Daily Five: SHS Freshman Football Fundraiser

1. Join and/or at 6 p.m. for a fundraiser for SHS Freshman Football team. The elimination of the transportation money and funding for freshman football was among the . The team needs to raise money in order to play.

2. A free reception open to the public will be held on Thursday, August 23, 2012 to kick off New London County’s 2012 campaign. The Kickoff Reception will be held at the Atria Crossroads Place which is located at 1 Beechwood Drive in Waterford, Conn., beginning at 6 p.m. For more information about the Kickoff Reception, please call Elsie Melita at 203-379-4810 or register online by visiting www.seeuthere.com/ACS/NewLondonKickoff. The Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk of New London County will be held on Sunday, October 28, 2012 at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford, Conn.

3. Stonington-Mystic Patch is looking for local voices to become . If you have an interest, a hobby, a passion, an opinion, we want you to blog. Email bree.shirvell@patch.com for more information.

4. Have some sponge cake with your morning coffee, it’s National Sponge Cake Day.

5. Today's thought: "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." —Francis Bacon