Mom's Night Out is Wednesday

1. Mom's Night Out. Bedford High School is sponsoring "Mom's Night Out" on May 8, from 6-8 p.m., in the Bedford High School Commons. A variety of crafts, culinary delights and vendors will be on hand for shopping and an enticing raffle table as well. Shop for Mother's Day or yourself! All vendors' fees and raffle sales will go to benefit the Bedford High School Faculty Scholarship Fund.

2. Bulldogs Bites. Here's today's schedule for Bedford High School sports programs (information obtained from HighSchoolSports.net):

• 04:00 PM Boys Varsity Lacrosse @ Dover MS/HS
• 04:00 PM Boys Varsity Lacrosse @ Dover MS/HS
• 04:00 PM Boys Varsity Track And Field @ BHS Stadium
• 04:00 PM Girls Varsity Track And Field @ BHS Stadium
• 05:30 PM Boys Squad Lacrosse @ Dover MS/HS

3. Library lowdown. The following is a list of events and/or activities at the Bedford Public Library today:

• 10:00AM-10:30AM
  Children's CastleMother Goose story time (registration required)

• 7:00PM-8:30PM
  McAllaster RoomStevens-Buswell Post 54 - The American Legion 2012-2013

• 7:00PM-9:00PM
  Richmond RoomBedford Lion's Club 2012-2013

4. The weatherman says ... more warm weather and sunshine in the forecast. The predicted high today, according to Weather.com, is 73 degrees with abundant sunshine, a 0-percent chance of ran and a nighttime low of 48.

5. On this day ... in 1945, in Reims, France, General Alfred Jodl of the German High Command signed the unconditional surrender of all German forces in History.com:

At first, General Jodl hoped to limit the terms of German surrender to only those forces still fighting the Western Allies. But General Dwight Eisenhower demanded complete surrender of all German forces, those fighting in the East as well as in the West. If this demand was not met, Eisenhower was prepared to seal off the Western front, preventing Germans from fleeing to the West in order to surrender, thereby leaving them in the hands of the enveloping Soviet forces. Jodl radioed Grand Admiral Karl Donitz, Hitler's successor, with the terms. Donitz ordered him to sign. So with Russian General Ivan Susloparov and French General Francois Sevez signing as witnesses, and General Walter Bedell Smith, Ike's chief of staff, signing for the Allied Expeditionary Force, Germany was-at least on paper-defeated. Fighting would still go on in the East for almost another day. But the war in the West was over.