By MERI R. KENNEDY Christmas in Pawtuxet The Pawtuxet Village Association will host its 41st Christmas in Pawtuxet event on Sunday, Dec. 13, at 4 p.m. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, no in-person attendance will be allowed. The event will be held
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The Pawtuxet Village Association will host its 41st Christmas in Pawtuxet event on Sunday, Dec. 13, at 4 p.m. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, no in-person attendance will be allowed. The event will be held virtually and streamed live on the association’s Facebook page. It will include traditional readings and music to ring in the holiday season. For more information, visit www.pawtuxetvillageassociation.org.
Mayor Allan Fung will host a virtual Menorah lighting celebration for Hanukkah on Monday, Dec. 14, at 5:30 p.m. Rabbi Yossi Laufer will take part in the event.
Due to the pandemic, the event will be held virtually and streamed live on City Hall’s Facebook page (facebook.com/cranstoncityhall). For more information, visit www.cranstonri.gov.
The St. Mary’s Feast Society will host Toys to Bring Joy, a contact-less, drive-thru toy drive, on Saturday, Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 15 Phenix Ave. in Cranston. Please bring a donation of new, unwrapped toys to benefit children in need. Toy distribution will also been done on a drive-thru basis on Sunday, Dec. 20, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the society’s building on Phenix Avenue. Everyone will receive a ticket for a chance to win prizes.
This drive is supported by many community sponsors, including Ryan J. Nardolillo and the St. Mary’s Feast Society. For more information, visit www.stmarysfeast.com.
During the month of December, Warwick Animal Hospital will be holding a drive for cat and dog food to benefit Defenders of Animals.
Warwick Animal Hospital is located at 1950 Elmwood Ave. on the Cranston/Warwick line. Donations will be accepted from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday through Friday.
To donate, call 785-2222 and ask for Tonya. She will come to your car, masked and with gloves, to receive your donation.
At Garden City Center, Santa visits will not take place this year due to COVID-19. Holiday strolls continue, however, with carolers in Victorian-era clothing, hot chocolate and a brass holiday band playing traditional and modern holiday songs.
Santa and some of his elves will walk around during the strolls, handing out the occasional “surprise” for children and adults, too. A stroll will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Dec. 12.
Additionally, a seasonal display at the gazebo, featuring trees and wreaths, has been set up for families to take holiday photographs.
State Rep.-elect Barbara Ann Fenton-Fung has announced the District 15 Holiday Contest.
There will be two divisions – best “kids” Christmas tree and best “kids” home decorations (realizing not everyone celebrates Christmas). Due to the pandemic, submissions will not be judged in person. Instead, photos can be submitted by message through Fenton-Fung’s Facebook page by Dec. 20.
Winners will be highlighted in the week following the deadline, and prizes will be distributed after Christmas. All contestants who help their parents clean up after the holidays will get a gift certificate for ice cream at Newport Creamery!
This year, the Artists’ Exchange will present a digital production of “A Christmas Carol Celebration,” curated and edited by Megan Howe and based on Charles Dickens’s classic novel.
See the entire production on Thursday, Dec. 17, at 6 p.m. on Rhode Island PBS’s OVEE platform, followed by an interactive talkback.
Join in for a digital celebration of “Christmas Carols” past! Take a journey through 16 years of Artists’ Exchange productions of “A Christmas Carol,” featuring video footage from favorite past performances, interviews with former actors and directors, even featuring an interactive talkback experience through Rhode Island PBS’s OVEE online platform.
Registration is free but required through OVEE and the link will be published on the Artists’ Exchange Facebook page. Donations will be accepted.
For more information, visit www.artists-exchange.org/a-christmas-carol or call 490-9475.
CCAP is accepting donations for its Adopt-a-Family Program. For $300, donors can support an entire family, although other amounts are accepted and appreciated. Donations are sought before Dec. 10.
Please make checks payable to Comprehensive Community Action and send to 311 Doric Ave., Cranston, RI 02910, Attention: Holiday Giving Campaign.
