🌱 Digital Navigator One on One Tech Help and 11 more events

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Today's riddle: what do you call a rabbit with fleas? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Cooler with a shower in spots, with a high of 62 and low of 46 degrees.
• Thursday: Chance of a shower, temps: high: 64, low: 44.
• Friday: An a.m. shower; mostly cloudy, with a high of 60 and low of 44 degrees.

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday May 13

• Digital Navigator One on One Tech Help
  Banks Public Library 111 Market Street, Banks, OR 97106
  10:00 am
• Wednesday Wigglers
  Banks Public Library 111 Market Street, Banks, OR 97106
  10:00 am
• Black Village Family Advisory Committee Field Day
  Hillsboro SD 1J Century High School Baseball Field, 2000 SE Century Blvd, Hillsb
  5:30 pm
• Craft Night
  Banks Public Library 111 Market Street, Banks, OR 97106
  6:00 pm

Thursday May 14

• 2026 Washington County Local Work Group Meeting, from USDA NRCS →
  Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District , 7175 NE Evergreen Parkway, Suite #400, Hillsboro, OR, 97124, United States
  10:00 am
• Teen Drop-In Table Top Gaming
  Banks Public Library 111 Market Street, Banks, OR 97106
  3:15 pm
• Pioneer Choir Spring Concert
  Harvey Clarke Forest Grove, OR 97116
  7:00 pm
• Harvey Clarke Pioneer Choir Concert
  Harvey Clarke Forest Grove, OR 97116
  7:00 pm

Friday May 15

• This is Vietnamese Portland Exhibit
  Hillsboro Public Library 2850 NE Brookwood Parkway, Hillsboro, OR 97123
• Bilingual Inclusive Storytime / Cuentos bilingüe Inclusivos
  Hillsboro Public Library 2850 NE Brookwood Parkway, Hillsboro, OR 97123
  10:15 am
• Digital Navigator – One-on-One Tech Help/ Navegador Digital – A
  Hillsboro Public Library 2850 NE Brookwood Parkway, Hillsboro, OR 97123
  11:00 am

Saturday May 16

• Cosplay Meet-up
  Hillsboro Public Library 2850 NE Brookwood Parkway, Hillsboro, OR 97123
  10:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Our ODHS Office of Resilience and Emergency Management (OREM) recently had the privilege of joining the Oregon Chinese Coalition's resilience hub open house with Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District and Neighbors Ready!
  Disaster Preparedness in Beaverton. OCC is one of our 2025 Resilience Hubs and Networks grant recipients. They received a Conex Box filled with… (Nextdoor )

• Premium Retail Services, Inc. posted a job opening for Seasonal Merchandiser in Hillsboro. Apply here.
• K1 Speed posted a job opening for Cashier Supervisor in Hillsboro. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near North Plains here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Banks

• Deputies seek help identifying Banks business burglary suspects (bankspost.com)
• Paul Schaefer seeks Washington County District 4 seat (newsinthegrove.com)

Hillsboro

• The Phantom Halt: Mayor Beach Pace Claims Credit for a Data Center Deadline She Didn't Create On Day Two Of Deception Tour (hillsboroherald.com)
• Portland General Electric's data center customers will pay more for electricity under landmark law (ijpr.org)
• Vernon Louis Hulit (woodburnindependent.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Bugs Bunny ! (Thank you bruce A. for sending it in!)
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