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17 | Vincent “Buddy” cianci 1941-2016Remembering his life and legacy

22 | the State of educationA look inside Providence’s School Board shuffle

This Month

On the Cover: Remembering Buddy Cianci.Photography by Jonathan Beller

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Residents and merchants are at odds over Thayer’s interim parking lot7 | News 11 | In the Know 13 | Neighborhood News

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Learning to let go when your kids get behind the wheel26 | Education 29 | East of Elmgrove

Close to Home

Milk Money serves up a delicious, shareable menu33 | Flavor of the Month 35 | On The Menu 37 | Rhody Bites 41 | Calendar

On the Town

50 | The Providence Village and the importance of community

The East Sider

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Reflecting on the loss of Providence’s longest-serving mayor

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The last few weeks have provided an ominous up close glimpse into the growing polarity developing in our country on all sorts of issues which, if unchecked, has the poten-tial to undermine the basic fabric of our society. It’s obvious in the spec-tacle that is the presidential primary process, especially this year on the Republican side. There has always been a certain “us versus them” mentality in politics, something that has always been ingrained in the system to be sure. The problem is that it seems to be accelerating, getting nastier and, because of our ludicrous campaign funding policies and increasing technological in-terconnectedness, becoming more broad-based and pervasive. The

passing of Buddy Cianci is still an-other example of just how intensely personal and divisive even local pol-itics can become.

In terms of the political process, one answer might be to wean our-selves off of a system that allows the rabid partisans on both sides to con-trol the primary elections by either making it easier for all registered voters to participate in the primaries or reduce the influence the party ac-tivists on both sides have in deter-mining the outcome. On a local level this is a little more difficult since, as Tip O’Neil so profoundly pointed out years ago, all politics are local. The answer may be to use a little com-mon sense as we try to nudge our political system back into the center.

Ironically a popular TV show might have one possible solution on how to address the issue. In the show Madam Secretary, the protag-onist is a female secretary of state who must deal with international crises while still dealing with her husband and an increasingly inde-pendent college age daughter. After one of their frequent internal strug-gles, the daughter suddenly stops her tirade and turns to her mother: “I think the answer might be I need to stop defining you by your worst moments.”

As we reflect on the passing of Buddy and on a political system that threatens to break down before our very eyes, perhaps this can be our mantra going forward.

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To the Editor:Academic PartnershipsI was particularly interested in Jill Davidson’s musings about the evolution of East Side public edu-cation [“Shaping Young Minds,” January 2016]. As part of this look back, Jill wrote that commu-nity involvement is not as robust at Hope High School as at some elementary schools. I would like to make your readers aware that through Brown University’s How-ard Swearer Center for Public Ser-vice, 70 Brown undergraduate stu-dents are engaged each week at Hope, providing daily after-school tutoring as well as support in math and science classrooms. Brown students teach SAT Preparation twice weekly at the school, sup-port the Future Forward college ac-cess program, and provide tutoring in the afterschool credit recovery room. The Swearer Center also man-ages a full-time College Advising Corps Advisor at Hope who works with the guidance office to provide

college access and guidance. Betsy Shimberg Director of Community PartnershipsSwearer Center at Brown University

Read Too LateHow timely an article [“Park-ing Woes on Wayland,” Febru-ary 2016]. My office is one block from the heart of Wayland Square and to say the meters were put in discreetly is an understatement. When did the meters get installed? I was unaware of the change and much to my surprise, after parking and spending two minutes in Bank of America, I came out to find a $25 ticket on my windshield. Not only was I unaware of the new pol-icy but where was the meter man (maid?) lurking? Possibly in Star-bucks across the street? I walked around the area to find the per-son who gave me the ticket but was unsuccessful. Perhaps a five-minute grace period for those of us doing quick errands would be helpful. Unfortunately, I read your

article today one day too late. Dr. Denise Shapiro

Missing A-ZIt’s wonderful to be reading your 40th anniversary issue. The “Used to Be” column is great but… you left out some of my old favorites. Here are 14 more for your enjoyment:

Acme Video on Brook Street, Any-art Gallery on Steeple Street, Blue-point Restaurant on North Main, Carrs on Angell Street, City Wings Books on Wickenden Street, The Front Porch on Waterman Street, Gallery One on John Street, Neath’s on South Main Street, No Exit on Thayer Street, Oaks on the Hill Art Store on Thom-as Street, Papillion on the corner of Thayer and Angell Streets, Petite Four – the French Bakery on Hope Street with its amazing croissants, Seward’s Folly Book Store on the cor-ner of Transit and Brook Street, Van Gogh’s Ear Café on Thayer Street.

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CommunityEast Side Stories | neighborhood news & notes

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In January the City Plan Com-mission (CPC) unanimously approved the most recent amendment to Brown University’s Institutional Master Plan, which consisted of improvements to Brown’s baseball and softball fields, as well as the demolition of seven multi-family homes for an interim public use parking lot. Brown purchased these seven buildings from a single owner in 2014 and within approximately nine months was hit with citations from the City. These citations ran the gamut from repairing downspouts and re-painting to more intensive repairs like foundations and roof work. In all, Brown says that it would cost around $200,000 to address these repairs, but to renovate the buildings “based on benchmarks used to renovate simi-lar properties,” would be significantly more of an investment and ultimately prove to be a financial loss. Based on meetings with community groups and the Thayer Street Planning Study’s rec-ommendation for more parking in the area, Brown determined that an inter-im 70-plus space parking lot would be in everyone’s best interest while they develop a permanent use for the land.

Generally speaking, the CPC seemed concerned about the prospect of trading housing for a parking lot. Steve Maiorisi, Vice President for Facilities Manage-ment at Brown, agreed and pointed to several instances where Brown had re-moved surface parking in recent years. Student housing or an academic facility would, according to Maiorisi, be “consis-tent with our strategic plan,” though he says that what exactly would replace the lot will still take time to develop.

Thayer Street District Management Authority (TSDMA), Thayer Street Merchants Association, College Hill Neighborhood Association (CHNA) and Wheeler School all offered letters of support for the plan. Several Thayer Street business and property owners and TSDMA board members were on hand to vocalize their support as they feel that more parking is essential for businesses on Thayer.

“We can look at it as a short term experiment,” says Donna Personeus of TSDMA. “After the interim period we can evaluate the outcomes and say ‘Does this work? Does Thayer need a parking lot?’”

CHNA President Josh Eisen agrees. “Thayer Street merchants hope this will give them a lifeline to help them survive and thrive over the next three to five years,” he says. The CHNA, like several of the other groups involved, aren’t typ-ically in favor of replacing homes with parking lots, but feel that it “represents an attempt by Brown to enable the land to give some value to the community during the interim period.”

Opposing the plan were East Side residents and the Providence Preser-vation Society (PPS). Counterpoints were made – several suggested using the land for green space – and legiti-mate concerns were brought up – push-ing students out into the surrounding neighborhoods and increasing rents, the fact that downtown has several tempo-rary parking lots that have proven to be anything but and the unraveling of lines between the neighborhood and the College Hill National Landmark Historic

District. Like the CPC, they don’t under-stand the trade off of housing for park-ing, especially when there’s no concrete plan on the table from Brown.

“We hold Brown to a higher stan-dard,” said PPS Executive Director Brent Runyon. “While we do not approve of the demolition of these buildings for a parking lot, if we saw something that would be better we would be in favor of it,” he said, citing Brown’s removal of four houses on Brook Street for what PPS considers to be an “attractive” new engineering building.

Though Brown did receive the bulk of the criticism, Runyon points out that residents, PPS and the City share some of the blame in allowing the seven buildings to fall to their current state. Prior to their sale to Brown, the previ-ous owner had been planning to level the buildings and put up a hotel, a plan that obviously never came to fruition. According to testimony at the CPC meeting, no citations were issued until after Brown had purchased the homes.

“There was no argument by residents or by PPS when that block was rezoned to commercial with an institutional over-lay. In fact, the Thayer Street Planning

Study calls for that to happen,” explains Runyon. “What it did not call for is the ability for any institution to build a park-ing lot, which is what caused such con-cern by the CPC and Department of Public Development.”

In the end the CPC approved the amendment with the caveat that Brown only receive a temporary two-year spe-cial use permit from the Zoning Board, which would coincide with the next scheduled review of the Institutional Master Plan. After that time they will need to reappear before the CPC with a definitive plan for the space.

“We will work to request that parking be incorporated into the design of the new development on that lot after the interim period, or else to arrive at an-other solution at that time,” says Eisen.

“The only concern would not be with Brown’s intent, but unforeseen factors, such as lack of funding for a new building on the site,” says Runyon. “Also, it is clear that Thayer Street mer-chants want more parking. I cannot say whether their concern is legitimate, but some people may be concerned that pressure from them would outweigh the City’s own land use planning.”

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The East Side community was disappointed to learn that mail servic-es would be ending at Eastside Mar-ketplace. Scott Laurans, former owner of Eastside Marketplace, sold ESM Inc. to Ahold USA, the Dutch Parent Company of Stop & Shop, in July of 2014. When the community received word of the new ownership, they were told that nothing would change about their much-loved market, known for its fresh produce, Good News Café and full postal services. In an article

published by WPRI in July of 2014, Laurans said, “It’s going to remain Eastside Marketplace as it is currently in all respects, including personnel, in-cluding myself – I’m going to remain an adviser to the company.”

Nevertheless, as of January 22, Councilman Seth Yurdin informed us, “There’s been a notice that mail servic-es will no longer be offered at Eastside Marketplace,” effective following the first week of February. Unfortunately, “the Providence Post Master has been

unable to come to an agreement with Eastside Marketplace.” This news has incited an adverse reaction from resi-dents, as Councilman Yurdin disclosed receiving negative feedback from the community. The primary complaint is the inconvenience this closing of the post office will cause, especially for the elderly, those who have mobility issues and people who utilize public trans-portation, as Eastside Marketplace is on the bus route. At the time of press, Eastside Marketplace has yet to

comment on the decision to cease of-fering postal services.

The Providence Journal quoted Scott Laurans in July of 2014, referring to the deal made when Eastside Mar-ketplace was sold, “We’ve been proud of it. It’s a testament to the employ-ees that Ahold will not take away the name or change management.” This may remain true, but other changes are being made at Eastside Market-place, and some customers aren’t sat-isfied.

Eastside Marketplace toNo Longer Offer Mail ServiceResidents are disappointed to lose postal services at the venerable supermarket

By Samantha Westmoreland

Bill Reynolds has always found incredible stories and poignant poet-ry on local basketball courts. Throughout his career, the Providence Journal sportswriter has chronicled hoop dreams and courtside action from the iconic parquet floor of the Boston Garden (Rise of a Dynasty: The ’57 Celtics, the First Banner, and the Dawning of a New America) to the high school gymnasiums of Fall River (Fall River Dreams) to the old school stomping grounds of the Big East Conference (Big Hoops). To say he wrote the book on local b-ball sounds clichéd, but it’s literally true: in 2007 he published Our Game: The Story of New England Basketball, tracing the sport’s history from its creation in Springfield, MA in 1891 all the way through UConn’s twin men’s and women’s NCAA cham-pionships in 2004.

His latest book hits a little closer to home. Hope: A School, a Team, a Dream follows Hope High School’s Blue Wave through both the on- and off-court action of its 2012 season. Reynolds delves into the daily lives of Coach Dave Nyblom and his team, many of whom are either Liberian immigrants or the children of them, and are still grappling with the scars of the country’s civil war.

