🌱 How to spot fake posts targeting Fallon Cantaloupe Festival vendors

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In today's newsletter:

• How to spot fake posts targeting Fallon Cantaloupe Festival vendors
• How WNC Fallon’s new nursing hub could reshape local healthcare access
• How is Fallon’s milk plant tied to a national baby formula scare?

Today's riddle: What did the carpenter ant say when he walked into the bar? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Hot; breezy in the afternoon, with a high of 94 and low of 53 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Thursday: Plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 87, low: 55.
• Friday: Near-record heat, with a high of 95 and low of 57 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Cantaloupe Festival warns of scam posts targeting vendors online (2news.com) — If you’re planning to vend or follow the Fallon Cantaloupe Festival & Country Fair, organizers are warning about fake online posts pretending to represent the event. Only trust information, applications, and payment instructions shared through the festival’s official website and social media, and report any suspicious posts without sharing personal or financial details.
   

• Senator views progress on WNC Fallon's nursing program (nevadaappeal.com) — Western Nevada College’s Fallon campus is transforming Pinon Hall into an expanded nursing and allied health training center, expected to open this fall and significantly boost local nurse training. Senator Jacky Rosen recently toured the site, highlighting how the $2.3 million project and partnerships with Banner Churchill will help address severe healthcare worker shortages in Fallon, Churchill County, and other rural Nevada communities.
   

• In the Botulism Outbreak, the One Name the FDA Decided You Shouldn't See (lexblog.com) — Families in Fallon should know that Dairy Farmers of America’s local plant is identified as the facility that dried milk later linked to a nationwide infant botulism outbreak involving 48 hospitalized babies. The piece criticizes the FDA for redacting the supplier’s name in one report despite previously naming the Fallon plant publicly, arguing that withholding such facts undermines transparency and food safety accountability.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Kimco Facility Services, LLC posted a job opening for Warehouse Janitorial Associate in Fallon. Apply here.
• TJX posted a job opening for Store Cleaning Associate in Fallon. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Fallon here.

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🗞 Nearby News

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Yerington

• Summer concerts in Reno-Tahoe: Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert, 227 more (rgj.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Is the bar tender here? (Thank you W. M. for sending it in!)
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