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“Two men look out

‘Mr. Zap’ ready to take charge in Westfield schools

By DAN DESROCHERS Correspondent WESTFIELD—For soon-to-be school superintendent Stefan Czaporowski, a career in education was a no-brainer.

Sort of.

Czaporowski, or “Mr. Zap” as students call him, will become Westfield’s school superintendent July 1, following Dr. Suzanne Scallion’s retirement from the post. While Czaporowski’s successes in education, especially in Westfield, are an acknowledgement to his potential for the new position, how Czaporowski entered the world of education was perhaps a little less ambitious.

After finishing a degree in history from then-Westfield State College, Czaporowski wasn’t sure what to do. So, he settled on education.

“I loved history and social studies and government, and quite honestly—what else are you going to do? Work at a museum, but there aren’t many jobs for historians, Czaporowski said.

So he entered education. But it wasn’t just because he felt that he had to. Instead, Czaporowski knew that he wanted to make a change through the profession.

“Essentially, I had a bad experience as a student,” he said.

“I hoped to make a positive experience for students.”

Czaporowski began his career in 1995 teaching at Chicopee Comprehensive High School beginning what some could see as a quick and impressive rise through the field of education.

He flourished as a social studies and history teacher eventually moving up in the ranks to social studies supervisor for the school.

After serving in Chicopee Comprehensive High School for 12 years, Czaporowski moved on to become an assistant principal at Easthampton High School. From there, he was See Schools, Page 3

From left to right are Captain Paul Lentini, Deputy Fire Chief Patrick Kane, Jr., firefighters Niles Lavalley, Connor Hedge, Keith Lemon and Matt Marchesi. Photo credit to Westfield Fire Commission Chairman Albert Masciadrelli.

Firefighters recognized for saving life

By DAN DESROCHERS Correspondent WESTFIELD—Six firefighters received awards for their efforts in helping to save a life of a local man.

Westfield firefighters Connor Hedge, Niles Lavalley, Keith Lemon, Matt Marchesi and Jack Johnson, as well as Westfield fire Captain Paul Lentini each received prehospital save awards on Monday for work they did to help save the man’s life. The awards were given to

them by the Western Mass. Emergency Medical Services (WMEMS) Committee, and were presented by the Westfield Fire Commission.

Johnson was not available for the presentation ceremony.

“It feels good to be recognized, but we’re not doing it for recognition,” Lentini said. “It puts it out there that what really helps is fast intervention.”

Lentini said that the incident that happened was on Toledo Ave., and initially

came to the fire department as a car accident.

According to WWLP, Mark Stevens was driving his pickup truck with his wife in the passenger seat when, according to Lentini, he suffered a possible heart attack and went into cardiac arrest.

Then Stevens’s wife was said to have then pulled the steering wheel and the vehicle crashed into a tree.

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Committee treated to song, good news before meetings

Czaporowski sits in his soon-vacant seat at Westfield Vocational High School.

Run Your Health open to all who seek to get healthy

By AMY PORTER Correspondent WESTFIELD – Monday night’s School Committee meeting opened with the school song, “Peace like a river,” by the Newcomer’s Program at Highland Elementary School. Teacher Claire Howard and school nurse Mrs. Lavoie on guitar led the children first in practice on the grass, then inside to a packed house. The students introduced themselves, where they were from, and what languages they speak, which included Nepali, Arabic, Swahili, and Spanish along with English.

The School Committee then heard a report on the progress of the Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (PBIS) program which was brought to Westfield Public Schools in 2013 in partnership with the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

The program is designed to assist teachers with the social and emotional needs of children. Dr. Sara Whitcomb from UMass’ Center for Research on Families said PBIS is not a curriculum or a packaged program, but a framework to guide the schools. UMass provided ongoing training and support to teachers over the last two years to help them provide a system-wide problem-solving See Meetings, Page 3

By LORI SZEPELAK Correspondent WESTFIELD-What has blossomed in the span of two years from initially two friends getting together on Saturday mornings to exercise is a unique free program, Run Your Health.

The Amelia Park Arena parking lot is the gathering place at 8:30 a.m. every Saturday for the group, coordinated by Laura Morris of Southwick, and this past Saturday, more than 30 eager participants of all ages came out for the program.

“Run Your Health started as a way for me and my friends to work out together in the community for free,” said Morris.

“When my daughter Momo was undergoing cancer treatment, I was very unhealthy. Finding my inner athlete and getting moving was what helped me to be strong.”

Morris and her friend Candace Douglas started the group as a way to give back as well as meet others who were also trying to get healthy and stay healthy. Their group was originally See Run Your Health, Page 5

Students from the Newcomer’s Program at Highland Elementary School practice their song outside before entertaining the School Committee on Tuesday. (Photo by Amy Porter)

Conservation Commission plans site visits for wetland areas

By GREG FITZPATRICK Correspondent WESTFIE­LD ­­­­– The Southwick Conservation Commission discussed key issues on Monday night regarding surrounding wetland areas throughout the community.

Chairperson Christopher Pratt, Coordinator Dennis Clark, and the rest of the committee decided to visit two separate sites on Wednesday June 8th.

As several plans are brought to the committee, Pratt emphasized how important it is for the committee to see the proposals in person.

“If we have a hard time understanding what the plan looks like and what the intent is, it’s good for us to go out and look at those sites,” said Pratt. “We can get a better picture and

understanding of what the owner is trying to do with the land.”

The committee looked at a continued proposal on the property of 152 Berkshire Avenue that included vista pruning and tree removal around the buffer area of Middle Pond.

Pratt touched on the main objective of this particular project.

“Around the lake, we want to make sure that were preserving some habitat,” said Pratt.

The committee agreed to do a site visit on Wednesday, approving the plan on the conditions that only the trees marked by the commissioners will be cut.

Pratt and the rest of the members also discussed a wetland See Wetlands, Page 5

Golfers fighting cancer – through Memorial Tournament

By LORI SZEPELAK Correspondent SOUTHWICK-The Ranch Golf Club in town will be among three area courses hosting the 37th annual Jimmy Fund Golf Tournament/ Jeffrey Vinick Memorial on June 13. The Longmeadow Country Club in Longmeadow, and Ellington Ridge Country Club in Ellington, Conn., are the other courses hosting the event.

Organized by the Jimmy Fund/ Jeffrey Vinick Memorial Golf

Committee, made up of more than 50 local volunteers, this year’s goal is to raise $375,000 for adult and pediatric cancer care and research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The committee was recently recognized for its outstanding commitment and contributions as their tournament raised more than $10 million over the past 36 years.

The tournament is conducted in memory of Jeffery Vinick, an 18-year-old, three-sport varsity athlete who, 35 years ago, lost his life

to cancer. Jeffrey lived in Longmeadow and excelled at soccer, basketball and baseball. He graduated from Longmeadow High School in 1981 and attended Springfield College for a few months before he passed away in March of 1982. A year later, the Western Massachusetts event was renamed in Jeffrey’s honor.

The event kicks off with a continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m. at each course. Tee time at all courses is 10 a.m. and a catered lunch is served at

all three locations.

The schedule follows: 8:30 a.m. – Registration (continental breakfast provided and practice range open) 10 .am. – Shotgun start (bramble format – low gross and low net prizes) 4 p.m. – Cocktail reception 5:30 p.m. – Evening program begins A Mix & Mingle dinner event will take place at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame starting See Tournament, Page 3

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hilltowns. In addition to telling students Gateway’s Commencement ceremony on the importance of remaining true to Friday, June 3 was excellent. The major concern themselves, the role of humor in defusthroughout the day was whether the rain would ing situations, and the need to take time hold off and a decision was made in late afternoon out of our busy schedules to recharge by to move forward with an outdoor event. Thankfully doing nothing every so often, perhaps his not only did the rain hold off, but we even manmost important comments were to move aged some brief intervals of sunshine during the on with what they want to do, travel ceremony. With some cloud cover and a slight breeze, event participants enjoyed comfortable where they wish to go, and not let the threat of terrorism deter them from living temperatures with only minor problems with their lives in the manner they wish. insects and only a few minutes of squinting due to Being a regional specialist with the sun.

DR. DAVID Homeland Security and a past member of As usual, the students gave the best speeches HOPSON the Secret Service, I’d like to think that and I applaud Brennan Foley, Davis Britland, and his guidance in this area is tempered with Jenna Margarites for bringing such positive and reflective comments to their class. Their ability to tie the knowledge and experience and his advice to move foractivities of the Class of 2016 to the future, the nod to how ward with life, while being observant of your surroundmuch difference their teachers made to them, and the rec- ings, is something we all need to hear from time to time.

As with the staff retiring this year, the graduation of the ognition of the special place Gateway is to our students was outstanding. Anyone able to listen to the speeches Class of 2016 is bittersweet. The experiences that these given by these graduating seniors would know that they’re students had at Gateway, the positive impact they’ve had prepared to move on in their lives and that they’re looking on other students and our staff, and the relationships they forward to building upon their successes here at Gateway. had with all of us in the district will be sorely missed, but Although our guest speaker spoke for over a half-hour, have also shown that these individuals are ready for the he was able to get some laughs out of the audience and— next step in their lives. On behalf of the Gateway staff and more importantly as a Gateway graduate himself—pro- school committee, I wish our graduates the very best as vided some important life lessons on how to succeed they move forward with making a positive mark upon our given the unique background of coming from our small world.

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Parents surveyed on Gateway communications HUNTINGTON – All parents and guardians in the Gateway Regional School District are asked to take a survey that will help the district communicate better with parents. The survey is available online (look under the “quicklinks” on the district website, www.grsd.org). A paper survey also went home in red folders on June 3, and may be found at the Gateway security booth, the Gateway Central office, the High School office and the Middle School Office.

Survey results will be used to improve Gateway communications. Parents/guardians are asked to return their survey—or take it online—by Wednesday, June 15.

Please contact Wendy Long (685-1003 or wlong@grsd.org) if you have questions.

Bay State Games Try-outs WESTFIELD — West Region Girls Soccer tryouts will be held for current ninth, 10th, and 11th graders Junes 6-7, 10, 13-14, and 17 at locations in Westfield and Pittsfield from 6-8 p.m. Visit www.baystategames.org for more information. Preregistration for tryouts is required. Information on games and the coaching staff is also available online.

ODDS & ENDS Romania: Vasile Cepoi wins, loses and loses in mayor’s race BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — In a Romanian town, Vasile Cepoi defeated Vasile Cepoi and Vasile Cepoi in a mayoral election.

The middle name made all the difference.

The victor told The Associated Press: “I added my middle name, and ran as Vasile Lica Cepoi. Anyhow, residents knew about the confusion before the vote.”

He was also the incumbent, who secured his fourth term as mayor of Draguseni.

He said Tuesday that the coincidence of three candidates having the same name was an attempt by political parties to confuse residents in the northeastern town of 2,500 people.

Both names are common in Romania; Cepoi means “big onions.” The mayor won 1,200 votes, Vasile Cepoi won 100 votes and Vasile Cepoi trailed with 10. The three are not related.

Two other candidates scored even less.

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, June 7, the 159th day of 2016. There are 207 days left in the year.

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n June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Continental Congress stating “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”

ON THIS DATE: In 1654, King Louis XIV, age 15, was crowned in Rheims, 11 years after the start of his reign.

In 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone first began to explore present-day Kentucky.

In 1892, Homer Plessy, a “Creole of color,” was fined for refusing to leave a whites-only car of the East Louisiana Railroad. (Ruling on his case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld “separate but equal” racial segregation, a concept it renounced in 1954.)

In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.

In 1939, King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, New York, from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.

In 1942, the World War II Battle of Midway ended in a decisive victory for American forces over the Imperial Japanese.

In 1954, British mathematician, computer pioneer and code breaker Alan Turing died at age 41, an apparent suicide. (Turing, convicted in 1952 of “gross indecency” for a homosexual relationship, was pardoned in 2013.)

In 1958, singer-songwriter Prince was born Prince

Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis.

In 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, recognized a constitutional right to privacy as it struck down, 7-2, a Connecticut law used to prosecute a Planned Parenthood clinic in New Haven for providing contraceptives to married couples.

In 1972, the musical “Grease” opened on Broadway, having already been performed in lower Manhattan.

In 1981, Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.

In 1998, in a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was hooked by a chain to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men were later sentenced to death; one of them, Lawrence Russell Brewer, was executed in 2011. A third defendant received life with the possibility of parole.)

TEN YEARS AGO: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi the founder of al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed by a U.S. airstrike on his safe house. The U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

FIVE YEARS AGO:

Moammar Gadhafi stood defiant in the face of the heaviest and most punishing NATO airstrikes to date, declaring in an audio address carried on Libyan state television, “We will not kneel!” Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the al-Qaida mastermind behind the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu by Somali forces. NBC retained its hold on U.S. Olympic television rights in a four-games deal through 2020

worth nearly $4.4 billion, defeating rival bids from ESPN and Fox.

ONE YEAR AGO: President Barack Obama opened a visit to Germany for a G-7 summit, where he praised the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Turkish voters rebuked President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions to expand his powers, stripping his party of its simple majority in parliament. Stan Wawrinka beat Novak Djokovic 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 to win the men’s French Open title. “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” won best play at the Tony Awards; “Fun Home” won best musical. Actor Christopher Lee, 93, died in London.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Movie director James Ivory is 88. Former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner is 87. Actress Virginia McKenna is 85. Singer Tom Jones is 76. Poet Nikki Giovanni is 73. Actor Ken Osmond (TV: “Leave It to Beaver”) is 73. Former talk show host Jenny Jones is 70. Americana singer-songwriter Willie Nile is 68.

Actress Anne Twomey is 65. Actor Liam Neeson is 64. Actress Colleen Camp is 63. Singer-songwriter Johnny Clegg is 63. Author Louise Erdrich (UR’-drihk) is 62. Actor William Forsythe is 61. Record producer L.A. Reid is 60. Latin pop singer Juan Luis Guerra is 59. Rock singer-musician Gordon Gano (The Violent Femmes) is 53. Rapper Ecstasy (Whodini) is 52.

Rock musician Eric Kretz (Stone Temple Pilots) is 50.