It’s a story that takes place at our city’s frayed edges – as Reynolds notes, “The Providence of sirens and gunshots in the night, of kids who live in fear, of gritty streets where there are too many drugs, too many gangs, too many guns and too little hope that it’s going to change anytime soon.” The aging school itself becomes as much a character as the players and coaches, a shadow of its former glory languishing mere blocks from some of our city’s most elite educational institutions. In one basketball season, Reynolds finds a glimpse into a side of our city few of us see or choose to acknowledge on a daily basis, and into the lives of those who struggle and persevere there. www.BillReynoldsBooks.com

Hope and HoopsA new book documents one season in the life of a local basketball team

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The late neurologist, author and moonlighting mystic, Oliver Sacks, once perfectly captured the relevance of understanding the paradoxes of the human brain: “In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examin-ing the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.” The intersection of modern brain research, Western psychiatry and even sociology inher-ently marries the clinical with the id-iosyncratic human experience, boldly delving into the brain as “the final frontier” so that we can live our best lives possible. In kind, a Providence-based national advocacy organiza-tion for mental illness, Cure Alliance for Mental Illness, in tandem with the

Brown Institute for Brain Sciences and the Norman Prince Neurosciences In-stitute, will host Rhode Island’s first-ever Brain Week from March 12-20 in order to raise Rhody awareness on the importance of brain research and its critical role in helping people lead healthier and more productive lives.

“We understand a great deal about our bodies and the world around us, but the workings of the brain are still an unsolved riddle,” says Karina Holyo-ak Wood of Rhode Island Brain Week. “Treatments for brain disorders – both neurological and psychiatric – lag far behind many other types of disease, [which] is astonishing, considering the brain disorder burden, in terms of mor-tality and years lived with disability, is

the highest of all health disorders, not to mention the unfortunate relation-ship between mental illness and incar-ceration, homelessness and, more re-cently, gun control,” she explains.

The Ocean State has proven to be a nexus of progressive brain and mental illness research, part and parcel to the development of the Brown Institute for Brain Science, the Norman Prince Insti-tute at RI Hospital and top-tier treat-ment facilities like Bradley and Butler Hospitals. “Exploring the ‘final fron-tier’ of human biology has the poten-tial to fuel the economic engines that will help drive Rhode Island forward in the next decades,” adds Wood. But the desired outcome of Brain Week is trained on engaging and impacting the

community at large, not just the world of academia, and it’s offering fun, ac-cessible family-friendly programming, accordingly.

“The Brain Fair [on March 19] will fea-ture exhibits and hands-on activities that showcase everything from neurons and brains, to explorations into the hu-man psyche,” says Wood. “Children and young people will have the opportunity to interact with junior and senior re-searchers and ask them about their ca-reer paths and choices. We want them to leave with a sense of curiosity about the brain so that they might become in-spired to become part of Rhode Island’s next generation of neuroscientists.” Rhode Island Brain Week. March 12-20. www.BrainWeekRI.org

For the umpteenth year in a row the 240 young men and women of the Fox Point East Side Little League (FPESLL) will meet up twice a week and once a weekend to sharpen their skills, demonstrating the sportsman-ship and civility that often lacks in our professional athletes. With the support of sponsors and the myriad volunteer coaches, the FPESLL provides a great environment to experience the game of baseball.

With players aged from 5 to 12, FPESLL will operate within its tradi-tional four divisions; T-ball (ages 5 and 6), Double A (ages 7 and 8), Triple A (ages 9, 10 and 11) and the Majors (12-year-olds, and 10- and 11-year-olds by invitation only).

T-ball is a great introduction to base-ball. Starting with running the bases in order, t-ball introduces the young nov-ice to critical elements of the game. Double A turns it up a notch. The rub-ber tee at home plate is replaced by coaches pitching from the mound. Players also begin learning the strategy

of baseball and start turning double plays and hitting home runs.

Played at McKenna-Frutchey Field, Triple A gives the players their first exposure to observing many estab-lished rules of the game. At the Triple A level, the teams are allowed to win and lose, and there is a playoff and All-Star Game.

But for the kids, the pinnacle of it – all the object of their springs of hard work, the last step in their FPESLL de-velopment – is the call they get one night in mid-March after having attend-ed one of the two mandatory tryouts: the call that they have been drafted and are going to the show, one of the four teams in the Majors. For years, the kids have heard about Arden, MTI, Hot Club and East Side Monthly, wondering which one would claim “their rights” for the season.

The season starts on Monday, April 25. If you want to catch a T-ball or Dou-ble A game, wander behind the Jew-ish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island Community Center at the corner of

Elmgrove and Sessions Avenues. For Triple A or the Majors, bring your pea-nuts and Cracker Jacks to the base-ball complex on Power Street, east of Gano Street. www.fpesll.com. For in-dividual inquiries, contact Jeff Levy, at [email protected]. Although space in the

league is limited by logistical caps on rosters, there still may be openings at the Triple A and Double A levels, and certainly at the T-ball level. The league is open to all kids age 5-12 who resides on the East Side, or – new this year – attend school on the East Side.

This is Your Brain...Brain Week raises awareness for the importance of brain research

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Put Me In, Coachthe Fox Point East Side Little League winds up for another season

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Let the Name Game BeginNow that Brown has voted to offi-cially change the name of October Fall Weekend (formerly known as Columbus Day Weekend) to Indig-enous People Weekend, perhaps it’s time for the school to address other name changes as well. Given that Brown is named after one of the country’s major slave trading families, it’s a subject that might be of interest to its students and fac-ulty. Interestingly, there is a history of Brown considering naming is-sues in the past. Legend has it that at one point the Duke family (which included Doris Duke of Newport fame) came to Brown with a major funding offer if they were willing to change their name, but was rebuffed and went elsewhere, specifically to Durham, North Carolina and in 1924 began their branding effort there. Admittedly a trifle long, “The Uni-versity Formerly Known as Brown” does have a nice ring to it and still fits on a sweatshirt should they vote to go that way.

Washington Trust Ar-rives on the East SideOn February 3 it became official. Washington Trust Bank is now a card-carrying (both debit and cred-it we assume) member of the East Side. Founded in 1800, it is both the largest independent bank in Rhode Island and the oldest. The new branch will occupy the ground floor of 229 Waterman Street on the corner of Waterman and Wayland Streets, which had formerly housed United Way before its sale several years ago. This marks the 21st retail location for the bank which is cur-rently on a strategy to expand its footprint around the state. Welcome to the neighborhood!

Hooping it up Big TimeProvidence’s Dunkin Donuts Center will be part of the national sports scene on March 17 and 19 when it hosts the first and second rounds of the NCAA basketball tourna-ment. March Madness, as it is affec-tionately called, promises to bring a lively and enthusiastic crowd into town with games that will de-termine which teams move on to-wards the Final Four, this year to be played in Houston. While obviously

it’s too early to know which teams will make the tournament this year, not to mention which ones will be in the East flight, the atmosphere promises to be rocking. There’s also an outside chance that Providence College, currently ranked number 11 in the country, could be seeded to play here insuring a real home court advantage for our local heroes. Providence has not hosted a bas-ketball playoff game since 2010. For those of you who like their sports on the edge, the NCAA hockey playoffs are scheduled for the Dunk in 2017. Should be a fun weekend for the city.

Life is Picture Perfect on Hope StreetLeave it to the merchants on Hope Street to hit it out of the park again. Always trying something new, the Hope Street Merchants Associa-tion has created a brand new video marketing the street and touting the joys of living in the Hope Street area. The film itself is smashing, pro-fessionally shot, with cameos from Governor Gina Raimondo and Mayor Jorge Elorza, and a cast of hundreds from the neighborhood.

The film, available to watch on YouTube, is as much an ad for the joys of living in the neighborhood as it is for the businesses. Perhaps films like this should be mandatory for each of our neighborhoods. Ku-dos on still another job well done by the Hope Street merchants.

The Total Mockingbird Experience Trinity Rep will be performing Harp-er Lee’s iconic To Kill a Mockingbird March 3 – April 3, but is also offering two interesting companion events to go with it. The first is part of their Great Writers Monday Night Lecture Series which will be held on March 14 at 7pm and will focus, at least in part, on both Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning classic as well as last year’s surprise sequel Go Set a Watchman. In addition, for three nights only, (March 18, 27 and April 1) Trinity will be pre-senting the rarely produced James Baldwin play Blues for Mister Charlie which was written during the same time period as Mockingbird only told through the perspective of the black community. Should be a timely and in-teresting run for the theatre.


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SummitneighborhoodAssociationBoard Sets Date for Annual MeetingThe SNA board of directors met Janu-ary 18 for the first time in the new year and set April 27 as the date for the annual meeting. The location and pro-gram for the gathering are still unde-cided, but it will feature the election of a new board.

Updates on Community Gardens PlanThe City’s Parks Department says it has grouped the bid for the water sup-ply to the tot lot on Summit Avenue, the proposed site of the community gardens, with several other city project bids to get the best pricing, but “that has proved to be more challenging than we thought,” according to Brian Byrnes, deputy superintendent. They are still working on it.

In other action, Nancy Buron, a re-cent arrival in Summit from a farm in central Massachusetts, has joined the SNA committee and is eager to move the project along. She describes her-self as a Reiki practitioner, as well as an avid gardener of medicinal herbs and plants that support pollinators.

Education Forum Eyes KindergartensThe Education Committee of SNA sponsored a community discussion on November 19 at the Rochambeau Library branch that drew about 15 people to share their concepts of the needs of the neighborhood. Most of the interest centered on sharing ways to evaluate kindergartens in the public and private schools.

Residents Invited to Directors MeetingsThe SNA Board of Directors meets at 7pm on the third Monday of ev-ery month in the cafeteria of Summit Commons, 99 Hillside Avenue. The sessions are open and neighborhood

residents are encouraged to attend. Minutes of all board meetings are posted on the SNA website at www.SNA.Providence.RI.US under “Meet-ings and Agendas.” Summit Neigh-borhood Association, P.O. Box 41092, Providence, RI 02940. 489-7078, www.SNA.Providence.RI.uS, [email protected]. –Kerry Kohring

Blackstone ParksConservancyAnd What Will March Bring?Days after cherry trees bloomed for the second time in seven months at the entrance of Swan Point Cemetery, winter finally arrived in mid-January. Cross-country skiers took advantage of a perfect January 22 six-inch snow-fall to cut trails up and down the Bou-levard Park.

False spring is not kind to trees and plants, which need winter to rest and recuperate in the best of times. Blackstone Parks Conservancy (BPC) volunteers also need a winter break to review the past year’s educational programs and stewardship projects and plan for the coming year. Then they can sail into real spring, which will arrive when? March? April? May?

What To Expect on the Boulevard Whatever happens to the weather, you can expect both continuity and inno-vation in the Blackstone Parks. The trolley shelter concerts will continue in July and August under Gale Aronson’s

leadership, and it is hoped that more gardeners will volunteer to help tend the gardens on the Boulevard.

For something new, the Providence Parks Department is planning to test a permeable pavement in a badly worn section of the Boulevard path at Loring Avenue to see if it is practi-cal for other parts of the path. It has been many years since the path was laid down, and recent upgrades us-ing stone dust have not stood up well to the many thousand pairs of feet that pound up and down its 1.6 miles every year.

Anticipating Winter Moths In the depths of winter, volunteers at the BPC, Parks Department leaders and local experts are wrestling with how best to respond to the double whammy of insect infestation and cli-mate change.

Last June BPC volunteers helped City Forester Doug Still assess the damage wreaked by winter moths on the Bou-levard. He bemoans the damage done last year by this voracious predator, especially along the East Side of Provi-dence, but lacks funds to tackle it. (AG.UMass.edu/Fact-Sheets/Winter-Moth-Identification-Management)

Eventually the parasitic fly Cyzenis albicans from UMass Amherst that was released in Lincoln Woods and Little Compton last year should work its way to the Blackstone Parks, but when? Trees cannot withstand moth attacks indefinitely and stressors like drought accelerate their decline.

