🌱 FAST Planning Draft 2050 Interim Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) Update Steering Committee Meeting #6 and 11 more events

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Today's riddle: When geese fly, one side is longer than the other. do you know why that is ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Considerable cloudiness, with a high of 53 and low of 36 degrees.
• Friday: Mostly cloudy, temps: high: 57, low: 39.
• Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 52 and low of 35 degrees.

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday September 17
• FAST Planning Draft 2050 Interim Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) Update Steering Committee Meeting #6 →
  100 Cushman St, Fairbanks
  10:00 am
• Tacos & Blue Ritas Special →
  3:00 pm
• Valdez Girls JV Volleyball @ North Pole →
  North Pole High School, 601 NPHS Boulevard #7800, North Pole
  4:30 pm
• Elementary XC Race
  Birch Hill Recreation Area, 101 Wilderness Dr, Fairbanks
  5:30 pm
• Delta/Greely School Board Business Meeting →
  Delta Junction AK
  5:30 pm
• School Board Forum →
  Fairbanks AK
  5:45 pm
• Barrel Pick Preview Fairbanks at Raven's Landing Presented by Brown Jug Alaska →
  1222 Cowles St, Fairbanks
  6:00 pm
Friday September 18
• Foodies + New Friends: Fairbanks | Entrepreneur Edition →
  Restaurant of the Week, 2nd Avenue, Fairbanks
• Kids Eat FREE Night →
  4:00 pm
• Paint & Sip: Bring Your Own Jacket →
  5:00 pm
• Valdez at Hutchison →
  Hutchison High School, 3750 Geist Rd, Fairbanks
  6:00 pm
• Oktoberfest 2026 →
  Silver Gulch Brewing & Bottling Co., 2195 Old Steese Highway North, Fairbanks
  7:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

North Pole

• 5 Cheap Ways to Fight Mosquitoes in Fairbanks & North Pole (newsminer.com)
• Santa's workshop remains top secret as 100 Days to Christmas countdown begins (kutv.com)
• Public Safety Report, Sept. 15, 2026 (newsminer.com)

Fairbanks

• Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Alaska Does Things the Fairbanks Way (uuworld.org)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: because there are more geese on that side (Thank you jo L. for sending it in!)
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