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In Remembrance
Debbie Siravo created The Matty Fund to help families affected by epilepsy—and to honor her late son’s life. When Matty Siravo was diagnosed with epilepsy at 11 months old, Debbie and her husband, Richard, were frantic to learn everything they could about the condition. “Initially, I didn’t even know what it was,” recalls Debbie. A neurological disorder that causes a wide spectrum of seizures, epilepsy can develop at any age (nearly three million Americans are living with the disease) but appears most often in children and teens. When Matty was 5, Debbie and Richard took him to Boston for a two-part surgery that was supposed to alleviate his debilitating seizures. While recovering from the first operation, Matty suffered a severe seizure and passed away soon after, on May 11, 2003—Mother’s Day. READ MORE >> |
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Black Girls Do Bike Hits the
Road in Rhode Island The state's first chapter promotes biking by women and girls of color. While bicycling around her native Newport, Allyson McCalla noticed something: She rarely saw anyone who looked like her on a bike. So she’s set out to change that. Attending a national bike summit in her role as director of community relations and administration at Bike Newport, a bicycle advocacy organization that promotes bike safety and accessibility, McCalla saw a presentation by Monica Garrison, the founder of Black Girls Do Bike (BGDB), and knew immediately Rhode Island deserved a chapter. READ MORE >> |
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Feeding the Front Lines
Serving Those Who Work to Keep Us Safe When Chef Edward Bolus walked out of his kitchen at Mill’s Tavern in early March, he didn’t know when he would see it again. Closed by Governor Gina Raimondo’s executive order to cease dine-in service to prevent the spread of Covid-19, Mill’s Tavern didn’t have a previously established takeout program nor plans to implement one. Along with Kate Turner, general manager for Encore Hospitality Group (which includes Mill’s Tavern and Red Stripe restaurants) and in partnership with the Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation, Bolus regrouped and helped launch “Meals with a Mission,” a meal-delivery program for front-line workers and other Rhode Islanders in need. The program makes good use of commercial food products that, in normal times, would be delivered to large restaurants, hotels and cafeterias. READ MORE >> |
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Hello, Camden!
Charm City Devils lay it all on the line and team up with Motley Crüe for a shot at rock-n-roll glory. Not even an unforgiving, scorching summer sun could convince the Charm City Devils to trade their weathered leather jackets and skin-tight black jeans for more sensible clothes. They are, after all, aspiring rock stars playing a much-hyped show at Camden, New Jersey’s Susquehanna Bank Center, outside Philadelphia. As part of one of the year’s most highly anticipated tours, Crüe Fest II, the Baltimore rockers cronies are low men on the multi-band bill—opening for Godsmack, Theory of a Deadman, Drowning Pool, and legendary rockers Motley Crüe—but they hope that exposure gained from this coveted slot will propel them toward super stardom. READ MORE >> |
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