🌱 How a Fairplay volunteer firefighter helps shape safer hazmat responses

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In today's newsletter:

• How a Fairplay volunteer firefighter helps shape safer hazmat responses

Also on today's calendar: The GovCon Summer Soiree - Federal Contractors NETWORKING EVENT and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: A heavy t-storm in the p.m., with a high of 95 and low of 66 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Saturday: Mostly sunny; hot, less humid, temps: high: 92, low: 65.
• Sunday: Hot; an afternoon t-storm, with a high of 91 and low of 63 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Bringing Order to Chaos: Developing Incident Action Plans (fireengineering.com) — A longtime firefighter who serves with the Community Volunteer Fire Company of District 12 in Fairplay shares practical guidance on how emergency crews can bring order to complex hazmat incidents. He walks through how incident action plans, standard ICS forms, and clear communication help protect responders and nearby communities when dangerous chemical leaks or other large-scale emergencies occur.
   

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📸 Around Fairplay

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Fairplay

Add your event to our calendar and newsletter!

Saturday June 13

• Family Storytime
  Boonsboro Free Library 401 Potomac Street, Boonsboro, MD, 21713, US
  11:00 am

Monday June 15

• Tabletop Role Playing Game Club
  Boonsboro Free Library 401 Potomac Street, Boonsboro, MD, 21713, US
  3:30 pm

Tuesday June 16

• Toddler Time
  Boonsboro Free Library 401 Potomac Street, Boonsboro, MD, 21713, US
  11:00 am
• Afternoon Book Club
  Boonsboro Free Library 401 Potomac Street, Boonsboro, MD, 21713, US
  3:00 pm

Wednesday June 17

• Preschool Storytime
  Boonsboro Free Library 401 Potomac Street, Boonsboro, MD, 21713, US
  11:00 am
• Rock Painting Party
  Boonsboro Free Library 401 Potomac Street, Boonsboro, MD, 21713, US
  4:00 pm

Thursday June 18

• Adult Craft Night- Make a Colonial Style Rag-Doll
  Boonsboro Free Library 401 Potomac Street, Boonsboro, MD, 21713, US
  5:30 pm

Monday June 22

• The GovCon Summer Soiree - Federal Contractors NETWORKING EVENT →
  John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F St NW, Washington
  6:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday June 12

• Infant Lapsit Storytime
  Boonsboro Free Library 401 Potomac Street, Boonsboro, MD, 21713, US
  11:00 am
• Hagerstown Homesteaders
  Alice Virginia & David W. Fletcher Branch 100 S. Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD, 21740, US
  2:00 pm
• Culture & Cocktails: The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign →
  Washington County Historical Society 135 W Washington St, Hagerstown, MD 21740
  2:00 pm
• VolunTeen Orientation
  Alice Virginia & David W. Fletcher Branch 100 S. Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD, 21740, US
  5:00 pm

Have we missed something on our calendar? Add an event yourself! As always, before attending confirm event details to ensure accuracy.

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Have questions about how to read your utility bill?
  We will walk through utility bills line-by-line in these 30-minute information sessions, answering your questions along the way. Sign up for these… (Nextdoor )
• Do you buy your electricity from one of these utilities?
  If so, your electricity price (Standard Offer Service or SOS) is about to change. Learn what you have been paying versus the price you will be… (Nextdoor )

• Disabledperson, Inc posted a job opening for Freight Handler at Walmart in Williamsport, Maryland in Williamsport. Apply here.
• Saia, Inc. posted a job opening for PT Dockworker - Hagerstown, MD in Hagerstown. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Fairplay here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Boonsboro

• Boonsboro High earns national music education award again (heraldmailmedia.com)
• National Eucharistic Pilgrimage stops in Baltimore, hundreds march despite rain (wbal.com)
• No injuries reported after accident on Forest Road, officials say (wset.com)

Williamsport

• Williamsport High student earns national Scholars semifinalist honor (heraldmailmedia.com)
• Washington County Invites Residents to Register for 2026 Summer Camps with Early Bird Discount Opportunity (radiofreehubcity.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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