Cobb Schools to Resolve Calendar Issue Tonight

1. Have an opinion about the Cobb County School District calendar? You have until 1 p.m. today to register your opinion. The options include start dates of Aug. 1, Aug. 15 and Aug. 17. More details can be found at the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NR9TSZ6.

The Cobb County Board of Education will select one of the three calendar options for the 2011-12 school year at its meeting at 7 p.m. Check back here at Marietta Patch for live coverage.

2. The Southern Polytechnic Lady Hornets host their annual “Think Pink Zone” game to raise awareness about breast cancer at 6 p.m. tonight. For this game against Lee University, spectators are asked to wear pink in support of the cause.

The Atlanta Dream Dance Team will perform at halftime, and C.J., a popular on-air personality at 95.5 The Beat, will also be there. Money raised through a $5 admission charge and the sale of pink T-shirts will be donated to the Kay Yow Cancer Fund to benefit cancer research.

For information about how you can help with this year’s effort, contact Coach Laquanda Dawkins at ldawkins@spsu.edu.

3. The Cobb County Cooperative Extension, along with the University of Georgia, is sponsoring the eight-week Walk Georgia fitness program. The free program encourages individuals and teams of four to log their exercise routines at walkgeorgia.org, a site that translates such activities as aerobics classes, walking the dog and pick-up basketball games into "miles."

An online map enables participants to chart their "walks" across Georgia and learn about interesting facts about the counties they visit.

Online registration will be open from Feb. 20 to March 9, and logs will be active from March 6 to April 30. For information, visit walkgeorgia.org or call Cobb Extension at 770-528-4090.

4. The Cobb Public Library plans to start offering a greater selection of downloadable e-books starting March 1. Patrons can access both audio and downloadable books with their library cards through the library Web page at cobbcounty.org/library. Fiction and nonfiction selections are available. Call 770-528-2320 for details.

5. Today is National PTA Founders Day. Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Hearst called the first meeting of the National Congress of Mothers on Feb. 17, 1897, and were shocked when more than 2,000 men and women arrived. For those who keep score on Marietta history will remember that Birney is a native and has an named in her honor.