🌱 Patch AM: How a Brandon assisted-living home turns workouts into full-on dance parties

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In today's newsletter:

• How a Brandon assisted-living home turns workouts into full-on dance parties
• Meet the Brandon hospital baby perfectly matched to the number 27

Today's riddle: What did the tree say when Spring arrived? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Friday: Rather cloudy with a t-storm, with a high of 91 and low of 75 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Saturday: An afternoon thunderstorm, temps: high: 93, low: 74.
• Sunday: Humid; an afternoon t-storm, with a high of 92 and low of 75 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Bay Area married couple brings joy, movement to seniors through dance (fox13news.com) — Seniors at Ambiance at Brandon are turning their regular workouts into lively dance parties, thanks to Navy veteran couple Jimmie and Martha Blount, known as Latin Breeze. Visiting multiple Tampa Bay assisted-living facilities each week, they lead hour-long, music-filled sessions that start with small movements and build into full-room celebrations that get residents, and even staff, dancing together.
   

• Plant City family welcomes baby born at 8:27 a.m. on 8/27 (wfla.com) — A Plant City family welcomed baby Claire Rose Bendorf at HCA Florida Brandon Hospital, where she arrived at exactly 8:27 a.m. on 8/27. Adding to the fun coincidence, she was even placed in hospital room 27, giving Brandon locals a numerically neat story to smile about.
   

📸 Around Brandon

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Monday August 31
• Early Release Day (Students released 1 hour early)
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• Chorus Begins (4th & 5th Grade)
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• Art Club Begins (4th & 5th Grade)
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  Limona Brandon, FL 33510
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• Student Picture Day
  Yates Brandon, FL 33510
Friday September 4
• Color Run Spirit Day
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• Scholastic Book Fair
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🗓 Events Nearby

Monday August 31
• Early Release Day (Students released 1 hour early)
  Brooker Brandon, FL 33511
• Chorus Begins (4th & 5th Grade)
  Valrico , FL 33594
  12:55 pm
• Art Club Begins (4th & 5th Grade)
  Valrico , FL 33594
  12:55 pm
• SAC Meeting
  Colson Seffner, FL 33584
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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Dog found on Wheeler Road in Brandon.
  We have him so please contact me at dariza38@yahoo.com. (Nextdoor Woodberry)
• Hey guys, I'm hoping for some sort of advice or guidance for my dog.
  She developed this lump a while over time it's gotten to this size and she's beginning to limp. Any idea on what this could be? And is there any… (Nextdoor Hamlin at Lake Brandon)

• Florida Orthopaedic Institute posted a job opening for Administrative Medical Assistant in Brandon. Apply here.
• Public Storage, Inc. posted a job opening for Customer Service - Self Storage Manager in Brandon. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Brandon here.

🗞 Nearby News

South Tampa

• Tampa Traffic Alert: Water Main Break Shuts Down Stretch Of South Himes Avenue (tampafp.com)
• Tampa's Black History Museum hosts Zora Neale Hurston book talk on Monday (cltampa.com)
• 'My platform hasn't changed': Tampa State Rep. Brian Nathan on unions, affordability and more (cltampa.com)

Valrico

• Fla.: Surgeon Gen. Ladapo advances plan to drop 4 school vaccine mandates for pre-K-12 students (oann.com)

Tampa

• Tropical Storm Dolly Forms In The Atlantic (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: What a re-leaf! (Thank you Flo G. for sending it in!)
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