see quote on 2 nd page

-
l
But having resources isn’t
Jeff Tingley, who heads the busi- Corp., which would be an arm of the
enough, said TIP senior consultant ness attraction program for Com- Chamber of Commerce.
JohnThe
Karras.
You have
to News
take advanThe new
merce RI, said
theReduced
state hastoa97%
pro-from original
Newport
Daily
- 08/05/2016
Copy
to organization
fit letter page would be
tage of them.
gram that it hopes will keep many of run by a volunteer board of directors
The area’s “incredible amount of those graduates in the Ocean State but would have a three-member paid
asking those present to look out at
Newport Harbor in the inviting summer weather.
Page : A03
[email protected]
n
Program combats ‘summer learning loss’
s
By Sean Flynn
”
.
d
r-
t
il
m.
‘At other camps I’ve been
to, I didn’t learn as much
as I do at this camp.’
Staff writer
NEWPORT — Tony Maione
recently saw an 11-year-old learning
ratio analysis while making smoothies as part of the Hasbro Summer
Learning Initiative that is now being
offered at the Boys & Girls Clubs of
Newport County.
“If he had been sitting at a desk,
the teacher would not have had as
much success,” he said.
Maione is president and CEO of
the United Way of Rhode Island. He
joined Senate President M. Teresa
Paiva Weed, D-Newport, and others from the community on Thursday for a tour of the club on Church
Street and a visit to the places where
learning activities were taking
place.
The Hasbro learning initiative
has been offered through the United
Way since 2012, but this is the first
year a locally developed program
has been offered in this city to rising fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders.
Sixty children enrolled.
A grant from Hasbro to the United
Way makes the program possible for
1,100 children at 11 different sites in
the state, Maione said. BankNewport funding helps pay for the local
programming, he said.
Last year, a Hasbro program was
offered to kindergartners and firstand second-graders through the
Boys & Girls Clubs at Camp Grosvenor in Saunderstown, but more success is expected this year with the
SAMANTH GEE, 9
Hasbro Summer Learning Initiative
participant
Philip Sherman | Staff photographer
From left, Carmie Pinz, 9, Marialis Ramos, 9, Boys & Girls Clubs
counselor Meredith Botelho, and Misheillys Merrero, 9, play ‘bug
bingo’ during an educational summer program on Thursday at
the Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County.
older students, said Joe Tomchak,
assistant executive director of the
Boys & Girls Clubs.
The purpose of the program is
to combat the phenomenon called
“summer learning loss” that occurs
if children are not engaged in active
learning during the long vacation.
Research shows that all children,
regardless of their socioeconomic
status, lose up to two months of
math computational skills, while
children from lower-income situations also may lose up to two months
of reading skills.
All kids in the learning initiative took a test before the six-week
Copyright © 2016 Edward A. Sherman Publishing Co. 08/05/2016
August 5, 2016 2:03 pm (GMT +4:00)
program began on July 5. The children have been engaging in learning
activities seven hours a day, five days
a week, for a 35-hour week.
To measure the effectiveness of
the program, the children will take
another test when it ends Aug. 12.
Last year, participating students
statewide experienced average gains
of 15 percent in math and literacy
skills from pre-participation testing
to post-participation testing.
“I think this year will be dramatically better,” Tomchak said of
expected local results.
“I like cooking, ar t and
math,” said Lucy Martinez, 9, of
Middletown after a math activity. “I
like all those areas because we are
learning to do new things. I like to
draw and paint. In math, I was at the
low end, but now I’m high. That’s
what my teacher said.”
In another area, the adults from
the community watched the students playing “bug bingo” as they
learned about various types of bugs
in their environment.
“It’s very fun and we learn a lot of
different things,” said Ayana Mack,
9, of Newport.
Outside, other students were playing math hopscotch as they learned
about place value, addition and the
proper vocabulary to talk about
numbers in everyday life.
“At other camps I’ve been to, I
didn’t learn as much as I do at this
camp,” said Samanth Gee, 9, of
North Providence.
The children in the program are
mostly from the three Aquidneck
Island communities and Jamestown,
but they can be from other communities if they are part of military
families.
LEARNING A5
Powered by TECNAVIA
the end of the business day pensate with the extension.
tions, 43 Broadway, Newport,
emorial Blvd. West, Newport,
on Aug. 10.
“Our residents are savvy, RI 02840. Copies of bills may
p.m. “Return to Camelot — The
Collector Laurie J. though, and I have noticed be requested by contacting the
ennedy Wedding
in Newport”
The Newport
Daily News - Tax
08/05/2016
Kenney said JLS Mailing n o d e cli n e i n ‘ o n - t i m e ’ office at 845-5403.
atures vintage film clips and
usic from John and Jackie
ennedy’s wedding ceremony
nd reception on Sept. 12,
53. Presented Sundays at
“I most liked learning about the Clean
p.m. and Tuesdays at 3 p.m.
Ocean Access programs,” said Paola Rosarough Sept. 4. Tickets $15;
rio, 9, of Newport. “I’m going to help clean
an be purchased at the
Continued from A3
the beach for our project next week.”
ateway Center on America’s
Some of the students will run a lemonade
Certified teachers work with the children,
up Avenue and the Bowen’s
harf Pilot House. Free parking
as well as staff members from the Boys & Girls stand for a day on Queen Anne Square to raise
the William Street lot.
money to purchase strategy games and puzClubs.
turntocamelot.org.
June McGreavy, the librarian at Rogers zles to keep seniors at St. Clare Home mentally
High School, was helping a group of students sharp and active.
The kids go on field trips to places like the Mysmake pancakes and waffles on Thursday.
