🌱 All Cheer Practice 1-4pm and 11 more events

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Today's riddle: What did the carpenter ant say when he walked into the bar? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Mostly sunny and warm, with a high of 83 and low of 58 degrees.
• Thursday: Partly sunny and warm, temps: high: 86, low: 64. 🌶 Hot!
• Friday: Windy, with a high of 86 and low of 66 degrees.

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📸 Around Bellflower

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday June 3

• All Cheer Practice 1-4pm
  Fisher CUSD 1 Fisher, IL 61843
  1:00 pm
• FCBC practice
  Blue Ridge CUSD 18 Blue Ridge Intermediate and Junior High School-1-BRIJHS Baseball F
  4:00 pm

Thursday June 4

• IHSA Softball State Finals
  Fisher CUSD 1 Fisher, IL 61843
• Blood Drive →
  Rantoul Public Library, 106 W Flessner Ave, Rantoul
  3:00 pm

Saturday June 6

• Summer Reading Kick-Off with Family Musician Mrs. Kate →
  Rantoul Public Library, 106 W Flessner Ave, Rantoul
  10:00 am

Monday June 8

• State FFA Convention, Springfield
  Blue Ridge CUSD 18 Farmer City, IL 61842
• IHSA Baseball Super Sectionals
  Fisher CUSD 1 Fisher, IL 61843
• HS Boys Basketball Practice
  Fisher CUSD 1 Fisher, IL 61843
  3:15 pm

Tuesday June 9

• HS Boys Basketball JV Summer Games
  Fisher CUSD 1 Fisher, IL 61843
  3:15 pm

Wednesday June 10

• Anchor, IL Health Clinic →
  ANCHOR TOWN HALL, 237 2nd St, Anchor
  10:00 am
• Family Story Time and Craft →
  Farmer City Public Library, 109 E Green St, Farmer City
  5:30 pm

Thursday June 11

• IHSA Baseball State Finals
  Fisher CUSD 1 Fisher, IL 61843

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• The Retail Odyssey Company posted a job opening for Now Hiring: Traveling Retail Merchandiser - Overnight in Bellflower. Apply here.
• Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, Inc. posted a job opening for Assistant Manager - Restaurant in Le Roy. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Bellflower here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Mahomet

• Top of the Morning, June 2, 2026 (news-gazette.com)
• People's Choice champs, baseball big-wigs, cellphones in schools and more (news-gazette.com)
• ‘Most fulfilling thing that I've ever experienced': Central IL woman honored for raising almost $140K for cancer patients (wcia.com)

Bloomington

• Local rescues help dogs find homes at Operation Pawsitive Impact in Bloomington (centralillinoisproud.com)
• How Downtown's new luxury apartments could ease the squeeze for lower-cost options (wglt.org)
• Friends of Constitution Trail enhance trail with tree planting (wjbc.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Is the bar tender here? (Thank you W. M. for sending it in!)
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