Wednesday: Near-record heat, with a high of 114 and low of 88 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• YPG employee and her dogs bring dog lovers together for Pack Walks (yumasun.com) — A Yuma Test Center employee and her two doodles have turned social media fame into a real-world community through monthly Yuma Pack Walks. Dog owners meet on second Sundays at Lowe's in summer and downtown Main Street in winter, enjoying swag, socialization for their pets, and charity drives that support homeless pet owners through Crossroads Mission.
• I Keep Being Asked Why an Industry That Just Lost a Season Would Fight the Rule That Would Protect It. The Honest Answer Is That the Arithmetic Used to Work. It Stopped Working in July. (marlerblog.com) — Yuma's lettuce and leafy greens growers are being dragged into costly nationwide foodborne illness outbreaks they didn't cause because weak traceability rules spread the damage across entire regions. The writer explains how industry economics long favored delaying stronger tracking, but argues this summer's massive Cyclospora outbreak and lost harvests show it's now cheaper and fairer to quickly adopt robust traceability and sampling.
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Visit del sol neighborhood. Found this senior Tan Huskey , partially blind . Black harness . According to the ring neighborhood app this dog has been lost and found about four… (Nextdoor Yuma Foothills)
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🗞 Nearby News
Somerton
Yuma arts organizations and programs receive grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts (yumasun.com)
Phoenix Rising FC brings recreational soccer league to Yuma County (yumasun.com)
Desert Gardener: As Old as Methusaleh - 2,000-year-old seed grows a healthy date palm (yumasun.com)
San Luis
Canadian Actor Detained by ICE at US Border for Nearly Two Weeks, Describes 'Inhumane' Conditions (resistthemainstream.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
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