5 Things You Need to Know Today, Friday, March 29

Here are 5 pieces of information designed to get your weekend off to an early start and to help make you the smartest person in your neighborhood.

1. Your 3-Day Weekend Local Weather Forecast:

• According to the NWS, there is a slight chance of showers after 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 56. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
• Friday Night A slight chance of showers before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 33. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
• Saturday Partly sunny, with a high near 53. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph.
• Saturday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 31. North wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm after midnight.
• Sunday A chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Sunny, with a high near 54. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
• Sunday Night Showers likely, mainly between 10pm and midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 40. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

2. Congratulations!: To the Wilmington High Lamplighters Drama Guild for their outstanding performance last weekend in the finals of the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild Festival in Boston. While they didn't take one of the top honors as a team, Mei Lu Barnum was presented with an award for acting excellence for her performance as Gloria in "Still Falls the Rain". Prior to this year, the Lamplighters had never even reached the second round of the competition, much less the State Finals. Bravo!

3. Reader Comment of the Day: "There's little doubt as to what motivated 20 people to stage a protest in front of a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, since they expel and shun anyone that doesn't agree with 100% of what their ruling body pass down as church edict. Grandparents lose their grandchildren, parents lose their sons and daughters to this group, and the hardcore members will not have anything to do with "worldly people" which is everyone but them. Everyone not a JW will die at God's war against mankind at Armageddon very soon, so why bother?" Reader JJ Jones, commenting on the story, "Police Log: Jehovah's Witness Protest and an Attack With a Stick."

4. It's Happening This Weekend: Wilmington Dance Academy Shred Day Fundraiser. Come support Wilmington Dance Academy by taking part in their SHRED DAY FUNDRAISER! Bring your personal documents to 442 Main St., to be shredded by Highland Shredding, You probably have mounds of files, junk mail credit card offers and personal documents that have piled up and are taking up space.Don't waste your time with that home shredder. Let Highland Shredding destroy those documents and Wilmington Dance Academy will get the profits! $5 box or bag - NO MINIMUM. All documents shredded
on site. All paper is baled and recycled.                                          

5. Quote of the Day: "If two people are in love, they should be able to get married, irrespective." Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez, supporting the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act during a debate this week with fellow GOP candidates Dan Winslow and Michael Sullivan.