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Five Things You Need to Know Today: September 23

Representative Kakfa visits, Scarecrow Making Contest, library events, and more...

"Five Things you Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance.

1. Kakfa at Senior Center

Representative Louis L. Kakfa (D-Stoughton) is holding office hours in Stoughton today from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the .

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2. Scarecrow Making Contest

 at Stoughton invites any business, club or organization to submit an entry into their . Entries must be checked in at the The Arbors at Stoughton by noon on Sunday, Oct. 9.

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3. Events at the library

Overeaters Anonymous meets at 9:30 a.m. in the Wales French Room of the ; the LVM-Stoughton Conversation Class meets at 10 a.m. in the conference room; and the "Honorable Menschen" Reading Group meets at noon in the Wales French Room.

4. SHS Sports on Tap (weather pending)

  • 3:30 p.m. - Golf at North Attleboro
  • 3:45 p.m. - boys' varsity soccer at Sharon
  • 3:45 p.m. - girls' varsity soccer vs. Sharon
  • 3:45 p.m. - girls' varsity field hockey vs. Sharon
  • 5 p.m. - varsity volleyball vs. Sharon
  • 7 p.m. - varsity football at Mansfield

5. Looking Ahead: Life Teen Seeks Donations

Life Teen and Edge programs around the globe will unite for the 4th annual Global Life Night and Service Project called "Give It Away Now! - The Oh, Baby! Edition."

Stoughton Life Teen invites the public to drop off baby items to boxes at the entrances of on Sunday, Sept. 25. They are having a baby shower to collect essential items to help mothers and their babies at Friends of the Unborn pregnancy center in Quincy.

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