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🌱 Patch AM: How Yorkville’s Foxes Lair is coming back for one night

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Wednesday September 16th Patch AM (Patch graphic)

Hey hey Yorkville! Your one-stop source for local news is here. Continue reading for all the updates. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How Yorkville's Foxes Lair is coming back for one night
  • See how Yorkville teams stacked up in Tuesday's area matchups

Also on today's calendar: Voluntary Action Center's Escape. Stay. Play! Raffle Fundraiser for Meals on Wheels in DeKalb Co and 7 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 73 and low of 68 degrees.
  • Thursday: Humid with a shower or two, temps: high: 78, low: 63.
  • Friday: Humid with periods of sun, with a high of 77 and low of 63 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Fun recreation of 'Foxes Lair' during Yorkville 115's Homecoming Parade at Chapel on the Green (shawlocal.com) — Yorkville families can step back in time this Thursday as Chapel on the Green revives the nostalgic "Foxes Lair" hangout during Yorkville 115's Homecoming Parade, with games, a scavenger hunt, and Foxes memorabilia. Running 4:30–7 p.m. at 107 W. Center Street, the event is timed with the parade route and co-organized by BSA Troop 40.
   

• Bolingbrook boys soccer takes close match against Minooka: The Herald-News Tuesday Roundup (shawlocal.com) — Yorkville athletes were in the thick of Tuesday's area action, with the boys soccer team falling 2–0 to Romeoville and the girls golf squad shooting 193 against Plainfield North. The roundup also tracks how nearby conference rivals fared, giving Yorkville fans quick context on where their teams stand.
   

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    Wednesday September 16
  • FREE Playgroups for Children Birth to Five
    P H Miller Elem School Plano, IL 60545
    8:00 am
  • Coffee Talk with The Superintendent
    Oswego Family Restaurant, 69 Main St, Oswego
    8:30 am
  • Children's Show: Reptile Rodeo by Reptile Den →
    Sandwich IL
    10:00 am

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  • Chase Clark adding more thunder to Sandwich's run game: Kendall County football notebook (shawlocal.com)

Oswego

  • Three chemistry students selected Beckman Fellows (illinois.edu)
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-- The Patch AM Team

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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