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« Butler Hospital nurses ratify 3-year contract | Today | Update: Police probing Bristol brush fire's cause / Photo » April 18, 2008Hopes for osprey license plate delivery dashed
The plates were due to be available tomorrow at Earth Day events held by the Audubon Society and Save The Bay. But officials from the two organizations learned today that plates produced for their initiative apparently need a dash between letters and numbers to conform to state format. The design of the plates shows a nesting osprey at left and the slogan "conservation through education." From each $40 plate purchase, half is going to environmental education programs at Audubon Society and Save The Bay. Lawrence J.F. Taft, executive director of the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, said he, Save The Bay and DMV officials learned of the problem this morning when they were set to to present the first plate to Jill Victo, a teacher at Forest Park Elementary School in North Kingstown. A Division of Motor Vehicles spokeswoman could not be reached for comment late this afternoon. Correctional Industries oversees license plate production at the Adult Correctional Institute in Cranston, according to a previous Journal report on the new plates. Those pickups have been postponed to Sunday, April 27, at Audubon Society of Rhode Island headquarters, 12 Sanderson Road, Smithfield, and at Save The Bay Headquarters, 100 Save The Bay Drive, Providence. -- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney People can also pick up plates as scheduled on Saturday, April 26, at the Audubon Society of Rhode Island Environmental Education Center, 1401 Hope St., Bristol, and at Save The Bay Exploration Center, Easton's Beach Rotunda, 175 Memorial Drive, Newport. If someone can't make those dates, plates will be available at the Pawtucket Division of Motor Vehicles' plate desk, 100 Main St., during normal business hours beginning April 28. The four pick-up dates at different Rhode Island locations are for the more than 1,200 people who made orders during an order period that ended in March, said Taft. Taft said that people can still order the plates, which they will be able to pick up at the Division of Motor Vehicle office in Pawtucket. Posted by Mike McKinney CommentsDan | April 18, 2008 7:03 PM link Another, only in Rhode Island. Why is all the money always for the bay.The pond's and lake's all over the state are dieng from weeds but no one seems to care the DEM could care less.Well I hope everybody likes to drink salt water.. Jim | April 18, 2008 8:16 PM link The Audubon Society, this is were $20 from each plate is going, but with jobs being lost, rents out of control, people losing their homes, and people barley having enough money to feed themselves, the $20 dollars should go to help people with every day struggle. R.R.H R.R.H | April 19, 2008 5:06 PM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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Glad to see the Registry is on top of this! You would have thought someone with the big salaries would have checked this out before the plates were stamped. I think they should pass the plates out as is tomorrow and let the Registry send the "corrected" plates to the registered owners once they are made AT THE REGISTRY'S EXPENSE! Why should these people who shelled out the extra bucks for a cause be penalized due to another bureaucratic screw up from one of Rhode Island's most "loved" institutions. Who found the error? An inmate?