North Providence
Metro Notes
01:00 AM EDT on Friday, July 11, 2008
Capital City Community Centers: The Capital City Senior Program at the Lillian Feinstein Senior Center, 1085 Chalkstone Ave., will make its annual trip on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. to Camp Cronin. All are welcome.
On Wednesday at 10:30 a.m., the Wednesday Club will go to The Harborside for lunch and a shopping excursion.
On Friday, July 18, at 1 p.m., the center will offer a sign-language class.
For information on these programs or to learn more about membership, call (401) 455-3888.
St. Martin dePorres Center: The center at 160 Cranston St. will hold an identity protection program conducted by a representative of the attorney general’s office on Tuesday at 10 a.m. The movie Coming to America will be featured July 18 at 1 p.m.
A summertime fun and food event is scheduled July 22, beginning at 10 a.m. with the showing of the Rocky Point movie, You Must Be This Tall. A cookout begins at 11:30 a.m. The cost for members is $3; guests, $5. At 12:30 p.m., five bingo games for cash prizes will be held. The cost is $5 per person to play all five games.
Choir meetings are held Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. and line dancing Wednesdays from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
For information, call (401) 274-6783.
Workshop for teachers: Stephanie McMahon-Kaye & Ephraim Kaye, Holocaust educators from Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, will be the keynote speakers at the annual teacher workshop on Aug. 20 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Temple Beth El, 70 Orchard Ave.
The Kayes’ presentation will be Teaching the Holocaust: Using Grade Appropriate Methods.
All workshops will be conducted by Rhode Island educators who have successfully taught Holocaust education in their schools. Ten workshops will be presented. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
•Poetry: Writing as a Personal Response to the Holocaust
•Through the Lens: The Warsaw Ghetto
•Mixed Media Approach to Teaching the Holocaust to Special Needs Students
•Relating to Child Victims of the Holocaust.
Rhode Island Professional Development credits will be awarded to attendees.
The cost of the workshop is $20 which includes a continental breakfast, snacks, lunch and course materials.
The Summer Teacher Workshop is supported by a grant from the Alan Shawn Feinstein Foundation.
To register for the workshop, send a check payable to HERCRI, 401 Elmgrove Ave., Providence, RI 02906, or call the Holocaust Education & Resource Center of Rhode Island at (401) 453-7860 for information.
Summer program: The Bank of America recently teamed up with Roger Williams University to offer a Banking 101 workshop to 55 high school students, including more than 40 students from Greater Providence, taking part in Roger Williams’ Bridge to Success program.
The workshop was held on the Roger Williams University campus in Bristol and focused on fiscal management, products and services and credit scores and how they affect a person’s financial outlook.
The Bridge to Success Program is an 11-day residential SAT prep and college-readiness program funded by the Bank of America Charitable Foundation and Roger Williams University.
Attendance this year was the largest in the program’s seven-year history, with 55 juniors and seniors from throughout Rhode Island participating. In addition to SAT prep courses, Bridge to Success provides life-skills workshops, study groups, sports activities and cultural and recreational outings.
The Banking 101 workshop was conducted by Bank of America associates Makeba Hardy-Thomas and Rawn Duncan. Both Hardy-Thomas and Duncan are volunteers through Team Bank of America, a worldwide network through which Bank of America associates and retirees donated more than 650,000 hours last year to improve the communities where they live and work.
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