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www.pawtuckettimes.com The Blackstone Valley’s Neighborhood Newspaper since 1885 Newsstand: 50 Cents Upcoming events not to be missed Page A6 Monday, May 11, 2015 WEATHER Stabbing TODAY Teacher High: 82 suspect Low: 65 doesn’t nabbed as WHAT A swimming W RLD stop escape fails Local and wire reports Woman hospitalized SKELETONS following EP attack learning EAST PROVIDENCE (AP) — Police say a man has GO WAY OUT Sawyer recognized been arrested after a 40-year- old woman was stabbed at as city’s top educator her apartment. OF THE CLOSET East Providence Police By JONATHAN BISSONNETTE Chief Christopher Parella did PARKER, Ariz. (AP) — A [email protected] Phoenix couple has claimed not immediately release the responsibility for putting two PAWTUCKET – At 7:30 in woman’s name or her condi- fake skeletons sitting in lawn the morning, third-grade teacher tion after the Sunday morn- chairs in the Colorado River Donna Sawyer is already at ing attack. in far west Arizona, authorities Francis J. Varieur Elementary The Providence Journal said Friday. School. reported the man was taken The husband and wife Although the school day into custody after he tried to approached the La Paz County doesn’t start for another hour, swim across Bullocks Cove Sheriff’s Office earlier this she is in the classroom and after the stabbing at week and revealed how the ready to tutor young students. Bullock’s Point Village on skeletons in their closet ended By 7:45, parents drop off their Providence Avenue. The up at the bottom of the river in children, and Sawyer helps them woman was taken to a hospi- Parker. with their schoolwork. tal. “They were nervous at Not only is Sawyer an early A neighbor, Sonya first,” Lt. Curt Bagby said. Pacheco, said that she has bird, she also in a sense is a The Times/Ernest A. Brown “They thought they might be night owl, because four days a known the woman for 12 Donna Sawyer, rear, a second- and third-grade teacher in Pawtucket schools for 28 years. Pacheco said the in trouble. But when they week, she will stay until 4 p.m. years, works with, from left, third-graders Lyndis Correa, Aaliyah Ballou and Sieara finally came in, they brought a woman has two daughters, a McLean at Varieur Elementary School. Sawyer has been named the school district’s son and a toddler grandson. photo as proof that they were Teacher of the Year. the ones who put them there.” See TEACHER, page A2 Pacheco said one of the The pair, who may identify daughters was at home with themselves publicly next her mother Sunday and week, came forward after see- THE ART OF CELEBRATING MOM escaped during the attack. ing all the media attention sur- rounding the skeletons. The Sheriff’s Office has no plans to file any charges since the Grebien tries skeletons weren’t endangering anyone, Bagby said. new appeal ON THE WEB to PawSox, Follow us on Twitter: @TheTimesofPawt state officials By JONATHAN BISSONNETTE Like us on Facebook Pawtucket Times [email protected] PAWTUCKET – Mayor TODAY’S QUESTION Donald R. Grebien, in a letter to Gov. Gina Raimondo, Should NFL executives House Speaker Nicholas A. Mattiello, and Senate suspend Tom Brady? President M. Teresa Paiva- Yes Weed, called on state offi- cials to be “thorough and No thoughtful” in their decisions Go to pawtuckettimes.com regarding the Pawtucket Red to answer Sox ownership group’s pro- posal, which would move the INDEX team to Providence. Amusements........................A7 Grebien wrote that he felt Comics................................B5 a “decision of this magni- Obituaries............................A5 tude” should not be made to Opinion................................A4 Plenty of last-minute Mother’s Day “accommodate the time Sports..................................B1 gifts were produced Saturday in the frames as dictated by a new Television...........................A7 Caidin Room of the Children’s Library and anxious ownership at the Pawtucket Public Library as kids group,” adding that he felt participated in the holiday craft pro- the issue should be handled CONTACT US: gram. Kids created necklaces for fami- in a thorough and thoughtful Circulation: 401-767-8522 ly members, or any special lady in manner “with the utmost Editorial: 401-767-8550 their lives, during the afternoon event. level of transparency and Advertising: 401-767-8505 accountability,” so taxpayers ABOVE: Catalina Santos, left, of are aware a decision was Pawtucket, and her friend, Kierstyn Please Pace, of Norton, both 6, create made “with the greatest ben- recycle Mother’s Day necklaces. efit for Rhode Island.” this paper He also commended state LEFT: Darren Nova, 7, front, and leaders who have proposed Galileo Gonzalez, 8, both of that the General Assembly Pawtucket, show off the necklaces hold a special legislative ses- they made. sion between the end of this year's regular session and No.111 prior to the end of the calen- Vol. CXXVIIl Vol. The Times/Ernest A. Brown See PAWSOX, page A2 WHEN YOUR SMILE SHINES... YOU SHINE! First tropical storm 10% SENIOR DISCOUNT (60 Years +) of season falls apart about 15 miles northeast of Ana’s remains to Whiteville. The storm’s bring showers maximum sustained winds were at 35 mph. Gradual Tuesday morning weakening was expected over the next few days, AP and CALL REPORTS according to the hurricane center. