Archive - Aug 12, 2011 - News Article
âAn Evening with Authorsâ may be growing larger and be leaving East Greenwich for this yearâs event, but the townâs large book club community will still be a major presence at the Sept. 21 book party, which will again bring popular authors to Rhode Island.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN â Last Monday, Aug. 1, a South Kingstown woman passed away after calling the police for assistance. After his wife lied unconscious in the living room, Allen Sampson stepped outside and saw South Kingstown Emergency Services waiting outside at the wrong house.
On Monday night at 1:01, Juanita Morales called South Kingstown Police to come to her home, located at 363 Curtis Corner Road, Apt. B8, because she was having an asthma attack and could not breathe. Morales lived in Champagne Heights, the South Kingstown Housing Authority complex.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN â Ten years ago when two planes struck the World Trade Center in New York City, Joe Patrick volunteered to help the victims and first responders. Patrick stood in line for two days with steel workers, working 12 hour shifts, carrying debris from Ground Zero. He volunteered for a restaurant to bring lunch and dinner to the first responders and he attended the funerals of first responders to show their families that someone knew. Yet, Patrick did not think he did enough. Now as the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, Patrick will walk to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia to Shankesville, Pennsylvania, to Ground Zero in New York to honor the befallen victims of Sept. 11, 2001.
HOPE VALLEY - It all started with one bird.
When Marc Johnson needed a companion to keep him company in his lonely pottery studio in Cambridge, Mass., in the late â80s, he sought a friend.