🌱 How many new aerospace jobs are coming to Des Moines?

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In today's newsletter:

• How many new aerospace jobs are coming to Des Moines?
• Why are protesters targeting the FAA office in Des Moines?

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

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Some sun, then clouds, with a high of 67 and low of 54 degrees.
• Friday: Times of clouds and sun, temps: high: 70, low: 52.
• Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 68 and low of 53 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Shield AI chooses Des Moines for new site of AI fighter jet production (komonews.com) — Des Moines is getting a major economic boost as Shield AI builds a new X-BAT fighter jet research and manufacturing facility at Des Moines Creek 2 Industrial Park, bringing hundreds of high-paying jobs and over $300 million in investment. Officials say the project could support thousands of positions statewide and significantly grow the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue regional economy, while reinforcing Des Moines' longstanding aerospace ties.
   

• Anti-ICE activists demand end to shackles on WA deportation flights despite documented attacks on federal officers (thepostmillennial.com) — Protesters gathered outside the FAA office in Des Moines to demand an end to ankle shackles on detainees transported on ICE flights from Boeing Field. The report details their petition, the federal regulations they cite, and counterpoints about safety concerns and past assaults on officers, along with King County's broader monitoring of deportation flights.
   

📸 Around Des Moines

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Des Moines

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Saturday October 3
• مركز الترحيب / The Welcoming Center
  Woodmont Library, 26809 Pacific Highway South, Seattle
  11:30 am
• Welcome to Medicare
  Burien Library, 400 SW 152nd Street, Seattle
  1:00 pm
Sunday October 4
• The Artist's Nook: Open Art Studio for Teens
  Burien Library, 400 SW 152nd Street, Seattle
  3:00 pm
• Finger Knit a Fall Garland
  Woodmont Library, 26809 Pacific Highway South, Seattle
  4:00 pm
Monday October 5
• STEAM Family Story Time
  Woodmont Library, 26809 Pacific Highway South, Seattle
  10:30 am
Tuesday October 6
• Tinker Tuesday - Snap Circuits
  Woodmont Library, 26809 Pacific Highway South, Seattle
  3:30 pm
Wednesday October 7
• Family Story Time
  Burien Library, 400 SW 152nd Street, Seattle
  12:30 pm
• Tech Tutors at Burien Library
  Burien Library, 400 SW 152nd Street, Seattle
  3:00 pm
• مرکز استقبال / The Welcoming Center
  Woodmont Library, 26809 Pacific Highway South, Seattle
  5:30 pm
• Fiber Arts Meetup
  Burien Library, 400 SW 152nd Street, Seattle
  6:00 pm
• Knit Lit Book Group
  Woodmont Library, 26809 Pacific Highway South, Seattle
  6:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday October 1
• Family Story Time
  Kent Panther Lake Library, 20500 108th Avenue SE, Kent
  10:30 am

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🗞 Nearby News

SeaTac

• Come Try Rugby at Liberty Rugby Academy on October 17 (oursportscentral.com)
• Serving Nostalgia During Their Lunch Break (nytimes.com)
• A silhouetted plane flies past the moon during a lunar eclipse (seattletimes.com)

Kent

• 2 men fatally shot in Kent drive-by identified (king5.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

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