🌱 Inside the UVA-run exercise clinic quietly transforming lives in Crozet

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In today's newsletter:

• Inside the UVA-run exercise clinic quietly transforming lives in Crozet
• How Virginia’s mental-health overhaul ties back to a Crozet tragedy

Also on today's calendar: Open Play - 11:30AM and 1 more event.

Today's riddle: My brother swallowed a box of firecrackers. - Is he all right now? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Rain and drizzle in the p.m., with a high of 50 and low of 41 degrees.
• Friday: Windy with clouds and sun, temps: high: 54, low: 26.
• Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high of 49 and low of 39 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Students get hands-on clinical experience before graduate school (virginia.edu) — UVA’s Fried Center now runs a Crozet location where adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities get individualized, student-led exercise support that helps most meet national activity guidelines. Undergrads gain rare, hands-on clinical experience while licensed physical therapists oversee care. The program’s success is inspiring some students to delay grad school to keep serving clients.
   

• ‘Work must continue': $1.4B investment in mental health transforms care in Virginia (augustafreepress.com) — Virginia’s $1.4 billion overhaul of mental health care is reshaping crisis response systems that failed people involved in the Crozet Harris Teeter shooting and other tragedies. The Right Help, Right Now plan has rapidly expanded 988 response, mobile crisis teams, and crisis beds statewide. Officials say progress is real but emphasize that more work is still needed.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Crozet

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★ Featured events ★

Thursday December 18

• Paint + Sip: "Holiday Cheer" at Pro Re Nata Crozet
  Pro Re Nata, 6135 Rockfish Gap Turnpike, Crozet
  6:00 pm

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Other local events

Friday December 19

• Open Play - 11:30AM
  Ivy House Play Space , 5674 Three Notch'd Rd , Crozet
  11:30 am

Sunday December 21

• Crafts and Drafts — Starr Hill Brewery
  Starr Hill Brewery , 5391 Three Notch'd Rd , Crozet
  11:00 am

Sunday December 28

• Food: PotLucky — Starr Hill Brewery
  Starr Hill Brewery , 5391 Three Notch'd Rd , Crozet
  3:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday December 18

• Baby Beats - Thursday 12pm
  Musicology , 2220 Ivy Rd Suite 404 , Charlottesville
  12:00 pm
• Wise County Chapter Meeting
  Virginia Organizing Mountain Movement Hub, 113 E 4th St S, Big Stone Gap, VA, 24219, United States
  6:30 pm
• Albemarle/Charlottesville Chapter Meeting
  Virginia Organizing Friends Quaker Meeting, 1104 Forest St., Charlottesville, VA, 22903, United States
  6:30 pm
• CHS Chorus - Winter Concert
  MLK Performing Arts Center , 1400 Melbourne Rd , Charlottesville
  7:00 pm
• Matthew O'Donnell
  The Whiskey Jar , 227 W Main St , Charlottesville
  7:30 pm

Friday December 19

• Beethovens - Friday 10am
  Musicology , 2220 Ivy Rd Suite 404 , Charlottesville
  10:00 am
• Festive Bubbles
  Birch + Bloom , 540 Massie Rd , Charlottesville
  4:00 pm
• Waynesboro Little Giants vs Staunton Storm
  Waynesboro High School , 1200 W Main St , Waynesboro
  6:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• DoorDash posted a job opening for Delivery Driver - Earn Extra Cash in Crozet. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

University of Virginia

• University of Virginia presidential search not slowing down despite vocal pushback (pilotonline.com)
• Meet Alexa Bartels: UVA Darden's Student Association President (virginia.edu)
• Professors sound alarm on research grant cuts, calling it ‘crisis situation' at UVA (29news.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

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