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🌱 Patch AM: Red Cross Urges Poway Residents To Donate Blood This Fall

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In today's newsletter:

  • Poway blood drive offers gift cards while helping local patients
  • How yesterday's fatal SR-67 crash disrupted Poway's morning commute

Also on today's calendar: Prepping Your Garden for El Niño and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the cookie go to the hospital? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Mostly sunny and very warm, with a high of 91 and low of 65 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Saturday: Times of clouds and sun, temps: high: 82, low: 66.
  • Sunday: Tropical Rainstorm Rachel, with a high of 74 and low of 61 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Red Cross Urges Poway Residents To Donate Blood This Fall (patch.com) — Poway residents are being urged to donate blood or platelets this fall, with a local Red Cross drive scheduled at Community Church of Poway on October 15. Donors can earn e-gift cards and, at select drives, SeaWorld Howl-O-Scream tickets, while helping maintain a stable blood supply for regional hospitals and emergencies.
   

• Poway, California: Fatal Highway 67 Crash Leaves One Dead and Another Critically Injured (theunionstar.com) — A deadly two-vehicle crash on State Route 67 in Poway Thursday morning killed one person, critically injured another, and shut down the highway in both directions for hours, snarling local traffic. Southbound lanes closed at Archie Moore Road and northbound drivers were diverted at Poway Road while the Poway Fire Department and sheriff's deputies responded and began investigating the cause.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why did the cookie go to the hospital?" — Because he felt crummy. (Thank you Sanda J. for sending it in!)
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