Community Corner
🌱 How a Fayetteville foster dad inspired a new legacy award
Coming up: LOVE, LIES & HOPE: An Intimate Book Signing & Live Podcast Experience on the Fayetteville Patch calendar
What's up Fayetteville! 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 Fayetteville foster dad inspired a new legacy award
Also on today's calendar: Fayetteville Comedy Festival and 5 more events.
Today's riddle: What has 2 arms and a neck but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Thursday: Partly sunny and very warm, with a high of 95 and low of 72 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Friday: A t-storm around in the p.m., temps: high: 93, low: 71.
- Saturday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 96 and low of 72 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Bloom Honors Foster Father with Inaugural Nazeeh Shabazz North Star Fatherhood Award (thecitizen.com) — Bloom, the foster-care nonprofit based in Fayetteville, is honoring the legacy of longtime foster parent Nazeeh Shabazz with a new North Star Fatherhood Award, first given to foster dad Tom Riley. The award's permanent display at Bloom's Fayetteville office underscores the group's deep local roots and ongoing push for more foster parents to support children in care across the community. 
📸 Around Fayetteville
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Fayetteville
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★ Featured events ★
- LOVE, LIES & HOPE: An Intimate Book Signing & Live Podcast Experience →
Chick-fil-A, 600 W Lanier Ave Ste 103, Fayetteville
5:00 pm
Saturday September 5
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Other local events
- Fayetteville City Council Work Session →
Fayetteville, GA Calendar, 210 Stonewall Avenue West, Fayetteville
6:00 pm - Labor Day →
Fayetteville, GA Calendar Fayetteville, GA 30214 - Cause for Paws - Beef O'Brady's
Fayette Humane Society Beef 'O' Brady's, 100 Peachtree Pkwy N Suite 18, Peachtree City\
5:00 pm - 2026 Fayette Advanced Manufacturing & Industry Network - September
Fayette Chamber of Commerce www.unitedradio.com
7:30 am - 9/11 Memorial 25th Anniversary →
Fayetteville, GA Calendar, 210 Stonewall Avenue West, Fayetteville - Fayetteville Comedy Festival →
Trilith LIVE, 175 Trilith Pkwy, Fayetteville
8:00 pm - 2026 WCLKs Gospel Fest - Dottie Peoples and Melvin Crispell →
The Ville Amphitheater, 301 LaFayette Ave, Fayetteville
5:00 pm
Thursday September 3
Monday September 7
Tuesday September 8
Thursday September 10
Friday September 11
Friday September 18
Saturday September 19
📣 Fayetteville Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Leadership Clayton Session
Clayton County Chamber-Commerce Current Leadership Clayton class participants
9:00 am - Ray's Old School Corner →
Clayton County Library System: Lovejoy Branch, 1721 McDonough Rd, Hampton
11:30 am - Elementary School Curriculum Night
Callaway Elementary School
5:00 pm - Curriculum Night
Mt. Zion Elementary Mount Zion Elementary
5:00 pm
Thursday September 3
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- You're not stuck.
You're just in a chapter that requires patience. (Nextdoor Cobblestone Fayette) - WELCOME TO SEPTEMBER: STEP FORWARD WITH FAITH
A new month is here—filled with fresh possibilities, renewed hope, and another opportunity to move courageously toward the life God has placed in… (Nextdoor Lafayette)
🗞 Nearby News
Peachtree City
- The Art Initiative at the M. T. Allen Memorial Library Announces the Annual Peachtree City Photography Club Featured Exhibit for September-October (thecitizen.com)
- Peachtree City Dentist Dr. Ken Ginoya Missing After Nepal Avalanche and Flood Disaster (thecitizen.com)
- Quilters Guild Welcomes Fabric Insider for Workshop (thecitizen.com)
Tyrone
- Mack Petty (theblacksheartimes.com)
Jonesboro
- 25-Year-Old CEO Marks 4 Years Since She Became the First Black Woman With Autism to Open a Locs & Wicks Bar (blacknews.com)
Ok Fayetteville! 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: A shirt (Thank you Dianna H. for sending it in!)
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