🌱 Patch AM: How Potomac became the wedding backdrop for a Marvel star

Morning Potomac! We've got the scoop on the latest happenings in town. Read on to get looped in. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• How Potomac became the wedding backdrop for a Marvel star
• Which Potomac resident just scored a Hawaiian trip and jackpot chance?

Also on today's calendar: First Time Homebuyer Seminar (FREE!) and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What did one pirate say to the other? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Rain, becoming heavy at times, with a high of 48 and low of 39 degrees.
• Sunday: Increasingly windy, temps: high: 44, low: 29.
• Monday: Breezy in the morning, with a high of 46 and low of 26 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Who Is Jon Bernthal's Wife? All About Erin Angle and Her Marriage to the Punisher Star (people.com) — A well-known TV actor and his wife actually tied the knot in Potomac back in 2010, bringing a bit of Hollywood history to town. The piece traces their long relationship, her nursing career and wrestling-family roots, and how music legend Willie Nelson helped reunite them before their Potomac wedding and life with their three children.
   

• Highways To Hawaii: Maryland Trucker's Jurassic Park Lottery Win Fulfills Bucket List Trip (dailyvoice.com) — A Maryland Lottery promotion is sending several state winners, including Mithra Khoshroo of Potomac, on a six-day Hawaiian getaway with a shot at a $1 million jackpot challenge. The trip includes airfare, hotel on Oahu, spending money, and special excursions, all earned through second-chance JURASSIC PARK scratch-off entries.
   

📸 Around Potomac

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Potomac

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday January 10

• First Time Homebuyer Seminar (FREE!)
  Virtual/Online,
  10:00 am

Monday January 12

• St. Raphael Nursery School Open House — Join Us January 12 at 9:30 a.m.!
  1513 Dunster Rd, Rockville
  9:30 am

Saturday January 31

• Feast & Fettle Brings a New Standard of Home Dining to Potomac
  9:00 am
• Just Stalking Resources' Annual Awareness Month Soirée
  Trinity Lutheran Church, 11200 Old Georgetown Rd, Rockville
  5:00 pm

Sunday February 8

• Great Falls Got Talent
  9818 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls
  1:00 pm

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Other local events

Saturday January 10

• McLean School Open House (Kindergarten-Grade 4)
  McLean School-Falls Road Campus (Lower School) , 11810 Falls Rd , Potomac
  9:00 am
• McLean School Open House (Grades 5-12)
  McLean School-Lochinver Lane Campus (Middle & Upper School) , 8224 Lochinver Ln , Potomac
  1:00 pm
• Swimming and Diving Blair and Walter Johnson at Germantown Indoor Swim Center 7:30 pm
  Walter Johnson High School Bethesda, MD 20814
  7:30 pm

Monday January 12

• Basketball - Boys JV Walter Johnson at Whitman 5:30 pm
  Walter Johnson High School Bethesda, MD 20814
  5:30 pm
• Basketball - Girls JV Whitman at Walter Johnson 5:30 pm
  Walter Johnson High School Bethesda, MD 20814
  5:30 pm

Thursday January 15

• PCV Speaker Series: The President Has Been Shot!
  Potomac Community Recreation Center , 11315 Falls Rd , Potomac
  3:00 pm

Tuesday January 20

• JCA Montgomery County Virtual 50+ Employment Expo
  Zoom
  10:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• A crash that closed southbound I-270 near Montrose Road in Montgomery County has been cleared, and all lanes are now open.
  6:35AM on Jan 9: Crash closes southbound I-270 near Montrose Road in Montgomery County. (Nextdoor )

• Giant Food posted a job opening for PT Courtesy Clerk-Bundler - Front End - 0329 in Potomac. Apply here.
• ABM posted a job opening for Janitorial Cleaner in Bethesda. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Potomac here.

🗞 Nearby News

Rockville

• Char'd to Open First Maryland Brick & Mortar Restaurant in Coming Weeks (mocoshow.com)
• WYPR & BSO bring family friendly performance to Frederick (wypr.org)

Gaithersburg

• Parents, Students Speak Out to Keep Wootton at Wootton (mymcmedia.org)
• 46th Annual Women's Legislative Briefing Planned at Universities at Shady Grove (mocoshow.com)
• Dunkin' to Open New Derwood Location on Friday, January 9th (mocoshow.com)

Silver Spring

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-- The Patch AM Team

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