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5 Things to Know This Week: Elizabeth Smart at the Townsend, Opera at Birmingham 8

Here's what you need to know about Birmingham this week.

  1. : The Birmingham City Commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday at . On the agenda is a request from the city's two municipal golf courses for a Class C liquor license.
  2. : The Birmingham Planning Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at . On the agenda is a request for a final site plan review and special land use permit for MI Kitchen, a proposed restaurant and bistro at 327 Hamilton Ave.
  3. : CARE House of Oakland County, a nonprofit organization serving the needs of abused and neglected children, will host child abduction survivor and ABC News correspondent Elizabeth Smart at its annual Circle of Friends benefit Thursday at the . The luncheon begins at 11:30 a.m. with the program beginning shortly thereafter.
  4. : A performance by three of opera's biggest superstars — Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schott and Jonas Kaufman — will be showing at 7 p.m. Thursday at the . Tickets cost $18. If you can't go this week, the show will return to the Birmingham 8 at 7 p.m. Feb. 1. 
  5. Birmingham Schools host kindergarten roundups: If you have a child entering kindergarten in the fall, make sure to check out the kindergarten roundups scheduled at each of Birmingham's eight elementary schools in January and February. On the schedule this week:
    : 7 p.m. Tuesday
    : 7 p.m. Tuesday
    : 6:30 p.m. Wednesday
    : 6:30 p.m. Thursday


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