Community Corner
Five Things You Should Know Today: August 29
If you get up early this morning, don't be alarmed when you look out the window. You don't suddenly need glasses. It's just fog.
- The National Weather Service is predicting “patchy fog” before 8 this morning, but when it burns off, we’ll have sunny skies and mostly calm winds. And it will be a lovely evening, with a low around 60 and light winds from the south and southwest.
- Today is the fifth day of the 2011 Minnesota State Fair (you might have heard a little something about this event). Today is seniors, kids and Minnesota State Patrol Day. Part of that means discounts on midway and “kidway” rides, games and concessions; the rest means interesting demonstrations by the State Patrol, including drug-sniffing K9 officers, rollover simulations, airbag deployments and other things it’s better to see as a bystander rather than a participant. Tonight’s grandstand entertainment is the Happy Together tour, featuring the Turtles, the Association, the Grass Roots and Mark Lindsay, formerly of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Tickets are just $18 and are available at the grandstand box office or through Ticketmaster.
- The Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District 196’s curriculum council will meet from 5 to 6:30 tonight at the district office in Rosemount. Topics will include a review of the district’s 2010-11 annual report on curriculum, instruction and student performance, an overview of initiatives of the Teaching and Learning Department for 2011-12, and an update on elementary and secondary education. The district office is located at 3455 153rd St. W.
- If you’ve got some old cell phones lying around collecting dust, bring them to Mendota Heights today and donate them to the drive. Organizers hope to convert those old phones into 12 million minutes of prepaid calling cards for U.S. troops stationed overseas. The collection site is at 235 Wentworth Ave. W.
- Six years ago today, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in New Orleans and became the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Storm surges eventually flooded 80 percent of the city, killed more than 1,300 people and caused $150 billion in damage. (Irene who?)
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