Five Things to Know Today: August 21

1. Do you know how to get rid of bagworms that can defoliate trees? You will if you read Peggy Heminitz's column from Monday.  

2. Emmaus had the first reading of an ordinance to restrict commercial truck parking on public streets. Read about the issue today on Emmaus Patch.  

3. Quote of the Day: "Adventure is not in the guide book. And beauty is not on the map. Seek and ye shall find." -- Terry and Renny Russell from their book "On the Loose"  

4. You can let Emmaus officials know what you think of the community pool by filling out this anonymous survey on the borough's web site.    

5. Today in History: Christopher Robin Milne, who was immortalized in his father's "Winnie-the-Pooh" stories, was born on this day in 1920. When Christopher Robin was about a year old he received a stuffed bear as a gift and began a collection of stuffed animals that inspired his father, A.A. Milne, to start writing imaginative stories about toy animals.