Community Corner

Five Things for September 29

What's going on around town today.

  • A prize crew surprised shoppers at Giant Supermarket in Warminster and other branches around Bucks County last weekend, handing out gift cards for items in their cart.
  • Centennial Schools have off today for Rosh Hashanah. Classes resume tomorrow.
  • Showers likely in the morning today with a high near 79, according to the National Weather Service.
  • Federal health officials are expanding efforts to ensure no additional bacteria-tainted cantaloupes get to consumers in what has become the most fatal U.S. outbreak of a food-borne illness in more than a decade, CNN reports. Thirteen people have died in the most fatal U.S. outbreak of a food-borne illness since 1998, according to records from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • On this day, September 29, 1979, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on the Republic of Ireland.


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