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Dear Roz,

Your article is spot-on!

I read it twice and I think it should be required reading for everyone before they venture out on Narragansett Bay and especially if they make it into the Atlantic. Your focus on "beacons" is an important reminder for all. There is one that has bothered me since I was a kid (and that was a long time ago). It's called "The Spindle", a rock between Patience Island, the Green River and the Warwick Neck Lighthouse. I have spoken to a man named Chuck from the Coast Guard and several people from "Safe Sea". They all have confirmed the deadly danger this rock represents. Roz, when I am Mayor this rock will have to go. At low tide it sticks out of the water and is barely visible but at high tide it is dangerously just under the water. The cost of pile driving it into smaller pieces that would become home to the many kinds of fish that breed in that area, is very inexpensive and might even be donated costing the taxpayer NOTHING. (lots of us fisherman hate that rock!). Also, Chuck says he has the materials to re-assemble the spindle that marked it originally and that it would "only cost a few hundred dollars". So we have 2 ways to make this danger go away. Naturally the DEM and CRMC has to be involved, but one way or the other Roz, that damn rock and the inherent danger it represents is going to be history. I will invite you to the celebration party. We can call it "Roz's Rock Removal".

Enjoy the rest of your Summer.

Richard Corrente

Endorsed Democrat for Mayor