Ocean State Job Lot, a discount closeout retailer headquartered in Rhode Island with 140 stores including Athol, is supplying its customers with the fabric necessary to create an estimated two million homemade cloth face masks.
Customers are invited to visit the newly created displays in each of the retailer’s store locations to pick up free, high-quality cotton-polyester blended fabric, in the form of cloth napkins and tablecloths, to craft their DIY-masks. To ensure that as many people as possible are able to benefit from the program, customers are limited to five units of fabric.
Ocean State Job Lot also continues to utilize its global supply chain to source a million critically needed surgical and N95 face masks, which are being donated to hospitals and other medical facilities in the region, according to a press release. Last week alone, the company’s charitable foundation donated essential items, and also sold items below cost, to organizations including Rhode Island Hospital, Bradley Hospital, RI Free Clinic, Boston Medical Center, the State of Rhode Island, and multiple fire and police departments. These essential items included thousands of masks, gloves, cleaning supplies, hand sanitizer, hazmat suits, eye protection and more.
ROYALSTON — In accordance with the most recent Massachusetts Department of Public Health Stay-At-Home and Safe Practices Advisory, the following COVID-19 measures continue at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tully Lake and Birch Hill Dam.
The Tully Lake Disc Golf Course, Recreation facilities, including public restrooms, and office buildings, are closed to the public until further notice. Access is limited to mission essential employees, shipping companies, contractors and essential service personnel.
All USACE-sponsored events, on-site interpretive programming and volunteer activities are canceled until further notice.
No new special event or activity permits will be issued until further notice; those permits that have already been issued will be considered for revocation based upon latest Public Health guidelines.
The hiking and mountain bike trails remain open and accessible to the public, as allowed with state orders and advisories, should individuals and their families wish to get outside for healthy, outdoor recreational activity. For this measure to continue, and for the health and safety of all, visitors must adhere to the following guidelines:
Stay home if feeling sick.
Avoid activities where individuals will come in close contact with one another and/or gathering in groups of10 or more.
Maintain physical distance of at least 6 feet.
Should crowds begin to form at various locations, visitors are asked to leave that area, choose a different location or return at a later date/time.
Practice healthy personal hygiene.
Leave no trace. Take all trash, including pet waste, with you when you leave the property. Violators are subject to fine and removal.
Avoid touching surfaces frequently touched by others including, but not limited to, benches, picnic tables, railings and signs. These surfaces are not being cleaned. Sanitize your hands if you do.
Additional closures may occur based on federal, state or local health and safety directives. Updates will be posted on https://www.nae.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Tully-Lake/ and https://www.nae.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Birch-Hill-Dam/, www.facebook.com/TullyLake and www.facebook.com/BirchHillDam.