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In livingcolorAutumn colors

frame a pathway at the Carnegie Abbey Club in Portsmouth on Sunday.

Dave Hansen Staff photographer

By Sean FlynnStaff writer

NEWPORT — The first Family Wellness and Fun Day took place Saturday morning on John H. Chafee Boulevard, drawing hundreds of families to the grounds of the East Bay Family Health Center and the Head Start Center located next door.

Both are part of a wide range of pro g rams offered by the East Bay Com-munity Action Program.

S u s a n S c h e n c k , chief operat-ing officer of the health cen-ter, and Betsy Dennigan, vice president for clinical affairs, said BankNewport contacted EBCAP and wanted to collab-orate with local agencies on a community-wide family day. The bank also has a partner-ship with the Pawtucket-based Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation, which was present with its large Hope Bus that travels all over the state.

A 43-year-old woman who never had had a mammogram

before met in the bus Saturday with Maria Hudson and Linnia Phivilay, community outreach workers with the Rhode Island Women’s Cancer Screening Program, which is run by the Rhode Island Department of Health. The program is based at Women & Infants Hospi-tal in Providence, but Hudson and Phivilay often travel with the Gemma Hope Bus.

“We go wherever we know there will be a lot of women,” Hudson said.

The program is for all self-employed and u n e m p l o y e d wo m e n , a n d is not bound by low-income restrict ions,

she said. During the morning, she and Phivilay were setting up doctor’s appointments for women who needed them.

BankNewport provided a grant to pay for all Hope Bus operations, said Maureen DiP-iero, a member of the Gloria Gemma education team.

K a t hy C h a r b o n n e a u , vice president and director of community relations at

Health, education and just plain funHundreds turn out for the first Family Wellness and Fun Day in Newport

Michael Derr | Staff photos

Stephanie Finan, right, and Theresa Massoud, both volunteers from BankNewport, pass out free bike helmets and snacks to Amy Wittekind, left, of Newport and her daughter, Sophia, 4, during the Family Wellness and Fun Day held Saturday at the East Bay Family Health Center in Newport. At left, Mackenzie Maynard, an educator with the Roger Williams Park Zoo’s Zoomobile, shows off Armando, an Eastern box turtle.

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For months, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has flown under the radar in the Republi-can presiden-tial race, an unusual posi-tion for a pol-itician who has been in the spotlight since arriv-ing in Washington nearly three years ago.

Now, Cruz is trying to ride a standout performance in last week’s GOP debate into new momentum for his campaign. He’s casting himself as the con-servative the party’s right flank has been waiting for — some-one who’s both uncompromis-ing and electable.

“How about this time we nominate as Republicans a candidate as committed to con-servative principles as Barack Obama is to liberal princi-ples?” Cruz said Saturday dur-ing a Republican forum in Des Moines.

Cruz is running an operation with important advantages.

He ended the last fundrais-ing period with more campaign cash on hand than any other candidate. He has a well-funded super political action commit-tee that has been spending money to on television adver-tising. His fights with Republi-can leaders in Washington have made him a well-known figure among conservatives frustrated

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Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, installed Sunday as the first black leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church, urged Episcopalians to evangelize by crossing divides of race, edu-cation and wealth.

Curry used the example of his own mother being given Communion at a white Episcopal parish before desegregation, and how that act persuaded his father to join the denomina-tion, and eventually become a priest.

“God has not given up on the world and God is not finished with the Episcopal Church yet,” Curry said, during a joyous ceremony in the Washington National Cathedral.

Curry, 62, succeeds Katharine Jefferts Sch-ori, who was the first woman in the job and is ending her nine-year term. He served about 15 years as leader of the Diocese of North Carolina before he was overwhelmingly elected last summer to the top church post.

He grew up in Buffalo, New York, and earned degrees from Hobart College in Geneva, New York, and Yale Divinity School.

The New York-based denomination was the church of many Founding Fathers and now has about 1.9 million members. Epis-copalians now are struggling with shrink-ing membership and ongoing tensions with fellow Anglicans around the world over the Episcopal support for gay marriage. Curry will represent the U.S. church in January, at a meeting of national Anglican leaders addressing the splits in their fellowship.

