Five Things: YMCA Activities, R.I. Film Festival
Tuesday brings activities in and near the 'Konk.
- Feeling like you need to bend, kneel and stretch? The Newman YMCA is holding classes throughout the day.
- In a neighboring non-profit at Barrington's Bayside YMCA, a girl scout is asking locals to donate excess garden vegetables to help fight hunger.
- The Rhode Island Film Festival starts today. Attend a few screenings or other events before this Sunday.
- Did you know? On this day in 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, the United States exploded a nuclear device over Nagasaki, killing an estimated 74,000 people, according to the New York Times archives.
- Temperatures will be in the upper 70s today, slightly cooler due to yesterday's rain, according to the National Weather Service.