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🌱 How your $10 raffle ticket helps feed Hatteras Island neighbors

Also check out Survivial Techniques of the Eastern Woodlands on the Hatteras Patch calendar

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Greetings Hatteras! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How your $10 raffle ticket helps feed Hatteras Island neighbors
  • How Hurricane Irene still shapes life and travel on Hatteras Island

Also on today's calendar: Survivial Techniques of the Eastern Woodlands and 6 more events.

Today's riddle: What did one strawberry say to the other strawberry? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 85 and low of 74 degrees.
  • Wednesday: A t-storm around in the p.m., temps: high: 86, low: 77. 🌶 Hot!
  • Thursday: Humid; a p.m. t-storm or two, with a high of 85 and low of 76 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Hatteras Island Meals launches annual island-wide raffle (islandfreepress.org) — Hatteras Island Meals is kicking off its annual raffle to fund weekday meal deliveries for elderly and homebound neighbors from Rodanthe to Hatteras Village, plus the Cape Hatteras Food Pantry. Tickets are on sale online and at local spots like Ace Hardware and Conner's, with prizes donated by island businesses and proceeds helping cover thousands of meals each year.
   

• How Hurricane Irene Changed the Outer Banks, 15 Years Later (islandfreepress.org) — Fifteen years after Hurricane Irene cut off Hatteras Island and severed N.C. 12, locals are still living with the storm's legacy in new bridges, elevated homes, and revamped emergency communications. The article explains how Irene reshaped access to Hatteras and Ocracoke, turned fire stations into recovery hubs, and continues to drive big decisions about the future of Highway 12.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: If you weren't so sweet, we wouldn't be in this jam! (Thank you Patti F. for sending it in!)
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