Archive for October, 2009
Friday, October 30th, 2009
The weather looks like it will cooperate tomorrow which is fantastic. Folks, if you can only make an hour tomorrow, that is okay! Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Here is the plan… 9-11 am – Clean & weed Smith St. tree wells. Meet at Little Chopsticks on Smith at 8:50am for instructions. See Heidi [...]
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Here are some pictures from the final Farmers Market of 2009, held on Sunday, October 25.
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
There has been a lot happening! Beginning with the Davis Park ‘revitalization’ project, Bob McMahon, Superintendent of Parks, provided us with some very good news last week. Bob has secured funding for the new walking track, removal of the existing minor league field and installation of a new field, new lighting at the existing little league field and a new [...]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Due to the rainy forecast, we are postponing our clean up and fence painting for tomorrow and have rescheduled for next Saturday, 10/31. Tentative time is 11:00am-1:00pm. More info to follow. The trees from the PNPP will still be planted tomorrow unless there are high winds. Volunteers are to meet at 315 River Ave. at 10:00 am and [...]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Better news about Sunday! Our last farmers’ market of the season will be held on Sunday 10/25 at Davis Park from 10am-1pm. At the same time will be a Fall Community Fair sponsored by Neighborhood Day, with several local organizations on hand to answer questions and provide information on their services. We have a few fun activities [...]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Unfortunately the forecast is calling for rain on Saturday! We will make a decision on Friday by 6pm as to whether we will have to call off our Neighborhood Improvement Day projects. Hopefully we won’t have to. Please check here tomorrow for status. Thank you.
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
Our next meeting is Tuesday, October 20 at 7pm at PC’s Feinstein Center, Room 405, 4th Floor. Hope to see you there! Agenda -Introduction New Members -Update from Bob McMahon, Parks Department – Davis Park, Fargnoli Park -Update from Lt. Daniel Gannon, Providence Police Department – PC area, general information – Discuss plans for Saturday, [...]
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Due to the very high chance of rain, the farmers market scheduled for tomorrow has been canceled. We hope to see you all next weekend.
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
We are moving forward with our plans for Neighborhood Improvement Day on 10/24 with the help of some great PC student volunteers. Johnson & Wales has expressed interest in working with us, if not on the 24th, sometime in the near future which is terrific. One of our projects on the 24th is to clean [...]
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
If you haven’t noticed it yet, we have added an EC&G event calendar to the right sidebar of the page. We’ll be updating this as we schedule events. A quick reminder that on Saturday, October 24th, we will be working in conjunction with PC’s Student Environmental Action Coalition on our first Neighborhood Improvement Day. There [...]
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