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🌱 Patch AM: How a Brandon assisted-living home turns workouts into full-on dance parties
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Hey there, Brandon! Let's get started with what's happening in and around town. Read on and stay in the loop. ☀️
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!)
- 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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🗓 Upcoming Events in Brandon
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- 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 - Drumming Hawks Practice Begins (4th & 5th Grade)
Valrico , FL 33594
1:55 am - Picture Day
Limona Brandon, FL 33510
8:00 am - Student Picture Day
Yates Brandon, FL 33510 - Color Run Spirit Day
Valrico , FL 33594 - Scholastic Book Fair
Yates Brandon, FL 33510
8:00 am
Monday August 31
Tuesday September 1
Wednesday September 2
Thursday September 3
Friday September 4
📣 Brandon Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
- 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
2:30 pm
Monday August 31
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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)
Ok Brandon! 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 a re-leaf! (Thank you Flo G. for sending it in!)
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