PAWTUXET

PAWTUXET ART SALE DECEMBER 9

The Fourth Annual Aspray Boat House Holiday sale will be held Saturday, December 9 from 10 to 5 on the Warwick side of Pawtuxet Village in the boat house by the park. The sale will have a selection of locally make jewelry, glass, fine art, handmade paper, wreaths and bath and body
products. Among those present will be the farmers market's Micki Whelan of Babygreens. Please consider supporting local artists by attending this sale. Mr. Peabody's will provide the food and drink.

REDUCE YOUR TRASH I

You can buy a worm compost box (The Soilsaver model) from the The R.I. Resource Recovery Corporation for about half the retail price, or $50. You have to go to Johnston (always an educational experience) to pick it up. Details are available at http://www.nerc.org/rhodeisland.html.

Every fall, I start my compost pile with the leaves from my lawn. Over the winter, I add all the vegetable scraps from my kitchen, turning it over sporadically. I continue through the summer and by fall I have a pile of good soil for my garden, just in time to start again. But a
compost box is faster, neater and more compact. Either way you will soon find yourself cringing when someone "wastes" a banana peel by putting it in the trash.

REDUCE YOUR TRASH II

The Pawtuxet Village Farmers Market has won a $1000 grant from the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund to start a berry box recycling program next year. We will be offering a 5 cent deposit for pint and quart berry boxes, but have yet to work out the details. You can help by saving your cherry tomato, blueberry or strawberry boxes.

You can always drop them off on the porch at 37 Ferncrest Avenue in Cranston (heading north on Broad Street from Pawtuxet Village, Ferncrest is the last left hand turn before Hall Library). Or you can save them and cash them when the market opens in the spring. They must
be clean and in good shape. Thanks to the ardent recyclers who regularly deposit boxes on the porch. We have stockpiled several hundred, but need hundreds more for this program to succeed.

FRIENDS OF THE PAWTUXET MEETING

The Friends of the Pawtuxet will meet Thursday December 7 from 6:30 to 8PM at the William Hall Library's program room (Broad Street in Cranston). We will plan our trips for next year, hear a presentation on the proposed concrete plant and discuss a possible winter environmental film series. We will also consider whether to join the Environment Council of Rhode Island, the environmental lobby group for $45. All interested people are welcome.