5 Things: Final Farmers' Market Today

1. Last call on the Bedford Farmers' Market. Tonight marks the last opportunity this year for residents to head to Benedictine Park on Wallace Road for the regions freshest produce from some of the area's top local growers. The market runs from 3-6 p.m and trick-or-treating will be offered for children as well.

2. Support Bedford High School Athletics. The Bedford Bulldog Athletic Booster Club Super Raffle takes place at 6 p.m., tomorrow night, Wednesday, Oct. 17, at the Manchester Country Club. The drawing begins at 7:30.There will also be a silent auction and all proceeds go to the Rich Beyer Memorial scholarship, the BHS weight room and special requests from the athletic teams. For more information, contact sue_thomas@comcast.net.

3. Bedford Police phone lines delays. Bedford Police are upgrading their phone system this Wednesday, Oct. 17, and are expecting delays with calls to Bedford Police dispatch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 911 lines won't be impacted.

4. Windy weather. Sure, things warmed up nicely yesterday, but today Mother Nature blows some cool air over Bedford. The high today is 53 degrees and wind gusts are expected to reach 20- to 30-mph. The chance of rain is 20 percent and the evening offers clear skies and dry cool weather as the temperature is expected to once again drop into the 30s.

5. On this day ... in 1987, 18-month-old Baby Jessica, who had fallen into and was trapped for 58 hours in an abandoned well in Midland, TX, was rescued on live TV after being. According to History.com:

The drama unfolded on the morning of October 14, 1987, when McClure fell through the 8-inch-wide opening of an abandoned well while playing with other children in the backyard of her aunt’s home day-care center. After dropping about 22 feet into the well, the little girl became stuck. Over the next two-and-a-half days, crews of rescue workers, mining experts and local volunteers labored around the clock to drill a shaft parallel to the one in which McClure was trapped. They then tunneled horizontally through dense rock to connect the two shafts. A microphone was lowered into the well to keep tabs on the toddler, who could be heard crying, humming and singing throughout the ordeal.

On the night of October 16, a bandaged and dirt-covered but alert Baby Jessica, as she became widely known, was safely pulled out of the well by paramedics. By that time, scores of journalists had descended on Midland, a West Texas oil city, and the rescue was carried out on live television before a massive audience.

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