🌱 Patch AM: How will Plymouth Library’s Friends top their record-setting $42K year?

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In today's newsletter:

• How will Plymouth Library’s Friends top their record-setting $42K year?
• New biomedical engineer joins Abbott’s Plymouth team to build life-changing devices
• Former Plymouth student’s camera journey from Craigslist gigs to packed gallery

Today's riddle: What did one astronaut stranded on the moon say to another? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Friday: Some sun, then turning cloudy, with a high of 22 and low of 16 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!
• Saturday: Morning flurries; breezy, temps: high: 28, low: -3.
• Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high of 24 and low of 19 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• What's next for Friends of Plymouth Library after raising $42K in 2025? (hometownsource.com) — Plymouth Library’s Friends group blew past its 2025 fundraising goal, bringing in over $42,000 and setting an even bigger $72,000 target for 2026. With Hennepin County Library support increasing and book prices inching up, six volunteer-powered book sales will again drive funding for Plymouth programs like student success, Let’s Read tutoring, and youth initiatives.
   

• Biomedical engineering student is crafting new tech to improve health care (uwm.edu) — A newly minted biomedical engineer is headed to Plymouth to work at Abbott Laboratories, where she’ll help build medical technology that supports patient care. Her path runs from high school 3D-printed prosthetic hands to university research, leadership in women-in-engineering groups, and an internship that prepared her for this local medical device role.
   

• Local photographer hits the streets for unique gallery (hometownsource.com) — A photographer who once lived in Plymouth has turned his passion for candid street scenes into a traveling gallery that recently drew big crowds in Cambridge. He shares how he built his business from scratch, found creative renewal in street photography from Hawaii to small-town Minnesota, and now hopes his work will inspire more local art projects and galleries.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday December 19

• Computer Tutor
  Hopkins Library , 22 11th Avenue North , Hopkins
  9:30 am
• Coffee, Cocoa, Cookies and Connections
  Centennial United Methodist Church – Roseville , 1524 W Country Road C2 , Roseville
  10:00 am
• Connect and Play With ECFE / Conéctate y jugate con ECFE
  North Regional Community Library , 1315 Lowry Avenue North , Minneapolis
  10:00 am
• Minnetonka Center for the Arts 2025 Arts of the Holidays Show & Sale
  Minnetonka Center For the Arts , 2240 N Shore Dr , Wayzata
  10:00 am
• Family Storytime
  Rockford Road Library , 6401 42nd Avenue North , Crystal
  10:00 am
• Chanukiah Feldenkrais Lesson with Maggie
  Capp Center St. Paul , 1375 St. Paul Ave , St. Paul
  11:00 am
• MNSure Help and Enrollment
  Brookdale Library , 6125 Shingle Creek Parkway , Brooklyn Center
  1:00 pm
• Knitting Club
  Plymouth Library , 15700 36th Avenue North , Plymouth
  2:00 pm
• MUSIC CONCERT
  Perpich Center for Arts Education , 6125 Olson Mem Hwy , Golden Valley
  3:45 pm
• Caregiver Night Off
  Gatewood Elementary School , 14900 Gatewood Dr , Minnetonka
  4:00 pm
• A Christmas Carol: Minneapolis
  Robbinsdale Middle School , 3730 Toledo Ave N , Robbinsdale
  7:00 pm

Saturday December 20

• Maple Grove Christmas Craft and Gift Show
  Maple Grove Community Center , 12951 Weaver Lake Rd , Maple Grove
  9:30 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Hi everyone!
  Please keep an eye out for this kitty please! Imperial hills neighborhood in Plymouth. We recently rescued him and he has not been neutered yet. Not… (Nextdoor Harbor Woods)
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  FOUND on December 6, 2025 in Minneapolis, MN 55411 near Heritage Park neighborhood, Cerritos, California Sharing for a neighbor. For the latest… (Nextdoor Wood Crest)

🗞 Nearby News

New Hope

• Wayzata, Plymouth calendar for Dec. 18-25 (hometownsource.com)
• Council Member Koski: ‘Escalating Harassment' Behind Exit From Mpls Politics (racketmn.com)

Golden Valley

• Giving the gift of gaming (kare11.com)
• Golden Valley hires architecture firm to lead Civic Center Campus planning (hometownsource.com)

Maple Grove

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