Community Corner

Five Things for May 31

What's going on around town today.

  • Centennial School District has formed a new alternative revenue committee to develop alternative methods of raising funds for the district. The goal is to raise $2.5 million through community partnerships, business affiliation, sponsorships and fundraising. The public is invited to attend the first meeting on June 8 at 7 p.m. in the .
  • Members of the community and former students of are invited to say farewell to the school June 15 at 6 p.m. The school is closing at the end of the school year, and current students will attend Willow Dale Elementary starting in the fall.
  • The man who helped shape Southampton Days, Sam Constantini, 72, passed away last Thursday after a long fight with cancer, Upper SouthamptonPatch . For more than 40 years, Constantini had helped plan the annual parade and fair, in addition to being a member of the Inter-Service Club Committee and Southampton - Warminster Area Lions Club.
  • Food prices could double in the next 20 years and demand in 2050 will be 70 percent higher than now, U.K. charity Oxfam told MSNBC, warning of worsening hunger as the global food economy stumbles close to breakdown. "Now we have entered an age of growing crisis, of shock piled upon shock: vertiginous food price spikes and oil price hikes, devastating weather events, financial meltdowns and global contagion," Oxfam said in a report.
  • On this day, May 31, the first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, "The Karnival Kid," is released.


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