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🌱 Patch AM: Could your family qualify for these new Sayonara Drive Habitat homes?

You won't want to miss Circus Vargas Presents "Masquerade!" in Folsom! on the Citrus Heights Patch calendar

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Friday August 21st Patch AM (Patch graphic)

Good day Citrus Heights! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Could your family qualify for these new Sayonara Drive Habitat homes?
  • How one hometown engineer cut many Citrus Heights flood insurance bills
  • Why police shut down part of Auburn Boulevard Thursday afternoon

Also on today's calendar: Circus Vargas Presents "Masquerade!" in Folsom!.

Today's riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Partly sunny and warm, with a high of 93 and low of 61 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Saturday: Sunny and remaining warm, temps: high: 95, low: 63.
  • Sunday: Hot with clouds and sun, with a high of 97 and low of 63 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Habitat for Humanity accepting applications for six more homes on Sayonara Drive (citrusheightssentinel.com) — Six new affordable homes on Sayonara Drive in Citrus Heights are now accepting applications as part of a major Habitat for Humanity partnership with the city. Local working families who meet income guidelines must first attend a virtual orientation before receiving an application, with the current window running through mid-October and more phases of homes still to come.
   

• Meet Daniel Kehrer, local high school grad turned civil engineer (citrusheightssentinel.com) — A Mesa Verde High School graduate now serving as a senior civil engineer for the City of Citrus Heights helped secure a 15% flood insurance discount for many local residents through FEMA's Community Rating System. Daniel Kehrer's work on floodplain management, safety projects, and major grant applications is shaping infrastructure improvements across the same neighborhoods where he grew up.
   

• Citrus Heights Police pursue armed subject, causing temporary road closure (citrusheightssentinel.com) — An armed man walking in the middle of Auburn Boulevard near Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights was safely detained Thursday after police briefly closed westbound lanes during a tense foot pursuit. Officers repeatedly warned him to drop a sharp object he held to his neck, and no injuries or shots fired were reported before traffic fully reopened.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Friday August 21
  • V/JV/FS Girls Volleyball vs. Union Mine
    Oakmont High School Oakmont
    4:30 pm
  • Talking Tigers during ROAR
    Roseville High School Roseville, CA 95661
    5:00 pm
  • Party on the Quad
    Gold Ridge Elementary Folsom, CA 95630
    5:00 pm
  • JV/V Football Jamboree @ Pioneer
    Oakmont High School Pioneer High School
    5:30 pm
  • Family Picnic in the Park
    Thomas Jefferson Elementary Roseville, CA 95678
    6:00 pm
    • Saturday August 22
  • V/JV/FS B/G Cross Country Sierra Invitational
    Oakmont High School Sierra College, Rocklin
    8:00 am
  • Dirty Cello →
    Fair Oaks Performing Arts Center, 7991 California Ave, Fair Oaks
    6:30 pm
    • Monday August 24
  • Fall Picture Day - All Students Photographed in PE
    George a. Buljan Middle Roseville, CA 95678
    8:05 am
  • Rocklin Arts Commission Meeting
    Rocklin City City Hall - Council Chambers 3970 Rocklin Rd. Rocklin, CA 95677
    5:00 pm
  • PTC- Fall Fest Committee
    Diamond Creek Elementary Nugget Market
    6:00 pm

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  • Clean Slate to rock Historic Folsom for Rotary benefit concert Sept. 18 (folsomtimes.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A sponge (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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