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1. Which part of tomorrow's Sharon July 4 celebration are readers looking forward to the most?

2. A reminder: Plan to give blood at Temple Sinai of Sharon today. The blood drive is from 2 to 7 p.m. 

3. Reader Dan Auld passed along this summer reading suggestion: "White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It." Have any other Sharon Patch readers read it?

4. A reminder from the Sharon website: there's no trash pickup on July 4. Trash collection will be delayed by one day for the rest of the week.

5. Sharon Patch is looking for bloggers. Drop Editor Michael Gelbwasser a note if interested.