The Conservancy uses donor contri-butions to water young trees in dry periods and is prepared to pay for spraying of certain vulnerable ones if the Forester decides it’s safe. Unfor-tunately, most sprays harm bees.

Check the BPC website in March and April to see what action, if any, the City and the Conservancy decide to take against winter moths on the Boule-vard. Cost will be a factor. Any spray-ing would occur in late April or early May as leaves unfold.

How to Prepare for Climate Change Climate change encourages certain plant and insect pests and intense storms. We may not be able to do much about the insects at the mo-ment, but in collaboration with Rhode Island’s environmental agencies and other non-profits the Conservancy is working to build resilience to erosion caused by stormwater through exten-sive trail and habitat restoration in the Blackstone Parks Conservation District and through public education.

Recently back from the Paris con-ference and Bangladesh, Brown cli-mate change expert Timmons Rob-erts will offer some ideas about how to build resilience on March 23 at Lip-pitt House. Check website for details.

Kindly send your Eastside Marketplace receipts to Blackstone Parks Conser-vancy, P.O. Box 603141, Providence, RI 02906. 270-3014, www.Black-stoneParksConservancy.org, [email protected] –Jane Peterson

A front-end loader cleans up the Hope Street mercantile section of the Summit neighborhood after what was forecasted to be an epic blizzard on January 23. Praise was widespread among residents about the City’s clearing of the snow.

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Waterman Street Dog Park Parking Solution Found for Waterman Street Dog ParkOne of the most exciting new devel-opments with the Waterman Street Dog Park is a solution to the park-ing problems. With the support of neighbors at Richmond Square, the Dog Park Association has succeed-ed in moving the parking to the left hand side of Waterman Street. With the new parking arrangement, fami-lies who choose to drive will no lon-ger have to walk their dogs across a street where traffic often moves quite quickly. It will make the park easier to access, prevent disruption of traffic flow and reduce the risk of traffic accidents.

The Dog Park Association would like to thank the City of Providence, especially the Department of Public Works and the Parks Department, for agreeing to move the parking before the park opens at the start of spring. When the park opens, visi-tors who choose to drive will have a safe and convenient place to park and walk their dogs. Waterman Street Dog Park Association, 19 Lu-zon Avenue, Providence, RI 02906. watermanStDogPark@gmai l .org, www.WatermanStDogPark.org -Sam-uel Bell

Wayland SquareNeighborhood Discussion Group at Books on the Square

Monthly MeetingsWednesdays, February 24 and March 23, from 7-8:45pm, Books on the Square, 471 Angell Street at Elmgrove Avenue, next to CVS. Free and open to all.

Due to a conflict with the Summit Neighborhood Association’s annual membership meeting on Wednesday, April 27, our April meeting is tentative-ly set for Monday the 25, the evening before Rhode Island’s presidential pri-mary elections.

(The bookstore will be closed, and our meeting cancelled or postponed, if the City should declare a parking ban that day. Check our Yahoo! Group’s website listed below for any updates.)

Commercial NotesAt the former United Way/FM Insur-ance building on Waterman Street at Wayland, another new business, Tropi-cal Smoothie Café, was being prepared (as I write this in late January) between Massage Envy and Washington Trust’s East Side branch, which was to have a formal Grand Opening on February 3.

The Trust itself has installed a driver-oriented ATM in the adjacent lower-level parking lot between Wa-terman and Seekonk Streets. (This is an unmanned ATM, rather than what I and some other neighbors had ex-pected, a full-service drive-through window like the ones at Santander Bank on Lloyd and Elmgrove and Cit-izens Bank on Waterman and Brook.)

More InformationCheck our Yahoo! Group’s public mes-sage board (below) to stay abreast of current local events and issues. Or join the group to receive regular an-nouncements by e-mail, including se-lect notices of neighborhood meet-ings, civic affairs and cultural events. Groups.Yahoo.com/Group/Wayland-Square -David Kolsky

Fox Pointneighborhood AssociationEvents this MonthFPNA Board Meeting, 7pm Monday, March 14 at the Vartan Gregorian Bath House Community Room, 455 Wickenden Street.

To Meter, or Not to Meter?At FPNA’s December board meet-ing, our guest, Councilman Seth Yur-din, casually mentioned that the City would be installing parking meters on Wickenden Street sometime in 2016. The board sat rather stunned for a few minutes before asking what could be done to avoid this unex-pected parking scheme. Apparently, not much, the board was informed.

“I sent an email to the mayor’s of-fice requesting information about their plans,” Vincent Scorziello, pres-ident of the Wickenden Area Mer-chants Association, WAMA, said. “I

was told that the City Parking Ad-ministrator (Leo Perrotta) felt ‘it was too early to be presenting plans since the meters wouldn’t be installed until the spring.’”

FPNA plans to invite the park-ing administrator to its March board meeting. Scorziello, who also serves on FPNA’s board, said he received the impression that the plan was al-ready in place, and that meeting with our organization would be a formal-ity. “This morning I sent an email to the WAMA list to gauge opinion on meters, and not surprisingly I’ve got-ten lots of ‘No!’

“Besides WAMA’s (admittedly, self-interested) view that meters would keep people away and hurt business, we believe they would push cars onto side streets, as people try to avoid paying for parking,” he con-tinued.

WAMA and FPNA Says No!When asked by email, FPNA’s mem-bership also reacted with an over-whelmingly negative response, Vice President Daisy Schnepel said. “Small neighborhood commercial areas are opposed to parking meters that adversely impact their businesses and residential neighborhoods,” she agreed. “Meters in larger commercial

areas such as downtown are certainly a no brainer, but where does it stop? Will Benefit Street be metered, too?”

“I don’t support the expansion of meters, nor do I support the increase in the hours for required payment,” Councilman Seth Yurdin said. “If merchants of a particular area are consulted and are in agreement that it would be helpful for their business, I would certainly consider such a proposal,” he added. “But to date I have primarily heard opposition and have conveyed those concerns to the mayor’s office.” Yurdin also offered to facilitate and set up a meeting with the parking administrator.

Once again, the City of Provi-dence’s credit rating has been down-graded and there is talk in the news of possible bankruptcy, Schnepel noted. “If the City is on the brink, it would be a good idea to let the resi-dents know and solicit ideas from them on how to avoid it,” she added. “In this case, you have to wonder if the potential revenue would be out-weighed by declining sales tax rev-enues, the cost of new meters and additional personnel to monitor and ticket violations.”

“They’re just plain ugly and would completely alter the look and feel of our street,” Dennis Wood, another

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longtime board member said. “This isn’t a downtown business district!”

A resident on Armstrong Street noted that nearby residential areas are already short on parking. “We already suffer from the Wickenden Street shopping traffic overflow.” Another resident asked, “How can we encourage people to come and shop our area and spend their hard earned money, and then pay to park and probably get ticketed? Please continue to fight the mayor’s plan!”

An Alternative ViewJonathan Harris, an Assistant Pro-fessor of Design at Johnson & Wales University, and a consultant with the design firm, Transit Matters, said meters could help build more walkable, identifiable communi-ties. “Perhaps, an agreement can be made with the City that a certain percentage of revenue comes back to the neighborhood or merchants association for reinvestment directly in the neighborhood,” he added. “It has been done elsewhere, though I do not know if there is precedence in Rhode Island.”

Scorziello, who owns Campus Fine Wines, disagrees. “Every store on the street has built their business model with the current parking situ-ation in mind,” he pointed out. “It’s unfair to try to correct decades of unsustainable car use by taking it out on the current crop of business owners on Wickenden Street.”

“Convenience wins every time,” he added, noting that the overwhelm-ing response from both member-ships is that residents will stop shopping at Wickenden area stores. “In my particular instance, no one will ever walk more than a block car-rying a case of wine.”

In 2016, FPNA and WAMA have begun exploring ways to visually im-prove the shopping area, in particu-lar the lighting. Wickenden Street offers a marketing benefit to future I-195 developments in Fox Point. Solving the growing parking short-age will become more important as construction begins this year on the first six-story, mixed use residential building in Fox Point.

If you are interested in working on improving Wickenden Street,

contact [email protected]. Fox Point Neighborhood Association, P.O. Box 603177, Providence, RI 02906. 270-7121, www.FPNA.net, [email protected]. -John Rousseau

College Hill neighborhood AssociationCHNA Supports New Brown Parking Area for ThayerThe College Hill Neighborhood As-sociation recently joined the Thayer Street District Management Au-thority (TSDMA), the Thayer Street Merchants Association and Wheeler School in support of Brown Univer-sity’s amendment to their Master Plan that calls for the demolishing of seven houses and creation of a tem-porary parking lot that will be used to improve public parking for the street. The expectation is that it will provide some benefit for the com-munity while Brown prepares for a specific project that it will address its residential or administrative needs within a five year timeframe.

Updates on Prospect Terrace, Shark and Parking MetersWork continues on plans to improve Prospect Terrace which is such an in-tegral part of College Hill. We are cur-rently preparing to solicit grants so we can begin some initial stage one work with the City Parks Department in prepping the area. A public meet-ing is planned for later in the spring. Please call 751-7078 if you’d like to be involved in this project.

We also continue to monitor the attempt to sell Shark, which is cur-rently in bankruptcy court after its liquor license was not renewed re-lated to the resignation and current prison term for former Speaker of the House Gordon Fox. CHNA will only support the liquor license of new owners who agree to abide by a probationary period before earning the right to sell liquor past midnight.

In addition, the current parking meter situation on Thayer Street continues to be of concern to the neighborhood. There have been suggestions that the City is planning on extending the hours requiring

metering until 9pm, which certainly would be problematic for places like the Avon Theatre. As we go to press, the issue is still under discussion.

Consider Joining our BoardCHNA would love to talk to any resident interested in joining our Board of Directors. It’s a great way to learn more about the neighbor-hood, meet interesting fellow resi-dents and help insure the quality of life we all enjoy in our community. In particular, we are looking for res-idents with legal expertise or with specific interests in the ongoing project to improve Prospect Ter-race, planning social events or rep-resenting views of younger families moving into the area. We promise it will be enjoyable and we’d love to have you join us. Please call Bar-ry Fain at 751-7078 or contact us through our website.

News From Thayer StreetThe Thayer Street Merchants and res-taurant owners are looking forward to welcoming everyone to the following events coming to Thayer Street with special discounts and deals for event attendees. The Avon Cinema will be one of three College Hill venues for the Providence Children’s Film Festi-val (be sure to catch the final days of the festival, which wraps up on Febru-ary 21). The Film Festival is expected to bring 4,000 to 4,500 parents to the street over three weekends. Also con-tinuing into March, the Street will be host to the second installment of Win-dow Art Exhibitions at two locations. Check www.ThayerStreetDistrict.com for specific details. And com-ing in April, Wheeler will be holding their famous Wheeler Clothing and More Sale, with Thayer Street mer-chants providing special offers to all attendees.

For more information about getting involved with the College Hill Neigh-borhood Association or becoming a member, please write us or go to our website and all will be revealed. Col-lege Hill Neighborhood Association, P.O. Box 2442, Providence, RI 02906. 633-5230, www.CHNAProvidence.com, [email protected]. –Anthony Petrocchi, corresponding secretary

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Whether you love him or hate him, it’s difficult to imagine anyone who has ever had more impact on the City of Providence than the late Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci Jr. The lon-

gest serving mayor in Providence’s history, he left his imprint on the entire city. There wasn’t a neighborhood that he didn’t touch, and he led the revitalization of a dismal downtown into a cultural, retail and dining center. Every evening he attended multiple events throughout the city; every year he opened the Little League season, personally greeting every team and he never missed a graduation. He once mused that he thought he had personally met over 80% of the residents of Providence.

