Community Corner

Five Things for August 9

What's going on around town today.

  • Warminster Tricentennial Day, scheduled for Sept. 10 at 11 a.m. at Warminster Community Park, is still looking for sponsors and volunteers. Download the forms at the website or call (215) 443-5428.
  • A chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon today with a high near 86, according to the National Weather Service.
  • Hundreds gathered during a roughly three-hour candlelight vigil Monday night for two teenagers who died in a  in Horsham early Saturday morning, Hatboro-HorshamPatch .
  • A wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country's worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s, MSNBC.com reports.
  • On this day, August 9, 1944, Smokey the Bear make shis debut on posters created by the United States Forest Service.


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