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🌱 Family Storytime With Stay and Play and 11 more events

Also check out Bay Area Connect Conference on the Ladera Patch calendar

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Coming up on the calendar:

  • Bay Area Connect Conference at San Mateo Elks Lodge
  • Family Storytime With Stay and Play at Pacifica Sanchez Library
  • Dungeons & Dragons at Portola Valley Library

... and check out 8 more events on the calendar!

Today's riddle: What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Very warm, with a high of 89 and low of 55 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Friday: Not as warm but pleasant, temps: high: 78, low: 54.
  • Saturday: Partly sunny and not as warm, with a high of 68 and low of 52 degrees.

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Other local events
    Saturday October 10
  • Family Storytime With Stay and Play
    Pacifica Sanchez Library, 1111 Terra Nova Boulevard, Pacifica
    11:15 am
  • Dungeons & Dragons
    Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley
    12:30 pm
  • VolunTEEN Hour
    Pacifica Sanchez Library, 1111 Terra Nova Boulevard, Pacifica
    2:00 pm
  • Tuesday October 13
  • Spanish Bilingual Storytime | Hora de Cuentos Bilingue
    Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley
    10:30 am
  • Musical Storytime With Stay and Play at San Pedro Valley Park
    Pacifica Sanchez Library, 1111 Terra Nova Boulevard, Pacifica
    10:30 am
  • Gem Painting at the Library!
    Pacifica Sanchez Library, 1111 Terra Nova Boulevard, Pacifica
    12:30 pm
  • Dancheong Sun-Catcher Workshop
    Pacifica Sanchez Library, 1111 Terra Nova Boulevard, Pacifica
    3:30 pm
  • Traditional Copal Wood Alebrije Painting for Día de los Muertos
    Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley
    3:30 pm
  • Wednesday October 14
  • Stories of Light: Celebrating Diwali
    Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley
    10:30 am
  • 3D Print and Paint
    Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley
    2:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Thursday October 8
  • Qi Gong Class →
    Independence Hall, 2955 Woodside Road, Woodside
    9:00 am
  • Baby Bounce Storytime
    Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley
    10:30 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • There is an emergency vehicle on El Camino Real...
    There is an emergency vehicle on El Camino Real reported at 10:07 PM. "Fire vehicle on scene" (Nextdoor )
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    There is road construction on US-101 S reported at 10:01 PM. "US-101 South - Highway Construction Route 101" (Nextdoor )

🗞 Nearby News

Portola Valley

Woodside

  • Woodside Town Council District 2: Lyle Weaver (almanacnews.com)
  • Woodside whistleblower report continues to stir up controversy (almanacnews.com)
  • A 1963 Corvette Grand Sport, one of only five ever built, sold for $18,705,000 to become the world's most valuable Corvette (newsbreak.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white?" — A chalk board (Thank you Charlie H. for sending it in!)
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