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🌱 Patch AM: How Baldwin Park football is capitalizing on Pasadena’s transfer exodus
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In today's newsletter:
- How Baldwin Park football is capitalizing on Pasadena's transfer exodus
Today's riddle: What do you get when you cross an angry cow with an angry sheep? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Thursday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high of 100 and low of 74 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Friday: Mostly sunny and very warm, temps: high: 94, low: 69.
- Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 88 and low of 65 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Pasadena football struggles after mass exodus of transfers leave for neighboring schools (modbee.com) — Baldwin Park High's football program just gained four key transfers from Pasadena, including standout receiver Damari Pitts, as Pasadena's once-strong team struggles with a major talent exodus. The story explains how coaching changes, graduation, and transfer rules have gutted Pasadena's roster, raising safety concerns while neighboring programs like Baldwin Park and Charter Oak benefit from the influx.
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Baldwin Park
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- Dual Language Club Elections
Baldwin Park Unified Baldwin Park, CA 91706
12:00 pm
Friday September 11
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Collaboration Day
Hugo Reid Elementary School Arcadia, CA 91007
8:10 am - DSW: Thriving (Gidley/Shirpser/Rio)
Shirpser Elementary Gidley Elementary School, 10226 Lower Azusa Rd, El Monte, CA 91
8:30 am - Annual Crosstown Showdown (BPHS vs SVHS)
Baldwin Park Unified BPHS Ted K. Gorell Stadium
1:00 pm - Frosh Boys Football: Burroughs Vs Arroyo @ Arroyo ( 4pm)
Arroyo High El Monte, CA 91732
4:00 pm - Home JV Girl's Volleyball VS. Webb
Covina High School Covina, CA 91723
4:45 pm - Back to School Night
El Monte High El Monte, CA 91731
5:00 pm - Volleyball, Girls VR @ Montebello
El Monte High El Monte, CA 91731
5:15 pm - WC Threat Youth Basketball
Wescove Elementary CAMERON PARK COMMUNITY CENTER-GYM 1363 E Cameron Ave, West Covina, CA 91790, USA
5:30 pm - Home VAR Girl's Volleyball VS. Webb
Covina High School Covina, CA 91723
6:00 pm - Regular Meeting of the Board of Education
Duarte Unified Duarte Community Center 1600 Huntington Drive Duarte, CA 91010
6:00 pm - VR Football vs La Serna
Northview High Covina District Field
7:00 pm
Thursday September 10
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: An animal that's in a baaaaad mooood! (Thank you Lisa A. for sending it in!)
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