Yet for all the obvious passion for his job and his city, Buddy’s actions, real or imagined, polarized the city as well. To those who liked him, he was seen as coopera-tive and compassionate. To those who didn’t, he was confrontational or worse, simply a convicted felon. His redeeming feature was that he was colorful. He’d often arrive late at a function, but he’d generally stay late and pretty soon “owned the room.”

The division between devotees and detractors never disappeared even when the mayor was in prison. The Providence Preservation Society was taking nomina-tions for 50 people to honor as part of their 50th an-niversary in 2006. Though incarcerated in New Jersey, Buddy was nominated in recognition of his lifelong commitment to preservation. He had worked with B.A. Dario, the owner of what is now PPAC, and saved it from the wrecking ball, for example. When told of his

nomination, three members of the PPS Board threat-ened to resign if he was given the award. Almost simul-taneously, three other members of the Board threat-ened to resign if he didn’t get it. In short, he did.

That’s what makes summarizing the life of some-one like the mayor so difficult. Everyone had their own unique “Buddy story” to tell, some amusing, some ap-preciative, some downright negative. Barbara Harris and Seth Kurn relocated to East Side over 30 years ago from Boston. During their first week, they were invited to Fox Point for brunch when their host hurriedly inter-rupted the meal to introduce them to the mayor. There, proudly astride a very large horse, was Buddy eager to stop and chat and welcome them personally to the city. “We’ll never know why or how he got there,” recalls Seth, “but he did.”

A Polarizing PersonaTo his supporters, Buddy was the lead champion for the city, a voice for minorities and a brilliant leader with great vision who was able to secure hundreds of millions of dollars of federal and private support for projects ranging from rebuilding the zoo and build-ing a skating rink to getting lead paint removed from low income homes. Despite his naysayers, and there are many, just about every major initiative over the last 40 years had his imprint. True, his role may be some-what inflated, but is that atypical for any politician? Al Gore still takes credit for inventing the Internet. The list of his achievements over his 21 years in office certainly

included being the front man or at least a major player in negotiating the Providence Place Mall, attracting the Providence Bruins, saving PPAC from demolition, devel-oping our midnight basketball leagues and improving playgrounds, parks and new open spaces throughout the city. Never short of pitching big ideas, he offered bold plans for the city and often admitted one of his biggest regrets was not being able to transform the waterfront into a thriving seaport with residences, busi-nesses, hotels and restaurants.

To his detractors, however, a rather different sto-ry is told. To them, he was Darth Vader on steroids helping to create a national perception that Provi-dence was a city for hire; a corrupt demagogue who used bribery and strong-armed tactics to create a criminal enterprise. And while there will be debate

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about his true legacy for the foresee-able future, it cannot be denied that his track record certainly includes myriad well-documented missteps, both personal and political. A bed-time primer on much of this view re-mains former Providence Journal re-porter Mike Stanton’s well-researched book The Prince of Providence. Yet ironically on the day that he died, the Journal’s lead story was “Believing in Providence,” a story about the Provi-dence Foundation and everything that they had done in changing the city. The story actually reads like a eulogy to Buddy but never mentions him, yet it was his vision, leadership and ability to find the resources that got just about everything in the story accomplished.

One story that illustrates Buddy’s character as well as his rapier-like wit, took place at a dinner at Vartan and Claire Gregorian’s house when he was president of Brown with the publisher of the Journal, his wife, Buddy and another guest. The conversation was WaterFire-centric, with one of the guests going on and on about Barnaby Evans and what his WaterFire had done for the city. Bud-dy was visibly seething but managed to keep his composure until he finally cracked and blurted out, “Now let’s be clear, if the city and state hadn’t moved the rivers and the railroad tracks and created this amazing venue, Barnaby Evans would just have been another arsonist on Track 3.”

To say Buddy’s relationship with the Journal has always been contentious is an understatement, and it actually seems to have continued even after his passing. The old joke he used to tell was that if he was seen walking across the Seekonk River by a Journal reporter, the headline in the paper the next day would be “Cianci can’t swim.” In private conver-sations Buddy would rail against the editorial bias of the paper which he said stemmed from their not accepting the ascension of the city’s first Italian-American mayor, a fact that certainly has traction in some areas of the city, if not the East Side.

The vitriol has continued, even up to the final days before Buddy’s funeral. Bob Whitcomb, for-mer editorial page editor of the Journal, was never a fan of Buddy and shared his negative thoughts of the departed mayor publicly with GoLocalProv.com, “The public is immature – a lot of it is that they like the entertainment quality. I think Providence came back in spite of, not because of, Buddy. There were companies that were scared away. He was a carni-val barker. The better stuff would have happened anyway – the city would have come back.” And then there were the almost daily editorials against Buddy during last year’s mayoral campaign. The tone of much of it was perceived by many as over the top. Said one local observer: “Buddy will be on the de-fensive until the Journal runs out of commas, since he’s never referred to as anything but ‘Buddy Cianci, Convicted Two-Time Felon.’”

Interestingly, since his passing, some of the out-of-town press seems to be a bit more balanced, or at least nuanced, in its reflection on this larger-than-life, and in some ways tragic, persona. In the NY Post he was labeled “the beloved rogue mayor” of

Providence. One of the more interesting pieces was published in The New Yorker the week after Buddy passed away. Written by Philip Gourevitch, a writer for the magazine since 1997, he recalled his time covering the RICO trial in Providence that ended in Buddy’s conviction and sent him off to prison for five years. The government’s case against the mayor was, in his words, “as corrupt as anything he or his crooked cronies were charged with” as Gourevitch discredited each of the prosecution’s “star” wit-nesses and the unjustness of the RICO statute.

Journeying Through PoliticsBuddy took his first steps on a lifelong political odyssey in 1972 when he moved to the East Side to begin plan-ning a run for mayor of Providence. A number of jour-nalists in the last week have opined that Buddy entered the race expecting to lose but developed enough name recognition to then run for Attorney General. Not true. Buddy never entered a race he didn’t think he could win. He was a strong believer in polls and used them with precision. He knew all the crosstabs and what they meant and, like any savvy politician, they would occa-sionally influence his position on how strong or soft his support would be.

Two years later, Buddy Cianci, now running as an anti-corruption Republican, made a deal with the long-time number two Democrat, delivered a strong turnout in three of the predominantly Ital-ian wards as well and, aided by solid support from the East Side, was elected mayor. His election as a reformer was generally welcomed, but Buddy was acutely aware of a noticeable amount of ethnocen-tric chauvinism from the city’s business elite that he felt followed him throughout his career. When “they need something, they will call,” he would often say when referring to business leaders who were

happy to be welcoming if they or a charity they were involved in needed something. On the other side, it was the overwhelming East Side support for Jorge Elorza that sealed his defeat in last year’s mayoral election, his first and only defeat in Providence.

Reminiscing About Our MayorBuddy had a great sense of humor and could be self-deprecating. He was the subject of many East Side Monthly April Fool’s issues and not only took them in great stride, he wouldn’t hesitate to in-quire when he wasn’t a target. When we purchased Providence Monthly from its founder Greg Ferland, Buddy was there to help us launch a product he thought would be a useful addition to his city, even going so far as to pose as Santa Claus with three attractive elves on one of our first covers. And when RISD un-dergraduates asked him to coach their hockey team, Buddy jumped at the op-portunity. When asked what he knew about coaching hockey, he shot back, “it’s RISD, what the hell do they know about hockey?” The team, known as the Nads, had a great following with their distinctive cheer “Go Nads!”

Providence was on its way to be-coming Worcester when Buddy was first elected, a town that was famously maligned by The Wall Street Journal as

a “smudge on the way to the Cape.” There was little civic pride, little growth and no excitement. To ignore his unique role in creating the city’s renaissance, is a mistaken attempt to rewrite history in our view. The greatest irony is that many of his harshest critics have benefited financially because of the work that Buddy accomplished.

What is perhaps the greatest loss will be the institu-tional knowledge of the city. Buddy knew better than anyone where the bodies were buried – hell, he put some there. But he understood the subtleties and nu-ances in making a city run. One famous example: He knew how to clear snow the right way, a lesson that he learned the hard way. Dan Healy, Buddy’s first director of Public Works, was constantly getting calls from the mayor as he crisscrossed the city from event to event criticizing and berating him and his department for the conditions of the roads, trash, signs and anything else he saw in his travels.

When the first major snowstorm hit, Healy was sum-moned to the mayor’s office at the end of the day. When he got there he was not chastised because Bud-dy had been periodically looking at Kennedy Plaza and the streets were down to pavement. Healy was now “his man”!

That night when Buddy was chauffeured home, even his route was clear. Healy was a hero… for about an hour until Buddy started to get complaint calls. He then dis-covered that Healy had had a snowplow circling Ken-nedy Plaza so all would look great to the mayor and that he had gotten Buddy’s driver to give him his route home to the East Side and had plows lead the way.

So, what made Buddy so much the lightening rod that caused people to love him or hate him? Clearly the man was capable of incredible kindness and of outrageously poor behavior. Talking to many of his former staffers, a recurring theme is one of


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He was a complex man. He could light up a room when he wanted to, but could often be seen eating alone at a favorite restaurant. He could find the funds to keep a non-profit alive or he could respond to a slight by a restau-ranteur and try to shut the place down. The good news was that after his incar-ceration (a “bump in the road” he called it), he seemed to be mellowing out in his later years. The shame of his unex-pected passing is that he appeared to be on the road to relaxing senior status. He had great ratings on his radio show. He was engaged to be married… finally. And he had plenty of stories to tell and advice to give.

While Buddy often had a long mem-ory of recalling slights real or imagined, he also had the capacity to forge strong relationships with people who accepted his style of leadership. Joe Paolino went from being a rival and adversary to a very close personal friend. “For the last ten years we spoke almost every day,” Paolino reminisced. “I’m happy that he will be lying in state in City Hall, which is more than appropriate given his service to the City. He would have been very pleased by the tremendous outpour-ing of support from the church with the Bishop leading his service.”

Paolino said Providence “lost its greatest champion” when Cianci died, adding, “he gave his heart to Providence.”

Another person who has seen all sides of Buddy is Carolyn Benedict-Drew. Before she became Director of Policy for David Cicilline, one of Bud-dy’s harshest critics, she had been the longtime executive director of the Fam-ily Service of Rhode Island, one of the oldest and largest social agencies ser-vicing the children and families of the city. “It was the late ‘80s and we were trying to buy our building on the cor-ner of Wickenden and Hope. It wasn’t easy, but he helped negotiate down the price and came up with the hundreds of thousands we needed.” She contin-ues, “At my retirement party several years later, he referred to me as being like a nun. ‘Me a nun, what are you talk-ing about?’ I asked. His response: ‘You come to me with a basket and ask me to fill it up. Then a little bit later, you come back again and ask me to fill it again.’ We laughed, but I will say whenever we needed his assistance or advice, he was the first one there to help us while en-couraging others to join. He never for-got those from broken families or those in need.”

In the end, it’s not so much what Bud-dy actually did but how he was able to get a city and many of its residents to believe in what Providence could be. He was always our biggest cheerleader and somehow got us to begin believing in ourselves. Though in many ways flawed, his commitment to the city he loved is undeniable. And with his passing, the burning question going forward will be who will be the next champion with the skill set and passion to reignite the en-thusiasm that Providence once had and cannot afford to lose. P

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Oliveira adds that while serving as president, he encountered continued political interference from Mayor Elorza on numerous school board decisions, an obstacle he dealt with less during Mayor Tav-eras’ term. “We had alignment with Mayor Taveras,” Oliveira says, “between his office, the school board and Superintendent Lusi because we had a shared vision and a shared understanding of each of our roles.”

