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🌱 How Palmetto retirees are secretly feeding hundreds of local kids weekly

Be sure to catch A Quiet Room For The Exhausted - Sound Bath, Thu 9/17 on the Palmetto Patch calendar

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  • How Palmetto retirees are secretly feeding hundreds of local kids weekly

Also on today's calendar: A Quiet Room For The Exhausted - Sound Bath, Thu 9/17 and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: When geese fly, one side is longer than the other. do you know why that is ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Thursday: A stray afternoon t-storm, with a high of 91 and low of 75 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Friday: Cloudy with a t-storm or two, temps: high: 90, low: 74.
  • Saturday: Humid; an afternoon t-storm, with a high of 88 and low of 74 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• 'Quiet as Mice': How Palmetto seniors and 'The Kind Mouse' Are feeding hundreds of hungry students (mysuncoast.com) — Palmetto retirees in the Imperial Lakes community are quietly packing hundreds of weekend snack bags each week to help food-insecure students at nearby Manatee schools. Partnering with The Kind Mouse and a Bradenton distribution hub, they're delivering over 1,000 pounds of food weekly, making it easier for local families to access nutritious options right on school campuses.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: because there are more geese on that side (Thank you jo L. for sending it in!)
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