🌱FD Trains At Davison Avenue Parking Lot + Heated Beach Access Talks

Good day, people of Woonsocket; today is World Health Day! It's me again, Sylvia, your host of the Woonsocket Daily.

Firefighters spent some time training on Monday. Also, what’ll it take to get beach access for everyone? Finally, there will be a Rally for a Safe Injection Site.

First, today's weather:

Cloudy with rain and drizzle. High: 54 Low: 46.

Here are the top five stories today in Woonsocket:

1. If you were near the Rivers Edge Recreation Complex on Monday, you undoubtedly saw the firefighters. New members received training on “running a fire engine’s pumping equipment.” This is not the kind of skill you want to learn when you are facing a burning structure. (The Call)
2. "The people in Woonsocket should have exactly as much access to the shore as anyone else here — the same amount of access as people who abut the shore," said a South Kingstown resident. The General Assembly is willing to make it happen and establish the public’s right to access “10 feet above the recognizable high tide line.” Critics assert that it is “an unconstitutional taking of private property,” we learned Wednesday. (The Providence Journal)
3. There’s a Rally for a Safe Injection Site on April 21 at 5:30 p.m. It will be held at 46 Arnold Street. Join “a local mother who tragically lost her son to an overdose in Woonsocket” and hear speeches from healthcare professionals and community organizations. (@WATCH_Coalition)
4. Meals on Wheels thanks the “82 donors who helped us raise over $9,600 in just 24 hours.” Their “generous support will help us continue to provide More Than A Meal to home-bound seniors from Woonsocket to Westerly each weekday.” (Meals On Wheels RI)
5. Officials announced on Wednesday that “the new Rhode Island license plate will look a little like the old one — a reimagining of the blue wave.” The artist who designed the plate is “Willem Van Lancker, a Middletown native who now lives in South Kingstown.” His entry was picked from 900 others. Some 300,000 people voted. You will see it on the backs of vehicles starting around Labor Day. (Newsbreak)

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Today in Woonsocket:

• Botanizing Walk at Lincoln Woods State Park with RIWPS volunteer Paul Dolan (10 AM)
• Toddler Time at Aero Trampoline (12 PM)
• Wise Guys Trivia at Black Bar & Grille (7:30 PM)
• Unlimited Bowling at Walnut Hill Bowl (9 PM)

From my notebook:

• A Bernon Cares neighbor is looking for an electrician to come install a Ring spotlight. (Nextdoor)
• Our neighbor, Joan A Spearman, doesn't like the new plates; there's no color to it; they should have picked the one with the blue and yellow in it. (Patch)

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— Sylvia Cochran

About me: Sylvia Cochran works out of sunny Southern California and has been freelance writing full-time since 2005. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Best Fiends (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.