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5 Things to Know About Today

Mostly sunny but cool; PCD dinner & auction; book presentation at library; Rotary Club meets; ballroom dancing lessons.

Here are five things you should know about today in East Providence:

  1. Mostly sunny all day but temperatures will struggle to get above 59 degrees.
  2. Join the Providence Country Day School community for dinner and lively bidding on silent and live auction items at the East Providence school's campus in Seekonk, 131 Brown Ave., from 5 to 8 pm.
  3. Author Edward Achorn presents his new book, The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game at Weaver Library, 41 Grove Ave., at 7 pm.
  4. The East Providence/Seekonk Rotary Club meets every Monday at 12:15 pm at the Eleven Forty Nine East Restaurant, 965 Fall River Ave., Seekonk.
  5. Ballroom dance classes are held every Monday at 2 pm at the East Providence senior center, 610 Waterman Ave.

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