For more information about CCAP’s Holiday Giving Campaign, contact Sherry Diaz, vice president of social services, at 562-8336 or sdiaz@comcap.org, or Lee Beliveau, vice president of development, at 562-8356 of lbeliveau@comcap.org.
Hand and foot warmers are needed to help members of Rhode Island’s homeless community. They can be purchased at Ocean State Job lot or online.
Please drop them off at the home of Barbara and Kevin Dwares, located at 46 Balsam Court in the Garden City neighborhood. Please put the items in the plastic container located near their breezeway. The bin will be outside every day all week.
The Comprehensive Community Action Program’s Emergency Housing Assistance program assists individuals/families living in Cranston, Coventry, Scituate and Foster with back rent, security deposits, mortgage assistance, late fees associated with back rent or mortgage, moving costs and utilities. Funding is limited. For more information, call CCAP at 467-7013 or visit www.comcap.org.
Join in on Saturday, Dec. 12, at 2 p.m. and take an online journey through Boston Red Sox history with Martin Gitlin, author of “The Ultimate Boston Red Sox Time Machine Book.”
The event, being hosted by the Cranston Public Library, is free and open to the public. Registration is required, and participants must be 18 or older to register.
For more information and a registration link, visit www.cranstonlibrary.org/red-sox-nation.
The Cranston Health Equity Zone and CCAP Family Health Services will be offering free flu clinics in the community. Getting a flu shot is an easy way to help protect you and your family. To learn more, visit www.comcap.org.
The MS Dream Center will offer a virtual Chair Zoom-ba Program sponsored by Maguire Disability Law, with the class being instructed by Michelle Calise.
Classes will be offered nationally on Mondays at 1 p.m. and Saturdays at 11 a.m. for people with MS and their loved ones. There is no fee to participate and classes can accommodate up to 100 on a first-come, firstserve basis.
Please contact Anne at anne@msdreamcenter.org to register for the classes and to complete a signed liability waiver, which is required of all participants.
The MS Dream Center provides a dedicated resource and support facility in which people living with multiple sclerosis, and their care partners, may engage in a wide variety of interactive social and educational activities, workshops and therapies. The MS Dream Center’s goal is to bring awareness to the disease and reach out to those living with it, empowering them and offering important respite opportunities for care partners.
CCAP is excited to announce a new, free dental assistant training program. This 13-week program will be run using a hybrid model, with classroom work using Zoom on Mondays and Wednesdays and hands on clinical sessions Fridays and Saturday mornings at CCAP’s Coventry dental office.
Participants must live in Rhode Island, be 18-24 years old, and have a clean BCI and a high school diploma or GED. Call the Cranston Youth Center at 562-8325 today.
Boy Scout Troop 22 Cranston is looking for new Scouts. Following all the BSA and state of Rhode Island safety protocols, the troop is meeting, hiking and camping. It has a full schedule of activities planned for the 2020-21 program year. Troop 22 is affiliated with girls’ Troop 13-G, which is also looking for new members. Both units meet at the Edgewood Congregational Church, 1788 Broad St., at 7 p.m. on most Thursdays.
The program is for youth ages 11 to 18. For younger children, Troop 22 also has a relationship with Cub Scout Pack 2 Cranston. Anyone interested is invited to call Paul Kelley at 401-595-6726 for more information.
Mindful Monday is a weekly drop-in meditation group open to all teens 13 to 18 years old. Brief meditations are facilitated by CCAP’s Community Response Program team members.
The program will be held on Mondays, on Zoom, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. beginning on Oct. 5.
For more information, contact Jennifer Pelkey at jpelkey@comcap.org or 318-2555.
Trash pick-up is continuing a normal schedule, while yard waste pick-up will be on residents’ usual trash day until mid-December. For more information, visit www.cranstonri.gov.
The celebration of Christmas started in Rome about 336 (but it did not become a major Christian festival until the ninth century). Many Christmas traditions, such as decorating trees, started in Germany and later spread to other parts of the world, notably England and the United States.
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