🌱 Fairborn family and friends remember the life of Gerald Edward Pitts

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• Fairborn family and friends remember the life of Gerald Edward Pitts

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

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: A morning thunderstorm, with a high of 83 and low of 61 degrees.
• Saturday: Sunny to partly cloudy, temps: high: 84, low: 67.
• Sunday: A stray t-storm; not as warm, with a high of 77 and low of 57 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Gerald Pitts (ysnews.com) — Family and friends in Fairborn are mourning Gerald Edward Pitts, a longtime Greene County resident whose son Geoffrey lives in Fairborn. Pitts built a respected career in environmental science, served his church and Wilberforce community, and leaves behind a close-knit family who will share memorial details privately.
   

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📸 Around Fairborn

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Fairborn

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Tuesday June 16

• Music & Movement Storytime
  Fairborn Community Library 1 East Main Street, Fairborn, OH 45324
  10:30 am
• Free Summer Lunch
  Fairborn Community Library 1 East Main Street, Fairborn, OH 45324
  11:45 am
• Teen Craft Studio
  Fairborn Community Library 1 East Main Street, Fairborn, OH 45324
  4:30 pm

Wednesday June 17

• Toddler Storytime
  Fairborn Community Library 1 East Main Street, Fairborn, OH 45324
  10:30 am
• Free Summer Lunch
  Fairborn Community Library 1 East Main Street, Fairborn, OH 45324
  11:45 am
• Make-It-Wednesday
  Fairborn Community Library 1 East Main Street, Fairborn, OH 45324
  12:00 pm
• Toy Story Party!
  Fairborn Community Library 1 East Main Street, Fairborn, OH 45324
  4:30 pm
• Dig Up History w/ the Dayton Diggers
  Fairborn Community Library 1 East Main Street, Fairborn, OH 45324
  6:30 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday June 12

• Baby Storytime
  Fairborn Community Library 1 East Main Street, Fairborn, OH 45324
  10:30 am
• Free Summer Lunch
  Fairborn Community Library 1 East Main Street, Fairborn, OH 45324
  11:45 am

Tuesday June 16

• Music & Movement Storytime
  Fairborn Community Library 1 East Main Street, Fairborn, OH 45324
  10:30 am
• Teen Craft Studio
  Fairborn Community Library 1 East Main Street, Fairborn, OH 45324
  4:30 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

• Would anyone happen to know of a place to rent or borrow cat traps from?
  One of our cats is still missing & we've been able to get close to her a couple times, but she's never been outside so she's extremely skittish! (Nextdoor Greene)

• Montgomery County Educational Service Center posted a job opening for Substitute Custodian in Fairborn. Apply here.
• The Home Depot, Inc. posted a job opening for Lot Associate in Fairborn. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Fairborn here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Beavercreek

• Beavercreek launches fundraiser to replace decrepit metal slide (wdtn.com)
• Tressel visits Beavercreek company (xeniagazette.com)
• Beavercreek's ‘Wrent-A-Wrestler' helps with money, life lessons (wdtn.com)

Yellow Springs

• Rappers from around the country will close out the Rightstarter Live exhibit at Herndon Gallery (wyso.org)
• Radio history, returned (ysnews.com)
• Bipartisan measure on IDs for poor Ohioans morphs into mail-in voting bill (wyso.org)

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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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