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Five Things You Should Know Today: August 8
In case you think we need more rain, you're going to like today's forecast.
- There’s a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3 p.m. today, according to the National Weather Service. Otherwise we can expect mostly sunny skies, a high near 81 and calm winds most of the day. Tonight’s low will be 61, with more chances for showers and thunderstorms. mington.
- Today marks the first day of the 153rd Dakota County Fair. On today’s schedule: 4-H horse, beef cow and llama judging, the open-class dairy show, 4-H rabbit agility demonstrations, the fair’s 2011 amateur talent contest from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and motorcross in the grandstand at 7 p.m. For a full schedule, click here.
- Aspiring teenage writers are invited to a gathering from 4 to 5:30 p.m. today at the Wescott Library in Eagan. Participants take part in writing exercises, get peer feedback and have the chance to contribute to the Wescott teen ‘zine.
- A new Goodwill store is coming to Lakeville. The 20,600-square-foot store, near the Lakeville Comfort Inn, is scheduled to open by January and will be Goodwill’s 26th location in the Twin Cities (with new stores scheduled to open this fall in Blaine and Champlin).
- So “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” came on the radio the other day, and my husband said, “I can’t remember the name of the choir that sings at the beginning of this song.” So I Googled it and found out that it’s the London Bach Choir. But also this: There’s a story, possibly apocryphal, which says Mick Jagger played at the Danceland Ballroom in Excelsior, Minn., one night in 1964, and was standing in line to get a prescription filled the next day at a drugstore in Excelsior. A local man named Jimmy Heutmaker started talking to him about how he loved cherry Cokes, but that morning he had been given a different flavor. “You know, Mr. Jagger,” he is reported to have said, “you can’t always get what you want.” (Apocryphal or not, it’s a good story.)
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