🌱 Patch AM: Wayland assisted living staffer earns statewide honor for resident-focused improvements

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• Wayland assisted living staffer earns statewide honor for resident-focused improvements

Also on today's calendar: Rosh Hashanah with Rabbi Emily Mathis, Singer-Songwriter Julie Silver & B'nai Torah MetroWest and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the bartender say to the jumper cables when they walked in? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Cloudy with a shower in spots, with a high of 72 and low of 60 degrees.
• Thursday: A morning thunderstorm or two, temps: high: 76, low: 63.
• Friday: Warmer with periods of sun, with a high of 83 and low of 58 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Wayland MA maintenance director honored for assisted living excellence (metrowestdailynews.com) — A Wayland-based maintenance director at Carriage House at Lee's Farm has been honored statewide for creating safer, more welcoming spaces for local assisted living residents. The senior community on Boston Post Road highlights her hands-on projects, from custom activity tables to a memorial bocce court, along with behind-the-scenes improvements that speed apartment prep and support both maintenance and housekeeping teams.
   

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday September 12
• Rosh Hashanah with Rabbi Emily Mathis, Singer-Songwriter Julie Silver & B'nai Torah MetroWest →
  First Parish of Sudbury, 327 Concord Rd, Sudbury
  10:00 am
Monday September 14
• Plugged In Fall Session Now Enrolling - Classes Start September 14th →
  Plugged In Band Program, 40 Freeman Pl, Needham
  9:00 am
Friday September 18
• New England Fall Flower Show: Growing Together [Day 1] →
  Massachusetts Horticultural Society - Garden at Elm Bank, 900 Washington St, Wellesley
  9:00 am
Sunday September 20
• Sudbury PMC Kids Ride (all riders welcome!) →
  Ephraim Curtis Middle School, 22 Pratts Mill Rd, Sudbury
  10:00 am

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Other local events

Tuesday September 8
• Music Exchange Listening Room →
  35 Andrew Ave, Wayland
  7:30 pm
Wednesday September 9
• Colonial Sudbury, The Rice Family and their Role in the American Revolution →
  Wayland Free Public Library, 5 Concord Rd, Wayland
  7:00 pm
Thursday September 10
• Repair & Renew Workshop: Upcycle with Botanical Embroidery →
  Wayland Free Public Library, 5 Concord Rd, Wayland
  6:00 pm
Friday September 11
• Wayland High School Patriotic Halftime Show →
  WHS Football Field, 264 Old Connecticut Path, Wayland
  7:00 pm
• Share Erev Rosh Hashanah with B'nai Torah MetroWest's Rabbi Emily Mathis & Julie Silver! →
  First Parish of Sudbury, 327 Concord Rd, Sudbury
  7:30 pm
Saturday September 12
• Electronic Recycling and Document Shredding →
  Memorial Congregational Church, 26 Concord Rd, Sudbury
  9:00 am
• Codman Estate Fine Arts and Crafts Festival →
  Codman Estate, 34 Codman Rd, Lincoln
  10:00 am
• Tashlich with B'nai Torah MetroWest at the historic Wayside Inn Grist Mill →
  Wayside Inn Grist Mill, 72 Wayside Inn Rd, Sudbury
  1:00 pm

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Don't you 2 start anything (Thank you Mary L. for sending it in!)
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