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Public Works Department Releases Holiday Rubbish Schedule

East Providence, RI –The East Providence Public Works Department, Recycling/Refuse Division announced that all household rubbish and yard waste regularly collected on Monday, Sept. 7, 2020, will be collected on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020 due to the Labor Day holiday. All collections for the remainder of the week will be delayed by one day. Regular Monday collection will resume on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Residents will need to have ALL trash carts and yard waste bags or barrels curbside by 6 a.m. on the day of collection.

For questions or more information, please contact DPW Program Coordinator, Donna McMahon at (401) 435-7701 Fax: (401) 434-1725.

What is an Urban Forest?*

--Do you love trees? --Want to learn how trees protect EP from climate change? --Want to learn how trees keep us healthy? --Want to meet like-minded neighbors to sustain and enhance EP’s trees for future generations? Please join EP Urban Forest, Wednesday, September 16 at 5:30pm for our first physically-distant Tree Talk on the Weaver Library Lawn, 41 Grove Avenue, East Providence, RI. Molly Henry, the Climate and Health Fellow at American Forests; Lou Allard, the Urban and Community Forestry Program Coordinator at the RI Department of Environmental Management; Rachel Calabro, Climate Change Program Manager at the RI Department of Health, and Cassie Tharinger, Director of the Providence Neighborhood Planting Program, will explain how trees protect us from climate change and keep us healthy.

Let’s talk about how we can protect our Urban Forest together.

Please bring your own chair and wear a mask.

Contact: Ryan McCauley, rmccauley@eplib.org, 401-228-3903

For more information, email epurbanforest@gmail.com *Answer: An urban forest is all the trees, vegetation and ecosystems in a city.

East Providence Historical Society News “2nd Sunday” Fall Open Houses Sept. 13, Oct. 11, Nov. 6, Dec. 13 1:00 - 3:30 pm

John Hunt Museum - 65 Hunts Mills Road - 02916 “ Hikes At Hunt’s”- 1:30 at the Gazebo

We welcome you to Hunt’s Mills, our 30th year on this site. Our summer visitors easily followed the Social Distancing protocol and it is working very well. Our new exhibit is outdoors behind the museum: EP’s first community garden with a 3 Sisters’ Garden to be planted in the spring with the help of the Sowams Heritage Area group. We also have an interesting collection of artifacts unearthed in the trenching. If you’ve been wanting to raise veggies/flowers but have no room to do so, watch our Facebook page and site for an announcement about how to rent a space. As always, we offer free seeds and masks. Come get seed pods for giving to your friends this holiday. Are you into recycling? Come find the giant chair made of pallet wood.

Please visit ephist.org for further information

East Providence Fire Dept. Receives

American Heart Association Award

The East Providence Fire Dept. has received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold Award for implementing quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who experience severe heart attacks.

Each year, more than 250,000 people experience a ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), which is the deadliest type of heart

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attack caused by blockage of blood flow to the heart that requires timely treatment. To prevent death, it’s critical to restore blood flow as quickly as possible, either by mechanically opening the blocked vessel or by providing clot-busting medication.

The Mission: Lifeline initiative provides tools, training and other resources to support heart attack care following protocols from the most recent evidence-based treatment guidelines. Mission: Lifeline’s EMS recognition program recognizes emergency medical services for their efforts in improving systems of care to rapidly identify suspected heart attack patients, promptly notify the medical center and trigger an early response from the awaiting hospital personnel.

“East Providence Fire Department is dedicated to providing optimal care for heart attack patients,” Director of Emergency Medical Services Capt. John Potvin said. “We are honored to be recognized for our dedication and achievements in emergency medical care efforts through Mission: Lifeline.”

“EMTs and paramedics play a vital part in the system of care for those who have heart attacks,” said Tim Henry, M.D., Chair of the Mission: Lifeline Acute Coronary Syndrome Subcommittee. “Since they often are the first medical point of contact, they can save precious minutes of treatment time by activating the emergency response system that alerts hospitals to an incoming heart attack patient.

We applaud the East Providence Fire Department for achieving this award in following evidence-based guidelines in the treatment of people who have severe heart attacks.”

City of East Providence

Addresses Allegations of Racist Stickers

The city of East Providence has been made aware of racist stickers that have allegedly been placed on city property.

Mayor Bob DaSilva, together with the East Providence Police Department, is asking the residents or visitors who comes across any form of vandalism, including stickers, promoting racism in our community, to please contact the East Providence Police Department.

“If any member of the community should witness any acts of vandalism in the future, we ask that you follow this protocol: please do not touch, attempt to remove, or attempt to cover it up in any way,” DaSilva said.

The police should immediately be contacted and informed of the alleged acts. The police will treat it as a crime scene, process the scene and collect anything of evidentiary value. September 2020 The Reporter 15

“Vandalism will not be tolerated in our community and the City is taking any act of vandalism, racism or hatred very seriously,” DaSilva added.

East Providence’s newly-formed Community Advisory Board has been made aware of the alleged acts of vandalism and asks that anyone who would like to attend its next meeting or to have their questions, comments and concerns addressed, to join the meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020 at 6 p.m. at East Providence City Hall Conference Room 306 (third floor).

The Mayor’s Community Advisory Board was created by Mayor DaSilva in an effort to bring varying racial and ethnic backgrounds with differing views together. The board, overseen by Municipal Integrity Officer Elmer Pina, was created to promote communication between communities within the city and the administration, to reduce systemic racism and bigotry and to promote the values of diversity and inclusivity within East Providence.

“I’m saddened to hear that there may have been racist stickers posted in a city park where citizens and children use” Pina said. “East Providence is rich and diverse and the City is committed to being inclusive. We stand firmly against Racism and its many forms.”

We also ask that if you have any further information pertaining to acts of vandalism, that you contact the East Providence Police Department at (401)-435-7600.