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Dog Who Doesn't Like to Walk, Hot Grave Plots and the Number 741

Five things you need to know today in Manassas.

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It’s Wednesday, July 24. Here are five things you need to know. Tell us what we need to know on the Patch message board!

1. Weather Forecast: Temperatures will reach 84 degrees with a 30 percent chance scatter showers.

2. You Said It: “We had a client tell us ‘my dog doesn't like to walk.’ Our response, respectfully, was, ‘All dogs like to walk, it's the human that doesn't like to walk.’” Dog trainer Kelli Parker, a blogger at Fredericksburg Patch.

3. In Case You Missed It: the new grave plots are a hot commodity in Manassas, so much that city officials have instituted a lottery and a drawing to determine who gets the limited number of plots available. Read it all here.

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4. Number of the Day: 741. That’s the pairs of shoes collected by a Manassas 7-year-old. He started the charity shoe drive for his birthday. He also collected seven shoes without a match.

5. Today…in History: Lance Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France in 2005. He was disqualified from all seven races last year in a doping scandal.

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