Watershed Stewards Offer Rain Barrel Workshop

1. A project like this might make the rain go away for awhile, but at the from 2 to 3 p.m. there will be a Rain Barrel Make and Take Workshop. Members of the Watershed Stewardship Program will demonstrate how to create rain barrels from 55-gallon drums donated by Coca-Cola. Attendees should be dressed for the outdoors and ready to work with power tools. A four-door sedan or larger vehicle will be needed to take a barrel home.

To register, visit www.cobbstreams.org.

2. For your civic duty enjoyment, there are a series of planning commission meetings. The county Planning Commission is holding a zoning meeting at 9 a.m. today at the Board of Commissioners room on the second floor of . The Marietta Planning Commission, meanwhile, has a work session at 5 p.m. in the second floor conference room of followed by a regular session at 6 p.m. in the City Council chambers.

3. Keep Cobb Beautiful holds its monthly meeting at 5:30 p.m. today at the at 660 South Cobb Drive.

4. The Lemon Street Heritage Group will hold a meeting at 4 p.m. in the second floor conference room of Marietta City Hall.

5. Today is National Deep Dish Pizza Day in honor of the anniversary of Uno Chicago Grill's first restaurant outside of Chicago. It opened a franchise of its original deep dish pizza on this day in 1979.