As the ceremony began Sunday, Curry rapped on the cathedral door with a wooden staff_a custom that symbolizes the ushering of a new leader into its halls, both physical and metaphorical. Jefferts Schori passed her

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Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop-elect Michael Curry gives a thumbs-up Sunday as he arrives at the Washington National Cathedral.

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Newport CountyTotal Population: 85,433Total Population in Houses: 58,533Total Houses: 25,317

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AWARDS & ACCOLADESWe pride ourselves on our award-winning coverage year after year!

Rhode Island Press Association Awards:

Editorial Writing:Sheila Mullowney, Excecutive Editor,The Newport Daily News, first place

Best Sports Front Page: Scott Barrett, Sports EditorThe Newport Daily News, first place

General News Photo:Dave Hansen, PhotographerThe Newport Daily News, third place

Arts/Niche Columnist:Gary RuffThe Newport Daily News, third place

Best Headline Writing:Janine Weisman, EditorThe Newport Mercury, first place

Feature Story (short):Annie Sherman, Managing EditorNewport Life Magazine, first place

Single-Topic Election Coverage:The Newport Daily News, first place

General Election Coverage:The Newport Daily News, second place

"RIPA awards recognize professional journalists, and I m proud to say that we have some of the best working for us." - Publisher William F. Lucey III.

New England Associated Press News Executives Association Awards:

Distinguished Newspaper: The Newport Daily News

"It 's nice to have the hard work and dedication of our staff confirmed and recognized by such a prestigious award...It also speaks to the incredibly vibrant communities that we cover." - Publisher William F. Lucey III.

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Submitting Completed Ads: PDFs(Portable Document Format)

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The Newport Daily News accepts completed advertisements in a PDF format via:E-mail; prepress@newportri.com (notify/cc your rep once sent) • CD ROM • FTP site •ADSEND (Account Needed) • Fast Channel (Account Needed)

PDFs created in Microsoft Publisher, Word, Excel, Photoshop, or PowerPoint are incompatible for publication and will be returned. The option will be provided to have your ad recreated by a Newport Daily News ad designer. All PDFs received will be processed with our preflight software to conform to our publication standards; some color loss mayoccur if the correct color format is not used.

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ColorAll color should be in a CMYK format; which includes text, photos, art, and backgrounds.

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3. White Text ; When you are placing white text over a black or color background: • Fonts should be a minimum of 12 points; a non-serif fonts recommended. • Black boxes should be 100% black, and color boxes a maximum of 2 process colors.

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Not apply artificial type styles to fonts (bold, italic, outline, etc.)

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Include in your ad an: address, phone number, a logo or name

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TOP TEN REASONSto Advertise in The Newport Daily News

1. Extensive Reach: About 100 million people read newspapers each day, and almost 75 million visit a newspaper website in a typical month. Nearly three-quarters of the residents in a typical local market read their paper in print or online each week. No other media can come close to being able to blanket the area with your promotional message like your local newspaper can.

2. Highest Quality Audience: Your best sales prospects are newspaper readers. Higher educated, affluent market residents that have the means to buy are the most avid print and online newspaper readers.

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4. Tons of Creative options: Newspapers offer advertisers the widest variety of creative options for getting their message across to consumers. You can create large or small-space ad campaigns in a newspaper or its specialty publications; you can print glossy multi-page inserts; you can run digital display or directory ads on newspaper websites and mobile apps, and you can add audio and visual effects to your online promotion with rich media and video. No other media offers you more creative opportunities.

5. MoreCredibilityForYourAds:Compared with their opinion of TV or radio ads, about twice as many consumers believe that newspaper advertising is trustworthy.

6. UltimateFlexibility: You can build big or small ads, and you can run them inside the pages of the newspaper or preprint and insert them. You can also run in the paper's specialty publications, or online on newspaper websites and mobile applications. Choose whichever option best fulfills your marketing objective.

7. Extremely Quick Turnaround: Newspapers have short deadlines - the print or digital ad you submit today can generate sales for you within days. Ads in other media typically take much more time to schedule, produce and run.

8. Newspaper Readers "Shop" The Ads: Newspaper readers are predisposed to shop the ads. They know that they'll find what's on sale in their local newspaper, so when they have a specific need for a particular product or service they come looking for your ad in their newspaper.

9. Tangible Results: Newspaper ads stimulate consumer traffic, move merchandise and promote brands. One look at the extensive lineup of retailers that rely week in and week out on newspapers to drive sales at their stores tells you all you need to know about which advertising media is best at producing results.