Like Oliveira, former Providence Superintendent Dr. Susan Lusi resigned from her position in 2015. “I am certain that her resignation was due, in part, to the micro-management of Mayor Elorza’s office,” Olivei-ra says. “She was the expert leading the Providence schools, not the mayor. As a well-respected education leader she would not serve under such conditions.”

Providence City Councilman and former Chairman of the City Council’s Special Committee on Education Sam Zurier has this to say about the appropriate level of mayoral oversight in regards to the school board: “I believe that the relationship should be limited to shar-ing his general philosophy, offering information from time to time about particular projects and answering questions without telling the school board members what to do on any specific issue.”

Zurier adds that while school committees are rec-ognized under state law as having a direct responsi-bility to provide children with a quality public edu-cation, mayors and city councils are responsible for providing the funding for education – not setting educational policy.

Also interesting is the fact that while most Rhode Island towns and cities elect school board members, Providence (along with Central Falls and Woon-socket) does not. “In Providence,” Zurier explains, “the school board is selected by the mayor and con-firmed by city council. This provides the elected of-ficials – especially the mayor – with significant moral authority in relations with school board members that does not exist elsewhere.”

Mayor Elorza explains that – since taking office – he’s made efforts to allow all stakeholders to provide input on plans regarding education. “I have visited schools throughout the city every week to speak di-rectly with students and teachers, held community conversations in different neighborhoods to hear from residents and have invited the public to join the selection process for our next superintendent,” the mayor says, adding that he’ll continue to look for ways to promote the participation of all who have an interest.

“Mr. Oliveira’s decision to resign ahead of the loss of his leadership role with the school board was unfortunate,” Mayor Elorza says. “I plan on continu-ing to work collaboratively with the school board to make the reforms necessary to make Providence schools the best they can be.”

Christopher Maher, the Interim Superintendent of Providence Schools, stands behind Mayor Elor-za, saying that the mayor has demonstrated “great willingness to collaborate” with Maher, the school board and other interested parties. “I have joined the mayor at many of his weekly school visits and community meetings,” Maher says, “and I have had the pleasure of participating in important conversa-tions with our youth and members of the commu-nity. These inclusive events, which allow everyone’s voice to be heard, demonstrate that we are already working in a system that promotes collaboration. Throughout this process it is heartening to see so many members of the community who want to see our students succeed in the classroom.”

How Should Parties Work Together?With student success at the forefront of everyone’s mind, the question that remains is this: Is there a better way to build a system to improve school per-formance and if so, how should various parties work together collaboratively?

In February, Mayor Elorza announced an overhaul of the School Department’s central office. The ini-tiative would move staff out of central administra-tion and into schools so that they could better sup-port students, parents, teachers and administrators. “These changes bring the central office into the 21st century and better enable the School Department to meet the current and future needs of our public schools,” the mayor said in a statement.

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A Scholarly DebateViewpoints continue to clash over the appropriate level of

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At the time this issue went to press, the mayor’s proposed changes to central administration were in the process of being submitted to the Providence City Council for consideration.

Oliveira feels that in order to build a strong system, it’s crucial that the board is given the authority to make its own decisions. “School board members serve as trustees of ensuring that all students are served well,” he says. “The important decisions made by the school board should be singularly focused on their best interests absent the political interests from the mayor’s office.”

And while Oliveira does believe that collaboration between the board and the mayor’s office is essential to success, he maintains that board members must be allowed to exercise their own judgment and to, at times, respectfully disagree with the mayor.

Is It Possible to Work Harmoniously?Although meaningful change won’t happen overnight, Oliveira be-lieves that it is possible for the school board, superintendent and mayor to work harmoniously in the best interest of the public. “My governing philosophy as school board president was to make de-cisions that were student-centered, family-friendly and collabora-tive,” he says. “Ideally the school board and the mayor should have a shared vision and shared understanding of the strategic direction, strategic priorities and expected outcomes.”

As far as whether or not there’s a recipe for the correct level of mayoral oversight, Oliveira says that any mayor should have an inter-est in ensuring the board makes wise decisions that align with that shared vision. “That is collaboration,” Oliveira says.

“Over the past five years, the school board has made some very important decisions that have served our students well,” Oliveira continues. “We acted to create new learning opportunities by open-ing new schools like Broadway Middle School and two smaller high schools, Evolutions and 360. We expanded access to AP courses. We defended our students against RIDE’s hurtful NECAP high school graduation policy. We changed our discipline policy to be less reliant on out-of-school suspensions. I’m very proud of our work.”

Zurier notes that it’s not uncommon for school board members to step down before the end of their term. “It’s understandable that these transitions occur shortly after a new mayor takes office,” he says. “The new mayor wants to carry out his or her campaign plat-form, which typically include promises of dramatic change. On the other hand, the school board and school department has typically developed its own plan, which it wants to continue.”

The Common GoalWhile some level of conflict is inherent to any collaborative effort of this magnitude, school board members, Mayor Elorza, Superinten-dent Maher and other interested parties share one common goal: to meet the educational needs of our city’s students.

And with the challenges of serving a diverse, urban population comes an increased need for all parties to get on the same page in order to get things done in the swiftest and most efficient manner pos-sible. “The biggest challenge is creating a culture of high expectations for all kids and a common belief that all kids can achieve,” Oliveira says.

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There’s a new option for high school on the East Side. At the start of this school year, 360 High School opened within Hope High School, a result of a $3,000,000 grant awarded to the Provi-dence Public Schools from the Carnegie Corporation to open two innovative new high schools (Evolutions High School, located within Mt. Pleasant High School, also opened in the fall of 2015). 360 High School currently has a ninth grade class, with plans to add a grade a year until it reaches its 400-student total.

Both 360 and Evolutions emerged from a yearlong design process that synthesized input from young people, educators and community members. That commitment to community voice continues, with significant opportuni-ties for feedback and fine-tuning as the school year unfolds. Both schools are implementing a student-centered, mastery-based approach as pilot pro-grams within the Providence Public Schools. This mastery-based approach – also known as competency educa-tion – supports students to move at an individualized pace through a school’s curriculum and allows more opportunity to fuse a school’s course of study with students’ interests. As 360’s principal Kerry Tuttlebee describes, “Kids have a huge range of developmental needs and stages. Student progression though a course should depend on actual learn-ing proficiency rather than time spent on academic work.” In a time-bound educational setting, some ninth grad-ers will master a key algebraic concept within a few weeks of daily classes. Of course, because we’re not all the same, significant numbers of students will be outliers, either needing more time and support to master this critical learning standard or learning it more quickly. The result: a situation in which insistence that everyone master the same material in lock step creates difficulties for all sorts of learners, as well as their teachers.

For those who retain a notion about learning that involves desks in rows and teachers at the front of the classroom, classes at 360 High School look and feel novel. Each 360 student has a Chrome-book that serves as a learning portal.

Using a customized Google for Education interface, students work at their own rate through the curriculum at school and at home. The opportunity to use technolo-gy in her education had a powerful emo-tional impact on ninth grader Maddison Dupuis-Fazio. “The Chromebooks are re-ally different. I rarely used computers be-fore. At my old school, they wouldn’t trust us, but here they do. We’re being treated more like adults. Plus, there’s technology all around us, everywhere in our world, so why shouldn’t it be in your education?”

Using data from online and other work, teachers group students who are learning at similar paces, providing addi-tional support to those who need more time while empowering students who are showing quick mastery to move on. Math teacher Ellen Foley shared how this mastery-based approach works with a diverse group of learners. “We find an entry point that’s accessible for everyone,” Foley described. “Everyone’s doing linear equations. Those who are demonstrating more mastery focus on higher-level systems, while those who are moving at a slower pace learn the same concepts through graphing to gain conceptual understanding of what a line is. Everyone’s working on the same learning target with different levels of proficiency, so when they do a group project they can all contribute with con-ceptual understanding.”

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within four years,” Tuttlebee empha-sized. Some students might finish their course work on schedule, which would allow them to start dual enrollment on college campuses or completing ad-vanced certificates while still in a more supportive high school setting. Others might eventually need time beyond the traditional four years. However, Tuttlebee and her staff are confident that nearly all of their current 80 students will gradu-ate at the four year mark. Day to day, Foley says she moves students along by providing constant feedback. “Your own pace can’t be no pace. I tell students that I expect that problem to be done in five minutes, and I put the timer on. Other-wise a task that should take one period could take three periods.”

Most students entered 360 High School from educational settings that didn’t encourage initiative and self-direction. As students mature, they will learn how to learn, providing more of their own structure and expanding their horizons. Freshman Dupuis-Fazio has al-ready felt herself start to transform as a learner. “You have to have a sense of re-sponsibility here, but if you don’t, these teachers will help you build that. This school is going to push you to develop your own learning path.” The mastery-based approach that’s taking shape at 360 High School provides young people with the opportunity to develop the habits of mind they need for lifelong success and helps us understand the power of a student-centered approach to teaching and learning.

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Art Projects Brings Islamic and Jew-ish Schools TogetherIn January, students from Cranston’s Is-lamic School of Rhode Island (ISRI) and the East Side’s Jewish Community Day School (JCDS) came together to make connections through art. On MLK Day,

students collaborated in ISRI’s gymna-sium to make tape art, a medium that emerged from Rhode Island artists (you may recall large tape art instal-lation on a Downcity building during last summer’s Providence Internation-al Arts Festival). Using multiple colors of masking tape, students collaborat-ed to make images. This isn’t the first time ISRI and JCDS have partnered. In 2015, ISRI was vandalized with hate messages; in response, JCDS students showed their support for their Muslim peers with letters of encouragement. Kudos to students from both schools for finding common ground in empa-thy and creativity.

Verizon Grants for Blended Learning Awarded in ProvidenceAs Providence moves forward with technology integration aimed at im-proving teaching and learning, good news: two Providence elementary schools, Carl Lauro and Harry Kizirian, have each received a $20,000 Verizon Innovative Learning Grant from the Ve-rizon Foundation. One hundred schools or districts nationwide received Ve-rizon grants to provide innovative technology and engage students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. This funding will expand blended learning initiatives at the elementary schools. In partner-ship with the Rhode Island-based High-lander Institute, both schools will offer professional development to support the use of innovative technology in the classroom. Congrats to the educators at Lauro and Kizirian!

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My son is learning how to drive. Actually, he’s never been behind the wheel, but he went to a driver’s edu-cation class at the world-famous La-Bonte’s Auto School in Seekonk to learn about double yellow lines and the blind spot, among other things. He took his studies very seriously. On the ride home from class one day – I was in the driver’s seat, of course – he scolded me at a red light for encroaching on the stop line at a crosswalk. I had no idea what he was talking about.

It’s hard for me to imagine that my sons will soon be driving. Seems like yesterday they were zipping around the park in Mario Go Karts. Those things were pretty dangerous, so maybe I shouldn’t worry so much. I remember once giving my son and his ride-on scooter a push – with my foot. The poor kid went flying to the moon and back, landing chin first on our wood floor: five stitches at Hasbro, our home away from home during the toddler years. Then we progressed to skateboards, which are surpassed only by hoverboards in the crazy-dan-gerous category.

Cars are on another level. You could be the best driver in the world, but the guy next to you might be tex-ting his Fantasy Football friends as he’s racing down the highway at 70 miles per hour. Make that 100. This is Rhode Island. I work in Kingston and every morning I say a little prayer to the Hound of Heaven as I go up the Gano entrance to the Route 195 Race-track. In a nanosecond, I have to cross three lanes to get to the far left – and I don’t mean politically. I dutifully put on my turn signal, but no one slows to let me in. Again, this is Rhode Is-land. Motorists don’t use blinkers, and those who do are universally mocked. I hail from the Midwest, where man-ners matter.

