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In today's newsletter:

  • How an El Cerrito High sophomore's robot won global engineering honors

Also on today's calendar: Five Little Monkeys Toys August Warehouse Sale and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do evil hens lay? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Breezy in the afternoon, with a high of 73 and low of 57 degrees.
  • Thursday: Breezy in the afternoon, temps: high: 71, low: 58.
  • Friday: Breezy in the afternoon, with a high of 72 and low of 57 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• IEEE Presidents' Scholarship Honors Teen Innovators (ieee.org) — An El Cerrito High School sophomore, Calvin Shang Hung, just earned third place in a prestigious international engineering competition for his six-legged search-and-rescue robot, putting local talent on the global stage. The piece also profiles two other teen innovators whose low-cost assistive technologies could transform mobility and independence for people with disabilities worldwide.
   

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Celebrating 65 Years of Sister City Friendship with Shimada, Japan.
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  • Invictus Academy of Richmond posted a job opening for Meal Service Provider in El Cerrito. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

Richmond

  • What's the Buzz: Flor Hermosa coffee stand is Richmond's best setting yet (grandviewindependent.com)
  • A Richmond hit-and-run 'changed our family forever.' But community support helped us survive (richmondside.org)
  • 8/19/26 Rally To Defend The Crockett 19: DROP The Charges NOW! (indybay.org)

Berkeley

  • Green Day guitarist is obsessed with the hidden pathways of the Berkeley Hills (berkeleyside.org)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Deviled eggs (Thank you Karla H. for sending it in!)
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