Sun Rise Scoops

Easter Bunny coming to town

The Johnston Parks and Recreation Department invite members of the community to have breakfast with the Easter Bunny on March 26 at the Johnston Senior Center from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Take photos with the Easter Bunny, and each child will receive a gift. There will be food and refreshments available. Parents are urged to bring a camera.

Corned Beef & Cabbage

at Trinity Episcopal Church

Trinity Episcopal Church, located at 51 Danielson Pike in North Scituate, will hold a Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner on March 19 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The cost is $12 for adults, $8 for children six to 12, and no charge for children under age five. The menu consists of corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, Irish soda bread, dessert, and beverages. There is an optional child’s plate of macaroni and cheese and chicken tenders. Tickets are available at the door.

Early T-ball registration

The Johnston Parks and Recreation Department has announced an early registration and savings for T-ball for boys and girls ages six and six (as of May, 2016). The savings cost is $50 per individual and $30 each additional sibling. The price will go up on March 28. T-ball will begin on May 7 and end on June 18. Also, sponsors and volunteer coaches are needed. Call 401-272-3460 for more details on registration or becoming a volunteer or a sponsor.

Lenten Retreat

St. Brigid’s Church of Johnston and Holy Cross Church of Providence are teaming up for a Lenten Retreat to be preached by Father Joseph Paquette, a senior priest of the diocese. The retreat will be held at St. Brigid’s, located at 1231 Plainfield St. in Johnston, at 6:30 p.m. on March 13-15. Mass will be celebrated on Monday and Wednesday nights, and there will be the opportunity to celebrate the Sacrament of Penance on Tuesday with three priests to hear confessions.  All are welcome to take part in a special time of reflection.

‘Woven in Time’ at the Mohr

“Woven in Time: The Narragansett Salt Pond Preserve,” the latest work by Rhode Island filmmaker, radio host, and storyteller Marc Levitt, will be shown at the Marian J. Mohr Memorial Library, 1 Memorial Ave., on March 17 at 6:30 p.m.

“Woven in Time” is a 57-minute documentary film about a small piece of seemingly ordinary land located on the southern coast of Rhode Island. In the 1980s, archaeologists, working for a local developer, unearthed the remains of New England’s only undisturbed Pre-Contact Period (1100-1400 AD) Native American coastal village. Used for dirt biking and adjacent to a suburban housing development and shopping center, this land, on a pond where the Narragansett Tribe located their origin story, became the center of an almost 30-year battle between the rights of property ownership and the social and cultural importance of preserving one of the most important archaeological sites on the East Coast of the United States.

“Woven in Time” is the story of this site and of the stories that emerged from it; how the remains of a centuries old village managed to survive “untouched” in a highly-built section of the Rhode Island coast; the unlikely alliance between the state of Rhode Island and the Narragansett Tribe (whose relationship has been difficult at best) to save the site from development; the archaeologists, whose tenacity and expertise revealed startling evidence of a large number of dwellings, storage pits and implements of daily life; and lastly, the parallels between the resiliency of the site and the resiliency of the Narragansett people who have and continue to successfully fight 400 years of colonialism.

Gentian Garden Club to meet

The Gentian Garden Club’s next meeting will be held on March 15. This month’s program features renowned horticulturist and professional landscape designer Louis Raymond, speaking on “Gardens Before and After.” The meeting will be at the North Scituate Community House, 546 West Greenville Road, starting at 7 p.m. Refreshments to follow. Visitors are always welcome. For more information, contact Linda Proulx at 401-647-3730 or email bogcrawler@msn.com.

Bringing the world to RI

Cranston resident Everett McCurdy is bringing the world to Rhode Island, one international teenager at a time. McCurdy is an area representative of the ASSE International Student Exchange Program, whose primary goal is to contribute to international understanding by enabling foreign students to learn through active participation in family, school, and community life.

McCurdy will be interviewing families in the area to host exceptional high school students from Europe, Asia, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Middle East, and Scandinavia. Again this year, the ASSE Program is proud to also include students from the republics of the former Soviet Union on its roster. These students stay with volunteer host families for one academic school year and arrive with insurance and their own spending money.

For more information, contact Everett McCurdy at 401-481-2533 or visit host.asse.com.

Friends of the Mohr Public Library

Members of the Friends plan and run book sales and carry out other fundraising activities to allow Mohr Library to increase services and programs. The Friends welcome new members who are willing to support through donations, membership dues, or volunteering their time. To find out more, contact the group, or call the library director at 401-231-4980 (press 7).

There is an ongoing book sale in the lower level hall across from the meeting room. The Friends also hold larger sales two or three times a year. Great selections at great prices include hard cover and paperback books, fiction and non-fiction, for adults, children, and young adults. Most prices range from 25 cents to $2. The Friends are a non-profit organization, with proceeds from fundraising supporting library programs and services.

Donations of gently used books are appreciated, and can be left at the library’s main desk during library hours. Receipts for tax purposes are available.

Run the Reservoir to

support food closet

Join Trinity Episcopal Church on Saturday, April 2, for the ninth annual Run the Reservoir 15K (and 5K) in North Scituate. The start (9 a.m.) and finish, as well as the post-race festivities, take place from the North Scituate Elementary School. Funds from this event will benefit the Trinity Church Food Closet Mission. Currently, 60 households from Scituate, Foster, and Glocester use this service every month. The 15K follows a scenic course along the upper holding reservoir, then out and back along Battey Meeting House Trail. This trail is moderately up and down with many views of the reservoir along the way. The 5K follows a scenic loop on quiet Spring Brook Road along the upper holding reservoir and the same flat and fast finish as the 15K. The post-race celebration at the elementary school features unique awards to the top three of all age groups in the 15K and the top runner in each 5K age group, men, and women. The post party will also include a fabulous offering of home cooked food for your refreshment, and a free raffle for runners. Preregistration and detailed information can be found online at trinitynorthscituate.weebly.com.

Ocean State Toastmasters

The Ocean State Toastmasters will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, March 15 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Warwick City Hall, 3275 Post Road. This will be an open house with refreshments and opportunities for all guests to participate.

Regular meetings are held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. The club is one of some 13,500 in Toastmasters International, a nonprofit, educational organization devoted to the development of public speaking and leadership skills. The organization has approximately 280,000 members in 116 countries. For more information, contact Gail Clarke, vice president of membership, at 401-884-2065 or ghclarke@verizon.net.

Did You Know?

Daylight saving time will come a little later than usual this spring. We’ll move our clocks forward one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 13. Because daylight saving time kicks in the second Sunday of March, this year is just about as late as it can start. It won’t start this late again until 2021, when we will spring forward on March 14.

Daylight saving time means we lose an hour of daylight in the morning but gain it back in the evening. In Syracuse, the sun will set Saturday, March 12, at 6:08 p.m. On Sunday, sunset will be 7:09 p.m. (Source: Daylight Savings Fun Facts)

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