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🌱 Patch AM: Finding Binkey: When Your Ancestors Choose You with Michael A. Willis and 7 more events
Also check out Donuts & Demos! on the Pleasant Hill Patch calendar

Morning Pleasant Hill! We've got the scoop on the latest happenings in town. Read on to get looped in. ☀️
Coming up on the calendar:
- Donuts & Demos! at Greenlight Driver Training
- The Great Contra Costa Crystal Fair at Civic Park Community Center
- Visit Concord | Concord Taco Trail at Concord Taquerias and Restaurants
... and check out 10 more events on the calendar!
Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Saturday: Near-record temperatures, with a high of 100 and low of 65 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Sunday: Near-record temperatures, temps: high: 97, low: 61.
- Monday: Near-record temperatures, with a high of 97 and low of 60 degrees.
📸 Around Pleasant Hill
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Pleasant Hill
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★ Featured events ★
- Donuts & Demos! →
Greenlight Driver Training, 730 Camino Ramon, Danville
10:00 am - The Great Contra Costa Crystal Fair →
Civic Park Community Center, 1375 Civic Dr, Walnut Creek
10:00 am - Visit Concord | Concord Taco Trail →
Concord Taquerias and Restaurants, Concord
12:00 pm - Blessing of the Animals at St. Paul's Walnut Creek →
St Paul's Episcopal Church, 1924 Trinity Ave, Walnut Creek
9:30 am - Visit Concord | Concord Taco Trail →
Concord Taquerias and Restaurants, Concord, CA,
12:00 pm
Saturday October 3
Sunday October 4
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Other local events
- Finding Binkey: When Your Ancestors Choose You with Michael A. Willis →
Contra Costa Co. Genealogical Soc. via ZOOM
10:00 am - Pleasant Hill Harvest Festival →
Downtown Pleasant Hill, 105 Crescent Dr, Pleasant Hill
11:00 am - 5th Annual Spooktacular Halloween & Oddities Market →
Scout Hall, 991 Loring Ave, Crockett
11:00 am - Contra Costa Vintage Market: Halloween Edition →
3581 Mount Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
10:00 am - Restore Hetch Hetchy Annual Dinner - Celebrating the Legacy Weavers of Yosemite →
Lafayette Veterans Memorial Center, 3780 Mount Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
6:00 pm - Loving Karma (one day only documentary screening) →
CinemaWest Rheem Theatre & Giant Screen, 350 Park St, Moraga
3:00 pm - Violin Duo Song-Choi Performs at St. Paul's in Walnut Creek →
St Paul's Episcopal Church, 1924 Trinity Ave, Walnut Creek
3:00 pm - CLARINET FUSION This is Halloween Concert 2026: Martinez →
City of Martinez Senior Center, 818 Green St, Martinez
7:00 pm
Saturday October 3
Saturday October 10
Sunday October 11
Saturday October 17
Sunday October 18
Friday October 23
📣 Pleasant Hill Shout Outs!
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Looking for someone to paint a few walls for our move out on our rental.
Would love it if it could be done on 10/11 before the move-out cleaning. (Nextdoor Poet's Corner)
- Kinder's posted a job opening for Product Supply Operations Planner in Walnut Creek. Apply here.
- The Bay Club Company posted a job opening for Server in Walnut Creek. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Pleasant Hill here.
🗞 Nearby News
Martinez
- DOJ Declines Charges in Fatal Police Shooting Despite Finding Problems with Use of Force, Training (davisvanguard.org)
- Kern County Tanker Convoys: Fact or Fiction? (californiaglobe.com)
- Newsom just put new limits on ICE. Here's what's changing in LA (lapublicpress.org)
Walnut Creek
- Here's What We Know About the New Restaurant Replacing Oyama in Walnut Creek Bay Area Telegraph (bayareatelegraph.com)
- Adaptive Reuse Projects Face Hidden Parking Shortfalls, But Automated Systems Offer a Solution (citybuzz.co)
Danville
- Where To Pick Pumpkins Near Danville This Fall — And How To Carve Them (patch.com)
Ok Pleasant Hill! 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: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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