For Richer or For Poorer, "Let the People Eat Good Meat" and The Number of the Day

It’s Thursday, Aug. 29. Here are five things you need to know. Tell us what we need to know on the Patch message board!

1. Today: There's a public meeting this evening at the Manassas Battlefield National Park Visitor Center on Sudley Road in Manassas.  The purpose of the meeting is to come up with a way to quickly and successfully control the deer population in the park.

2. You Said It: “Let the people hunt good meat!” A reader reacting to word that park officials are considering various methods to http://manassas.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/birth-control-proposed-to-control-deer-pop..." rel="nofollow">reduce the deer population at Manassas Battlefield Park. Elaine wrote, “I don't favor giving the deer birth control substances to eat because I think it would just put chemicals in their bodies that shouldn't be eaten by people.”

3. ICYMI:http://manassas.patch.com/groups/smart-spending/p/how-to-get-rewarded-for-swiping-your-credit-card-m..." rel="nofollow"> http://manassas.patch.com/groups/smart-spending/p/how-to-get-rewarded-for-swiping-your-credit-card-m..." rel="nofollow">Hhttp://manassas.patch.com/groups/smart-spending/p/how-to-get-rewarded-for-swiping-your-credit-card-m..." rel="nofollow">ow Do You Use your Credit? For Richer or for Poorer?

4. Number of the Day: $29 million. That’s how much the City of Fredericksburg would expect the Haggerstown Suns to invest in a new stadium if the http://fredericksburg.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/council-gives-full-support-to-suns-d..." rel="nofollow">ballclub relocates its Washington Nationals franchise. The proposal will now work its way through the City Council approval process.

5.Today…in History: On http://www.nola.com/katrina/index.ssf/2013/08/hurricane_katrina_eight_years.html" rel="nofollow">Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the Gulf Coast. The storm and related flooding killed more than 1,800 people. Forecasters expect an above-average hurricane season for 2013, but not to the level of 2005.