🌱 Patch AM: Which REO Town spots are reinventing themselves—and which just closed?

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In today's newsletter:

• Which REO Town spots are reinventing themselves—and which just closed?
• How to submit your air-quality comments through Lansing's EGLE office
• How Lansing volunteers are quietly tackling child bedlessness this month.

Also on today's calendar: Peer Gynt and the Blue Mountain Multimedia Concert and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call somebody who crosses the ocean twice and doesn't take a bath? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Sunday: Some rain in the morning, with a high of 69 and low of 54 degrees.
• Monday: Very warm, temps: high: 81, low: 63.
• Tuesday: Cloudy and warm with a shower, with a high of 77 and low of 55 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. REO Town businesses forced to adapt amid economic slowdown (wlns.com) — Small businesses in Lansing's REO Town are tightening their belts and getting creative as customers cut back, with some shops closing and others shifting toward classes, events, and evening programming. The REO Town Commercial Association is offering monthly micro-grants, Good Truckin' is returning with a new concept, and Deadtime Stories plans a sixth-anniversary celebration with giveaways and specials later this month.
   

2. Public comment period for Infrastructure Environmental Services, LLC. Proposed Administrative Consent Order (E-FYYZ-BC3D-PG8G), Oakland County (michigan.gov) — State environmental regulators are inviting public comments on a proposed air-quality consent order, and Lansing residents can weigh in by mail, email, phone, or online between October 12 and November 11. The Air Quality Division's Lansing office is handling written comments, giving locals a direct way to influence a statewide industrial permitting decision.
   

3. Sleep in Heavenly Peace volunteers build beds for Lansing-area children in need (fox47news.com) — Lansing-area families in need of beds for their children are getting help from Sleep in Heavenly Peace, whose Lansing chapter builds and delivers nearly 1,000 beds a year. Volunteers meet in Haslett on the second and fourth Saturdays to cut lumber, assemble frames, and deliver finished beds, and organizers are actively seeking more volunteers, donations, and new bedding to meet a growing local waitlist.
   

4. Carpentersville's native and MMA fighter designs Hispanic Heritage month t-shirt for firefighters' fundraiser (chicagotribune.com) — A nationally known MMA fighter and artist now based in Lansing is gaining attention for designing a Hispanic Heritage Month T‑shirt supporting Carpentersville firefighters' charity work. He splits his time between training, painting, and barbering, while staying closely connected to both his hometown and his adopted home in Lansing.
   

5. Trail camera catches 2 suspects in Eaton County deer-blind break-in, MSP says (wlns.com) — Michigan State Police from the Lansing Post are asking mid-Michigan residents to help identify two people caught on a trail camera during a break-in at a deer blind in Eaton Township. Suspects reportedly stole a propane tank, heater, and wooden bench sometime in the last two months, and anyone with information is urged to call the MSP Lansing Post and reference the listed complaint number.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Lansing

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★ Featured events ★

Monday October 12
• Library Closed →
  5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing

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Other local events

Sunday October 11
• Peer Gynt and the Blue Mountain Multimedia Concert →
  Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 1315 Abbot Rd, East Lansing
  3:00 pm
Tuesday October 13
• Stories & Crafts →
  5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing
  10:30 am
• Libby Class →
  5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing
  10:30 am
• Powerful Tools for Caregivers →
  5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing
  1:30 pm
• The Good Neighbor Concert Series #19: The Nathan Moore Affair in support of The Reading People →
  Stage One at Sycamore Creek Eastwood, 2200 Lake Lansing Rd, Lansing
  6:30 pm
Thursday October 15
• Bingo →
  1313 Abbot Rd, East Lansing
  5:00 pm
Thursday October 22
• Bahar Ensemble: 1001 Arabian Nights →
  UrbanBeat, 1213 Turner Rd, Lansing
  7:00 pm
Sunday October 25
• Spooky Sprint- Lansing →
  220 E Maple St, Lansing
  9:00 am
Thursday October 29
• Nonprofit Education Series: Technology, Efficiency, and the Future of Nonprofits →
  11:00 am
Friday October 30
• Candlelight: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics →
  215 N Capitol Ave, Lansing
  6:30 pm
• Candlelight: Tribute to Michael Jackson →
  Central United Methodist Church, 215 N Capitol Ave, Lansing
  8:45 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Parents with no village no support, how are you holding up?
  Whats a way you found to make it easier to juggle everything? (Nextdoor Old Everett)
• I was wondering if anyone is missing their groceries from Meijer's, Look like a delivery that was supposed to be dropped off at your apartment building or home yesterday on the corner of Sandhurst and Waverly area.
  In our apartment building they left three grocery bags inside in the entrance. I first saw them about 1:15 in the afternoon Friday and they were… (Nextdoor Averill Woods)

• Jimmy John's Franchise, LLC posted a job opening for Team Member in Lansing. Apply here.
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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you call somebody who crosses the ocean twice and doesn't take a bath?" — A dirty double crosser ! (Thank you Theresia F. for sending it in!)
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