Rock musician Dave Navarro is 49. Actress Helen Baxendale is 46. Actor Karl Urban is 44. TV personality Bear Grylls is 42. Rock musician Eric Johnson (The Shins) is 40. Actress Adrienne Frantz is 38. Actor-comedian Bill Hader is 38. Actress Anna Torv is 37. Actress Larisa Oleynik (oh-LAY’-nihk) is 35. Tennis player Anna Kournikova is 35. Actor Michael Cera is 28. Actress Shelley Buckner is 27. Rapper Iggy Azalea is 26. Rapper Fetty Wap is 25.

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GOVERNMENT MEETINGS TUESDAY, JUNE 7 WESTFIELD Water Commission at 7 pm

BLANDFORD Assessor’s Meeting at 5 pm

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City Councilor Mary Ann Babinski - Office Hours WESTFIELD — On Monday, June 13, Councilor Mary Ann Babinski will be available from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to speak with Ward 1 residents in the Barnes Regional Airport Conference Room located at 100 Airport Road.

Ward 1 residents are encouraged to stop by and share their concerns and to give feedback on Ward and City issues. Your voice matters!

Contact: m.babinski@cityofwestfield.org or 413-568-8562

Board of Assessors at 6 pm

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 BLANDFORD Fire Department Meeting at 7 pm Finance Committee at 7 pm Historical Commission Meeting at 7:30 pm

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with a cocktail hour at 4 p.m. The casual format will feature an all-new menu with hors d’oeuvres and food stations as well as live music. All proceeds go to Dana-Farber and the event is open to the general public as well as the day’s golfers.

Tickets are $100 and can be purchased by calling Jimmy Fund Golf at 866-521-GOLF (4653).

The evening’s featured speaker is Becky McAvoy of Southwick, the mother of 3-year-old Avery who was diagnosed with stage IV high risk neuroblastoma at 11-monthsold. McAvoy will impart her experiences with Avery and the treatment she received both in Springfield at Baystate Medical Center and in Boston at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She and her husband, Kevin, are happy to say that Avery is thriving in remission.

To learn more about becoming involved in this event, to volunteer or to attend the dinner, contact Jimmy Fund Golf at 866-521-GOLF (4653), email vinick_memorial@dfci.harvard.edu or visit www.jfvinickgolf.org.

Jimmy Fund Golf is the oldest and largest charity golf program in the country. Now in its 34th year, Jimmy Fund Golf has raised more than $108 million to support adult and pediatric cancer care and research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

From 18-hole golf tournaments to mini-golf events and daylong golf marathons, golfers of all ages and skill levels can conquer cancer through Jimmy Fund Golf. To learn more, visit www.jimmyfundgolf.org.

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Candidates Thomas Ashe, Mary Hurley and J.D. Parker-O’Grady scheduled to speak at Westfield Democratic City Committee Meeting WESTFIELD — Candidates’ scheduled to speak at the next Westfield Democratic City Committee Meeting on June 9 at 7pm in the Dolan-Ely Apartments Administrative Building on Murphy Circle in Westfield, are Thomas Ashe, candidate for Sherriff, Mary Hurley Candidate for Governor’s Council and J.D. Parker-O’Grady candidate for State Senate.

According to information released June 1, by the Office of Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin, Springfield City Councilor Thomas Ashe, who is not related to retiring Hampden County Sheriff Michael Ashe, faces a September 8, 2016 primary race with three other Democratic hopefuls: Governor’s Council Member Michael Albano, Hampden County Sherriff Department Deputy Superintendent Nick Cocchi, and Jack Griffin a retired addiction specialist with the Connecticut Department of Corrections. The Democratic winner will face Republican Candidate John Comerford, director of the Eastern Hampden County Veterans’ Service District and non-party candidate James Gill, Assistant Deputy Superintendent with the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department in the November 8 general election.

Former Springfield Mayor and retired district Judge Mary Hurley, one of two candidates for the 8th District Governor’s Council, will face a run-off election September 8 with Hampden County Bar Association President Jeff Morneau.

Jerome (J.D.) Parker-O’Grady a Northeastern University law school student will be facing incumbent Republican Donald F. Humanson, Jr. in the November 8th general election. A newcomer to local politics, Parker-O’Grady seeks to represent the 2nd Hampden and Hampshire Senate district comprised of three Chicopee wards, and all of Westfield, Holyoke, Agawam, Easthampton, Southampton, Southwick, Granville, Tolland, Russell and Montgomery.

Members of the public are welcome to attend the meeting.

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offered a position in the Westfield school system as a social studies supervisor for the whole district. However, the position was soon dissolved due to budget cuts, so it seemed like Czaporowski’s rise was going to be put on hold.

However, this did not slow him down. He continued to work in education, eventually becoming principal at Smith Academy of Hatfield, where he started the school’s first ever “As Schools Match Wits” team and were runners up in the competition. He eventually resigned from that position to come back to Westfield, as principal of the then-known Westfield Vocational Technical High School.

“I love Westfield and I wanted to come back,” Czaporowski said. “It wasn’t easy to resign from the other job, but it was worth it.”

“I knew the great staff [at Westfield Vocational Technical High School] and knew the potential, so it was a no-brainer.”

Czaporowski’s time at Westfield Vocational Technical began in 2012, and his goal was to improve the school in as many ways possible.

For him, this meant accomplishing three broad goals—creating a curriculum that makes vocational and academic elements work together, integrating staff and school into the lives of students to improve results and student experience and improving school morale.

These goals could have been seen as difficult, though. At the time of Czaporowski’s hiring, graduation rates for the school hovered in the mid-70s.

Czaporowski began making changes to the school hoping to alter the attitudes and successes of the staff and the students.

First, he and his staff began aligning the school’s curriculum with that of the state’s, while also integrating the school’s vocational side with the academic side. So, Czaporowski had his teachers from both sides of the school take each other’s classes, whether it was a woodworking teacher in an English course or a math teacher in a cooking class.

After doing this, Czaporowski noticed something—students’ test scores increased.

Noticing the success, Czaporowski continued to implement programs. He began creating programs that helped students on a more consistent basis, then implemented an “adult mentors” program that brought adults in from the community to assist with students. These adults provided support, whether it was emotional or academic, to students who needed it.

In fact, the program was so successful it’s now moved beyond just Westfield Technical Academy.

“We expanded the program so it’s now at South Middle School,” Czaporowski said.

“We want to catch kids before they fall through the cracks,” he said about the program. “It fills a void for these kids.”

And through this program and other steps, test scores were reportedly continuing to rise. But it wasn’t just that. Through the years 2013-2014, Czaporowski also claimed that the dropout rate at the school was at 0 percent. And eventually, the school began creating new programs for students, such as the much-ballyhooed aviation program, which helped organize the three-plane flyover at the school’s most recent graduation.

Also, the school changed its name to better accommodate its goals under Czaporowski, becoming Westfield Technical Academy in 2015.

Additionally, the school saw its Cumulative Progress and Performance Index (CPPI), which is a Mass. Department of Education measure for measuring school progress, rise from 73 in 2012 to 93 in 2015. According to the Department of Education, a school must score at least a 75 to be considered making progress with student education.

All this prompted the decision-makers in the city to give Czaporowski the position of school superintendent.

“I’ve enjoyed being principal, but I’m ready to lead the district,” Czaporowski said.

St. Anthony of Padua Mass WESTFIELD — A Mass in honor of St. Anthony of Padua will be held on Friday, June 10th at 6 PM in St. Mary’s downstairs Church. Donations will be accepted by Rose Morin, Filomena Mattia or may be left at St. Mary’s Rectory.

Contributions over and above expenses will go to the three orphanages of St. Anthony of Padua in Italy.

Westfield Democratic City Committee WESTFIELD — The Westfield Democratic City Committee held its state required reorganization meeting recently. Voted as new Chair was Kathryn Martin, Vice-Chair Patrick McGinn, Secretary Estelle Streeter, Treasurer Annette Kazlauskas and Affirmative Action and Outreach Coordinator Mark Hanrahan.

Meetings are held each second Thursday of the month at 7pm in the Dolan-Ely apartment complex community center.

Persons interested in the Democratic Party are urged to attend.

‘Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren’ at Westfield Senior Center WESTFIELD — Grandparents raising grandchildren face a myriad of struggles that can be daunting and overwhelming.

There are financial, legal, emotional, psychological, and healthcare issues to be considered. In an effort to address some of these concerns, Colleen Pritoni, Program Coordinator for the Commission on the Status of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, will join the Westfield Support Group at the new Westfield Senior Center for a special presentation.

Grandparents in this very difficult situation are welcome to attend on Tuesday, June 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. to learn about the Commission and issues impacting grandparents and kinship caregivers. Joining Colleen will be Margo Chevers, a Commissioner and a grandparent raising her grandchildren.

Handouts will be available and there will be ample opportunity for questions and answers. Please register by calling the Senior Center at 562-6435. There is no charge for this extremely important session. Childcare will be available at the Center.

The Westfield Senior Center is located at 45 Noble Street.

Meetings

2016 Budget Hearing schedule Departments to be reviewed Tuesday June 7 Room: Council Chamber 5:45 p.m School Department Thursday June 9 Room: 315 5:30 p.m City Clerk, Board of Registrars, City Council 6 p.m. Health Department, Landfill 6:30 p.m. Community Development, Zoning, Planning, Conservation 7 p.m. Council on Aging Wednesday June 15 Room: 202E 5:30PM Purchasing 6 p.m. Auditor, Treasurer, Collector, Insurance, Assessor 6:45 p.m. Law Department Thursday June 16 Room: 315 5:30PM Engineer including Chapter 90 list 6 p.m. Facilities Director, City Advancement, Mayor's Office Wednesday June 22 Room: 201 5:30PM Building Dept. including Inspectors-Electrical and Plumbing 6:15 p.m. Public Works, Water, Sewer, Wastewater, Park & Rec 7 p.m.Airport 7:30 p.m.Personnel Thursday June 23 Room: 201 5:30 p.m. Police, Animal Control 6 p.m. Fire, Ambulance 6:30 p.m. IT including Tech Center 7 p.m. Public Safety Communications Dept- Emergency Dispatch Monday June 27 Room: Council Chamber 6:00PM Special Council Meeting: PUBLIC HEARING RE: BUDGET Tuesday June 28 Room: 315 6 p.m. Final Finance Committee meeting RE: Budget Wednesday June 29 Room: Council Chamber 7 p.m.

Special Council Meeting: Budget Workshop/ Committee of the Whole Thursday June 30 Room: Council Chamber 7 p.m.

Special Council Meeting: Passage of the Budget

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approach to student behavior.

“The schools have a lot of good practices in place,” Whitcomb said. She said the goals of the program include 80% of the students being able to articulate what behaviors are expected in school and for positive interactions among adults and students to exceed negative ones. She said one elementary school reported 17% less disciplinary actions following the program’s implementation.

“It is a complete shift in the way we do things,” said Superintendent Dr. Suzanne Scallion, who brought the program to the schools. She explained that teachers have to explicitly teach 5-year-olds how to eat in a lunchroom, for example, because they never have before coming to school.

Betsy Philpot, district liaison for the program, also gave as an example students being explicitly told what language is permitted in school, even if looser language is allowed in their homes.

Scallion said this was a case of putting an idea out there, and having teachers and the administration run with it. She said the result has been “less behavioral stuff to manage in the classroom.”

In other business, the School Committee approved several transfers within the budget including savings from the energy costs due to the mild winter which will help to pay deficits in other areas, such as severance and electricity.

Rix said the district was close to $100,000 less in energy savings last year, also helped by burning more oil than natural gas last year, because it was “cheaper.” They also came in under budget on unemployment, which started the fiscal year at $22,000 per month, and is down to $4,000 per month this spring.

“This year we’re tighter in every line,” Rix added.

He said the district is trying to work with the School Committee earlier to avoid laying off teachers, who will then be called back to work. “If we lay them off and don’t call them back before the end of the month, they can collect until school starts on August 27,” Rix said.

“If we’re giving out these pink slips, it is heartbreaking,” Scallion said. “We’re losing people, and we encumber costs.”

The School Committee will meet with the City Council Finance sub-Committee on Tuesday evening at 5:45 p.m. in City Council chambers to go line by line through the budget, following a 5:30 p.m. meeting in Room 201 to vote on the ratification of the Unit A teacher’s contract.

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Letter to the Editor To the Editor Dear Westfield: Last Saturday, June 4, 2016, Westfield on Weekends (WOW), together with Westfield Creative Arts (WCA), presented Westfield’s first “Arts on Elm” Art Walk. The six-hour event started at 10 a.m. that morning and covered Elm Street from Westfield’s Athenaeum to Depot Square.

In addition to all the artists, crafters, musicians, businesses and Westfield’s very own chalk artist who volunteered their efforts to the success of this event, the spearheading committee of WOW and WCA volunteers (Barbara Trant, Lester Walsh, Tania Vancini and James Homan) wish to sincerely thank the following volunteers, without whom the event would never have taken place; specifically Dennis Akins, Dana Byne from the Westfield G&E, Michael Fournier, Andy Gould,Susan Kingra, Jan and Gary Larese, Lisa and Tom McMahon, Dick and Marty Ochs, Kathy Palmer, Candy Pennington, Art Souza, Frank Vancini and Casey Rutledge.

In addition to over 30 business ownerswho participated along Elm Street, special thanks also goes to the Westfield Cultural Council, Westfield’s Senior Citizen Center, Greater Westfield’s Boys and Girls Club, Marie Flahive’s Art Studio, Westfield’s Community Police Resource Center, WSKB 89.5 FM Community Radio and the WSU Alumni Association for their valued contribution.

To quote Mr. Walshin in a previously published article on The Walk, “ …it’s always amazing to realize what a great deal of enthusiasm and great good will can accomplish.””

One accolade overhead in conversation between passing guests was, “This reminds me of what Westfield used to be in the 1950s, with people meeting friends and neighbors on the street and stopping to have discussions.”

Ms. Lou Sorois, proprietor of Ezra’s Mercantile (and designer of the logo button) added, “This was our best sales day ever!

Can we do it again in the Fall?”

