Five Things for Thursday: Frugal Living Workshop, Burritos and Bluegrass & More

East Providence Weather:

• Thursday: Rain, mainly before 2pm. High near 44. Breezy, with a north wind 18 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
• Thursday Night: A chance of rain, mainly before 10pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 34. Northwest wind 11 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Frugal Living Workshop:  Has frugal living become your “new normal”? Are you having to do more with less? Find out how to step-down your spending by learning the 4 “R’s” of frugal living and increasing your awareness of the little expenses. Location: Riverside Branch, 475 Bullocks Point Ave, East Providence. Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. Contact Meredith Bonds-Harmon   (401)434-2453 mbonds@eastprovidencelibrary.org

Burritos and Bluegrass: This Thursday at 8 p.m. at Lola's: Southern Rhode. This Bluegrass-All-Star band boasts veterans of New England's most successful and well known Bluegrass bands. If you want to see how Bluegrass is done, then this is the band to watch. Come on out a nd support local Bluegrass and, as always, spread the word. 

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This Day in History: On this day in 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible. Rontgen's discovery occurred accidentally in his Wurzburg, Germany, lab, where he was testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass when he noticed a glow coming from a nearby chemically coated screen. He dubbed the rays that caused this glow X-rays because of their unknown nature.