I can also thank my high school friend Brandt for my nervousness about driving. He owned a Triumph. His parents bought it for him when he got his license. It was his first car, and he was very proud of it. It was forest green, tasteful as far as sports cars go. It didn’t have fat fenders. On a swelter-ing summer night, Brandt took me for a ride. It was late, and our neighbor-hood streets were mostly empty. I re-member he was barefoot and wearing a white button-down, untucked. The top was down. We drove to the edge of our suburb, and I thought he’d turn around and go back to what I knew, but instead he got on the highway. I was terrified. He’d speed up, laugh at me for being scared, slow down, then speed up again. This torture went on for a long time. He finally took me home, but I was damaged for life. I panic when I’m in a car with a driver who reaches the speed limit – not ex-ceeds it, reaches it. I once gave my son’s friend a ride to a school event in Cranston. In the cafeteria the next day she sat him down: “Your mother is the worst driver I’ve ever seen.’’ Why? Too

slow – and in the middle lane, no less. I don’t need Freud to know that I’ve

projected all this anxiety about driving onto my kids. First, let me apologize guys. Second, don’t do something just because I don’t want you to do that something. In other words, don’t go fast because I don’t go fast. My kids used to tell me that slow drivers are one of the biggest causes of crashes. “You’re going 49 in a 65,’’ they’d shout from the backseat. “Go faster! You’re embarrassing us.’’

At LaBonte’s the driving instructors showed a lot of movies. Some of them were about accidents. The images were gory – mangled cars, bloody bodies. After class one day, my son said the instructors told students that speeding was the biggest cause of crashes. I felt vindicated, but kept my mouth shut and puttered along. Now that my son’s book learning is finished he can get behind the wheel to learn the real stuff. I hope he takes it easy. Slow and steady wins the race.

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She took the leap in the last quarter of 2007 leaving her established career to create a unique – and fun! – business. As a dog owner, Blythe knew that her doggie excursion company had to be a premium service offering dogs and their people something far more exhilarating than a leash walk. “We aimed to take care of everything, from pick-up to drop-off and the blast they have in-between…packaged in the most dependable, professional service company our clients had ever experienced.” she says.

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A wild BusiNessWhat started as a dream nine years ago has become one of the most success-ful dog companies in Rhode Island. In 2014, The Rhode Island Small Business Journal recognized Blythe and her incredible business journey by naming her one of the seven Entrepreneurial Women to Watch in Rhode Island. “I am ex-tremely proud of the company that my Wranglers™ and I have built,” Blythe says. “We deliver canine nirvana on a daily basis, which in turn gives us im-mense satisfaction.”

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After our meal in Providence’s relatively new Milk Money, in the low-er level of an attractive brick building near India Point Park, the restaurant revealed its persona to me: Milk Money is your 20-something friend who is, as they say, on fleek. She photographs like a Madewell catalog, can poach (and Instagram) the perfect egg and she has zero pantry staples but at least a dozen artisanal bitters.

In a restaurant, that kind of casual poise is anything but effortless. It was obvious that every detail was care-fully chosen, from the green-tinted mason jars, the waitress “uniform” of chambray and denim, sly cocktail names and the pluck of including a 64-oz bone-in rib eye on the same page as a section casually titled “Veg n’ Such.”

We started with two selections off the Seasonal Cocktails list. I had the A Rosé by Any Other Name ($12), an elegant and bright vodka-based cock-tail with lemon, rosé and cherry mar-malade. My husband, recovering from a cough, found solace in the Modern Man’s Elixir ($12), a hot toddy made with rye, ginger and honey, with the unexpected addition of pear.

Milk Money’s menu is, like that of many newly-opened restaurants, de-signed for sharing, with sections like First Bites, Small Plates and Platters. I’m sure this trend will eventually swing out of style, but it’s practical for those of us who like to sample more of the menu. We selected one or two dishes at a time, deliberating our next as we ate.

First, we had the Smoked Trout Dev-iled Eggs ($7), an order of four egg halves. I liked the addition of a small garnish of crispy fried trout skin on each half. The House-Pickled Veg-etables ($15) was like a flipped char-cuterie platter with an emphasis on vegetables. The pickled pink radishes, onion, carrots, cucumbers and the less

traditional asparagus made vegetables the colorful stars, while the meat and cheese – cured ham, sopressata and paté – took the backseat. The scatter-ing of pistachios was also a nice touch.

We continued with the Charred Octo-pus ($13). Attractively served in a round ceramic dish, the flavor and texture of the grilled octopus contrasted nicely with bitter frisée and smooth, creamy sunchoke purée. The Arugula Salad ($11) seems to be a mainstay on the menu with slight seasonal variations. This time, it featured ricotta, pistachios and dried blueberries. I enjoyed these dishes with a glass of the Valpolicella Ripasso Solane ($13). Ripasso indicates a second fermentation of Amarone grapes and skins, making for a rich, full-bodied wine with dark fruit flavors.

Though the restaurant is partially below ground level, it is not at all basement-like, benefitting from large windows and warm lighting. A wall of

stacked milk crates and a barely-there milk advertisement painted on the exposed brick are attractive and the-matically appropriate. It’s deceptively spacious, with a central bar and many smaller tables that can be easily com-bined to accommodate larger parties.

We had made up our mind to try one of the large platters, and the But-termilk-Fried Chicken & Biscuits ($32) seemed like a good choice at the end of a long day. With this, my husband ordered the PranQster beer from North Coast ($8), a Belgian-style Golden Ale.

The chicken, one of several large platters, was surely enough for four. Even though our earlier plates were not very large, we barely made it through half. The round biscuits, which tasted like they were made with corn-meal, hid below large pieces of bone-less fried chicken. Both were covered with a mushroom gravy with postage stamp-sized pieces of bacon. This is

comfort food on a large scale, and the biscuits will satisfy any salt-fiend.

We tried two desserts, a Goat Cheese Frosted Carrot Cake ($10) and Beignets ($10). The beignets were freshly fried and had a bit of spice. The carrot cake was served as two rect-angular slices with plenty of frosting. Goat cheese frosting on carrot cake is a great idea; the extra tanginess is a good foil for the sweet cake.

In larger metropolitan areas, I’ve seen plenty of restaurants with simi-lar menus, aesthetics and appeal. Milk Money has nailed these details, and left a mark on the ever changing local din-ing scene.

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On March 5 and April 2, prepare for a five-course beer-paired dinner at Fool-proof Brewing Company in collaboration with Delsie Catering and Events. Pri-or to dinner, guests will savor beer-inspired hors d’oeuvres and handcrafted beer selections from Foolproof, all while enjoying a tour of the brewery and an explanation of the brewing process. After cocktail hour, get ready for some serious food porn: a soft beer pretzel with local honey, Foolproof Golden Ale Sabayon, pickled green apple and red pepper relish and smoked sea salt. And that’s just the amuse bouche. There are still three more courses and an Inter-mezzo. Want a sneak peek of dessert? Think Foolproof Revery Russian Impe-rial Stout ice cream with fig and peanut relish, rosemary caramel, Foolproof Peanut Butter Porter chocolate ganache and Pop Rocks. After dinner, attend-ees will receive complimentary “lustrous parting gifts,” yet to be disclosed.

“This is a great opportunity for foodies and beer lovers to witness first-hand how well craft beer pairs with food,” says Foolproof Brewing Company Presi-dent and Founder Nick Garrison. “In a state with such a great food culture, we want to showcase that beer is an integral part of that culture.” $165. 7pm. 241 Grotto Avenue, Pawtucket. www.DelsieFoolproofBeerDinner.Eventbrite.com

The Pawtucket Wintertime Farmers’ Market is a wintry Sat-urday morning tradition at this point. Families stroll the hall-ways of the converted mill, grab staples and treats for the week, then perhaps stop by a food truck for an afternoon meal. Well, now there’s another culi-nary offering under the same in-dustrial roof. FabiBites doubles down on healthy meal options, and makes sure they’re tasty, too. Think fresh and crunchy veggie wraps, from-scratch chicken salad, grilled cheese, new iced tea flavors every day and even bakery items like scones and croissants. But more than anything else, they’re known for their soups. “I’m really good at soup,” explains owner and chef Fab Goldberg. “We try to get as many veggies from local farms as possible. Most items, including the soups, are made from scratch, like the vegetable and chicken broth, and we have about 122 soups in our repertoire. You can expect at least one vegan or vegetable soup… we try to accommodate food sensitivi-ties.” Plus, Fab incorporates seasonal fare into her soups. Think Cream of Asparagus, Vegan Morroccan Chili or Persian Wedding soup. You can even take quarts of her soups to-go along with oven-ready dinners on Fridays after a long work week. 1005 Main Street, Suite 8226, Pawtucket. 481-4008, www.Facebook.com/FabiBites

Dr. Evil isn’t the only one who thinks one million dollars is a lot of money. I’m pretty sure most folks would happily put that coin in their pocket. Now through May 21, winning one million dollars is as easy as rolling the dice, and you can do it at Luxe Burger Bar.

Luxe is on its way to selling its one millionth burger, and to cel-ebrate they’re giving guests the opportunity to win one million dol-lars. All you have to do is walk through the door and fill out an entry form – with no purchase necessary, mind you. “During a meeting we were discussing sales and I curiously asked, ‘how many to a million?’” explains owner and maestro John Elkhay. “My team and I thought it was very exciting to be on the road to a million burgers and we really wanted to share our excitement with our loyal guests. What could be better than to give someone a chance to win one million dollars?”

Better yet, you can enter once a day from now until May 21 when Luxe will be hosting a special party. During the party, Luxe will draw one name, and the lucky guest whose name is drawn will roll four custom dice. The dice are six-sided, with two sides having a burger on it, two sides having draft beer, one side having a shake and one side having the Luxe logo. The lucky guest will have two chances to roll all four dice, with the goal of all four dice landing on the Luxe logo. If they do, Providence has a new millionaire.

On Luxe’s road to their millionth burger, they’ve had a lot of mem-orable moments along the way. Celebrities that have graced their booths include Snoop Dogg, The Black Crowes, Tedy Bruschi, Bran-don Spikes and Peter King, to name a few. To keep locals and celebri-ties well fed, they’ve sold roughly 1,800 burgers a week, which breaks down to about one burger sold every five minutes. If you need a burger recommendation, you might want to try Elkhay’s favorite, the M.O.A.B (Mother of all Burgers). It’s pure Hereford Beef, black pas-trami, grilled onions, sauteed mushrooms, jalapeños, American and cheddar cheese, lettuce, pickles, tomatoes and chipotle peppers. 5 Memorial Boulevard, Providence. 621-5893, www.LuxeBurgerBar.com

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Café Nuovo Contemporary New World cuisine. 1 Citizens Plz, Providence, 421-2525. LD $-$$$

Capriccio Upscale international food with a northern Italian/Mediterranean accent. 2 Pine St, Providence, 421-1320. LD $-$$$

Carriage Inn & Saloon Regional com-fort food accompanied by a whiskey bar. 1065 Tower Hill Rd, North Kingstown, 294-8466. D $-$$

CAV Eclectic cuisine and art in an historic setting. 14 Imperial Place, Providence, 751-9164. BrLD $$-$$$

Celestial Café Organic farm-to-table fine

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Centro Restaurant & Lounge Contempo-rary cuisine and cocktails. 1 W Exchange St, Providence, 228-6802. BLD $$$

Champlins Seafood Dockside fresh sea-food serving easy breezy cocktails. 256 Great Island Rd, Narragansett, 783-3152. LD $-$$

Chez Pascal/The Wurst Kitchen Sea-sonal farm-to-table cuisine with a French accent. House made sausages, hot dogs and accoutrements. 960 Hope St, Provi-dence, 421-4422. LD $-$$$

Chapel Grille Gourmet food overlooking the Providence skyline. 3000 Chapel View Blvd, Cranston, 944-4900. BrLD $$$