It is the sincere hope of the producers of “Arts on Elm” thatits many guests, as well as it’s participants, enjoyed themselves to the extent that they will encourage others in our community to appreciate the unique, multi-faceted and, indeed, very special talents that are reflected inWestfield, MA. Your comments would be gratefully appreciated. Should you have the time, please visit our websites at www.westfieldonweekends.com or www.westfieldcreativearts.comand e-mail any specific suggestions you may have, call us at 413579-5967 to leave a voice message, or stop by the Rinnova Gallery/Shoppe at 105 Elm Street to speak with a volunteer.

THANK YOU ALL!“Arts on Elm” thinks Westfield is Wonderful!

Respectfully, Members of WOW (Westfield on Weekends)

Sanders camp condemns ‘rush to judgment’ on Clinton nomination

By GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI Politico.com Bernie Sanders’ campaign on Monday evening condemned the media for its “rush to judgment” in declaring Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential nominee, saying superdelegates should not be automatically counted.

“It is unfortunate that the media, in a rush to judgment, are ignoring the Democratic National Committee’s clear statement that it is wrong to count the votes of superdelegates before they actually vote at the convention this summer,” Sanders’ spokesman Michael Briggs said.

The statement came after The Associated Press declared that Clinton had secured enough support to cross the threshold of 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.

Sanders has been adamant in recent days that he is ready to fight all the way to the Democratic National Convention in July, and that he will try to flip superdelegates to clinch the nomination.

However, the delegate math makes Sanders’ path to the nomination all but impossible.

Neither Clinton nor Sanders will likely be able to officially win the nomination without any superdelegate support, but Sanders faces a near-impossible task to overtake Clinton among pledged delegates.

He would need to win roughly two-thirds of the pledged delegates between Tuesday’s contests and next week’s primary in the District of Columbia — a massive jump from the roughly 46 percent of pledged delegates he’s won thus far — to pass Clinton.

Clinton expressed restraint on Monday night as she tries to rack up enough votes to secure symbolic victories on Tuesday night.

“We’re flattered, @AP, but we’ve got primaries to win.

CA, MT, NM, ND, NJ, SD, vote tomorrow!” Clinton tweeted.

Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook also offered words of caution. “This is an important milestone, but there are six states that are voting Tuesday, with millions of people heading to the polls, and Hillary Clinton is working to earn every vote. We look forward to Tuesday night, when Hillary Clinton will clinch not only a win in the popular vote, but also the majority of pledged delegates,” Mook said in a statement.

And Briggs was adamant that the fight is not over.

“Our job from now until the convention is to convince those superdelegates that Bernie is by far the strongest candidate against Donald Trump,” he said in the statement.

Bernie’s big finale: 8 places to watch

By STEVEN SHEPARD Politico.com For the first time since 1992, California’s Democratic presidential primary is back to its rightful place as the epilogue of the nominating process — even if The Associated Press declared Hillary Clinton the presumptive Democratic nominee just before voters went to the polls.

The California results still matter: a Bernie Sanders victory here could fuel his case for taking his fight to the party convention in July. And in the nation’s largest state, the battle likely comes down to heavily populated, highly diverse Los Angeles.

Clinton and Sanders’ respective paths through all of the states voting on Tuesday — California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota — include concentrations of white voters, black voters, Latinos, Asians, urban centers, some of the nation’s largest suburbs, seaside communities on both coasts, vast rural expanses, large universities and towns that border either Canada or Mexico.

In California, Clinton will depend on winning traditional African-American communities and Latino voters in the populous Los Angeles area, and she has been advertising on Asian radio outlets in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sanders, who polls show is winning large majorities of younger voters across racial and gender lines, will look to run up the score on Clinton in communities with greater numbers of young voters, along with liberal bastions like San Francisco.

Hispanic voters will also be highly sought-after in New Mexico, where both campaigns have been running TV ads. In New Jersey, where polls show Clinton way ahead, she’ll seek to run up the score in the New York and Philadelphia suburbs, along with smaller cities like Newark and Camden.

The political geography of Tuesday’s primaries and caucuses also takes the race to places that, because of the typically late voting dates, are often inconsequential — but occasionally decisive. But these states haven’t always voted late.

California moved up its primary to Super Tuesday starting in 1996, and when Hillary Clinton defeated Barack Obama there eight years ago, the hard-fought primary was held on Feb. 5.

The primary was slotted back to June in 2012, when Obama was the only Democratic candidate on the ballot.

Along with other states in which Democrats will head to the polls on Tuesday, including New Jersey and New Mexico, the early June date holds great historical significance: Then-Sen. Robert Kennedy won the June 4, 1968, California primary but was shot and killed leaving the Los Angeles hotel ballroom where he had celebrated his victory. Triumphs by George McGovern on June 6, 1972, in New Mexico and winner-takeall California helped him polish off Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.).

Gary Hart was an extreme underdog to win the nomination heading into the states that voted on June 5, 1984. And even though the Colorado senator won primaries that day in California and New Mexico, Democrats in New Jersey chose Walter Mondale — after Hart took a few offhand rhetorical digs at the Garden State.

The final early June California primary came in 1992, when Bill Clinton beat Jery Brown there (in addition to more significant wins in New Jersey and New Mexico) to quash the anyone-but-Clinton movement and lock down the nomination headed into the convention — a feat his wife hopes to repeat Tuesday.

Here are eight places to watch on Tuesday night as the results flow in: Los Angeles County: L.A. County doesn’t just produce more than a quarter of Democratic primary votes statewide — it’s also prime battleground territory: The county, which includes the city of Los Angeles and most of its suburbs, went for Clinton over Obama in 2008, 55 percent to 42 percent.

It’s a place Clinton needs to win in order to prevail statewide, and the former secretary of state leads among L.A. County voters in pre-election polls from USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times (46 percent to 42 percent among registered voters), The Field Poll (50 percent to 40 percent) and NBC News/ Wall Street Journal/Marist (54 percent to 40 percent).

The county is extremely diverse: According to the latest Census estimates, 27 percent of residents are white, 9 percent black, 48 percent Hispanic and 15 percent Asian. But polls show voters split more by age than ethnicity, with Sanders winning big among younger Latinos and Clinton ahead by big margins among older Latinos.

Southern California: After L.A. County, the remainder of vote-rich Southern California is also up for grabs on Tuesday.

Eight years ago, some of Clinton’s strongest performances in significantly representative counties came from Southern California.

These counties include large numbers of white voters, some of whom have defected to Sanders this year. But they also contain substantial Hispanic populations, and exit polls have showed Clinton winning Latinos in most states.

Orange County, where Clinton beat Obama by more than 18 points, is still Republican territory in the general election — Mitt Romney won it by 6 points in 2012 — but it produced more than 200,000 votes in the 2008 Democratic primary.

Clinton ran up even larger margins in San Bernardino County (23 points) and Riverside County (24 points).

San Diego County was more competitive, with Clinton beating Obama there, 50 percent to 43 percent.

East Bay/Santa Clara County: Sanders is likely to win San Francisco, but Clinton can negate some of Sanders’ advantage in the progressive stronghold by holding her own in three counties across the bay: Contra Costa, Alameda and Santa Clara.

Eight years ago, two of the three counties produced more votes than San Francisco: Obama won Alameda, 52 percent to 44 percent, thanks in part to black voters in Oakland, many of whom will back Clinton this time, but also students on the campus of the University of California Berkeley who appear more aligned with Sanders this time.

Clinton won a nearly 13-point victory in Santa Clara County, which produced roughly as many votes as Alameda, 54 percent to 41 percent.

Contra Costa, which is the least-populous of the three counties, was closer, with Clinton edging Obama, 49 percent to 44 percent.

Two of the three polls released last week gave Sanders the edge in the Bay Area overall, though Clinton led him there in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.

Albuquerque/Santa Fe: New Mexico held party-run caucuses in 2008, not a state primary, with Clinton narrowly edging Obama.

Clinton won a majority of Hispanic voters in 2008, according to exit polls, while Obama won the majority of white voters. As a result, Obama won two of the state’s three congressional districts, including the 1st, which includes the city of Albuquerque.

Obama also won narrowly in the Third District, which includes all of Northern New Mexico but is anchored by the city of Santa Fe. Sanders figures to run strong in Santa Fe and the smaller, overwhelmingly Democratic city of Taos.

Doña Ana County, N.M.: Clinton carried the Second District, which spans southern New Mexico, in 2008.

Doña Ana County, home to Las Cruces, is the second-largest in the state. It also includes areas that border Mexico, in addition to bordering El Paso County, Texas. While the GOP race is virtually uncontested, five other since-departed candidates will appear on the ballot along with Donald Trump — giving Republicans who disapprove of Trump’s recent comments on Hispanics and his immigration stances a number of options to defect.

Northeast Jersey: Areas of North Jersey along the Hudson River aren’t politically or racially homogeneous. Bergen County, the state’s most populous, voted for Clinton over Obama in 2008, 59 percent to 39 percent. That’s about equal to the county’s white population, 59 percent, with most of the ethnic minorities being Hispanic (19 percent) or Asian (16 percent). Clinton also won big in Hudson County, which includes Jersey City and Hoboken.

Majority-minority Essex County, on the other hand, backed Obama, 57 percent to 42 percent. The county is anchored by Newark, the state’s largest city, where whites constitute only 12 percent of the population. But it also includes some wealthier New York suburbs, too.

Camden County, N.J.: While most will think of the eponymous, majority-black city, Camden County also includes some tony Philadelphia suburbs, including Cherry Hill and Haddonfield. Clinton actually carried Camden County by a solid margin in 2008, with 55 percent of the vote.

Clinton is expected to carry New Jersey easily, but Camden County will be a good test of whether she can bring aboard African-American voters who supported Obama without losing the white voters who carried her eight years ago.

Sanders County, Montana: This county makes the list purely for symbolic reasons: Sanders has won eight of the nine Clinton counties across the map, with Clinton’s lone win coming in Clinton County, Kentucky.

The only Sanders County in the U.S. is in northern Montana — population 11,000 — and it isClinton’s only chance to turn the tables.

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Police Logs WESTFIELD Major crime and incident report Friday, May 27, 2016 1:33 a.m.: Fire, 46 Church St. Police reported a fire that happened at this address in the early morning hours. There was no one transported to the hospital, but the fire caused one resident in the area to be displaced. The fire has no known origin at the time of this report.

6:12 a.m.: Accident, Briarwood Place. A man driving a 2004 Toyota Camry notified police that he had struck a deer on Briarwood Place. No injuries were reported to the driver, and the deer had run off prior to police arriving, according to report.

10:36 a.m.: Breaking and entering, 69 Franklin St., Mi Ranchito Restaurant. Police responded to this address after an employee reported that the front door was broken. According to prior reports, this is the second time this has happened within the past few weeks.

6:35 p.m.: Drugs arrest. Police arrested Rachel Lee Keating, 29, of 8 Bush St., on an active warrant. During the arrest, police reported that Keating had seven bags of heroin on her, as well. She was also charged with possession of a class A drug (heroin).

8:21 p.m.: Larceny, Bush St. According to report, police were informed of tools that were possibly stolen from someone’s basement. Police had no other information available at the time, and no arrests were made.

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Lentini said that prior to the fire department personnel arriving on scene with an ambulance, Stevens was tended to by police and a bystander, Christina Lovelace. Lovelace was a school nurse in the area and received an award from the American Red Cross for her actions, as well.

After Lovelace and police began CPR and applied an AED, Westfield Fire Department’s ambulance arrived at the scene of the accident, taking over care of Stevens. They continued to provide CPR, defibrillation and medications Lentini said, and brought Stevens to Baystate Noble. By the time the ambulance arrived at Baystate Noble, Lentini said Stevens had regained a heartbeat.

And according to Lentini, Stevens not only survived, but “walked his daughter down the aisle three weeks later.”

But Lentini said that if it wasn’t for the bystanders and police who were there and who acted quickly, he and the other firefighters may not be getting recognition for saving the man’s life.

“Bystanders are the key, getting it moving,” he said.

“Providing immediate intervention with CPR or an AED.” The prehospital save awards that the fire personnel received are part of a growing effort by emergency services and WMEMS to recognize the efforts put forth by emergency responders. In order to receive the award personnel must be “directly responsible for maintaining or improving a patient’s condition in the prehospital setting. This action then allows the patient to lead a meaningful and productive post-incident life,” according to the WMEMS website. Providers are nominated by their employers and the WMEMS Awards Committee reviews each incident.

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Westfield District Court Tuesday, May 31, 2016 Edgar B. Sikes, 47, of 20 Carol St., Enfield Conn., was released in lieu of $2,500 bail pending an Aug. 2 pretrial conference after being arraigned on a charge of rape, brought by the Westfield Police. See related story on Wednesday June 1.

Lawrence M. Deloy, 64, of 4 Cedar Lane, Unionville, Conn., was released on personal recognizance pending a July 26 pretrial conference after being arraigned on charges of unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and operating under the influence of liquor, brought by the Russell State Police.

Denise A. Haskins, 41, of 106 Curtain Road, Peru, Mass., was released on personal recognizance pending a June 20 pretrial conference after being arraigned on charges of unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and operating under the influence of liquor, brought by the Russell State Police.

Security: Heroin seized before getting on Westover air base CHICOPEE, Mass. (AP) — Security forces at Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee say they found a small amount of what appeared to be heroin in a commercial vehicle trying to get on the base over the weekend.

The drugs were found in a truck delivering periodicals to the base exchange.

The driver, a New Hampshire man, was turned over to Massachusetts State Police, but there was no immediate word on charges.

A base spokesman says charges are pending based on the investigation.

Security officials said they have intercepted other drugs and drug paraphernalia before, but this was the first time in memory that heroin was seized at a base checkpoint.

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issue on 54 North Road. Resident of the home, Norm Cass, was looking to refill an old farm pond using pipes.

With over five acres of property and three different brooks that go into the town water source, the committee also plans on a site visit on Wednesday to check out the pond.

The Conservation Commission wants to discover the situation with the water source.

“We’re not really sure where the water is coming from,” said Pratt. “We have to make sure that there is no impact to existing wetlands, and that we’re not taking water away from one area to put into an area that shouldn’t have water.”

Mike Muller, one of the volunteer coaches for Run Your Health, does some stretches prior to the morning’s run.

