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• How Castro Valley’s bats answered back after a 10-0 shutout loss

Also on today's calendar: Historic Petaluma Hosts 43rd Butter & Egg Days Parade & Festival and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What is the DJ's favorite part of the candy? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Partly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 77 and low of 52 degrees.
• Sunday: Partly sunny and pleasant, temps: high: 71, low: 52.
• Monday: A couple of afternoon showers, with a high of 69 and low of 56 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• High school sports roundup: St. Francis splits with St. Ignatius as Lancers shut down Wildcats' bats (fresnobee.com) — Castro Valley High’s baseball team bounced back from a 10-0 loss to Berkeley by winning 8-5 on Friday, powered by a five-run second inning and a two-run homer from Sam Galli. The Trojans, now 8-9 overall, also got two RBIs from Aidan Hackbarth as they earned a key WACC Foothill split against one of the Bay Area’s top-ranked teams.    

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📸 Around Castro Valley

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Castro Valley

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday April 18

• Historic Petaluma Hosts 43rd Butter & Egg Days Parade & Festival
  Historic Downtown Petaluma,
  10:00 am
• You're Invited: Coastline Open House
  Coastline Christian Schools, 1801 N Loop Rd, Alameda
  10:00 am
• Edible Gardening Hands-On Workshop
  888 C St, Hayward, CA, 94541,
  11:00 am

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Other local events

Saturday April 18

• Angus & Friends Cat Rescue Fundraiser at Panda Express in Hayward
  Panda Express , 783 A St , Hayward
  9:00 am

Sunday April 19

• Paint n Sip: "Butterfly on Flower"
  Artist Center , 3742 Castro Valley Blvd Suite A , Castro Valley
  1:00 pm

Friday April 24

• Battle of the Valley-Flag Football
  Castro Valley High School , 19400 Santa Maria Ave , Castro Valley
  6:00 pm

Saturday April 25

• Alameda County Master Gardeners Plant Sale + Open House
  2850 West St, Oakland, CA, 94608 (enter West St. & MLK)
  9:00 am
• 12th Annual Safe Kids Day
  Oakland Arena , 7000 S Coliseum Wy , Oakland
  10:00 am

Tuesday April 28

• Techfootin #124 Online Auction
  , Hayward
  9:00 am
• Are You Feeling Stuck in Your House?
  Castro Valley Women's Club , 18330 Redwood Rd , Castro Valley
  11:30 am

Friday May 1

• Tri-Valley Artist Studio Tour, May 1, 2 & 3 2026
  Around town
  10:00 am

Saturday May 2

• Spring Craft Fair
  Christian Life Church , 1699 Orchard Ave , San Leandro
  10:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Report of police activity at school in Fremont, California.
  8:14AM on Apr 16: There is a lot of police activity reported at Parkmont Elementary this morning. (Nextdoor )

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🗞 Nearby News

San Leandro

• Silver Moon LP DBA Loard's Ice Cream Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Milk, Eggs, Tree Nuts, Peanuts, Soy, Wheat, Sulfites, and Food Color Additives in Ice Cream Products (fda.gov)
• Antioch launches transparency portal for controversial Flock cameras (mercurynews.com)
• Peterson Cat Acquires Plumas, Lassen County Caterpillar Sales & Service Territory (sierradailynews.com)

Hayward

• After three pedestrian deaths in 10 days, Hayward adopts safer streets plan (mercurynews.com)

Danville

• 96-Year-Old Danville Artist Opening His Studio To The Public (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The wrapper (rapper) (Thank you Austin D. for sending it in!)Got a good riddle for PatchAM? Submit it here!

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