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Rhode Island Briefs
01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, July 13, 2008

. . . . Calendar men and women: Thirty Rhode Island residents have been selected to be part of the first annual Real Rhode Islander charity calendar. Those selected, 15 men and 15 women, will appear in two different official 2009 calendars whose sales will benefit the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation.

Contestants between the ages of 21 and 60 were judged during nearly 100 live interviews on the successes they portrayed, the goodness of their “inner being,” their positive impact on the community and their photogenic qualities. They had to live in Rhode Island to qualify, and many contestants, although not all, were either cancer survivors or had family members that suffered from the disease.

Those selected include Michael J Baccari, of Coventry; Cheryl Howard, Danny Poulos and Lareto Guglietta, of Cranston; Omar Meer, of East Providence; Carol Ventura and Bob Ventura, of Glocester; Gail Gutierres and Steven Capaldi, of Johnston; Cheryl Cusick and Jonathan Segal, of Narragansett; Jenny Vingi, of North Kingstown; Jane Bernardino, Jay Jones and Shane Michael Piche, of North Providence; Tracie Bourget, of Pawtucket; Andrew Reis, Jeffiey V. Leechman and Mallory Palumbo, of Providence; Spogga Hashway, of Richmond; Jasmine ZenMah, of Tiverton; Michelle Mitchell, of Wakefield; Ashley Flynn, Frank Pantaleo, Melissa Morales and Richard Cassella, of Warwick; Christina Pimentel and Giovanni Calise, of West Warwick; Yvonne Perez, of Westerly; and Shauna Fontaine, of Woonsocket.

This is an excerpt of the Projo page here:
http://www.projo.com/news/content/RIBRIEFS13_07-13-08_FAARB45_v9.3432c9a.html

This is in paragraphs 19, 20 and 21 on that page.