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10 | JULY 2021 7 Ways to Get Your Child or Student to Read More By Paul Lonardo

1 – Lead by Example important. Everybody has an interest short novels. It tends to be easier to draw or two, and you know your child better beginning readers into narratives of shorter If your children see you reading, they than anyone. Find out what they are into. stories. Everything happens faster, and will be more inclined to read themselves, Whether it is a nature, animals or magic, there are few if any subplots to detract especially if they see that you are plots in stories involve a wide variety from the main action, which was why they genuinely engrossed in a book. By of subjects and interests. It doesn’t even chose the book to begin with. explaining what you like about a particular have to be fiction. A nonfiction book that story, in essence you are encouraging them become an enjoyable experience achieves When I began writing, I eased into it by to pick up a book without having to force the goal you are seeking, which in this writing short stories. This is not something them to read. Plenty of studies have shown case is getting your child to go from not all writers do, of course, but for me it was that forcing students to read something reading at all to reading something on a easier than jumping into writing a full- that they have little interest in is likely to regular basis. length book my first time out. Graphic result in students not reading books at all. novels are a great way to introduce young The enthusiasm that you show for a book When my son was younger, it was a readers to books. They are illustrated, but alone could spark a child’s interest. But challenge to get him to read anything that there are story lines and plots to follow just it is not a bad idea to read books yourself wasn’t required. For me, as a writer, this as there are in traditional novels. that are written for the age of your child. was a real dilemma. Like any parent in You might even be pleasantly surprised this situation, I had to find ways to get 6 – Based on a Novel how well-written and entertaining many him to read more. I knew the two things young adult, middle grade, and even he liked more than anything was baseball Take your child to the movies. Yes, that’s children’s book are for any age reader. and creepy stories, right, the movies. Whether in the theater or anything in the at home. Pick a movie that your child likes 2 – The Broccoli Principle Goosebumps and and has seen before, or one you know they Scooby-Doo vein. will enjoy. The only thing you must do is Similar to foods children don’t like to My new novel, The make sure the movie was based on a book, eat, like broccoli, or whatever vegetable Goblin Pitcher, is the more popular the better, and preferably it might be, the best way to get them to a kids’ book that I one that can be enjoyed at any age, such eat it is by giving them small portions. It wrote with him in as The Wizard of Oz, Cloudy with a makes sense. Whatever they eat will be mind. Hopefully, Chance of Meatballs, Willy Wonka and the better than nothing, so give them a small it will be of interest to other finicky Chocolate Factory or Lemony Snicket’s A portion to start off. Even a little bit will readers. Series Of Unfortunate Events. If your child benefit them. Take the same approach liked the film, it might just be enough to with reading. Set aside some time every 4– Visit Libraries and Bookstores get them to seek out the original source to day for reading. However long it might learn even more about the characters and be, it is better than nothing. You may be Visit as many as you can. Finding topics storylines that did not make it into the film. surprised what even this minimal effort that your child is interested will be a cinch will accomplish over time. Maybe it’s just if you show them that there are ample 7 – Read, Read Again a chapter at night, but if a book really takes books on whatever subjects that matter root with your child’s imagination, they most to them. Watch them explore and It’s okay to read the same book twice, or may want to read multiple chapters each see what sections they gravitate to. The even multiple times. If a child enjoys a day to find out what will happen next, and library/bookstore experience is made book, there’s nothing wrong with them before you know it, fifteen minutes a day easier these days with the children-friendly reading it as many times as they want. It’s could quickly extend to twenty minutes, themes and attractions you are likely to all about reading and enjoyment. twenty-five, or more on certain days. And find inside as well as outside, where there that is something you have to look at as a is often a playground. These are my humble suggestions to get victory. young people interesting in books. You 5 – Start Small might have some other ways, but whatever 3 – Chose Books With a Subject it takes to ease children onto that road Matter That Interest Them Lengthy books can be intimidating and to discovery and fascination, you will a turn off for young people who do not be initiating an experience that they will This may be obvious, but it’s really read a lot. Start with chapter books or enjoy for a lifetime.

The Smithfield Times | 11 Ask an Expert My name is Tom Lopatosky. I’m the President of LOPCO Contracting (www.LopcoContracting.com) and I’m honored to have the opportunity to talk to you about home improvement on a monthly basis. I love answering your questions! Please send them to [email protected] or call 401-270-2664. Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this column! What is Drip Cap? Door, window, and water table (aka except without its rear back legs. drip cap can be made out of, and how skirtboard) areas are parts of your it usually was done “back in the day”, home that are potentially prone to Imagining this, the horizontal portion is lead. water infiltration if their installs are not of the drip cap sits on the top of the conducted correctly. piece of trim one is working to flash. When lead used to be the more The top of the drip cap is tucked into common material to make drip cap out Compounding their already natural the back side of the siding directly of, it tended to be positioned a little vulnerability as a possible location of above the piece of trim that is being different than today, as many times the allowing water into your home, is the flashed. lead did not extend over the edge of the horizontal tops of the trim in each of trim that it was being installed over. these types of areas. If these are not The bottom of the drip cap comes properly protected, they are an inviting slightly down in front of this piece of I have never been a big fan of stopping entry point to any form of moisture trim – this allows for the “drip” of any at the edge, as I feel more comfortable that would like to make its way inside. moisture that hits the top of the piece of knowing that any moisture hitting the These areas are all obviously “open” trim as it is prevented from working its top of a piece of trim we are installing areas of your home without the door, way behind the trim and made to shed has a clear path to be allowed to “drip” window, or water table taking up the off the front of it. off of it. Believe it or not, in the field corresponding space! we come across many cases of non- These days, drip cap is most commonly existent drip cap, this is quite annoying. So how does one guard against made out of aluminum but it can also moisture coming in from the tops of be made out of copper or plastic as these areas? The answer would be well. Another possible material that See Ask an Expert, page 13 with the proper installation of a type of flashing known as drip cap. Drip cap can come in various sizes, depending upon the thickness of the piece of trim About Tom Lopatosky that it is being put in place to protect. One can make drip cap themselves if Tom Lopatosky has run his own RI-based carpentry and painting they are handy with a metal-bending business since 1995; LOPCO Contracting – the “Personable, brake. Particular Professionals” – specializes in carpentry and exterior & interior painting. Recently LOPCO Contracting was named ‘RI’s Above doors and windows, the drip cap Finest Painting Contracting Company’ by ShopInRI Magazine. In is placed above the top of the top-most 2013, Tom was named “Humanitarian of the Year” by the Painting piece of trim of the door or window and Decorating Contractors of America (PDCA) and a “40 Under (the piece that horizontally travels 40” award winner by Providence Business News. He is a member across the door or window). If you of both PCA (Painting Contractors Association) and RIBA (Rhode were to look at a side profile of a piece Island Builders Association). Tom has often had weekly ‘Home of drip cap, it has the appearance of Improvement Tips’ that have aired on the radio on 630 WPRO AM looking like the side profile of a chair, and on television on WPRI 12.

