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GriefSpeak: Grief is Color Blind – Dr. Mari Dias
By: Dr. Mari Dias “Privilege: Having the rare opportunity to do something that brings particular pleasure.” Grief has no color. Grief has no ethnicity, race, or culture. Nor does grief belong to a social or educational class or gender. Albeit there are different beliefs, values and funereal practices associated with death, death itself is universal…
Read MoreIt’s official – RI Governor Raimondo chosen for Commerce Secretary
The New York Times was the first to report that President-elect Biden would appoint Governor Gina Raimondo, as Commerce Secretary – a Cabinet level post. But it’s been on the lips of everyone in Rhode Island for weeks. First, it was HHS, but as soon as that opportunity was not realized, Commerce was a natural…
Read MoreYour Coronavirus Update – Today, Dec. 11, 2020
Photo: The Marvel Comic, “VITALS”, honoring nurses, will be out on Dec. 30th. It is “Dedicated to the 4000 AHN nurses and their leaders who proved superheros are anything but fiction”. You can read it online, here: https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/93069/the_vitals_true_nurse_stories_2020 RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY At its most critical time of death and cases, the RI Dept. of…
Read MoreYour Coronavirus Update – Today, Dec. 9, 2020
Photo: The National Vaccine Summit was held yesterday with experts from vaccine companies, shipping companies, and vaccine research providing a show and tell of where we are and the process ahead. Full video is on the RINewsToday Facebook page, at: https://www.facebook.com/RINewsTodaydotcom RHODE ISLAND & VICNITY The NEARI voted unanimously for Gov. Raimondo to close all…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update – Today, May 11, 2020
Photo: Crosstown Printing building, Cranston. The crane is a symbol of joy and prosperity NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL Dr. Fauci will be self-quarantining as well as several other members of the White House team. Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control, and Stephen Hahn, the head of the Food and Drug Administration, have…
Read MoreRI Weather Today – Sunday, March 28, 2021
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist The mature low pressure system sets up shop directly overhead and makes itself at home for the duration, light to moderate rain lasting from morning until night. Easterly winds gusting into the 20’s drive the rain slightly sideways through the day, helping maintain the rawness of the wet conditions. A tight…
Read MoreHow Do We Thrive in the Face of Adversity?
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL “What is to give light must endure burning.” – Viktor Frankl His famous book, Man’s Search for Meaning, tells the story of how Viktor Frankl survived the suffering and degradation of the Holocaust by finding personal meaning in the experience, which gave him the will to live through it. In…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update for RI – March 23, 2020
INTERNATIONAL Bolivia delays elections and enters total quarantine India’s streets are quite as country quarantines Israel – The country now has 1,071 official cases, including one death and 18 patients in serious condition Barbados gets 700,000 in ventilators and 1/2 million from Rhianna Hundreds of Americans stranded in Peru as country goes on lockdown – govt…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update – RI – March 20, 2020
INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL California is under statewide “shelter in place” order Liquor Stores have been closed in Pennsylvania Vegas Air Control Tower closed Amazon warehouse employees in NYC & Seattle test positive Tiffany & Co. closes Playboy has ended its print publication permanently – will continue digital JC Penney closes all stores Over 2000 more…
Read MoreCranston’s Saturday Morning Basketball. 64 years, still going strong…
By John Cardullo, sportswriter The program began as an idea to utilize the city’s school gyms on Saturday mornings. It was spearheaded by Cranston’s legendary Coach Ed Stebbins and Cranston Recreation Director Settimo Ricci, who was the city’s recreation director from 1953 to 1968. The concept was simple, to open the city’s school gyms and…
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