Price Chopper/Market 32 Campaign to Support Disabled Veterans

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ALBANY, N.Y. — Price Chopper/Market 32 launched its November campaign to help raise funds for the nonprofit organization, Disabled American Veterans (DAV). 
 
From Nov. 1 to Nov. 30, Price Chopper/Market 32 customers will be given the opportunity to round up their change at checkout, 100 percent of which will go directly to DAV. Price Chopper/Market 32 will kick start the fundraising with a $10,000 donation.
 
DAV is a nonprofit charity that provides cost-free lifetime support to more than a million veterans of all generations and their families, each year. In addition to having extended nearly 163,000 free rides to medical appointments and assisted with 151,000 benefit claims last year, DAV worked to connect veterans with meaningful employment opportunities by hosting job fairs and providing resources.
 
"Price Chopper/Market 32 is gratified to collaborate annually with teammates and customers alike to help veterans who have risked their own lives to protect our country and freedoms," said Mona Golub, Price Chopper/Market 32's vice president of public relations and consumer services.
 

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Beverly Gans Marks 60 Years & Counting in the Pittsfield Schools

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Pittsfield Public Schools recognized Beverly Gans for her 60 years of service with the district with a lunch and crystal plaque on Friday. Gans will mark 40 years as secretary to principal at Taconic High School in June.
 
"It's been a wonderful experience, and I wouldn't trade it … I've seen generations go through,"  she said. "I've seen kids go through, I've seen their kids go through, I've seen their grandkids go through … it's just been a wonderful life for me to have this,"
 
Her former students will come back to the school surprised to see the secretary they connected with years prior. 
 
The students, staff, and administration are what make this school great, she said. 
 
"I bleed green and gold," Grans said. Last year on her 77th birthday, the faculty bought her green and gold Nike sneakers that she wears every Friday. 
 
She has become a pillar of the district over the last six decades, so much so that even district leaders look up to her. 
 
"Most people come to me for anything and everything, even in the district. I mean, there's so many new people. I mean, most of the secretaries today, I don't even know them," Gans said. 
 
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