Letter: Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive

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To the Editor:

The Board of Directors of the Al Nelson Friendship Center Food Pantry in North Adams wishes to thank the North Adams, Clarksburg and Florida Mountain community for their generation donations to the May 11 Letter Carrier Food Drive.

We received a total of 3,595 pounds of food and personal care items.

We equally want to thank our Letter Carriers who work out of the North Adams Post Office. They again went above and beyond in collecting the donations and bringing them to the collection and sorting site. They are always a pleasure to work with.

We also want to thank the Northern Berkshire United Way, the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, and the Berkshire United Way for their support, as well all of the volunteers who helped on the day of the Food Drive.

Lois Daunis
North Adams, Mass. 

Daunis is the board president of the Friendship Center.

 

 

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Three North Adams Small Businesses Get Grants

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A local restaurant has a solution to acoustics, a plant store is going mobile, and a popular ice cream/sandwich shop is getting new equipment and a website.  
 
These improvements were all made possible through some $34,000 in grants. 
 
Door Prize, which opened last fall in Hotel Downstreet, recently received $14,000 from MassDevelopment to help improve the acoustics of in the dining room.
 
"Acoustics were not great in there, and it was something that we'd like to do, it was a pretty ambitious, big project," said Jenny Klowden, who operates the restaurant with her husband, chef Bryan "Swifty" Josephs.  
 
"We'd like to do it right, instead of just putting up just the straightforward panels you buy online, but have something actually built to work on the acoustics for that space."
 
The two applied for the grant last year; work has already started and should be done completed before mid-March. Klowden said it will ensure the comfort of their guests.
 
"It's really exciting, because this is the kind of project that we definitely could not have taken on on our own, or we would have had to do cheaply and not nearly as fully rounded and as long term as this project is now turning out to be," she said.
 
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