Smith Hill Community Development Corporation and the Neighborhood Council are hosting the second annual “Family Fun Day” September 6th a the Candace St. Park from 12-4. There will be children’s games, music, food, family events and representatives from organization such as Girl Scouts available throughout the day. Please see the following link to learn more about how you could help by volunteering your time that afternoon. volunteerffd08

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Please join the Smith Hill Community Development Corporation in supporting a very worthy cause to benefit the children of a Smith Hill woman who died of cancer in 2005.

The Fourth Annual raffle fund raiser to benefit the children of Rhonda Ashley will be held on September 1, 2008. For information about how to help or purchase $5 raffle tickets, please contact Barbara Adams

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On Thursday July 31, we hosted an open house to celebrate the completion of 99 Lydia Street. Our partners : Rhode Island Housing, Crossroads RI, Ed Wojcik Architects ltd. and Vasco Inc., proudly presented the house for public viewing a day before before the official move-in for our newest tenants. Many neighborhood residents and housing partners showed up to celebrate this great achievement.

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Volunteers dig in to restore historic St. Patrick’s Cemetery
(Originally Printed in The RI Catholic, July 3rd, 2008)

BY BRIAN J. LOWNEY, Assistant Editor

PROVIDENCE - Historic St. Patrick Cemetery on Smith Hill is being restored to its original beauty, thanks to the efforts of a dedicated group of neighborhood residents, AmeriCorps volunteers from the Feinstein Institute at Providence College and workers from the Catholic Cemeteries Office.
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YouthRAP has begun its Summer Program here at the CDC.  So far, neighborhood youth have engaged in a restoration project for the mural located on the Smith Hill Post Office building and a clean-up of the garden located behind the Library.  Stay tuned for more updates!

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