Morning Update 10/04/2011

What’s Happening Today
• Meetingspalooza! Lower Frederick and Perkiomen townships’ Board of Supervisors as well as Trappe Borough Council are meeting this evening at their respective municipal halls at 7 p.m.
• the Perkiomen Valley Library at 7 p.m. Pajamas optional.

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
• Colonial, British soldiers battered at Germantown (1777)
• Work begins on Mount Rushmore (1927)
• Sputnik launched (1957)

Born Today
• Rutherford B. Hayes (1822)
• Frederic Remington (1861)
• Anne Rice (1941)

Morning Song
“City of New Orleans” (Arlo Guthrie)

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