10. Better Roi: Newspapers offer advertising and rate programs to accommodate the marketing objectives of any business, big or small. With broad reach and reasonable rates newspapers are much more cost-effective than other media. They will even produce your creative for free. No other media can match the return on investment that newspapers offer.

When you add up all the reasons you'll find that your local newspaper is by far your most effective - and cost-effective - advertising option. When you truly need bottom-line results, you can count on newspapers to deliver!

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PORTFOLIOweb exclusive

Does the town of Narragansett need a bigger public library?

Yes: 38.2 percent, 21 votesNo: 61.8 percent, 35 votes

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University of Rhode Island junior Paul Mroz of Boston was among the people who created a human peace sign on the Quad Sept. 2 as part of URI’s Day of Peace festivities. The event was hosted by The Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies. Mroz is a quarterback on the school’s football team.

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Two options remain for a new Narragansett public li-brary, both of which would keep the facility operating in the Pier.

About 50 people attended a two-hour work session with the Town Council and Li-brary Board of Trustees, and they asked to keep the Maury Loontjens Memorial Library in the center of town.

Chairwoman of the Library Board of Trustees Laurie Kelly presented four options to the council – buying the former Belmont Market in Pier Mar-ketplace and renovating it; renovating the existing site; demolishing the library and building a new one in its place; or building a new li-brary on town-owned land near the Narragansett Com-munity Center. The latter two options did not receive con-sensus from the Town Council and will not be pursued.

Kelly said the library needs upgrades, or a new building, for a variety of reasons.

“We have serious viola-tions of the [Americans with

Disabilities Act] in the library,” she said. “There is a ramp, but they cannot open the front door, and if there was a fire there would be a serious prob-lem there. Every year for the past few years, we’ve had to file waivers with the state be-cause we don’t meet the stan-dards.”

Kelly said the state could de-cide not to renew the waivers, which would force the closure of the library. According to ar-ticles in the Rhode Island Li-brary Report and The Herald News, about a decade ago, the state threatened to pull $70,000 in annual funding for Tiverton’s library because of non-compliance with the ADA and fire codes.

“They’re not going to let us stay open this way forever,” Kelly said. “We don’t have one open building with sight lines. We don’t have a bathroom in the children’s section of the library. We do have a lot of handicapped people trying to negotiate the library, and it just doesn’t work. We would like a permanent space where the community could have

Moving library to Pier Marketplace one of two options

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By Stephanie TurajStaff Writer

South Kingstown Town Council candidate Jim O’Neill, who lost last week’s special election by 10 votes, has called for a recount.

Independent candidate Liz Gledhill won the special elec-tion for the council seat that opened when Carol Hagan McEntee won the House Dis-trict 33 race in June. Gledhill is slated to be sworn in Oct. 13.

Town Canvassing Clerk Dale Holberton confirmed Tues-day O’Neill has requested a recount. The state Board of Elections will vote to either allow or deny it.

Holberton said she ex-pects the board will allow the

recount. If it does, it would be scheduled later this week or sometime next week.

O’Neill did not return a request for comment by press time.

After all of the precincts re-ported unofficial totals last week, Gledhill had 739 votes; O’Neill, a 14-year Town Coun-cilman ousted in November, had 729 votes; endorsed Dem-ocrat Bryant Da Cruz had 706 votes; and Joël Dargan, a polit-ical newcomer and indepen-dent endorsed by the South Kingstown Republican Town Committee, had 210 votes. The numbers included 118 mail and provisional ballots.

Hagan McEntee, who rep-resents South Kingstown and

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NORTH KINGSTOWN — North Kingstown Police Chief Thomas Mul-ligan will trade in his uniform, gun and badge for a suit and tie, at least on a temporary basis, after he was chosen by the Town Council to serve as the town’s interim manager.

The 3-2 vote in executive session to replace outgoing Town Manager Mi-chael Embury – who is now the town administrator in Brewster, Massachu-setts – was ratified during Monday night’s council meeting.

Council President Kerry McKay,

Jason Albuquerque and Carol Hueston – all Republicans – voted in favor of the appointment while Ellen Waxman, a Democrat, and Kevin Maloney, an in-dependent, voted against it.

Both Waxman and Maloney stressed their decisions had nothing to do with Mulligan personally.

