5 Things: Clear Snow from Vents!

1. Clear snow from your home vents! Bedford Police and Fire, following the two recent snowstorms, issued an advisory warning residents to clear snow from around their furnace vents, to prevent carbon monoxide exposure.

2. Hip hip hooray! A dry day today! Today's Weather.com forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies early transitioning into a partly cloudy afternoon with a high temperature projected at 40 degrees and a 10-percent chance of precipitation.

3. On the agenda. No meetings scheduled tonight, but the Bedford Cemetery Trustees gather at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Bedford Town Office Building, and then the Bedford Town Council convenes at 7 p.m. at the BCTV Bedford Town Meeting Room.

4. Win a brand new color Nook! Bedford PTG's 2013 Barnes & Noble Day Book Fair, originally scheduled for Feb. 8-9 at Barnes & Noble at 1741 South Willow Street, Manchester, has been rescheduled for Feb. 15-16. Be sure to mention BEDFORD PTG at the time of your purchase to help earn money for our schools! Shop online through the 19th by using Bookfair ID #11006897, the Bedford PTG will receive a percentage of the sales to be used to help support our schools! Don't forget to put your name in the hat and enter our raffle for a Color Nook!  Visit www.bedfordptg.org and download our flyer with an attached raffle ticket. Raffle tickets are $5.

5. Cardboard sled derby. The Bedford Recreation Department, this February vacation, encourages local children to collect giant cardboard boxes to make a sled. It must be completely homemade and able to travel down the sledding hill by the Town Playground. Prizes will be awarded for fastest sled, longest traveling distance and best looking sled. Advanced registration is required by Feb. 18, and the derby will take place at the sledding hill on the town playground on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 10 a.m. Cost is $5 per sled.

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