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Hickory Hills Offers Summer Arts Enrichment

The Marietta elementary school's summer camps for the next two weeks top The 5 Things for today.

1. , which sponsors the Art Academy for Marietta City Schools, will be holding enrichment camps for this week and next week. Programs include Drama for Kids, Fun with Magic, Twirling for Fun and many other camps. To register, visit www.mariettacommunityschool.com/, and click on Courses/Just for Youth and Teens.

2. For the weather this week, it looks like Marietta will be experiencing a couple of mid-90 days before the weather starts to cool Wednesday. Then we can expect some thundershowers come Thursday and through the weekend.

3. Summer school for students in grades 3, 5, 8 begins today at and will continue through June 24. For information, click here.

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4. For your civic duty enjoyment, the is holding an agenda work session at 9 a.m. today at the third floor board room at . The Board of Elections and Registration will meet at 4 p.m. at the .

5. Today is the Queen's Official Birthday, the Queen's Birthday or the Sovereign's Birthday, and thus the day in which the English Commonwealth officially celebrates the monarch's birthday, in this case, Queen Elizabeth II. And that is odd because she was actually born on April 21, 1926. But tradition ... this day of the year having been celebrated since 1748.

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