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🌱 Patch AM: How a new $30,000 grant boosts Oak Lawn’s Children’s Museum

Spotted on the Oak Lawn calendar: KINGS CLUB for children

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  • How a new $30,000 grant boosts Oak Lawn's Children's Museum

Also on today's calendar: KINGS CLUB for children and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What is the difference between black eyed peas and chick peas? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, with a high of 74 and low of 69 degrees.
  • Thursday: Humid with a shower or two, temps: high: 75, low: 65.
  • Friday: Nice with clouds and sun, with a high of 76 and low of 65 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Museum Receives Arts Grant (southwestmessengerpress.com) — Oak Lawn families can look forward to continued hands-on learning at the Children's Museum, which just received a $30,000 state arts grant to support daily operations like staffing and maintenance. The funding, awarded August 14 by the Illinois Arts Council, helps keep the 95th Street museum's interactive, play-based exhibits accessible to local kids and caregivers.
   

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  • Hernandez Earns Second BIG EAST Weekly Honor (depaulbluedemons.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Black eyed peas can sing us a song but chick peas can only hummus one. (Thank you Bev H. for sending it in!)
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