12 | JULY 2021 Ask an Expert, from page 12

When we find a scenario like this, our Drip cap is EXTREMELY important! allowed to penetrate the backside of attention is often drawn to these areas If it is not accurately in place above the trim, will rear its ugly head, in due to wood that has rotted away in door, window, or water table areas, the by-product of these rotting wood some capacity and in backtracking to rotted wood is something that is bound situations that could have easily have figure out the cause, we discover that to happen and is never a question of been prevented. the drip cap is not properly where it “if” but “when” the moisture being should be.

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One of our readers submitted this to me and I’d like to share it with you ... Now the kicker – the Tales of “warranty” concerns for the homeowner: manufacturer denied the The first word of caution is “lifetime”. Whose lifetime? claim because The homeowner? The small business service provider? they cannot The material provider? The corporate parent or guarantee the franchisor? When determined, then the next step is to installation. evaluate the terms and conditions. Yup, you must read the fine print! The homeowner is very dissatisfied with the remote escape clause and lack of ownership of the Two examples: problem and would discourage anyone from doing business with that “gem” of a company! 1. Now let me “ply” you with a “gem” of a story. You may have to “mastic”ate this one for a while. 2. A “lifetime” exterior surface coating promoted This involves a vinyl siding application with a as technically superior because of its ceramic transferable “lifetime” (material only) warranty. properties. The siding was installed by an experienced contractor (now a mayor) some years ago. It was a. A local homeowner paid $$$$ for this exterior installed on the home, appurtenant structures and surface coating relying on the lifetime warranty. a shed. The siding exhibits distinct whitish spots Some years after application, the coating randomly over various surfaces (some are insulated has failed. The small business that was the walls, some are unfinished (garage)). Some walls franchisee applicator has gone out of business. both insulated and uninsulated have no spots. The The national corporation does not have any local sales representative of the product was called local representative. No worries though for to look at the problem. He deferred to corporate. the national corporate parent who can simply escape the “lifetime warranty” liability by Three independent experienced, well known claiming any or all of the following improper contractors subsequently evaluated the installation. conditions. Panels were unzipped. Installation was confirmed to be correct. All three recommended filing a i. Unsoundness of substrate defective material claim. The detailed warranty ii. Surface preparation claim procedure was followed. Pictures of all iii. Material application, etc surfaces, diagram of the buildings and their exposures, calculation of square ft of material b. Result the homeowner is very likely on the hook deemed defective, copy of the deed, etc. were with very limited recourse. submitted.

The Smithfield Times | 13 IMHO | by Ron Scopelliti Some kind of nature

I’m happy to say that, as of May 30, become intuitively anti-social animals. I’m fully vaccinated, and I’ve never I have to admit that having people stay enjoyed getting a vaccination as much six feet away from me wasn’t such a as I did when I got my COVID shots. bad thing, and when people violated It made me feel like part of something my six-foot space, I tended to get bigger; it made me feel connected with unduly territorial. If someone got too the world. Then, of course, the side- close to me in line at Target, I’d revert effects hit, and it made me wish the to the sort of defensive attitude that I world never existed. But they lasted imagine Neanderthals had when Cro- less than a day, and pretty soon I was Magnons started closing in on their looking back at them as reassurance territory. If social distancing had gone that my immune system still has on much longer I could see myself some fight in it. I felt like sending my turning into one of the ape-men from antibodies a thank-you card, but they Kubrick’s “2001”, and looking for a probably would have rejected it and thigh-bone to swing at encroaching Thibodeau’s Farm, and offered access sent it back to the post office. humans. to the so-called Indian Caves behind Club 44. This access required you Re-connecting with my immune So more than ever, I have the urge to know one of the three ways to get system brought to mind a wider change get in touch with my Paleolithic self; across Hawkins Brook, but that was that I’ve seen in myself lately: Even to wander out in the woods and re- pretty much common knowledge for though I spent so much time inside establish the connection to nature that any kid in my neighborhood. We were during the pandemic, it made me feel I’ve been well on my way to losing. stereotypical Mayberry bumpkins, more in touch with nature. Part of I don’t want to sound like some old fishing, catching frogs, and building this was because the crisis brought dude who starts every sentence with tree forts. our most fundamental human needs “back when I was young,” but Esmond to the forefront – things we take for was a much more natural setting when By the end of the decade, however, granted, like breathing, eating, and I was a kid. My parents grew up in I’d already started spending more time drinking. Making a weekly run to the Providence and later lived in North in front of a computer screen than grocery store during the first days of Providence, and I remember them hanging out in the woods. Even though the lockdown, and not knowing if there telling me how their decision to buy a I never stopped hiking and climbing, would be bread or milk, put me in mind house in Smithfield in the late fifties and later added mountain biking and of our hunter-gatherer forebears, who’d had relatives wondering why they kayaking, these activities are now wander off into the wilderness hoping wanted to move “out to the sticks.” “special events” rather than things I do to find sufficient edibles to hold them on even a weekly basis. But my now- over until the next trip. Of course, I There was some truth to what their robust immune system is encouraging wasn’t faced with the fear of starvation, relatives were saying, even when I me to spend more time in Smithfield’s but the fear of having to use condensed was growing up in the early seventies. remaining natural areas, so don’t be milk in my coffee wasn’t trivial. Before Rte. 295 turned the town into surprised to see me on Stump Pond or a major crossroad for consumers, my Wolf Hill. Keep in mind though, that And then there’s the social aspect. section of town really was a backwater, you should approach with caution, We’re always referred to as social bordered by a fringe of woods and a because I’m still unduly defensive animals, and, to a large extent, the brook. Back then, the part of Esmond about my six-foot radius, and I just pandemic robbed us of that label. If Street that runs from Dean Avenue found out that Amazon sells full-sized social distancing went on for much to Rte. 44 didn’t exist. Instead there PVC replicas of human thigh bones. longer, I worry that we might have was an open field that connected with

14 | JULY 2021 The Smithfield Times | 15 Smithfield High Students Bring Back the Music

By Joe Siegel

The students of the Smithfield High School Music Department performed at the Spring Concert held on Wednesday, May 26. It was their first live music performance in over a year. The ensemble that performed included the SHS Chorus, the SHS Band, the Sentinel Singers, and the Jazz Band.

