5 Things: Waste Management, Meetings and AIDS

Weather: There will be a slight chance of showers late in the day and continue through the night, according to the National Weather Service .

1. The Tiverton Planning Board will meet tonight at 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 343 Highland Road. 

The board was to a proposal by Site-Ready Materials & Recycling Co. to expand its reclaimed materials recycling business, however the applicant filed a request to continue this item to the Nov. 20 meeting.

The business is trying to seeking a special use permit to construct two 25,000 square-foot buildings that would house a transfer station and single-stream materials recovery facility. Up to 1,500 tons of recyclables, construction debris and municipal solid waste would be processed indoors and out of sight, according to the company's application.

Currently the 17.9-acre plat houses a 9,800 square-foot building and a 125-square foot scale house to process reclaimed materials and such as soil, asphalt, brick, concrete and yard waste.

2. The Little Compton Planning Board will meet tonight at 6 p.m. at the Town Hall, 40 Commons. 

The board will consider an engineering assessment of a major subdivision at Quaker Hill Farm.

3. Feel the beat! Rhythm Quest Percussion, a youth-based percussion ensemble open to ages 11 - 18, will meet today at 6 p.m. at 635 High St., Bristol. Students earn, play and perform within the community.  

Classes cost $25.

4. Have fun and work out at the same time. Join Joanne Moniz for some Zumba dancing at the ABC Studio as Four Corners Fitness. Class starts at 6 p.m. and costs $15. 

5. On this day in 1985, actor Rock Hudson, 59, becomes the first major U.S. celebrity to die of complications from AIDS. Hudson's death raised public awareness of the epidemic, which until that time had been ignored by many in the mainstream as a "gay plague," accordng to History.com