This cloudy weekend features a variety of indoor and outdoor events including Pride walks, festivals, car shows, comedy nights, Art Walks, treasure hunts, and Farmers Markets.
1st Annual BFAIR Summer Kick-Off Festival
Paterson Field House, Pittsfield
Berkshire Family And Individual Resources (BFAIR) will host its first Summer Kick-Off Festival this Saturday at the Paterson Field House at Berkshire Community College, located at 1350 West St. in Pittsfield.
The event will be from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. and will offer a mini-golf tournament, live music, games, activities, raffles, prizes, food trucks and more.
Reach out to Tara Jacobsen, fundraising and grants manager, at tjacobsen@bfair.org, with any questions.
Evening Nature Walk
Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary is hosting a guided nature walk to celebrate pride month this Friday at 5 p.m.
This free event gives participants a chance to explore the woods and wetlands that the sanctuary has to offer. Hikers will come across a variety of different fauna, flora, and amphibians during the journey.
Mike Hanley will be performing his high energy comedy routine, which has 22 million views on YouTube, at the Flat Burger Society, located at 75 North St, this Saturday night starting at 8.
Hanley has opened for performers Tom Arnold, Jay Mohr, David Alan Grier, David Koechner, and Jim Breuer and appeared on CBS Boston's Best Comedians Special, Good Morning America, People Magazine, and many more media outlets.
Attendees must be 18 years of age; dinner available up to an hour before showtime.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $22 at the door. All tickets are non-refundable unless canceled by the venue.
The 8th annual PopCares Cruise-In for Cancer Car Show returns this Sunday at Southside Sales and Service, located at 546 Curran Highway as a fundraising event for PopCares Inc.
PopCares Inc is a local cancer charity that will be donating all the proceeds from this event to cancer patients from towns in the Northern Berkshires and bordering Southern Vermont.
The event runs from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. and admission is free.
There will be vendors, food, and music by the Hotshot Hillbillies as well as chance for prizes and a 50/50 raffle,
This event is open to all vehicles, vendors, and cars. Car and vendor registration is from 6 until 8:30 a.m. the day of the event. Show vehicles require a $10 donation and vendors a $20 donation.
The Lenox Loves Music series continues this weekend at the new location, Lilac Park, this Sunday at 3:30.
This week's performance will be by classical guitarist, music teacher, and grad student Julia Shippee..
This award-winning music teacher has been noted for her interactive classroom and kept students involved during the pandemic by having them make podcasts.
She has been a teacher for 24 years and Chalkbeat reported that she was driven to become a teacher after an interaction she had with a young boy with autism.
The Pittsfield Farmers Market is jam-packed this weekend bringing the Local Biz Treasure Hunt to the weekly market.
The CozQuest Treasure Hunts starts at the Common where participants search for hidden treasures among the vendors and will move on to downtown Pittsfield for a chance to win a $250 Downtown Pittsfield Inc. Gift Card.
Information on the CozQuest Treasure Hunts can be found here.
At 8:30 a.m., the market will be having a fun run in which participants can join Berkshire Running Center to run the Downtown Loop and return to the market.
More information on the Fun Run can be found here.
The New Orleans Jazz Ambassadors will play from 10 to noon.
Also at 10 a.m., families can join a yoga class led by Maya or visit the "Chef Demo" table to watch and taste food prepared by chefs Jeremy Berlin and James Burden of Mission Gastropub.
Coach Joe will also be hosting a speed and agility challenge for all ages and abilities.
The markets is having its first-ever Cupcake throwdown at 11 a.m. Get 10 cupcakes for $10 at Dottie's Coffee Lounge (cash only).
Farmers Market
Lenox Farmers Market
80 Church St., Lenox
The market will be open in its new location 80 Church Street, formerly the Cafe Lucia, this Friday from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
Participants can peruse local vendors while enjoying food and listening to music.
The Sheffield Farmers' Market is open Friday from 3 until 6 p.m. at First Congregational Church located at 125 Main St.
The market will feature healthy food and products from a variety of local vendors in an attempt to nourish the community by protecting "local small farms, land, bees, and economy."
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ADOPTED! Companion Corner: Cali and Kyzer at Berkshire Humane Society
By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
Great news, Kyzer and Cali found a home for Christmas already! Still looking for a new friend for the holidays? There are plenty of dogs and cats and small animals at Berkshire Humane who would love to go home with you.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — There's a bonded dog pair awaiting a new family at the Berkshire Humane Society.
Kyzer and Cali are both poodles. Kyzer is the male and is 7 years old, a quite a bit bigger than his sister Cali, who is a miniature of Kyzer and 8 years old.
Canine adoption counselor Rhonda Cyr introduced us to the two.
"They came from a household that couldn't hold on to them, and it sounds like they may have been abandoned by their previous owner with somebody else, and so they came to us looking for a new home," she said.
The two love to be around you and snuggle. But both are very happy dogs.
"Kyzer is 7 years old, and his personality is that he kind of wants to be in everything. He's very loving, very snuggly, as you can tell. And Callie here, she's 8 years old, and she is kind of like the life of the party," said Cyr. "She wants to tell you everything about her day, and she's a little bit of a little ham."
The two are considered seniors and really like soft treats as Cali just had a few teeth removed and Kyzer has a tooth procedure coming up.
"Currently, they really like soft treats, because they are both on the senior side of things. So they have had some dental work, so they are really in need of something softer. They are not big chewers at this age, really, their main focus right now is just really socializing and cuddling," Cyr said.
The two would love a quiet home with someone who wants to snuggle. They shouldn't go to a home with bigger dogs but if you have a dog, you can bring them in for a visitation with the poodles to see if they will get along. Cats will be fine and the preference is for older and more responsible children so that the pups don't get hurt, as they are senior citizens.
"The perfect home for them would be a quiet home that's not too active. Like I said, they're very social, so they could handle some visitors," she said. "They're very friendly, but I don't think that they would really enjoy any other dogs in the home."
Poodles need to be regularly groomed, and the prospective adopter will have to keep an eye on their health. Kyzer has a heart murmur that needs to be monitored. This doesn't mean he is in bad health, as he could live a perfectly normal life, but he will need to be checked by a veterinary specialist routinely.
"Ideally, he would go to a home that could provide further health care with a specialist in cardiac care. And you know, he could very well live out the rest of his life comfortably and happy," Cyr said. "We just don't have all that information at the moment, but I think that you know the way he's going right now. He's got a good spirit, and he seems to be pretty happy."
The shelter is hoping the to get them a home for the holidays.
"We would love to get them a home in time for the holidays. They've been here since the eighth of November, and they're really, really looking as much as the staff loves them here, we're really looking to get them into a home and somewhere nice and cozy so they can spend the rest of their life together," she said.
Kyzer and Cali are both poodles. Kyzer is the male and is 7 years old, and a little bigger than his sister Cali, who is a miniature of Kyzer and 8 years old.
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A 700-square-foot outdoor water attraction is planned for the 2.1-acre park at 30 John Street. City officials hope to have it operational by summertime.
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Jewish Federation of the Berkshires President Arlene Schiff opened the festivities with a recognition of the victims of Sunday's mass shooting in Australia and praise for a hero who helped stop the killing.
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