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Election
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Daily Digest
This is Jake
He's been lost in Pittsfield for weeks but frequently sited. He was last seen heading toward the fire station on Peck's Road. He's tired, dirty and needs seizure medication. He's chipped. If you see him, call Julie at 413-537-5616, the vet 24/7 at 413-499-2820 or animal control at 413-448-9700. |
ObituariesSales FliersWhat's Playing
The popular anime character "Astro Boy" searches for acceptance on the big screen.
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BazaarsNov. 7:
VNA & Hospice, Community Room, North Adams
North Adams Elks
10-4; Nov. 8, 9-2
Crafters, Chinese auction, bake sale
For vendor information, Melanie at 413-743-5562.
Nov. 14
Berkshire Community Church, Richmond
10-4; Crafters, bake sale. Contact Evelyn Goggia at 413-445-5747
Lanesborough Elementary School annual Fall Craft Fair from 10 to 4. Free admission, huge variety of arts and crafts, raffles, food and more. Proceeds go to sixth-grade trip to Cape Cod.
Vendors can contact Deb at 413-738-5349 or debhutton@aol.com or Lori at 413-499-0065 or lorittod@yahoo.com to secure a spot.
Dec. 12-13
North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Contact Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.
Planning a bazaar this season? Submit information to info@iberkshires.com to have it listed here. |
Sports | Thursday, Nov. 06
Boys' Soccer: State Vocational Championship Game
McCann Tech 3, Keefe Tech 2
Girls' Soccer: State Vocational Championship Game
Blackstone Valley 8, McCann Tech 0 |
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Youths Trekking Across State With Climate Change MessageBy Tammy Daniels
iBerkshires Staff
05:03PM / Tuesday, June 23, 2009
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Five activists working to engage residents in climate-change solutions will be bicycling into town on Wednesday.
The group, one of three working with Massachusetts Climate Summer, a project of Massachusetts Power Shift, will be knocking on doors to talk about the goal of 100 percent clean electricity within the next decade, how the state can be a leader in the green movement and inviting residents to a presentation on Thursday evening at 5 at First Congregational Church.
The cyclists are working their way across the state, spending two to three days in each community and partnering with local groups, including members of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, which have been helping provide shelter and sustenance for the activists.
Samuel Rubin, 19, a Rhode Island native doing an internship as a grassroots organizer with Climate Summer, said the response so far has been very positive.
"We went canvassing in Pittsfield yesterday," said Rubin on Tuesday afternoon. "It was great. I think the issue of climate change is becoming a reality to people across political and economic lines."
The group met for a week of intensive training in Deerfield then hit the road for Great Barrington on June 12. Rubin said they expect to reach Boston in August. Meanwhile, the two other groups are working their way along the state's north and south shores. Nearly 20 youths in all are spreading the climate change message on two wheels.
Rubin's group will likely be preaching to the already converted in Williamstown. The town has taken a strong stand on energy conservation through the COOL (CO2 Lowering) Committee with the goal of reducing its carbon emissions to 10 percent below the 2000 levels by 2010. Williams College has also invested in sustainable practices.
The group is working with the COOL Committee on Thursday night's Awakening the Dreamer Symposium and on installing weather stripping at Mount Greylock Regional High School with Williams students and others on Thursday morning.
Rather than think of Thursday night's event as a symposium, however, Rubin said a better description is an interactive workshop with audio and visual presentations. The participants will break into smaller discussion groups.
The goal is to transform information into emotion, said Rubin, and focus on what the individual can do to make a difference. "Its focus is on bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling society."
It was a similar presentation on destructive mountaintop coal mining in an environmental class at Oberlin College that pushed Rubin from the fringes of the green movement into outright activism.
"I realized what we were doing to the Earth is a crime," he said. "I was tired of people talking and wanted to do something ... and sitting in an office was not going to do it."
What he hopes will do it is the Climate Change Congress slated for December in Copenhagen, Denmark, at which U.S. Sen. John Kerry will be a lead negotiator. Along with talking about climate change, the youths will be asking for signatures on a petition to urge Kerry to make Massachusetts and the nation leaders in finding solutions to climate change.
"John Kerry has to make it happen. We're here to make John Kerry make it happen." |
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