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Nicole Muller and her son, Cooper, are among the weekly participants at the Run Your Health program that leaves from the Amelia Park Arena.

Jenna Garvey and her boys, Finn and Kaden, participate in the weekly free program, Run Your Health, that leaves from the Amelia Park Arena.

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called Friends Getting Fit with Friends and included a boot camp session each week, but slowly transitioned into a weekly running group to help people become runners.

“We have people who have never run before, and people who have run many races who join us each week,” said Morris. “We are a free community group to help people get healthy and stay healthy.”

Morris serves as program coordinator and “coach-motivator” of Run Your Health, instructing weekly boot camp classes, organizing and coaching runners at the group run (walkers welcome too!), and providing Facebook motivation and challenges to help people reach their potential.

Morris is assisted by several volunteer coaches who also help at group runs and boot camp including Melissa Kaleta, Candace Douglas, Lorettajo Kapinos, Sera Rivers, Kevin Salvini, Mia Cogliantry, Mike Muller, Nicole Muller, Richard Geffen, Michele Haymes, Meridith Masloski and Jonathan Cunningham.

“They are volunteers who give their time and heart to help others reach their goals,” said Morris.

On Saturday, Holyoke residents Nicole and Mike Muller and their sons, Duffy, 17, and Cooper, 15, were among the first to arrive to start greeting participants and getting their stretches in.

“I love seeing the progress that people make over time,” said Nicole Muller, who was scheduled to lead the group walking an eight-minute mile.

Mike Muller echoed those sentiments.

“I enjoy the sense of community at Run Your Health,” he said. “We are all working together in a family setting.”

Both Duffy and Cooper are students at Westfield Technical Academy and encourage other young people to consider participating in the Saturday morning program.

“There is a nice trail to run on and everyone is friendly,” said Duffy Muller, who noted he is also on the cross country team.

Cooper Muller concurred.

“It’s a nice way to meet new people and get healthy,” he said.

“Getting out and exercising is also better than doing nothing.”

Morris noted there are currently 20 families who come to either boot camp or the group runs every week as well as individuals. The boot camp is conducted on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the track on Feeding Hills Road in Southwick.

“Both the group runs and the boot camps are not just for adults, they are for kids too,” said Morris. “The boot camp is a fun, 20-minute, high intensity interval workout that everyone does at their own pace. It is all bodyweight work, no equipment.

The kids enjoy it as much as the adults.”

Morris added that modifications are made for anyone who

Laura Morris leads the Run Your Health group with some stretches.

Every Saturday morning at 8:30 participants take a selfie before they launch into the Run Your Health program. needs them.

For area residents interested in checking out the free group all you have to do is show up to one of the hour-long programs.

“Whether it’s the boot camp or group run, we also have a lot of races scheduled that we always show up to support anyone who is running from our group,” said Morris. “We also do monthly nutrition and wellness nights to help people learn how to eat better and help them reach their goals.”

Morris noted that families in particular are encouraged to check out the weekly programming.

“Getting involved with Run Your Health will help you to get moving,” said Morris. “No matter what level you’re at, or what you have planned in terms of fitness, this group is full of smiling faces to help you get there.”

Among those smiling faces was the Garvey family of Holyoke – Jenna, Kurt, Kaden and Finn.

“Run Your Health is a great activity as a family,” said Jenna Garvey, adding, “it’s not competitive and provides a good foundation for fitness.”

Kaden Garvey, 10, said the program has “helped me to get healthy,” and Finn Garvey noted he enjoys the program because “I like to run.”

Morris feels the program is “unique” because of all of the volunteers.

“This program is special because we all come out every week to help others see their potential and get over their barriers,” said Morris. “We help people to find their inner athlete, love their bodies and get moving.”

While Morris has several dedicated volunteer coaches, there is always room for more area residents to join the team.

“We are always looking for good souls to help out with the running group,” said Morris. “If you are an experienced runner, or coach, and would like to participate in our group, please message me.”

For more details on Run Your Health, check out their events on Facebook.

Morris noted that when Run Your Health was started, her daughter was still undergoing cancer treatment.

“She is two years cancer free now,” said Morris. “Both of my children come to the fun Run Your Health events and workouts and help inspire other kids to get moving as well at the classes.”

Morris added there is no commitment to participate in Run Your Health programming.

“Run Your Health gives me joy, by watching everyone improve upon the version of who they are,” said Morris.

“When I see people getting healthier, being happier, sharing health with others, that is priceless.”

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HEALTHFITNESS Would teens be slimmer if Katy Perry hawked kale & quinoa?

11th Annual Walk of Champions Raises $79,550 It was an emotional day for James Korzec. The seventeen year cancer survivor, surrounded by family, friends and hundreds of community members, led the charge as the 11th Annual Walk of Champions stepped off on Sunday, May 1st. A patient of Dr. Chandravathi Loke, Hematologist/Oncologist, James noted how supported he felt and he asked for a moment of silence for all those, like him touched by cancer, and for all those who lost their battle with cancer in the past year. The Walk of Champions continues to be both an uplifting and a very emotional day for me and my family,” said Korzec.

“Cancer survivors gain strength from the love and support of everyone involved.”

The Walk of Champions’ participants are inspired by the strength and courage of the survivors and show it by their continued support. The 2016 Walk of Champions held at the Quabbin Reservoir raised $79,550 to date as hundreds of walkers joined in this special event supporting those facing cancer and the cancer services provided at Baystate Mary Lane Hospital.

“The Walk of Champions continues to be a time when our communities join together in a moving tribute to those touched by cancer, and I am deeply humbled and greatly appreciative of the continued commitment and generosity of all who support this event,” said Michael F. Moran, President and Chief Administrative Officer for Baystate Health’s Eastern Region. “Baystate Mary Lane provides the majority of outpatient cancer services in the Baystate Health Eastern Region, including Ware, Palmer and surrounding communities. Because of this ongoing generosity and support, we are able to continue to offer care in a patient-centered environment, with the expertise of our medical staff from the Baystate Regional Cancer Program, right here in Ware.”

On the event’s 10th Anniversary in 2015, the walk raised

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Would U.S. teens be any slimmer if Katy Perry hawked kale and quinoa?

New research doesn't prove a link, but its authors think music stars popular with teens may be contributing to the obesity epidemic by endorsing fatty fast food, snacks and soda.

The study shows that 20 of the hottest teen-music heartthrobs have done TV ads or other promotions for KATY PERRY products nutritionists consider unhealthy. Included were YouTube commercials, music videos or promotional videos, including those of company-sponsored concerts.

Of 107 food and drink endorsements cited in the study, few were for nutritious foods, the researchers said. Lead author Marie Bragg, a food policy and obesity researcher at New York University, singled out one "natural whole-food product." That was South Korean pop star Psy's "crackin' gangnam-style" TV ad for Wonderful pistachios, shown during the Super Bowl in 2013.

About 80 percent of celebrity-endorsed food ads were high-calorie products including snack chips and chocolate, or fast-food restaurants including McDonalds, Chili's and A&W. Most of the beverage ads were for sugary sodas.

The list includes Justin Timberlake ads or promotions for Chili's, McDonald's and Pepsi and will.i.am ads or campaigns linked with Coca-Cola, Doritos, Dr. Pepper and Pepsi. Perry is included for her endorsement of Popchips and her appearance in a Pepsi-sponsored Super Bowl half-time show, not an actual endorsement. Her spokeswoman, Ruth See Slimmer, Page 7

$93,500. Since 2006 the Walk of Champions has raised over $743,000. All funds raised remain local to support cancer care provided at Baystate Mary Lane by the Baystate Regional Cancer Program.

“Our staff and the community are indeed a wonderful group and I feel quite privileged to be a part of it,” said Dr. Chandravathi Loke, Hematologist/Oncologist, noting that the funds raised by the Walk of Champions help to provide family support counseling, educational outreach, pastoral care, medications, state-of-the-art equipment, and the Healing Garden located in the courtyard of the hospital.

Dr. Loke joins Dr. Jonathan Marsh, Hematologist/ Oncologist and Dr. Richard Steingart, Hematologist, all of whom are with the Baystate Regional Cancer Program's Eastern Region, to offer cancer treatment specifically tailored to meet each patient’s individual needs. They and the cancer-care team that provide care at Baystate Mary Lane are sensitive to the unique challenges that each patient and family may face during their cancer journey. Together they provide both clinical expertise and exceptional personal support so patients can be surrounded by the familiar comforts of their community and the support of their family and friends.

“We are grateful to the many area businesses that sponsor our walk and to each and every walker who participates in the Walk of Champions,” said Moran. “Thank you to our presenting sponsor, Country Bank as well as major sponsors Heath New England, Intercity Lines, Inc. and Pioneer Provisions, and to all the walkers who contributed immeasurably to the success of the Walk of Champions.”

For more information about the Walk of Champions, or to find out how you can become involved, call Michelle Graci, Manager of Fund Raising Events, Baystate Health Foundation at (413) 794-7654 or by e-mail at Michelle.Graci@baystatehealth.org.

How to choose between treatment or comfort for late-stage cancer

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Two months before Joe Clark died of colon cancer at age 31, a doctor gently told him it was time to stop treatment.

He had suffered through more than a year of chemotherapy that produced painful sores in his mouth, last-ditch major abdominal surgery had left behind excruciating scar tissue, and hope had dried up. But the end of treatment had a surprise effect on Clark and his wife.

"It was a whole new way of thinking to wrap our minds around," his widow, Amanda Evans-Clark recalled. No more "fight mode," she said. "We finally felt like we were allowed to live."

When to stop aggressive treatment is one of the most wrenching decisions in cancer care.

Medical guidelines say dying cancer patients shouldn't get harsh and painful treatment, but new research suggests it happens almost all of the time.

During their last month alive, three out four cancer patients younger than 65 got tooaggressive treatment and only a handful got comfort-based hospice care instead, according to the recent study.

There are many reasons why, but one of them is this, said University of Chicago palliative care specialist Dr. Monica Malec: "There's nearly nothing harder than being faced with a patient who's begging you not to give up on them."

Dying patients and their families are sometimes in denial about their illness, and sometimes don't understand the limitations of medical treatment, the researchers and other specialists say.

Those misunderstandings can often be avoided if doctors begin end-of-life conversations early in the process of treating patients

In this Friday, May 27, 2016 photo, Dr. Ronald C. Chen consults with colleague Misty Lehman-Davis on a cancer patient's scans at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. Chen is the lead author on a new study of aggressive cancer treatment in the last month of a patient's life. Chen says the decision to end treatment is still a struggle, even when he knows hospice might be the right choice. "If I can offer chemotherapy or if I can offer radiation treatment, then I'm not giving up hope," he said. (AP Photo/ Allen G. Breed)

whose cancers are likely to be deadly. But those talks often never happen, Malec said, or they don't happen until the situation has progressed to crisis, because they're just too difficult.

The new study is an analysis of health claims data involving more than 28,000 cancer patients who died between 2007 and

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Brawley, the American Cancer Society's chief medical officer.

The study was presented Monday in Chicago at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting.

Dr. Ronald Chen, the study's lead author and a cancer specialist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, said the decision is still a struggle, even when he knows hospice might be the right choice. "If I can offer chemotherapy or if I can offer radiation treatment, then I'm not giving up hope," he said.

Wendy Sparks of Oklahoma City says watching her elderly mother and younger sister both die of cancer within the last three years changed her thoughts about end-of-life treatment.

Her mother stopped chemo after her doctor assured her that ending treatment didn't mean giving up. But her sister, Nikki Stienman, kept up the treatment and suffered severe side effects from what her sister thinks was a needless final round of chemotherapy before she died at 38 of metastatic lung cancer in 2013.

"You're not giving up if you don't do treatment," Sparks said. "You're still fighting for your life, in a different way. You're fighting to have good days."

Dr. Andrew Epstein, a palliative care expert with the oncology society, said the new research, which echoes studies in older cancer patients, is important because less is known about end-of life care for younger patients.

Too few doctors know about hospice, which is among the best but most under-used resources, he said.

But abandoning treatment and seeking hospice care is sometimes seen as surrendering, especially with young patients, said American

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Q&A: Parkinson’s disease This Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo shows pills of the painkiller hydrocodone at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. From data between 2000 and 2014, the Centers for Disease Control says rising drug and alcohol overdoses, suicides, and disease from chronic alcoholism — labeled "deaths of despair" by one expert — are cutting the lives of white Americans short by nearly a half a year on average. Experts cite several possible reasons that drug overdose deaths and suicides are occurring far more often among middle-aged whites than other groups. They say whites have had an easier time getting access to the powerful painkillers that have been the root of the current drug overdose epidemic. And whites may more quickly turn to suicide because often they don't have the kind of family and social support often seen in black and Hispanic communities, they say. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

‘Deaths of despair’ drag life expectancy lower for whites

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rising drug and alcohol overdoses, suicides, and disease from chronic alcoholism — labeled "deaths of despair" by one expert — are cutting the lives of white Americans short by nearly a half a year on average.

Increases in these types of deaths among whites means that life expectancy for whites is not increasing as fast as it is for other groups, according to a government report that offers an unusual look at how different threats are affecting U.S. lifespans.

"Things are moving in the wrong direction," said Anne Case, a Princeton University researcher, of what she calls "deaths of despair."

Drawing from death certificate data, the new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focuses on what happened to white life expectancy between 2000 and 2014.

The work was a reaction to recent research that suggested drug overdoses and suicides have caused alarming increases in death rates for middle-aged white Americans. The new report, which did not perform the same analysis for blacks and Hispanics, was posted online Friday.

Overall, white life expectancy still grew because other things were improving. Deaths from heart disease — the nation's No. 1 killer — dropped significantly, and that alone added a year to white life expectancy. Nearly one more year was added because of falling death rates from cancer, stroke, and motor vehicle crashes, the researchers found.

But then drugs and alcohol subtracted about 4 months from life expectancy, according to Kenneth Kochanek, a CDC statistician who was the report's lead author. No other cause of death had a bigger negative impact, he said.

Increasing suicides had the second largest

negative impact, subtracting roughly 6 weeks from white life expectancy. The growing impact of Alzheimer's disease was third, reducing longevity by about 3 weeks.

