🌱 Patch AM: Victoria Fire Department hiring a Paramedic Crew Leader with solid pay

Hi there, Victoria! We've got your morning read ready! Read on to stay connected. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• Victoria Fire Department hiring a Paramedic Crew Leader with solid pay
• How Texas A&M–Victoria's new on-campus rule is reshaping fall classes
• Who has the edge in this year's Victoria Battle for the Boot?

Also on today's calendar: Victoria Farmers' Market.

Today's riddle: What do you call a belt made of watches? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Monday: Partly sunny; hot and humid, with a high of 97 and low of 75 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Tuesday: A couple of thunderstorms, temps: high: 94, low: 75.
• Wednesday: Humid with a stray t-storm, with a high of 95 and low of 76 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. 10 Fire Departments Hiring Fire Chiefs, Firefighters (firehouse.com) — Victoria residents interested in public safety careers can now apply for a Paramedic Crew Leader position with the Victoria Fire Department, offering a starting salary of $59,457. The listing appears alongside firefighter and fire chief openings in departments across the country, but this role is specifically based here in Victoria.
   

2. Professors Quit After Texas A&M Required Them to be on Campus Monday-Friday 8-5 in Response to New Texas Law Restricting Remote Work For Public University Faculty (aals.org) — Faculty at Texas A&M University–Victoria are quitting after a new policy, tied to a statewide law limiting remote work, began requiring full-time professors to be on campus eight hours a day, five days a week. With many instructors commuting from Houston and beyond, the change has led to canceled classes, thinned-out departments and concerns about how the upheaval will affect Victoria students this fall.
   

3. Week two's top Crossroads high school football games (crossroadstoday.com) — High school football fans in Victoria can look forward to the Battle for the Boot as Victoria West and Victoria East renew their rivalry in week two, with bragging rights on the line after last year's three-point Warriors win. The preview also spotlights key regional matchups involving Goliad, Tidehaven, Cuero, La Vernia and Yoakum as non-district play continues.
   

4. Grief Awareness Day encourages support and healing (crossroadstoday.com) — In Victoria, Grief Awareness Day is a reminder to reach out to neighbors, friends and family who may be quietly carrying loss. Mental health professionals urge residents to seek support, check on loved ones and use available counseling and community resources as organizations nationwide work to reduce the stigma around grief and bereavement.
   

📸 Around Victoria

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Victoria

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday September 12
• Gulf Bend Center's Friendship Fest Event →
  DeLeon City Plaza, 101 N Main St, Victoria
  10:00 am

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Other local events

Wednesday September 2
• Victoria Farmers' Market →
  Victoria Farmers' Market, 2805 N Navarro St, Victoria, TX, 77901
  9:00 am
Monday September 7
• Labor Day - Student/Staff Holiday
  Victoria ISD Victoria, TX 77901

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🗓 Events Nearby

Monday August 31
• Rustler Volleyball
  Edna ISD Industrial High School, 187 5th St, Vanderbilt, TX 77991, USA
  5:00 pm
• Probability & Players Meeting
  Edna ISD RM 212
  5:00 pm
• BAND - Monday Night Rehearsal
  Edna ISD Edna, TX 77957
  6:00 pm
Tuesday September 1
• EHS Cheer Practice-Dome
  Edna ISD Edna, TX 77957
  6:45 am
• Silver Spur Practice
  Edna ISD Gym
  7:00 am
• Cowgirl Volleyball (JV)
  Edna ISD Shiner, TX 77984, USA
  5:00 pm
• Cowgirl Volleyball (V)
  Edna ISD Shiner, TX 77984, USA
  6:00 pm
• Silver Spurs Booster Club Meetings
  Edna ISD Pinto Bean, 700 W Main St #20, Edna, TX 77957, USA
  7:00 pm
Wednesday September 2
• Cross Country (HS-AM) (JH-PM)
  Edna ISD Van Vleck, TX, USA

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Good afternoon I pray everybody's staying as cool as they can in this heat today.
  I don't know if anybody's looking for a sturdy box to store items in or it would even be good for a child to make a little house out of it . It's… (Nextdoor Tangerine)
• If you lost your trash can (Number 9G5CV0000875) it's on the sidewalk on Dripping Spring.
  Otherwise I will call the garbage company to come pick it up. (Nextdoor Terra Vista)

• Government Jobs posted a job opening for Evening Custodian in Victoria. Apply here.
• Papa John's - Sun Holdings, Inc. posted a job opening for Team Member in Victoria. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Victoria here.

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time (Thank you Kourtney Z. for sending it in!)
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