Rain Garden; Wheeler's Raleigh Holiday

1. No weather warnings or watches and not much warmth in the forecast for East Cobb today, according to the National Weather Service. Patchy fog and a slight chance of lingering rain will fade away by 8 a.m., leaving a mostly cloudy, breezy day with a high that might not reach 70 degrees. The overnight low will be around 57.

2. All the rain dumped by Tropical Storm Lee makes today’s Watershed Stewardship Program rain garden workday at the Cobb County Water Quality Lab, 662 S. Cobb Dr., particularly timely. The point of a rain garden is to limit storm runoff while adding an interesting, attractive landscape feature. The workday runs from 9 to 11 a.m. It should be more fun than the Cobb County Citizens Oversight Committee meeting at 9 at 100 Cherokee St., the Board of Tax Assessors meeting at 10 at 736 Whitlock Ave. or the county Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals meeting at 6:30 p.m. back at 100 Cherokee St.

3. Sen. Judson Hill held a town-hall meeting on the Tuesday night at , and East Cobb Patch was there. Come back later today for video from the event. As the Marietta Daily Journal reports, the projects planned for the 10-year, 1-cent sales tax didn’t find many friends at the meeting.

4. The drier, cool weather should work well with outdoor activities today. The cranks back up from 4 to 7 p.m. at after a couple of months off. Meanwhile, coming off a 9-0 win over on Thursday, Walton tries to establish clear softball dominance in East Cobb during a game at , starting either at or . Now that’s a neighborhood rivalry: The schools can’t even agree when they’re playing.

5. Wheeler’s varsity boys basketball team, which last December played in tournaments in and , is going to spend the days after Christmas this year in Raleigh, NC. The Wildcats will play in a tournament at Broughton High School with four teams from North Carolina and schools from New York, Texas and Massachusetts, The Cary News reported. The tournament, which used to be called the GlaxoSmithKline Invitational, is the same one in which .