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🌱 How a Winooski market became Vermont’s World Cup celebration hub
Winooski, Vermont Patch AM: a 3 min readGood morning Winooski! We're back in your inbox this morning to keep you in the loop with what's happening in and around town. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How a Winooski market became Vermont’s World Cup celebration hub
Also on today's calendar: Community Meal – Winooski and 5 more events.
Today's riddle: What happens when you tell an egg a joke? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Thursday: Humid with thunderstorms, with a high of 86 and low of 70 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Friday: An afternoon thunderstorm, temps: high: 92, low: 60.
- Saturday: Mostly sunny and not as hot, with a high of 85 and low of 63 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• ‘Like Christmas': For Vermont's Congolese community, a historic World Cup bid is cause for celebration (vtdigger.org) — A Winooski grocery owner is turning his neighborhood market into a hub for Congolese World Cup pride, selling jerseys and stocking familiar foods as Congo returns to the tournament. The story follows how Vermont’s Congolese community, largely based in Winooski and Chittenden County, is celebrating amid Vermont’s growing soccer culture and the broader controversies surrounding this year’s World Cup. 
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★ Featured events ★
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Winooski Farmers Market →
Winooski Farmers Market, 20 Winooski Falls Wy, Winooski
10:00 am
Sunday June 14
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Other local events
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Graduation ~ 1:00
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Community Meal – Winooski →
Winooski Senior Center, 123 Barlow St, Winooski
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Singing Group for People with Memory Loss (and their caregivers) – Winooski →
Winooski Senior Center, 123 Barlow St, Winooski
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Winooski Farmers Market →
Winooski Farmers Market, 20 Winooski Falls Wy, Winooski
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Winooski Farmers Market →
Winooski Farmers Market, 20 Winooski Falls Wy, Winooski
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French Heritage Day →
Winooski Farmers Market, 20 Winooski Falls Wy, Winooski
10:00 am -
Singing Group for People with Memory Loss (and their caregivers) – Winooski →
Winooski Senior Center, 123 Barlow St, Winooski
10:30 am
Saturday June 13
Wednesday June 17
Friday June 19
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Friday July 3
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🗓 Events Nearby
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MBS Fly Up Day
Union Memorial Colchester, VT 05446
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Beginning Tai Chi Colchester →
Colchester Recreation Center, 80 Dick Mazza Dr, Colchester
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Champlain Islands Fiber Bees
Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild North Hero Methodist Church, 3671 US-2,, North Hero, VT, 05474
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Movie Screening: Jurassic Park (1993) →
Colchester, VT Calendar, 898 Main St., Colchester
3:30 pm
Thursday June 11
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Domino's Pizza, Inc. posted a job opening for Assistant Manager(03101) - 485 Colchester Avenue in Burlington. Apply here.
- Government Jobs posted a job opening for Power Plant Shift Supervisor in Burlington. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Winooski here.
🗞 Nearby News
Burlington
- Paula Routly: Is Burlington Making a Comeback? (sevendaysvt.com)
- Vermont Green FC plays Canada's national soccer team in World Cup tuneup (vtdigger.org)
- Traveling from Burlington to Montreal? Here's What to Know Before You Go (wordpress.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: It cracks up (Thank you Cathy A. for sending it in!)
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