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Steve Stycos: FARMERS' MARKET OPENS MAY 5

FARMERS' MARKET OPENS MAY 5

Saturday May 5, the Pawtuxet Village Farmers' Market will begin its fifth
season with a new emphasis on careful use of our natural resources. The
market will start small with greenhouse grown hanging plants and flats of
vegetable and flower seedlings. Among those at the market will be Ger and
Chang Xiong, who will have spinach, lettuce mix, eggs and a variety of
vegetable plants.

We will also be collecting used berry boxes (only about one month to
locally grown strawberries). The project encourages customers to return
plastic clamshell and fiberboard berry boxes to the market. We will then
attach a farmers' market recycling label and give them to farmers for
reuse.

The program will be coordinated by Annemarie Bruun, but will only work if
customers return boxes. We accept boxes purchased at the market or
elsewhere. So far, more than 500 have been collected. Clean quart
boxes.for June strawberries, pint boxes for July blueberries and half pint
boxes for September raspberries, may be returned to a table at the market.

We are also considering having a used book sale at the market. If you are
interested in helping, please hit your reply button and let us know you
are interested.

See you Saturday at the market from 9 to 12 in the upper parking lot of
Rhodes on the Pawtuxet, on Rhodes Place, just off Broad Street on the
Cranston side of Pawtuxet Village.

To receive the market email newsletter, contact ch1650@pol.net.


GREEN PARTY

Micki Whelan and Jeff Kamminga of Baby Greens are inviting all Pawtuxet
Village Farmers' Market customers to a customer appreciation brunch,
Sunday May 6 from noon to 3 at their home, 46 South Fair Street on the
Warwick side of Pawtuxet Village. Everyone is welcome for conversation,
food and a sale of jewelry and soaps made by Micki. Please RSVP to
461-7999 or babygreensri@cox.net.

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From Rasmussen Reports...

Obama is up, Giuliani slips to second, Edwards gains ground, and the other candidates remain in pretty much where they were a month ago. Those are the April results from a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey asking if citizens would definitely vote for or against the 2008 contenders.

Thirty-three percent (33%) of Likely Voters say they’d definitely vote for Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D). That’s the highest total received by any of ten leading Presidential hopefuls included in the poll. Thirty-three percent (33%) also say they’d definitely vote against Obama giving him a net differential of zero (33% definitely for minus 33% definitely against equals net differential of 0). All other candidates have a net differential in negative territory meaning more people are set to definitely vote against them rather than for them. Other polling during the past month found Obama’s favorability ratings have increased to the highest level of any 2008 candidate (see summary of all Democratic and Republican candidates)

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