Last reminder to see the Follies
 
For weeks now, we've been reminding you about the Pilgrim High School Class of 2006's Senior Follies LIVE! The return of the time-honored tradition at Pilgrim High School will take place Friday thanks to the support of the administration. The Senior Class will be producing this all-school talent show for the first time in three years at 7 p.m. in the school auditorium. The evening will also include an ice cream social for the Senior Class in the cafeteria after the performances. Tickets are $7.00 at the door.
This event is a fundraising opportunity for the Senior Class legacy gift, which is the installation of a state-of-the-art sound system in the gymnasium. For more information, call Assistant Principal Marie Johnson at 734-3250.
 
Teen's art to be featured at local games
 
Last year, a painting of a hawk by 17-year-old Isaac Alves was selected for the cover of his high school's calendar. This summer, Isaac will take his painting skills to a global stage, representing one of 160 countries at the 2006 World Scholar-Athlete Games.
The games are slated to take place from June 24-July 2, 2006, at URI. Isaac's artistic achievements, combined with his honor roll academic standing and involvement as a volunteer for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, made him a prime candidate for the games, the largest international gathering of athletes second only to the Summer Olympics. 
More than 2,000 of the world's finest young scholar-athletes and scholar-artists, ages 15-19, representing 160 countries and all 50 states, will convene in Kingston and Newport for this celebration of education, diversity, cultural arts and athletics.  
Conceived and organized by the Institute for International Sport, this year's games will coincide with the 20th anniversary of the institute's founding. The institute also administers the highly acclaimed National Sportsmanship Day each March, houses the International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame, and hosts the Web-based Center for Sports Parenting as well as organizing Scholar-Athlete Games in Cairns, Australia; Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Tel Aviv, Israel.  
In addition to their athletic competitions and cultural arts activities, scholar-athletes will participate in educational Theme Days. Prominent, internationally recognized speakers will lead the participants in discussions on global issues, such as world peace, world health, hunger and nutrition, the global environment, and ethics and sportsmanship. Past games speakers have included 2000 presidential candidates Bill Bradley and Ralph Nader, CBS sports commentator Billy Packer and U.S. Olympic Committee President Bill Hybl.
 
Switching parties
 
Former Warwick City Councilman Lew Pryeor has announced plans to return to politics in his new home, West Warwick. But Pryeor, who served three terms on the Warwick council from 1998 to 2004 as a Democrat, is switching party affiliations, running as a Republican candidate in West Warwick's Ward 3. Pryeor is taking on the incumbent, Democrat Ed Giroux .
It's time for a change, Pryeor said as he described the Democratically-controlled council he criticized for having done little in the town to bolster the area's economy.
Pryeor, 49, is co-owner of Peter Pots Flowers on Main Street in the Crompton section of West Warwick. The last store he and his longtime companion operated in Warwick — originally located in Apponaug and later moved to West Shore Road — closed in December.
 
Local poets reading in Greenville
 
The Greenville Public Library will commemorate National Poetry Month with a series of poetry readings at the library, 573 Putnam Pike, Greenville. Among these free readings will be the works of two Warwick residents, Brenda Corwin Aspelund and Ira Schaeffer .
Aspelund and Schaeffer, members of the Stone and Plank Gallery poetry group, will be featured on Thursday, April 13, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Begun two years ago with several former members of the R.I. Writers' Circle, the Stone and Plank poetry group meets bi-monthly to read and discuss their most recent work.
Aspelund teaches seventh-grade English at Aldrich Junior High and has received considerable recognition and awards for her poetry, essays and education articles. First published in Rolling Stone Magazine when she was 17, Aspeland's work has also appeared in The Providence Journal, The Newport Review , Up Against the Wall Mother, Ocean State Family Magazine and Dramatique . Her awards include first-place prize from the Academy of American Poets, a second-place prize from The R.I. Writers' Circle Anthology and a third-place from The Providence Journal.
Schaeffer loves sharing his joy of the written and spoken word with both his students and anyone else willing to look and listen. He teaches English at the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) and in much of his recent poetry tries to evoke the dreamscape of the surreal.