Falls also whittled down white life expectancy gains, the researchers found. So did chronic liver disease, often the result of heavy alcohol consumption or injection drug use that spreads the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus.

Experts cite several possible reasons that drug overdose deaths and suicides are occurring far more often among middle-aged whites than other groups. They say whites have had an easier time getting access to the powerful painkillers that have been the root of the current drug overdose epidemic. And whites may more quickly turn to suicide because often they don't have the kind of family and social support often seen in black and Hispanic communities, they say.

Though the gap is closing, white life expectancy is still significantly greater than life expectancy for blacks.

White life expectancy grew to nearly 79 in 2014, from about 77 ½ years in 2000. Black life expectancy rose to a little over 75 from about 71 ½. Life expectancy for Hispanics rose to 82 years from 79.

Things may be taking a turn for the worse, however. Earlier this week, CDC issued a report on preliminary death data for 2015 that showed the U.S. death rate rose slightly — the first increase in a decade. The report did not break down what was happening in different racial groups, but experts say whites death trends are likely the primary reason.

"This all just points to the fact that we have a very serious problem that we don't fully understand," Case said.

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By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Before his death, Muhammad Ali was hospitalized with respiratory problems, his health complicated by advanced Parkinson's. The boxing great had lived with the degenerative disease for three decades. Here are some questions and answers about the disease: Q: What is Parkinson's?

A: Parkinson's is a neurologic disease that robs people of control over their movements.

It typically starts with tremors, and is characterized by slow movement, a shuffling gait, stiff limbs, balance problems and slurred speech.

Q: Who gets it?

A: About 1 million Americans are living with Parkinson's, and an estimated 4 million to 5 million people worldwide, according to the National Parkinson Foundation. It usually appears after age 60, although sometimes it can develop before age 40.

Q: What causes it?

A: The exact cause isn't known but Parkinson's develops when cells that produce one of the brain's chemical messengers, called dopamine, begin to deteriorate and die.

Dopamine transports signals to parts of the brain that control movement. Parkinson's symptoms appear after enough dopamine-

In this Feb. 22, 2012, file photo, Muhammad Ali, center, with the support of sister in-law Marilyn Williams, left, and wife Lonnie, walks through the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's in Phoenix. Mohammed Ali is in the hospital with respiratory problems, and while officials haven't given details about his condition, the boxing great’s health in general is complicated by advanced Parkinson’s _ a degenerative disease he’s lived with for three decades. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Kadlubowski) F O R

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Cancer Society's Brawley. "When you're dealing with young people, in their 40s, 50s, even 60s, it's just so difficult to accept that this person is going to die," he said.

Joe Clark, an Orlando, Florida businessman, was diagnosed in 2011, two days before his 28th birthday and two months before his wedding. Instead of a honeymoon, he had chemotherapy.

The treatments seemed to work, until a year later, when shortly after his wife learned she was pregnant, tests showed the cancer had spread aggressively.

"No one uses the words like, 'incurable,'" Evans-Clark said. "We said what's next, and I remember hearing, 'you're going to be on chemotherapy, and we said, 'How long?' And they said, 'indefinitely.'" She recalls turning to look at her husband, "and he just broke down crying."

The couple created a blog detailing their cancer ordeal. In an entry four months before he died, next to a photo of nine pill bottles on his night table, Clark wrote, "I don't want to take any of them, but the doctor says I have to ... This isn't what they said was supposed to be! I'm supposed to enjoy all the small moments; all the ones that seem to matter the most, yet we let them slip from our attention so quickly. Because of the treatment plan, I can't even do that."

Evans-Clark remembers agonizing discussions with her husband about quantity versus quality of life. Major abdominal surgery failed to stop cancer's spread. Chemo had caused mouth sores and there were problems with the ostomy bag that replaced his diseased intestines.

"I remember looking at him and he was so thin, and he was so depressed, and everything that made him a man ... had been taken from him," she said.

They moved to Indianapolis, where a doctor finally sat them down and said, "I don't think this is worth it anymore."

It was an epiphany.

Clark starting receiving comfort care at a hospice center that felt more like home than a hospital, where he could finally focus only on spending time with his wife and baby daughter.

"I was able to be his wife versus being the one pushing all the meds," Evans-Clark said. "I was only given two more months with him but I would say they were some of the best months I had with him."

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They cited previous studies linking food and beverage marketing with excess eating and childhood obesity. Bragg noted a 2013 study from Australia that found sports celebrity endorsements influenced 11-year-old boys to buy fast food.

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Bernstein, said Perry has never had an endorsement deal with Pepsi.

The study was published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

Ads can influence behavior, and the researchers say the results have important implications, given the nation's high obesity rates. Government statistics show that about 20 percent of U.S. teens are obese and even more are overweight.

"Celebrities should leverage their influence to promote more healthful messages," the researchers said.

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producing cells die that there's too little of this neurotransmitter in the brain.

Q: Is there a cure?

A: There is no cure but there are a range of treatments, from medications that affect dopamine levels to a surgically implanted tremorblocking device. Patients also can benefit from physical and occupational therapy.

Q: What's the prognosis?

A: Symptoms worsen over time, usually slowly. The severity of symptoms, and how quickly they progress, varies widely between patients. In advanced cases, people may be unable to walk or care for themselves. They also can suffer non-motor symptoms, including depression and memory and other cognitive dysfunction.

While Parkinson's itself isn't considered fatal, people can die from complications of the disease.

Q: What complications are of most concern?

A: Lung problems are a risk as muscle weakness impedes the ability to cough and to swallow. While any kind of pneumonia can occur, what's called aspiration pneumonia — when bits of food or liquid land in the lungs instead of being swallowed properly — is the leading cause of death among Parkinson's patients, said National Parkinson Foundation medical director Dr. Michael S. Okun.

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Robert E. Cashin Jr. SOUTHAMPTON — Robert E. Cashin, Jr., 55, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his family. He was born in Springfield February 28, 1961. Robert was employed as an auto technician for Marcotte Ford in Holyoke for 20 years. He is survived by his beloved wife of 25 years, Denise K. (Locy) Cashin of Southampton and his five children, Matthew D. MacBrian and his wife Laurel (Lawson) MacBrian of Montgomery, Elizabeth R. Cashin and her fiancée Richie Webb of Becket, Nathan D. MacBrian of Southampton, Robert E. Cashin, III of Stafford, CT and Elijah N. Cashin of Southampton, and two cherished grandchildren, Andrew and Caroline. As both a husband and a father, Bob was faithfully and lovingly devoted to his family. Whenever possible, he spent countless hours out doors with his children going camping, fishing, hiking and exploring.Bob will be greatly missed by all who knew him, and we were blessed by his friendship and his love. A Funeral Home Service for Robert will be held on Wednesday at 7PM in the Firtion Adams FS, 76 Broad St. Westfield, MA. Visiting hours will precede the service from 4-7 PM in the funeral home. www.firtionadams.com

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Water Chestnut Removal Project At the Brickyard Ponds – Corner of Root Rd & North Rd WESTFIELD — Water Chestnut is an invasive aquatic plant known to completely cover shallow lakes and coves, spoiling wildlife habitat and recreational activities. Luckily, it’s is easy to identify and pull out. Each summer, conservation groups and volunteers have been diligently removing this plant where it’s found in the Connecticut River watershed. As we prevent seeding, patches get smaller each year and sometimes even disappear!

Come help reclaim the historic Brickyard area!

• Volunteers will be in canoes hand pulling plants.

• Ages 12 and up • Volunteers are required to sign a waiver to participate.

• Limited seats (canoes) so pre-registration is needed.

• You may sign up for one or more days!

• Bring water proof boots, water and a lunch.

• Sundays, June 12, June 26, August 7 & August 21, from 9:30 am to 2 pm To pre-register, please contact: Cynthia_Boettner@fws.gov (preferred) or call 413-548-8002 ext. 8115. ­­­——— Sponsored by: Silvio O. Conte National Fish & Wildlife Refuge and The Westfield Conservation Commission

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Italian History Club Trip to Italy Nine nights, nine breakfasts, eight dinners, daily tour guides. Cost $3,350 per person (double), single add $400. Trip includes round trip bus from Springfield/Boston and round trip Alitalia flight Boston/Italy. Deposit of $500 due by June 30th. For more information and reservations call Paula at 413739-6635 or Yvonne at 413-734-3442.

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Teen After-school Hangout at SPL SOUTHWICK — Our final Hangout of the school year is here! Grades 7-12 can stop on Wednesday, June 15th from 2:30-3:30pm. The Wii system will be set up and our 3Doodler 3D Printing Pen will be available to try. Bring an old t-shirt and make a tote bag for all of your trips to the beach! Snacks, as always, will be provided.

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39th Annual Pancake Breakfast WESTFIELD — The 39th annual Pancake Breakfast will be held in Westfield on Thursday July 14th from 7-11am (rain or shine!) at South Middle School located at 30 West Silver St. Ticket prices are $6 for adults; $5 for seniors; $3 for kids 12 & under. Come see a Westfield Fire Department fire engine, get your face painted, jump in the bounce house, listen to the music, and more! Vendors and volunteers are needed. Please contact the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce at 413-568-1618.

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By CHRIS PUTZ Staff Writer HOLYOKE – The names may have changed, but the results are the same.

The defending Western Massachusetts Division 1 high school boys’ volleyball champion Westfield Bombers, led by an entirely new cast of players donning the black, red, and white uniforms, have gone back-to-back.

No. 1 Westfield outlasted third-seeded Central in a D1 West Sectional finals thriller, 28-26, 25-23, 19-25, 35-21 Monday night at Holyoke Community College. It was the second straight championship win for the Bombers (18-3), who soundly swept the Chicopee Comp Colts 3-0 a year ago in the big game.

“Two is nice,” Westfield coach Tyler Wingate said. ““You never know how the season is going to play out. We had an entirely new team from last year so a lot of guys had to step up, and they certainly did. I think there were definitely some growing pains during this match. This is not an easy spot, but they really made the plays when it counted. Central was a heck of an opponent.

They really showed up and were ready to play.”

The opening minutes of the championship match hinted at an evenly matched contest.

The first set could not have been closer with 17 ties, and four lead changes. Westfield enjoyed the largest lead (three points) midway through the game before pulling out a two-point victory.

In the second set, Westfield led throughout and managed another narrow win.

The 2-0 lead though, appeared to wake up a sleeping giant. Central, which rolled into the tournament with just one loss, surged to a sixpoint win in the third set.

In the fourth set, the teams jockeyed for the lead. After 11 ties and four lead changes, Westfield settled down, settled in, and took care of business.

“It was a big challenge … but we stuck together and pulled through,” said Westfield’s Noah Kappel, who finished with 20 kills and four blocks.

Westfield’s Tyler Stanton agreed.

“It’s just amazing that we can come back again two years in a row, and just to be playing this well with a different variety of a team because we lost all of our starting seven from last year ,” Stanton said. “To have a variety of players and have the work ethic to get in to Western Mass is amazing.”

Stanton finished with 21 digs.

Igor Belokopytov (15 kills, 11 digs, one ace), Ryan Murray (six kills, two blocks), Eddie Loboda (10 kills, eight digs), Shane Kiendzior (7 kills, 5 digs), Scott Walsh (50 assists, eight digs), and Andrew Burrage (one ace, 15 digs) also helped fuel a repeat championship.

The Westfield Bombers celebrate a Western Massachusetts Division 1 boys’ volleyball championship Monday night with a 3-1 win over Central at Holyoke Community College. (Photos by Marc St. Onge)

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The Westfield Bombers celebrate a Western Massachusetts Division 1 boys’ volleyball championship Monday night with a 3-1 win over Central at Holyoke Community College.

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Tuesday, June 7 No Sports Scheduled

Tuesday, June 7 WEST DIVISION 2 SOFTBALL SEMIFINALS No. 4 Southwick (16-5) vs. No. 1 Hampshire (18-2), University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, June 8 WEST DIVISION 1 BASEBALL SEMIFINALS No. 3 Westfield vs. No. 2 Taconic, Wahconah Park, 4 p.m.

WEST DIVISION 1 SOFTBALL SEMIFINALS No. 5 Westfield (14-7) vs. No. 1 Minnechaug (17-4), University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 5 p.m.

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WESTFIELD — West Region Girls Soccer tryouts will be held for current ninth, 10th, and 11th graders Junes 6-7, 10, 13-14, and 17 at locations in Westfield and Pittsfield from 6-8 p.m. Visit www.baystategames.org for more information. Pre-registration for tryouts is required. Information on games and the coaching staff is also available online.

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Houston (Keuchel 3-7) at Texas (Hamels 5-1), 8:05 p.m.

Miami (Conley 3-3) at Minnesota (Dean 1-2), 8:10 p.m.

Oakland (Manaea 2-3) at Milwaukee (Davies 3-3), 8:10 p.m.

Washington (Ross 5-4) at Chicago White Sox (Latos 6-1), 8:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Moore 2-3) at Arizona (Greinke 7-3), 9:40 p.m.

Cleveland (Anderson 1-3) at Seattle (Miley 5-2), 10:10 p.m.

Boston (Porcello 7-2) at San Francisco (Suarez 1-1), 10:15 p.m.

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Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 2-3) at Arizona (Bradley 2-1), 3:40 p.m.

Kansas City (Volquez 5-5) at Baltimore (Tillman 7-1), 7:05 p.m.

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Houston (Fister 5-3) at Texas (Darvish 2-0), 8:05 p.m.

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Washington (Scherzer 6-4) at Chicago White Sox (Shields 2-7), 8:10 p.m.

