5 Things You Need To Know Today, Friday, May 3

Here are 5 pieces of information designed to get your weekend off to an early start and to help make you the smartest person in your carpool.

1. Your 3-Day Local Weekend Weather Forecast:

• According to the NWS, today will be mostly sunny, with a high near 61. Light northeast wind increasing to 8 to 13 mph in the morning.
• Tonight Partly cloudy, with a low around 40. East wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
• Saturday Sunny, with a high near 65. Light northeast wind becoming east 8 to 13 mph in the morning.
• Saturday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 36. East wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
• Sunday Sunny, with a high near 69. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
• Sunday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 39.

2. Reader Comment of the Day: "Talk about warped priorities. What about better road conditions? Better school programs? Livingston is nothing BUT fields. Funded or not, if it's like anything else around here, the money will come out of taxpayers pockets one way or another. This town is ridiculous!" Reader Julia, commenting on the story, "Montouri Says Turf Field Won't Require Money From Stabilization Fund."

3. It's Happening Today: Tewksbury Varsity Boys Baseball vs North Andover. The Redmen are in action today at home against North Andover. The first pitch is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.

4. It's Happening This Weekend: Police Department and Rail Trails Committee Bike Rodeo. The Tewksbury Police Department and Tewksbury Rail Trails would like to help ensure the safety of local children by hosting a bike rodeo at the Tewksbury Wal-Mart on Saturday, May 4^th from 10AM-1PM. 

5. Oh, And Another Thing: Cheer on Veterans & Families as they Run/Walk to Home Base at Fenway Park.

Gather up the family and head to historic Fenway Park to cheer on runners and walkers who cross home plate at the 4th Annual Run/Walk to Home Base, presented by New Balance. Food, entertainment and family-friendly activities will fill the concourses of America’s Most Beloved Ballpark including:

• Games and activities for kids at the Family Fun Zone Presented by Our Family for Families First Foundation  
• Assemble care packages and write a note of thanks to active military members at the Military Appreciation Area Presented by BAE Systems
• Meet-n-greets with Wally the Green Monster & Red Sox Legends at the Fan Experience Zone, presented by John Hancock
• Photos with the 2004 and 2007 World Series Trophies
• Self-guided Fenway Park tours

The event honors heroic veterans and raises much needed funds for the Red Sox Foundation and the Mass. General Hospital Home Base Program, which provides clinical care and support for hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and their families who are affected by combat stress, deployment stress, and traumatic brain injury.

For more information and to register, visit www.runtohomebase.org.