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🌱 Patch AM: Heading to Harvest Festival? Don’t miss this nearby Girl Scout sale.

Coming up: Walnut Creek Oktoberfest: Prost to a Weekend of Brews, Brats & Bavarian Fun! 🥨🍻 on the Piedmont Patch calendar

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Greetings Piedmont! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Heading to Harvest Festival? Don't miss this nearby Girl Scout sale.
  • How did Piedmont's Highlanders stack up at early-season cross-country meets?

Also on today's calendar: Walnut Creek Oktoberfest: Prost to a Weekend of Brews, Brats & Bavarian Fun! 🥨🍻 and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do an island and the letter "t" have in common? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Sunday: Cool with low clouds breaking, with a high of 67 and low of 59 degrees.
  • Monday: Partly sunny and cool, temps: high: 70, low: 59.
  • Tuesday: Partly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 70 and low of 56 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Girl Scout troop hosts garage sale fundraiser on Sept. 27 (piedmontexedra.com) — A local Girl Scout troop of mostly Piedmont teens is holding a garage sale fundraiser on Sunday, Sept. 27, just a few blocks from Piedmont Park during the Harvest Festival. Residents can browse vintage clothes, toys, sports gear, and handmade items while supporting the girls' Gold Award ambitions and community service projects that have already benefited Piedmont and the broader East Bay.
   

• Highlanders fight to compete at key invitationals (piedmontexedra.com) — Piedmont High's cross-country teams are grinding through early-season invitationals, with Highlander runners turning in solid performances at the St. Mary's and Ed Sias meets. The girls' squad, short one runner, couldn't score as a team but still earned praise from their coach, and both teams now look ahead to the De La Salle Invitational in Concord on Sept. 19.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: They are both in the middle of water. (Thank you Curt K. for sending it in!)
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