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Since 1964 — Standings Week 9 of 22 Thursday, June 2, 2016 Players 73.5 Ed Bielonko – Branden Bielonko Division 1 73.5 Jim Conroy – Fran Como Randy Anderson – Bob Genereux 72.5 Mark Logan – Joe Gaudette Dan Harris – Shawn Bradley 70 Carlos Santos – Bill Grise Sr. Larry Cournoyer – Bob Bihler 63 Mike Mahan – Joe Hebda Mark Grenier – John LaRose 56 Bruce Kellogg – Richard Kellogg Rick Brown – Jim Cartwright Division 3 Dave Dubois – Jim Elkins 85 Joe Boutin – Henry Smith Tim Laramee – Dan Laramee 84.5 Mike Mulligan – Mike Soverow Tom Massimino – Tim Huber 77.5 Jason George – Dan Van Kruningan Alan Velazquez – Ty Sherokow 76.5 Jason Fitzgerald – Steve Tomaino Bill Drohan – Al Nubile 74 Chris Fenton – Ryan Drobot Paul Brunetti – Ryan Maloney 71.5 Glenn Grabowski – Jeff Berger Mark Wilson – Paul Kvitek 70 Roy Barton – Bill Reinhagen 68 Jim Haas – Al Haas Division 2 65 Steve Benoit – Nick Stellato Bob Collier – Don Clarke 63.5 Dave Dover – Tom Morris Jay O’Sullivan – Rick Burke 61.5 Jim Strycharz – Richard Roy Gary Gladu – Fran Dwyer 50 Bob Lewko – Donald Gauthier Cam Lewis – Bill Grise Jr.

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8th Place Al Szenda & Jim Johnson 9th Place Bill Wallinovich & Fran Siska 9th Place Bill Murphy & Jerry Tomasko 10th Place Barry Slattery & Bob McCarthy 11th Place Dave Liberty & Jim French 12th Place Angelo Mascadrelli & Frank Kamlowski 13th Place Ron Bonyeau & Mike Ripa 14th Place Don Fioroni & Jack Kennedy 14th Place Butch Rines & Gary Marcoulier 15th Place Bill Frothingham & Carl Haas 16th Place Mike Clark & Terry Clark Low Gross

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Jake Colapietro (15) quickly sprints to 1st base.

Left fielder Jake Colapietro (15) gets his time at bat.

Pitcher Dalen Mochak (18) winds up for the first pitch.

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Dalen Mochak (18) makes it to 3rd base.

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Bombers batter Falcons

No. 3 Westfield 5, No. 6 Minnechaug 4 Third-seeded Westfield punched its ticket to the semifinals with a narrow win over Minnechaug. The Bombers advance to play No. 2 Taconic Wednesday at Wahconah Park at 4 p.m.

Stefan Krol went 3-for-4 with a run scored to lead Westfield.

Bombers’ Austin St. Pierre (double, walk, two RBIs), Sean Murphy (home run, run, two RBIs), and Anthony Clark had 2nd baseman Matt Hasting (1) dives for a grounder. two hits apiece.

Matt Hasting (1) adds another run to the score.

WEST DIVISION 3 BASEBALL QUARTERFINALS

Rams stunned

No. 10 Hoosac 2, No. 2 Southwick 1 Tenth-seeded Hoosac Valley upset the tournament’s No. 2 seed to earn a trip to the D3 semifinals.

Noah Matrigali (8 Ks) tossed a one-hitter for Hoosac.

Southwick pitcher Andrew Mitchell scattered seven hits, struck out four batters, and allowed just one run.

First Baseman (7) Joe Stratton makes the catch for the out. (Photos by Kellie Adam)

Andrew Mitchell (21) is on the mound throwing gas for Southwick.

Above, Southwick’s second baseman Nick Kavarakis makes the out at second while turning and throwing to the first baseman Joe Stratton, below, for the double play .

Southwick’s Dan McCellan (32) slides into second trying to beat the tag.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, June 7, 2016 This year you are willing to do whatever you need to do in order to achieve your goals. You recognize the importance of being honest with yourself. As a result, you will greet transformation and change with less trepidation than the majority of people you know. What might have been upsetting several years ago proves to be an exciting experience now. Go with the flow. If you are single, you will find this period to be quite meaningful, as you will meet people who ultimately could lead you to Mr. or Ms. Right. Relish the process. If you are attached, as a couple your communication skills soar. Make plenty of one-on-one time for each other. CANCER reflects a changeability that is within you.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Others experience a similar sense of pressure and tension to what you currently feel. Original thinking might help you break past the issue at hand. Expect some disagreement when you share your ideas.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You have a strong sense of how to manage a problem. You believe you will be greeted by smiles and success, but convincing others of the rightness of your idea might be another matter altogether. Your perception could be off, but only time will tell. Tonight: Live it up!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You’ll be in a position where others keep interfering with your day. Know that these people might not be aware of their actions. Open up to new possibilities, which could be a result of recent turmoil. Listen carefully to what a friend shares. Tonight: Be as forthright as possible.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Your emotional nature explodes on the scene, adding more commotion than you had intended. You could be overly tired and wondering when you can take a break.

Reach out to loved ones for their help and feedback. Tonight: You are a hit everywhere you go.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH You might feel the need for a change of pace. Although you are totally capable of making this happen by yourself, others seem to want to help. In fact, a friend will step up in order to let you know that you are really cared for. Tonight: Get some extra R and R. You will need it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You have a way of handling a matter that makes it work better for you and for others. Maintain your sense of humor, as you’ll see a friend jump through hoops to get your attention. This person will adjust his or her response according to what you say. Tonight: Out. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Defer to others, if you can.

Don’t get too involved in someone else’s thoughts and ideas. Be more like an observer or a boss, and let this person work out his or her issues naturally. You could be up for a major change if you’d just relax. Tonight: Don’t pressure yourself so much.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH Understand those around you better by imagining what it is like to walk in their shoes. You might feel as if you can’t really tolerate that experience, but it will be important in creating a stronger bond between you and others. Tonight: Tap into your imagination.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You’ll want to understand what is happening between you and someone else. Your sense of humor will help you take what could be a piercing remark with a grain of salt. You could be shocked by a loved one and his or her ideas. Tonight: Time to lighten up the mood.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You could be pushing harder than you have in a while. You might be wondering why someone is behaving in such an outrageous manner. Know that you can’t change this person, but you certainly can distance yourself from him or her.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Don’t push as hard as you have in the recent past. Some of you might consider starting a diet, while others will opt to start a new gym or exercise program. A friend or loved one could be more fiery and irritable than you realize. Tonight: Get some extra R and R, then decide.

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By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell took the air out of reaching a settlement with Tom Brady following the Patriots star quarterback's latest appeal of the league's four-game "Deflategate" suspension.

"At this stage, no," Goodell said Monday, noting there have been several previous bids to reach a settlement. "The courts will make their decisions, and we'll move forward on that basis."

Goodell spoke while attending Buffalo Bills Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly's 30th annual charitable golf tournament being held outside of Buffalo.

The comments were Goodell's first in two weeks since Brady's lawyers asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a new hearing before an expanded panel of judges. The request comes after a three-judge panel in April reinstated Brady's suspension for what the NFL ruled was the quarterback's role in using underinflated footballs during the 2015 AFC championship game.

The type of appeal Brady is seeking is rarely granted.

Brady's lawyers argue Goodell is biased because he was responsible for initial suspension and then backed his decision when the quarterback lodged an appeal. Brady was officially informed of his initial suspension by NFL Executive Vice President Troy Vincent.

Two of the three 2nd Circuit judges ruled the players had negotiated away their right to an impartial arbiter when they agreed to allow the commissioner to hear appeals.

Goodell was pleased with the judges backing his authority, though disappointed by the slow pace it's taken in reaching a resolution.

"If there's a better system (of appeals), we'll do it, but when it comes to the integrity of the game, that's the responsibility of the commissioner," Goodell said. "And we're not going to hand that integrity of the game off to somebody who doesn't have any involvement in the game."

Questions over the NFL commissioner's authority as defined in the collective bargaining agreement were raised by sports attorney David Cornwell in 2009, when he was one of four finalists to replace the late Gene Upshaw as the NFL Players Association's executive director.

Cornwell called the league's disciplinary policy "draconian" and argued the process requires independent oversight.

DeMaurice Smith won the election and remains the NFLPA's chief.

Goodell touched on several other topics including the status of the Oakland Raiders considering the possibility of relocating to Las Vegas.

Goodell said he'd prefer the Raiders staying in Oakland, but noted Las Vegas as being one of several sites the team is considering.

As for the Chargers' future in San Diego, Goodell favors the team reaching a deal to have a new stadium built downtown. The first step is having the issue placed on ballot and voted upon in November.

"We're going to be meeting with them in a couple of weeks. I think there's real progress out there, but these projects are hard," Goodell said. "Ultimately, it's the community's solution and the community's decision."

In Buffalo, Goodell said Bills' new owners, Terry and Kim Pegula, are exploring their options as to whether a new stadium is required to keep their franchise competitive in the long term.

Ralph Wilson Stadium opened in 1973 and has undergone numerous renovations, with the latest upgrade costing $130 million in 2014.

The Pegulas proposed the possibility of building a new stadium during their successful bid in purchasing the team from the estate of late Hall of Fame owner Ralph Wilson in 2014.

Last summer, Terry Pegula said he was in no rush to build a new stadium, and noted there was plenty of time to devise a plan under the stadium's current lease, which runs through 2022.

LEGAL NOTICES May 31, 2016 June 7, 14, 2016 NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Kevin G. McClain and Lois M. McClain to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for WMC Mortgage Corp., dated December 21, 2005 and recorded with the Hampden County Registry of Deeds at Book 15598, Page 276, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder by assignment from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley Capital I Inc. Trust 2006-HE2 dated June 29, 2011 and recorded with said Registry on July 6, 2011 at Book 18832 Page 568 and by assignment from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for WMC Mortgage Corp. to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley Capital I Inc. Trust 2006-HE2, Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2006-HE2 dated June 22, 2015 and recorded with said Registry on July 1, 2015 at Book 20771, Page 395, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing, the same will be sold at Public Auction at 1:00 p.m. on June 27, 2016, on the mortgaged premises located at 1928 East Mountain Road, Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, TO WIT: The Land in Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts know as ''Lot B'', Area 43,560 sq ft.,'' as shown on plan entitled ''Subdivision of Property, Westfield, Massachusetts, for Pasquale Misichia Sr...dated September 4, 1985, Revised September 11, 1985, by L.L. Bean, Inc., Surveyors and Engineers'' recorded with Hampden County Registry of Deeds in Book of Plans 229, Page 17, more particularly bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the northeasterly corner of the property described on the southerly sideline of Dox Road and the westerly sideline of East Mountain Road; thence running S34° 44 00'' W along the westerly sideline of East Mountain Road for a distance of two hundred three and 15/100 (203.15) feet to an iron pipe set at the northeasterly corner of Lot ''A'' as shown on the above mentioned plan; thence turning and running.

N60° 34' 50'' W along the northerly line of Lot ''A'' for a distance of two hundred twelve and 09/100 (212.09) feet to an iron pipe set; thence turning and running N32° 54' 00'' E for a distance of two hundred two and 65/100 (202.65) feet to a point on the southerly sideline of Dox Road; thence turning and running

S60° 34' 50'' E along the southerly sideline of Dox Road for a distance of two hundred eighteen and 60/100 (218.60) feet to the point and place of beginning.

TERMS OF SALE:

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BEING the same premises conveyed to the grantors herein by deed of M & M Excavating, Inc. dated August 29, 1986 and recorded in the Hampden County When it comes to 21st century multimedia platforms, “hyper local” is a Registry of Deeds in Book 6209, term you hear a lot.Page 254.

mortgagor, Kevin G.News Mc- has been providing It’s not a new idea. The In fact, The Westfield Clain, expressly reserves his readers with “hyperrights local” news coverage Westfield, Southwick, and of Homestead datedof Octothe Hilltowns all along.

Television, and inregional newpapers only ber 28, 2003, andradio recorded the Hampden County Registry of about. TV stations and provide fleeting coverage of local issues you care Deeds in Book 13719, Page big newspaper publishers, of cutbacks 333, andafter doesyears not waive such and mergers, frankly aren’t able to provide in-depth coverage markets anymore. rights, except with respectoftosmaller the mortgagee herein.

But, day in and day out, The Westfield News provides consistant For you mortgagor's(s') titleabout, see that are important to coverage of the stories need to know deed recorded with Hampden your city, town, neighborhood and of home.

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These premises will be sold and conveyed subject to and with the benefit of all rights, rights of way, restrictions, easements, coven62 School Street • Westfield, MA 01085 • (413) 562-4181 ants, liens or claims in the The Original of liens, improvements, Longmeadow The Westfield News • P ENNYSAVER •nature public assessments, anyNews and all • Enfield Press unpaid taxes, tax titles, tax liens,

LEGAL NOTICE MORTGAGEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE By virtue of and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Jennifer Mastello to First Franklin Financial Corporation, dated August 27, 2003 and recorded at Hampden County Registry of Deeds in Book 13525, Page 149 of which mortgage Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of February 1, 2004 First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2004-FF1 is the present holder by assignment from First Franklin Financial Corporation to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of February 1, 2004 First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2004-FF1 dated July 7, 2015 recorded at Hampden County Registry of Deeds in Book 20909, Page 573, for breach of conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same, the mortgaged premises located at 13 Myrtle Avenue a/k/a 13 Myrtle Street, Westfield, MA 01085 will be sold at a Public Auction at 1:00PM on July 5, 2016, at the mortgaged premises, more particularly described below, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, to wit: The land with the buildings thereon in Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, bounded and described as follows:

Beginning on the Westerly side of Myrtle Avenue, also known as Myrtle Street, at a point distant northerly fifty-five (55) feet from a stone bound at the intersection of the northerly line of Linden Avenue and the westerly NORTHERLY on land now or line of said Myrtle Avenue, formerly of John DiSanto, eight and running thence northerly on (8) rods; thence running Myrtle Avenue fifty-two (52) feet to land formerly of one Gilmore EASTERLY on land now or formerly of E.A. & S.A. Allen, and later of one Morrisette; four (4) rods to land now or formerly of Luigi Crisci, formerly thence westerly along last Celia A. Noble; thence running named land, seven (7) rods to land now or formerly of one SOUTHERLY on land now or Bourassa; formerly of Luigi Crisci, eight (8) rods to said Meadow Street; thence southerly along last named land and land formerly of thence running Theodore Sutro, fifty-two (52) WESTERLY on said Meadow feet to the northwesterly corner Street four (4) rods to the place of land formerly of Aldrich, later of Mosley & Maschin; of beginning.

