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December 2011
Cops and Lawyers
Kilmartin is not the state’s “top cop” [“Will the Real Peter Kilmartin Please Stand Up,” October]. He’s the attorney general, which means he’s the state’s top lawyer prosecutor. He is no longer a cop. In fact, it is his responsibility to oversee the police and their conduct, to assess and use the police evidence if it is suitable and to discard it if it is unworthy of presentation to a court of law. Jim Taricani should know better than to merely repeat the often-used misnomer cliche.
Gerard Donley, Esq.
Cranston
Kilmartin is not the state’s “top cop” [“Will the Real Peter Kilmartin Please Stand Up,” October]. He’s the attorney general, which means he’s the state’s top lawyer prosecutor. He is no longer a cop. In fact, it is his responsibility to oversee the police and their conduct, to assess and use the police evidence if it is suitable and to discard it if it is unworthy of presentation to a court of law. Jim Taricani should know better than to merely repeat the often-used misnomer cliche.
Gerard Donley, Esq.
Cranston
Sweet Appreciation
Thanks for including me in October’s “Sweet Life” article and for the kind words about my work at Tazza. It’s always satisfying to hear that people enjoy my desserts and appreciate all the hard work behind the beautiful dessert plates.
Bernadette Cicione
Pastry Chef, Tazza
Providence
Thanks for including me in October’s “Sweet Life” article and for the kind words about my work at Tazza. It’s always satisfying to hear that people enjoy my desserts and appreciate all the hard work behind the beautiful dessert plates.
Bernadette Cicione
Pastry Chef, Tazza
Providence
The Weight of Words
Thank you so much for the wonderful Q and A with Chris Van Allsburg [Current, October]. The article was absolutely perfect, highlighting both Chris and the Rhode Island Festival of Children’s Books and Authors. We truly appreciate your support and kind words.
Meagan Lenihan
Lincoln School Librarian
Providence
Thank you so much for the wonderful Q and A with Chris Van Allsburg [Current, October]. The article was absolutely perfect, highlighting both Chris and the Rhode Island Festival of Children’s Books and Authors. We truly appreciate your support and kind words.
Meagan Lenihan
Lincoln School Librarian
Providence
Useable Design
It is unfortunate that the “amazing” entries for your Rhode Island design awards [“State Champs,” October] required that designers craft entries. This solicited method of selecting the State Champ ignores spectacular architecture that people love and use, such as my brother’s phenomenally successful and visionary design of the Center — the town of Lincoln’s Senior Center. Please look beyond my obvious bias and ask any Lincoln senior about the Center’s creative and valuable space — a twenty-first century Rhode Island public building that received a National Grid Energy Efficiency award.
Pete X. Robinson
Sun City Center, Fla.
It is unfortunate that the “amazing” entries for your Rhode Island design awards [“State Champs,” October] required that designers craft entries. This solicited method of selecting the State Champ ignores spectacular architecture that people love and use, such as my brother’s phenomenally successful and visionary design of the Center — the town of Lincoln’s Senior Center. Please look beyond my obvious bias and ask any Lincoln senior about the Center’s creative and valuable space — a twenty-first century Rhode Island public building that received a National Grid Energy Efficiency award.
Pete X. Robinson
Sun City Center, Fla.
EDITOR’S NOTE: A team of three jurors from Massachusetts selected the winners of the 2011 design awards from a pool of candidates who submitted their work for consideration.
Maple Ave. Memories
I just want to tell you how much I enjoy and chuckle as you reminisce about the “good old days” on Maple Avenue [From the Publisher, October]. Like you, I have wonderful, rich memories of growing up there.
I remember as a child walking to the bakery on a Sunday morning to get piping hot Italian bread, bringing it home and dunking it in the gravy my mom would be making for dinner that day. Also many times I would break off the end of the bread before I got it home. I love the way you incorporate growing up on Maple Avenue in your magazine. Keep it up!
Adele Assante Carlson
Barrington
I just want to tell you how much I enjoy and chuckle as you reminisce about the “good old days” on Maple Avenue [From the Publisher, October]. Like you, I have wonderful, rich memories of growing up there.
I remember as a child walking to the bakery on a Sunday morning to get piping hot Italian bread, bringing it home and dunking it in the gravy my mom would be making for dinner that day. Also many times I would break off the end of the bread before I got it home. I love the way you incorporate growing up on Maple Avenue in your magazine. Keep it up!
Adele Assante Carlson
Barrington
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