Morning Update 10/05/2011

What’s Happening Today
• Sign up at the Towne Book Center for the 7 p.m.
• Discuss “Big Crunch” at the at the Perkiomen Valley Library at 7 p.m.
• Collegeville Borough Council meeting at 7 p.m.

Mark Your Calendars
• Donate clothes, shoes, accessories, bedding, curtains and stuffed animals to the Perkiomen Valley High School WAVE clothing drive fundraiser (post-prom party), noon to 3 p.m.
Drop off at the Trappe Building's gym doors, 29 E. First Ave., Trappe, on Friday, 6-8 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday
• Take part in on Friday, Oct. 7, at 6 p.m. at Tara’s Country Cottage in Skippack to benefit the Susan G.  Komen Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation
• 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 medevac helicopter. A simulated vehicle fire will follow the “accident.” This is event is free.

Today in History
From History.com
• Chief Joseph surrenders (1877)
• First presidential speech on TV (1947)
• Iran-Contra scandal unravels (1986)
• American circumnavigates globe on foot (1974)

Born Today
• Chester Arthur (1829)
• Larry Fine (1902)
• Kate Winslet (1975)

Morning Song
“Good Morning, Beautiful” (Brad Paisley)

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