The concert featured a mix of classic and newer songs, including: “What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor,” "Stand Up" from the film, “Harriet,” “The Storm is Passing Over,” – a gospel tune, “Crocodile Rock” and “Uptown Funk.” The concert also honored the for local nursing homes along with graduating seniors, as well as the various other small projects.” Malloy is ‘They so missed being on the stage Induction of students into the Tri-M a retired music teacher and SHS Music and performing together,” said Sandi Music Honor Society, and the substitute. Brenner, a parent and member of Induction of Mr. Gaston Malloy into the Smithfield High School Booster the SHS Music Department’s Legion “He's been a huge supporter of our Club. “It was an absolutely wonderful of Honor. “Our chapter of the Tri-M students over the years and certainly evening.” Music honor society is in its fifth deserved to be recognized,” Young year at SHS,” explained Katherine said. “He has taught private lessons to “(Because of Covid), last year the Young, a music teacher who serves our students and visits frequently with (seniors) didn’t get to have their last as choral director. “It's a student-run great resources.” concert,” Brenner continued. “At least organization focusing on leadership this year they got their last concert. and service. Students need to keep a The band and chorus also performed They were able to get on the stage and high GPA, complete service projects, outdoor concerts on May 21 at two local play to their heart’s content.” and attend monthly meetings. This year they created a virtual holiday concert See Smithfield High School, page 17

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senior citizens’ homes – The Village at Waterman Lake and Cortland Place. “It was a warm-up for the concert,” Brenner said. “It was the first time that they played anywhere in over a year.” “It was really nice,” Young said. “The residents seemed to enjoy it.”

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The Smithfield Times | 17 An Interview with Smithfield Land Trust’s Barbara Rich By James Gass

Tell us a little about yourself. Steere Orchards and Jaswell’s Farm. The purchase of the Matteo Farm on Swan I grew up in New Jersey and went to Rd. was important. We leased the land to college in upstate New York. I lived in the Jaswells. Chicago for three years and moved to Rhode Island in 1977. I got married in What are some challenges that the 1993 and moved to Smithfield at that Land Trust faces? time. A big challenge always is competing Tell us about the Smithfield Land with developers, but development and Trust. How does it differ from the land preservation can work together. The Smithfield Conservation Commission? Barbara Rich Town has a conservation development ordinance in which open space within The Smithfield Land Trust was created The residents of Smithfield (with 65% large developments must be part of the in 1999. Some of the founding members approval) supported a bond issue of about project. We have a comprehensive plan were Robert Wrobleski, Gerard Hamel, $5,000,000 to allow the Land Trust to that creates goals and plans for the town. Ken Weber and Ann Marie Aubray. protect Smithfield’s natural places and farms. You are also president of the Rhode Its mission is to preserve and protect open Island Land Trust Council. What do space, wetlands, water bodies, ground Tell us about some of the properties they do? and surface resources, farms, historical or that the Land Trust has acquired. cultural places of interest, scenic views, The Land Trust Council is a coalition of unusual, exceptional or exemplary natural The original members of the Land Trust Rhode Island’s land trusts both municipal habitats, and to provide opportunities created a map of the town to identify (like Smithfield) and nonprofit, with a for research and education on land trust areas of concern. The idea was to enhance mission of conserving land to protect properties while securing goals set forth and connect larger tracts, or green spaces. special places within our communities. by the town’s Comprehensive Plan. The other concern was our farmers. We The Council represents land trust and have some of the state’s best farm lands. land conservation interests throughout We protect about 1,060 acres in town the state, facilitates collaboration and with 21 properties. They range from 6 We preserved the Judson Property on connects leaders with training and acres to over 300 acres, the largest being Williams Rd. with a grant from RIDEM. guidance resources. They also provide The Wolf Hill Forest Preserve. It was once called Maple Lane Farms assistance to help land trusts achieve and is a beautiful property that abuts their goals and ensure sound stewardship The Conservation Commission is a Stillwater Pond. and permanent separate entity. They also protect and protection of preserve open space but have smaller Another concern is our watershed. these special neighborhood properties that provide By protecting land, we protect ponds places. access to their Seven Walks in Smithfield. and streams which are vital to the We work closely with the Conservation environment and our quality of life. The Council Commission. Some of our properties are Smithfield is part of the Woonasquatucket has helped joined. River Watershed. Our ponds provide the Smithfield huge economic benefits to the town. Land Trust I joined the Land Trust around 2006. with programs, stewardship workshops, I was concerned about the Mall at the What are your proudest achievements digitizing records and getting baseline Crossings and the way the decision at SLT? documentation for properties and was made to move forward with the project. I felt it was important to protect I am most proud of the protection of Smithfield’s farms and natural areas. our farms. We helped Blackbird Farm, See Smithfield Land Trust, page 19

18 | JULY 2021 Smithfield Land Trust, from page 18 management plans. We are currently Land Trust Days is a program sponsored We need volunteers to help us with participating in a Terre Core project by the Council and we have participated property management, educational sponsored by the Council to digitize the for many years. We are planning several programs, and scout adventures. Please boundaries of all of our properties. walks this summer. We anticipate contact us at: LandTrust@smithfieldri. inviting people to our Latham Brook com There are 42 land trusts in our little state. Preserve (we are starting to create trails Many are all-volunteer (like Smithfield). there) and maybe a farm tour. Stay tuned. Stay tuned for Land Trust Days notices. It is a large task and we are working We are participating in new program by We also work with Revive the Roots together to protect all of the special the Council called RI Walks, which will who have volunteer programs and we places in our communities. be launched soon. will post information on our Facebook page, or you can sign up with them to get Any big events coming up this summer? How can people get involved? information.

