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🌱 Phoenix Grants + Hearts On Fire Festival + Shooting Near 107th Ave.
The quickest way to get caught up on the most important things happening today in Phoenix.
Hello, Phoenix! Like many of you, the Patch staff will be taking some time off to enjoy the holiday this weekend. Your next newsletter will be in your inbox on Tuesday morning. Now, here's everything you need to know about what's going on in town today.
First, today's weather:
Partly sunny and very warm. High: 106 Low: 84.
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Here are the top three stories today in Phoenix:
- The Phoenix City Council has awarded grants to food-tech innovators. Seven recipients were approved for the Agri-Food Tech Innovation Grant to help them adopt agri-food technologies and innovations into their operations. The year's total available grant funding is $400,000, with awards ranging from $1,000 to $99,000. (Daily Independent)
- A new music festival is coming to Phoenix this September. The new Hearts on Fire festival, headlined by The All-American Rejects, is an all-ages event co-presented by local promoters Relentless Beats and Pskyo Steve Presents. The festival will take place on Sept. 23 at Phoenix Raceway, 7602 Jimmie Johnson Drive, Avondale. (Phoenix New Times)
- Phoenix officers were involved in a shooting near 107th Avenue and Camelback Road on Thursday night. Officers were dispatched at around 11:15 p.m. for a suspicious person and made contact with a man with a gun. The man fired several shots at the police, leading them to fire their weapons. (ABC15 Arizona in Phoenix)
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Today in and around Phoenix:
- Writer In Residence: One-On-One Consultation With Betty Webb, At Foothills Branch Library (11:00 AM)
- Old-Time Music Jam, At Foothills Branch Library (11:30 AM)
- Light Up The Sky Celebration, At Phoenix Raceway (5:00 PM)
From my notebook:
- The Phoenix Mexican restaurant Ladera Taverna is closing after six years in Phoenix's Sunnyslope neighborhood and will reopen as The Vig. (KTAR.com)
- The Phoenix Police Department is sadly sharing that another retired K9 has passed away. "Ronin" was born in 2008 and came to the Phoenix Police Department in 2010. He served the community with his handler for eight years before retiring in 2018. (Phoenix Police Department via Facebook)
- Phoenix Fire Department has a message for K-12 school employees: "Children deserve to be safe at school… and Valley first responders have partnered to provide critical active shooter preparedness training to make sure of that." (Phoenix Fire Department via Facebook)
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Now you're in the loop and ready to start this Saturday! I'll see you soon.
— Dominique-Noelle Rafael
About me: Dominique is a self taught UX/UI designer based in Princeton, NJ. She recently graduated from the University of Maryland last spring with a bachelor's degree in Information Science. She is excited to begin working on the Patch newsletter project this year!
