Five Things You Need To Know Today

GOOD START: The National Weather Service says the start of our holiday weekend will be sunny with a high near 82 degrees. Tonight forecasters expect patchy fog after 11 p.m. Otherwise there will be increasing clouds with a low around 57 degrees.

GRADUATION DAY: Graduations have begun. Loma Linda University’s School of Medicine - Consecration and Hooding Ceremony/medical students is scheduled to start at 7 p.m.
 at the Loma Linda University Seventh-day Adventist Church. The School of Pharmacy will have their Hooding Ceremony
 at 7 p.m. at the Wong Kerlee International Conference Center. Information: (800) 422-4558

ABOUT SEX: The topic of Campus Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Youth Sabbath will be The Truth About Sex. The meeting will be Saturday at 11 a.m. The church is at 11057 Hill Drive. Information: (909) 796-0222

PERMISSION SLIPS: Loma Linda Academy is reminding parents that Disneyland permission slips were mailed to all students eligible to take the reward trip. Those slips and the $70 fee is due by today. Cash or checks are accepted. The Disneyland Reward Trip is scheduled for June 1. The trip is supposed to take place during a regular school day. If a student is unable to attend, parents are asked to notify the Junior High office in writing. If your child has an annual pass, the cost of transportation will be $25, school officials said.

READING PROGRAM: One more reminder. The “Kung Fu Panda 2" Library Reading Program soon will get underway. Youngsters must check out four books to receive an entry form to participate in a contest to win prizes. But today is the last day to enter. The grand prize is a screening of “Kung Fu Panda 2” with up to 100 of their friends. The screening would be June 11. Ten runners-up will receive $20 gift certificates to Toys R Us. There is a limit of two entries per child, while supplies last. The contest is open to children ages 2-16.