🌱 How a Fisher-area farm family built a thriving Gibson City operation

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• How a Fisher-area farm family built a thriving Gibson City operation

Today's riddle: Why did the cookie go to the Doctor ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Humid with a thunderstorm, with a high of 78 and low of 67 degrees.
• Friday: Humid with a thunderstorm, temps: high: 83, low: 68.
• Saturday: Humid with decreasing clouds, with a high of 85 and low of 66 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• The Buhses of Gibson City (news-gazette.com) — A longtime farming family with roots on a farm between Fisher and Dewey now runs a multigenerational grain operation east of Gibson City, growing corn and soybeans. Bob Buhs shares how his family’s farm has evolved, the conservation practices they use, and why working alongside relatives—and a barnyard full of grandkids’ pets—still makes agriculture in east-central Illinois so rewarding.
   

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📸 Around Fisher

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Fisher

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday August 15

• Mussel Monitoring – Sangamon River →
  Sangamon River Forest Preserve, 2797 County Rd 600 E, Fisher
  9:00 am

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Other local events

Friday August 7

• Football Cheer 8-11am
  Fisher CUSD 1 Fisher, IL 61843

Monday August 10

• First Grade Supply Drop Off
  Fisher CUSD 1 Fisher, IL 61843
  2:30 pm
• 2nd Grade Supply Drop Off
  Fisher CUSD 1 Fisher, IL 61843
  3:30 pm

Tuesday August 11

• Kindergarten Meet & Greet
  Fisher CUSD 1 Fisher, IL 61843
  3:00 pm

Wednesday August 12

• Teachers' Institute
  Fisher CUSD 1 Fisher, IL 61843

Thursday August 13

• Teachers' Institute
  Fisher CUSD 1 Fisher, IL 61843

Friday August 14

• Students' 1st Day of School - 2:05 Dismissal
  Fisher CUSD 1 Fisher, IL 61843

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday August 6

• New Teacher Academy- Day 2
  Garden Hills Elem School Champaign, IL 61821
  8:00 am
• Back to School Prep Night
  Centennial High School Champaign, IL 61821
  4:30 pm
• SOFTBALL vs. Evans
  Jefferson Middle School Champaign, IL 61821
  4:30 pm

Monday August 10

• Teachers Institute Day - No Student Attendance
  Mahomet-Seymour CUSD 3 Mahomet, IL 61853

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Gamma Team Security Inc posted a job opening for Armed Security Officer in Rantoul. Apply here.
• Odin Management posted a job opening for Apartment Maintenance Supervisor in Rantoul. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Fisher here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Mahomet

• ‘It's been really rough': Mahomet teacher, superintendent react to board pushing referendum to November's ballot (wcia.com)
• Mahomet water bills will rise briefly as village shifts to faster billing cycle (mahometdaily.com)
• Elizabeth Blaser (ottumwaradio.com)

Rantoul

• DK2 event supplies more than 200 haircuts at Boys & Girls Club (cnhi.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because he felt CRUMMY ! (Thank you Michelle S. for sending it in!)
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