1. Middletown Police Chief Anthony Pesare will present his book "They Always Win" at 5 p.m. in the Newport Athletic Club cafe. The event is free and open to the public.

2. The Aquidneck Land Trust and the East Bay Met School will hold a clean-up at Miantonomi Memorial Park and Sunset Hill from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Volunteers are welcome. Contact Sophia DeMaio at 401-849-2799 x 14 or SDeMaio@ailt.org, or Taylor Rock at taylor.rock@metmail.org and 401-846-5806 for more information.

3. Today in high school sports: the Middletown varsity boys' tennis team takes on West Warwick High; the varsity boys' basketball team competes against Tiverton; and the varsity fastpitch softball team plays Prout School.

4. Brown University professor Elliot J. Gorn, will present a lecture, “American Icons: The Power of Enduring Texts and Images in U.S. Society,” at 6:30 p.m. in Bazarsky Lecture Hall at Salve Regina University.

5. A 50 percent chance of showers today, and highs in the mid-50s, according to the National Weather Service.