🌱 Girls Soccer @ Pleasant Plains and 10 more events

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Coming up on the calendar:

• Girls Soccer @ Pleasant Plains

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Becoming windier and warm, with a high of 82 and low of 44 degrees.
• Saturday: Turning sunny; windy, cooler, temps: high: 56, low: 39.
• Sunday: Mostly sunny and breezy, with a high of 60 and low of 38 degrees.

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📸 Around Pleasant Plains

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Pleasant Plains

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday April 18

• Girls Soccer @ Pleasant Plains
  Pleasant Plains CUSD #8 - High School, 500 N Cartwright St, Pleasant Plains
  10:00 am

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Other local events

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday April 17

• Girls Varsity Softball vs Centennial High School - Champaign Centen
  Springfield High School , 101 S LEWIS ST , SPRINGFIELD
  4:30 pm
• Boys Sophomore Baseball @ Pleasant Plains High School
  Pleasant Plains High School , Po Box 320 , Pleasant Plains
  4:30 pm
• Girls JV Softball vs Centennial High School - Champaign Centennial
  Springfield High School , 101 S LEWIS ST , SPRINGFIELD
  6:30 pm
• Boys Varsity Baseball @ Pleasant Plains High School
  Pleasant Plains High School , Po Box 320 , Pleasant Plains
  6:30 pm
• Alex Pearce
  Trails End Saloon , 6445 Old Rte 54 , Curran
  7:00 pm

Saturday April 18

• Lincoln at Athens/Greenview/Illini Central
  Athens Junior/Senior High School , 1 Warrior Way , Athens
  10:00 am
• 3rd Annual The Holiday Concert
  The Blue Grouch Pub , 510 W Maple Ave S , Springfield
  2:00 pm
• Run for the Rose
  14096 IL-97 , Petersburg
  3:00 pm
• R and B Live Ladies Edition and The Makenzie Thomas Experience
  Danenberger Family Vineyards , 12341 Irish Rd , New Berlin
  7:30 pm
• R and B Live Ladies Edition
  Danenberger Family Vineyards , 12341 Irish Rd , New Berlin
  7:30 pm

Monday April 20

• Girls Varsity Softball vs Auburn High School
  Springfield High School , 101 S LEWIS ST , SPRINGFIELD
  4:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• StandardAero posted a job opening for Cabinet Finisher/Craft Worker in Springfield. Apply here.
• Cardinal Health posted a job opening for Manager - Transportation Systems Management in Springfield. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Pleasant Plains here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Petersburg

• Tea & Revolution (thepetersburgobserver.com)
• Former Resident on Ship That Retrieved Artemis Crew (thepetersburgobserver.com)
• Crime of the Week: Help needed identifying suspect in Petersburg theft (capitolcitynow.com)

Springfield

• Springfield Memorial removing ambulance provider from its system (wcia.com)
• Springfield to host Route 66 centennial conference in 2026 (sj-r.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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