Local Happenings

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RISING SUN FISH LADDER CELEBRATION

The Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council cordially invites you to the Celebration of the Rising Sun Mills Fish Ladder on Monday, June 2nd, 2008 at 10am at Rising Sun Mills, 166 Valley Street, Providence RI, 02909. Please join us and our partners, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and Struever Brothers Eccles & Rouse, Inc., to celebrate this historic grand opening. This season is the first time in over 140 years that oceangoing fish have been able to venture upstream of this dam.

This grand opening represents the launch of a much larger plan to restore the Woonasquatucket River to spawning, oceangoing fish. This Fish Ladder will open the Woonasquatucket River as a safe haven for the alewife herring to come back to our river for many years to come. This is just the first step to making our river accessible and restoring the population of aquatic life in Rhode Island. Within the next few years, we have plans that will allow fish to bypass the first five dams on the river opening up spawning habitat for about 40,000 adult herring.

Senator Jack Reed and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse have agreed to attend and speak at this event. We have invited press and media as well and we would be honored if you could attend.

Please call 401-861-9046 or email Alicia Lehrer at [email protected] if you plan to attend.

We hope to see you on June 2nd at Rising Sun Mills.

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ProvFlux V: August 7-10. As the PIPSters put it: "Part carnival and part conference, ProvFlux brings together artists, theorists, urban adventurers and the general public to share their visions of what the city can be, and to take action to make it a reality."

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Along with all the other Buy Local events, like Craftland, the inhabitants at the Grant decided to throw its collective hat into the ring... therefore:

December 13

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December 06, 7-10pm

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James Howard Kunstler Lecture

For those of you who like their urban planning mixed in with apocalyptic visions of the death of suburbia (yay!), famous author James Howard Kunstler is coming to Providence to speak April 1st at RISD's Chace Center.

For those not familiar, he's the author of "The Geography of Nowhere" and "The Long Emergency", and happens to be a fan of Providence. Here's the link the the AIAri site with details:

http://www.aia-ri.org/index.php?section=co...4&year=2009