🌱 Patch AM: See the story behind Hillsboro’s first community flag design

Good morning Hillsboro! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

• See the story behind Hillsboro’s first community flag design
• How one advisor shaped Hillsboro’s long-term drinking water future
• How Hillsboro stacks up in the race for billion‑dollar data centers

Today's riddle: Last night I had a dream. 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Saturday: A couple of showers, with a high of 48 and low of 40 degrees.
• Sunday: Showers around in the morning, temps: high: 49, low: 42.
• Monday: A bit of afternoon rain, with a high of 49 and low of 42 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• The votes are in: Hillsboro selects new community flag (forestgrovenewstimes.com) — Hillsboro has chosen its first-ever community flag after more than 4,000 resident votes, with formal adoption expected in January and a public debut Feb. 19 at the Hillsboro Civic Center. Designed through the 2025 Civic Leadership Academy, the flag weaves together farmland imagery, local history, Indigenous symbolism, and community pride as the city approaches its 150th anniversary.
   

• Libby Barg Bakke advances drinking water infrastructure (djcoregon.com) — Hillsboro residents benefit directly from Libby Barg Bakke’s decades-long work helping the city and Hillsboro Water plan and communicate major drinking water projects. The article profiles her regional career in water infrastructure, emphasizing her role in long-term supply planning, funding communication, and public engagement that supports safe, reliable drinking water across Hillsboro and other Oregon communities.
   

• State Taxation of Data Centers (taxfoundation.org) — Hillsboro is highlighted as one of 12 major data center hubs in a nationwide comparison of how state and local tax policies shape where billion‑dollar facilities get built. The report explains how Oregon’s gross receipts tax, property taxes, and sales‑tax exemptions affect data center costs, and shows how those choices can either attract or push away huge AI‑driven investments and associated jobs.
   

📸 Around Hillsboro

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Hillsboro

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★ Featured events ★

Sunday December 21

• Hillsboro Youth Speech & Debate (Event 1 of 3)
  Hillsboro Brookwood Library, 2850 NE Brookwood Pkwy, Hillsboro
  4:00 pm

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Other local events

Sunday December 21

• Book Babies/Libros para bebés
  Shute Park Branch Library , 775 SE Tenth Avenue , Hillsboro
  10:15 am
• Digital Navigator – One-on-One Support/ Navegador Digital – Apoyo Uno a Uno
  Hillsboro Public Library , 2850 NE Brookwood Parkway , Hillsboro
  10:30 am
• Simple Science: CD Spinners
  Shute Park Branch Library , 775 SE Tenth Avenue , Hillsboro
  1:30 pm
• International Storytime - Arabic
  Hillsboro Public Library , 2850 NE Brookwood Parkway , Hillsboro
  3:00 pm
• Hillsboro Youth Speech & Debate
  Hillsboro Public Library , 2850 NE Brookwood Parkway , Hillsboro
  4:00 pm
• Steps and Stories: A Seasonal Storytime Stroll
  Hillsboro Public Library , 2850 NE Brookwood Parkway , Hillsboro
  4:00 pm

Monday December 22

• Fun for Ones/Añito de diversion para los niños de un año
  Hillsboro Public Library , 2850 NE Brookwood Parkway , Hillsboro
  10:15 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Saturday December 20

• Santa Event All Day! — HAPPY PLAY
  Happy Play , 30860 NW Pacific St Unit A , North Plains
  9:00 am
• Garden Home Family Storytime
  Garden Home Community Library , 7475 SW Oleson Road , Portland
  10:00 am
• Quilting Friends
  Cornelius Public Library , 1370 N Adair St , Cornelius
  10:00 am
• Citizenship Class
  Meeting Room B , 12375 SW Fifth St. , Beaverton
  11:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• *********UPDATE********
  It turns out these are two females and a male. A female black and orange tortie, aged 2-3, a male tuxie nicknamed Sylvester aged 2-3 years and the… (Nextdoor Orenco)
• Still looking for Morira it's been almost 30 days without a sighting.
  we saw her on my cameras on the 24th. I'm helping a neighbor find her. She was able to survive in the neighborhood before for 8 months at a time so… (Nextdoor Lower Brookwood)

• Premium Retail Services, Inc. posted a job opening for Seasonal Merchandiser in Hillsboro. Apply here.
• Costco Wholesale Corporation posted a job opening for Meat Wrapper / Sanitation in Hillsboro. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Hillsboro here.

🗞 Nearby News

Aloha

• With new road funding suspended, Oregon lawmakers spar over winter maintenance (klcc.org)

Beaverton

• Beaverton state championship hero named boys soccer player of the year (oregonlive.com)
• In Beaverton schools, tracking absenteeism — and the impacts of the immigration crackdown — in real time (oregonlive.com)
• Jesuit High kicks off food drive for almost 400 families (valleytimes.news)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I dreamed I was swimming in a pool of orange soda, but it was just a Fanta-sea.
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