🌱 Patch AM: How clergy want Microsoft’s data center deal to benefit South Bend

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In today's newsletter:

• How clergy want Microsoft's data center deal to benefit South Bend
• What South Bend riders should know about upcoming Transpo route cuts
• What the new Parisi condos will bring to South Bend Avenue.

Today's riddle: Why did the chicken go to the gym? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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• Friday: A thunderstorm, with a high of 92 and low of 70 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Saturday: A stray morning thunderstorm, temps: high: 84, low: 63.
• Sunday: Mostly sunny and less humid, with a high of 81 and low of 57 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Clergy leaders put public pressure on county officials with Data Center concerns (abc57.com subscription) — Clergy from several South Bend congregations are pressing county officials to ensure Microsoft's data center deal includes protections on noise, water, and energy use, plus a "fair share" fund for struggling neighborhoods. Organizers with We Make Indiana want revenue directed toward sustaining vital local resources and preventing higher living costs, emphasizing that benefits should reach families even if they never work at a data center.
   

• Religious leaders push data centers to fund public transportation, other services amid cuts (wndu.com) — South Bend faith leaders are urging that tax-subsidized data centers help fund public transportation and other services as Transpo faces cuts, including the elimination of Routes 14 and 15 starting next week. Riding the No. 5 bus, members of We Make Indiana called for a "Fair Share Fund" overseen by community and county leaders to support transit, healthcare, and education locally.
   

• Groundbreaking ceremony for "The Parisi" Condos begins new chapter (wsbt.com) — A major new condo project, "The Parisi," has officially broken ground at the former Parisi restaurant site on South Bend Avenue, bringing 38 upscale units, a rooftop deck, gym, and garage parking. With 14 condos already sold and completion targeted for August 2027, the development reflects growing demand to live near downtown South Bend and the University of Notre Dame.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday September 4
• Brown Bag Lunch & Lecture Event
  Marshall County Historical Society, 123 N. Michigan St., Plymouth
  12:00 pm
• PHS FB @ Mishawaka
  Plymouth Community School Corp Plymouth, IN 46563
  7:00 pm
Saturday September 5
• STEAM Saturday →
  Fish Lake Branch, 7981 IN-4 #4, Walkerton
  10:00 am
Monday September 7
• Labor Day - No School
  Laville Lakeville, IN 46536
• Labor Day - Library Closed
  Bremen Public Library 304 North Jackson Street, Bremen, IN 46506
• LJH 7th VB vs. Thomas Jefferson
  Plymouth Community School Corp Plymouth, IN 46563
  6:00 pm
• LJH 8th VB @ Thomas Jefferson
  Plymouth Community School Corp Plymouth, IN 46563
  6:00 pm
Tuesday September 8
• All School Picture Day
  Discovery Middle School Granger, IN 46530
  8:00 am
• Football Homecoming Week
  Concord Community High School Elkhart, IN 46517
  8:00 am
• Creative Kids →
  Rolling Prairie Branch, 1 E Michigan St, Rolling Prairie
  4:00 pm
• Masterpiece Makers
  Bremen Public Library 304 North Jackson Street, Bremen, IN 46506
  4:00 pm
• NL Volleyball (Girls 6th) - Walkerton Elementary
  North Liberty School North Liberty Elementary School
  4:30 pm

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• FOUND " YORKIE" corner of Irvington and Greenwood.
  My wife, on her way home from work, found this cute little baby wondering around in the 90 degree heat she brought it home it's having a treat now… (Nextdoor East Ewing Avenue)
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  Very nice, polite young man.Did everything I needed for now. Cleaned up the mess and even asked to take my trash out! I said no my husband would get… (Nextdoor Applewood)

• Hubbell Incorporated posted a job opening for Machine Operator in South Bend. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

Notre Dame

• 'The band always wins': Paul Popiel, the new Kenn and Pamela Ricci Director of Bands, on why the time was right for his Notre Dame homecoming (nd.edu)
• Notre Dame students launch Undergraduate Law Review (ndsmcobserver.com)
• Iris Seabolt exonerated after 25-year court battle in Elkhart County (southbendtribune.com)

Mishawaka

• Mary Barbee, 70 – WLKM Radio 95.9 FM (wlkm.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: He was working on his pecks (pecs). (Thank you W F C. for sending it in!)
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