Monday Essentials: Meeting About Bus Monitor, Indoor Farmers Market

Recycles and yard waste get picked up this week: Just a reminder – this week we need to put both trash AND recycle containers curbside, and yard waste too. (Yard waste will be picked up every week in November.)

On Monday …  

Indoor Farmers Market: The St. Luke's Arts & Farms Market takes place today from 3 to 6 in the upstairs auditorium at St. Luke's Church (corner of Peirce and Church Streets). Lots of easy parking, live goats, great fresh food, music and storytelling.

Parent meeting about bus monitor: School and bus company officials will be at Eldredge School at 4:30 p.m. today to answer questions and address concerns in the wake of the arrest last week of an EG bus monitor on child pornography charges.

Schools Strategic Planning Committee meeting: Here’s the agenda. The meeting takes place in the library at Cole Middle School at 5:30 p.m.

Town Council meeting: The council will be interviewing a number of candidates for various town boards and commissions. You can find the list here. At 7 p.m.

On Tuesday …

School Committee meeting: The panel meets in the library at Cole Middle School at 7 p.m. You can find the agenda at www.

Bowl-a-Thon Benefit: EGHS senior Haley O’Connor is holding a Bowl-a-Thon at Kingston Bowl from 7 to 10 p.m. to raise money for the Tori Lynn Andreozzi Foundation. Tori was hit by a drunk driver in 2003 on her way to school. The foundation works with several national and local organizations and programs to advance its cause, such as MADD, SADD, Youth in Action, and the Traffic Safety Coalition of Rhode Island, among others. You can find out more about the foundation here. Haley is doing the fundraiser as part of her senior project. Whether you want to bowl or just support a great cause, $10 gets you in.

EG Art Club meeting: The East Greenwich Art Club meets Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. at the EG First Baptist Church, 30 Peirce Street. This month’s Guest Artist is Kathy Martino, an Pawtuxet Village award-winning artist. Kathy has began stenciling, marbleizing, faux finishing years ago then began to paint home portraits and landscapes. Her website is www.kathymartino.com. For information visit our website at: www.eastgreenwichartclub.org or call Ian at 941-3153.

“Tech Nite" Open House: New England Institute of Technology (NEIT) will hold its Tech Nite Open House at the East Greenwich Campus on Tuesday from 3 to 7 p.m.

On Wednesday …

No School today: It's a professional development and parent-teacher conference day.

Veterans Affairs Aid Workshop: Greenwich Bay Retirement Living is hosting an educational workshop conducted by Scott Grande of Veterans Financial, about this VA benefit at 3 p.m. The event will take place at Greenwich Bay, 945 Main St. It is free and open to the public.

Affordable Housing Commission meeting: The panel meets at Town Hall at 3 p.m.

Cove Commission meeting: The panel meets at Town Hall at 4:30 p.m. On the agenda is a discussion with Greenwich Cove Marina’s owner and a review of his property survey and CRMC’s Adopt an Access Program. You’ll find the agenda here.

Planning Board meeting: On the agenda is review of a master plan application for “Frenchtown Place,” a 10-lot residential cluster subdivision on Frenchtown Road. At 7 p.m. in Council Chambers at Town Hall.

ONEsdays with The Lost Arts: Local band The Lost Arts is playing Wednesday nights at the Greenwich Hotel, playing great music and bringing awareness to the One Campaign to eliminate extreme poverty and preventable disease. The music starts around 8:30 p.m. You can find out more by checking out the ONEsday with The Lost Arts Facebook page here.

On Thursday …

Avenger Playoff Action: Girls Soccer meets Bay View in the semi-finals at 7 p.m. at Carcieri Field. For all the EGHS Avenger action, check out the Booster Club’s website here. By the way, you can “like” the Booster Club’s Facebook page here. And if you are on Twitter, you can follow the Avengers Booster Club (@goavengers1) here.

Twenty40 networking event: Twenty40 is a young professionals multi-Chamber of Commerce networking that will meet at Phil’s Main Street Grill in Wickford.  Multi-Chamber networking event sponsored by the N.K., E.G. & S.R.I. chambers. $5 per person. RSVP to the NK Chamber 295-5566 or info@northkingstown.com

On Friday …

Operation Smile fundraiser at Ruby Tuesday: Come support the EGHS chapter of Operation Smile at Ruby Tuesday (in the Dave's Plaza) on Friday. 20 percent of the restaurant's proceeds will be donated to Operation Smile which provides reconstructive surgery for children with facial deformities, like cleft palates. Make sure to print out the form using the link here and present it to your server when you make your purchase.