🌱 Patch AM: Toddler Fun Sunday and 11 more events

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Today's riddle: I’m trying to think of a new cloud joke. 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Sunday: Cloudy and warm, with a high of 71 and low of 52 degrees.
• Monday: Cooler; a few morning showers, temps: high: 59, low: 26.
• Tuesday: Turning sunny and cooler, with a high of 44 and low of 26 degrees.

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🗓 Events Nearby

Sunday December 28

• Toddler Fun Sunday
  Hard Labor Creek State Park , 5 Hard Labor Creek Road , Rutledge
  1:00 pm
• Gills, Pores, & Spore Prints: Mushrooms Identification Hike
  Fort Yargo State Park , 210 S Broad St , Winder
  1:00 pm
• History Hike - Follow in the Steps of the CCC
  Hard Labor Creek State Park , 5 Hard Labor Creek Road , Rutledge
  3:00 pm
• Live Music: Folie à Quatre
  Oak House Distillery and Speakeasy , 1015 Macon Hwy , Athens
  4:00 pm
• Bad Dog Trivia
  The Globe , 199 N Lumpkin St , Athens
  6:00 pm

Tuesday December 30

• Walton County Duals
  Loganville High School , 100 Trident Trail , Loganville
  10:00 am

Thursday January 1

• First Day Hike 2026
  Fort Yargo State Park , 210 South Broad Street , Winder
  9:00 am
• ADA First Day Hike
  Hard Labor Creek State Park , 5 Hard Labor Creek Road , Rutledge
  10:00 am
• Fully Accessible First Day Hike
  Fort Yargo State Park , 210 South Broad Street , Winder
  12:00 pm
• Follow in the steps of the CCC - First Day Hike
  Hard Labor Creek State Park , 5 Hard Labor Creek Road , Rutledge
  1:00 pm

Friday January 2

• Network Barrow
  Barrow County Chamber of Commerce , #6 Porter St. , Winder
  9:00 am
• Business over Breakfast
  Barrow County Chamber of Commerce , #6 Porter Street , Winder
  9:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Thanks to the car that picked up the plastic toy house on the corner of 83 and Pannell rd.
  There has been a lot of trash dropped off along 83 we even have tires thrown in Brush creek court. Subdivision so sad and trashy looking .County… (Nextdoor Brush Creek)

• Astemo Ltd posted a job opening for Group Lead - Machining - D Shift in Monroe. Apply here.
• Old Navy, Inc. posted a job opening for Retail Sales Associate - Monroe Pavillion in Monroe. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Monroe here.

🗞 Nearby News

Social Circle

• Basketball Game Preview: Eastside Eagles vs. Warren Central Dragons (maxpreps.com)
• Federal Plan Revealed to Detain 80,000 Immigrants in Warehouses (mundonow.com)

Winder

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-- The Patch AM Team

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