🌱 Unemployment Rate Rises Slightly + COVID-19 Stabilizing

Hello, people of Redwood City-Woodside! Eric He here with a brand-new edition of the Redwood City-Woodside Daily.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 65 Low: 48.

Here are the top stories today in Redwood City-Woodside:

1. Silicon Valley records slight rise in unemployment rate to start 2022 (KRON4)
2. Worried about Ukrainian co-workers, Silicon Valley tech companies mobilize to aid refugees and the war effort (Mountain View Voice)
3. Tennis Courts Temporarily Closed At Redwood City's Morton Park (Redwood City-Woodside Patch)
4. COVID-19 Stabilizing In San Mateo County: Health Chief (Patch)

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Today in Redwood City-Woodside:

• Freaky Friday the Musical! (7:30 PM)

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Events:

• St. Dunstan Spring Festival (March 18)
• Friday March 18th, noon-1 silent vigil for Peace in Ukraine and to Honor Women's History Month (March 18)
• 🌷 Spring Equinox Ceremony ~ Native Flute Meditation and Drum Journey (March 20)
• Taxes in Retirement Webinar (March 21)
• American Diabetes Association Diabetes Alert Day: Understand Your Risk (March 22)
• Promise to Our Planet - a Climate Action Benefit (March 25)
• Taxes in Retirement Webinar (March 28)
• Stanford Art & Anatomy Summer Program (April 11)
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