Payne’s Picks | By Sarah Payne July 2021

Movie Release Movie Review A Quiet Place Part II

The Tomorrow War – July 2021 Wrath of Man It’s not often that a sequel lives up to its predecessor, but A Quiet Place Part II The week of June 22 was designated Ever since he played the hilariously comes incredibly close. It was also the “movie week” in an effort to draw people obtuse and ultra macho Rick Ford in Spy biggest movie release since the pandemic back to the theaters. Have you seen (2015), I became an instant fan of Jason began, grossing $175 million worldwide. anything on the big screen this year? I’m Statham. In fact, the second sentence of Picking up where A Quiet Place (2018) making every attempt go and support his Wikipedia entry perfectly sums up leaves off, A Quiet Place Part II follows the industry, but July is looking light why he’s a joy to watch on film: “He is a family fighting to stay alive in a post- when it comes to blockbusters. The only known for his action-thriller roles and apocalyptic world inhabited by blind somewhat interesting film I could find portraying tough, irredeemable, and aliens. Emily Blunt as the mother takes is The Tomorrow War, starring Chris Machiavellian characters.” Those are more of a backstage role as Millicent Pratt as a dad drafted to fight in a future true words – and Wrath of Man is no Simmonds and Noah Jupe, who play war. Games Radar reported that it was exception. Scott Mendelson reported her children, each find their own originally set for a theatrical release, but on Forbes that Wrath of Man has independence and strength. I particularly then it was acquired by Amazon to debut earned more than almost any other non- enjoyed Simmonds’ performance as a on Prime Video. Director Chris McKay franchise/non-ensemble Statham action deaf actor. In promoting the first film, spoke with Total Film magazine about movie. In it, Statham plays a new cash co-screenwriter Scott Beck said: “We his inspiration for the alien creatures: “I truck driver with a mysterious past. He’s always had a deaf character in the script, wanted them to look ancient. I wanted joined by a stellar cast, including Josh but John really pushed for them to hire them to look hungry: bony, skeletal ... Hartnett and Scott Eastwood. What I love Millicent ... She came to set and taught I wanted them to look weird, where most about it is the way director Guy everyone sign language. It was really you’re a little bit repulsed but a little bit Ritchie plays with time. Throughout the amazing and brought an extra depth fascinated by them.” film the audience sees scenes played out to the film.” The scenes filmed from from multiple characters’ perspectives; Simmonds’ perspective are completely it’s reminiscent of Christopher Nolan’s devoid of sound, so the audience is put in style of storytelling. If you’re looking a similar position. It adds an element of for a film that keeps you entertained depth and a little bit of extra horror, too. and on the edge of your seat, I highly recommend Wrath of Man.

The Smithfield Times | 19 Health Awareness | by Diane L. Marolla, LICSW What will be our new normal?

If we do this together, by July the 4th, there's a good chance you, your family, and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or park and celebrate Independence Day.” – Joe Biden, President of the United States of America

During this pandemic I have done my In his late 20’s he realized his love was Diane: I am concerned that we are best to stay as informed as possible to medicine and science and went back to lifting restrictions too fast, how do you keep myself healthy. One decision I school at Yale’s School of Medicine. feel? have been conflicted about was getting He has held many positions including vaccinated. I am not an “anti-vaxxer”, working for the VA Department of Joel: I think in the Northeast, our nor am I a Trump supporter. I am neither Medicine and Public Health Service vaccination rates are good. There are a Democrat nor a Republican as I don’t’ in Washington, DC. He also was the areas in the country that the unvaccinated fit in either category. When I go in the Assistant Provost for Research at rates are high. I think in the summer we voting booth, I vote my conscious. Brandeis University. He is responsible will be fine. In the fall, we will get flu, for getting the license and patent for and maybe a resurgence. My body has anaphylactic allergic Smart Balance margarine. He worked reactions at times. It always has. at Children’s Hospital in Boston and RI Diane: I’m still going to live the Sometimes I know the source of what Hospital. As I interviewed Joel, his wife “COVID life” until the end of this year. causes the reaction, and sometimes I Pam, joined us. Joel is one of our gems I will still wear my masks indoors. I am do not. I recently had to start carrying in RI who has a wealth of knowledge. still limiting who I am with and where an EpiPen as I had a severe reaction to When I discovered he was my neighbor; I go. something unknown. In addition to my I couldn’t wait to pick his brain about allergic reactions, the ongoing politics COVID 19. Joel: If I go in somewhere, I will wear of this virus was also slowing me down a mask. I don’t need to, but I am being from making this decision. Since the Diane: Where were you when you first cautious. We can’t isolate forever. Some vaccine became available, I have been became concerned about the pandemic? people are vaccine hesitant. The only way sifting through information to read up on to get through this to get more and more the vaccines and side effects. This was Joel: We were scheduled to go on people vaccinated. The fewer people who not an easy task since what is reported is a cruise. Pam was packing. I was are unvaccinated reduce the possibility biased. It took me many months of me watching the news. I had this feeling of the COVID jumping from person to contemplating about whether to get the that something wasn’t good. I had a person. We must do this everywhere. Not vaccine. bad feeling. Nothing was publicized just in RI and the US. We must do this at this point. We cancelled our cruise around the world. The more COVID 19 is Recently, I sat down with a former public on February 15th, 2020. We started to around it develops variants. The variants health expert, Joel Cohen, CRA to get isolate then. The last time we were in a may get to the point where they are not an unbiased, experts opinion about the restaurant was March 1, 2020. controlled by the vaccine. vaccine, and how he is living now that restrictions are lifted. Joel, now retired, Diane: I was concerned about how As far as people who ask me about the had an impressive career in public health. quickly these vaccines were available to vaccine, I am still a social worker at Born and raised in South Providence, us, can you shed any light on why? heart. I don’t tell people what to do. I tell he was the first in his family to go to them to do their research, talk to their college. He received both his bachelor’s Joel: The vaccine was in development doctor, and make a decision that is best and master’s degree from URI. Prior to for twenty years for the development for for them. Specific to me, I decided to get his career in public health, Joel taught Ebola. the vaccine. middle and high school in RI and in CT.

20 | JULY 2021 The Smithfield Times | 21 When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d. By Peg Brown

