🌱 How a West Concord neighbor is fighting for a lifesaving kidney.

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In today's newsletter:

• How a West Concord neighbor is fighting for a lifesaving kidney.

Also on today's calendar: Music Sunday: Our One Precious Planet - With First Parish of Sudbury and 9 more events.

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

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: A couple of morning showers, with a high of 70 and low of 47 degrees.
• Saturday: Cloudy and cooler, temps: high: 56, low: 45.
• Sunday: Cloudy with showers, with a high of 58 and low of 35 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• ‘Long journey': Concord woman hoping for a kidney donation (concordbridge.org) — A Concord woman who receives dialysis three times a week at the DCI clinic in West Concord is urgently seeking a living kidney donor to avoid years on a transplant waitlist. Deeply involved with West Concord’s Nature Connection, she’s now too exhausted from treatment to volunteer as much, but her family and local supporters hope a widely shared video appeal will connect her with a match.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in West Concord

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★ Featured events ★

Sunday April 19

• Music Sunday: Our One Precious Planet - With First Parish of Sudbury
  First Parish of Sudbury, 327 Concord Rd, Sudbury
  10:00 am
• Hosmer House Open House
  300 Main St, Acton
  2:00 pm

Monday April 20

• Cannabis 101 with Heather Flower + CannaBingo and Expo
  Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center, Inc., 82 Main St, Maynard
  3:00 pm

Friday April 24

• The Concord Players present Brigadoon
  51 Walden St, Concord
  8:00 pm

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Other local events

Friday April 17

• Patriot Vigil
  North Bridge Visitor Center , 174 Liberty St , Concord
  7:45 pm

Saturday April 18

• Smith House Open House
  Smith House
  10:00 am
• British Army Camp Followers Display
  Minute Man Visitor Center
  10:00 am
• Hartwell Tavern Open House
  Hartwell Tavern
  10:00 am
• Colonel James Barrett Open House
  Colonel James Barrett House
  10:00 am

Friday May 1

• Let's Groove Together! Dinner, Dance & Auction
  Boxboro Regency , 242 Adams Pl , Boxborough
  6:00 pm

Saturday May 2

• Sudbury Witness House Tour
  Sudbury Historical Society , 288 Old Sudbury Rd , Sudbury
  11:00 am

Sunday May 3

• Maypole Dancing for ALL on the Sudbury Town Common
  First Parish of Sudbury , 327 Concord Rd , Sudbury
  11:30 am

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🗞 Nearby News

Concord

• Eric Archibald Stern, 61 (concordbridge.org)
• CCHS amenities building proposal returns to Town Meeting (concordbridge.org)
• Guest Editorial: Clashes at Lexington & Concord opened Revolutionary War (blythewoodonline.com)

Acton

• Truist Financial Has Lowered Expectations for Insulet (NASDAQ:PODD) Stock Price (marketbeat.com)

Sudbury

• Sudbury Superintendent To Step Down At End Of School Year (patch.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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