🌱 Wait Until Dark and 11 more events

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Coming up on the calendar:

• Great Plains Renaissance & Scottish Festival at Sedgwick County Park
• Wait Until Dark at Prairie Pines Playhouse, Mystery Dinner Theatre
• Chair Yoga - Maize Rec at Maize Recreation Commission

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: A severe afternoon t-storm, with a high of 81 and low of 41 degrees.
• Saturday: Mostly sunny and cooler, temps: high: 64, low: 41.
• Sunday: Sunny and pleasant, with a high of 78 and low of 50 degrees.

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📸 Around Maize

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Maize

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday April 18

• Great Plains Renaissance & Scottish Festival
  Sedgwick County Park, 6501 W 21st St, Wichita
  10:00 am

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Other local events

Friday April 17

• Wait Until Dark
  Prairie Pines Playhouse, Mystery Dinner Theatre , 4055 N Tyler Rd , Maize
  7:00 pm

Wednesday April 22

• Chair Yoga - Maize Rec
  Maize Recreation Commission , 10100 Grady Ave , Maize
  1:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday April 17

• 2026 Kansas Homeschool Expo
  Park City Arena , 8151 N Hartman Arena Dr , Park City
  9:30 am
• Bid Opening
  Wichita, KS Calendar , 455 N. Main St. , Wichita
  10:00 am
• City Council Agenda Review
  Wichita, KS Calendar , 455 N. Main St. , Wichita
  11:00 am
• Valley Center Invitational
  Valley Center District Stadium Parking
  2:00 pm
• Baseball: Boys Varsity/JV Game vs Cheney (Home)
  Goddard High School
  4:00 pm
• V/JV Baseball vs Ark City
  Valley Center High , 737 N Meridian Ave , Valley Center
  4:00 pm
• V/JV Softball vs Ark City
  Valley Center High , 800 Meadow Rd , Valley Center
  4:30 pm
• April Skate Night - Amelia Earhart Elementary PTO
  Amelia Earhart Elementary School , 312 N West St , Wichita
  6:00 pm
• HS Spring Play
  Valley Center High School , 9600 N Meridian Ave , Valley Center
  7:00 pm
• Banda El Recodo at Onyx Event Center
  Onyx Event center , 10001 E Kellogg Dr , Wichita
  8:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Good day, allow me to introduce myself, Im the lead investigator and owner of Kansas Paranormal Research Wichita, I have 30+ years in the field.
  It is a hobby of mine, and if you feel you have paranormal activity in your home or business, we would like to investigate your claims. We do not… (Nextdoor Carriage Crossing)

• Corporate Cleaning Group posted a job opening for Part Time Morning Cleaner in Wichita. Apply here.
• B&B Airparts LLC posted a job opening for CNC Machinist in Wichita. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Maize here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Wichita

• Free Home Repair Help? Wichita Session Explains How To Qualify (communityvoiceks.com)
• Wichita governing bodies give new collaboration effort a ‘tri' (ransonfinancial.com)
• Poets on the Plains: On We Call Home by Rachel Coleman (hppr.org)

Newton

• Rail Crossing Improvement Coming in Newton - Ad Astra Radio (adastraradio.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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