And the great star early droop’d in the purchase of application for field signals.” reenactors, western sky at night, Congress also approved one additional Steven often I mourn’d – and yet shall mourn with staff person for the Army to oversee the assumes other ever-returning spring ... Corps. historical roles for other reenactments. For – Walt Whitman, summer, 1865, on the The early Civil War signaling system 46 years, he has been assassination of President Abraham relied on an elaborate code using flags. playing roles from the French and Indian Lincoln on April 14, 1865 However, the tasks assigned to this War, King Philips War, and the War of unit including battlefield observation, 1812 among many others. As I approached the soldiers’ intelligence gathering, and direction for encampment on May 16th, led by Capt. the artillery, required a better system. In 2011 there were over 30,000 Richard Henry Toller Adams, Signal The technology advanced rapidly, individuals who participated in Civil War Officer, Army Corps, and Lt. Edmund allowing telegraph “trains” (aka horse- reenactments. Over 50,000 participated Burke, we skirted a mature, fully drawn carriages) to travel long distances, during the 150 Anniversary of the start of bloomed lilac bush. I could only think and string “flying telegraph lines” the war. Reenactors also often appear in how appropriate this setting could be. transmitting information as far as 15 movies, such as Gettysburg. As the film The event, held in conjunction with the miles. As Lt. Burke explained, telegraph director stated, “they not only come with opening of a new Smith-Appleby Exhibit coders that could fit in a pocket (like a their costumes and weapons, but also with of Smithfield’s role as an important cell phone!), allowed individuals to scale the stuff in their hearts and their heads.” link in the east coast railroad system a pole and tap into any line, usually along of the 1870s, was a fully staged Civil key railroad routes. Author’s Notes: War encampment including Union and • The Signal Corps motto: “You can Confederate soldiers and their civilian As with modern technological advances, talk about us, but you can’t talk followers who had turned the lawn of special training was required. Both without us.” Smith-Appleby into an authentic 1863 the Union and the Confederacy were • Charles M. Latham, a member of Civil War venue. forced to recruit officers from other Providence High School’s 1859 tasks to be trained. In total, the Union graduating class, was a member of My escorts were in reality Ted Urbanski, eventually fielded 1,500 members of the the US Signal Corps. He was given Willington, CT, in his role as Chief signal corps; the Confederacy, 3,000. a medal for bravery when he and Signal Officer, and Daniel Costa-Dupre, The Union strung over 53,000 miles 13 other Signalmen were sent to the North Providence, in his role as Lt. of wire, allowing for the rapid transfer Dakota Territory. During battle he Burke, whose character had enlisted at of information to Washington, DC. Lt. was wounded in the heel and died age 16. When I questioned enlistment at Burke cited, for example, the list of of lockjaw in Fort Leavenworth, such an early age, Lt. Burke responded, causalities from Gettysburg could be Kansas. “You only had to have two things to join received at central headquarters in as • The 2nd RI Volunteer Infantry the ranks – be over sixteen and have two little as 12 hours. Regiment fielded 409 men at the opposing teeth so you could bite the tip Battle of Gettysburg. One was off the rifle cartridge.” Also travelling with the troops were killed, five wounded and one “sutlers” or “contractors” who often paid reported missing. The encampment was a tribute to the a bribe to be allowed to provide items • During the battle of Gettysburg, critical role the signal corps played on not issued by the armies. These could the Signal Corp largely provided both sides during the war, featuring the include brandy for the officers, beer battlefield observation. There is a technology that the 2nd RI Signal Corps for the enlisted, paper, pen, powdered monument to the Army Signal Corp helped to pioneer and implement. An ink, utensils, and canned vegetables. at the site of Little Big Horn. Army surgeon, Major Albert J. Myer, is Portraying a sutler at the Smith-Appleby • There are several Civil War credited with founding the signal corps in encampment was Steven Salisbury a cemeteries in Rhode Island June of 1860 when he finally convinced descendent of Salisbury family from including RI Veterans’ Cemetery the US House of Representatives to Worcester whose ancestral home is and a cemetery in Pascoag. approve $2,000 for the “manufacture or now a museum. As with many of the

22 | JULY 2021 All Aboard! New Exhibit at Smith-Appleby House The exhibit, assembled and curated by key volunteers, Sandra Achille and Deb Cote, includes photographs, ephemera, and artifacts documenting the important role the railroad played in the growth of Smithfield mills and businesses during the last 20th century. The railroad connected commerce throughout the state, including Esmond, Georgiaville, Stillwater, Smithfield and Wallum Lake with a terminus in Springfield. As Sandra mentioned, with the railroad system a letter from Rhode Island could reach New York City in just 3 days. A tour of the fully restored Smith-Appleby railroad flag stop station, relocated from the corner of Brighton Road and Farnum Pike in 1975, reveals a hole in the roof through which telegraph wire was strung. Additional information, including several articles and all photographs can be found on the Smith-Appleby web page. To view stories and photos related to the train station exhibit, click on Historical Photos and Articles and scroll down to Transportation.

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The Smithfield Times | 23 Christopher Olean, President, Class of 2021 Brian Mignarelli, Michael Leveille, Garrett Marcoux, Jacob Harris, and Emily Rawlinson, President, Class of Joseph Battista, Ryan Bernardo, Dante Micheli, Michael Catelle, 2022 present the Class Gift. Nathaniel J. Segee

Mallary Robert, Talia Lombardo, Adriana Kendyl Ruggieri Marcaccio, Gabrielle Antonelli

Co-Valedictorian Maximillian Chelminski, Salutatorian Victoria Richard and Co-Valedictorian Cameron Kasbarian

Nathan R. Potter, Robert Squillante, Andrew Ferragamo, Matthew Antunes, Caoilinn Gass Christopher Olean, Joseph Pitrone, Zander Semerjian, Jordan Golato, Jared Selema, John Golato

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The Smithfield Times | 25 Inside The Brown Bag | By Peg Brown The Great American Summer Tradition — Camp!

One might almost claim that summer during the war. However, in the United evolved around special themes and camp is a purely New England tradition. States, the central focus continued educational programs. Camps for STEM, And after a Covid-19 hiatus, most to revolve around developing self- arts and music, computer technology, summer camps will be once again confidence and self-sufficiency, healthy athletics, cultural and environmental welcoming children and teenagers to the bodies, and a strong sense of community. education have continued to respond “wilderness,” complete with camp fires to our ever-evolving interests. It is and the ubiquitous s’mores. New England was also the site of the suggested that summer camp may even oldest camp for Black children in the be an attractive way to force children to There has been a historic belief that time US: Camp Atwater, founded in 1921 escape technology and screen time. in the outdoors contributes to character in Massachusetts, still operates today. building. One has only to review ancient Another New England camp milestone While summer camps today might not literature to find the Spartan’s example was the founding of a camp for girls, echo the “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” of sending 12-year-old males out of the Camp Walden, Denmark, Maine, by two of 1963, you can be sure that children city to test their qualifications as potential sisters who had to have their brother sign write as least one or two letters home warriors and citizens in good standing. for the property as women couldn’t own hoping for reprieve. In a very short time, (Young men who gave up were not real estate. When the New York City however, parents usually don’t receive allowed full citizenship.) based sisters were asked, “What are you any mail from their little camper at all. doing, you’re going to take care of 30 While the first resident camp for girls in the woods by yourselves?” Their Author’s Notes: children is said to have originated in answer: “Don’t be silly, we’re going to • Unlike during Covid, during the the Alps in 1876, Americans can claim teach them to take care of themselves and Spanish Flu parents sent their early experiments that centered around each other.” children to camp in an effort to avoid authors like David Thoreau’s beliefs in the crowded cities. the importance of the lessons of nature Certainly, the founding and expansion • The earliest surviving film promoting as early as the 1830s and 1840s. Our of the Boys’ and Girls’ Scouts’ Girl Scouts, “The Golden Eaglet,” country’s first overnight camp is also said organizations, YMCAs and 4-H clubs was filmed in 1918. to have been found in Pennsylvania in fueled the growth of camps. However, • Camp Walden was the site of the 1876. The goal of the North Mountain among the strongest influences on the 1998 film, “The Parent Trap,” School of Physical Culture was not that proliferation of summer camps were starring Lindsay Lohan. different than that of the early Spartans: changes in society. One key milestone • American camps continue to respond take “weakly boys,” mostly from the city, was the elimination of child labor in to emerging needs. In 2008 the first and turn them into self-reliant and healthy 1938. More Americans moved to cities, sleepover camp for transgender young men. There is evidence that as more parents worked long hours, and children, Camp Aranu’tis, was early as 1861 a prominent abolitionist camps, including those founded by founded. may have had the same goals, using churches, “sought to save kids from the • In 2013, the American Camp trapping, hunting, boating and fishing as streets and get kids in major cities back to Association, reported that there measures of character and survival skills. nature.” were over 12,000 camps (including overnight and day), 14 million campers, over 1.5 million employed The concept of summer camp spread FDR’s New Deal programs funded camps and was thriving as an $18 million slowly. By 1900 there were only about for children, and the post-World War business. 100 camps nationwide, including those II mentality that childhood should be a • I spent my summers in the family that were organized just for girls. Most of time of innocence laid the foundation for camp on the St. Lawrence River. No camps as we know them today. Even the those early camps were in New England, indoor plumbing, no water except and by 1918 over 1,000 had been Mickey Mouse television program touted what was pumped from the river, no founded. In post-World War I France’s the value of camp. television, and no telephone until state-controlled summer camps often after I was 16. PS. I read a lot. focused on children who had grown up Modern trends in summer camps have

