🌱 How Southgate Anderson students cooked their way to a state title

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In today's newsletter:

• How Southgate Anderson students cooked their way to a state title

Also on today's calendar: Safety Around Water - School Age and 3 more events.

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

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Partly sunny and less humid, with a high of 67 and low of 55 degrees.
• Saturday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, temps: high: 67, low: 37.
• Sunday: Mostly sunny and windy, with a high of 50 and low of 30 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Riverview's rising chefs prepare for National Culinary Competition (thenewsherald.com) — Student chefs from Southgate Anderson High School and partner Downriver schools just helped the Downriver Career Technical Consortium win Michigan’s ProStart culinary championship, earning a trip to nationals in Baltimore later this month. Their student-designed, Michigan-inspired three-course menu, months of after-school practice, and tight teamwork impressed judges and strengthened several seniors’ plans to pursue culinary careers.
   

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📸 Around Southgate

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Southgate

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday April 18

• Healthy Kids Day
  Downriver Family YMCA, 16777 Northline Rd, Southgate
  9:00 am

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Other local events

Saturday April 18

• Rotary Free Shred Day
  City of Southgate , 14400 Dix Toledo Rd , Southgate
  9:30 am
• Safety Around Water - School Age
  Downriver Family YMCA , 16777 Northline Rd , Southgate
  10:15 am

Wednesday April 22

• Downriver League Top 10 Breakfast
  Crystal Gardens , 16703 Fort St , Southgate
  8:00 am

Friday April 24

• Parents Night Out - Southgate, MI 2026
  Downriver Family YMCA , 16777 Northline Rd , Southgate
  6:00 pm

Saturday May 2

• Downriver Mom Prom
  The Grecian Center , 16300 Dix Toledo Rd , Southgate
  6:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday April 17

• Senior Aerobics
  City of Taylor - Senior Services , 6750 Troy , Taylor
  10:00 am
• Track and Field Renton Relay Invite @ Huron High School
  Huron High School , 32044 Huron River Dr , New Boston
  4:00 pm
• Fordson Girls JV Soccer @ Allen Park
  Allen Park High School , 18401 Champaign Rd , Allen Park
  4:30 pm
• Taylor North Little League Celebration & Parade
  Heritage Park , 12111 Pardee Road , Taylor
  5:30 pm
• Allen Park Jaguars vs Inter-City Baptist Chargers
  Allen Park High School , 18401 Champaign Rd , Allen Park
  7:00 pm
• Sound Bath by Candlelight Wyandotte
  Downriver Council For the Arts , 81 Chestnut St , Wyandotte
  7:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Gender reveal on the newbie…
  This makes me so incredibly sad… 10 months old… weighting under 6lbs roaming the streets UNFIXED… imagine this little baby girl got pregnant…. We… (Nextdoor Merrills Manor)
• Can’t wait to have this chart completely full!!
  Hope to have a binder full of the babies I helped along my way through TNR… Hopefully soon to foster one day… So I’m able to help babies like Angel… (Nextdoor Merrills Manor)

• Sonic Drive-In posted a job opening for Cook in Southgate. Apply here.
• McDonald's posted a job opening for Crew Team Member Southgate - Eureka in Southgate. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Southgate here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Taylor

• Students recognized for pro-life speeches (thenewsherald.com)
• Downriver area faith events (thenewsherald.com)
• Tornado confirmed in Melvindale Wednesday morning (thenewsherald.com)

Allen Park

• 8 Tornadoes Touched Down In MI During Severe Storms Tuesday Night: NWS (patch.com)
• O'NEILL: Israel not to blame for war in Iran (thenewsherald.com)

Detroit

• Man Charged In Metro Detroit Kidnapping, Sex Assault Of Teen At Bus Stop: Prosecutor (patch.com)
• MI Man Hit With Ax In Road Rage Incident: Report (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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