Morning Briefing, June 24

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Today is Friday, June 24, the 175st day of 2011.

HEADLINES

TIDBITS

• The New Barker magazine is offering a chance to win four VIP box seats at Steinbrenner Field for Saturday's Bark in the Ballpark game when you donate to the Humane Society of Tampa Bay's Casper's Cupboard, the charity's outreach program that provides pet food to those in the community who cannot afford to feed their pets. The highest donation gets the four tickets. For information, call the magazine at 727-214-7423.
• is looking for a part-time dishwasher, according to its Facebook page. E-mail thetamparefinery@gmail.com if interested.
• The folk, bluegrass, punk band Greenland is Melting is playing at .

EVENTS

• 6:30-9 p.m.
• 5-8 p.m. Summer Safari Night at Lowry Park Zoo
• 6-9 p.m.

See Patch's Events Calendar for the rest of today's happenings.

MEETINGS

City of Tampa

• 9 a.m. CCNA Selection Committee, 107 N. Franklin St., 3rd-Floor Conference Room
• 5:30 p.m. Tampa Bay Dragon Boats Mini Regatta, Tampa Convention Center

Hillsborough County

• 8:30 a.m. Citizens Advisory Committee, 601 E. Kennedy Blvd.
• 9 a.m. Land Use Hearing, 601 E. Kennedy Blvd.

FORECAST

• Friday: Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2 p.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 92. Heat index values as high as 100. Calm wind becoming west between 5 and 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50 percent. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half an inch possible.
• Friday Night: Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 2 a.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 76. Northwest wind between 4 and 7 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

POLLEN LEVEL

• Tree: No activity
• Grass: High
• Weed: Medium

TODAY IN HISTORY

• In 1509, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
• In 1916, Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
• In 1997, the U.S. Air Force issued a 231-page report denying the urban myth that an alien spacecraft crashed in Roswell, NM, 50 years earlier.

*Headlines compiled from Patch.com and other regional media outlets; Forecast and Pollen Level obtained from the National Weather Service and Weather.com; 'Today in History' items compiled from History.com, Wikipedia and other sources.