Job Support; Cobb EMC Vote

1. The weather will stay cool and might turn wet this afternoon, the National Weather Service says. The high will be about 74 with a breeze of 5 to 10 mph, and there’s a 20 percent chance of showers after 2 p.m. The likelihood of rain rises to 60 percent after 8 p.m., and the overnight low will be around 63.

2. Monday is business day on Northeast Cobb Patch. Come back at 9 a.m. to read about , a family-run business that is thriving and growing despite the recession.

3. does its part to help Northeast Cobbers get back to work with its twice-monthly , which runs from 6:30 to 8:30 tonight at the church at 570 Piedmont Rd.

4. Piedmont Baptist was the site of a business revolution Saturday when members of Cobb EMC overwhelmingly rejected a proposal from the utility’s board to allow mail-in ballots for future board elections, the Marietta Daily Journal reported. The groups demanding change at the electric co-op opposed the measure and celebrated its defeat.

5. Congratulations to East Cobb’s Harriette Majoros, who won IrishCentral.com’s Summer Vacation Photo Competition with a poster-quality photo of a white Connemara horse. Majoros, 70, told the Irish-American website that she got only one photo of the horse through a rolled-down car window while she and her husband were on vacation in Ireland. She won a basket of Irish goodies. The Majoros home is just across Sandy Plains Road from Northeast Cobb.