Five Things You Need to Know Today, June 1

"Five Things You Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. Let us know what you think of the feature in the comments section.

Today is Wednesday, June 1. Here are five things you need to know:

1. Watch out: Although the National Weather Service is forecasting a mostly sunny day today, there is a chance that we’ll see scattered thunderstorms and possibly hail after 3 p.m. So, watch out during your evening commute and drive safe! 
2. Trash pick-up: Don’t forget, trash pick-up is delayed by one day due to the Monday holiday. If your trash is normally picked up today, it will be picked up on Thursday; Thursday on Friday; and so on.
3. Beer and hymns: OK, it might not sound like a likely pairing, but the is encouraging people to join them in at the on Mishawum Road tonight between 7 and 9 p.m. To read more about this event, .
4. In case you missed it: We have a new spot on our site dedicated to . We’ll be adding any yard sales that we find online, as well as yard sale information submitted by readers, to our page here. !  
5. Out of the dark: On this day in 1968, Helen Keller, 87, passed away in Connecticut. Keller was stricken with illness at 19 months and was left blind and deaf. But with the help of the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, she began to learn to communicate via a special sign language in 1887. Keller would learn to speak, as well, and graduated from Radcliffe College in Cambridge before becoming a writer and lecturer. She was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964, just four years before her death.  

To find out what is going on today in Woburn, check out our events listings.