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Morning Update 10/10/2011

Today's news and notes

What’s Happening Today
business meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the high school library
Get the kids out for some at the at 2 p.m.
• youth football and cheerleading organization meets at 7 p.m. at the

Mark Your Calendars
• 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.
• Winetober Fest in Skippack on Oct. 15
• Fall Fest is Oct. 22 from 1-3 p.m.

Today in History
• Birth of the U.S. Naval Academy (1845)
• “Porgy and Bess” premieres on Broadway (1935)
• Eight hundred children are gassed to death at Auschwitz (1944)

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Born Today
• Benjamin West (1738)
• Helen Hayes (1900)
• Jane Winton (1905)

Morning Song
A Beautiful Day” (India Arie)

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