Senior Center continues tradition at Mayor's Picnic

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Johnston Mayor Joseph Polisena put on several interesting hats last Friday.

The town’s always-active leader served as greeter, host and speaker at what Johnston Senior Center Executive Director Tony Zompa said “is one of our most important events of the year.”

In short, Polisena welcomed dozens of the town’s senior citizens to the award-winning facility at 1291 Hartford Ave. for what Zompa said “has become a terrific tradition known as the Mayor’s Picnic.”

“This is always a great event,” Zompa said while watching Polisena walk from table-to-table inside the center’s multi-purpose room, where he greeted and shook hands with each and every attendee.

Polisena was also accompanied by two special guests Lauren Garzone and Guillaume de Ramel. Garzone, who is the first woman to chair the town’s Planning Board, is running for School Committee, while de Ramel is running for Secretary of State.

Polisena, meanwhile, told an attentive audience about “the great economic building programs that are going on in town.”

“Look around you. We’ve got all kinds of construction going on,” he said. “It’s a welcome sight and sign that Johnston is on the move while looking into the future.”

The event also had an interesting menu for each person who attended.

By way of the center’s valuable volunteer serving staff, seniors – and even some guests – enjoyed fresh lemonade, a Rhode Island-grown tomato and cucumber salad, hot dogs on a roll with condiments as well as a pub burger on a roll, baked beans and a delicious dessert of chilled and cut watermelon.

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  • jtaxassoc

    The reality that should concern all patriotic Johnstonians is the fact that wheels have been put in motion via endless outrageous provisions in the contracts that propels ever increasing taxation that out-passes inflation. In the last election when I ran for mayor in which there was an attempted blackmail scheme to get me to drop out I was told by the Director of Johnston DPW, " The mayor wants you out" and "The mayor is the kind of guy who would think nothing of sticking his hands in your stomach and ripping out your guts". The State Police have the recordings of that conversation but refuse to release them; Rhode Island politics at its worse. I can only imagine the backroom deals regarding every aspect of our local government via the Democratic Party, Peter A. Filippi III

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