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Also on today's calendar: Halloweeen After Dark and 13 more events.
Today's riddle: What do you get if you buy a French ax and have it shipped? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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1. Local Event: TVNPA Power of Giving Celebration! (patch.com) — A major nonprofit celebration is coming to downtown Livermore as the Tri-Valley Nonprofit Alliance hosts its Power of Giving Celebration at the Bankhead Theater on Thursday, November 12. Local residents can network with nonprofit leaders, volunteers, and officials while enjoying stories, entertainment, and recognition of the people and organizations strengthening the Tri-Valley through generosity and collaboration.
2. Livermore City Council grants raises to top officials (livermorevine.com) — Livermore residents will soon see pay changes for both top city leaders and many frontline workers, after the City Council approved raises for the city manager, city attorney, executive managers, and minimum-wage employees. The adjustments, mostly already budgeted, boost leadership compensation following performance reviews while also raising the city's minimum wage to $17.40 an hour for 56 employees starting in late December.
3. NorCal Restaurant Claims Spot On Global 'Best' List + 18-Hole Disc Golf Course Opens: Saturday Smiles (patch.com) — Livermore is getting a new 6.8-acre Springtown Community Park and 18-hole disc golf course, with a grand opening planned next week that residents can attend. The region is also celebrating Livermore Valley's recognition as American Wine Region of the Year, alongside other uplifting Northern California stories from wildlife rescues to a top-ranked Wine Country restaurant.
4. Two San Jose women arrested after body dumped in Livermore (newsbreak.com) — Investigators say a homicide victim was killed in San Jose and then dumped in a ravine off Tesla Road in Livermore, where a passerby discovered the body in August. Two San Jose women have now been arrested on suspicion of murder after a multi-agency investigation, though authorities are still working to determine the motive and full circumstances.
5. Machine-learning models predict human health from microbiome data (phys.org) — Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore are using advanced machine-learning models to turn microbiome data into clues about human health and disease risk. Their work could eventually help predict conditions like traveler's diarrhea or wound infections for both military personnel and civilians, while also showcasing the cutting-edge biomedical research happening right in Livermore's backyard.
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you get if you buy a French ax and have it shipped?" — You have a foreign ax-sent (accent) (Thank you Carrie E. for sending it in!)
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