St. Stanislaus School benefit, 9 to 4 in Kolbe Hall, Adams. Bake sale, snack bar, games, Chinese auctions, money raffle, crafts, and pierogi.
Blackinton Union Church, 1373 Massachusetts Ave., North Adams; 10 to 2. Crafts table, bake sale, Chinese auction, the Christmas table, and kid's grab bag. Lunch $4, $2 kids.
First Congregational Church, North Adams, 9-2.
Nov. 28 Becket Federated Church, Route 8, holiday bazaar from 9-3. Lunch, crafts, baked goods, holiday and other items. Information: Mary Peltier, Parish House, 413-623-5217.
Dec. 5
Holiday Fair at First Congregational Church, 25 Park Place, Lee, from 10 to 3; handcrafted items, raffles, children's shop, bake sale, cut Christmas trees and lunch from 11 to 1. Includes angel-themed goods from SERRV. Information, 413-243-1033 or www.ucc-lee.org.
Dec. 12-13
North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Information: Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.
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Mammography Dispute The government's issued controversial new guidelines stating that women shouldn't get annual mammograms until age 50, rather than age 40.
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Moving America Beyond Coal, Lecture At Williams College
11:24AM / Monday, April 06, 2009
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Mary Anne Hitt, the deputy director of the Sierra Club's National Coal Campaign, will present a lecture entitled "Moving America Beyond Coal" on Tuesday, April 7, at 8 p.m. in Wege Auditorium on the Williams College campus.
The event is free and open to the public.
Hitt grew up in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. As an undergraduate at the University of Tennessee, she founded the group Students Promoting Environmental Action in Knoxville, the first environmentalist group on campus.
She has been the executive director of three grassroots environmental groups, including the Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project in Asheville, N.C., the Ecology Center in Missoula, Mont., and Appalachian Voices in Boone, N.C..
Under her leadership, Appalachian Voices launched the website iLoveMountains.org. The website serves as an online organizing network against mountaintop removal, a form of coal mining that destroys mountains and the surrounding environment. Since the fall of 2008, Hitt has worked on the Sierra Club's National Coal Campaign, which aims to reduce industrial use of coal and promote sources of clean energy.
