Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The BMX professional urged East Providence residents, for instance, to unite to save the city's middle school sports programs as part of his K-Rob Foundation endeavors.
Kevin Robinson is well-known in East Providence for his X Games gold-medal winning skill on a BMX bike. But he has become just as recognizable for his charitable endeavors through the K-Rob Foundation. Robinson's moniker is K-Rob. He and his wife, Robin, are both East Providence natives and attended the city's public schools. They moved to Barrington to raise a young family. But when they heard their hometown's athletic programs in the middle schools were on the chopping block last year, for example, they didn't sit back and watch. "I don't think [the budget commission] is thinking of the repercussions...You can't keep taking away from kids who don't have a voice," Robinson said. He added that he thinks property values will dip as the …
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
10-year-old Eddie Roia hopes to raise enough money to provide the Bristol Animal Shelter with a "Kids Corner" and help support the construction of a new shelter.
Rhode Island is so small you could walk across it in a few hours. Or is it? What started as an innocent joke regarding the size of the smallest state in the U.S. has set one 10-year-old boy on a physical, educational, and rewarding journey to prove that his home state isn't so tiny, all while raising money for a local animal shelter. Fourth grader Eddie Roia of Riverside, along with his grandmother and homeschool teacher Jeanne Casiano, recently decided to put a creative twist on a school project by intertwining Roia's studies with a way to benefit the Bristol Animal Shelter. "Basically what I'm doing is walking across Rhode Island over five days to prove that it isn't such an easy thing to do," Roia says. "I'm collecting donations and …
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Devin Beck, Tiverton native and employee at a country club in East Providence, rode cross-country on his bicycle from Jan. 11 to Feb. 25 to raise money for Executives Without Borders.
From St. Augustine, FL to San Diego, CA, in 46 days, Tiverton's Devin Beck reported that he moved "pretty quickly" across the country on his bicycle to help raise money for Haiti's plastics recycling problem. His trip covered 3,002 miles of U.S. highways and backroads. "I feel like I did amazing," he said Tuesday night over the phone in Pacific Beach, San Diego. He said some bikers he met along his trip asked why he was going so fast. Beck, 23, also a PGA golf professional at Wannamoisett Country Club in Rumford, left St. Augustine, FL, on Jan. 11 to San Diego. He slept in a tent and found affordable lodging along the way. He raised $6,000 for the non-profit organization Executives Without Borders and their work in Haiti. Beck's original …
Robert Gagnon
7:28 pm on Saturday, March 10, 2012
Sandra This school committee stopped paying Bradley, this school committee stopped all payment to meeting street school, this school committee passed a budget with 7 million dollars of additional spending over last year which brought the deficit from 6.2 million to 13.9 million dollars. This school committee turned the problem into a special education issue. This school committee ran knowing full… more ›