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🌱 Patch AM: How a KC radio legend helped shape an Overland Park bakery
Also check out BUSINESS CLOSE-OUT AUCTION on the Overland Park Patch calendar
Good morning Overland Park! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How a KC radio legend helped shape an Overland Park bakery
Also on today's calendar: JOCO Cars and Coffee and 7 more events.
Today's riddle: What happened to the pregnant cat that ate yarn? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Tuesday: Toasty conditions, with a high of 100 and low of 79 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Wednesday: A stray t-storm; not as hot, temps: high: 89, low: 71.
- Thursday: Mostly sunny and less humid, with a high of 86 and low of 68 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Toby Tobin, a 'Kansas City radio legend' and home & garden expert, dies (kansascity.com) — Overland Park readers will recognize Best Regards Bakery & Cafe owner Robert Duensing among those mourning longtime Kansas City home-and-garden radio host Toby Tobin, who died recently. Tobin's encouragement helped Duensing expand his 119th Street bakery into a café, and friends and colleagues across the metro are sharing tributes and memories of his decades on KMBZ's Tobin Home & Garden Show. 
📸 Around Overland Park
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Overland Park
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★ Featured events ★
- BUSINESS CLOSE-OUT AUCTION →
The Bullet Hole, 6201 Robinson St., Overland Park
10:00 am
Saturday September 12
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Other local events
- Boys Soccer: Blue Valley Northwest vs Raymore-Peculiar (Junior Vars
Blue Valley Northwest High Raymore-Peculiar High School
4:00 pm - Boys Soccer: Blue Valley Northwest vs Raymore-Peculiar (Level C)
Blue Valley Northwest High Raymore-Peculiar High School
4:00 pm - Volleyball: C Team Quad (BVNW, STA, SHHS, BVW) (Level C)
Blue Valley Northwest High School South Gym
5:00 pm - Volleyball: Frosh B Quad (Freshman B)
Blue Valley Northwest High Blue Valley West MAIN GYM
5:00 pm - Boys Soccer: Blue Valley Northwest vs Raymore-Peculiar (Varsity)
Blue Valley Northwest High Raymore-Peculiar High School
6:30 pm - Football: Blue Valley Northwest vs Olathe Northwest (Varsity)
Blue Valley Northwest High College Boulevard Activity Complex CBAC Football Field
7:00 pm - Pastries with Parents
Heartland Elementary, 12775 Goodman St., Overland Park
7:30 am - JOCO Cars and Coffee →
Garage 21, 15020 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park
12:00 pm - Audi Club Kansas City: JOCO Cars and Coffee →
Garage 21, 15020 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park
12:00 pm
Thursday September 10
Friday September 11
Sunday September 13
📣 Overland Park Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Soggy Doggy Swim Time →
Leawood, KS Calendar, 10601 Lee Boulevard, Leawood
4:00 pm - Governing Body Special Call Work Session →
Leawood, KS Calendar, 4800 Town Center Drive, Leawood
6:00 pm
Tuesday September 8
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- I don't come on here often, but I would like to just ask.....
learn who your neighbor is. I just mowed the lawn of my elderly neighbor this morning who may be in hospice. I'm not sure, but I can always see a… (Nextdoor Cherbourg) - Free produce and bread today at Tiny Pantry Times.
We are located at 7450. CONSER Overland Park, KS 66204. It will be available until it is going. Please come early to avoid the heat. See you soon! (Nextdoor 75th and Metcalf)
- Mondelez International posted a job opening for Full-time Nabisco Merchandiser/Order Writer in Overland Park. Apply here.
- Ace Hardware posted a job opening for Cashier (Store 110, Overland Park, KS, Stanley) in Overland Park. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Overland Park here.
🗞 Nearby News
Leawood
- Consumer Law: Antitrust Conspiracy-Inflated Real Estate Broker Costs-Settlement (molawyersmedia.com)
Olathe
- 'Transparency and time': Olathe families fight to keep Walnut Grove Elementary open as district closures loom (kshb.com)
- 'We continue remembering, and we continue climbing': 9/11 stair climb honors fallen heroes 25 years later (kshb.com)
- Severe thunderstorm warning in place for Johnson and Wyandotte counties Sunday evening (kansascity.com)
Prairie Village
- Prairie Village JazzFest - Kansas City on the Cheap (kansascityonthecheap.com)
Ok Overland Park! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!
-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: She had mittens! (Thank you April M. for sending it in!)
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