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Also on today's calendar: Live Horse Racing at Canterbury Park and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: Why did the burglar wear blue gloves? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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• Labor demand policies connect workers to jobs (minneapolisfed.org) — Shakopee gets a specific shoutout in this deep dive on how wage subsidies and public-hiring programs can boost employment, including a state award that helped create 32 jobs at Ryder Integrated Logistics in town. The piece explains how Minnesota and federal programs try to connect workers—especially those facing barriers—to stable, better-paying jobs, and weighs the trade-offs policymakers must consider.
• Kaylene M. Lemke, 78 (newpraguetimes.com) — Shakopee readers are mourning Kaylene M. Lemke, born in town in 1948 and later a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother with deep roots in the community. She passed away September 5 at St. Gertrude's and the Gardens in Shakopee; a visitation in New Prague is set for Sunday, with her funeral Mass Monday at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Union Hill.
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: So he wouldn't get caught red handed. (Thank you Vicki B. for sending it in!)
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