"5 Things You Need to Know About..." Pride in Manchester, Planning and Zoning and Book Clubs

1. The is schedule to meet at 5 p.m. Monday at Cheney Hall, 177 Hartford Rd., to discuss plans for the town's Pride in Manchester Week and Heritage Day celebrations in July. 

2. The Mary Cheney Library will host a at 7 p.m. Monday in the Howroyd Room. Erik Larson's "Thunderstruck," the true story of how Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of the wireless radio, and notorious murderer H.H. Crippen's lives interwound, will be discussed. The program is free and open to the public. 

3. The Planning and Zoning Commission will meet Monday at 7 p.m. in the Lincoln Center Hearing Room to review, among other requests, the Association of Muslim Community's petition for a special variance that would allow it to establish a mosque at 46 Cottage St. The commission's agenda can be viewed here. 

4. The Manchester Sentinals will hold registration for the 2011 season from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday evening at Washington School, 41 Cedar St. Registration is $100 for the first child, and then operates on a sliding scale for each additional child. For more information visit www.manchestersentinals.com. 

5. And if you haven't checked it out yet, a trio a Manchester High School students as part of the high school's broadcast journalism class looking at daily life at the school since the Dec. 16 brawl that led to the arrest of almost 20 students. It's a video well worth checking out to get students' perspective on MHS.