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5 Things You Need to Know: Arts in the Parks, Election Votes and More

Five things you need to know for Needham and Wellesley on July 17, 2013.

1. An otherwise sunny day may be punctuated by a slim chance of thunderstorms. About a 20 percent chance of them day and night, according to the National Weather Service. High of 91ºF, low of 71ºF in the partly cloudy evening. They have also issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for a heat advisory lasting from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

2. Ask your local League of Women Voters chapters about the Election Reform Lobby day that the statewide organization is participating in. At 10:30 a.m. today, members of the LWV are heading to the State House to support an omnibus election reform bill that could include things like online registration and status checking, and audits of polling places.

3. Wanted to do watercolors? There is a workshop at the Gardens at Elm Bank, about the technique called the English Method. There is a fee of $35 for members, and $40 for non-members. It starts at 1 p.m.

4. Author Barbara Shapiro presents NY Times best seller is visiting Waterstone at Wellesley to discuss her New York Times best-selling book, “The Art Forger," which focuses on the Isabella Stewart Gardener museum heist and a conspiracy to forge a stolen Degas painting. Call 781-235-1614 to RSVP for the 7:30 p.m.

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