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Local food pantry seeks volunteers

By GREG FITZPATRICK Correspondent SOUTHWICK – Serving Southwick, Granville, and Tolland, the Our Community Food Pantry has put a request out to the community that they are looking for volunteers to help their cause.

“This is an opportunity to help people in the community to help relieve hunger,” said Our Community Food Pantry Director Sally Munson.

There are several volunteering options that interested individuals will have. On the second Tuesday of every month from 10:30 a.m. until Noon, there is a need to unload and store product that was delivered to the food pantry. People must be able to lift at least 40 pounds for that particular task.

Other opportunities to volunteer are on Mondays from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and also Thursdays from 4:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m.

Munson noted that that the key responsibilities for volunteers will be assisting clients with shopping and carrying groceries, sorting products, stocking shelves, and light cleaning.

The pantry is seeking out people who would have a strong passion to help.

“We’re looking to put a group of people together who are willing to commit,” said Munson.

Munson also added that she is also looking for people to volunteer and pick up produce on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursdays at the Big Y in Southwick.

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Our Community Food Pantry Director Sally Munson is looking for individuals to volunteer. (WNG File Photo) August of 2016 is expected to be delivered to the pantry in late July.

If anyone is interested in volunteering, contact Munson at 413-569-

9876 or stop by during their pantry hours, as they are listed on their Facebook Page.

Wrong-way crash on Mass. Pike

By DAN DESROCHERS Correspondent RUSSELL–A reported two-vehicle crash involving a wrong-way driver on the Massachusetts Turnpike Monday afternoon sent two people to the hospital, according to Massachusetts State Police.

According to Massachusetts State Police Officer Chris Cudley, two vehicles collided on Interstate 90 westbound in Russell, around mile marker 35.2, after one of the vehicles was reportedly traveling the wrong way, heading east. The crash reportedly occurred around 2:29 p.m., according to Cudley.

Cudley said that both drivers were transported to the hospital, though which hospital or hospitals was not specified. There was no update on their conditions at the time of the report.

By DAN DESROCHERS Correspondent WESTFIELD--The city’s project to replace balustrades around several city parks is complete.

According to Westfield Mayor Brian Sullivan, the balustrades around Women’s Temperance, Half Mile and Kane-Wojtkiewicz parks, located in the Great River Bridge portion of the city, have been replaced following a project that began in the spring of this year. The previous balustrades at the parks were previously deemed unsafe, which resulted in the city working to replace them.

“It has been some time to finish the project, but we did it without using new money and also addressed the most concerning aspect which is the safety of the parks,” Sullivan said via text message. “I look forward to scheduling events on the north side of the river and bring the enjoyment of the scenic area back to life.”

According to Tammy Tefft, purchaser for the city, the project cost around $210,000. The project, according to a previous report, was expected to cost the city about $300,000. The money for the project came from a bond that was previously passed for park improvements, including the Bullens Field and bleacher repairs ahead of last year’s Babe Ruth World Series.

According to Sullivan, the city is discussing possible financial solutions with all involved parties.

The initial balustrades were installed in 2012, as part of the Great River Bridge Project funded by the state. The city had an assessment done by third-party engineering firm Habeeb and Associates, and following that it was suggested that the balustrades be replaced to improve the safety of the areas.

Tefft said that the parks where the balustrade work was done are now open but there is still some cleaning up to do at the sites.

A view of the new balustrades at KaneWojtkiewicz park. The project to replace them has been recently completed.

Cancer House of Hope seeks volunteers WEST SPRINGFIELD — Cindy SheridanMurphy remembers walking into the Cancer House of Hope three years ago like it was yesterday. “I was just diagnosed with breast cancer and I was petrified,” she recalls,“and I was greeted with such warmth and compassion. One of the volunteers scheduled me for a reiki appointment and pointed me towards one of the many support groups. Throughout the next several months I visited weekly and was always greeted with a smile by someone who’d listen. The volunteers would put aside hats and scarves they thought I would like. It was the unselfishness of these volunteers that made me want to join them someday.”

And join them she did: Cindy volunteers at Cancer House of Hope. “The feeling I get when someone walks in the same door with panic on their face, just like I did, and knowing that giving them a few minutes of my time gives them hope, that’s priceless. That is what motivates me to make a difference in the life of a cancer survivor.”

Cancer House of Hope, located at 1999 Westfield Street in West Springfield, enhances the lives of people with cancer and those who care about them. The House provides emotional, educational, social and spiritual support services and relaxation programs free of charge. “It is our mission to be a supportive, caring and hopeful place of healing,” says Program Director Joe Kane. “We serve 400 guests a year, and every penny of every dollar donated to the House directly supports programming and the people we serve.”

