5 THINGS: Ms. Universe, Budgets and Bank Robberies

Here are the (more than) Five Things for Thursday, December 20, 2012:

It’s the budget season, catch the fever! The first budget planning session between the South Kingstown Town Council and the South Kingstown School Committee is at 7 p.m. at town hall. (It’s kind of a big deal, you know.) For a lot more info on the process, including PDFs of timetables, check out the front page of the town’s website.

Presumably, if we have to negotiate over goldilocks planets, she’s our representative. Congrats to Cranston’s Olivia Culpo! She was crowned Miss Universe last night – for more, click here.

Prout’s Eric Rameika goes for 1,000^th point on Friday night. Thanks to the tip from Bill Storey, who notes that the captain is nine points away from 1,000. The Crusaders host Lincoln at 7 p.m. Friday, and there is a good chance he gets the honor then, since he’s averaging 27.8 points per game, according to Storey.

“Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It’s sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too, which doesn’t hurt.” – Andy Rooney. It’s not quite figure skating, but there is public skate today at the Boss Ice Arena at noon. For rates and more information, click here. The skating gives way to hockey at noon.

This is not about telephones – please excuse my hack joke. The Wakefield Rotary Club meets Thursdays at Lilana’s Italian Restaurant at 12:15 p.m. For more info, click here.

“Every now and then you have to get away from that ugly Old Politics trip, or it will drive you to kicking the walls and hurling AR3's into the fireplace.” – Hunter S. Thompson. Besides that big budget meeting in South Kingstown, here are the other government meetings today:

• The South Kingstown Assessment Board of Review meets at 9 a.m. at town hall.
• South Kingstown Probate Court is being held at 2 p.m. at town hall.
• The Narragansett Town Council meets at 6 p.m. at town hall in the large boardroom for a work session on current town issues and to discuss the Deepwater Wind project in executive session.

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Oh no! Maybe there seriously aren’t that many events today, given that it’s International Human Solidarity Day. As a result, our events calendar for today is a bit barren. If you’re having an event, please let us know in the comments. Also, make sure it isn’t left out in the future – Submit it via this link (as long as you’re logged into your Patch account).

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Bollocks! On this day in 2004, there was a big European bank robbery. Read more about it here.

Known mostly for her tremendous personality, of course. Happy 29^th birthday to British glamour model Lucy Pinder!

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