🌱 Missing VA Girl Found In Pawtucket + New Affordable Housing?

Happy Thursday, Pawtucket! Let's get you all caught up on what's happening locally to start today off on an informed note.

First, today's weather:

Times of clouds and sun. High: 57 Low: 42.

Here are the top stories in Pawtucket today:

1. A 7-year-old Virginia girl who has been missing since 2019 was found in Pawtucket, thanks to quick thinking by the Pawtucket Public Library staff. Staff members had become concerned "on a couple of occasions" about a mother and daughter who visited the library and notified Pawtucket police. A Facebook post about the pair eventually led police to discover that the mother had a warrant out for her arrest in Florida for interfering with custody and abduction by a non-custodial parent. Detectives arrested the mother, Jessica Van Daam when they found her and her daughter in Fogarty Manor. Van Daam, 48, is awaiting extradition back to Florida, while her daughter is in the custody of the Department of Children, Youth and Families. (WPRI.com)
2. A Pawtucket man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading no contest to possession of a firearm after being convicted of a crime of violence; possession of a ghost gun; possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number; possession of fentanyl, cocaine, and marijuana; and other charges, according to the office of the state Attorney General. Antonio Vazquez, 26, was one of four people arrested in July after investigators seized more than 1,500 fentanyl pills, a ghost gun, and a large-capacity magazine from homes in Providence and Pawtucket. Charges against the other three suspects are pending. (WLNE-TV (ABC6))
3. The City of Pawtucket is looking to acquire 160 Beechwood Ave., a vacant brick building near the former Memorial Hospital campus, to convert it into a new affordable housing complex. (Valley Breeze)
4. Gallery 175 on Main Street, Pawtucket is currently exhibiting "Looking Back: A Twenty-Year Retrospective," a series of prints created by Joan Hausrath inspired by her love of nature, fascination with archaeological finds, and her world travels over the last two decades. (mybackyardnews.com)
5. The Little Sisters of the Poor will be accepting frozen turkey donations from Nov. 14 through 20 at the Jeanne Jugan Residence (964 Main St., Pawtucket) for their annual Turkey Drop. (Valley Breeze)

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— Nicole Fallon-Peek

About me: Nicole Fallon-Peek is a journalist and copywriter with a degree in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University. She has served as a freelance reporter, managing editor, copy editor, and editorial director for a variety of B2B news outlets. She currently co-owns and operates content creation agency Lightning Media Partners.