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Enjoy the sun, meet your neighbors, save the Earth!
The Providence Neighborhood Planting Program will be out again this weekend planting trees Saturday. After the gloom and deluges we’ve endured lately this is a great opportunity to get outside and enjoy what promises to be a beautiful weekend.
Times and locations:
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Archive for April, 2007
Enjoy the sun, plant trees!
Published by Jef Nickerson April 19th, 2007 in Environmentalism, Events, Neighborhoods, Other Organizations, Parks/Open Space and Trees. 2 CommentsBret discusses Transit 2020 on “The City”
Published by Jef Nickerson April 13th, 2007 in Government, Media and Transit. 0 CommentsThis month GC:PVDs Vice President, Bret Ancowitz appears on The City, Mayor Cicilline’s cable access television show. Also appearing are Scott Wolf, Executive Director, Grow Smart RI and Garry Bliss, Director of Policy, City of Providence.
The topic of conversation was the recently released Transit 2020 Report. We look forward to having Garry at our […]
Another successful GC: Exchange
Published by Jef Nickerson April 12th, 2007 in Events, GC: Exchange, Government, Graffiti, Neighborhoods, Other Organizations and West Side. 0 CommentsTuesday night we held our third GC: Exchange meeting at MoJoe’s Bar & Grill on Broadway. The evening was very informative and (I hope) a lot of fun for everyone there.
I’d like to thank our special guests for attending and sharing their work with us.
First up were Baruch Sachs and Cynthia Langlykke from the […]
Westerly to Woonsocket in 10 minutes
Published by Jef Nickerson April 9th, 2007 in Other Cities and Transit. 0 CommentsRhode Island needs one of these:
This video is from France2 Television [Story in French] and shows the TGV train reaching a new world speed record of 574.8 km/h (fast enough to connect any two points in Rhode Island in under the all important 15 minute threshold).
Next GC: Exchange Meeting | April 10th
Published by Jef Nickerson April 2nd, 2007 in Events, Federal Hill, GC: Exchange, People and West Side. 0 CommentsThe next Greater City: Exchange will be Tuesday, April 10th starting at 5:30pm at MoJoe’s Bar & Grill, 166 Broadway at Dean Street on Federal Hill.
Please join us for open discussion about the city. Our special guests will be members of the West Broadway Neighborhood Association speaking about their group, the work they do, and […]
Tree planting season is here
Published by Jef Nickerson April 1st, 2007 in Environmentalism, Events, Other Organizations, Quality of Life and Trees. 0 CommentsPhoto by Kathryn Laferte for the Providence Neighborhood Tree Planting Program
The Providence Neighborhood Tree Planting Program has upcoming tree planting events on April 14th and 21st:
SATURDAY April 14th
8:15am: Transit/Hope/George Power & Hope Williams/Governor
12:15pm: Brook Street
1:00pm: Pitman/Waterman Salvation Army
70 Trees
SATURDAY April 21st
8:30am: 50 Pembroke Street
10:30am: Corner of Tell and Knight Streets
10:30am: Westminster Street
1:15pm: Third Street
42 Trees
There […]
Graffiti Taskforce
Published by Jef Nickerson April 1st, 2007 in Government, Graffiti, Parks/Open Space and Quality of Life. 1 CommentUnder the Exchange Street Bridge in Waterplace Park; Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Photo by Jef Nickerson for gcpvd.org
It’s that time of year again, it seems like every year around this time, Waterplace becomes covered in graffiti (as does much of the rest of the city). See my photos from this time last year on woneffe.com [some […]
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