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Tuesday,
April 21, 2015
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Article Index . . .
2014 Duck
Derby Champion, Linny Cakes enjoyed her visit to
Hawaii!
Twin
River Group Plans to Move Newport Grand to Tiverton.
Sandywoods Center for the Arts
announces on-going events!
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2014 Duck Derby
Champion, Linny Cakes enjoyed her visit to Hawaii! EverythingWestport.com Tuesday,
April 21, 2015 As February
continued to dump massive amounts of snow on the SouthCoast,
Linny Cakes, the winning duck from the 2014 Allens Pond Duck Derby fundraiser, enjoyed the warmth and
hospitality of Hawaii. This little
rubber duck earned roundtrip airfare to Oahu for Linda and Richard Crossley
by beating out the other 5777 racing ducks who were racing the incoming tide
at Barney’s Joy this past August at the 11th Annual Allens
Pond Duck Derby to win her adoptive parents from Fall River the grand prize
of dinner for two, anywhere in the world with round-trip airfare and two
nights’ lodging. Click here to watch short video of 11th Annual Allens Pond Duck Derby.
Photo/EverythingWestport.com Linda first
learned of the Duck Derby while traveling with girlfriends to Atlantic City
and was impressed. “I thought, for a
$10 donation to the wildlife sanctuary – that’s quite a prize. I was at the Bayside restaurant having
dinner with Richard and saw a young woman selling ducks there and purchased
two, one for us and one for my daughter.”
Then, like all
the other duck adopters – she went on with her life and didn’t think much
about it. Until her duck
won. Linda wasn’t at
the Duck Derby festival to hear her name being announced to the crowd of
hopeful winners (there were 40+ other prizes to be won, including the beloved
and underestimated Slacker Quacker, whose last
place arrival wins its adoptive parent a free duck entry to the next Derby) –
she was helping her daughter with a project at home and received a voice mail
from Gina Purtell, Sanctuary Director. Ducks are available for
online adoption for the 12th Annual Allens Pond Duck
Derby; this year to take place the weekend of August 15th & 16th. Once she was
notified of winning the grand prize, the hardest part of the process started:
deciding where to go. Imagine, two
tickets to anywhere in the world.
They considered Rome, but decided on Hawaii, where the Crossleys would like to retire. The couple extended their trip to ten days
in paradise, while relatives at home sent photos of the storms to her phone;
they returned those messages with photos of the beach, tropical drinks, their
travel tours to breathtaking areas of the island, the USS Arizona Memorial
and their dinner that Linny Cakes also provided
with their win – an amazing luau.
Above left: Linda and
Richard Crossley of Fall River enjoy the percs of
Hawaii while (right) wining duck Linny Cakes
lounges on the white sands of Oahu. The Duck Derby
fundraiser supports the Allens Pond Wildlife
Sanctuary, and 100% of the duck adoptions go right to the organization,
thanks to our generous and dedicated 2014 grand prize sponsors: Sylvan Nursery, Inc., The Bayside
Restaurant, Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., Nye Synthetic Lubricants, Millbury
& Company, and Robert B. Feingold and Associates, P.C.. Ducks are
available for online adoption for the 12th Annual Allens
Pond Duck Derby – this year to take place the weekend of August 15th &
16th. For complete
details and to adopt securely online, visit:
http://www.massaudubon.org/get-outdoors/wildlife-sanctuaries/allens-pond/news-events/duck-derby,
or call
508.636.2437 and adopt your ducks over the phone. Also, be on the lookout for brochures and
outreach tables to show up soon at area businesses and events. Ducks are $10 each, a flock of five is $40
and a box of thirteen quackers is $100. Get in on the
race, and the chance to win your trip of a lifetime while supporting the
important work being done at the Allens Pond
Wildlife Sanctuary. Twin
River Group Plans to Move Newport Grand to Tiverton. Twin River Management Group has
secured the rights to acquire 45 acres of land off of Route 181, along the
Massachusetts state border. EverythingWestport.com Tuesday, April
21, 2015 The owners of
Twin River Casino announced Tuesday that they plan to move Newport Grand to
Tiverton according to a press release issued by the company. Click here
for all the details and video. The plan entails constructing
a casino on a 45-acre site in Tiverton off Route 81 next to the Massachusetts
border, which will help Twin River Management Group better compete against
new casinos opening in that state. Newport Grand
would remain in operation during the construction phase but close once work
was finished. According to AP,
the company, which entered into a contract to buy Newport Grand
last month, said a casino would better compete closer to the Mass. border. A new casino in Tiverton with table games and easy access to state
highways would allow Rhode Island to compete with neighboring Massachusetts
for gambling revenue, state casino operators said Tuesday. Twin River Management Group has secured the rights to acquire 45 acres
of land off of Route 181, along the Massachusetts state border, and the
operators of the Twin River Casino in Lincoln plan to build a new casino
there with about 1,000 slot machines and 30 to 40 table games, said John
Taylor, the group's chairman and as reported by the Associated Press.. The existing gambling license at Newport Grand, which Twin River
acquired last month, would be transferred to the new casino, but voters must
approve the plan first, Taylor said. He said he hopes to see the question on
the ballot in November 2016. The new facility would be a "convenience casino that fits in with
the local community," Taylor said, and would not compete with Twin River
for clientele. "It's not a net-sum game," he said. Gambling revenue in Rhode Island is expected to take a hit approaching
$100 million a year because of new casinos and gambling facilities in
Massachusetts in coming years. A 1,250-machine slot parlor in Plainville,
Massachusetts, is to open as early as June, and analysts predict Rhode
Island's lottery revenues will take a hit almost immediately. Lottery revenues are the third largest source of revenues in Rhode
Island. Last fiscal year, revenues were $376.3 million, and $293.8 million of
that came from Twin River, according to the state Department of Revenue's
Office of Revenue Analysis. Relocating the casino to Tiverton makes sense, Taylor said, because of
Newport Grand's location and the city's reticence to expand gambling there.
