Community Corner
North Kingstown Environmental Fair
The NK Groundwater Committee and the NK Water Department are
hosting the NK Environmental Fair at the NI Community Center on May 3rd from
10:00am to 2:30pm. The event is free
and open to the public. Donation of a
non-perishable food item for the NK Food Pantry is encouraged..
Mark Depasquale, owner of the wind
turbine off Ten Rod road, will have a table and answer attendee questions about
what it is like to live within 250 ft of a huge wind turbine in terms of
residential impact, flicker, ice throw and noise. He will also be signing up interested attendees and kids for
future tours to his turbine.
Also of interest at the Fair, CCRI's Engineering Department will be
demonstrating how wind turbines generate electricity and will have hands on
demos with kids and their parents through the Kool Kids Learning Passport
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Additionally, the URI Sea Level Rise/Climate Change Project plans
to show folks how far the water will rise towards the Community Center under
different sea level rise scenarios, and the Rain Barrel decorating contest will
be judged by Beverly O'Keefe, the RI Water Lady who has donated a rain barrel
to be decorated by a NK school
A partial list of exhibitors include: Concerned
Citizens of Davisville, Casey Farm, Toxics Information Project, Master
Gardeners, Slocum Grange, Recycling Solutions, Friends of the Allan Madison
House, RI Water Lady (Bev O’Keefe), URI Sea Level Rise/Climate Change Project,
National Wildlife, Land Conservancy of NK, RI Master Composters, URI Outreach,
CCRI Engineering Wind turbine experimental display, NK Wild Life
Rehabilitators, Hunt River Fish Count
Project, Southern Rhode Island Conservation District, Wind Turbine Exhibit and
Horse Play . For questions call
Harriet Powell at 294-4737 or Tim Cranston at the NK Water Department at
268-1522.
