With skyrocketing oil prices, the cost of heating homes is jumping off the charts. The Department of Energy expects heating bills to be 27 percent higher this winter for people who heat with oil and 41 percent higher for those who heat with natural gas. In cold-winter climates, this number will be closer to 30 percent. What can you do?

Some homeowners are turning to pellet stoves to provide supplemental (or in some cases, primary) heat. Pellet stoves look similar to wood stoves or fireplace inserts, but the similarities end there. Instead of burning wood, they burn small pellets made typically of recycled wood shavings, sawdust, or corn. Inside, they are very sophisticated combustion appliances that offer very low-cost heating. For more about this, see Advantages of Burning Pellets and Pellet Stove Energy Cost Comparisons.

Most pellet stoves produce a small fire that, concentrated in the center of the unit, burns hot. If you like the look of a fire, it's important to find a unit with a good flame pattern and large viewing glass. Here at Fireplace Products LLC. we have multiple pellet stoves available including the Harman Pellet Stoves, Ecotech, and Napoleon pellet stoves. Visit out website for more information on these units. www.FireplaceProductsllc.com

There are many marinas located in Warwick Cove in Warwick Rhode Island, but Harbor Lights Marina, in my opinion is one of the best.

Besides being located on a back street off Warwick Neck Avenue, Harbor Lights Marina has a clear view down Narragansett Bay. Sitting on the dock and watching the boats brings just as much enjoyment as having a boat in a slip.

Harbor Lights Marina, boasts double fingers. (for those who do not know what double fingers are, its a dock on both sides of your boat) Most of the marinas in Warwick do not have double fingers. Having a dock on either side makes it so much easier for the Captain to get the boat in the dock with a minimum of fuss. It also lets the First Mate take their time jumping off the boat to tie up the lines.

A Dock has a perfect view of not only the Oakland Beach fireworks, but a general parade of boats coming up the cove and then returning at the end of the day.

All the docks are clean, well lit and just a nice place to be.  Tim and Leo are always around, either on the gas dock, or in the office, or out in the yard and both are very accessible for questions and help.

Hap, the mechanic and John, the Yard manager are also always accessible and always willing to help.

Below are a few photos of Harbor Light Marina, mostly taken from the water.

If you are looking for a slip, check out Harbor Light Marina in Warwick RI.

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Highland beach, in Warwick, RI is my home town. It is on the very neck of Warwick Neck, another village in Warwick. Perhaps I should say my home "village" as I am continuing on the series I started a couple of years ago.

Back then I promised to do an entire series on the villages in Warwick. I first blogged about Oakland Beach in Warwick RI and I continue to receive calls and emails from that blog. In fact, Oakland Beach has been improving by the minute and I am selling homes there as fast as they go on the market. I am starting to think maybe I should have kept Oakland Beach a secret!

Next I blogged about Conimicut Point, another beach community (and Village) in Warwick, and of course Warwick itself!

Getting to Highland Beach is (and most Rhode Islanders remember this) usually by the "back road to Rocky Point" or Palmer Avenue. Off Palmer avenue are two streets that lead into Highland Beach. These are the only streets into and out of Highland Beach. Once inside you can go down a few different streets, like Priscilla, Ogden, Surf, Chapin, etc, but they all lead to the water.

While Highland Beach has a very small beach, most of the properties are on the waterfront and all the others back up the hill overlooking the waterfront houses. This is a very quaint community. There are homes that have been here for almost one hundred years, meaning that they survived the Hurricane of 38! which to my knowledge was the biggest hurricanes to hit Rhode Island in the past century.

There are all types of homes in Highland Beach. Former beach houses, now converted, large Cape Annes, many with wide porches and also some newer homes are all what makes Highland Beach so quaint. There are no two homes alike and the one bond is the Narragansett Bay!

If you want to live in Highland Beach, you need to be working with a Realtor because, these homes do not stay on the market for long. There are two here for sale right now. One is a waterfront and one is a raised ranch at the top of the hill.

The above statements are the personal opinions of Karen Hurst of Stonehurst Realty

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Last Saturday, May 16, 2009 I attended at St John and Paul's Catholic Church in Coventry, RI,

the First Communion of my Godson, Keith John Pacheco's daughter,

ASHLEY LYNN PACHECO

Sts. John & Paul Parish

341 South Main St., Coventry, R.I. 02816-5987
Phone: (401) 821-5764 Fax: (401) 828-5351

email: ssjp341@stjp.necoxmail.com

Sts. John & Paul is a Roman Catholic Church that is made up of 4700+ families, one the largest parishes in the Diocese of Providence. It is located in the town of Coventry and services the needs of families located in the West Warwick, Coventry and Exeter-West Greenwich areas of our state of Rhode Island.

Mommy (Kimberly) Daddy(Keith) Brother(Ryan) and Ashley

Great Aunt Kathleen, Great Uncle John, Great cousin Mark and Ashley

First Communion is such a momentous celebration. Ashley Lynn was baptized as an infant into the family of God we call Church, and now she takes a place at the Lord's Table with the grownups. Grandparents, aunts, friends join her and her immediate family in celebrating the event. The life of the risen Lord is nurtured in his people by a consistent lifetime diet of his flesh and blood. A child's First Communion is but the first taste of this food the Holy Eucharist. "This is my body", and wine, saying, "This is my blood."

Smiles of Celebration

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