook

• Mountain Brook officials share teamwork approach at state-of-the-city address (villagelivingonline.com)
• Football Friday: The first gameday of the season (villagelivingonline.com)
• Mountain Brook open houses August 22-23 (villagelivingonline.com)

Homewood

• Author Annah Conwell visits Homewood library for "Tales From the Writing Life" (thehomewoodstar.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A sponge (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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