Daily Five: Pre-Thanksgiving Festivities, FEMA Forum, Zarya

1. Partly to mostly cloudy throughout the day with temperatures topping out at 51 degrees. Sunrise is 6:43 a.m., sunset is 4:24 p.m.

2. A FEMA informational forum is taking place tonight to address questions from business and property owners who suffered losses in Hurricane Sandy. This will take place at 5:30 p.m. at the Senior Center.

3. A few organizations are getting a jump start on Thanksgiving today. The First Congregational Church holds a Thanksgiving Festival at 5 p.m. today with games, face-painting, giveaways, a raffle with a chance to win a video iPod, and more. The Salvation Army is holding a community Thanksgiving dinner at the same time.

4. Want to add to start some conversation on a specific topic? We invite readers to start up a blog on anything that catches their fancy.

5. The first piece of the International Space Station—the 41.2-foot Russian capsule Zarya—was launched into orbit on this day in 1998. The station has since grown to about the size of a football field with 13,696 cubic feet of living space.

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