🌱 Dining with Dewey Cookbook Club and 10 more events

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Coming up on the calendar:

• GRUNDY AREA MACHINERY AUCTION - SOUTH (RING 1)
• Dining with Dewey Cookbook Club
• Tech Tuesdays at Coal City Public Library District

Today's riddle: What kind of shoes do frogs wear? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Saturday: A morning shower; more humid, with a high of 80 and low of 68 degrees.
• Sunday: Warmer with partial sunshine, temps: high: 90, low: 72. 🌶 Hot!
• Monday: A thunderstorm; hot and humid, with a high of 95 and low of 69 degrees.

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📸 Around Mazon

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Mazon

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday August 1

• GRUNDY AREA MACHINERY AUCTION - SOUTH (RING 1) →
  Grundy Area Machinery Auction, Junction of Hill &, Mazon
  9:00 am

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Other local events

Monday August 17

• Dining with Dewey Cookbook Club →
  Coal City Public Library District, 85 N Garfield St, Coal City
  6:00 pm

Tuesday August 18

• Tech Tuesdays →
  Coal City Public Library District, 85 N Garfield St, Coal City
  5:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Saturday July 25

• Midtown Market →
  Coal City Public Library District, 85 N Garfield St, Coal City
  9:00 am
• louis Armstron hot sixes and sevens/ pam
  Morris Area Public Library Community Room
  1:00 pm
• Brian Weber - opening for Flatbed Fords at Rock the Park-Goold Park, Morris IL →
  Goold Park, 308 Northern Ave, Morris
  2:00 pm

Monday July 27

• adult craft / Pam
  Morris Area Public Library auditorium
  12:30 pm
• White Elephant Bingo/ Diane
  Morris Area Public Library New Community Room
  12:30 pm
• Kids Monster Inc. Fun →
  Coal City Public Library District, 85 N Garfield St, Coal City
  1:00 pm
• Photo Club / Pam
  Morris Area Public Library New Community Room
  3:00 pm
• adult craft / Diane
  Morris Area Public Library auditorium
  5:30 pm

Tuesday July 28

• Paper & More →
  Coal City Public Library District, 85 N Garfield St, Coal City
  9:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• ABM posted a job opening for Warehouse Janitorial Cleaner - HMW1 in Gardner. Apply here.
• Allied Universal Compliance and Investigations posted a job opening for Surveillance Investigator in Gardner. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Mazon here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Coal City

• Coal City 2024 non-profits ranked by highest total revenue (grundyreporter.com)

Morris

• Morris Hospital IT specialist named July Fire Starter of the Month (shawlocal.com)
• Morris Police hosts National Night Out Tuesday, Aug. 4 (shawlocal.com)
• Former Health Care Exec James Pavletich Opens Fresh Coat Painters in Morris, Illinois (1851franchise.com)

Dwight

• The News-Gazette's preseason football Top 10: Oakwood checks in at No. 5 (bnd.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Open-toad (Thank you Harold W. for sending it in!)
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