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Today's riddle: What do you call a paper airplane that can't fly? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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• Concrete Jungle Athens Partners with Local Gourmet & Fly-Fishing Pro for Root Vegetable Pick (athensceo.com) — Concrete Jungle Athens is ramping up efforts to fight food insecurity and waste in Athens-Clarke County, organizing volunteers to glean surplus produce and donate it to the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia. A new partnership with local entrepreneur Abby Jackson will host a root vegetable pick on November 14, helping ACC residents in food deserts access fresh produce while cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
• Athens commission to vote on camping restrictions, street vendor changes (nowgeorgia.com) — Athens-Clarke County commissioners are set to vote tonight on new restrictions affecting homeless camping in public areas and on-site cooking by College Square street vendors, with big implications for downtown. The agenda also includes naming the East Broad Street bridge, advancing a new judicial center, and renewing a commercial lease, and residents can watch live online or attend at City Hall.
• American Ingenuity or a Broken System? (decisionsindentistry.com) — Athens guitarist and composer Shane Parish turned a painful, $5,000-plus dental bill into creative fuel by writing and releasing a new album called "Dental Work." After a health scare while touring, he returned home to Athens, recorded looping electric guitar pieces, and is now inviting listeners to support the project to help cover his treatment costs.
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you call a paper airplane that can't fly?" — Stationary (Thank you David H. for sending it in!)
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