5 Things To Know Today: Nov. 7

Icky: Marian J. Mohr Memorial Library hosts Science Club for kids in grades 2 through 5 tonight at 6:30 p.m. Learn how to make slime — ewwww! — and explore how polymers are created.

Helpful: The Johnston Early Childhood Centers at Ferri Middle School and the Graniteville School are collecting food donations in their effort to fill 20 baskets in time for Thanksgiving. Alan Shawn Feinstein will pitch in $1 for every item collected. Help our kids — and help our neighbors.

Generous: How else would you describe folks who take an hour out of their day to give blood? Join the team and head over to East Smithfield Library for today's scheduled Bloodmobile stop from 3 to 7 p.m.

Closed: We typically mention them a lot on JohnstonPatch, so it's only fair that we tell you Providence Children's Museum is closed today.

Good On Massachusetts: On this date in 1972, incumbent President Richard M. Nixon soundly defeated Democrat George McGovern. Only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia went blue that year — and Nixon's term would end in August, 1974, following the Watergate scandal.