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Barrow Today for Tuesday, June 12: Activities for Adults, Teens and Kids

There's something happening for all ages in Barrow today.

It's an eventful Tuesday in Barrow County, with activities for all ages happening today. Check out these events and find more in the Barrow Patch events calendar

  • Families can stop by the  at 11 a.m. and meet where she will be making ice cream in a bag.
  • At the , teens can gather at 1 p.m. to learn how to juggle, balance a balloon on your nose and more during a .
  • is hosting for adults from 7 to 9 p.m.  
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Today's forecast: A chance of showers and thunderstorms throughout the day. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 86. West wind about 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70 percent. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. 
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Tonight's forecast: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 8 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low about 69. Northwest wind around 5 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent.
--- Happy National Peanut Butter Cookie Day! According to punchbowl.com, peanut butter cookies did not become an American favorite until the early 1900s. In 1916, George Washington Carverstarted promoting the peanut and its many uses and even included a trio of cookie recipes in his research bulletin "How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption."
Check out a couple peanut butter cookie recipes from FoodNetwork.com. Those iconic, criss-cross fork marks? Those came about in 1932 when Schenectady Gazette published a recipe that called for adding the fork marks.
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