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An Interview With Sean Maloney – Parenting, Baseball, and Why You Should Attend the Jog For Julie Event

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I have known Sean Maloney for more than 30 years.  We grew up here in North Kingstown, a year apart, and played recreation sports like basketball and baseball with and against each other.  Sean was a standout on the baseball team I was lucky enough to be part of at North Kingstown High School.  As his career progressed into college and then eventually into professional baseball, I followed his progress through friends and the occasional newspaper article.  I remember running into him at the gym sometime in his pro career and told him how proud I was to have played … Continue reading An Interview With Sean Maloney – Parenting, Baseball, and Why You Should Attend the Jog For Julie Event

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A Community Radio Station for North Kingstown?

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Letter to the Editor: When congress passed the Local Community Radio Act, it brought about one of the biggest opportunities in U.S. history for nonprofits and community organizations to affordably access the air waves. In the capitol city, Providence Community Radio will be launching shortly on 101.1 FM. Nonprofits have the chance to apply for a non-commercial FM radio license, or LPFM. A LPFM station could serve as a local broadcast studio, community center or multimedia training site.  This would be a powerful tool for any organization as 90 percent of Americans currently say they listen to the radio at … Continue reading A Community Radio Station for North Kingstown?

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A Health Club Blog Is A Valuable Marketing Tool For Recruiting and Retaining Members

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When I first started in the health club business back in 1994, marketing concepts revolved around mailers, cold calls, promotional events, and word of mouth.  At the YMCA I worked at in Western Massachusetts, we didn’t have a huge marketing budget, so we created flyers by hand and made copies of exercises found in text books to hand out to our members.  The other junior staff and I went through the phone book and made lists of area businesses to call upon or write letters to about programs, services, and potentially a membership.  The present day marketing staff at a … Continue reading A Health Club Blog Is A Valuable Marketing Tool For Recruiting and Retaining Members

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The North Kingstown Food Pantry Thanks Its Volunteers at 2nd Annual Volunteer Appreciation Day

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The North Kingstown Food Pantry celebrated their 2nd Annual Volunteer Appreciation Day with a cook-out at the Little Red School House. About 50 volunteers and their families showed up to enjoy hamburgers and hotdogs provided by the Pantry Board of Directors. The Food Pantry is operated entirely by unpaid volunteers and one part-time staff coordinator. Volunteers log hundreds of hours each month with client service, sorting food, stocking shelfs, clerical work, grant writing, fund raising and maintenance. While many of the volunteers sign up as individuals, some are husband and wife teams or mom and kids teams. Some of the … Continue reading The North Kingstown Food Pantry Thanks Its Volunteers at 2nd Annual Volunteer Appreciation Day