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Osborne High Seniors Graduate

Osborne High holds its graduation tonight at Turner Chapel AME Church, and this tops The 5 Things today.

1. will hold its graduation ceremonties at 7 p.m. today at . Marietta Patch will be there so look for us tonight, and then view our extensive photo gallery of the event on Friday.

2. The Pink Suitcase Sisters, a Marietta-based traveling club for women, will hold an open house from 5 to 8 p.m. today at . Not only can you learn what the Pink Suitcase Sisters mission is all about, you can help rebuild Ringold by bringing a Home Depot gift card. For information, visit www.pinksuitcasesisters.com.

3. Marietta road crews this week broke groke on a $540,000 project to improve the intersection of North Marietta Parkway and Whitlock Avenue. The work will improve safety for pedestrians (especially for visually impaired citizens) improve traffic flow near the intersection and enhance the beauty of Marietta Square.

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For details about the improvements, click here. The work, funded by the 2005 SPLOST, is expected to be completed by this winter.

4. If you are interested in hearing the travails of a veteran Hollywood television and film writer, take time today to register to hear Jeffrey Stepakoff, who will be the featured speaker at this month's "Booked for Lunch" Author Series at 11:30 a.m. Friday at the Marietta Country Club. Raised in Atlanta, Stepakoff has written for shows including The Wonder Years, Sisters and Dawson's Creek.

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Tickets are $25 each and include lunch, but there is limited seating. The event will be hosted by the Cobb Library Foundation and all proceeds will help fund the Gail Rogers Honorary Scholarship. To purchase your tickets online, visit www.cobbcat.org/foundation.

5. Today is National Paper Airplane Day, a celebration of the simple aeronautical toy. The event started with Strongsville High School in Ohio back in 1944 when students there became obsessed with paper airplanes. To this day, the students there (and others around the country) hold contests involving the planes.


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