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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Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation’s Fund for Williamstown
11:06AM / Thursday, May 07, 2009
Provides grant for Elder Services' Meals on Wheels Program
Berkshire County - Elder Services of Berkshire County has received a grant in the amount of $2,300 from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation's Fund for Williamstown.
The funding is designated for Elder Services' Nutrition/Meals on Wheels program, which provides hot, nutritious meals to over 1,000 Berkshire seniors each weekday. In 2008, Elder Services served over a quarter-million meals - over 200,000 were delivered as Meals on Wheels to frail seniors who might not otherwise have had a hot meal or a friendly visit, and the remaining meals were served to seniors attending Elder Services' 15 group lunch sites, located throughout the county.
The Nutrition/Meals on Wheels program has been dangerously under-funded for years, even as cost of preparing, serving, and delivering the meals continues to grow. Community organizations such as the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation provide Elder Services with much-needed support to address the program deficit.
This grant from the Fund for Williamstown will help ensure that all Williamstown seniors who need home-delivered meals will continue to receive them.
Elder Services Meals on Wheels program is essential to the agency's mission to provide Berkshire seniors the opportunity to live with dignity, independence and self-determination, and to achieve the highest possible quality of life.
