5 Things You Need to Know Today: April 29

Each morning, Westborough Patch presents “5 Things You Need to Know,” a collection of announcements, events, reminders and odd little ditties to help you organize your day. What will you be doing today?

1. Turkey hunters are required to check their turkies at an official check station for the spring turkey hunting season. The on Rabbit Hill Road in Westborough is an official Massachusetts checking station. Others can be found on this website.

2. The 3rd Annual Walk/Run for Pancreatic Cancer takes place this morning at , 35 Chauncy St.

3. Community advocates from the Campaign for Our Communities launched an interactive map that shows the amount of local aid from the state that has been cut from community budgets since 2000.

4. The UMass Memorial Medical Center is offering free skin cancer screenings on Saturday, May 12 from 8 a.m. to noon. For an appointment, call 508-334-5832 on Tuesday, May 8 or Wednesday, May 9. Parking is free.

5. There is a canoe trip through Cedar Swamp scheduled to take place at 1:30 p.m. The Westborough Community Land Trust program includes an adventurous 1-mile paddle up the winding head of the Sudbury and into Cedar Swamp Pond. This four to five hour trip is free, fairly strenuous and designed for experienced paddlers. Meet by the bridge on Fruit Street, about 1/8 mile southwest of Flanders Road.

Is there something that you would like others to know today? Go ahead and post it in the comments!

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