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RI Governor Hosts "Big Picnic" to
Re-launch Saratoga Fundraising Effort
 On 8 June, 2003, Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri and his wife Susan opened their summer home in Saunderstown to invited guests and special visitors. The occasion was the kick-off of a renewed fundraising effort by the Saratoga Museum Foundation - reinvigorating the process that had begun nearly half a decade earlier by Frank Lennon and the Saratoga Museum Foundation. This gracious and generous offer by the Governor to host this event was a dramatic and very public gesture to the guests in attendance and those elsewhere. It made clear Governor Carcieri's sentiments with regards to the impact to the State of Rhode Island in having the ex-USS SARATOGA available as an asset to state economic health and tourism.
The original press release announcing "The Big Picnic" can be found here. For the images below, click on any photo to see a larger view. It will open in a new popup window - no need to reload this page.
Providence Journal publisher Howard Sutton
and his wife Kim (l) with the Governor. |
Governor and Mrs. Donald L. Carcieri.
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Frank Lennon (l) with Sergei Khrushchev
and his wife, Valentina Golenko. |
Presentation of an appreciation award.
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