5 Things To Know Today: Friday, May 4

• It's Follow Friday on Twitter! Follow Weston-Redding-Easton Patch by clicking here. While you're at it 'Like' us on Facebook as well!

• Check out some live music in Redding tonight! Cool Shoes performs at the  at 9 p.m.; music also starts at the  at 9 p.m.

• The Weston Domestic Violence Task Force meets this morning at 9 a.m. in the meeting room at town hall. 

• On this day in 1953, Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. 

• Happy 40th birthday to Mike Dirnt, the bassist of Green Day.