🌱 Patch AM: Ponaganset Varsity Football @ Johnston and 10 more events

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Coming up on the calendar:

• Ponaganset Varsity Football @ Johnston

Today's riddle: What do you call somebody who crosses the ocean twice and doesn't take a bath? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Sunday: Some rain in the afternoon, with a high of 62 and low of 53 degrees.
• Monday: Some rain in the morning, temps: high: 67, low: 52.
• Tuesday: Some sun, then clouds, with a high of 63 and low of 55 degrees.

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Scituate

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday October 17
• Ponaganset Varsity Football @ Johnston →
  Johnston Senior High School, 345 Cherry Hill Rd, Johnston
  1:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Sunday October 11
• Powerful Plants in the Garden →
  Powder Mill Ledges Wildlife Refuge, 12 Sanderson Road, Smithfield
  1:00 pm
• Adult/Junior Tennis - SCWTF (Greenville, RI) →
  Rally Point Racquet Club, 15 Church St, Greenville
  4:30 pm
Monday October 12
• Library closed
  Marian J. Mohr Memorial Library, 1 Memorial Avenue, Johnston
• Columbus Day - No School
  North Providence Providence, RI 02904
• Food Trucks @ Johnston Memorial Park →
  1583 Hartford Ave, Johnston
  11:30 am
• Mayor Joseph Polisena Jr.'s 4th Annual Columbus Day Food Truck Feast →
  Johnston War Memorial Park, 1583 Hartford Ave, Johnston
  11:30 am
• Night Class Bartending & Mixology →
  Rhode Island School of Mixology, 1395 Atwood Ave. Ste. 208, Johnston
  5:00 pm
• Escada Restaurant & Bar – Johnston – RI →
  Escada Restaurant & Bar, 39 Putnam Pike, Johnston
  6:30 pm
• Harmony Café – Manville, RI →
  Harmony Cafe, 47 Summer St, Manville
  7:00 pm
Tuesday October 13
• Smithfield Prevention Coalition Meeting →
  Smithfield RI
  7:30 am
• Board of Canvassers
  Glocester Town Hall
  10:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• SAS Retail Services posted a job opening for Travel Store Shelving Reset Merchandiser in Johnston. Apply here.
• GDI Integrated Facility Services posted a job opening for Industrial Laborer (Travel Team) in Johnston. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Scituate here.

🗞 Nearby News

Johnston

• Black and Native Senate nominee slams Trump's Columbus revival: 'It's still Indigenous Peoples' Day' (thegrio.com)
• Johnston neighborhood plagued by rat infestation (wpri.com)

Cranston

• Man arrested on weapons charge in Cranston (newportdispatch.com)
• 18 arrested by State Police after seizure of 20 guns, dozens of magazines, ammo, drugs, cash (fallriverreporter.com)
• Meet the TikTok mom who knows how to 'talk dirty' to Rhode Islanders (bostonglobe.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you call somebody who crosses the ocean twice and doesn't take a bath?" — A dirty double crosser ! (Thank you Theresia F. for sending it in!)
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