Morning Update 10/03/2011

What’s Happening Today
• Perkiomen Valley School Board at 7:30 p.m. at PVHS
• Annenberg professor to discuss at Ursinus College at 4 p.m. -- free
• Zumba tonight at

Mark Your Calendars
• Trappe Community Day this Saturday
• Learn about headstone symbolism, funeral customs of the past and bits and pieces about the folks who once lived in the Trappe-Collegeville area during the walking tour of the . Daylight tour starts at noon; evening tours from 5:30-8 p.m. Cost is $6 per adult and $4 for students and seniors
• Revolutionary War encampment will take place Oct. 8 and 9 at the Skippack Historical Society.
• is hosting a Fire Prevention Open House Oct. 13, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
• hosts an open house Oct. 15 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. A live-simulation vehicle accident will be held at noon, with an ambulance available to transport the victim to the medivac helicopter. A simulated vehicle fire will follow the “accident.” This is event is free.

Today in History
From History.com
• President Abraham Lincoln proclaims official Thanksgiving holiday (1863)
• UAW walks out on Ford (1961)
• East and West Germany reunite after 45 years (1990)

Born Today
• Gore Vidal (1925)
• Ernest Evans “Chubby Checker” (1941)
• Al Sharpton (1954)

Morning Song
“Feels Like Today” (Rascal Flatts)

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