🌱 Patch AM: How Takoma Park’s Crossroads Market helps stretch food budgets even further

What's up Takoma Park! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• How Takoma Park's Crossroads Market helps stretch food budgets even further

Also on today's calendar: The 43rd Washington Folk Festival and 7 more events.

Today's riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Friday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 80 and low of 68 degrees.
• Saturday: Humid with rain and a t-storm, temps: high: 78, low: 66.
• Sunday: Partly sunny with a t-storm, with a high of 85 and low of 63 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• After 20 years, Crossroads Farmers Market still feels like home (mymcmedia.org) — Crossroads Farmers Market, which opened in Takoma Park 20 years ago, has grown into a vital hub for local shoppers using SNAP, WIC, and the market's Fresh Checks program to stretch their food budgets. Organizers and vendors describe rising attendance, over $1 million in nutrition incentives distributed since opening, and expectations for even more growth once the Purple Line stop opens in front of the market.
   

📸 Around Takoma Park

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Takoma Park

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★ Featured events ★

Sunday August 23
• The 43rd Washington Folk Festival →
  Glen Echo Park, 7300 Macarthur Blvd, Glen Echo
  12:00 pm
Monday August 24
• 4th Monday Jazz Vocal Open Mic →
  El Golfo Restaurant, 8739 Flower Ave, Silver Spring
  6:00 pm

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Other local events

Sunday August 23
• Takoma Park Sunday Evening Meditation →
  Willow Street Yoga, 6930 Carroll Ave #100, Takoma Park
  7:00 pm
Monday August 24
• Play and Learn
  Spaulding Branch Library Spauldings -
  11:00 am
• Computer Basics
  Spaulding Branch Library Spauldings - Group Study Room 1
  2:00 pm
Tuesday August 25
• Spanish Conversation Club: Beginner
  Spaulding Branch Library Spauldings - Large Meeting Room
  5:30 pm
Wednesday August 26
• Get Active: Quick Sweat Zumba
  Spaulding Branch Library Spauldings - Large Meeting Room
  12:15 pm
• Needlework Social
  Spaulding Branch Library Spauldings - Storytime Barn
  4:00 pm
Thursday August 27
• Caseworker in the Library
  Spaulding Branch Library Spauldings - Group Study Room 1
  10:00 am
• Ready 2 Read Storytime: Ages 2-3
  Spaulding Branch Library Spauldings - Storytime Barn
  11:00 am

📣 Takoma Park Shout Outs!

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday August 21
• MoCo Recreation Summer Camps (Registration Required)
  Wheaton Hills Community Center Wheaton Community Recreation Center
  9:00 am
• Little Ones - Drop-in
  Wisconsin Place Communtiy Rec Center Wisconsin Place Community Recreation Center
  9:00 am
• Walk the Streets of Early Rockville
  Montgomery Preservation Inc 8100 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910
  10:00 am
• Food Pantry Open →
  Brentwood, MD Calendar, 4300 39th Pl, Brentwood
  10:00 am

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Thank you 👏👏👏 to these businesses for making Takoma Park PatchAM possible:

• Cohen's Bread Co
• Summer At Sandy Spring — (301) 774-7455
• Manny & Olga's Pizza — 3016088050

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Pollo Campero posted a job opening for Cook in Takoma Park. Apply here.
• YMCA of Metropolitan Washington posted a job opening for YMCA Silver Spring Camp Counselor 26 in Silver Spring. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Takoma Park here.

🗞 Nearby News

Silver Spring

• Fire traps workers on roof of Mi Rancho Restaurant in Silver Spring (fox5dc.com)
• Why pharmaceutical companies are interested in psychedelics (marketplace.org)
• What are the 10 largest Black-owned Businesses in America? (rollingout.com)

Chevy Chase

• Woman sentenced in plan to kill US Treasury Secretary nominee (miamiherald.com)

Rockville

• MoCo Drivers Put On Notice As New School Year Nears (patch.com)
• MoCo's New Traffic Cameras Are Coming After Green-Light Speedsters (patch.com)

Ok Takoma 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: A sponge (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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