Circe Restaurant & Bar South Beach meets New England seafood favorites. 50 Weybosset St, Providence, 437-8991. BRLD $-$$$

Clean Plate Delicious comfort food in a casual setting. 345 S. Water St, Provi-dence, 621-8888. BBrLD $$

Condessa Restaurant Contemporary

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Cook & Dagger Kicked up American fare with artisanal cocktails. 566 Putnam Pike, Smithfield, 349-3927. BrD $-$$

Decadent Designs and Cafe Custom cakes and pastries alongside a fresh cafe with soups and sandwiches. 1285 Park Ave, Cranston, 942-9300 BL $

DeWolf Tavern Gourmet American/In-dian fusion. 259 Thames St, Bristol, 254-2005. BLD $$-$$$

The Dorrance Fine dining with exquisite cocktails. 60 Dorrance St, Providence, 521-6000. D $$$

Eleven Forty Nine City sophistication in the suburbs. 1149 Division St, Warwick, 884-1149. LD $$$

Ella’s Fine Food & Drink Elegant dining meets international cuisine. 2 Tower St, Westerly, 315-0606. D $-$$$

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George’s of Galilee Fresh caught sea-food in an upscale pub atmosphere. 250 Sand Hill Cove Rd, Narragansett, 783-2306. LD $-$$

Harry’s Bar & Burger Handcrafted slid-ers, brews and pub games. 121 N Main St, Providence, 228-7437; 301 Atwells Ave, 228-3336. LD $-$$

Haruki Japanese cuisine and a la carte selections with casual ambiance. 1210 Oaklawn Ave, Cranston, 463-8338; 172 Wayland Ave, Providence, 223-0332; 112 Waterman St, Providence, 421-0754. LD $-$$

Iggy’s Doughboys & Chowder House Classic clam shack fare, plus famous doughboys. 889 Oakland Beach Ave, Warwick, 737-9459; 1157 Point Judith Rd, Narragansett, 783-5608. LD $

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Kabob and Curry Award-winning Indian food serving Providence since 1987. 261 Thayer St, Providence, 273-8844. LD $-$$

Kartabar Mediterranean-style cuisine, chic setting. 284 Thayer St, Providence, 331-8111. LD $-$$

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Laurel Lane Country Club Upscale pub cuisine overlooking a picturesque golf course. 309 Laurel Ln, West Kingston, 783-3844. LD $-$$

Legends Pub and Grub Hometown pub food and brews with ample sports viewing. 1458 Park Ave, Cranston, 270-4170. LD $

Lim’s Restaurant Upscale Thai and fresh sushi. 18 South Angell St, Providence, 383-8830. LD $$

Luxe Burger Bar Build your own cre-ative burger. 5 Memorial Blvd, Provi-dence, 621-5893. LD $

Maharaja Indian Restaurant Indian cui-sine and traditional curries in a warm setting. 1 Beach St, Narragansett, 363-9988. LD $-$$

Malted Barley American craft beer, gour-met pretzels and creative sandwiches in downtown Westerly. 42 High St, West-erly, 315-2184. LD $$

McBride’s Pub Traditional Irish pub fare in Wayland Square. 161 Wayland Ave, Providence, 751-3000. LD $$

McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood & Steak Mixed grill selections and sig-nature fish dishes sourced locally and seasonally. 11 Dorrance St, Providence, 351-4500. BLD $$-$$$

Mia’s Prime Time Café Upscale café cui-sine by the Pawcatuck River. 1 West Broad St, Pawcatuck, CT, 860-599-3840. BLD $$

Mill’s Tavern Historic setting for New American gourmet. 101 N Main St, Provi-dence, 272-3331. D $$$

Napolitano’s Brooklyn Pizza Classic Ital-ian fare and traditional New York-style pizzas. 100 East St, Cranston, 383-7722; 380 Atwells Ave, Providence, 273-2400. LD $-$$

Nordic Lodge Surf and turf buffet se-lections perfect for family gatherings. 178 E Pasquisett Trl, Charlestown, 783-4515. LD $$$

Oceanside at the Pier New England fare overlooking the Atlantic. 1 Beach St, Nar-ragansett, 792-3999. BrLD $$

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The Olive Tap Extra virgin olive oils, aged balsamic vinegars and gourmet food and gift selections. 485 Angell St, Providence, 272-8200. $$-$$$

Paragon & Viva Contemporary dining and nightlife. 234 Thayer St, Providence, 331-6200. BrLD $-$$

Parkside Rotisserie & Bar American bistro specializing in rotisserie meats. 76 South Main St, Providence, 331-0003. LD $-$$

Pat’s Italian Fine Italian favorites, nat-ural steaks and handcrafted cocktails. 1200 Hartford Ave, Johnston, 273-1444. LD $-$$$

Phil’s Main Street Grille Classic com-fort food; great rooftop patio. 323 Main St, Wakefield, 783-4073. BBrLD $

Pho Horn’s Fresh authentic Vietnamese dishes in a colorful setting. 50 Ann Mary St #403, Pawtucket, 365-6278. LD $-$$

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Providence Coal Fired Pizza Old world coal-fired pizzas, appetizers and entrees made from scratch. 385 West-minster St, Providence, 454-7499; 6105 Post Rd, North Kingstown, 885-7499. LD $-$$

Public Kitchen & Bar American food with changing daily inspirations. 120 Francis St, Providence, 919-5050. BrLD $-$$

Rasa Authentic and contemporary In-dian. 149 Main St, East Greenwich, 398-2822. LD $$

Rasoi Vegetarian-friendly Indian cui-sine. 727 East Ave, Pawtucket, 728-5500. LD $$

Red Stripe Casual French-American bistro. 465 Angell St, Providence, 437-6950; 455 Main St, East Greenwich, 398-2900. BrLD $$

Rick’s Roadhouse House-smoked bar-becue. 370 Richmond St, Providence, 272-7675. LD $-$$

Roberto’s Italian fine dining and large wine selection in the scenic East Bay. 450 Hope St, Bristol, 254-9732. D $$-$$$

Sa-Tang Fine Thai and Asian fusion cui-sine with gluten-free selections. 402 Main St, Wakefield, 284-4220. LD $-$$ Scampi Seafood and Italian cuisine with expansive water views. 657 Park Ave, Portsmouth, 293-5844. LD $$

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Theatre 82 & Cafe Hybrid art space with all day breakfast, coffee and theatre-inspired entrees. 82 Rolfe Sq, Cranston. 490-9475 BL $

Siena Impeccable Italian cuisine. Loca-tions in Providence, East Greenwich, Smithfield, 521-3311. D $$-$$$

Simone’s Gourmet brunch followed by upscale Mediterranean cuisine. 275 Child St, Warren, 247-1200. BBrLD $$-$$$

Sophia’s Tuscan Grille BYOB eatery with classic Tuscan dishes and homemade desserts. 1729 Warwick Ave, Warwick, 732-6656. BLD $-$$$

T’s Restaurant Plentiful breakfast and lunch. Locations in Cranston, East Green-wich, Narragansett, 946-5900. BL $

Taullulah on Thames Farm-driven, a la carte and prix fixe menus in a simply decorated setting. 464 Thames St, New-port, 849-2433. BrD $$$

Tavern by the Sea Waterfront European/American bistro. 16 W Main St, Wickford, 294-5771. LD $$

Ten Rocks Tapas Bar Cape-Verdean in-spired small plates, handcrafted cock-tails and frequent live music. 1091 Main St, Pawtucket, 728-0800. BrLD $-$$

The Coast Guard House Modern New England fare with Bay views. 40 Ocean Rd, Narragansett. 789-0700. LD $$-$$$

Tortilla Flats Fresh Mexican, Cajun and Southwestern fare, cocktails and over 70 tequilas. 355 Hope St, Providence, 751-6777. LD $-$$

Trinity Brewhouse Rhode Island’s origi-nal brewpub. 186 Fountain St, Provi-dence, 453-2337. LD $-$$

Twin Willows Fresh seafood and water views in a family-friendly atmosphere. 865 Boston Neck Rd, Narragansett, 789-8153. LD $-$$

Vanuatu Coffee Roasters Artisan-craft-ed, single origin coffee, pastries and breakfast sandwiches. 294 Atwells Ave, Providence, 273-1586. BL $-$$

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A Lady of LettersA vastly interwoven tapestry of faith, desire, family, ambition, betrayal and power in Second Iron Age Israel is the order of the day on March 25 as the Athenaeum hosts and toasts Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks on her new novel at Salon: Geraldine Books on The Secret Chord, featuring a reception and reading followed by a book sale and signing. 5-7pm. 251 Benefit Street, Providence. 421-6970, www.ProvidenceAthenaeum.org.

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1 Emily Wardill: When You Fall into a Trance. March 10 at the RISD Museum. www.RISDMuseum.org.

2 Lady Project Summit. March 12 at VETS.www.LadyProjectSummit.com.

3 Brain Week. March 12-20 at Brown University.www.BrainWeekRI.org.

4 A Midsummer Night’s Dream. March 3-6 at the Stuart The-atre. www.Brown.edu/Tickets.

5 March Madness. NCAA Basketball Playoffs, Rounds 1 and 2. March 17 and March 19 at The Dunk. www.Friars.com.

6 Etsy Mill Gypsies. March 6 at Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket.www.Facebook.com/EtsyMillGypsies.

7 2016 Heart Warming Winter Ball. March 12 at the Roger Williams Carousel Village in Cranston. www.TheHouseOfHopeCDC.org.

8 Epistolary Acts with Frequency Writers. March 9-30 at School One. www.FrequencyWriters.org.

9 Meditation Circle: Finding the Center. March 10-31 at Hamilton House. www.HistoricHamilton.com.

10 Girls Who Code Club. Thursdays at Rochambeau Public Library. www.ProvComLib.org.

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ARENA & CLUBAURORAMondays: Free Live Music. 276 Westmin-ster Street, Providence. www.AuroraProvi-dence.com.

CHAN’S FINE ORIENTAL DININGMarch 4: Peacheaters. March 5: Sugar Ray and the Bluetones. March 11: Groove Merchants. March 12: Love Dogs. March 13: Jo Anne Shaw Taylor and Jared James Nichols. March 17: Coco Montoyo. March 18: Delta Generators. March 25: Duke Ro-billard. 267 Main Street, Woonsocket. 765-1900, www.ChansEggRollsandJazz.com.

LUPO’S HEARTBREAK HOTELMarch 19: May Day Parade – The Maine. 79 Washington Street, Providence. 331-5876, www.Lupos.com.

THE METMarch 4: Bruce and the USA. March 18: Max Creek. March 19: WBRU Rock Hunt Finals. March 25: Flatbush Zombies. March 26: Titus Andronicus. 1005 Main Street, Pawtucket. 729-1005, www.TheMetRI.com.

TWIN RIVERMarch 18: Grand Funk Railroad and the Guess Who. 100 Twin River Road, Lincoln. 723-3200, www.TwinRiver.com.

CLASSICALBILTMOREThursdays: Live jazz. 11 Dorrance Street, Providence. 421-0700, www.Providence-Biltmore.com.

RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONICMarch 23: Sir James Galway. Fridays: Am-ica Rush Hour. Saturdays: TACO Saturday Classical. 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence. www.RI-Philharmonic.org.

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March 12: Laugh out Loud! with Jes-sica Chase and Friends. 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston. 490-9475, www.Artists-Exchange.org.

COMEDY CONNECTIONMarch 4-5: Big Jay Oakerson. March 11-12: Kurt Metzger. March 18-19: Nikki Carr. March 24: Loni Love. March 25: Brad Williams. March 26: Dan Crohn. March 31: John Valby “Dr. Dirty.” Fri-days: Hardcore Comedy. 39 Warren Avenue, East Providence. 438-8383, www.RIComedyConnection.com.

