🌱 Patch AM: How Dunedin’s Blue Jays ties could help revive Canadian tourism

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In today's newsletter:

• How Dunedin’s Blue Jays ties could help revive Canadian tourism
• Which ex-Seminole just finished a season with the Dunedin Blue Jays?
• Why a tiny Dunedin Beatles museum is making a big-city move

Today's riddle: Playing golf is bad for your brain. 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 68 and low of 55 degrees.
• Friday: Pleasant with clouds and sun, temps: high: 70, low: 61.
• Saturday: Breezy with clouds and sun, with a high of 75 and low of 64 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Canadian travel plummets, local stakeholders remain ‘bullish' (stpetecatalyst.com) — Canadian tourism to Pinellas County has dropped sharply this year, but local tourism leaders still see reasons for optimism, including the Toronto Blue Jays’ long-running spring training presence in Dunedin. Despite weaker hotel demand and lower international spending, Pinellas continues to top $92 million in bed taxes and $10 billion in visitor economic impact, even after the 2024 hurricane season.
   

• FSU Baseball: Where former Seminoles played Minor League Baseball & how they performed in 2025 (247sports.com) — One former Florida State catcher, Jaxson West, wrapped up his 2025 season with the Dunedin Blue Jays, logging 50 at-bats at the Single-A level. The article tracks how 27 ex-Seminoles are progressing through the minors, offering Dunedin fans a closer look at prospects who may pass through TD Ballpark and the wider farm systems connected to Tampa Bay and beyond.
   

• St. Pete Rising's top stories of 2025 captured a changing city navigating growth and nostalgia (stpeterising.com) — A beloved Beatles museum is moving from a tiny Dunedin storefront into a much larger downtown St. Petersburg space in 2026, promising room for hundreds of new artifacts. The roundup also highlights major 2025 development, housing, and sports stories that are reshaping nearby St. Pete, from luxury condos to Rays stadium uncertainty, giving Dunedin residents a sense of what’s changing just across the bay.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Dunedin

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday January 3

• Downtown Dunedin Art Festival
  Dunedin Downtown Market, 420 Main St, Dunedin
  10:00 am

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Other local events

Friday January 2

• A Course in Miracles
  Unity Community Church , 1315 Bayshore Boulevard , Dunedin
  10:00 am

Monday January 5

• CL640 Paper Clay With Maryann Charmoz
  Dudedin Fine Art Center Dunedin, FL 34698
  9:00 am
• JW223 Intermediate Metalsmithing With Stacy Perry
  Dudedin Fine Art Center Dunedin, FL 34698
  10:00 am
• PT582 Intermediate Watercolor With Kerry Stratton Waltz
  Dudedin Fine Art Center Dunedin, FL 34698
  12:30 pm
• PT370 MONDAY Intuitive Acrylic Painting With Linda Feinstein
  Dudedin Fine Art Center Dunedin, FL 34698
  1:00 pm
• PT380 Zen Art & Meditation with Noriko Kuehn
  Dudedin Fine Art Center Dunedin, FL 34698
  1:00 pm
• CL628 Wheel of Fortune With Jacqueline LaDrig
  Dudedin Fine Art Center Dunedin, FL 34698
  1:00 pm

📣 Dunedin Shout Outs!

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday January 1

• Community Coffee Hour at Palm Harbor Library
  Palm Harbor Library , 2330 Nebraska Ave , Palm Harbor
  7:30 am
• Business Success Series
  Palm Harbor Library , 2330 Nebraska Ave , Palm Harbor
  11:30 am

Friday January 2

• A Course in Miracles
  Unity Community Church , 1315 Bayshore Boulevard , Dunedin
  10:00 am
• Mahjong At Main
  Clearwater Main Library , 100 N Osceola Ave , Clearwater
  10:30 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• 4-alarm fire under control in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
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• Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc. posted a job opening for Forklift Driver in Dunedin. Apply here.
• Dodge's posted a job opening for 2nd Shift Leader in Dunedin. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Dunedin here.

🗞 Nearby News

Palm Harbor

• Bay Area mom credits Pasco County school staff's quick response, AED for saving son's life (fox13news.com)
• 2025 Year in Review: Pinellas County (tbnweekly.com)

Tampa

• Fans enjoy all Tampa Bay has to offer for ReliaQuest Bowl (wfla.com)
• Tampa Fire Rescue gives firework safety tips for NYE celebrations (wfla.com)
• Both parties look to flip Tampa Bay House seats for November election (wfla.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I just heard a golfer say he had four strokes on the first hole!
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