🌱 LEGO Club Challenge: Pumpkin Patch Maze and 10 more events

Hello again Salem! We’re bringing you the latest town highlights. Don’t miss out, keep going! ☀️

Coming up on the calendar:

• Tech Help Tuesdays at Salem Library
• LEGO Club Challenge: Pumpkin Patch Maze at Salem Library
• Wooden Ghost Portraits at Salem Community Room

... and check out 2 more events on the calendar!

Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, with a high of 80 and low of 65 degrees.
• Sunday: Periods of rain and a t-storm, temps: high: 70, low: 62.
• Monday: Humid with clouds and sun, with a high of 80 and low of 56 degrees.

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📸 Around Salem

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Salem

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★ Featured events ★

Tuesday October 13

• Tech Help Tuesdays →
  Salem Library, 5 Park Ave B, Salem
  2:00 pm

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Other local events

Monday October 5

• LEGO Club Challenge: Pumpkin Patch Maze →
  Salem Library, 5 Park Avenue, #B, Salem
  2:00 pm

Tuesday October 6

• Tech Help Tuesdays →
  Salem Library, 5 Park Avenue, #B, Salem
  2:00 pm
• Wooden Ghost Portraits →
  Salem Community Room, 5 Park Avenue, #A, Salem
  2:00 pm

Wednesday October 7

• Fall Family BINGO →
  Salem Community Room, 5 Park Avenue, #A, Salem
  4:30 pm

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📣 Salem Shout Outs!

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🗓 Events Nearby

Monday October 5

• Storytime →
  Walhalla Library, 501 West South Broad Street, Walhalla
  10:30 am
• VB vs McCants
  Walhalla Middle Walhalla, SC 29691
  5:30 pm

Wednesday October 7

• The Little Walhalla Book Club →
  Walhalla SC
  1:00 pm
• Screening: Ken Burns The Revolutionary War →
  Oconee History Museum, 123 Brown's Square Drive, Walhalla
  6:00 pm

Thursday October 8

• FOL Used Book Sale →
  Walhalla Library - Basement, 501 W South Broad St, Walhalla
  10:00 am
• Oconee County Beekeepers Monthly Meeting →
  Oconee County Beekeepers Association, 223 Kenneth Street, Walhalla
  2:00 pm

Friday October 9

• Hannah Harper, Country Music →
  Walhalla Performing Arts Center, 101 E. N. Broad St., Walhalla

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• I just had a scary phone call.
  I consider myself pretty security astute, but they had me taken for a bit. Just wanted to make everyone else aware. I get a call from caller ID… (Nextdoor Cliffs Falls South)
• The South Carolina Forestry Commission is updating its prescribed-burn notification system today, October 1.
  Callers will provide information in a slightly different order and receive a new notification number, such as 26BN00001. Residents conducting… (Nextdoor Keowee Key)

• American Equipment, Inc. posted a job opening for Lead Welder, Fabricator in Six Mile. Apply here.
• Walmart posted a job opening for General Merchandise Team Associate in Seneca. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Salem here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Walhalla

• Walhalla rallies, raises money two weeks after downtown fire (wyff4.com)
• Walhalla at Daniel Football preview (wgog.com)
• 0 Singing Oaks, Mountain Rest, SC 29664 (redfin.com)

Seneca

• 116 Wynmere Way, Seneca, SC 29672 (redfin.com)
• Former College Football Star Gets Rare Heart Disease Diagnosis, but Knows ‘I'm Still Better Off than Most' (people.com)
• 36-Acre S.C. Listing Has RV Park and a $3.1M Price Tag (woodallscm.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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