EVERETTFridays: Friday Night Live. 9 Duncan Avenue, Providence. 831-9479, www.EverettRI.org.

DANCEAS220Mondays: Intermediate/Advanced Modern Dance. Tuesdays: Yobalates. Wednesday: Open Level Modern Dance. Sundays: Beginner and Inter-mediate Ballet. 95 Empire Street, Prov-idence. 831-9327, www.AS220.org.

FESTIVAL BALLET SCHOOLMarch 4-14: The House of Bernarda Alba and The Lady of the Camiellias. Mondays: Beginner Ballet. Thursdays: Intermediate/Advanced Modern. 825 Hope Street, Providence. 353-1129, www.FestivalBallet.com.

PROVIDENCE TANGOFridays: Free Tango Lessons. 172 Ex-change Street, Pawtucket. 288-1170, www.ProvidenceTango.com.

THEATREAURORAMarch 1-18: The Burbage Theatre Company presents Titus Andronicus. 276 Westminster Street, Providence. www.AuroraProvidence.com.

GAMM THEATREMarch 1-27: A Skull in Connemara. 172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket. 723-4266, www.GammTheatre.org.

OCEAN STATE THEATRE COMPANYMarch 1-13: 1776: The Musical. 1245

Jefferson Boulevard, Warwick. 921-1777, www.OceanStateTheatre.org.

PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERMarch 9-13: The Sound of Music. 220 Weybosset Street, Providence. 421-2787, www.PPACRI.org.

TRINITY REPMarch 3-31: To Kill a Mockingbird. 201 Washington Street, Providence. 351-4242, www.TrinityRep.com.

VETSMarch 1: R5: Sometime Last Night Tour. March 31: Joe Satriani: Surf-ing to Shockwave Tour. 1 Avenue

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BOTTLESFridays: Beer Tasting. Saturdays: Wine Tasting. 141 Pitman Street, Providence. 372-2030, www.BottlesFineWine.com.

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Graceful GriefThe State Ballet of Rhode Island presents the timeless love story, Giselle, from the stage of Roberts Hall Auditorium, elegantly spinning the heart-breaking tale of a peasant girl and her love forlorn. March 18, 10am & 7:30pm; March 19, 1:30pm. Roberts Hall Auditorium, Rhode Island College, Mount Pleasant Avenue. 334-2560, www.StateBallet.com.

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FARM FRESH RHODE ISLANDWednesdays and Saturdays: Winter-time Farmers’ Market. Hope Artiste Village, 1005 Main Street, Pawtucket. www.FarmFreshRI.org.

HAMILTON HOUSEMarch 9: Whiskey and Wine Tasting. 276 Angell Street, Providence. 831-1800, www.HistoricHamilton.com.

NEW HARVEST COFFEE ROASTERSFridays: Free coffee tasting. 3-4:30pm. Hope Artiste Village, 1005 Main Street, Pawtucket. www.NewHarvestCoffee.com.

OTHERAL-ANONSundays: 7pm. First Unitarian Church, 1 Benevolent Street, Providence. Tues-days & Thursdays: 12:10pm. St. Ste-phens Church, 114 George Street, 2nd floor, Providence. Wednesdays: 7:30pm. Church of the Redeemer, 655 Hope Street, Providence. Fridays: 7:30pm and Saturdays: Noon. Ray Hall, Butler Hospi-tal Campus, 345 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence. www.RIAFG.org.

ARTISTS EXCHANGEMarch 5: Summer Camp Open House. 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston. 490-9475, www.Artists-Exchange.org

DUNKIN DONUTS CENTERMarch 20 & 26: Harlem Globetrotters 90th Anniversary Tour. 1 La Salle Square, Providence. 272-7337, www.DunkinDo-nutsCenter.com.

FREQUENCY WRITERSMarch 9-31: Epistolary Acts. School One, 220 University Avenue, Providence. 6-8:30pm. www.FrequencyWriters.org.

RHODE ISLANDCONVENTION CENTERMarch 4-6: Rhode Island RV and Camping Show. March 13: RI Inter-scholastic League Cheer Champi-onships. March 26: Advanced Spirit Nationals: Throwback to the ‘80s. March 31: 66th Annual Rhode Island Home Show. 1 Sabin Street, Provi-dence. 458-6000, www.RIConven-tion.com.

RIVIERA BINGO PALACEMarch 17: Drag Bingo. 1612 Elmwood Av-enue, Cranston. 521-3603, www.AIDS-CareOS.org.

TRINITY BREWHOUSETuesdays: Stump Trivia. 186 Foun-tain Street, Providence. 453-2337, www.StumpTrivia.com.

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RISD MUSEUMMarch 1-31: Swagged and Poufed: The Upholstered Body in the Late 19th Cen-tury and Today. March 10: Projections: Emily Wardill. March 17: Gallery Night. 20 North Main Street, Providence. 454-6500, www.RISDMuseum.org.

KIDS & FAMILY

ARTISTS EXCHANGEMarch 19: Explore the Land of Imagi-nation with Sparky’s Puppets. March 25-31: High School Revenge: An In-teractive and Family-Friendly Murder Mystery. March 26: Big Day with John McKenna. 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston.

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BROWN UNIVERSITY BOOKSTOREEvery Saturday: Children’s Story Time. 244 Thayer Street, Providence. 863-3168, www.Bookstore.Brown.edu.

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND PLANETARIUMSaturdays and Sundays: Public Plan-etarium Shows. 1000 Elmwood Av-enue, Providence. 785-9457, www.ProvidenceRI.com/Museum.

PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARYTuesdays: Zumba4Toddlers. Tuesdays: Baby Books Storytime. Wednesdays: Cradle to Crayons. Thursdays and Fri-days: Lego Club. Saturdays: Magic the Gathering: Card Game Club. Rocham-beau Library, 708 Hope Street, Provi-dence. 272-3780, www.ProvComLib.org.

ROGER WILLIAMS PARK ZOOMarch 13: Rock and Roar: A Rock-a-Baby Kids’ Concert Series. 1000 Elmwood Avenue, Providence. 785-3510, www.RWPZoo.org.

WILBURY GROUPMarch 7-31: Acting Essentials for Teens. 395 Broad Street, Providence. 400-7100, www.TheWilburyGroup.org

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AS220First Tuesday: Open Life Drawing. 115 Empire Street, Providence. 831-9327, www.AS220.org.

HAMILTON HOUSEMarch 22: Lecture Series: Myth and Meaning. March 28: Lecture Series: Foundations for a Usable Museum/Collecting the Worcester Art Museum. 276 Angell Street, Providence. 831-1800, www.HistoricHamilton.com.


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LADD OBSERVATORYTuesdays: Telescope Observing Night. 210 Doyle Avenue, Providence. 863-2323, www.Brown.edu.

PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUMMarch 5: Literary Agents and the

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PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARYMarch 10: Community Restorative Yoga. Wednesdays: Poetry Group. Wednesdays: Writers Meetup. Thurs-days: Girls Who Code Club. Thurs-days: Learn to Speak Spanish for Beginners. Rochambeau Library, 708 Hope Street, Providence. 272-3780,

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RISD MUSEUMMarch 3: Art and Design Lab. March 4: Double Take: Media Composi-tions. March 6: Open Studio. March 10: Making Art History: Capturing Narrative. March 17: Ways of Look-ing: Geometries. March 17: Teachers Lounge: On Multicultural Practice II. 20 North Main Street, Providence. 454-6500, www.RISDMuseum.org.

SARAH DOYLE WOMEN’S CENTERMondays: Girls Night Out. Snacks and informal discussions for self-identified queer women. 26 Benevo-lent Street, Providence. www.Events.Brown.edu.

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BROWN WOMEN’S BASKETBALL March 4: Brown vs. Columbia. March 5: Brown vs. Cornell. 235 Lloyd Av-enue, Providence. 863-2773, www.BrownBears.com.

PROVIDENCE BRUINS HOCKEYMarch 1: Bruins vs. Calgary Flames. March 3: Bruins vs. Chicago Black-hawks. March 5: Bruins vs. Wash-ington Capitals. March 10: Bruins vs. Columbus Blue Jackets. 1 La Salle Square, Providence. 273-5000, www.ProvidenceBruins.com.

PROVIDENCE COLLEGE FRIARSMEN’S BASKETBALLMarch 2: PC vs. Creighton. March 5: PC vs. St. John’s. 1 La Salle Square, Provi-dence. 865-4672, www.Friars.com.

TWIN RIVERMarch 11: CES MMA XXXIII presents Championship Cagefighting. 100 Twin River Road, Lincoln. 877-827-4837, www.TwinRiver.com/Entertain-ment/Twin-River-Event-Center.

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Acting OutSpice up your life with live performances of the sweetest miscellany, as the Sweet Little March Show sweeps onto the Aurora stage like a lion and off like a lamb on March 10. Featuring ventriloquist Virginia Dare, poet Jennifer Driscoll, Great Gale and much more, you’re invited to be delight-ed at this wildly adaptive and freewheeling show that takes all comers. 8pm. 276 Westminster Street, Providence. www.AuroraProvidence.com.

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Pat Gifford on Creating Opportunity for Neighborly EngagementBy Nancy Kirsch

Pat Gifford of The Providence Village speaks to the benefits of cultivating a reciprocal service-oriented community

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How many Baby Boomers and senior citizens live lonely, isolated lives? The Providence Village (the Vil-lage) began accepting members in December 2015 and aims to create interdependence, bonds and connec-tivity among its members by receiving and giving help in a neighborly way. Although there is no minimum age for membership, members are generally in their 60s and older.

Pat Gifford, a retired physician spe-cializing in geriatric care and a Village board member, explained her interest in the new initiative. Growing up in her grandmother’s tenement house in Pawtucket, she witnessed her grand-mother and two other women caring for the entire neighborhood. “I deliv-ered trays of food, and everyone baby-sat for everyone else.” In contrast, her

geriatrics practice revealed very lonely people in their homes. “Isolation and loneliness are the biggest scourges I saw… across ages and socio-economic status.” Those experiences, coupled with her role as caregiver for her ill husband, ignited her passions.

Currently, the Village, a volunteer-driven organization, provides trans-portation services to members, though it will soon offer lists of member-vet-ted vendors, as well as social and edu-cational events. Gifford is enthusias-tic about collaborative opportunities and building ongoing relationships with senior-focused organizations like Hamilton House and Lifelong Learning Collaborative, the East Side’s neigh-borhood associations – for social and educational programming – and with organizations like Brown University

fraternities and the Boy Scouts to shovel snow, for example, for Village members. “The East Side has won-derful things going for it,” says Gif-ford, “and we hope to provide some… neighbor-to-neighbor networking on a personal level.”

“The Village is not here to be ev-erything to everyone,” she expands. “We’re not a social service organiza-tion. People who want to give, as well as to receive,” and who want to partici-pate in meaningful experiences, would be ideal Village members. A volunteer driver and a cognitively engaged, yet frail, senior may develop a mutually beneficial friendship over time, she ex-plained. As we age, our social connec-tions often dissipate, something the Village seeks to remedy.

By volunteering, Village members

“pay it forward,” understanding they, too, will eventually need help. And, Gif-ford notes, observing how the Village’s older members live now offers us a wonderful opportunity to plan how we might age gracefully and safely.

“The elderly are showing us the way,” she says. As our longevity extends into our 90s, she says, those in their 60s and 70s can get guidance from the older generation, and serve as role models for the younger generation.

The Providence Village has no mini-mum age requirement for members; current dues are very modest. 441-5240, [email protected], www.ProvidenceVillageRI.org.

Nancy Kirsch is a freelance writer based in Providence. Contact her at [email protected].

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