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City to smokers: Don’t park your butts (C.F. OKs similar outdoor ban)

May 18, 2013

By
Russ Olivo

WOONSOCKET – The city could become the fourth community in the state to ban smoking in public parks and recreation areas under an ordinance up for consideration by the City Council on Monday.
If passed, it would follow Central Falls, Warren and West Warwick in prohibiting smokers from lighting up outdoors.
Cumberland passed a non-binding ordinance to ban smoking in parks in 2009 but it’s not illegal for people to smoke outdoors.

Firefighters, police, students take part in drill

May 18, 2013

By
Donna Kenny Kirwan

PAWTUCKET—Despite the sight of flashing lights, firetrucks, and American Red Cross volunteers at Fogarty Manor on Friday morning, there was no cause for alarm. The city-owned high-rise was the scene of a “mock disaster” drill designed to provide training in evacuation protocol for a multi-unit building of this type.

Budget picture looking less rosy

May 16, 2013

By
Donna Kenny Kirwan

PAWTUCKET — Last month, school administrators expressed optimism about the proposed school budget for fiscal year 2014, citing an anticipated increase in state aid and expected funding from the city. However, due to the city administration's apparent decision to not provide $511,463 as part of “maintenance of effort” and other adjustments requested by the School Committee, the latest draft is looking decidedly less rosy.

Another milestone for Meals on Wheels

May 16, 2013

By
Joseph B. Nadeau

The Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island assistance program for the state’s elderly residents hit another milestone Wednesday — serving its 17 millionth meal to Clara Ramos, 80, of Providence.
The highlight meal, this year served by Gov. Lincoln Chafee, is one of a long list of such events marking the work put in by the organization’s volunteers since the 1970s. That work has not only helped elderly residents maintain their nutritional health but also their independence and ability to remain at home.

'Pay-day' loans debated at Statehouse

May 15, 2013

By
JIM BARON
jbaron@pawtuckettimes.com

PROVIDENCE – Depending on who you listened to at the House Finance Committee hearing Wednesday, payday lenders are either providers of quick and convenient cash loans for regular folks in temporary financial straits or they are “predators,” “vampires,” “monsters” and “leeches” conniving to trap poor people in an inescapable cycle of debt at “usurious” interest rates.

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