Five Things You Need to Know

The Weekend Ahead: Five Things you Need to Know (Nov. 26-28)

Our guide to your post-Thanksgiving weekend

Most everyone is recovering from the Thanksgiving blitz – a big family dinner, a refrigerator full of leftovers and, probably, at least one or two family members who were out the door before sunrise Friday to try to snag Black Friday sales items. As we head toward the weekend, here are five Dunwoody-related things or events this weekend. 1. This has been a tough year on many families throughout the country and in our own community. You can brighten up someone's Christmas by donating a toy or two to the Dunwoody Police Department's Christmas for Kids event. The department collects toys for less fortunate children in Dunwoody to be given out as Christmas gifts. Unwrapped toys can be dropped off at 15 different locations around Dunwoody.  The…

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Five Things You Need to Know this Weekend

Dunwoody Patch makes its debut at the start of a big weekend: famous authors, holiday festivities and a couple of guitar-driven concerts.

Welcome to "Five Things You Need to Know for the Weekend," a Dunwoody Patch column that sifts through the long list of events competing for your time to offer our pick of five things worth doing with your time off. Please email peter.cox@patch.com with any tips for this weekly feature, we'll try to get your events and announcements on our page and, hopefully, into this column. 1.     The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta's Book Festival has two speakers who will mark the end of the 15-day festival: NBC News' Middle East Correspondent Martin Fletcher will speak about his new book "Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation," Saturday at 8 p.m. On Sunday, writer and actor Gene Wilder, well-known for his role as Willy …

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