'Hope Bus' Stopping By East Bay Center; Learn to Write Mystery

Here are some things you should know about today in Barrington:

• Partly cloudy and a bit warmer with temperatures reaching 50 degrees.
• The East Bay Center, 2 Old County Road, hosts a visit by the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation “Hope Bus” from 10 am to 2 pm. The bright pink bus has its mission to raise breast health awareness, encourage threefold screening (breast self-exam, annual clinical exam and annual mammograms) and provide educational resources about breast cancer. Programs are designed to provide information and resources for everyone. Staff from the East Bay center will also be on the bus to provide information about the services it offers: from counseling for women, children, spouses, families, and caregivers, to a wide array of support services. Click here for more information.
• Find the clues to the novel only you can write at Barrington Public Library on Tuesday, Nov. 5, at 7 pm at a free author panel discussion: Using What You Know To Write a Mystery. Join mystery writers Judy Copek, Kate Flora, and Dale Phillips from Sisters in Crime New England, a chapter of the international organization Sisters in Crime. They welcome all sisters and brothers in crime who have an interest in the New England mystery community. Visit online at www.sincne.org.
• Learn how to get organized for the holidays at the “Weekly Brown Bag Lunch” hosted by W.E.B.O.N.D (Women's Empowerment and Business Owners Networking Development) at the East Bay Chamber of Commerce, 16 Cutler St., Warren. Professional organizer Lisa Griffith of The Organized Way of Barrington will lead the session from noon to 1 pm. Admission is $5 weekly.
• Ray Rickman, president of the Rickman Group, a former state legislator, and former president of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, give a talk at 4:30 pm in the Roger Williams University library on the founding of Providence as a city after race riots in the early 1800s. Titled “How Providence Became a City Because of the Hardscrabble and Snowtown Race Riots of 1824 and 1831,” the talk will address the confluence of class and race in early America and its impact on Providence.