Zoo Goats Want To Snuggle + Free B-day Cakes For Foster Kids

Good day, people of Phoenix! It's me again, Caitlin Sievers, your host of the Phoenix Daily.

First, today's weather:

A stray thunderstorm. High: 87 Low: 70.

Here are the top stories today in Phoenix:

1. Phoenix Theatre Company will require attendees to be masked and vaccinated for some of its shows. Some showings of each of its upcoming performances will have mask and vaccine requirements while the other showings will continue with previous protocols: temperature checks for everyone and masks strongly encouraged for attendees. (ABC15 Arizona)
2. Phoenix Zoo's goat yard is reopened after more than a year closed, and the goats are ready to snuggle with zoo visitors. The closure was due to COVID-19 as well as staffing shortages.(12news.com KPNX)
3. Urban Cookies Bakeshop in Phoenix used a $5,000 grant to partner with For Goodness Cakes to make birthday cakes for children in foster care. The bakery hopes to see others donate to For Goodness Cakes so that more children can have the birthday celebrations they deserve. (FOX 10 News Phoenix)
4. Four people died in four separate vehicle crashes in Phoenix over the weekend. One man died after jumping from a vehicle and then being run over. Police suspect that driver impairment was a factor in two of the four crashes. (Phoenix Patch)

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Today in Phoenix:

• Wacoal Fit for the Cure at The Shops at Lake Havas. (9 a.m.)
• Taxes in Retirement webinar. (6:30 p.m.)

Phoenix Patch Notebook

• Arizona Humane Society: "Adopt love! Starting today all of our adoptable pets will have waived adoption fees thanks to our friends at the Bissell Pet Foundation! With their help, we're hoping to #EmptyTheShelters and find all of our deserving pets loving homes! This adoption special runs from Monday, Oct. 4 to Sunday, Oct. 10, at both AHS adoption locations!" (Facebook)
• Phoenix Public Library: "Explore the mystery genre and discover something right up your alley. Mysteries can be fiction or non-fiction (ahem, true crime). Hard-boiled detective stories or police procedurals. Espionage, speculative, cozies, noir, and more. Find something that sparks your curiosity... Get mysterious this October with Phoenix Public Library. Tag #justreadppl to share what you're reading." (Facebook)
• Phoenix Convention Center: "October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic violence is one of the most widespread and dangerous health and safety challenges in our community today! Help us paint Phoenix Purple all month long!" (Facebook)

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— Caitlin Sievers

About me: I'm a passionate writer and photographer who worked as a reporter and editor for various publications in the Midwest before landing in Phoenix. I have seven roommates. Four of them are cats. Contact me at caitlin.sievers@patch.com with story ideas and feedback.

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