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The Smithfield Times | 27 50 years Ago – July, 1971 | by Jim Ignasher DC/1 Dennis J. Layfield, (United States Coast Guard), of On July 15 the Greenville, completed his service in Vietnam and was assigned “Smithfield to a military recruiting station in Rhode Island. Neighborhood Association Staff Sergeant Benjamin Crossman, Jr., of Greenville, was home for Progress” for thirty days before his deployment to Vietnam. held a meeting at the Esmond U.S. Air Force Captain Anthony J. Fascitelli, Jr. was serving at Recreation Center. Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi. On July 19, the south tower of James Coupe of Spragueville was honorably discharged from the World Trade the U. S. Air Force after serving four years with the Strategic Center in New Air Command. York City reached its maximum The 44th annual Ancients and Horribles Parade was held in height of 1,362 Glocester. feet making it, and the north tower Ground was broken for the construction of the Smithfield Boys at 1, 368 feet, Club at the bottom of Deerfield Drive. Today the building is the two tallest occupied by the YMCA. buildings in the world at the time. The advocacy group, “Citizens for the Preservation of Waterman Lake”, held a meeting at the Lakeshores Community On July 26 the Hall to discuss issuing boat stickers for those authorized to use Apollo 15 moon the lake, weed control, and the possibility of having local police mission was patrol the lake with a boat ten to twelve hours a week. launched from Cape Kennedy in In the early 1970s there was a proposal to construct an Florida. The crew interstate highway, (I-84), across northwestern Rhode Island to consisted of David Connecticut. While some were in favor of the idea, others were Scott, Alfred against it. Locally, a group calling themselves “Stop I-84 Inc.” Worden, and was established to prevent the highway from being constructed. James Irwin. Scott In July of 1971 the group elected its first officers. History shows and Irwin became the Rhode Island portion of the highway was never built the first men in history to drive Members of the charitable organization known as “The a motor vehicle, Cranford Club” were honored for their volunteer work at (the lunar rover), Zamborano Hospital in Burrillville. They included: Viola on the surface of Glasheen, Edith Scully, Hattie Knuschke, Cora Hopkins, Mrs. the moon. Out E. Spenser, Mrs. E. Knuschke, Mrs. A. Jordan, Mrs. M. Flynn, of safety and Mrs. M. Petersen, Mrs. M. Emma, and Mrs. I. Suppicich. necessity, the total distance traveled If one went to the Apple Valley Cinema in July, 1971, they was only 2.5 would have seen “Klute” a crime drama starring Donald miles. The rover Southerland who plays a detective investigating a missing still remains on the moon to this day. person’s case; or “Ryans Daughter”, a romantic drama set in England during World War I; or “The Andromeda Strain”, a sci- On July 27th a special state election was held to determine if a fi thriller involving a group of scientists trying to stop the spread sewer line extension should be constructed from Cumberland, of an extraterrestrial killer virus. See 50 Years Ago, page 29

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The Smithfield Times | 31 The Nature of Things | by James Gass Yes, they are everywhere. And no, they are not cats.

A few years ago I was at the Fort Nature Refuge in North Smithfield taking a morning hike. Returning on the blue trail, I spotted something moving around the base of a large white pine tree not too far up ahead. As I got closer, I saw a fairly large animal with uniformly dark brown fur start to climb the tree. It also had something in its mouth.

Was it a raccoon? A house cat? Its fur was too dark to be a raccoon, and seemed too big to be a house cat, although it had a tail like one. As it reached the top of the pine, it set what it had in its mouth on a branch (the leg of a skunk) and glared at me. I was at the bottom of the tree and could see the animal more clearly now. It had the face and paws of a bear, but the body and tail of a cat. It was a fisher. Fisher Cat Although it was a treat to see one so close, it was clearly annoyed by my that New Hampshire was the source (Mustelidae), which includes weasels, presence, so I left it in peace to eat its of the current population. In Rhode badgers, otters, ferrets, martens, minks, breakfast. Island, fishers are found in Providence, and wolverines. They have a wedge Kent and Washington counties, and shaped head with a pointed muzzle, Fishers are widespread in Rhode have recently become established large rounded ears and stout, muscular Island, but that was not always the in Bristol County and portions of legs with long, sharp claws used for case. They prefer large tracts of dense Newport County. They are not on any climbing. They have dense dark brown forests, which around 200 years ago of the islands in Narragansett Bay or on fur and a long, bushy tail. covered almost 95 percent of the Block Island. I have seen fisher tracks state. When the colonists arrived, everywhere I hike in Rhode Island, Active both day and night, fishers clearcutting for farming, widespread including the Powder Mill Ledges travel a wide and regular circuit in forest fires and over-hunting drove the Wildlife Refuge, right here in town. search of food, denning in hollow logs fishers up into northern New England. or in crevices in rock outcroppings They became virtually extirpated from Fishers have a reputation for ferocity along the way. Like all mustelids, they the state. and if cornered can hold off several have twin scent glands at the base of dogs. When angered, they show their their tail that emit a musky odor which Over the last several decades, forest teeth, growl and hiss and arch their they use for marking territories, but it’s restoration, suppression of fires and backs like a cat, which may have not as powerful as a skunk’s. Fishers science-based wildlife management has earned them their nickname “fisher are solitary animals except during the allowed fishers to return to southern cat.” They are not cats, but are in New England. DNA studies indicate fact members of the weasel family See The Nature of Things, page 33

32 | JULY 2021 The Nature of Things, from page 32 HELP WANTED breeding season, which is in late April.

