Sunday, February 27, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Nat Philbrick to speak at Brown on March 2
List Arts Building Room 120
64 College Street
Providence, RI
http://nathanielphilbrick.com/events-appearances
Sunday, February 20, 2011
A movie of Bristol from 1929
Monday February 28, 2011 at 7pm
Lower Level of the Rogers Free Library, Bristol RI
401 253 7223
Saturday, February 19, 2011
ZUMBA classes at Reynolds School on High Street Bristol
Monday 7:30pm
Tuesday 6:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am and 6:30pm
Thursday 6:30pm
Saturday 9 am
Zumba Gold for Seniors
Wednesday 10 am
The classes are incredibly cheap:
10 for $50 or $7 per class
D O I T!
Friday, February 18, 2011
Mount Hope Farm Wine & Chocolate party on March 19
Fantastic night of Boating questions at HMM
They have brought together a group of specialists on every phase of boat maintenance - sails, rigging, electrical, plumbing, engines, paint, etc. to get you started on the right path. Ben Hall of Hall Spars, Henry Little of North Sails, Paul Dow of New England Boatworks, Dennis Klodner of DePaul Diesel, Mike Moriarty of IMTRA, and Brian Gustafson of New England Tech will be here to address your inquiries and provide information. So bring all your questions, and enjoy free refreshments courtesy of Cisco Brewers of Nantucket. As always, admission is free for Museum members, and $5 for all others.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Polo on Second Beach this weekend!
The 23rd annual Newport Winter Festival, among New England’s largest winter extravaganzas, will begin this Friday and continue through Sunday, Feb. 27. Among the more than 150 events scheduled are the return of Newport Polo Inc.’s Beach Polo, which will be played at Second Beach during low tide on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. The event will feature up to four competing teams playing in 4-chukker matches. The Turnbull Group of Merrill Lynch-Providence, the event sponsor, will host a hospitality tent for spectators.
LOCATION: Second Beach (Sachuest Town Beach), 474 Sachuest Point Road, Middletown. Saturday, Feb. 19, and Sunday, Feb. 20, 2 p.m. (weather permitting). FREE and open to the public. For more information, visit the website or call (401) 846-0200. Additional information regarding Newport Winter Festival is available at www.newportwinterfestival.com.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Chip Osborne: Simple Steps to Organic Lawn Care
The Pennfield School, Portsmouth, RI
Monday, March 28, 2011 at 6pm-8pm
Sponsored by the Aquidneck Land trust. A free lecture.
This is especially important in terms of water quality runoff issues for those of us who live on Narragansett Bay.
Lawn fertilizer runoff is a huge pollutant.
The Living Lawn, A Lawn for Living: Simple Steps to Organic Lawn Care ... In this presentation, Chip Osborne, of Osborne Organics in Marblehead, MA, will help participants understand how we can all become better conservationists at the most local level, our backyard. Public health, our children's health, storm-water runoff, and water quality issues are all reasons why we should begin to reduce our dependence on synthetic and chemical products to grow our lawns and gardens. Mr. Osborne will present "Simple Steps to Organic Lawn Care," a detailed approach to a natural lawn care program so that participants can become better conservationists in their backyards and gardens this spring. This free presentation is made possible through a collaboration of the Newport Garden Club and the Aquidneck Land Trust.
Reception with refreshments 6:00pm - Start of the Presentation 6:30pm - RSVP to Courtney Huth at chuth@ailt.org or 849-2799 ext. 19
Learn to be a Launch Driver
Confident Captain/Ocean Pros will offer a Launch Operator License Class in Newport on March 19 and 20. The 16 hour, $350. course meets the US Coast Guard training and exam requirements to enable the operator to apply for the Launch Operator license. Completion of the course exempts students from having to take the licensing exam at the Coast Guard.
For details, visit: www.confidentcaptain.com
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Providence Children's Film Festival Feb 17-22
http://www.providencechildrensfilmfestival.org/
Baby Goats for patting at Simmons Farm
Warren Community Garden meeting
There will be a public meeting lead by Warren Town officials at 7 pm Tuesday, Feb. 15 at the Mark. V. Quirk School introducing the Warren Community Garden which formed last year and will head into its first growing season in 2011.
