🌱 Patch AM: How Tucker’s “Bubbas” keep one friend’s memory alive with an empty chair

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In today's newsletter:

• How Tucker's "Bubbas" keep one friend's memory alive with an empty chair
• Why a Tucker concert slap left the singer facing only simple battery

Also on today's calendar: Free Arabic Movie Night: THE PROPHET and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Monday: Humid with a shower in spots, with a high of 80 and low of 59 degrees.
• Tuesday: Mostly sunny and less humid, temps: high: 79, low: 55.
• Wednesday: Sunshine and a few clouds, with a high of 80 and low of 54 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Adam Frentheway Remembered: The Tucker Bubbas and the eighth chair (times-georgian.com) — Friends from Tucker are keeping the memory of Adam Frentheway alive four decades after his death, recalling childhood days at Tucker Pool, Tucker High, and local jobs and hangouts. Their tight-knit "Tucker Bubbas" group still gathers, leaving an eighth chair open in honor of the goalie, Marine, and friend whose adventurous spirit shaped their youth.
   

• Singer Accused of Slapping Woman Mid-Concert (newsbreak.com) — An alleged onstage assault at the Legendary Awards Show & Concert in Tucker has left a woman with two black eyes and dental damage, and the singer facing a simple battery charge. The victim and her attorney are questioning why the charge isn't more serious, especially with video of the slap circulating from the September 6 performance.
   

📸 Around Tucker

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Tucker

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★ Featured events ★

Tuesday October 6
• Fighting For The Title →
  Brio Theater, 4445 Hugh Howell Road, Tucker

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Other local events

Monday October 5
• Stone Mountain Embroidery Club
  Stone Mountain-Sue Kellogg Library -
  5:30 pm
Tuesday October 6
• Baby Babbles Storytime
  Northlake-Barbara Loar Library -
  9:30 am
• Tales for Twos
  Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library -
  9:30 am
• Toddler Storytime
  Northlake-Barbara Loar Library -
  10:30 am
Wednesday October 7
• Wine Down Wednesdays - The Elevated JAZZ Series @ Katch Kitchen & Cocktail →
  Katch Kitchen & Cocktails, 2077 Northlake Parkway, Tucker
  7:00 pm
Friday October 9
• Free Arabic Movie Night: THE PROPHET →
  Alif Institute, 3288 Marjan Dr, Atlanta
  7:30 pm
Saturday October 10
• Mi Vida Loca the Musical LIVE in Tucker GA →
  2241 Idlewood Road, Tucker
• Breast Cancer Awareness 5K →
  Tucker GA
• Tucker Rivers Alive Cleanup Event →
  4315 Cowan Road, Tucker
  9:00 am
• 19th Annual Atlanta Arab Festival →
  Alif Institute, 3288 Marjan Dr, Atlanta
  11:00 am
Saturday October 24
• Soccer for a Good Cause! →
  Mercedes-Benz Stadium, 1 AMB Dr NW, Atlanta
  10:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Free vaccines for dogs and cats only for Gwinnett county residents.
  Must pre register https://www.gwinnettcounty.com/government/departments/community-services/animal-welfare/pet-vaccine-clinics?fbclid… (Nextdoor Princeton Crossing)

• Rainbow Shops posted a job opening for Shoe Coordinator - Stone Mountain, GA in Stone Mountain. Apply here.
• BRADY CORPORATION posted a job opening for Machine Operator 1st Shift in Lilburn. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Tucker here.

🗞 Nearby News

Clarkston

• Casting Call: Vintage vehicles, tailor's & baby girls needed (audacy.com)

Stone Mountain

• Fugitive suspect in Georgia mom's silicone injection murder captured 17 years later after DMV slipup: cops (commstrader.com)
• National Park Partners group maintains preservation efforts for Moccasin Bend (timesfreepress.com)
• Ex-Metro Atlanta banker accused of stealing nearly $1M from customer accounts in crypto scheme (wsbtv.com)

Chamblee

• Pet of the Week: Investigate the adoption of Detective Landslide (appenmedia.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I ?" — Footsteps (Thank you Patty G. for sending it in!)
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