🌱 Inspiring Action: How to Tell Authentic and Persuasive Stories and 11 more events

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

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Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Mostly cloudy and hot, with a high of 90 and low of 67 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Friday: Very warm; a p.m. shower, temps: high: 91, low: 69.
• Saturday: Not as hot; a p.m. t-storm, with a high of 82 and low of 66 degrees.

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday August 6

• Inspiring Action: How to Tell Authentic and Persuasive Stories →
  Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce The COMMUNITY: Maine's Nonprofit Hub 700 Mount Hope Avenue Suite 101 Bangor, ME 04401
  9:00 am
• WCAP Backpacks
  Rsu 03/msad 03 MVHS Front Lobby
  9:00 am
• Zillman Art Museum - University of Maine Exhibitions
  Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce 40 Harlow St. Norumbega Hall Bangor, ME 04401
  10:00 am
• FUSION:FIRST - Friends & Family Night at Maine Discovery Museum
  Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce 74 Main St Bangor, ME 04401
  5:30 pm

Friday August 7

• Open Farm & Live Music at Toddy Pond Farm →
  Toddy Pond Farm, 174 Carver Rd, Monroe
  5:00 pm
• Reading & Signing with Laura Krieger Emack
  Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce BookSpace 48 Columbia Street Bangor ME
  6:30 pm

Saturday August 8

• Artist Series: Painting Wildflowers in Watercolor with Cassie Sano
  Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce Fields Pond Audubon Center 216 Fields Pond Road, Holden, ME 04429
  10:00 am

Sunday August 9

• Bangor Humane Society's Paws on the Green
  Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce Hermon Meadow Golf Club 281 Billings Rd. Hermon, ME 04401
  8:00 am
• Trivia Nights at Stone Tree EVERY Sunday from 4-6pm! Come Tease Your Brain! →
  Stone Tree Farm & Cidery, 317 Albion Rd, Unity
  4:00 pm

Monday August 10

• School Board Meeting
  Rsu 03/msad 03 Mount View Complex
  6:30 pm

Tuesday August 11

• Community Volleyball(Adult Ed)
  Troy Central School Troy, ME 04987
  7:00 pm

Wednesday August 12

• Hartland St. Albans Lion Club Cruise Night →
  Manson Park, 51 Peltoma Ave, Pittsfield
  4:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Pizza Hut, Inc. posted a job opening for Shift Leader in Newport. Apply here.
• R. H. Foster Energy posted a job opening for Deli Clerk in Newport. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Etna here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Bangor

• Pencils, backpacks, and relief: Supply drive helps ease back-to-school stress (wabi.tv)
• ‘Life-changing funding': UMaine professor advocates for Chronic Fatigue research funding (wabi.tv)
• More than a third of Bangor's pandemic relief funds still haven't been spent (bangordailynews.com)

Brewer

• Livin' the Breast Life opens storefront in Brewer during World Breastfeeding Week (wagmtv.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because he felt CRUMMY ! (Thank you Michelle S. for sending it in!)
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