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🌱 Patch AM: What’s changed for Winder school safety two years after Apalachee?

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  • What's changed for Winder school safety two years after Apalachee?

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Today's riddle: What happened to the pregnant cat that ate yarn? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high of 86 and low of 63 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Wednesday: Humid with plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 87, low: 68.
  • Thursday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 86 and low of 71 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Two years after the Apalachee school shooting, is Georgia doing enough to keep kids safe? (thegeorgiasun.com) — Two years after the deadly Apalachee High School shooting in Winder, state leaders and local advocates are debating whether Georgia has done enough to keep students safe. The remembrance day highlighted the community's resilience while renewing pressure for measures like safe gun storage, weapon detection systems, and broader, bipartisan school safety reforms that could directly affect families in Winder and Barrow County.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: She had mittens! (Thank you April M. for sending it in!)
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