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  • How safe are walking routes to Brandon schools this year?

Also on today's calendar: Elite K9 Service and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Saturday: A t-storm in the afternoon, with a high of 89 and low of 73 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Tampa students walk, bike to school as safety takes center stage at campus without buses (fox13news.com) — Hillsborough County schools, including several in Brandon, are taking part in National Walk & Bike to School Day, highlighting the need for safer walking and biking routes for students. A new partnership at Tampa's Sulphur Springs K-8 with nonprofit Sidewalk Stompers aims to improve everyday routes, and lessons from that effort could influence safety improvements around Brandon-area campuses too.
   

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  • I'm apparently the kind of person who can walk past rolls of wallpaper for a week and keep telling myself, "I'll get to it.
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-- The Patch AM Team

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