Community Corner

Five Things You Need to Know Today: Jan. 3

Time to get things going in 2012.

  1. The City of Falls Church Planning Committee will hold a meeting at City Hall at 7:45 p.m.
  2. The Falls Church City Public Schools Board will not hold a budget meeting at 7:30 p.m. at FCCPS headquarters.
  3. On this day in 1987, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted their first female artist, Aretha Franklin.
  4. On this day in 2010, Australian researchers discover the first plane taken to Antarctica in 1912.
  5. If today is your birthday, you share it with actor Mel Gibson (56-years-old) and actor Dabney Coleman (80-years-old). Happy birthday!

If there is something we missed and you feel should be in our Five Things, let us know in the comment box below. We would love to have your input!


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