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🌱 Patch AM: Inside The Garden: Evanhealy Opens Flagship Skincare Boutique In Carlsbad

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Hi Carlsbad! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Step into The Garden, Carlsbad's new ritual-focused skincare haven
  • Will you help fill the last blood-donation spots in Carlsbad Village?
  • Which Carlsbad neighbors just earned major academic and scientific honors?

Also on today's calendar: Selling an Inherited Home in a Trust or Probate: What Actually Happens (Free Online) and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Is there anybody completely useless? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Humid, with a high of 79 and low of 64 degrees.
  • Thursday: Humid, temps: high: 80, low: 66.
  • Friday: Mostly sunny and humid, with a high of 81 and low of 65 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Inside The Garden: Evanhealy Opens Flagship Skincare Boutique In Carlsbad (patch.com) — Carlsbad residents can now visit The Garden, evanhealy's new flagship skincare boutique built right inside the company's local headquarters. The space showcases botanicals behind the brand, offers a slow, ritual-focused signature facial, and reflects evanhealy's plant-based philosophy while anchoring its future growth in Carlsbad.
   

2. Make a Difference This Saturday at the Heart of the Village Blood Drive (carlsbad-village.com) — Carlsbad residents can donate blood this Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Heart of the Village Blood Drive in Carlsbad Village, hosted at Barrio Glassworks on Roosevelt Street. Partnering with the San Diego Blood Bank, organizers stress that every appointment helps strengthen the region's blood supply, and donors in September receive a SeaWorld Howl‑O‑Scream ticket while supplies last.
   

3. Who's News: 9/25/26 (thecoastnews.com) — Carlsbad readers can celebrate local pride with news of resident Cristiane Gilligan earning a SUNY Delhi culinary arts management degree and Mariana Andrade making Southern New Hampshire University's president's list. The city has also proclaimed Oct. 28 as John Maffucci Day, honoring the longtime Army and Navy Academy coach, alongside updates on a local biotech's new COPD trial.
   

4. Prepare Your Move to Carlsbad: A Complete Guide (2urbangirls.com) — If you're planning a move to Carlsbad, this guide walks you through choosing the right neighborhood, budgeting hidden moving costs, and lining up schools and utilities before you arrive. It highlights areas like Carlsbad Village, Bressi Ranch, and Aviara, and offers step‑by‑step timelines so your transition into the Carlsbad Unified School District and local community is smoother and less stressful.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • This 1917 picture of the Oside Pier is very cool.
    Photo and text courtesy of the Oside Historical Society: In the early 1900s, Oceanside was a huge producer of what was then, a staple crop—lima beans… (Nextdoor Olde Carlsbad)
  • From my "Hummingbirds in Action" series.
    Two Allen's Hummingbirds in a mid-air confrontation near the feeder. Carlsbad, Calif. USA. (Camera: Sony RX10 IV). (Nextdoor Rancho La Costa Central)
  • Aerotek posted a job opening for Immediate Hire For Medical Device Assemblers - 2nd & 3rd Shift Available in Carlsbad. Apply here.
  • HM Electronics, Inc. posted a job opening for Stockroom Clerk III, 1st Shift (6:30am - 3:00pm) in Carlsbad. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Carlsbad here.

Ok Carlsbad! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: No because they can always be used as a bad example! (Thank you Gary M. for sending it in!)
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