“My concern is that we will be leav-ing a hole in the police department,” Waxman said. “I think Tommy Mulli-gan, the chief, needs to keep heading the ship there. Keep stability there. We have a lot of turmoil in the town. I don’t think that we should shake that up as well.”

She said it was important to her that

the council be unanimous in its deci-sion in selecting an interim manager, and felt the search process was not as extensive as it could have been.

“I don’t believe we adequately reached out and advertised the fact that this town is looking for a town manager,” said Waxman, later motion-ing for the council to delay the vote and advertise the position locally. That motion was defeated.

“I’ve got the utmost respect for Tom Mulligan,” Maloney said. “It was the total circumstances that were involved that can’t be discussed here.”

Mulligan, a longtime North Kings-town resident and a 1980 graduate of

North Kingstown High School, has served on the police force since 1984, when he became a reserve police of-ficer. Since then he has moved up the ranks, serving as patrolman, detec-tive patrolman, sergeant patrol super-visor, lieutenant patrol commander, detective lieutenant for prosecutions, captain and operations division com-mander and captain of the administra-tion division.

He was tapped as chief of the depart-ment in 2011.

“It will be different and it will be challenging but, for me, the most

Mulligan named interim town manager

Photo: Michael Derr

Police Chief Thomas Mul-ligan has been named in-terim North Kingstown town manager.

By Stephen Greenwell Jr. Staff Writer

Barbara Wright said her husband, Ted, was justifiably stubborn when it came to matters he felt were impor-tant and needed to get done. High atop that list was his be-lief Dillon Rotary – a gateway to the town of Narragansett – needed to be properly main-tained and marked.

“Once he got his mind on something, he wouldn’t let it go,” she said, laughing. “He came up here and mowed it himself for years. When he stopped mowing it, he paid out of his pocket for land-scaping.”

On Saturday, that commit-ment from the man known as Mr. Narragansett was rec-ognized, as the Dillon Rotary was renamed the Charles

“Ted” Wright Rotary in a dedi-cation ceremony attended by Wright’s family, Representa-tive Carol Hagan McEntee (D-District 33) of Narragansett

and South Kingstown, Town Council President Pro Tem Susan Cicilline Buonanno and Councilor Ray Ranaldi, members of Narragansett

Boy Scout Troop 1 and about 40 others. Some of Wright’s ashes were spread at the site as part of the ceremony, and Barbara Wright, Hagan McEntee and Cicilline Buon-anno spoke.

Wright died in July at 84. In addition to his work with the rotary, he was a former Town Council president, a state representative for 10 years, president of the Narragan-sett Chamber of Commerce, an active Narragansett Lion, and owner of South County Trolley. Barbara, his wife of 65 years, said his sister drove down from Andover, Massa-chusetts, to attend, along with generations of the Wright fam-ily who still live locally.

“We’ll try to keep this legacy going in town,” she said. “We

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Family, town officials dedicate Wright Rotary

Photo: Michael Derr

Michelle Hoxsie-Quinn, granddaughter of the late Ted Wright, spreads his ashes over the Dillon Rotary in Nar-ragansett, which is now called the Wright Rotary.

By Chris ChurchStaff Writer

It sat in the shallow waters off Pojac Point for decades and drew the attention of cu-riosity seekers and geologists – both expert and amateur – from far and wide. Debate over the boulder’s origins per-sist, and a consensus on who carved mysterious symbols into it seems far from reach.

Some believe the markings were inscribed by shoreline visitors some 600 years ago – possibly Vikings or Native Americans. Others dismiss that theory and have sug-gested they were put there in recent decades as a hoax.

In the summer of 2012, the stone disappeared and in-vestigators from the state Of-fice of the Attorney General and the state Department of

Environmental Management took the lead on finding it. A property owner who had grown tired of curiosity seek-ers walking across his prop-erty had sunk the stone some-where in Narragansett Bay.

The 7-foot-long, 5-foot-high boulder was retrieved in the summer of 2013, and kept in a warehouse at the University of Rhode Island’s Narragan-sett Bay Campus while state

and town officials discussed its future.

On Monday morning, it was removed from the warehouse after spending two years hid-den from public view and trucked to Wickford village, where it will be placed on per-manent display.