Erika Hansson, a teacher at Thompson Mid- tic Aquarium and Morris Farm on Fridays, and
ICTORY DAY CELEBRATION —
dle School, and Meredith Botelho, at teacher field trips to Camp Grosvenor on Wednesdays.
ewport City Hall, 43 Broadway,
Besides Tomchak, Joe Pratt, executive
at The Pennfield School in Portsmouth, also
ewport, noon. The United
are teaching the students this summer, besides director of the Boys & Girls Clubs, and Laueterans Council of Newport
ren Day, the club’s director of programs, led
the club’s program providers.
ounty and The American Legion
The students with McGreavy were calculat- the tours on Thursday and introduced the local
ewport Post No. 7 will host a
ctory Day Ceremony. Free. 808ing serving sizes and measuring ingredients. program to the community.
989 or [email protected].
Joseph Morra, United Way’s senior project
“We also learned what’s healthy to eat and
what’s not healthy,” said Velincia Reddick, 9, manager for expanded learning and commuof Newport. “For a project next week, we are nity investment, talked about the expansion
going to make dog treats and give them to the of the Hasbro initiative in recent years and the
gains that have been made among students.
Potter League.”
The learning initiative includes different
hursday morning. There was no
community service projects.
[email protected]
ontact information on the kayak.
A Coast Guard crew aboard a
5-foot response boat and memers of the Narragansett Bay
Marine Task Force searched
he waters from Quonset Point
the Jamestown Bridge for a
erson possibly in the water
ut didn’t find anything. The
earch has been suspended due
a lack of information.
tory Day ceremony on Monda
at noon at City Hall, 43 Broadwa
The event
free and open
Page is
: A05
the public. For more inform
tion, call 808-9989 or email mjd
[email protected].
Portsmouth library
to host lecture
Learning
PORTSMOUTH — A histo
ical lecture sponsored by th
Portsmouth Historical Socie
and the Portsmouth Free Publ
Library will be held on Tuesda
at 6:30 p.m. at the library, 26
East Main Road.
Noted history author Chri
tian McBurney will lead a le
ture on William Barton and h
special operation to captur
British Gen. Richard Presco
at Prescott Farm in Portsmou
in July of 1777, as well as oth
abduction attempts during th
Revolutionary War.
The free lecture will be fo
lowed by a book signing. Regi
tration is required as seating
limited. For more informatio
call 683-9457.
ONDAY
IEFS
Celebrating
60 Years
Saturday, August 6th
11:30am
Associated Press
6ʑʢLʝXɡ&DʣXɪɗn)ʋʢəWɛ7ɪɬȵɏ)ʋȾɏ
6LʔQDʤʦȾɏ6ʋQʔʢLDɡn)ʖȾHʣLȫɏ/ʝʦQȰɏ
$ՃɂʑQɢ/ɵEDʤLʝQɡ
Ʊ,9(Ƴǟƻ,&
)ʢLGʋɨ$XʔXVɢʃɓ
5ɛԦɡ5HDFʤLʝɚ
ʬʠəʬʠə
6DʤʦUGʋɨ$XʔXVɢʃɓ
5ɛԦɡ5HDFʤLʝɚ
ʬʠəʬʠə
Did you
WORK HERE
Face
YEARS?
ing
in the last 60
Paint
e to be in the
Would you lik
TO?
ALUMNI PHO
LQJORW
LQJLQWKHSDUN
:H·OOEHJDWKHU
H
XU
FW
SL
S
JURX
DWDPIRUWKH
Come make
Z history!
FROSTY FREE
6
01
-2
1956
ys
Give-Awa
FROSTY FREEZ
60¢
all day
496 East Main Rd., Middletown, RI
401-846-1697 www.frostyfreez.com
BUC
KR
D
W
LOCK
113 6A
N
Proposed
Rezoning
O OD L
Legend
W
LOCK
È̅ÊUÊx\ääÊ*
S
FORE
France
N
O OD L
113 9
113 8
T AVE
Pursuant to Title 45, Chapter 24, Section 53 of the Rhode Island General
Laws, 1956 (1999 Reenactment), as amended, and in accordance with the
Town Code of Middletown, Chapter 152, Appendix A, Article 28, Section
2800, adopted effective October 30, 2006, as amended, notice is hereby
given that the Town Council of the Town of Middletown, Rhode Island will
hold a public hearing at the Middletown Town Hall, 350 East Main Road, in
said Town, on the 15th day of August A.D. 2016 at 7:00 p.m. on proposed
amendments to the zoning ordinance - The Town of Middletown Official
Zoning Map seeking to rezone certain properties identified in the map and
celebration of
the
table Publishing
as shownCo.
herewith.
Copyright © 2016 Edward A. Sherman
08/05/2016
o Series, presented
by
BMW,
August 5, 2016 2:01 pm (GMT +4:00)
ctions, and grandest traditions,
Copies of the proposed amendments are on file in the Office of the Town
wport’s Gilded Age.
Clerk of the Town of Middletown and may be obtained or examined or
copied during business hours; namely, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m.
e exciting public exhibition polo
KIDDIE
CONES
Serving great ice cream to
Aquidneck Island families since 1956!
6ɪOʤZDɀʑɠ1ʑʨSɛԭFʝə
$ȷʑʢLFɈ›ɡ&ʦɞ$Ƀʑʜɂɏnʯ
TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED
AMENDMENT TO ZONING ORDINANCE
Music
§
Proposed Rezoning
OB to R-20
Current Zoning
OB
LB CT
N
LAWTOR-20
Powered by TECNAVIA