Cash for Gold store planning to open in Bristol
Another Formula Business is set to open in Bristol. Bristol already has 3 Real Estate companies and 1 investment company that have come in since the 2004 FB ordinance was created. (Dunkin Donuts came in before the ordinance was created.) The latest one plans to open in the old 'Novel Idea' bookstore space at 450 Hope Street. The business is called Countrywide Gold Buyers LLC (CGB) http://tinyurl.com/6jsetcs and the owner makes it clear that he is not a traditional pawn shop. He swaps cash for gold, platinum, silver and silverware and sells nothing. CGB has more than 6 identical businesses in RI and in Miami FLA. The businesses are not franchises and are privately held by the owner. Although he wanted to open in Barrington, he is planning a similar shop in Warren.
You are probably wondering what happen to Bristol's Formula Business ordinance within the downtown Historic District.
It still is in effect. It was never created to totally ban chain stores from Bristol which would be unconstitutional. What it does is place specific restrictions and regulations on what formula businesses can and cannot do - such as not exceeding 2500SF in gross floor area (450 Hope Street is 1450'SF) or not exceeding 65' of street frontage and not having drive up windows to name a few. It must "complement those businesses already in the historic zone and help promote and foster the local economic base as a whole." (This might be debatable since there are already two stores in the historic district that buy gold for cash. Coggeshall and A Jour Jewelers.)
The owner, Mr. Luis Junco, an ex- US Marine Sergeant currently lives in Warwick, RI. The store will have some comfy furniture. He plans to encourage friendly gatherings not unlike TupperWare parties where groups of friends come together to sell their wares in a "Gold Party" and designate a portion of the proceeds to go to a church or a non-profit. He also added the word "Gallery" to his name (Countrywide Gold Buyers and Gallery) because he plans to sell and display art to beautify the place - some made into sculptures created from recycled car parts! In his application to the Zoning Board he states: "Countrywide Gold Buyers LLC is a privately held Green company that engages in the purchase and re-sale of broken, used and outdated, gold, silver and platinum. We also make and sell metal art work out of scrap "recycle" parts." He later states: "CGB is committed to serve the communities where we do business, not only by paying the highest and most competitive prices in the industry but also by educating our customers about the detrimental effects that gold mining has on our environment." Other than an interior paint job, adding some display cases and changing the carpet to a wood floor, his renovations will be minor.
His next step is to go before the HDC on Thursday, March 3 to get a "Certificate of Appropriateness" and then before the Zoning Board on Monday, March 7. His business plan went before the Planning Board last night (the only item on the agenda other than a DEM Stormwater presentation) and gained a recommendation to move forward to formally apply to Zoning. It passed with a 4-1 vote. Please plan on attending these meetings if you have comments. If there are any changes I will update you.
Question: Is a full store better than an empty one?
Is the flip side of this BUYING LOCAL? Recently I have heard that three more stores are closing in the downtown. Studio Six, Time and Thyme Again and Organically Good. Please post your comments. They are welcome.
Blogger Correction: I posted a comment on Patch http://tinyurl.com/5wv6dnq about formula business restrictions. I apparently mis-spoke when noting that the number of stores was a violation of the Bristol Formula Business ordinance. The number of identical stores (six or more) only defines them as a formula business which then requires them to go before the 2 boards sited above to get special permits. It does not prevent them from coming into Bristol as a formula business. LG
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
HDC applications made easy!
It is suggested that people try to show up for this workshop if living within the Bristol downtown Historic District.
A Bristol Historic District Workshop titled "HDC Applications Made Easy" will be held on Wednesday, March 2 from 7 - 8:30pm at the Rogers Free Library, 525 Hope Street, Bristol RI. Presenters will be: Arnold Robinson, AICP and Eric Hertfelder
RI DOT/Bristol Downtown Project meeting
THE TOWN OF BRISTOL WILL BE HOSTING A
PUBLIC INFORMATION SESSION
WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
ON THE TREES AND LANDSCAPE FEATURES
OF THE HOPE STREET (RT. 114) RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT
IN DOWNTOWN BRISTOL
TO BE HELD
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011
BEGINNING AT 7:00 O’CLOCK PM
BRISTOL TOWN HALL
10 COURT STREET
THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO ADDRESS THE COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM THE PREVIOUS TOWN/RIDOT SESSION HELD ON DECEMBER 15, 2010.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Gaslands at Jane Pickens on Wed Feb 16
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