[Summit] Meetings and Events in April 2018

[David Kolsky]

Sorry, this is so late, but as you can see, it took a long time to compose.
Please let me know of any errors and omissions.
Thanks, and have a good Passover and Easter Week.
Dave
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Monday, April 2 

4:45 p.m. – City PlanCommission meeting to consider 184-6 Broadway, Brown University’s Master Plan,and Exterior Insulating Finish Systems. First floor auditorium of the JosephDoorley Building, 444 Westminster Street above Empire (facing Black Sheep &AS 220). Agenda here:

http://sos.ri.gov/documents/publicinfo/omdocs/notices/4752/2018/233944.pdf?r=1

7 p.m. – College HillNeighborhood Association Board of Directors monthly meeting (part of which maybe closed to the public). Governor Lippitt House, 199 Hope Street at Angell, facingWheeler School.

 

Tuesday, April 3 

3:30 p.m. – Federal Hill Commerce Association bi-monthlymembers’ meeting above Ristorante Roma, Atwells Avenue at Africa Street (oneblock above De Pasquale Square).

 

6 p.m. – West Broadway Neighborhood Associationmonthly general and committee meetings, West Broadway Middle School, BridghamStreet between Broadway and Westminster Streets (near Bell Street Chapel).

What do you most want to see improved in Dexter TrainingGround? Share your ideas or just listen in at our April Neighborhood Nights event, whichfeatures a presentation by the ProvidenceParks Department and WBNA's West SideParks Committee about potentialrepairs and improvements coming this year to the park. Neighbor input iswelcome and encouraged.

After the Parks presentation, stay and check out one ofour neighbor-led committees from 7-8pm.Committee highlights include a presentation about the 46-story Fanebuilding being proposed for the I-195 corridor at our CDC, discussion ofsummer/fall Armory tours at ArmoryAdvocacy, & planningthe ever-fun Neighborhood-Wide Yard Sale at Programs& Events. Summaries of allApril committee meetings here.


Wednesday, April 4



(50th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. DrMartin Luther King, Jr)

4- 5 (or maybe 6) p.m. State Agency Listening Session on Clean Air and Transportation,Providence Career & Technical Academy, 41 Fricker Street, between Broad andWestminster Streets (facing Central High School).

The Rhode IslandDepartment of Environmental Management, Office of Energy Resources, andDepartment of Transportation - on behalf of the Executive Climate ChangeCoordinating Council (EC4) - will be hosting two public listening sessions tohear ideas on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportationsector and increase the resiliency of transportation-related infrastructure.

The sessions will beheld, Tuesday, April 3, 2018, from 2 pm to 4 pm at Newport City Hall, 43Broadway, Newport and Wednesday, April 4, 2018, from 4 pm to 5 pm at theProvidence Career and Technical Academy, 41 Fricker Street, Providence.

 

Sunday,April 8, 

6:00 –7:30 pm – Elmoood Neighborhood AssociationAdvisory Board meeting. 225 Lenox Ave
    Advisoryboard meets monthly to develop outreach efforts and define the direction ofENA.
For more information, contact Paula Donovan, paula.on.lenox at gmail.com or Karen Hlynsky, karen_ena at earthlink.net.

 

Monday, April 9

7 p.m. – Fox PointNeighborhood Association monthly open board of directors meeting, CommunityRoom/Studio underneath the Vartan Gregorian School Library on Wickenden Streetbetween Governor & Ives Streets.

 

Tuesday, April 10

5 p.m. sharp – Jewelry District Association monthly meeting,Room 498, South Street Landing at Dyer Street.  (Enter on left side, under metalawning, take elevator to 4th floor.)

Tentative agenda:

I-195 COMMISSION   Peter McNally, Executive Director, will fill us in on current project status and other topicsand then he'll take questions and comments from the public.

CiTY WALK   Alex Ellis, of ProvidencePlanning & Development Dept. will outlinethe objectives and plans for designing the walk/bikeway now in process thanks to major federal Transportation Dept. grants.

http://www.jewelrydistrict.org/monthly-meetings.html

 

6:30 – 8 p.m. --   Downtown Neighborhood Association monthly meeting, Pavilion above Grace EpiscopalChurch, 300 Westminster Street

https://www.dnapvd.com/events/2018/2/20/dna-monthly-meeting-5ybmf

 

Wednesday,April 11

 9:00 – 10:30 am – Elmwood Ave Business &Community Association (EBCA) meeting, ElmwoodNursing and Rehabilitation Center, 225 Elmwood Ave
     Planfor the revitalization of Elmwood Ave planters, scheduled for May. Learn aboutPhiladelphia’s Monument Lab, a series of events that engaged residents indiscussions about the city’s monuments.
RSVP to Karen, Karen_ena at earthlink.net, (401) 941-8249

 

Monday, April 16

7 p.m. – Summit Neighborhood Association, monthlyopen board meeting, main floor cafeteria of Summit Commons, 99 Hillside Avenue,top of the hill midway between Gregg’s restaurant on North Main and ThreeSisters café at the junction of Hope St., East St., and Blackstone Blvd.

 

Tuesday, April 17

6 – 7:30 p.m. – WaylandSquare Neighborhood Association, monthly meeting, location to bedetermined.

 

Thursday, April 19

5 – 9 pm. – Gallery NightProvidence, various locations, including free admission to the RISD Faculty Biennialin the RISD Museum.

 

Monday, April 23

7 p.m. – Summit NeighborhoodAnnual Meeting (open to all), The Highlands on the East Side, 101 HighlandAvenue at Second Street.

 

Thursday,April 26

 6:00 to 8:00 – South Providence Neighborhood Association meeting,Community Prep School on Somerset St, Upper South Providence
To get on theSPNA mailing list, contact Dwayne Keys, southprovneighbors at gmail.com,(401) 369-1334. 

 

Monday, April 23,to Saturday, April 28

 Spring Book Sale of the Friends of Rochambeau Library

(708 Hope Street near Rochambeau Ave.)

Preview/Dealer’s nite on MondayApril 23,  4-8 PM- fee is$30 to enter;  

 

Tuesday, April 24th is Friends’Nite  4-8 PM (Renew or Join at the door). 

 

The sale is OPEN TOTHE PUBLIC  

from Wednesday April 25th  thru Saturday April 28th. 

 

Wednesday, April 25 (10 a.m. – 5 p.m.) and Thursday, April 26 (1 – 8 p.m.)

Prices: $1.00 per book(hardcover and large paperback); 50c for children’s’ books and smallpaperbacks. Higher priced books, first editions and rare books also forsale.

 

Friday, April 27 (1-5 p.m.)and Saturday, April 28 (1-5p.m.)

Fill-a-bag for $5.Bring your own shopping bag(s) or we can give you some.

 

 

Saturday morning,April 28

 

Earth DayNeighborhood Clean-Up, in neighborhoods all over the East Side, West End, SouthSide, Downtown and the whole city of Providence.

Specific details to come later

 

 



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