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Friday, July 24, 2015
Russell J. Moore, GoLocalProv MINDSETTER™
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Chapel Grille
The Cranston restaurant has announced that it will honor gift certificates up to $100 in value, from the Faial Restaurant, from July 27 to August 1. Faial closed abruptly, and for good, earlier this month, leaving those with gift certificates out of luck. That was until Chapel Grille stepped forward. The two establishents had absolutely no relationship, but the Chapel Grille wanted to do someting good or Rhode Islanders. If that's not good corporate citizenship, I'm not sure what is.
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#300 Women
A grass roots organization comprised of (primarily) minority female volunteers has elected a new board of directors including Diana Garlington, President;. Kira Wills, Vice President; Lisa Scorpio, Social Media and PR; and Leah Seaton, Treasurer. The group is currently volunteering at the Providence Midnight Basketball League Games, but will continue to do what they can to improve our community. It's always nice to see good people stepping forward to do what's right to make things better!
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Allan Fung
The Mayor of Cranston actually decided to order a police investigation after a former Woonsocket Mayoral candidate, who also co-hosts a weekend radio show on 630 WPRO, called his house around 9 p.m. on Monday evening to ask him why there was a police detail at one of the Pawtucket Red Sox listening tour stops (in Cranston). Look, I get that the mayor was unhappy to be pestered with a (relatively) late night phone call, but Fung's overreaction was highly inappropriate--to put it mildly. Let's hope nobody calls the police on the mayor next time he's running a phone bank for one of his upcoming elections.
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Gina Raimondo
Ironically, both major candidates in last year's gubernatorial contest find themselves ice cold this week. The Governor ran a campaign last year promising to grow jobs, and her first budget focuses on empowering the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation to facilitate the process. Yet the Commerce Corporation didn't even have a single meeting with Teespring, Rhode Island's hottest company that's been compared to Uber and AirBNB, before it decided to move to Kentucky and take its 300 manufacturing jobs with it. That's incompetence.
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Angel Taveras
It's been more than 6 months since Taveras formally left the mayor's office last year, but the bad news won't subside for the former mayor for some reason. RINPR reports that the former Mayor is being sued for allegedly firing a former public works director in 2012 for refusing to hire unqualified individuals.
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Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox had lost 7 games in a row going into Thursday night's game, and with the team in last place in their division with the worst record in the American League, it's clear now that fans should abandon all hope of the team reaching the post season for the second time in two years. Football season can't get here fast enough for New England sports fans.
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