Community Corner

Five Things to Know Today: July 16

It's time to toot your own horn.

  1. It’s More Than the Three R’s: Now’s the time to register for East Penn community education classes. You can sign up online.
  2. Toot Your Own Horn: Are you active in some sort of community service or volunteer work in the Macungie area? Let me know at jennifer.marangos@patch.com and your good works may be highlighted in a future Patch story.
  3. Word of the Day: “Spang,” pronounced spangaccording to dictionary.com. The word, which is an adverb, means “directly, exactly,” as in ‘The bullet landed spang on target.’ Try working that into your conversation today.
  4. Quote of the Day: “Without music, life would be a mistake.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
  5. Today in History: On this day in 1945, the first atom bomb was successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.


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