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The hurricane center said • Restorative, Preventive, Cosmetic • Dental Implants Tropical Storm Ana lost the its latest advisory would be • Crown & Bridges, Full & Partial Dentures last of its strength and was the last on Ana and its rem- downgraded to a depression nants. • Periodontics “Gum Treatment” • Extractions as it created wet and windy Local forecasters say the Abbas Ghorieshi, DMD, CAGS • Joseph Areias, DMD, CAGS conditions along the North fading storm should pass Office Hours by Appointment and South Carolina coasts. south of New England on At 5 p.m. Sunday, the Tuesday morning, bringing (723-6555401) 723-6555 115 Newport Ave., Pawtucket, RI National Hurricane Center some badly needed rain to a NOW “WE DO DENTURES” said the center of the PRIVATE - STATE depression was located See STORM, page A2 A2 THE TIMES FROM PAGE ONE/NATION Monday, May 11, 2015 2012. She also was a third-grade a career in nursing or other med- with her grandchildren, when a when you get into this kind of job, teacher at Winters Elementary ical professions. young woman who was cashing you cannot try without the heart Teacher School from 2000 through 2005. However, after volunteering at a her out saw her name on a credit and without the love for children.” — about 90 minutes after students In 2012, Sawyer took on her pre-school, she decided that she card and said that she used to have Being named Teacher of the are dismissed for the day — to current role, teaching third graders wanted to open her own pre- a teacher with the same name. Year was “a huge surprise” for aid another group of children who at Varieur Elementary. school and teach children. After realizing that the woman Sawyer. She said that prior to will stay late for extra help. School Superintendent Patti Although that never came to in front of her was in fact her for- being presented with the honor It is this commitment to educa- DiCenso said that the “excellent fruition, it focused her on a career mer third-grade teacher, the girl Wednesday, she had no inclination tion, among other factors, which teachers” in Pawtucket are “doing in education. told Sawyer, “you were my of what was coming. She saw fam- led to Sawyer being named the heroes’ work here.” “I get a class list in June of favorite teacher, you were the best ily members – including her school district’s Teacher of the Sawyer, in particular, “When students … and I take that class teacher in the world, I loved you, I daughter, husband, daughter-in- Year. you walk into her classroom, you list and that becomes like my chil- never ever thought I’d see you law, and granddaughter – and then Sawyer, who has been teaching feel it,” DiCenso said. “You can dren … And it becomes like any again!” Sawyer recalled. it “kicked in” when DiCenso came some form of elementary school see the room is alive with the stu- other parent would do. They The girl is now a student at into her classroom with a bouquet since 1987, spoke of the signifi- dents’ work.” would want the best education, the Johnson & Wales University, of flowers and informed her stu- cance of molding young minds DiCenso said one of Sawyer’s best tools, the best opportunities where she is learning to hopefully dents that their teacher had been over the last 28 years. students told her that their teacher for their children, and so those one day become a baker. chosen as the award recipient. “It’s a tremendous amount of understands where the students’ children for a year are mine and I “It just fills you up with such “I just cried, but happy tears,” work,” she said. “It’s very, very gaps in learning are, while also want the best for them,” Sawyer joy that these children have gone Sawyer said. “We were all kind of important, because they establish understanding how to fill those said. on … To see that they’ve become in a state of shock, but it’s an their routines, they establish their gaps so they can move forward. “I've done a lot of after-school successful is amazing,” Sawyer amazing honor. I’ve worked for 28 personalities, they establish their “When the students under- time to make sure I have those noted.

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