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5 Things for Saturday

Fresh produce, chess lessons and outdoor music among the choices today.

1. Weather. National Weather Service says: A chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 84. Calm wind becoming south between 5 and 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

2. Summer's bounty is ripe for the picking. Check out the for locally grown produce and products. Swing by the nearby park next to the Doylestown Historical Society to .

3. The Doylestown Heat band will play tonight at the , part of Salem United Church of Christ's 150 year anniversary celebration. Bring a lawn chair or picnic blanket to the lawn of the church's christian education building on E. Court. It runs from 5 to 7 p.m.

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4. Peddler's Village is having a this weekend. Expect exhibits by nonprofits and a DJ spinning the tunes.

5. On this day in 1945, the Enola Gay dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 80,000 and injuring 35,000 in the blast. Another 60,000 died before the end of the year of effects of the fallout. The Japanese surrendered on Aug. 15, ending World War II's war in the Pacific.

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