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🌱 Patch AM: Pleasanton Hosting Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

Also, don't miss Celebrate International Grenache Day Weekend Sale on the Pleasanton Patch calendar

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

In today's newsletter:

  • Free Mid-Autumn Moon Festival brightens Pleasanton's Pacific Pearl Saturday
  • How will Oracle's 63 Pleasanton layoffs reshape local tech careers?
  • What happens to Tri-Valley nonprofits if this bingo hall must move?

Also on today's calendar: Celebrate International Grenache Day Weekend Sale and 19 more events.

Today's riddle: What day of the year is trucker's day? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Warmer with sunshine, with a high of 83 and low of 55 degrees.
  • Saturday: Partly sunny, temps: high: 88, low: 56. 🌶 Hot!
  • Sunday: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 74 and low of 55 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Pleasanton Hosting Mid-Autumn Moon Festival (patch.com) — Pleasanton residents can celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival on Saturday at Pacific Pearl, with free family-friendly activities near the 85°C Bakery Cafe on Stoneridge Drive. The event will feature a lion dance, martial arts, face painting, and balloon art, while also highlighting similar celebrations in San Francisco and Oakland.
   

• Oracle is cutting hundreds more Bay Area jobs. Here's where (sfchronicle.com) — Oracle plans to cut 63 jobs in Pleasanton as part of 441 Bay Area layoffs taking effect November 13, according to new state filings. The move is tied to a broader restructuring as the company trims staff while expanding its cloud business, potentially affecting local tech workers and their families in and around Pleasanton.
   

• 'BINGO!' Inside Tri-Valley game hall that serves as ongoing fundraiser for local nonprofits (pleasantonweekly.com) — A popular Tri-Valley bingo hall in Livermore is powering a Pleasanton-area nonprofit network, raising about $115,000 a month to support groups like Tri-Valley Haven and the Tri-Valley Nonprofit Alliance. With its shopping center slated for demolition by 2027, organizers are urgently searching for a new location to keep this major funding source for local charities—and its 2,500 monthly players—alive.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: 10-4, good buddy! (Thank you Jean H. for sending it in!)
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