September 2020 The Reporter
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City of East Providence News Public Works Department Releases Holiday Rubbish Schedule
East Providence, RI –The East Providence Public Works Department, Recycling/Refuse Division announced that all household rubbish and yard waste regularly collected on Monday, Sept. 7, 2020, will be collected on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020 due to the Labor Day holiday. All collections for the remainder of the week will be delayed by one day. Regular Monday collection will resume on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Residents will need to have ALL trash carts and yard waste bags or barrels curbside by 6 a.m. on the day of collection. For questions or more information, please contact DPW Program Coordinator, Donna McMahon at (401) 435-7701 Fax: (401) 434-1725.
East Providence Fire Dept. Receives American Heart Association Award
The East Providence Fire Dept. has received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold Award for implementing quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who experience severe heart attacks. Each year, more than 250,000 people experience a ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), which is the deadliest type of heart continued on page 15...
What is an Urban Forest?*
--Do you love trees? --Want to learn how trees protect EP from climate change? --Want to learn how trees keep us healthy? --Want to meet like-minded neighbors to sustain and enhance EP’s trees for future generations? Please join EP Urban Forest, Wednesday, September 16 at 5:30pm for our first physically-distant Tree Talk on the Weaver Library Lawn, 41 Grove Avenue, East Providence, RI. Molly Henry, the Climate and Health Fellow at American Forests; Lou Allard, the Urban and Community Forestry Program Coordinator at the RI Department of Environmental Management; Rachel Calabro, Climate Change Program Manager at the RI Department of Health, and Cassie Tharinger, Director of the Providence Neighborhood Planting Program, will explain how trees protect us from climate change and keep us healthy. Let’s talk about how we can protect our Urban Forest together. Please bring your own chair and wear a mask. Contact: Ryan McCauley, rmccauley@eplib.org, 401-228-3903 For more information, email epurbanforest@gmail.com *Answer: An urban forest is all the trees, vegetation and ecosystems in a city.
Always Open to the Public
Live Music continues thru September, Thursday thru Saturday
East Providence Historical Society News “2nd Sunday” Fall Open Houses Sept. 13, Oct. 11, Nov. 6, Dec. 13 1:00 - 3:30 pm John Hunt Museum - 65 Hunts Mills Road - 02916 “ Hikes At Hunt’s”- 1:30 at the Gazebo
We welcome you to Hunt’s Mills, our 30th year on this site. Our summer visitors easily followed the Social Distancing protocol and it is working very well. Our new exhibit is outdoors behind the museum: EP’s first community garden with a 3 Sisters’ Garden to be planted in the spring with the help of the Sowams Heritage Area group. We also have an interesting collection of artifacts unearthed in the trenching. If you’ve been wanting to raise veggies/flowers but have no room to do so, watch our Facebook page and site for an announcement about how to rent a space. As always, we offer free seeds and masks. Come get seed pods for giving to your friends this holiday. Are you into recycling? Come find the giant chair made of pallet wood. Please visit ephist.org for further information
Limited 2021 Golf Season Passes Now Available No Food Minimums, No Assessments Pay Now, Free Greens Fees for Remainder of 2020
82 Hillside Ave, Rehoboth ~ 508-252-9761
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