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🌱 Lift-Up hopes to bring community hot meals to Parachute
Parachute, Colorado Patch AM: a 3 min readHello Parachute! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- Lift-Up hopes to bring community hot meals to Parachute
Also on today's calendar: Social Roots and 2 more events.
Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 64 and low of 34 degrees.
- Thursday: Sunny and pleasant, temps: high: 63, low: 35.
- Friday: Beautiful with clouds and sun, with a high of 63 and low of 39 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• KMTS Connctions: Lift Up Food Programs and Ways to Help (kmts.com) — Lift-Up hopes to bring its Extended Table hot meal program to Parachute in January, adding shared community meals alongside its existing food pantry. Executive director Samantha Freese said volunteers are central to the program, and the organization needs help with meals, pantry operations and food sorting as demand for assistance grows. 
📸 Around Parachute
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Upcoming Events in
Parachute
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★ Featured events ★
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Rifle Friends of the Library Book Club →
Rifle Branch Library, 207 East Ave, Rifle
1:00 pm
Wednesday November 18
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Other local events
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Social Roots →
Parachute Branch Library, 244 Grand Valley Way, Parachute
1:30 pm -
Digital Domination →
Parachute Branch Library, 244 Grand Valley Way, Parachute
2:00 pm -
Teen Maker Space Workshop: Sewing →
Parachute Branch Library, 244 Grand Valley Way, Parachute
2:00 pm -
A Killer's Confession →
Ute Theater and Events Center, 132 E 4th St, Rifle
5:00 pm
Saturday November 21
Sunday November 22
Tuesday November 24
Wednesday December 2
📣 Parachute Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Unseen but Real: Navigating the Reality of Chronic Pain →
Grand River – Clinic West, 201 Sipprelle Drive, Battlement Mesa
12:00 pm -
GVMS Boys Basketball vs Aspen 7th Home
Grand Valley Middle School-1-GVMS (1000)
4:15 pm -
Fall Play - I am Frankenstein
Grand Valley High School-1-GVHS-Cardinal Hall (500)
6:30 pm -
PBMPRD November Board of Directors Meeting →
Grand Valley Recreation Center, 0398 Arroyo Dr., Battlement Mesa
5:30 pm -
GVMS Boys Basketball vs Rifle 8th Home
Grand Valley Middle School-1-GVMS (1000)
4:15 pm -
Rise and Restore Rifle →
Rifle Branch Library, 207 East Ave, Rifle
5:00 pm -
GVMS Boys Basketball vs Glenwood 8th Home
Grand Valley Middle School-1-GVMS (1000)
4:15 pm
Thursday November 12
Friday November 13
Monday November 16
Tuesday November 17
Thursday November 19
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- If you need a Plumber CALL A1 plumbing and Heating.
They are excellent. We have been using them for 26 years and have been happy with all they done from furnace repair, to instance water heater… (Nextdoor Tamarisk Village)
- pOpshelf posted a job opening for ASST STORE MGR in PARACHUTE CO S19727 in Parachute. Apply here.
- Orkin Global Pest Control posted a job opening for Pest Control Technician - Training in Parachute. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Parachute here.
🗞 Nearby News
Rifle
- Trauma & ADHD Therapy in Rifle and Delta (squarespace.com)
- Rifle City Council unanimously approves data center regulations (postindependent.com)
- Can Fairview's Ki Ellison tame Mountain Vista again? How many points will Holy Family-Silver Creek II produce? Here's this week's Boulder and Longmont football playoff preview (dailycamera.com)
Silt
- Wilderness Workshop asks Rifle City Council to consider Roan Plateau protection resolution (postindependent.com)
Palisade
- Thompson Valley Softball Schedule (maxpreps.com)
Ok Parachute! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!
-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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