Halloween Parade + Million-Dollar Winner: East Providence Daily

Hello, neighbors! It's me again, Jimmy Bentley, your host of the East Providence Daily.

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First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and warmer. High: 70 Low: 52.

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Here are the top stories in East Providence today:

1. East Providence Boys & Girls Club Holding Halloween Parade (East Providence Patch)
2. Arguments over masking, and unmasking, of RI's schoolchildren are heard in Superior Court (The Providence Journal)
3. McKee: $50M approved in rental, housing assistance (WPRI.com)
4. Seekonk man one of two Bay State million-dollar winners in Monday's Powerball drawing (Boston Herald)
5. 'Moving backwards': Another top doctor resigns from Eleanor Slater Hospital (WPRI.com)
6. 3 killed in fiery crash on Route 95 in West Warwick (The Providence Journal)
7. Providence's Beautiful Day granola company offers refugees a way into workforce (The Providence Journal)

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Today in East Providence:

• Waddington Fall Picture Day - East Providence School District (12:00 AM)
• Kent Heights Walk to School Day from Fuller Creative Learning Center (8:20 AM)
• Riverside SIT Meeting - East Providence School District (3:30 PM)
• Pre-K Virtual SIT Meeting - East Providence School District (6:00 PM)
• Waddington Virtual PTA Meeting - East Providence School District (6:00 PM)
• Meet the teachers night - East Providence High School (6:00 PM)
• EPHS Meet the Teachers Night - East Providence School District (6:00 PM)
• Myron J. Francis Virtual PTO Meeting (6:00 PM)

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East Providence Patch Notebook

• Rhode Island State Police: "Troopers are investigating a fatal motor vehicle crash that occurred on Tuesday morning at approximately 2 AM on Route 95 South near Exit 8 in West Warwick. If you have information, please contact the Wickford Barracks at (401) 444-1064...." (Facebook)
• East Providence Public Library: "We had a blast at Fuller dissecting sunflowers and extracting hundreds of seeds! Be sure to check out all of the other great events throughout October that are happening at www.eastprovidencelibrary.org" (Facebook)
• City of East Providence - Office of the Mayor: "For COVID-19 Booster/Vaccine clinic dates, details and registration please visit: https://conta.cc/2Yd213I" (Facebook)
• East Providence Public Library: "More Kids Graphic Novel Book Club in October. This month we'll be reading Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier, sharing more of our favorite graphic novels, and doing more drawing, Register on the East Providence Libraries' Calendar of Events and ..." (Facebook)

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— Jimmy Bentley

About me: Jimmy Bentley is a Massachusetts and Rhode Island field editor for Patch covering Cape Cod, Braintree, Barrington, East Greenwich, East Providence and North Kingstown. He was a reporter at the Plympton-Halifax Express and interned for Patch while earning his master's at Emerson College. In his free time, Jimmy hits concerts (sometimes reviewing them for Patch), watches movies and plays ice hockey. Email: jimmy.bentley@patch.com Twitter: @PatchBentley

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