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What's up Ocean City! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Meet the survivor leading Ocean City's Making Strides breast cancer walk
  • Ocean City junior shatters state record at famed Manhattan cross country meet

Also on today's calendar: Quilt Show: Every Quilt Tells a Story and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call somebody who crosses the ocean twice and doesn't take a bath? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Sunday: Tropical Rainstorm Isaias, with a high of 68 and low of 61 degrees.
  • Monday: A couple of morning showers, temps: high: 69, low: 56.
  • Tuesday: Breezy in the afternoon, with a high of 75 and low of 64 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Making Strides speaker fights breast cancer with her feet (6abc.com) — Ocean City will host a Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk on Sunday, where Doylestown runner and survivor Jenn Kaliser will serve as the featured speaker. After enduring chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, and nearly 160 medical visits, she continues running and walking with Team DetermiNation, whose members are traveling from several states to join her on the Ocean City boardwalk event.
   

• N.J. cross country star sets All-Time Garden State mark at Manhattan University Invitational (nj.com subscription) — Ocean City High School junior Riley Tolson just set a New Jersey all‑time mark at the Manhattan Invitational, running 14:29.4 on the famed Van Cortlandt Park course. Her dominant win helped power Ocean City, currently ranked No. 4 statewide, to a team championship, with several teammates turning in strong performances that underscore the program's depth this fall.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you call somebody who crosses the ocean twice and doesn't take a bath?" — A dirty double crosser ! (Thank you Theresia F. for sending it in!)
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