🌱 How a Vermilion welfare check helped crack a major exploitation case
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In today's newsletter:
- How a Vermilion welfare check helped crack a major exploitation case
Also on today's calendar: Christmas in July Craft: Paint and Sip | Your Choice and 2 more events.
Today's riddle: Why did the cookie go to the Doctor ? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Thursday: Humid with a t-storm in spots, with a high of 84 and low of 69 degrees.
- Friday: Humid with a thunderstorm, temps: high: 80, low: 70.
- Saturday: Humid with a t-storm in spots, with a high of 85 and low of 67 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Bridgeport Man Guilty Of Exploiting Teen, Selling Abuse On OnlyFans: Feds (dailyvoice.com) — Vermilion police played a key role in protecting a teenage girl by conducting a welfare check during her visit to Ohio and then alerting the FBI. That tip helped federal investigators uncover a wider exploitation case involving online sexual content, leading to a Bridgeport man’s conviction on multiple child pornography and trafficking-related charges. Sentencing has not yet been scheduled. 
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Any recommendations for someone to repair a deck?
One corner is lower than the others. And a few other bumps and bruises (Nextdoor Vermilion on The Lake) - Just want to say how grateful I am when I jump on here & actually LEARN something!
Y’all’s home improvement posts are so helpful. THANK YOU!!!! (Nextdoor Vermilion and Amherst)
- Goodwin Recruiting posted a job opening for Restaurant General Manager in Vermilion. Apply here.
- Teleperformance USA posted a job opening for Remote --- Automotive Technical Support Representative in Amherst. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Vermilion here.
🗞 Nearby News
Amherst
- Elyria considers annexing Amherst Twp farmland for housing development (news5cleveland.com)
- Amherst Arts Festival to celebrate all forms of art (morningjournal.com)
- Sharon Kay Hambly (chroniclet.com)
Lorain
- Main Street Lorain appoints interim director during leadership search (morningjournal.com)
- Achieve Credit Union opens new Lorain branch (morningjournal.com)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because he felt CRUMMY ! (Thank you Michelle S. for sending it in!)
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