{"id":1074,"date":"2026-04-05T23:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rirs.org\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:07:00","slug":"upcoming-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rirs.org\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table alignwide\"><table class=\"has-border-color\" style=\"border-color:#1f1bdd;border-width:5px\"><tbody><tr><td><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Upcoming:<\/strong><br>3\/14\/26: Annual meeting, installation of officers, presentation on culinary and medicinal uses of roses by Becky Martorelli<br>2\/14\/26: RIRS Zoom meeting: Gretchen Ward Warren on Walsh ramblers<br>3\/7-3\/9 <a href=\"https:\/\/arsyankee.org\">Yankee District Rose Convention<\/a> in Sturbridge<br>3\/14\/26: RIRS Annual Meeting &#8211; Becky Martorelli on Roses for Culinary and herbal Uses <br>4\/11\/26: Public rose pruning and planting at Hattie Ide Chafee nursing home in East Providence<br>5\/9\/26: Rose Show prep, Shepherd of the Valley United Methodist Church<br>6\/13\/26: <a href=\"https:\/\/rirs.org\/?page_id=68\">2026 RIRS Rose Show at Shepherd of the Valley<\/a> United Methodist Church in Hope:<br>I Always Promised You a Rose Garden<br>6\/20\/26: NERS Rose Show at ElmBank in Wellesley<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming:3\/14\/26: Annual meeting, installation of officers, presentation on culinary and medicinal uses of roses by Becky Martorelli2\/14\/26: RIRS Zoom meeting: Gretchen Ward Warren on Walsh ramblers3\/7-3\/9 Yankee District Rose Convention in Sturbridge3\/14\/26: RIRS Annual Meeting &#8211; Becky Martorelli on Roses for Culinary and herbal Uses 4\/11\/26: Public rose pruning and planting at Hattie Ide Chafee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices","category-meetings","category-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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