Kent Hospital offers free document-shredding

Kent Hospital is teaming up again with Shred-It, a document destruction company, to offer free shredding of confidential documents for the public on Saturday, July 11. Shredding of checks, invoices and other types of personal papers will be offered between 9 a.m. and noon, in the parking lot opposite the hospital’s Emergency Department, 455 Toll Gate Rd., Warwick.

Lead-hazard mitigation class scheduled

Westbay Community Action’s Lead Hazard Education and Outreach Program will offer a free lead-hazard mitigation class to owners of rental properties on Monday, July 27. Most owners of pre-1978 rental units are required to take this three-hour course that will be held at 5 p.m. at the Warwick Public Library, 600 Sandy Lane.

Registration is required. For more information, or to register for a class, call (401) 732-4660, ext. 134, or e-mail kdrowne@westbaycap.org.

Chafee to speak at Sakonnet Preservation Association

The annual meeting of the Sakonnet Preservation Association will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, at the Sakonnet Golf Club playhouse, 79 Sakonnet Point Rd., Little Compton.

The event is free and open to the public. Former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee will be the featured speaker.

The Sakonnet association, Rhode Island’s oldest private nonprofit land trust, acquires land and conservation easements, principally through donations. For more information, call (401) 635-8800.

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