Medford Health & Wellness Expo Sunday

SONG OF THE DAY: "It's Time" by Imagine Dragons

Good morning, Medford! Here are five things you need to know today, Friday, April 26:

1. HEALTH AND WELLNESS EXPO: The Medford Chamber of Commerce's Health and Wellness Expo will be held Sunday at Medford High School at 10 a.m. More details here.

2. MEDFORD LITTLE LEAGUE: Last week's Medford Little League opening day ceremonies and parade were postponed from a week ago to Saturday.

The Little League Parade will begin at Medford City Hall at 10:30 a.m.  The parade will proceed down Riverside Avenue to Hormel Field. (Players and coaches should start gathering on the South side of City Hall at 9:30 a.m.)

Opening ceremonies will begin at 12 p.m. at Drane Field. There will also be food, drinks, music, family activities for all ages, and opening day baseball games throughout the afternoon.

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4. THIS DAY IN HISTORY: On this day in 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, begin at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. Children in the United States, Canada and Finland participated in the trials, which used for the first time the now-standard double-blind method, whereby neither the patient nor attending doctor knew if the inoculation was the vaccine or a placebo. On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the vaccine was safe and effective and it quickly became a standard part of childhood immunizations in America. In the ensuing decades, polio vaccines would all but wipe out the highly contagious disease in the Western Hemisphere. Information courtesy of History.com.

5. TODAY'S FORECAST: Sunny with a high of 62. Mostly clear tonight with a low of 37.