'Drama in Your Garden' Talk, Discussion on Privatizing Government Services Tonight

1. There’s a 60 percent chance of precipitation today, including showers and possibly thunderstorms, according to the National Weather Service forecast. Cloudy skies and a high near 75 are predicted, the forecast says.

2. With the nice weather, little green shoots are already popping out of the ground. If you’d like some ideas to liven up your landscaping, you might want to check out tonight’s talk from Dean Engelmann on “Drama in Your Garden,” at 7 p.m. tonight at .

3. The Woodbury-Cottage Grove League of Women Voters is with a session on privatizing government services or assets. The meeting takes place at at Woodbury City Hall.

4. In case you missed it over the weekend, principal Dr. John Bezek was in the Shakopee School District. Bezek is the Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals’ High School Principal of the Year for 2012.

5. On this day in 2003, President George W. Bush signed the launch order to begin strikes in Baghdad, starting what was known in the U.S. as Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to globalsecurity.org.