Mohawk Forest Apartments to Host COVID Vaccine Clinic

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Mohawk Forest Apartments, located at 201 Mohawk Forest Boulevard in North Adams, will be hosting a COVID vaccine clinic in their community room from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 31, 2023. 
 
This clinic is open to the public as well as to residents of Mohawk Forest. Individuals 6 months of age and older are eligible to participate. First, second, and booster shots will be available. 
 
All Massachusetts residents who gets vaccinated at this clinic will receive a $75 gift card while supplies last.
 
Note that this is not available for anyone who received a booster shot after September, 2022. Walk-Ins are welcome but pre-registration is encouraged. The vaccine is free. ID and health insurance are not required. 
 
Moderna and Pfizer doses will be available. 
 
For more information or to find out how to pre-register please contact Michael P. Murphy at 413-663-6900, option 3 or by emailing MFRSC@thecalebgroup.org.

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WWII Soldier Coming Home Friday


Bernard Calvi
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A World War II hero will be returning to the Berkshires on Friday night, 82 years after he died as a prisoner of war in the Philippines.
 
Pvt. First Class Bernard Calvi's body will arrive from Hawaii on Friday and will be taken to Paciorek Funeral Home in Adams that evening. 
 
A welcome home standout will take place on Hoosac Street in Adams beginning at 8 p.m. Calvi is set to arrive at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut at approximately 6:40 p.m. and arrive at Paciorek Funeral Home about 8:20. 
 
Calvi had enlisted in the Army Air Forces in September 1940. He and William P. Gilman Jr. of North Adams, good friends and classmates, had been stationed in the Philippines with the 17th Pursuit Squadron five weeks before Imperial Japan launched its attack against United States and Allied installations across the South Pacific. 
 
They disappeared after the fall of Corregidor, an island in Manila Bay to which U.S. forces had retreated, in May 1942. Calvi's parents, Lena and Joseph of Quincy Street, were informed in 1945 that their son had died July 16, 1942, at Cabanatuan Prison Camp after surviving the Bataan Death March. Gilman died a month later.
 
Some 2,800 prisoners died in the camp after suffering from starvation, disease and dysentery. They were buried in makeshift communal graves, which made identifying and recovering remains after the war difficult, according to the Department of Defense's POW/MIA Accounting Agency. 
 
DPAA is tasked with recovering American service members missing in action and had played a key role in the recovery of Pvt. First Class Erwin S. King of Clarksburg from Guadalcanal. King was buried at Southview Cemetery on Sept. 24. 
 
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