🌱 Patch AM: How 60 Stone Mountain-area families just got safe homes for Christmas

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• How 60 Stone Mountain-area families just got safe homes for Christmas

Today's riddle: What did the clock say when it ran out of batteries? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Friday: Warm with clouds and sun, with a high of 71 and low of 58 degrees.
• Saturday: Low clouds and warm, temps: high: 70, low: 56.
• Sunday: Mostly cloudy and warm, with a high of 69 and low of 55 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Dozens of DeKalb County families gain housing for Christmas: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' (wsbtv.com) — Families living in DeKalb County extended-stay hotels have just moved into Park 500 in Stone Mountain, the county’s first transitional housing program offering fully furnished apartments. Nearly 60 families now have a safer place to spend Christmas while they work toward permanent housing, part of a broader county push to tackle housing insecurity with urgency and dignity.
   

📸 Around Stone Mountain

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Stone Mountain

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday December 27

• CCS Nerd Yard Sale
  Charlies Collectible Show Inc, 6009 Memorial Dr Unit 14, Stone Mountain
  10:00 am

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Other local events

Saturday December 27

• True Crime and Color
  Stone Mountain-Sue Kellogg Library -
  2:00 pm

Monday December 29

• Passive Puzzling at Stone Mountain
  Stone Mountain-Sue Kellogg Library -

Saturday January 3

• Vision Boards
  Stone Mountain-Sue Kellogg Library -
  2:00 pm

Monday January 5

• Passive Puzzling at Stone Mountain
  Stone Mountain-Sue Kellogg Library -
• Embroidery Club
  Stone Mountain-Sue Kellogg Library -
  6:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday December 26

• Friday Movies
  Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams Library - Meeting Room
  1:30 pm

Saturday December 27

• Jewelry with Gin! Live
  Clarkston Library , DeKalb County Public Library , Clarkston
  1:00 pm
• True Crime and Color
  Stone Mountain-Sue Kellogg Library -
  2:00 pm
• PetSmart (Tucker) Dog Adoption Event
  PetSmart , 4023 Lavista Rd , Tucker
  2:00 pm

Sunday December 28

• Avondale Estates Farmers Market
  Avondale Estates Town Green , 64 N Avondale Rd , Avondale Estates
  11:00 am

Monday December 29

• Community Color-In: Winter Edition
  Redan-Trotti Library -

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Found this gentle giant of a boy running down Hugh Howell.
  Does anyone know him? Trying to get him scanned this afternoon to return home by Christmas! (Nextdoor Smoke Rise)
• I’m going back to check on the homeless guy today if I see him.
  I will continue to feed him as long as I have it to do so. Not only him but anyone else. You just never know how life can turn. We don’t always… (Nextdoor Crystal Lakes)

• Walmart posted a job opening for Stocking Team Associate in Stone Mountain. Apply here.
• Amazon.com, Inc. posted a job opening for Regional Maintenance Manager, NACF RME in Stone Mountain. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Stone Mountain here.

🗞 Nearby News

Tucker

• Georgians urged to take advantage of tax credit helping young people in foster system (wsbradio.com)
• Falcons' Jalon Walker spreads Christmas joy in the freezing cold (timesfreepress.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I guess I’m out of time.
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