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Volunteer Now — Prop Fabrication At Steel Yard

The 18th annual Iron Pour at the Steel Yard approaches! This wildly theatrical display of the industrial arts requires lots of planning and preparation. Organizers extend this invitation to the public: If you’re interested in flexing your creative muscle and helping produce our funnest (that’s not a word!) event of the year, then we’ve got …

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Yard Sale — Wedding Cake House

(7.30) This invitation comes from the Dirt Palace, the feminist artist-run space founded in 2000 in an abandoned library building in the commercial corridor of Olneyville. It has come to include two facilities including the Wedding Cake House, which hosts artists residencies and operates as a Bed & Breakfast. Sunday’s event takes place on the …

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Community Boating At India Point

Remember last New Year’s when you resolved to try new things? Could sailing, kayaking, and paddling be your new things? Here’s an opportunity to have fun while doing good. The Community Boating Center (CBC) can make that happen. Dues and donations support memberships for local disadvantaged youth, many of whom have never gotten out on …

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What Cheer Flower Farm Expanding

Welcome to the flower farm! I promise I will take an ‘after’ photo of this exact spot at some point in the future. Locals familiar with the miracles already achieved by this organization know that a ‘flower farm’ will happen here. Unfortunately, this summer, the popular August Flower Festival can not. What Cheer Flower Farm …

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Own A Piece Of RI State House History

Rhode Island residents will soon be able to own a piece of the white Georgia marble that was originally destined for our beautiful State House. Farm Fresh RI will be hosting a one-of-a-kind event that celebrates history, art, and community with rescued pieces of this special marble: ‘Own a Piece of Rhode Island State House …

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Lifeguards Wanted — Cash Bonuses

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is currently hiring its seasonal cohort of full-time lifeguard positions for all state swimming areas including: surf beaches such as Roger Wheeler and Misquamicut; non-surf beaches such as Goddard Memorial State Park; and freshwater beaches such as Lincoln Woods State Park. And this year they are sweetening …

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Johnson & Wales — Major In Cannabis

How many college students have joked about majoring in weed — now it is actually possible. As cannabis was being made legal for adult recreational use around the country, Johnson & Wales University saw business opportunities opening up and created a four-year Cannabis Entrepreneurship degree program. This rigorous Bachelor of Science (B.S.) spans the entire …

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