🌱 Bag Recycling Program and 11 more events

Hello Portage! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☕️️

Coming up on the calendar:

• Bag Recycling Program at Portage Senior Center
• Environmental Board Meeting at Portage, MI Calendar

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

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Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Humid with showers around, with a high of 77 and low of 67 degrees.
• Friday: Humid with a t-storm in spots, temps: high: 85, low: 67.
• Saturday: Partly sunny, a shower; humid, with a high of 82 and low of 62 degrees.

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Portage

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Friday August 7

• Bag Recycling Program →
  Portage Senior Center Portage Zhang Senior Center - 203 East Centre Avenue Portage MI 49002
  9:00 am

Wednesday August 12

• Environmental Board Meeting →
  Portage, MI Calendar, 7900 South Westnedge Avenue, Portage
  7:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday August 6

• Cardio Drumming
  Comstock Community Center , 6330 King Hwy, Kalamazoo, MI, 49048, United States
  9:00 am
• Foot Care Clinic
  Comstock Community Center , 6330 King Hwy, Kalamazoo, MI, 49048, United States
  9:00 am
• Lunch @ the Conversation Cafe
  Comstock Community Center , 6330 King Hwy, Kalamazoo, MI, 49048, United States
  11:30 am
• GLCF Memory Cafe →
  Eastwood Towne Center, 2500 Showtime Dr, Lansing
  12:30 pm
• Summer Bingo Games
  Comstock Community Center , 6330 King Hwy, Kalamazoo, MI, 49048, United States
  1:00 pm
• Food Pantry
  Comstock Community Center , 6330 King Hwy, Kalamazoo, MI, 49048, United States
  1:00 pm
• I Am Woman - A Boozy Book Club Event →
  Prairie Ronde Artist Gallery, 101 E Prairie St, Vicksburg
  6:30 pm

Friday August 7

• TURN IN SUMMER READING TRACKERS BEFORE THE PARTY
  Vicksburg District Library Vicksburg, MI 49097
• Commodities
  Comstock Community Center , 6330 King Hwy, Kalamazoo, MI, 49048, United States
  9:00 am
• Steel Pulse →
  Bell's General Store, 355 E Kalamazoo Ave, Kalamazoo
  8:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Stryker Corporation posted a job opening for Production Team Leader (2nd Shift (2 pm to 12 am)) in Portage. Apply here.
• Bickford Senior Living Group, LLC posted a job opening for Server in Portage. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Portage here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Kalamazoo

• Election Transparency and Voter Education Town Hall in Kalamazoo this afternoon (wkzo.com)
• All 7 Kalamazoo-area tax proposals pass in Aug. 4 election (mlive.com)
• Kalamazoo College Board of Trustees Welcomes Four New Members (kzoo.edu)

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Ok Portage! 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: Because he felt CRUMMY ! (Thank you Michelle S. for sending it in!)
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