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5 Things for Saturday

Find out how sparklers are made.

1. Weather. Ah, summer. National Weather Service says: Sunny, with a high near 90. Calm wind becoming southwest around 6 mph.

2. Random Fourth of July fact: sparklers are a blend of chemicals and metal flakes or dust, mixed with water to form a slurry. Sticks or wires are then dipped into the mixture and allowed to dry. And who said chemistry wasn't fun?

3. Still haven't decided how to celebrate this weekend? We pulled together a list of and even a .  We've even got If you can't find something fun or useful in all that information, then I don't know what else to say.

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4. If you've been thinking more about what you eat and where it comes from, check out this guide for what's in season here in our area. According to these guidelines, we should be feasting on locally grown: Beets, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cantaloupes, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Corn, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Lima Beans, Snap Peas, Squash, Tomatoes, Watermelon. Yum.

5. On this day in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act prohibiting racial discrimination. Also, in 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Frederick Noonan disappeared near Howland Island, in the Pacific Ocean.

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