🌱 How Milwaukie’s Bomber landmark connects to this veterans coffee gathering

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In today's newsletter:

• How Milwaukie’s Bomber landmark connects to this veterans coffee gathering

Also on today's calendar: Home is Where the Art Is and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you get when you cross a fish and an elephant? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Monday: Some sun, then turning cloudy, with a high of 64 and low of 47 degrees.
• Tuesday: Sunny and pleasantly warm, temps: high: 72, low: 45.
• Wednesday: Sunny and pleasantly warm, with a high of 74 and low of 45 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• B-17 Alliance Veterans Coffee on Nov 19, 2026 (businessdailynetwork.com) — Milwaukie gets a nice shout-out as the B-17 Alliance Veterans Coffee Club, supported by several Clackamas businesses including Bob’s Red Mill, continues its free monthly gatherings for veterans. The Nov. 19 event in Salem offers coffee, breakfast, guest speakers, and a chance to sit among the ongoing restoration of a historic B-17 bomber and the former Bomber Gas Station landmark tied to Milwaukie’s history.
   

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📸 Around Milwaukie

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Milwaukie

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★ Featured events ★

Tuesday October 20

• Vinyasa Flow →
  Lajja Space, 10851 SE Main St., Milwaukie
  7:00 am

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Other local events

Tuesday October 20

• Grateful Dead Roll Around →
  Lajja Space, 10851 SE Main St., Milwaukie
  9:00 am
• Postpartum Yoga →
  Lajja Space, 10851 SE Main St., Milwaukie
  11:00 am
• Meditation and its Many Faces →
  Lajja Space, 10851 SE Main St., Milwaukie
  2:30 pm
• Svaroopa Yoga with Ron →
  Lajja Space, 10851 SE Main St., Milwaukie
  4:30 pm
• Whistle Pack Factory- Milwaukie! →
  Milwaukie OR
  4:30 pm
• Becoming Mothers with Roe Taylor →
  Lajja Space, 10851 SE Main St., Milwaukie
  6:30 pm
• Randy Porter Trio featuring Garrett Baxter/base and David Hagen/drums →
  Arrivederci Wine & Jazz, 17023 Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard, Milwaukie
  7:00 pm

Wednesday October 21

• No-Host Wednesday Walk @North Clackamas Park + Coffee @Jo's →
  North Clackamas Park, 5440 SE Kellogg Creek Dr., Milwaukie
  10:00 am
• Hatha Flow →
  Lajja Space, 10851 SE Main St., Milwaukie
  12:00 pm

Saturday November 7

• Home is Where the Art Is →
  Lake Grove Presbyterian Church- 4040 Sunset Dr. L.O.
  9:30 am
• 3rd Annual Health & Resource Fair Age Better! →
  Doubletree Hilton near Lloyd Center, Lloyd Center, Portland
  11:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• I would like to thank the very nice person who was in line behind me today, at the Mcloughlin St .
  Fred Meyer electronics dept. My credit card would not work in the card reader. After multiple attempts by me and the clerk, this very nice person… (Nextdoor Historic Milwaukie)
• Found this injured bird at Oak Grove Elementary school.
  Would anyone be willing to take it to the Audubon Society? We think it’s a Northern Flicker. (Nextdoor North Oak Grove)

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🗞 Nearby News

Lake Oswego

• Letters to the editor: Readers share perspectives on local races (lakeoswegoreview.com)
• CeramiCafe headed to Old Mill District in November (newsbreak.com)
• Key player in false Talarico rumor has history of online posts invoking Nazi Germany (rocketnews.com)

Happy Valley

• Southern Oregon Joins Statewide No Kings Call to Return November Ballots (grantspasstribune.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you get when you cross a fish and an elephant?" — Swimming trunks! (Thank you Kristina F. for sending it in!)
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