[Summit] Summit Digest, Vol 94, Issue 11

Tue Jan 15 18:22:14 UTC 2013

I'm sorry Michael that you look at the beautiful building as "just another aging behemoth. If that building is knocked down, it is a great loss to everyone. A good example of what we've already lost in this neighborhood is the present-day Fain building at the hospital. Before that stood a majestic Victorian-era school. One thing that continues to bother me about the United States (compared to much of Europe) is our quick decisions to pull down old, beautifully constructed buildings because they need work/updating rather than save them. We replace them with cinder-block boxes that have zero appeal. In England, for example, a Boots pharmacy (like CVS) wanted to locate on a certain corner in London that was occupied by a vacant church. The city agreed they could, in fact, have a pharmacy there, but they had to use the building. It's a beautiful pharmacy now -- inside a church. Here we give into big business interests (bottom line) too often and too quickly.
 Besides the Fain building example, there is a CVS in Olneyville that occupies land that once held a beautiful red-bricked Victorian school house. CVS should have been required to gut the building (keeping the shell) but that wouldn't be very capitalist now, would it?
Craig Borges
Fourth Street.

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Today's Topics:

   1. Holy Name School (Michael McGlynn)
   2. Re: New Progressive School Looking for Space (Breslers)
   3. Re: Holy Name School (Julia Steiny)
   4. newsletter (Kerry Kohring)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:05:01 -0500
From: Michael McGlynn <mmcglynn at gmail.com>
To: summit at sna.providence.ri.us
Subject: [Summit] Holy Name School
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What I hear about that place is that the facility is not up to safety
standards and the church is unable or unwilling to come up with the funds
to get there.

Just another aging behemoth.

-- 
Thank You,
Michael McGlynn
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:16:05 -0500
From: Breslers <breslerfamily at gmail.com>
To: "O'rya Hyde-Keller" <oryahk at gmail.com>,    Summit Neighborhood
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Subject: Re: [Summit] New Progressive School Looking for Space
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FYI
*re Buildings:*  The Northern RI Collaborative does programs for kids w
challenges who are "mainstreamed" to public school classrooms during the
year, but maybe NOT so safe to "mainstream" to back yards & streets during
summer.  NRIC runs programs all over, so they really know where class room
space is available.  Maybe they would be willing to share their list, or
tell you where they got it.
(We know of them because Fishel has played music for their program.)
http://www.nric-ri.org/

*note re Music:*--Fishel teaches music lessons, including to home schooled
kids, as a way of expanding their education. Two of our students started
together at about 3 & 5 years old. Still with us, at least 6 years later,
though now having individual lessons.

Good luck
Mrs B

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:53 AM, O'rya Hyde-Keller <oryahk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello neighbors,
>
> I'm part of a group of parents who are in the beginning stages of starting
> a new, progressive, independent pre-K and elementary school in Providence.
> We plan to open with a pre-K and Kindergarten with the goal of adding a
> grade each year. While eventually, we hope to buy or build a permanent home
> for our school, we are looking for temporary space for the next couple of
> years, and I'm wondering if anyone on this list has any leads on possible
> spaces in Providence. We'd love a space on the East Side but are open to
> anything.
>
> A bit about our school: While we are still working to put our mission
> statement into writing, the school will have a strong focus on the arts,
> environment, and social justice. Though it will not adhere to any
> particular pedagogy, we hope to take the best elements of more progressive
> pedagogies such as Montessori, Waldorf, and Reggio Emilio and create a
> school centered on whole-child, experiential learning -- where each child's
> intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and social needs are respected and
> supported in equal part. Our goal is to create a community of creative,
> joyful, compassionate learners who will acquire the tools necessary to
> build and sustain a more just and sustainable world.
>
> Please let me know if you have any ideas or leads: oryahk at gmail.com.
> Thanks for reading!
>
> Best,
>
> O'rya Hyde-Keller
>
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-- 
FISHEL BRESLER'S KLEZMER & HASSIDIC MUSIC -
*funded in part by a Folk Arts Fellowship grant from the RI State Council
on the Arts*.
www.LinkedIn.com/in/FishelBresler
www.FaceBook.com/FishelBresler
www.MatchBook.org/ArtistProfile1.aspx?ProfileId=302
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:20:13 -0500
From: Julia Steiny <juliasteiny at gmail.com>
To: Michael McGlynn <mmcglynn at gmail.com>
Cc: summit at sna.providence.ri.us
Subject: Re: [Summit] Holy Name School
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But you should know that when you're looking for school space, bringing it
up to code will be a huge order wherever you go.  Only a school building,
recently certified as such, will meet the state's (over-controlling and
expensive) standards.  Look at everything and find out the cost of bringing
it up to code.  Otherwise, there's nothing out.

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Michael McGlynn <mmcglynn at gmail.com> wrote:

> What I hear about that place is that the facility is not up to safety
> standards and the church is unable or unwilling to come up with the funds
> to get there.
>
> Just another aging behemoth.
>
> --
> Thank You,
> Michael McGlynn
>
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-- 
Julia
www.juliasteiny.com
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:58:08 -0500
From: Kerry Kohring <ride4995 at ride.ri.net>
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Subject: [Summit] newsletter
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    Fans of the SNA newsletter, we need some help.

    The first edition of 2013 is scheduled to hit the streets in time to announce the annual meeting on Feb. 25, but we are having difficulty getting it delivered to all the households in our neighborhood.

    All we need is at most a couple of hours of your time. We drop off a packet of newsletters at your house and you get to take a walk, delivering one to each of your neighbors. It?s good exercise (you could pay a lot for the same workout at a gym) and you frequently have a chance to chat with old friends or meet new ones.

    We have set delivery routes and usually can match volunteers with destinations near their homes. The number of newsletters allocated corresponds to the concentration of residences in a set area and we try to have only as many as can be delivered in an hour.

    So please give us a hand ? and your feet.

    Contact Liz Cameron at elizabethcameron at cox.net, phone 305-5484, or Kerry Kohring at ride4995 at ride.ri.net, phone 272-6323.

    It?s a really easy way to help improve the quality of life in Summit.

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