A deposit of Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars by certified or bank check will be required to be paid by the purchaser at the time and place of sale. The balance is to be paid by certified or bank check at Harmon Law Offices, P.C., 150 California Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02458, or by mail to P.O. Box 610389, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts 02461-0389, within thirty (30) days from the date of sale.

Deed will be provided to purchaser for recording upon receipt in full of the purchase price. The description of the premises contained in said mort- For mortgagor’s title see deed gage shall control in the event of recorded with the Hampden County Registry of Deeds in an error in this publication.

Book 15425, Page 204.

Other terms, if any, to be anThe premises will be sold subnounced at the sale. ject to the terms and provisions DEUTSCHE BANK of the Covenant for Affordable NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, Housing contained in the DEED AS TRUSTEE FOR Rider recorded as part of the MORGAN STANLEY Unit Deed in Book 18802 Page CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 93.

2006-HE2, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH The premises will be sold subCERTIFICATES, SERIES ject to any and all unpaid taxes 2006-HE2 and other municipal assessPresent holder of ments and liens, and subject to said mortgage prior liens or other enforceable encumbrances of record entitled By its Attorneys, to precedence over this mortHARMON LAW OFFICES, P.C. gage, and subject to and with 150 California Street the benefit of all easements, reNewton, MA 02458 strictions, reservations and con(617) 558-0500 ditions of record and subject to 201404-0921 - YEL all tenancies and/or rights of parties in possession.

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LEGAL NOTICE SUBJECT TO easement to Northeast Gas Transmission MORTGAGEE'S SALE Company dated July 20, 1951, OF REAL ESTATE recorded as afore said in Book 2126, Page 466 if in force and By virtue of and in execution of applicable. the Power of Sale contained in a SUBJECT TO easement rights certain mortgage given by Digranted New England Tele- anne M. Williams and Robert S. phone and Telegraph Company Williams to Mortgage Electronic and the City of Westfield Gas Registration Systems, Inc. actand Electric Light Department ing solely as a nominee for under instrument dated June 6, Novastar Mortgage, Inc., dated 1975, recorded as aforesaid in June 14, 2006 and recorded at Book 4137, Page 127, if in force Hampden County Registry of Deeds in Book 15991, Page and applicable.

400, as affected by a Loan ModiBEING the same premises con- fication Agreement dated July veyed to the grantors herein by 18, 2007 and recorded at said deed of M & M Excavating, Inc. Registry of Deeds in Book dated August 29, 1986 and re- 16932, Page 41 of which mortcorded in the Hampden County gage Deutsche Bank National Registry of Deeds in Book 6209, Trust Company, as Trustee under Novastar Mortgage Funding Page 254.

Trust, Series 2006-4 is the The mortgagor, Kevin G. Mc- present holder by assignment Clain, expressly reserves his from Mortgage Electronic Regisrights of Homestead dated Octo- t r a t i o n S y s t e m s , I n c . t o ber 28, 2003, and recorded in Deutsche Bank National Trust the Hampden County Registry of Company, as Trustee under Deeds in Book 13719, Page Novastar Mortgage Funding 333, and does not waive such Trust, Series 2006-4 dated Aurights, except with respect to the gust 10, 2009 recorded at Hampden County Registry of mortgagee herein.

Deeds in Book 17977, Page 64, For mortgagor's(s') title see for breach of conditions of said deed recorded with Hampden mortgage and for the purpose of County Registry of Deeds in foreclosing the same, the mortgaged premises located at 12 Book 6209, Page 254.

Meadow Street, Westfield, MA These premises will be sold and 01085 will be sold at a Public conveyed subject to and with the Auction at 12:00PM on July 5, benefit of all rights, rights of way, 2 0 1 6 , a t t h e m o r t g a g e d restrictions, easements, coven- premises, more particularly deants, liens or claims in the scribed below, all and singular nature of liens, improvements, the premises described in said public assessments, any and all mortgage, to wit: unpaid taxes, tax titles, tax liens, water and sewer liens and any The land in Westfield, Hampden other municipal assessments or County, Massachusetts, with the liens or existing encumbrances buildings thereon, bounded and of record which are in force and described as follows: are applicable, having priority over said mortgage, whether or Beginning at a stake and stones not reference to such restric- at the southwest corner of the tions, easements, improve- conveyed premises on the northments, liens or encumbrances is erly side of Meadow Street; thence running made in the deed.

S60° 34' 50'' E along the southerly sideline of Dox Road for a distance of two hundred eighteen and 60/100 (218.60) feet to the point and place of beginning.

In this Aug. 31, 2015, file photo, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell leaves Federal court in New York. Goodell says he sees no avenue right now for a settlement with Tom Brady as the star Patriots quarterback appeals his four-game “Deflategate” suspension. Goodell told reporters Monday, June 6, 2016, that the league will move forward based on whether the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decides to grant Brady’s request for the full court to re-hear the case.

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thence easterly along last named land seven (7) rods to the place of beginning.

For mortgagor’s title see deed recorded with the Hampden County Registry of Deeds in Book 13525, Page 147.

The premises will be sold subject to any and all unpaid taxes and other municipal assessments and liens, and subject to prior liens or other enforceable encumbrances of record entitled to precedence over this mortgage, and subject to and with the benefit of all easements, restrictions, reservations and conditions of record and subject to all tenancies and/or rights of parties in possession.

Terms of the Sale: Cash, cashier's or certified check in the sum of $5,000.00 as a deposit must be shown at the time and place of the sale in order to qualify as a bidder (the mortgage holder and its designee(s) are exempt from this requirement); high bidder to sign written Memorandum of Sale upon acceptance of bid; balance of purchase price payable in cash or by certified check in thirty (30) days from the date of the sale at the offices of mortgagee's attorney, Korde & Associates, P.C., 321 Billerica Road, Suite 210, Chelmsford, MA 01824-4100 or such other time as may be designated by mortgagee. The description for the premises contained in said mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication.

Terms of the Sale: Cash, cashier's or certified check in the sum of $5,000.00 as a deposit must be shown at the time and place of the sale in order to qualify as a bidder (the mortgage holder and its designee(s) are exempt from this requirement); high bidder to sign written Memorandum of Sale upon acceptance of bid; balance of purchase price payable in cash or by certified check in thirty (30) days from the date of the sale at the offices of mortgagee's attorney, Korde & Associates, P.C., 321 Billerica Road, Suite 210, Chelmsford, MA 01824-4100 or such other time as may be designated by mortgagee. The description for the premises contained in said mortgage shall control in the event of a typo- Other terms to be announced at graphical error in this publica- the sale. tion.

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Other terms to be announced at Trustee for the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of the sale.

February 1, 2004 First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust Mortgage Deutsche Bank National Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Trust Company, Series 2004-FF1 as Trustee under Novastar Mortgage Funding Trust, Korde & Associates, P.C. Series 2006-4 321 Billerica Road Suite 210 Korde & Associates, P.C. Chelmsford, MA 01824-4100 321 Billerica Road (978) 256-1500 Suite 210 Chelmsford, MA 01824-4100 Mastello, Jennifer, (978) 256-1500 13-010578, June 7, 2016, June 14, 2016, June 21, 2016 Williams, Dianne and Robert, 15-021994, June 7, 2016, June 14, 2016, June 21, 2016

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sachusetts, all and singular the benefit of all rights, rights of way, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2016 - PAGE 15 WWW.THEWESTFIELDNEWS.COM premises described in said mort- restrictions, easements, covengage, ants, liens or claims in the nature of liens, improvements, TO WIT: public assessments, any and all unpaid taxes, tax titles, tax liens, The land in WESTFIELD, Hamp- water and sewer liens and any den County, Massachusetts, be- other municipal assessments or ing known and designated as liens or existing encumbrances Lot #35 (thirty-five) as shown on of record which are in force and floram@thewestfieldnewsgroup.com plan of lots recorded in Hamp- are Email applicable, having priority den County Registry of Deeds, over said mortgage, whether or Book of Plans 30, Page 12, said not reference to such restricAvailable online 24/7 at http://thewestfieldnews.com/classifieds lot being more particularly tions, easements, improvebounded and described as fol- ments, liens or encumbrances is lows: made in the deed.

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LEGAL NOTICES May 24, 31, 2016 June 7, 2016 NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Derek B Shaver to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., dated March 15, 2012 and recorded with the Hampden County Registry of Deeds at Book 19165, Page 224, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing, the same will be sold at Public Auction at 12:00 p.m. on June 20, 2016, on the mortgaged premises located at 117 BERKSHIRE DRIVE, WESTFIELD, Hampden County, Massachusetts, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, TO WIT: The land in WESTFIELD, Hampden County, Massachusetts, being known and designated as Lot #35 (thirty-five) as shown on plan of lots recorded in Hampden County Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans 30, Page 12, said lot being more particularly bounded and described as follows:

DEADLINE: 2PM THE DAY BEFORE To Advertise call 413-562-4181 Ext, 118

N O R T H E A S T E R L Y b y TERMS OF SALE: Berkshire Drive, eighty (80) feet; A deposit of Five Thousand SOUTHEASTERLY by Lot #34 ($5,000.00 ) Dollars by certified (thirty-four) as shown on said or bank check will be required to plan, one hundred fifty-three and be paid by the purchaser at the 80/100 (153.80) feet; time and place of sale. The balSOUTHWESTERLY by land of ance is to be paid by certified or owner unknown, eighty (80) feet; bank check at Harmon Law Offices, P.C., 150 California Street, and Newton, Massachusetts 02458, NORTHWESTERLY by Lot #36 or by mail to P.O. Box 610389, (thirty-six) as shown on said Newton Highlands, Massachuplan, one hundred fifty-three and setts 02461-0389, within thirty (30) days from the date of sale.

80/100 (153.80) feet.

Deed will be provided to purBEING the same premises con- chaser for recording upon reveyed to the Mortgagor herein ceipt in full of the purchase by deed being recorded here- price. The description of the premises contained in said mortwith. gage shall control in the event of For mortgagor's(s') title see an error in this publication. deed recorded with Hampden County Registry of Deeds in Other terms, if any, to be announced at the sale.

Book 19165, Page 221.

WELLS FARGO BANK, NA Present holder of said mortgage

These premises will be sold and conveyed subject to and with the benefit of all rights, rights of way, restrictions, easements, covenants, liens or claims in the nature of liens, improvements, public assessments, any and all unpaid taxes, tax titles, tax liens, water and sewer liens and any other municipal assessments or liens or existing encumbrances of record which are in force and are applicable, having priority over said mortgage, whether or not reference to such restrictions, easements, improvements, liens or encumbrances is made in the deed.

By its Attorneys, HARMON LAW OFFICES, P.C. 150 California Street Newton, MA 02458 (617) 558-0500 201508-0272 - YEL

NORTHEASTERLY by Berkshire Drive, eighty (80) feet; TERMS OF SALE:

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SOUTHEASTERLY by Lot #34 (thirty-four) as shown on said plan, one hundred fifty-three and 80/100 (153.80) feet;

A deposit of Five Thousand ($5,000.00 ) Dollars by certified or bank check will be required to be paid by the purchaser at the time and place of sale. The balance is to be paid by certified or bank check at Harmon Law Offices, P.C., 150 California Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02458, or by mail to P.O. Box 610389, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts 02461-0389, within thirty (30) days from the date of sale.

Deed will be provided to purchaser for recording upon receipt in full of the purchase price. The description of the premises contained in said mortCircle gage shall control in the event of an error in this publication.

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WELLS FARGO BANK, NA Present holder of said mortgage

These premises will be sold and conveyed subject to and with the benefit of all rights, rights of way, restrictions, easements, covenants, liens or claims in the nature of liens, improvements, public assessments, any and all unpaid taxes, tax titles, tax liens, water and sewer liens and any other municipal assessments or liens or existing encumbrances of record which are in force and are applicable, having priority over said mortgage, whether or not reference to such restrictions, easements, improvements, liens or encumbrances is made in the deed.

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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS THE TRIAL COURT HAMPDEN Div.

Who Does It?

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HD16E0007PP To Karen K. Leff of Pittstown, New Jersey, and Peter R King of Easthampton, Massachusetts and to all other persons interested.

A petition has been presented to said Court by Deborah A King of Northampton, in the County of Hampshire, representing that she holds as tenant in common an undivided part or share of land lying in Montgomery, in the County of Hampden, setting forth that she desires that all of said land may be sold at private sale for not less than Two Hundred Fifty-five Thousand ($255,000.00) Dollars, and praying that partition may be made of all the land aforesaid according to law, and to that end that a commissioner be appointed to make such partition and be ordered to make sale and conveyance of all, or any part of said land which the Court finds cannot be advantageously divided either at private sale or public auction, and be ordered to distribute the net proceeds thereof.

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Many extras. $13,000 or Best Offer.

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Drivers: CDL – A 1 yr. exp., Earn $1,250 + per week, Great Weekend Hometime, Excellent Benefits & Bonuses, 100% No Touch/70% D & H 888-406-9046 FULL-TIME DRIVEWAY CONSTRUCTION LABORER Experienced preferred.

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413-977-1120 PART-TIME Light Assembly & Office Work in Southwick.

Growing Manufacturer looking If you desire to object thereto for local, reliable, and self-motivyou or your attorney should file a ated person. QuickBooks experiwritten appearance in said Court ence preferred. Email resume at Springfield before ten o'clock w/references to: in the forenoon on the fifteenth carole@ktisystems.com day of June, 2016, the return day of this citation.

Witness, ANNE M GEOFFRION, Esquire, First Justice of said Court, this fourth day of May 2016.

Suzanne T Seguin Register of Probate & Family Court

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• Livestock Sales Call 413-977-8891 and leave message. • Logloads • Lumber

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Kitchens | Baths | Basements Present | Siding | Windows | Decksof | Painting | Flooring and more... holder said mortgage RENTAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, TURNOVERS AND REPAIR SERVICES

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ADDITIONS CUSTOM REMODELING HOMES Telephone:

373 College Hwy., Southwick, MA 01077 (413) 569-6104 (413) 998-3025

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PETS THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME PET SITTING SERVICE Vacation care, over night sittings, daily dog walks.

(413)667-3684

ARTICLES FOR SALE HAMMOND ELECTRIC Spinet Organ. Excellent Condition. $50.

