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Ginepri Loses; Help Homeless Pets Win

Here's what you need to know to start July 21 in East Cobb.

1. Expect today to be a lot like Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. It will be steamy with a 40 percent chance of more torrential storms after 2 p.m. and with a Code Orange air-quality alert. The high will be about 93; the overnight low will be around 72.

2. By now you shouldn’t need the National Weather Service to tell you there’s a good chance of evening rain on Thursday. Showers seem to threaten the Vinings Church’s presentation every week. Weather permitting, tonight’s show is 1987’s Innerspace, in which Dennis Quaid is shrunken and accidentally injected into Martin Short in a comedic take on the Fantastic Voyage concept, minus Raquel Welch. Hilarious? Probably not, but it’s good, clean fun. The starts around 8:30 at the Gardens at the Cobb Galleria Centre.

3. Before taking the family to the film in the Galleria area, you have time to do a good deed for pets in Northeast Cobb. The at 2440 Sandy Plains Rd. will hold a fundraiser from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today for Daffy’s Pet Soup Kitchen. If you go, please bring unopened cans or bags of pet food. Cash donations also are welcome. Everything will go to help homeless pets and animals victimized by natural disasters. Make a donation and you’ll get an ice cream sundae. For more information, contact Patricia Lane at 770-973-6369 or catclinicofcobb@aol.com.

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4. Cobb County police officers from Precinct 4, based at the , fatally shot a man Wednesday afternoon after a failed traffic stop, a brief chase and a confrontation in a Lincoln Hills apartment, just outside the city of Marietta. Marietta Patch has the story.

5. Robby Ginepri’s run at the Atlanta Tennis Championships didn’t last as long as we’d hoped. Playing for the second time in less than 24 hours, the alum and Kennesaw resident lost in three sets Wednesday to Gilles Muller, the Marietta Daily Journal reports. The Norcross tournament marked Ginepri’s return from a long injury layoff, and .

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