A group of volunteers from Citizens Bank–Harry Singh, Paul Hanley, Maria Fontana, Ryan Busby, and Paul Simpson—joined URI-certified Conservancy volunteers this spring to tackle the Japanese knotweed patch that is creeping into the woods at Irving Avenue and River Road and made short work of it. But we need to return every few weeks during the growing season to start taming the invasive plant, the Godzilla of the invasives.