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WANTED TO BUY PAYING CASH FOR COINS, stamps, medals, tokens, paper money, diamonds and jewelry, gold and silver scrap. Broadway Coin & Stamp, 144 Broadway, Chicopee Falls, MA. (413)5949550.

AUCTIONS

MAJOR ON-LINE AUCTION All assets of: Big Adventures Major Arcade & Entertainment Center.

100's of coin-op Arcade Games; Restaurant Equipment; Amusement Attractions, etc.

Preview/Inspection - June 7 4pm-7pm.

At: Big Adventures 77 Mill St. Westfield, MA On-line Auction Ends June 8 at 10am.

Terms, Information at superauctions.com 714-329-1373

Business Directory A STEP ABOVE THE REST! JMF CHIMNEY SERVICE Repair your chimney before winter wreaks havoc. We do brick repair, crown seals and repairs. We also do stainless steel liner installs, as well as stainless rain caps. We sweep all flues. Free estimates provided.

Call: 413-330-2186 HENTNICK CHIMNEY SWEEPS. Chimney repairs and rebuilds. Stainless steel caps and liner systems. Inspections, masonry work and gutter cleaning. Free estimates. Insured.

Quality work from a business you can trust. (413)848-0100, (800)793-3706.

CONCRETE WEST POURED CONCRETE 4 foot garage foundations; floors, driveways, excavation, patios and additions.

ALWAYS FREE ESTIMATES. In business for over 20 years.

Fully insured.

413-562-2911 or 413-427-2363

FIREWOOD

HOUSE CLEANING

AAA+ 100% HARDWOOD Green firewood; cut, split & delivered. $150 /128 cu.ft.

Homeowners welcome to come and cut yur own and save!

2 year seasoned wood also available. 413-831-6254

TWO MOM'S CLEANING SERVICE Personalized Cleaning Commercial & Residential Fully Insured & Bonded Call NOW for FREE Estimate 10+ Years Experience References Available 413-326-1278

HAULING PHIL’S DUMP RUNS & DEMOLITION Better Business Bureau A+ Removal of any items in cellars, attics, etc... Also brush removal and small demolition (sheds, decks, fences, one car garages). Fully insured. Free estimates. (413)525-2892, (413)265-6380.

A.R.A. Junk, Furniture & Appliance Removal Full house clean-outs.

Basements, attics & garages.

Demolition: Patios, sheds and swing-sets. You name it...we take it! Senior discounts. Free estimates on phone. Credit cards accepted. 7 days a week.

Emergency, same day service.

Call Pete 413-433-0356

HOUSE PAINTING ALWAYS CALL FIRST!!!

M&M SERVICES 29 Years serving the Westfield area. Painting, staining, house washing, interior/exterior. Wall coverings. Water damage and ceiling/wall repairs.

Commercial/residential. Free estimates. Insured. References.

Call Carmine at: 413-568-9731 or 413-537-4665 No job too small !!

JOHNSON'S PAINTING SERVICES

Interior & Exterior

DRYWALL

HOME IMPROVEMENT

T-BEST DRYWALL. Complete professional drywall at amateur prices. Our ceilings are tops!

Call Mike 413-821-8971. Free estimates.

AFFORDABLE BUILDING CONTRACTOR 20 Years experience.

Licensed & insured.

Repairs, Renovations & Construction. Specializing in Decks, Roofs, Garages, Additions & Log Cabins and Basement conversions Call Dave: 413-568-6440

ELECTRICIAN JIM FERRIS ELECTRIC Senior discount. No job too small! Insured, free estimates.

40 years experience. Lic. #16303. Call (413)330-3682.

POEHLMAN ELECTRIC All types of wiring. Free estimates, insured. SPECIALIZING IN PORTABLE AND WHOLE HOUSE KOHLER GENERATORS, SERVICE UPGRADES, SMALL JOBS, POOLS. Gutter de-icing cables installed. All calls answered! Best prices, prompt service. Lic. #A-16886.

(413)562-5816.

MASTER ELECTRICIAN 40 years experience. Insured.

Reasonable prices. No job too small. Lic# A7625.Call Tom Daly, (413)543-3100.

TURCOTTE ELECTRIC 30+ years experience. Electrical installations, emergency service work. Generac portable or whole house generator installations.

HVAC controls. Knob and tube wiring removal for insurance company requirements. Fully insured. All calls answered.

Master's Lic #A-18022 (413)214-4149

FLOORING & FLOOR SANDING A RON JOHNSON's Floor Sanding, Installation, Repairs, 3 coats polyurethane.

Free estimates. (413)569-3066.

DAVE DAVIDSON: Bathroom & Kitchen Remodeling "GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME" Complete Bath Renovations.

Now serving CT. Insured. Quality Work on Time on Budget Since 1984. MA. License #072233, MA.Registration #144831. CT. HIC. #0609568 569-9973. www.davedavidsonremodeling. com DELREO HOME IMPROVEMENT All your exterior home improvement needs. Roofing, siding, windows, decks and gutters. Free quotes. Extensive references, fully licensed & insured in MA/CT. www.delreohomeimprovement.com

Call Gary Delcamp (413)569-3733 FRESH START PAINTING AND REMODELING Specializing in Interior/Exterior painting. Custom stain work.

Ceiling repair; water damage; Carpentry, New decks, Deck staining and repair, windows, home repairs. Call Charlie for a free estimate at 413-313-8084

JOSEPH'S HANDYMAN COMPANY Carpentry, remodeling, kitchen, baths, basements, drywall, tile, floors, suspended ceilings, restoration services, doors, windows, decks, stairs, interior/exterior painting, plumbing. Small jobs ok. All types of professional work done since 1985. Call Joe, (413)364-7038.

25 years experience Including aluminum siding.

Commercial & Residential.

Water damage repairs, ceiling, wall and exterior repairs. Power washing.

FOR FREE ESTIMATE call: Ken 568-5146

GUTTER CLEANING

LANDSCAPING & LAWN CARE Hagger's Landscaping Services LLC Spring Cleanups; Mulching and Stone, Lawn mowing, Hedge Trimming, Thatching, Aeration, Top soil/Mulch deliveries, Plantings, Koi ponds All your landscaping needs Residential & Commercial Fully Insured/Free Estimates (413) 626 6122 or visit: www.haggerscape.com

LAWN CARE Spring Clean-ups: Gutter-cleaning, leaf removal; Rototilling; Senior discounts. Free Estimates.

413-314-8575 PETER'S LANDSCAPING Complete landscaping service.

Low, prices, great work. Now accepting new accounts.

Sign up for mowing and get 2nd mowing at half-price! Weekly and biweekly mowing available.

413-789-0337.

Plumley Landscape Inc. Call us today for all your landscape needs. Landscape design and planting, irrigation installation and repair, and complete yard renovations. Drainage problems, stump grinding, chipper service, bobcat service, gravel driveways, excavation and demolition, including getting rid of that unwanted pool.

413-862-4749 SPRING CLEANUP: Commercial & Residential.

Weekly mowing and maintenance, tree removal, dethatching, mulch, gutter cleaning, etc.

Call Shea Landscaping (413)244-3028

GUTTER CLEANING Clean-outs, Junk Removal; Odd Jobs. QUICK RESPONSE. One Call. Leave Message RICK: 413-977-6502

LANDSCAPING & LAWN CARE

T&S LANDSCAPING Highest quality, lowest prices.

Lawn mowing. Residential & Commercial. Weekly/Bi-weekly No lawns too small (413)330-3917

LOGGING

MULCH! MULCH! MULCH! SAWMILL DIRECT BEST QUALITY Others try to match our price...but can't beat our quality. Accepting most competitors coupons.

We deliver.

Run by veterans.

Green Meadow Lumber

WEIDLER LOGGING Purchasing standing timber and specializing in land clearing. Local company in business for 20+ years.

Green firewood. Cut, split & delivered. Free delivery in Westfield area. Mixed hardwoods. $180 p/128 cf.

413-835-5491

568-0056 A & J LANDSCAPING Spring & Fall Clean-ups; mowing, trimming, mulching, planting and landscape design.

Arborvitaes for sale.

Quality work & service.

Bobcat services also available (Call Mike @ 562-6502)

LAWN MOWER REPAIR AFFORDABLE Lawnmower Services Tune-ups/Repairs. FREE pick-up & delivery.

Same day service available.

786-0022

Call Tony 413-519-7001

MASONRY

ACCURATE LAWNCARE Cleanups, Mowing, leaf/brush removal, trimming, mulch, gutter cleaning. Call (413)579-1639.

ABC MASONRY & BASEMENT WATERPROOFING. All brick, block, concrete. Chimneys, foundations, hatchways, new basement windows installed and repaired. Sump pumps and french drain systems installed.

Foundations pointed and stuccoed. Free estimates.

(413)569-1611. (413)374-5377.

GREEN & GOLD LANDSCAPING SERVICE Weekly/Biweekly Mowing and Maintenance. Hedges, Mulch, Gutters, Garage and Basement Clean-outs. Very Affordable Prices Residential/Commercial; Insured Neil: 413-356-0993

OFFICE CLEANING GREAT WHITE CLEANING Office Cleaning, Full Janitorial Service. 25 years in business!

Call 413-568-2566

WESTFIELD- 40 FLORAL AVE. (off South Maple) Friday,Sat,Sun; June 10,11,12.

(9am -3pm). Three Family Tag Sale. Wide range of items.

WESTFIELD: 23 Butternut Rd. June 10/11/12. 9am-5pm.

MULTI-FAMILY. Wallpaper board, quilts, doll collection and more.

WESTFIELD: 515 Granville Rd. Fri/Sat, June 10/11. 9am-3pm.

APARTMENT WESTFIELD: 3RD floor, 3 bedrooms, kitchen, livingroom, bath. $950 p/month + utilities.

1st/last/security. 413-250-4811

5 ROOM, 3 bedroom, completely renovated Westfield/Russell area, country setting. NEW stove, refrigerator and heating unit.

Large yard, parking. $950 p/month. No pets please.

Call today, won't last.

Available immediately (413)348-3431

WESTBRIDGE MANOR WESTFIELD: 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, full basement. W/D hookup. $800/month plus utilities.

(413)562-2295.

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PAINTING & WALLPAPERING HOME DECOR has been making beautiful new rooms for over 16 years. From cabinet makeovers to faux finishes, staging for sales and decorating advice for a new look. Call Kendra now for all your painting needs. Fully insured.

Free Estimates (413)626-8880 or (413)564-0223

PLUMBING & HEATING NICK GARDNER PLUMBING, WELDING & MECHANICAL SERVICES. Reliable service, Professional. Certified Welding.

Insured. MA Lic. #PL31893-J. Call (413)531-2768 Nick7419@comcast.net

DUMP TRUCK & TRACTOR SERVICE JIM'S TRACTOR SERVICES Grading & leveling of trap rock, dirt driveways & short roads; loader work. Dump truck delivery available.

Mowing of fields & lots with large rotory mower.

Equipment transportation.

Licensed & Insured (413)530-5430

POOL SERVICES REMOVE YOUR UN-WANTED POOL TODAY! IN-GROUND or ABOVE-GROUND. Call: Plumley Landscape Inc., It’s easier than you think!

(413) 862-4749

TREE SERVICE A BETTER OPTION GRANFIELD TREE SERVICE Tree Removal, Land Clearing, Excavating. (413)569-6104 American Tree & Shrub: Removal, pruning, bucket/crane work. Stump grinding, light excavation and tree planting.

Westfield – 3 Bedroom, hardwood floors, off-street parking, first floor. First and last month required, washer and dryer hook up. Please call 413-519-7257 to set an appointment for viewing.

WESTFIELD: Beautiful, 2 bedroom townhouse. Clean, quiet, 1-1/2 baths, carpeting, appliances, hot water included.

Sorry no pets. $875.

(860)485-1216.

Equal Housing Opportunity

WESTFIELD: 2 & 3 bedroom apartments. Starting at $725 per month. No pets.

Security deposit and references required.

413-364-3036

WESTFIELD 1&2 bedroom apartments, rent includes heat and hot water. Excellent size and location. No dogs. Call weekdays (413)786-9884.

WESTFIELD- 2-bedroom, includes heat/hot water, AC, appliances, wall/wall, freshly painted.

Available immediately. $750/month. (860)749-9914.

WESTFIELD: 1ST floor, 1 bedroom, kitchen, bath. $650 p/month; includes utilities.

1st/last/security. 413-250-4811

Westfield: Close to center. Refreshed, updated, spacious 2nd floor apartment. This very clean, 5 Room, 3-bedroom unit is very inexpensive to run. First/last & security. Key fee required. No pets. Call 413-569-8877 for appointment.

BUSINESS PROPERTY

Fully Insured, Free Estimates.

24-hour Emergency Services.

Veteran Owned 40 yrs. Experience 413-569-0469

LIQUOR STORE FOR SALE Leased location. $139,000 plus inventory. $800k total sales.

5 East Silver St., Westfield.

UPHOLSTERY

413-267-0497

KEITH'S UPHOLSTERY & REPAIRS 30+ years experience for home or business. Discount off all fabrics. Get quality workmanship at a great price. Free pickup and delivery. Call (413)562-6639.

WESTFIELD: Commercial space available in down-town area.

Perfect for office, hair salon and massage therapy. 600+ sq. ft.

Call 4513-519-7257 to set up a viewing.

WELDING WOLFE'S WELDING 24-hour Snow-Plow Repair On-site welding repairs Shop fabrication, weld services DENNIS WOLFE (413)888-0083

MOBILE HOMES WARE: 2 Bedrooms, 14'x68'.

Shingle roof; appliances. 2 new sheds. New floors. Patio. $65,700 plus $100 Co-op fee.

593-9961DASAP MHVILLAGE.COM

WINDOW CLEANING CRYSTAL CLEAR WINDOWS Cleaned inside and out!

Including storms and screens.

Fully insured. Free estimates.

Call Paul NOW for your SUMMER appointment.

413-237-2053

SERVICES A1 ODD JOBS/HANDYMAN Debris removal, landscaping, Spring yard cleanup, interior and exterior painting, power washing, basic carpentry and plumbing. All types of repair work and more. (413)562-7462