Foster Parents Needed for Cobb Children

Weather

Partly sunny skies are in, with a high near 58, wind between 5 and 15 mph and gusts as high as 20 mph, according to the National Weather Service. Temperature will drop to a low around 30 tonight with wind between 5 and 10 mph.

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There are more than 7,000 children in foster care at any given time in the state of Georgia. Foster parents are volunteers who provide for the care of children and work as part of a team to assure a child's physical, emotional, medical and psychological needs are met. County residents are invited to attend an informational meeting on the need for foster parents to care for children in Cobb.

The meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month at 5:30 p.m., and the next one will be this Thursday, Feb. 9, at Cobb County Department of Family and Children Services, 325 S. Fairground St., Marietta. For more information, call Cindy Teate at 770-319-3712.

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Feb. 8, 1870: The National Weather Service was established under the U.S. Army Signal Corps.