5 Things: Donate Coats and Earn Money to Play

Here are five things you should know as you start your Tuesday.

1. Testing, testing. Fall NECAP testing will take place at the Merrimack High School today through Wednesday. The schedule for the week will be:
Tuesday, Oct. 9 – Tuesday schedule
Wednesday, Oct. 10 – Monday schedule
Thursday, Oct. 11 – Tuesday schedule
Friday, Oct. 12 – Friday schedule.

On test days all Juniors will report to the cafeteria at 7:30 for breakfast until 7:50 a.m. Testing will run from 7:50-9:20 a.m., a 10-minute break then the second half of testing will be 9:30-11 a.m.

Students in fifth and eighth-grades, who took most of their NECAP tests last week, will start a special, two-day writing portion of the standardized test on Wednesday.

2. Photo of the Week. Do you enjoy taking photos? Consider sending some of your best or favorite shots to be featured in our Photo of the Week column on Patch. It's easy. Just email your photos to carolyn.dube@patch.com with "Photo of the Week" in the subject line. You can also text your photos to 603-290-4045. We'll add them to the queue of photos to be featured. Happy shooting!

3. Donate and play. NUThin' but GOOD TIMES is collecting gently used coats to be donated to NH New Horizons until Oct. 31. In exchange, NbGT will trade a coat for a discount voucher! Go play a bit, socialize some and bring a coat to donate and save. NbGT is at 746 Daniel Webster Highway at the home of the former Good Times roller rink.

4. ICYMI. Curious what those brown bugs crawling all over Merrimack, and likely your home, are. They are western conifer seed bugs and while they may be a nuisance, they do not bite and they don't do any damage to your home. Learn more and find out how to get rid of them.

5. Weather watch. And the rain came back, the very next day. The National Weather Service says there is  a 50 percent chance of rain today, mainly after 7 a.m. Otherwise, it should be cloudy, with a high near 55. Tonight: A slight chance of rain before midnight, otherwise mostly cloudy, with a low around 42.