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Statewide Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours

In response to growing concerns regarding COVID-19 coronavirus, and in order to safeguard our businesses, their employees and guests, the Statewide Business After Hours is being moved to Tuesday, May 19, at Rhodes on the Pawtuxet from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

If you have already purchased a ticket or display table for this event through our chamber, our office will be in contact with you soon to make sure that you are able to attend the new date.

Chamber members and non-members are invited to attend. Don’t miss this once a year opportunity to network with hundreds of business professionals from throughout the state.

The event will feature more than 120 display tables and attendees can enjoy food provided by Russell Morin Fine Catering while making business connections that will last. Display tables are available for Chamber members only.

For more information, contact your local Chamber of Commerce.

Breakfast with the Easter Bunny

Hosted by the Johnston Parks and Recreation Department and sponsored by Citizens Bank, the annual Breakfast with the Easter Bunny will be held on April 11 at the Johnston Senior Center, located at 1291 Hartford Ave., Johnston.

Come meet the Easter Bunny! Pastry and enjoy refreshments will be available. Each child will receive a gift. Please bring a camera. This is a free event.

Warwick Vets holding 60th reunion

Warwick Veterans Memorial High School’s class of 1960 has scheduled its 60th reunion for Sept. 12 at the Shriner’s Imperial Room, 1 Rhodes Place, Cranston. A social hour will be held from 12-1 p.m. and a lunch buffet will run from 1-4 p.m. The cost is $35 per person.

Please respond to Kathy Bouthillier, 94 Colonel John Gardner Road, Narragansett, RI 02882. Payment must be received by July 22. Tickets will not be available for purchase at the door.

For questions, call Sally (Anderson) Allen at 783-0205. The committee is seeking help locating classmates.

Youth Art Contest at zoo

Roger William Park Zoo’s third annual Youth Art Contest on Endangered Species is underway. The zoo is currently closed; however, the contest continues.

In celebration of Endangered Species Day on May 15, the zoo is accepting art entries from local K-12 students and homeschoolers in the New England area depicting threatened/endangered species. Endangered Species Day is an opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of protecting endangered species and their habitats, and what can be done to help protect them.

All entries are to be submitted electronically. Students’ artwork must be original. Computer-generated and traced images will not be judged.

All artwork must depict threatened/endangered species. Each art entry must also include a short explanation as to why saving the chosen species/subject from extinction is important.

Entries must be received by April 19. Late entries will not be judged.

All artwork becomes the property of Roger Williams Park Zoo. Submission of the artwork grants the zoo a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish a student’s/child’s artwork in its editorial, educational, and promotional print and digital materials, and on social media. All published artwork will be credited “Artist’s Name.”

For additional information, visit rwpzoo.org.

50th reunion for Cranston East

Cranston High School East’s class of 1970 will hold its 50th reunion on Aug. 8 at the Cranston Country Club. Cocktail hour starts at 6 p.m. followed by a buffet dinner and music by Tommy Tunes. The Reunion Committee is seeking help in locating classmates. Please send information to Jim Brailsford at jimbo521@cox.net or Barbara Russo at twinn52@yahoo.com. Call for poetry

Cranston-based nonprofit Notable Works has announced a call for poetry submissions for consideration in its next publication. The theme is “Voices of the Earth: People Helping People/Resilience.”

Poetry submissions may be emailed to noreeninglesi@cox.net or mailed to Notable Works Publication and Distribution Co. Inc., PO Box 8122, Cranston, RI 02920. Those whose work is selected for publication will receive a complimentary copy of the book upon its release.

The deadline for submissions is May 1. For more information, visit notableworks.org.

 

Help make a house a home

The Furniture Bank of RI, a nonprofit corporation, needs bureaus, complete twin or double beds, kitchen sets, mattresses and other household furniture that you no longer need. To help a less fortunate family through your charitable donation of good used furniture, call 831-5511 to arrange for pick up. All donated articles must be in good condition.

Book sales

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 either through donations, membership dues, or through volunteering their time. To find out more, contact them, or call the library director at 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 to $2. The Friends are a nonprofit 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.

Did you know?

A message to help the homeless:

With a deep understanding of the urgency to follow national and state guidelines for “social distancing” due to COVID-19, the MAE Organization for the Homeless and Rhode Island Dream Center have come up with a program to help feed the homeless.

The organizations’ desire to continue serving hot meals to the less fortunate who come in large groups every week became increasingly difficult to continue due to the recent mandates.

“Disheartened to have to make the difficult decision to discontinue serves as we had been doing, until further notice, and the restaurant industry being asked to close,” said Martinha Javid of MAE Organization. She realized, however, that maybe this was an opportunity to create a community chain of everyone helping each other.

The first to help was Edward Brady of the Thirsty Beaver in Cranston.

“As a community we can continue to create positive change together,” Javid said. “MAE Organization for the Homeless and the RI Dream Center are committed to feeding those in need while also providing assistance to the service industry. We are challenging the public to pledge $20 as our 2020 Rhody Foody service pledge”

For every 10 people that pledge $20 or whenever they receive $200, they will ask a new restaurant that is still open for take out to make food for the homeless, seniors or those in need out of work. Their organization will pick up and deliver the food.

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