South­ern Rhode Island at Home was a player at the Octo­ber 30th “Con­fer­ence and Expo for Seniors” pre­sented by the Senior Agenda Coali­tion of Rhode Island and enti­tled “Get Involved – Make A Dif­fer­ence for the Com­mu­nity and Yourself”.

The day-​​​​long pro­gram at Warwick’s Crown Plaza Hotel included keynote and lunch-​​​​time speak­ers, the pre­sen­ta­tion of sev­eral Senior Agenda awards, and a diver­sity of speak­ers and work­shops devoted to issues…

On Octo­ber 24^th, about 15 of us attended the high def­i­n­i­tion TV pre­sen­ta­tion of Puccini’s Aida at the War­wick Showcase Cinema.

Tele­cast live via satel­lite from the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Opera House in New York, if you can’t be there in per­son, this is def­i­nitely the way to go. The cam­eras scanned us through the new opera house, into the orches­tra pit and behind the scenes as…