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Covering Newport County since 1846 Monday $1.00 NEWPORT MIDDLETOWN PORTSMO U T H JAME S TOWN T IVERTON NewportDailyNews.com November 2, 2015 In living color utumn colors Aframe a pathway at the Carnegie Abbey Club in Portsmouth on Sunday. Dave Hansen Staff photographer The Newport Daily News has been a constant Health, education and just plain fun Hundreds turn out for the first Family Wellness and Fun Day in Newport By Sean Flynn before met in the bus Saturday Staff writer with Maria Hudson and Linnia Phivilay, community outreach and reliable presence on Aquidneck Island NEWPORT — The first workers with the Rhode Island Family Wellness and Fun Day Women’s Cancer Screening took place Saturday morning Program, which is run by the on John H. Chafee Boulevard, Rhode Island Department of drawing hundreds of families Health. The program is based to the grounds of the East Bay at Women & Infants Hospi- Family Health Center and the tal in Providence, but Hudson Head Start Center located next and Phivilay often travel with door. the Gemma Hope Bus. Both are part of a wide range “We go wherever we know of programs there will be a offered by the lot of women,” East Bay Com- Hudson said. munity Action The program Program. is for all self- since 1846. Our publications cover the stories Susan employed and Schenck, unemployed chief operat- women, and ing officer of is not bound the health cen- by low-income ter, and Betsy Dennigan, vice restrictions, president for clinical affairs, she said. During the morning, said BankNewport contacted she and Phivilay were setting EBCAP and wanted to collab- up doctor’s appointments for orate with local agencies on a women who needed them. community-wide family day. BankNewport provided a The bank also has a partner- grant to pay for all Hope Bus ship with the Pawtucket-based operations, said Maureen DiP- Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer iero, a member of the Gloria and events that matter to our loyal and Resource Foundation, which Gemma education team. Michael Derr | Staff photos was present with its large Kathy Charbonneau, Stephanie Finan, right, and Theresa Massoud, both volunteers from BankNewport, pass out free bike helmets and Hope Bus that travels all over vice president and director snacks to Amy Wittekind, left, of Newport and her daughter, Sophia, 4, during the Family Wellness and Fun Day the state. of community relations at held Saturday at the East Bay Family Health Center in Newport. At left, Mackenzie Maynard, an educator with the A 43-year-old woman who never had had a mammogram HEALTH A7 Roger Williams Park Zoo’s Zoomobile, shows off Armando, an Eastern box turtle. ELECTION 2016: PRESIDENT Another Episcopal Church first Cruz hopes to ride The U.S. Episcopal Church’s first ‘God has not given up on respected readers. Family-owned, black leader succeeds the church’s the world and God is not finished debate momentum first female leader. with the Episcopal Church yet.’ DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — “How about this time we Associated Press PRESIDING BISHOP MICHAEL CURRY For months, Texas Sen. Ted nominate as Republicans a Cruz has flown under the radar candidate as committed to con- Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, installed He grew up in Buffalo, New York, and earned in the Republi- servative principles as Barack Sunday as the first black leader of the U.S. degrees from Hobart College in Geneva, New can presiden- Obama is to liberal princi- Episcopal Church, urged Episcopalians to York, and Yale Divinity School. tial race, an ples?” Cruz said Saturday dur- evangelize by crossing divides of race, edu- The New York-based denomination was unusual posi- ing a Republican forum in Des cation and wealth. the church of many Founding Fathers and tion for a pol- Moines. Curry used the example of his own mother now has about 1.9 million members. Epis- itician who Cruz is running an operation being given Communion at a white Episcopal copalians now are struggling with shrink- has been in with important advantages. ing membership and ongoing tensions with the spotlight He ended the last fundrais- parish before desegregation, and how that act Cruz persuaded his father to join the denomina- fellow Anglicans around the world over the since arriv- ing period with more campaign ing in Washington nearly three cash on hand than any other award-winning and always striving to do tion, and eventually become a priest. Episcopal support for gay marriage. Curry “God has not given up on the world and will represent the U.S. church in January, years ago. candidate. He has a well-funded God is not finished with the Episcopal Church at a meeting of national Anglican leaders Now, Cruz is trying to ride a super political action commit- yet,” Curry said, during a joyous ceremony in addressing the splits in their fellowship. standout performance in last tee that has been spending the Washington National Cathedral. As the ceremony began Sunday, Curry Associated Press week’s GOP debate into new money to on television adver- Curry, 62, succeeds Katharine Jefferts Sch- rapped on the cathedral door with a wooden Episcopal Church Presiding momentum for his campaign. tising. His fights with Republi- ori, who was the first woman in the job and is staff_a custom that symbolizes the ushering Bishop-elect Michael Curry He’s casting himself as the con- can leaders in Washington have of a new leader into its halls, both physical servative the party’s right flank made him a well-known figure ending her nine-year term. He served about gives a thumbs-up Sunday as 15 years as leader of the Diocese of North and metaphorical. Jefferts Schori passed her has been waiting for — some- among conservatives frustrated Carolina before he was overwhelmingly he arrives at the Washington one who’s both uncompromis- elected last summer to the top church post. CHURCH A7 National Cathedral. ing and electable. CRUZ A7 >>> NEWPORT NAACP observes WEATHER Advice B6 Classifieds B7 our very best, allow The Daily News 95th anniversary, receives Today, mostly Comics B4 INSIDE important reminder from guest 61 sunny. High Local & State A3 speaker. A3 near 61. Lotteries A7 Obituaries A4 today’s news Tonight, partly MIDDLETOWN GIRLS SOCCER Opinion A6 Some things you TEAM earns its way into the 51 cloudy. Low Police & Fire A4 For home delivery, call won’t want to miss Division III semifinals.B1 around 51. Sports B1 849-3300, Ext. 299 Details, A7 Television B5-6 to be your one-stop media shop. 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