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🌱 Why is Santa Clara’s Nuevo Dog Park still shut with no answers?

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In today's newsletter:

  • Why is Santa Clara’s Nuevo Dog Park still shut with no answers?
  • Why are unhoused deaths falling even as memorial tombstones go up?
  • Why Santa Clara County nurses say patient safety is now at risk

Also on today's calendar: The Cats Year-End Lunch Buffet Festival – Dec 26, 27 & 28.

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Today's riddle: The doctor told me to drink carrot juice after a hot bath. - Did it help? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: A morning shower; cloudy, with a high of 64 and low of 48 degrees.
  • Thursday: Fog in the morning; some sun, temps: high: 68, low: 50.
  • Friday: Areas of fog in the morning, with a high of 67 and low of 53 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Santa Clara's Dog Park is Still Closed After More Than Four Months (svvoice.com) — Santa Clara’s Nuevo Dog Park remains closed more than four months after multiple dogs reportedly fell ill and one died, and the city still hasn’t released findings from its environmental investigation. With limited communication, unanswered poisoning concerns, and comparisons to a similar Los Angeles algae case, frustrated local pet owners are left waiting for clarity and a reopening timeline.
   

• Tombstone memorial honors unhoused as Santa Clara County deaths fall (ktvu.com) — Unhoused deaths in Santa Clara County have dropped this year, even as advocates prepare a powerful tombstone display in San Jose to honor every life lost. Expanded shelter capacity and funding in San Jose are credited by some for the decline, while others point to milder weather and stress that homelessness remains a deadly crisis affecting neighbors across the county.
   

• Santa Clara County nurses speak out against staffing shortages (sanjosespotlight.com) — Nurses at Santa Clara County hospitals are protesting furloughs and staffing shortages they say are delaying care and straining safety at facilities including Valley Medical Center and O’Connor Hospital. They blame federal funding cuts tied to Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and a county hiring freeze, and are urging supervisors to fill more than 200 vacant positions despite ongoing budget pressures.
   

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  • Apple sets the stage for fresh South Bay expansion with Sunnyvale deals (mercurynews.com)

Cupertino

  • Legion post leads effort to place 1,100+ wreaths on veterans' gravesites (legion.org)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I don’t know. I can never finish drinking the hot bath!
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