What You Need to Know Today

1. The Sprayberry High School Prom is April 29 at the Fox Theatre. Sprayberry students will want to check out Northeast Cobb Patch's Top 5 Prom Picks to help you prepare and make the night memorable: http://patch.com/A-fHlS

Is your son or daughter going to the prom? If so, I'd love to create a picture gallery of the event, so please send us your pictures.

2. Sprayberry High School's mixed chorus, advanced women’s chorus and beginning
women’s chorus competed in the Georgia Music Educators Association Performance Festival recently. All received Superior ratings (score of 1 on 1-5 scale) in both performance and sight reading. Northeast Cobb Patch congratulates the chorus students and Mr. Autry for these superior ratings! Whoo!

If your student participated, I'd like to feature him or her as our Northeast Cobb Whiz Kid.

3. Watch this week as Northeast Cobb Patch introduces a couple new and exciting features: Small Business Q&A, a pediatric medicine column, a weekly video of events in Northeast Cobb, and Happy, Healthy Kids, a column dedicated to healthy activities, recipes and fun.

Know of an event we need to video for the weekly video? Do you have a favorite business that you'd like profiled in Small Business Q&A? Is there a medical concern you have that you'd like detailed in our pediatric medicine column? Please let me know at julia.harris@patch.com

4. Is your son involved in the Boy Scouts? The 27th Annual Peach of an Athlete Role Model Banquet sponsored by the Boys Scouts of America takes place tonight. Peach of an Athlete recognizes amateur and professional athletes who live their lives with the same values as Scouting. This awards dinner honors 12 collegiate athletes, a professional athlete, and a community leader. 7 p.m. $250/person. $2,000/table of 8. Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway. More info: 770-956-3177 or www.atlantabsa.org/events.

5. It could be handy knowing this..... Transplant and reconstructive surgeons from Emory University Hospital announced Monday at a news conference that they have successfully performed a rare complete hand transplant on 21-year-old Linda Lu, a college student from Orlando, Fla. This is a first for Emory.

The surgery took 19-hours and involved multiple teams! Read more here:  http://dlvr.it/LlbP9