Equally at home on the ground or in trees, fishers are J & K Electric opportunistic predators and consume any animal they can Part Time Office Assistant capture and kill. Squirrels, along with small mammals Monday – Friday such as mice, voles, and chipmunks make up the bulk Interested Applicants should email resume to: of their diet. They also eat small birds, amphibians, fish [email protected] and a variety of fruits and berries, as well as carrion (the one I saw probably had a piece of road-killed skunk in its Esmond Village Apartments mouth). Fishers are also one of the few known predators of porcupines, which they dispatch by quick, repeated A Section 8 Subsidized elderly property is blows to the victim’s face and head. The porcupine is seeking a Full Time Management Position in then consumed from the underside, avoiding the sharp a comfortable work environment. quills. Experience necessary. Benefits include health care/vacation There are many misconceptions about fishers. People Interested applicants should email resume to: often assume that if their cat did not come home it was [email protected] killed by a fisher. “That’s an urban legend,” according to Charles Brown, Principal Wildlife Biologist at DEM. “A Part-time Custodian Needed male fisher ... is certainly capable of killing a housecat ... Duties include general custodial work and but cats are much more likely to be predated by coyotes,” sidewalk snow removal in winter. he says. Analysis of the stomach contents of road-killed fishers that were first returning to the state in the 1990s The individual would also be responsible for found that none had eaten any domestic animals. But the setup of classrooms and parish events. they might get into your chicken coop or grab a free- The ideal candidate will have the flexibility to ranging bird, Brown notes. And the “screaming” call work additional hours to accommodate parish heard during spring and summer nights is actually made activities when needed. by red foxes, not fishers. Fishers do not pose a threat to humans. Applicants should submit a letter of interest to: Saint Michael’s Church Attn: Bill Bowden, Laken Ganoe is a doctoral student at URI leading a 80 Farnum Pike, Smithfield, RI 02917 or via three-year study of fisher populations in the state. She email at: [email protected] plans to place tracking collars on them to monitor their 401-231-5120 movements. If you see a fisher with a collar, report it at https://www.lakenganoe.com/fisher-report-line.html.

The Smithfield Times | 33 The Smithfield Chemical Company

By Jim Ignasher

There’s a well maintained Although the building suffered wooded path that connects the several thousand dollars worth of ball fields of the Smithfield damage, there were no injuries. High School with Deerfield An article about the fire which Park. Along that path is a bridge appeared in The Observer sated, which spans the gentle moving “the fire was one of several over Stillwater River, and if one looks the past years at the plant.” carefully along the park side of the river, especially after the The Smithfield Chemical leaves have fallen from the trees, Company is said to have been they will see the remains of old established in 1949 however, cement building foundations. Part of a building foundation of the former the company is indicated on Smithfield Chemical Company. The ruins are what remain of George E. Mattson’s 1947 map of the former Smithfield Chemical Smithfield. A newspaper article Company, a once thriving complex building when someone dropped a from the Woonsocket Call indicates of three buildings which came to an metal barrel on a concrete floor which there was another company which unfortunate end. created a spark that ignited some occupied a two-story wooden structure Nitrocellulose. An instant later there on the same site in the 1930s known as In a time long before computer was a bright flash followed by an the Sheliod Manufacturing Company digitized images, the Smithfield explosion. All three men were injured, which produced lacquer paint and also Chemical company processed old but two of them ran from the building dealt with Nitrocellulose. And like the photographic film which included with their clothing ablaze and dove into Smithfield Chemical Company, it too photo negatives, x-rays, and discarded the Stillwater River. Fortunately all experienced misfortune. cinema movie reels, the by-product of three recovered. which was Nitrocellulose, also known On July 29, 1931, an explosion as “flash cotton” and “gun cotton”, Meanwhile, the building, which occurred on the second floor of the which is extremely flammable. Those measured 30 by 30 feet, was reportedly building and flames quickly broke who worked at the company knew the “a seething mass of flames” by the time through the roof. High winds carried dangers of working with such materials the first fire engines arrived. As firemen hot embers along Pleasant View and tried to be as careful as possible, began to attack the flames a truck Avenue starting several secondary but accidents still happened. parked at the loading dock containing fires. In one instance firemen carried a barrels of lacquer suddenly exploded, bedridden woman from her home as the Perhaps the worst accident occurred on but luckily nobody was hurt. The blaze wooden roof of her house burned. Her April 26, 1949, when Prescott Jones, was so intense that firefighters from home was saved, but an outbuilding a 22-year-old chemist and recent Georgiaville and Harmony were called was lost. Fire companies from as far graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic in to assist, and 2,000 feet of hose was away as Fruit Hill and Centerdale Institute was fatally injured in a flash laid to draw water from the river to responded to assist. - fire. He’d been working in a building fight the blaze. The building was not which once stood in the area of the high insured. The Smithfield Chemical Company school ball fields near Pleasant View continued operations until 1964. Over Avenue. For reasons never determined, Another fire erupted on April 23, time, the former chemical company there was a fiery explosion, and Jones 1956, which led the roof of one of buildings were eventually leveled and emerged badly burned. He died a few the buildings to collapse. Fortunately forgotten. hours later at Roger Williams Hospital. in that instance a strong breeze was blowing which carried the heat and Fast forward to July of 2003 when Just ten days later on May 4th three embers away from an area where barrels and solvents were stored. men were working together in another See Smithfield Chemical Co., page 35

34 | JULY 2021 Smithfield Chemical Co., from page 34 the town of Smithfield was in the underground tank containing a people who might never guess what preliminary stages of upgrading the petroleum product. When work was once occupied the area. And with the trail between the high school and begun to remove it three additional passage of time the ruins of the former Deerfield Park. The U. S. Department tanks were discovered. None were chemical company have become part of Environmental Protection was reported to be leaking, and all were of the wooded landscape – almost brought in to evaluate the area due mitigated. camouflaged and nestled amidst the to concerns of possible ground underbrush, and will likely remain for contamination. EPA Investigators Today recreational fields occupy generations to come. subsequently discovered a large either side of the river, utilized by

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The Smithfield Times | 35 Nix’s Mate By Thomas D’Agostino www.tomdagostino.com

