🌱 Tuition-Free Preschools + 17 Year Old Killed In Drive By

Good morning, Dallas! Here's everything you need to know to get this Wednesday started off right.

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First, today's weather:

Sunshine and a few clouds. High: 62 Low: 40.

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Here are the top three stories in Dallas today:

1. Dallas College plans on hosting tuition-free preschools for 2022. It is opening Bezos Academy preschools in the fall of 2022 on their its Cedar Valley and Mountain View Campuses. These schools are year-round, full-day programming, five days a week for kids from 3-5 years old. (CW33 NewsFix)
2. A sleeping teenager was killed in a drive-by shooting early Tuesday morning. 17-year-old Crystal Rodriguez was shot and killed in her bedroom while when a bullet hit her during a drive-by shooting. Police do not have any suspects as of yet. (FOX 4 Dallas)
3. Dallas schools are offering an extra $50 a day for substitute teachers. The increase in pay is to incentivize more substitute teachers to cover for the teacher shortage caused by arise in COVID-19 cases. The Dallas school district said that last week more than two hundred of its 10,000 teachers were out sick. (FOX 4 Dallas)

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Today in Dallas:

• Sarah Flint Semi-Annual Sale At NorthPark Center (10:00 AM)
• The FRIENDS Experience At The Shops At Willow Bend (12:00 PM)
• Open Mic Night At Green Elephant (7:00 PM)

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From my notebook:

• Mark your calendars for Dallas Blooms: Birds in Paradise running from Feb. 19 to April 10, 2022. The spring festival showcases an explosion of color from 100 varieties of spring bulbs, 500,000 spring bulbs, 500,000 spring-blooming blossoms, thousands of azaleas and hundreds of Japanese cherry trees. (Instagram)
• Dallas ISD's Virtual STEM EXPO is set for Saturday, Jan. 22, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. The free and virtual event will feature a great variety of exhibits and ways to have fun while children explore, design, build and create. (Instagram)
• City Hall is opening another testing site tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan 11 at 8 a.m. at Owenwood Farm & Neighborhood Space. Appointments are available at DOCSHealthTesting.com. (Facebook)

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Now you're in the loop and ready to start this Wednesday off right. I'll see you soon!

— Nicole Fallon-Peek

About me: Nicole Fallon-Peek is a journalist and copywriter with a degree in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University. She has served as a freelance reporter, managing editor, copy editor, and editorial director for a variety of B2B news outlets. She currently co-owns and operates content creation agency Lightning Media Partners.