5 Things: Retirement Board, Book Club, Housing Authority

Born on this day in history: novelist Nora Roberts (1950), singer David Lee Roth (1954), actor Chris Penn (1965), Brett Favre (1969) and racecar driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (1974).

1. The Braintree Retirement Board meets again this morning at 8 p.m. in the board room at 74 Pond St.

2. Thayer Public Library hosts the Brown Bag Book Club from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. in the Reading Room. This month's selection is The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War by David Laskin.

3. The Board of Assessors meets at 5 p.m. in the upstairs Johnson Chambers at Town Hall.

4. The Housing Authority meets at 7:30 p.m. at 25 Roosevelt St.

5. Activities today at the Senior Center on Cleveland Avenue include:

9:15 a.m. No Exercise Class

9:30 a.m. Ask the Lawyer (free) by appointments

10 a.m. Crafts and Quilting Group

Noon Pool Players and Poker