As the sun recaptures the sky glistening over Boston Harbor, a lonely monument stretches from the briny deep to greet it. Its intention is to warn mariners of the rocky reef it lay perched upon, yet many consider it a burial marker for those whose souls lie unseen beneath the pressing waves. It is the last vestige of an extinct isle Island of Nix’s Mate where lay buried among its remains, the bones of many a pirate whose fate was sealed by the hangman’s noose that was rowed out to the little island where those left on the gibbet would crumble hung portentously from a scaffold on the hangman awaited. As the rope themselves and fall below to join the the highest point of the rocky atoll. The was slipped around his neck he began pile of others, who heeded not the misty spirits still pervade the quarter, to vehemently cry for true justice to grisly warning of ill will. The island and a curse rendered from the lips of an be served upon the men that carried literally became a graveyard of pirate innocent man, remain as the only other out the evil deed. The crowd that had remains. testament to the existence of Nix’s gathered for the hanging was moved Slowly, the claws of white and water Mate. by his sincere convictions. They knew began to claim the boulders and bones. the scurvy brethren he was cohort Though the hanging of pirates and It is believed that the island of Nix’s with were guiltier than he. Still, the rogues continued, it was evident that Mate received its name from an powers that ruled ordered the execution the isle was diminishing in size. At incident in 1636 when Captain Nix to prevail. Before he hung from the some point it was noticed that all but set sail with his crew. Once at sea, the gallows he made his final plea, “God the hill where the gibbet stood had captain was ruthless and unsympathetic show that I am innocent! Let this island mysteriously succumbed to the sea. with his band. Woe to those who stood sink and prove to these people that Old timers remembered the cursed beyond his favor: for he would flog I have never stained my hands with words that permeated the air on that them on the deck, or chain them in the human blood!” fateful day when Nix’s first mate went hold as a message to all of his absolute to the gallows. Before anyone could authority. At some point, the crew had As his words trailed off into the void, remember much more, the island taken enough abuse and mutinied while so did the sound of the rope ringing vanished into the deep, and the curse the ship was docked near the island in taught, creaking to and fro from the was fulfilled. The curse and island of Boston Harbor. A harbor watch heard scaffold. The Magistrate thought Nix’s Mate would seal the fate of men, some dreadful cries from the vessel and justice was served but it was only innocent or guilty, never more. rowed out to investigate. There, they beginning. Many more pirates would found the captain viciously murdered feel the wrath of the gallows on Nix’s Now, only the cries of innocence and in his bunk. During interrogations, Mate. It was customary in those days mercy pervade the air surrounding the the crew pointed the finger at the first to suspend the executed from chains monument where the small island once mate. Their stories were close enough at the gibbet near the entrance of the jutted from the sea. Are they the cries in detail to convict the naive sailor city as a warning of the intolerance of of pirates gone to the gallows, or the and he was found guilty of murder. criminal discretion. Those who entered caws of a lonely gull? Row out to the Punishment for mutiny and murder was the Boston Harbor would pass by Nix’s marker and listen closely, or look into death by hanging, and so befell the fate Mate and get a glimpse of the destiny the deep where the bones of those who of the first mate. that befell many a freebooter as the paid a dear price for their dealings lay, hardened flesh fell from their long but do not rest in Davy Jones Locker Forever swearing his innocence, he forgotten bones. Soon the bones of along with both Nix’s Mates.

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The Smithfield Times | 39 Holiday Schedule:

When an observed holiday falls on a normal collection day, collections will be delayed by one day for remainder of the week. The following holidays will result in delayed collections: Victory Day Labor Day Columbus Day Veteran’s Day Thanksgiving Day Christmas Day New Year’s Day Martin Luther King Day Presidents Day Memorial Day Independence Day Special Events: Mattress/ Box Spring Recycling (by appointment only), Electronics Recycling, Sensitive Document Shredding, &Rigid Plastic Recycling: To be held at Smithfield DPW from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. July 17, 2021 October 16, 2021 March 12, 2022 2022 Earth Day Clean-Up: To Be Announced Call (401) 233-1034 x105 or email: [email protected] For updates and current event information.

To report a missed curbside pick-up please contact Waste Management (800) 972-4545.

To schedule Bulk, Metal and Appliance pick-ups please contact Waste Management (800) 972-4545. Bulk, Metal and Appliance collection appointments must be called in before 11 a.m. the day before the collection. Pick-ups are scheduled on a first come first service basis.

To review current recycling information please visit the Town’s webpage: http://smithfieldri.com/recycling/

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Consider donating gently used household items to those in need. Please visit the Town’s webpage to view our Donation Databse.

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40 | JULY 2021 Special collection by Appointment ONLY https://www.smithfieldri.com/recycling/whitegoodselectronics recycling/ or call 4012331034 X105 This is a list of common items under the categories to select for collection:

Metals & Appliance (RECYCLE) BULK ITEM (TRASH) hot water heater vacuum cleaner air conditioner wooden furniture refrigerator upholstered furniture weed whacker hot tub cover metal tools/electronic tools vertical blinds treadmill strollers bikes pool floats metal swing sets toddler and crib mattresses microwaves futon mattresses RECYCLING TIPS metal patio umbrella (remove carpet (cut, rolled, tied in 3 ft. fabric) sections) Plastic Rule: Any plastic container up to 5 gallons in size can be placed in your recycle cart. Please empty and rinse. Place plastic caps and covers back on the item they came from. metal file cabinets pool liner and cover metal desks Glass Rule: Bottles and jars only. Empty and rinse. Separate metal lids from glass jars. Please do not place metal shelf plastic bags in recycling Metal Rule: Cans, foil and lids. Empty and rinse. Bunch up foil. Do not flatten cans. dehumidifier carts. No plastic bags, Paper and Cardboard Rule: Paper and cardboard (flattened) and cartons. There is a cardboard washing machine bags of bags, or recy- only dumpster for large pieces of cardboard, at the Smithfield DPW, available from 7:303:00 MF. clothes dryer cling in bags. • Please do not place plastic bags in your recycle bin. No plastic bags, bags of bags or recycling dish washer inside of bags. gas grill (no propane tank) • Plastic shopping bags should be brought to a ReStore Container, available at most markets. stove

• Clothing and shoes should not be placed in the recycling cart. Please deposit clean clothing in metal fire pit one of the clothing donation boxes around town. They will even accept ripped or stained cloth- metal furniture (remove fabric) ing, as long as it has been washed. • Large rigid plastic items (lawn furniture, toys, etc.), electronics, tires, mattresses and box springs IMPORTANT are recycled during town sponsored dropoff events, see calendar for dates.

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The Smithfield Times | 41 Obituaries

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