Five Things You Need to Know Today: February 28

Five Things you Need to Know Today is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance.

1. Check out the February Break Staycation Planner for some great ideas for what to do with the kids today.

2. Don’t forget that you can vote all week for your favorite place to eat breakfast in our poll. Make sure you add a comment telling everyone why you love your favorite breakfast spot. Winner will be announced on Friday.

3. Susan Strane, author of A Whole-Souled Woman: Prudence Campbell and the Education of Black Women, will be giving a book talk this evening at the . 7 pm. For more information, call 508-696-421, ext. 16 or visit vhlibrary.org.

4. Come to the today for Up-Island Baby's First Year with Marney Toole. Open to all parents and their infants 0-1. Free. Noon – 1:30 pm. For more information, call 508-693-7900 ext 283.

5. The ’s International Film Series continues tonight with “The Lives of Others,” from director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. The film takes place in Germany and focuses on East German secret police agent who is conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover. Desserts served. All adults welcome. 7 pm. For more information, call 508-627-4221.