Meeting new friends

Posted 6/28/18

Meeting new friends The dog park at City Park is a popular place for people and their pets to meet, although Mia, a beagle/coon hound mix, and Bandit, thought to be a ridgeback mix, had the place to themselves Sunday afternoon. The adjoining small dog

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Meeting new friends

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The dog park at City Park is a popular place for people and their pets to meet, although Mia, a beagle/coon hound mix, and Bandit, thought to be a ridgeback mix, had the place to themselves Sunday afternoon. The adjoining small dog park had a few more visitors. The dogs are allowed off leash. Their owners are responsible for controlling and picking up after their dogs.

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  • richardcorrente

    City Park and City Park Beach are Warwicks' hidden treasures.

    If we had signs directing more people to that beautiful beach we would increase the number of Warwick visitors, and visitors sometimes become new taxpayers reducing the tax needs on the rest of us. Warwick lost 5,800 taxpayers in the last ten years. We NEED a program to get some back! Promoting this "Secret Beach" would help and the cost of some colorful signs is minimal.

    Happy Summer everyone.

    Rick Corrente

    The Taxpayers Mayor

    Friday, June 29, 2018 Report this

  • wwkvoter

    great article too bad that nut corrente somehow, can make EVERY feel good article about him, complete with his nonsense "statistics" such as the 5800 taxpayers. what spammer corrente doesnt realize (after years of this nonsense) , is each spam of his results in several required refuting posts to, again, set the record straight and call out his crazy nonsene.

    warwick never "lost 5800 taxpayers".

    here's a Youtube video where avedisian himself talks about that:

    https://youtu.be/ZgCpY73J4eg

    Monday, July 2, 2018 Report this

  • Justanidiot

    master mayer, dat iz almost 41,000 taxprayers in dog rolls

    Monday, July 2, 2018 Report this

  • Cat2222

    SHHH! The reason why we all love it is because it isn't crowded! Keep it hidden and only those that seek it out will find it. NUBE!

    Monday, July 2, 2018 Report this

  • CrickeeRaven

    See, Cat, this is another example of how the make-believe mayor clearly does not think through his statements or consider what actual honest, taxpaying voters want.

    As you correctly point out, we don't want crowded beaches. We don't want "colorful signs" that direct more traffic through our neighborhoods. And we don't want a candidate who will not correct his factually incorrect statement about "5,800 taxpayers leaving."

    Unfortunately, the make-believe mayor only knows how to compound his ignorance of what voters actually want by making false statements and refusing to correct them.

    We can expect that he will continue to humiliate himself until we and thousands of honest, taxpaying voters respond with the only thing he can not dispute: Another overwhelming and humiliating rejection of his candidacy.

    Monday, July 2, 2018 Report this

  • richardcorrente

    Dear WwkVoter,

    My comment was not about me. It was about the need of our City. Our City NEEDS NEW TAXPAYERS! When I contacted the U.S. Census and learned that 5,800 taxpayers had moved out of Warwick in the last ten years, The Beacon did not immediately print it. I asked "Why?" and they asked me "Can you prove it?" I immediately said "Yes!" and I brought them documented proof including the name and phone number of the person I spoke to at the U.S. Census for verification. That was when they printed my statistics.

    But you say "warwick never lost 5,800 taxpayers". OK. Then how do you explain the dramatic drop in students? (from a high of over 17,000 to present which is exactly 8,606 according to Kathy in the School Administration, Superintendents Office on June 13, 2018) Or how Warwicks' population fell to number three in Rhode Island BEHIND CRANSTON?? How many taxpayers do YOU claim Warwick lost? Or don't you have any real numbers? WwkVoter,...Stop being part of the problem with

    Fake News. Fake sources. Fake people. Fake names.

    The readers deserve better and you do not have the credibility or the courage to use your real name.

    Happy Summer everyone.

    Rick Corrente

    The Taxpayers Mayor

    Thursday, July 5, 2018 Report this

  • richardcorrente

    Dear Cat2222,

    I agree that it is nice to have "Secret Beach" (AKA City Park Beach) uncrowded and secluded but it's nicer to have our taxes go down and if more outside-Warwick people come to our beaches, we will attract more taxpayers reducing the tax needs on the rest of us.

    Thanks for your sincere comment Cat2222.

    Rick Corrente

    Thursday, July 5, 2018 Report this

  • CrickeeRaven

    Here, WwkVoter and Cat, allow me to -- again -- disprove the make-believe mayor's claims about changes in Warwick's population and school enrollment while using direct and easily-verifiable information.

    Between 2008 and 2017, the Census reported a change from 84,756 to 80,871, or 3,885.The 2007 figure was 85,085, or 4,215 more than 2017, taken directly from U.S. Census data and not some anonymous "person" that the make-believe mayor claims he contacted: https://bit.ly/2slKIKd.

    As you can see [and as the make-believe mayor tries to hard to ignore], neither of those figures is 5,800.

    "[F]rom a high of over 17,000 [students] to present which is exactly 8,606..."

    Whatever he claims "Kathy" at the school department told him [which is, typically for him, not supported by any verifiable data], the state Department of Education reported a 2017-18 October enrollment of 8,953: http://infoworks.ride.ri.gov/district/warwick

    Data provided by the Rhode Island State Department of Education shows that Warwick's October school enrollment in 2007-08 was 11,139 -- not 17,000 -- meaning the reduction in students from 2009 through the current year is 2,186 -- not 8,500. Here is a link directly to Department of Ed enrollment figures: http://www.eride.ri.gov/reports/reports.asp

    The make-believe mayor will no doubt argue that since his imaginary figure is more recent, it is more accurate. However, any comparison he attempts to make with historical data would be wrong unless he specifically provided the reported enrollment in June of prior years. Further compounding the defects in his statements is the fact that the school population has not been 17,000 since the 1970s, meaning the make-believe mayor is trying to conflate decades-old statistics with more recent changes in the student population.

    "I brought them documented proof including the name and phone number of the person I spoke to at the U.S. Census for verification. That was when they printed my statistics."

    No, the Beacon attributed the false numbers to a claim by the make-believe mayor and did not independently verify the data. Here is, specifically, how the Beacon reported it: "Over 5,000 taxpayers and over 4,000 businesses have left the city in the last 10 years, he claimed."

    http://warwickonline.com/stories/debate-defines-differences,118946?

    The Beacon's reporting could only be claimed as proof by the make-believe mayor, when in fact the paper did not state that it had independently verified the information.

    "[I]t's nicer to have our taxes go down..."

    First, we have already seen how the make-believe mayor consistently fails to explain the costs of his plans to lower taxes -- in this case, the increased need to clean the beaches because more people are using them. And second, he espouses a different way to lower one's taxes -- simply don't pay them, lose one's home to tax sale, and let other parties pay the property taxes and sewer/water fees.

    Thank you for continuing to point out the many defect with the make-believe mayor's candidacy. I look forward to joining you and thousands of honest, taxpaying voters in overwhelmingly rejecting him again this year.

    Thursday, July 5, 2018 Report this