1. Bring the brelly. If you haven't heard the most recent media deluge of weather reports, after a cloudy day with a high temperature of 63, we should expect rain tonight.
2. Consider our history. This day in 1960, USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev, in a meeting of the UN General Assembly, responded to a charge of Russian colonialism by removing a shoe and pounding it on a table. The General Assembly President, Frederick Boland, broke his gavel in an attempt to break up the tyrade. Many people remember the incident associated with the Krushchev quotation, "We will bury you." In the heat of the Cold War, what many historians now call World War III, Americans heard the remark as a threat of nuclear attack. But he didn't say that during the shoe pounding event. Thirteen months after the UN event, Krushchev spoke on the subject of colonialism at a gathering of Western ambassadors in Moscow and said, "We will dig you in." He later clarified the statement as meaning the working class of the Western nations would rise up and bury the elite. Is anyone on Wall Street, occupying offices or the park, remembering?
3. Read some more history, because we don't have many local events to report. This day in 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss received the United States Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest award given to a member of the military. He voluntarily risked his life to save dozens of men in the battle of Okinawa. He served as a medical corpsman. A confirmed pacifist from Lynchburgh, Vir., he registered with the draft as a conscientous objector, refusing to fight, but willing to save lives.
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4. Get connected. The Neponset Valley Chamber of Commerce will present its monthly afternoon networking session at T.G.I Fridays, 1345 Boston-Providence Turnpike in Norwood from 3 to 5.
5. Don't play poker. The ICC at 200 New Boston Drive will sponsor Progressive 25 card game play beginning at 8pm.
