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🌱 Patch AM: Former Pacifica HR manager shares how public service shaped her career.

Happening soon: FREE WATERFRONT PARTY This SUNDAY AT OYSTER POINT! on the Pacifica Patch calendar

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Hello again Pacifica! We're bringing you the latest town highlights. Don't miss out, keep going! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Former Pacifica HR manager shares how public service shaped her career.

Also on today's calendar: FREE WATERFRONT PARTY This SUNDAY AT OYSTER POINT! and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What is the difference between black eyed peas and chick peas? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Low clouds, then some sun, with a high of 66 and low of 59 degrees.
  • Thursday: Partly sunny, temps: high: 70, low: 59.
  • Friday: Cool with periods of sun, with a high of 68 and low of 58 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Lia Douglass: Drawn to Making a Difference (pshra.org) — A longtime public-sector HR professional who once worked for the City of Pacifica is now leading human resources and risk management for the Vallejo Flood & Wastewater District. She describes how her family's tradition of public service, including work in wastewater, shaped her career and why she remains committed to helping employees and communities thrive.
   

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  • Humpback Whales Lunging and Mother/Calf Pair, Pacifica 9/14/26.
    I hadn't been planning on filming the whales today, but when the mother/calf pair popped up in direct view from where I was sitting, just as I was… (Nextdoor Sharp Park)
  • Hello everybody I was at the Fairmont shopping center on Hickey and Gateway, where Safeway and spirit store is in dollar tree and I found these keys sitting in like a pot of dirt.
    I am assuming somebody dropped them and so I picked them up in hopes that if I post a picture of them, somebody will see that I have their keys and… (Nextdoor Westview)
  • CROSSMARK posted a job opening for retail merchandising HIRES IMMEDIATELY in Pacifica. Apply here.
  • Stripe posted a job opening for Account Executive, Product Sales - Billing (Velocity) in South San Francisco. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Pacifica here.

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Black eyed peas can sing us a song but chick peas can only hummus one. (Thank you Bev H. for sending it in!)
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