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By Sean FlynnStaff writer

NEWPORT — The first Family Wellness and Fun Day took place Saturday morning on John H. Chafee Boulevard, drawing hundreds of families to the grounds of the East Bay Family Health Center and the Head Start Center located next door.

Both are part of a wide range of pro g rams offered by the East Bay Com-munity Action Program.

S u s a n S c h e n c k , chief operat-ing officer of the health cen-ter, and Betsy Dennigan, vice president for clinical affairs, said BankNewport contacted EBCAP and wanted to collab-orate with local agencies on a community-wide family day. The bank also has a partner-ship with the Pawtucket-based Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation, which was present with its large Hope Bus that travels all over the state.

A 43-year-old woman who never had had a mammogram

before met in the bus Saturday with Maria Hudson and Linnia Phivilay, community outreach workers with the Rhode Island Women’s Cancer Screening Program, which is run by the Rhode Island Department of Health. The program is based at Women & Infants Hospi-tal in Providence, but Hudson and Phivilay often travel with the Gemma Hope Bus.

“We go wherever we know there will be a lot of women,” Hudson said.

The program is for all self-employed and u n e m p l o y e d wo m e n , a n d is not bound by low-income restrict ions,

she said. During the morning, she and Phivilay were setting up doctor’s appointments for women who needed them.

BankNewport provided a grant to pay for all Hope Bus operations, said Maureen DiP-iero, a member of the Gloria Gemma education team.

K a t hy C h a r b o n n e a u , vice president and director of community relations at

Health, education and just plain funHundreds turn out for the first Family Wellness and Fun Day in Newport

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Stephanie Finan, right, and Theresa Massoud, both volunteers from BankNewport, pass out free bike helmets and snacks to Amy Wittekind, left, of Newport and her daughter, Sophia, 4, during the Family Wellness and Fun Day held Saturday at the East Bay Family Health Center in Newport. At left, Mackenzie Maynard, an educator with the Roger Williams Park Zoo’s Zoomobile, shows off Armando, an Eastern box turtle.

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For months, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has flown under the radar in the Republi-can presiden-tial race, an unusual posi-tion for a pol-itician who has been in the spotlight since arriv-ing in Washington nearly three years ago.

Now, Cruz is trying to ride a standout performance in last week’s GOP debate into new momentum for his campaign. He’s casting himself as the con-servative the party’s right flank has been waiting for — some-one who’s both uncompromis-ing and electable.

“How about this time we nominate as Republicans a candidate as committed to con-servative principles as Barack Obama is to liberal princi-ples?” Cruz said Saturday dur-ing a Republican forum in Des Moines.

Cruz is running an operation with important advantages.

He ended the last fundrais-ing period with more campaign cash on hand than any other candidate. He has a well-funded super political action commit-tee that has been spending money to on television adver-tising. His fights with Republi-can leaders in Washington have made him a well-known figure among conservatives frustrated

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Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, installed Sunday as the first black leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church, urged Episcopalians to evangelize by crossing divides of race, edu-cation and wealth.

Curry used the example of his own mother being given Communion at a white Episcopal parish before desegregation, and how that act persuaded his father to join the denomina-tion, and eventually become a priest.

“God has not given up on the world and God is not finished with the Episcopal Church yet,” Curry said, during a joyous ceremony in the Washington National Cathedral.

Curry, 62, succeeds Katharine Jefferts Sch-ori, who was the first woman in the job and is ending her nine-year term. He served about 15 years as leader of the Diocese of North Carolina before he was overwhelmingly elected last summer to the top church post.

He grew up in Buffalo, New York, and earned degrees from Hobart College in Geneva, New York, and Yale Divinity School.

The New York-based denomination was the church of many Founding Fathers and now has about 1.9 million members. Epis-copalians now are struggling with shrink-ing membership and ongoing tensions with fellow Anglicans around the world over the Episcopal support for gay marriage. Curry will represent the U.S. church in January, at a meeting of national Anglican leaders addressing the splits in their fellowship.

As the ceremony began Sunday, Curry rapped on the cathedral door with a wooden staff_a custom that symbolizes the ushering of a new leader into its halls, both physical and metaphorical. Jefferts Schori passed her

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Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop-elect Michael Curry gives a thumbs-up Sunday as he arrives at the Washington National Cathedral.

The U.S. Episcopal Church’s first black leader succeeds the church’s first female leader.

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