URI Irrigation Project 2022

What have you been up to this summer? Down in Kingston, at the University of Rhode Island, Local 528 members working for the University of Rhode Island Lands and Grounds Department have spent a portion of summer installing irrigation on the main quadrangle. The project is a collaboration between Local 528 members and their supervisors within Lands and Grounds.

In what has been an unusually hot and dry summer Local 528 members have worked through these difficult conditions. Thanks to the joint effort of our members and their supervisors the lawn at the University's center piece will…

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Local 314 Ukraine Charity

Council 94 would like to recognize Local 314 member Jackie Iasimone (Pictured below on the left), for her charitable work in putting together blankets for children impacted by the war in Ukraine. Sister Iasimone was able to rally the Rhode Island Training School community to her cause and received hundreds of dollars in donations as well as countless hours of volunteer work from family and friends.  The blankets, which were made by the RI Training School youth, will be donated to the Children’s Orphanage #2 in Lviv, Ukraine. The orphanage was established in 1947 after World War II for…more…