Newport residents have twice voted against adding tables games. Twin River Management Group acquired Newport Grand last month, but the
merger is subject to approval from the state lottery and the state Department
of Business Regulation. Taylor said the deal should close by June 30.
Gov. Gina Raimondo said in a statement that
the proposal could be "beneficial for the state," while House
Speaker Nicholas Mattiello expressed his
unequivocal approval. "I have always been a supporter of Twin River and I applaud them
for their creativity and their willingness to invest in our state," Mattiello said in a statement. Tiverton Town Council president Denise deMedeiros
was not reached for comment, and Tiverton officials have not released any
information on the planned move. Sandywoods Center for the Arts
announces on-going events! EverythingWestport.com Sunday, April 26, 2015 Women's AA Meetings at
Sandywoods Farm, 73 Muse Way, Tiverton, RI 02878 Mondays from 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. Attendance is free. Contact them for
which night. Kundalini Yoga Taught by Yogi Bhajan, is offered at
Sandywoods, 73 Muse Way, Tiverton RI 02878 (Yellow Building). Mondays from 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. Fee is $10.00 Drop-ins are welcome. Zumba with Fatima
Devine at Sandywoods Farm, 73 Muse Way, Tiverton, RI 02878 (Yellow Building). Wednesdays at 8:30 a.m. Fee: $7.00 per class and $30.00 for 5 classes. Zumba with Serina Honeycutt at
Sandywoods Farm, 73 Muse Way, Tiverton RI 02878 (Yellow Building). Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. Open Mic Night at
Sandywoods Farm, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton RI 02878. Every Tuesday from 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. Westport Art Group at
Sandywoods Farm, 53 Muse Way, Tiverton, RI 02878 (Blue Building) Wednesdays from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Sandywoods Center for the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton, RI 02878. For
more information contact Sam at sandywoodsmusic@gmail.com www.sandywoodsmusic.com The
driver told police he wasn’t behind the wheel of the blue Chevrolet Cavalier
that allegedly ran a stoplight while westbound on Charlotte White Road and
collided with a car on Route 88. EverythingWestport.com Monday, April 27,
2015 A driver of a
Chevrolet Cavalier that allegedly ran a stoplight while westbound on
Charlotte White Road and collided with a car on Route 88, denied he was
driving the car despite eyewitness testimony, a photo taken by the driver of
the other car, and a surveillance video which showed the man in the driver’s
seat, according to an article in Westport
Shorelines. Despite the
multiple denials, the driver is now in the hot seat. Joao Barbosa, 68,
of 2 Purdue Lane, Dartmouth told police he wasn’t behind the wheel of the
Chevrolet Cavalier that allegedly ran a stoplight while westbound on
Charlotte White Road and collided with a car on Route 88. But Westport
Police contend that a photo taken from the other car and other evidence said
otherwise, according to Westport
Shorelines.
“A driver of a blue Chevrolet
Cavalier that allegedly ran a stoplight while westbound on Charlotte White
Road and collided with a car on Route 88, denied he was driving the car
despite eyewitness testimony, a photo taken by the driver of the other car,
and a surveillance video which showed the man in the driver’s seat.” -
Westport Police Detective Jeff Majewski said police received an emergency call at 6:20
p.m. on Saturday, April 18th from a hit and run crash victim.
Det. Majewski said that when police arrived, Mr. Barbosa
refused to identify himself and denied driving the Cavalier. Submitted photo. “He had a strong
odor of liquor on his breath and he was subsequently arrested. He was identified
through a Registry of Motor Vehicles query of other residents at the same
address as the vehicle’s owner. Mr. Barbosa kept repeating, ‘My wife was
driving not me.’ No one else was present other than Mr. Barbosa,” Det. Majewski said. The property
owner had a home surveillance system which showed the Cavalier pull into the
driveway, stop and “Mr. Barbosa was seen exiting the car.” Mr. Barbosa later
failed a chemical breath test. The Bristol
County DA’s Office presented testimony at a dangerousness hearing Monday
where Mr. Barbosa was held as a danger to the community by a District Court
judge. Several officers participated in the investigation. Like Dean Martin
said,” If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.” © 2015 Community Events of Westport. All rights
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