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🌱 How Marion families can now choose greener, cheaper burials locally

Marion, Ohio Patch AM: a 3 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • How Marion families can now choose greener, cheaper burials locally

Also on today's calendar: Blend of Seven Winery - Food Truck - Wagner's Pork — Ohio Wine Producers Association and 5 more events.

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

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: A morning thunderstorm, with a high of 85 and low of 60 degrees.
  • Saturday: Mostly sunny and warm, temps: high: 84, low: 64.
  • Sunday: A stray t-storm; not as warm, with a high of 73 and low of 52 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Marion's Grand Prairie Cemetery offers new eco-friendly burial choice (marionstar.com) — Families in Marion County now have a local option for eco-friendly “green burials” and an expanded cremation area at Grand Prairie Cemetery, cutting costs by avoiding embalming and vaults. The new sections feature natural burials, scatter gardens, and nameplates, bringing services previously only available out of town closer to home.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • My great niece says my Ube cookies with icing are a 10 out of 10.
    She's half Filipino, her mama is Filipino and loves my Ube items too. (Nextdoor Grandview Estates)
  • Disabledperson, Inc posted a job opening for Housekeeper-Presidential-5 at Presidential Post Acute in Marion, Ohio in Marion. Apply here.
  • Marion Technical College posted a job opening for Psychology - Adjunct Faculty in Marion. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Marion here.

🗞 Nearby News

Richwood

  • Two Richwood residents charged with crimes against children (rgnews.biz)
  • NU Gabby Lindsey makes podium in three events at states for track and field (rgnews.biz)
  • Residents experience bad flooding after rainfall (rgnews.biz)

Mount Gilead

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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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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Marion

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