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What's up Columbus! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How a Columbus nonprofit just turned community support into 60 scholarships
  • Meet the new poet living and writing in McCullers' Columbus home
  • How you can honor 9/11 heroes at Synovus Park Saturday

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  • Saturday: Humid; a p.m. t-storm or two, with a high of 88 and low of 72 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
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  • Monday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 96 and low of 70 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Back Columbus Blue distributes $30K in scholarship funds (nowgeorgia.com) — A Columbus-based nonprofit, Back Columbus Blue, is awarding $30,000 in scholarships to local first responders and their children, including members of Columbus Police, Columbus Fire & EMS, and Columbus State University Police. Sixty $500 scholarships, funded by community-supported events like an annual golf tournament, recognize their service and help families with education costs.
   

2. Meet Columbus State's newest writer-in-residence at a welcome mixer for the poet (ledger-enquirer.com) — You're invited to welcome poet Sarah Jordan, the new writer-in-residence at Columbus State University's Carson McCullers Center, during a mixer at McCullers' childhood home in midtown Columbus. Guests can meet her, tour the historic Stark Avenue house-museum, and help shape the community that will inspire her poetry and a public reading planned for November.
   

3. Departments hold memorial stair climbs to honor firefighters lost on 9/11 (wtvm.com) — Columbus First Responders will host their second annual 9/11 memorial stair climb at Synovus Park this Saturday, honoring the 343 firefighters lost in the attacks. Participants will climb the equivalent of 110 stories, wearing badges with individual firefighters' names. Proceeds support the Terry Farrell Firefighter's Fund, which aids first responders and their families across the region.
   

4. Ledger-Enquirer's owner expands portfolio with acquisition of newspapers in fourth state (ledger-enquirer.com) — The nonprofit that owns Columbus' Ledger-Enquirer, the National Trust for Local News, is expanding again by acquiring the Vermont Community Newspaper Group. While the move mainly affects Vermont readers, it signals continued growth and stability for the Trust's portfolio, which already includes the Ledger-Enquirer and other Georgia papers under nonprofit ownership.
   

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  • Major Cheat Code for life:
    Realising you can just stop at any point and say "well, that's enough of that" and completely change direction (Nextdoor Brookview / Rockhurst)
  • Turned my vacuum on and went out the front door, and came inside.
    Hour later I was like where is my vacuum? Well I found it. Got up some leaves lol (Nextdoor Edgewood Addition)
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Ok Columbus! 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: Hold me close John Deere. (Thank you Jenny H. for sending it in!)
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