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Community Leaders Visit Saratoga
 L-R: William Sheridan, Saratoga staff; Steven Campo, North Kingstown Town Council; Jack O'Rourke, North Kingstown; Kenneth Osborne, Dean of Instructional Technology, Roger Williams University; Patrick Lynch, RI Attorney General; CAPT Richard Suttie USN (Ret), Saratoga board member and Dean for the Center for Naval Warfare Studies, Naval War College; Edward Whittaker, North Kingstown Town Council; Frank Lennon, Saratoga staff; Michael Embury, Town Manager, North Kingstown; Greg Roebuck, Northeast Engineers; Stephen G. Morin, Saratoga board member and retired Department of Environmental Management official; Len Topp, Northeast Engineers; RADM Thomas E. Zelibor, USN (ret) Dean of the College of Naval Leadership, Naval War College; Michael Stenhouse, CMIT Technologies, Saratoga board member; BG James D'Agostino USAF (Ret), Saratoga board member; Richard Picard, Saratoga board member and Voc/Tech instructor. Photo by Casey Dahm, Saratoga staff. As part of our education process for elected officials, community leaders, potential sponsors and others involved with our efforts, we hosted a visit aboard Saratoga for 16 people on Thursday, February 8, 2007. We focused on areas such as the fully-equipped machine shops (for job training), the still-complete institutional galleys (culinary school opportunity), and the elements of the ship that would make Saratoga a disaster relief and emergency management asset (such as the 1500KW diesel generators). One of the tour participants was Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch, who went directly from the ship to the taping of the political talk show "A Lively Experiment" on WSBE-TV Channel 36 (Rhode Island PBS). On the show he declared his "Outrage of the Week" would be if the state allowed the Saratoga project to slip through its fingers, given the overall benefits this project offers to our community. The full text of his remarks follow below.
 Comments of Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch "A Lively Experiment", WSBE-TV Channel 36 (Rhode Island PBS); aired February 8 and February 11. On this political interview show, AG Lynch declared his "Outrage of the Week" would be if the state allowed the Saratoga project to slip through its fingers, given the overall benefits this project offers to our community. Here is the full text of his remarks: My outrage is going to be a little different...I just came from visiting the USS Saratoga. I've watched with admiration as Frank Lennon and a host of veterans [have led what is] now a cooperative effort...to get that ship, maintain that ship and ultimately move it from Newport, where it is now, to Quonset where it can become not only a living museum, but also it can serve—and I think this is important as well—in a host of other capacities, both for business and also perhaps for emergency management operations. Hopefully we will never need it, but [it would be a great benefit] to have it as a resource, as the Intrepid is now in New York City. All that is congratulatory. I think what would be outrageous, to turn this a little bit, [would be] if we stepped away from that [project]...I think a lot more people can and should get behind that [effort], to cheer him on, and to cheer on what I think is a proud legacy of this state and a legacy of our nation. I think this can be a great opportunity--an educational opportunity and perhaps even a vehicle for business, and a great resource for our state in the future.
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