Community Corner
Important Meetings and Just Plain Fun
School rebuilding plans and intersection improvements are on the agenda today, but there is a chance for fun in the Get Out column.
1. We’re in the clear today, weatherwise, with a high in the mid-60s. But those clear skies bring lows in the high 30s overnight. Friday is also forecast to be dry and partly cloudy with mid-60s highs and lows in the high 40s. Rain chances return for Saturday and Sunday, with highs in the mid-70s and lows in the mid- to low 50s
2. Hey! In case you just can’t get enough of transportation planning, Cobb DOT has an open house from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Jim R. Miller Park in Building A on plans for changes to the intersection of Powder Springs Road at Cheatham Hill/Callaway roads. Miller Park is at 2245 Callaway Road. Call 770-528-1621, or e-mail Cobb DOT for more.
3. Tonight at 7 the Cobb County Board of Education meets and is expected to take up the fate of flood-ravaged Clarkdale Elementary. In case you missed it Wednesday, take a look at our about this plucky school.
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4. Need a night out? Check today’s column for a roundup of night spots, concerts and other events.
5. Just in case you thought our Middle East adventures are something new, it was on this day in 1949 that President Harry S. Truman signed a U.S. resolution authorizing $16 million in aid for Palestinian refugees displaced and facing starvation as a result of Israel's War of Independence in 1948. And how’s this for good old American optimism?
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Truman's resolution contributed U.S. funds to a $32 million United Nations aid package. At the signing, the president stated his hope that before the relief money ran out, the “means will be devised for the permanent solution of the refugee problem.”