Griffin’s Friends
This weekend, runners from across Western Mass and beyond will converge on Holyoke for the annual Walter Childs Memorial Marathon. This year, a big group of runners from Griffins Friends will be taking part. The running club raises money for children who are battling cancer. This is Griffin’s Friends 20th anniversary, and they have the biggest group of runners they’ve ever had.
Tonight, we feature a young woman who at one time was helped by Griffin’s Friends and is now giving back.
Florence Savings Bank Grants
Florence Savings Bank President John Heaps and representatives of three local non-profit agencies benefiting from $100,000 in Customers’ Choice Community Grants to be distributed by the bank this year, discuss that program. Joining Mr. Heaps is Betty Neisner, Executive Director of the Cancer Connection, Lilly Lombard, Executive Director of Grow Food Northampton, Inc, and Heidi Nortonsmith, Executive Director of the Northampton Survival Center.
Florence Savings Bank
Cancer Connection
Grow Food Northampton
Northampton Survival Center
Beauties to Behold
“Empowering young girls to become world class leaders” — that’s the motto of Beauties to Behold, a movement committed to turning inner-city girls into world class leaders through holistic leadership development. Jasmine Elizabeth is the founder and explains why she feels this is so necessary as she relaunches this weekly after school program at JC Williams Community Center in Springfield.
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Gone But Not Forgotten: Local Ski Areas
Jeremy Davis is the Founder of the New England Lost Ski Areas Project (NELSA), an online web site that preserves the history of local ski areas that are no longer operating. There are 62 ski areas in western mass that are no longer in operation and our crew visits a few of them, including the former Berkshire Snow Basin in Cummington, that closed in 1985, and the Mt Tom Ski Area in Holyoke that closed in 1998.
