Kids & Family

Today: Pinewood, Lent, Coffee and Cloudy

It's Finally Friday, Woonsocket. Read up on good weather, races and the anniversary of the road trip:

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Coffee - Family coffee hour is today at 9 - 10 a.m., at . Join your student for some morning refreshment and start the weekend with a trip to your child's school.

Ignation Lenten Series - 's presentation of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola continues at 3 p.m. on March 25. According to the church website,Β  Ignatius wrote the Exercises during a nine-month period of intense prayer and penance in the town of Manresa, Spain, in 1522.

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Derby - Area Boy Scouts are likely anxiously putting the finishing touches on their pinewood derby racers for this weekend's Pinewood Derby competition at St. James Church. The derby is Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon. Good luck, gentlemen!

Warm - We'll just give it to you straight. Today it's gonna be cloudy, all right? But, good news - it'll also be 74 degrees.

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Road trip! - This day in 1903 marked the 1st automobile trip across U.S. from San Francisco to New York, ending April 1. The man responsible? Horatio Nelson Jackson, according to PBS.org.Β 

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