People who have personal experience as guests of the House are among the organiza-

tion’s most committed volunteers.

Consider what Laurie Murphy says about her volunteer experience. “Every day is different volunteering at the Cancer House of Hope,” she explains. “There’s the bookkeeping and the simple housekeeping, but the most meaningful part of volunteering for me is helping the people that come in the door. To give them a tour, book them for a massage, or just sit and listen to what they are feeling is a very humbling and gratifying experience for me.”

Latoya Davis is thankful for the opportunity to volunteer at Cancer House of Hope. “Being a volunteer has been so rewarding,” she says. “There are so many stories, hugs, and tears. Like when a person comes in and cries thanking me for something simple like a welcome letter I sent home that came at the right time because they had a hard treatment and were feeling down.Or when someone who is newly diagnosed comes into the House nervous, sometimes in tears, but leaves with a smile and with a sense of hope. I find it an honor to be apart of someone’s support system while they are going through this difficult time in their lives.”

Joe Kane describes volunteers as the “beating heart” of the Cancer House of House.

“Their commitment to provide a welcoming place where people feel at home is crucial to our mission of service,” he explains. “And it doesn’t take much time. Most volunteers

work a regular 3-hour shift each week and we try to be flexible to accommodate personal schedules.”

Who is a good candidate to volunteer?

“Anyone who has personal, lived experience with cancer and its effects on individuals and families,” says Kane. “Someone who has been through a cancer experience themselves is in a unique position to be a sounding board or a shoulder to cry on. These people are often highly motivated to give something back, too.

Some volunteers are people whose lives were impacted by the cancer diagnosis of someone they care about. And some volunteers are just people with compassionate hearts.”

Kane encourages prospective volunteers to think about their own passions and talents so they can put them to productive use in service to others. He also points out an intriguing statistic: about 80% of the people who walk

through the door at the House are women. “I think that might reflect the nature of the services we offer and also the social nature of women,” he contends, “but men seek out our services, too. It would be great to have more male volunteers to provide the kind of connection that comes when two men talk to each other.”

One crucial job performed by volunteers is answering the phone. “Since we most often make our first connection with guests on the phone, this is a very important job,” says Kane. “You also could make sure the House is clean and presentable, greet guests who walk in our door, and give tours. You could schedule and update appointments. You could listen to a guest’s story and offer support, or aid a guest in finding a wig or prosthetic.”

Any service organization has practical considerations, too, and the House is always interested in volunteers who speak a language in addition to English. People with experience in fund raising, event planning, office management or building maintenancecan help with the operation of the House. Certified massage therapists, reiki practitioners, or yoga instructor are sought after as well.

“The satisfaction that comes with volunteering is immeasurable,” Kane believes.

“Cancer House of Hope provides a volunteer orientation program to help you understand our mission and values, and get you started right. If you think you’d be a good fit, or if you just want to learn more about the opportunity, please contact me today.”

Joe Kane can be reached at 413-733-1858 orjkane@chd.org.

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24th Annual Glasgow Lands Scottish Festival NORTHAMPTON — On Saturday, July 15th beautiful Look Park in Northampton comes alive with Highland dancers, Highland pipers and drummers, a clan parade, sheep herding, Scottish dogs and other animals, wool spinners and weavers and lively Celtic music. Celebrate your Scottish heritage – real or coveted – with kilt-wearing, tree-tossing Scotsmen at the Highland athletic games and delight in plates piled high with scones, shortbread, bridies or meat pies. There will be 21 pipe bands competing with over 300 pipers and drummers marching in opening ceremonies. Come celebrate the second largest Scottish Festival in New England, and the only one in Massachusetts. The day’s events run from 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. with the music continuing until 9:30 pm. Held Rain Or Shine.

Look Park is located at 300 North Main St., Florence, MA. Tickets: $16.00, Children 6-12 $5.00, Children under 6 Free

Old Colony Beneficial Association donates to Friends of the Senior Center Drusilla Zielinski, Secretary (r), and Philip Cortis, President (second from right), of the Old Colony Beneficial Association recently made a donation to the Friends of the Senior Center. Joining them are Board President Tom Humphrey (l) and Executive Director of the Westfield Council on Aging, Tina Gorman (second from left).

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Ax-wielding man prompts standoff after radio song request MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Police say an ax-wielding man showed up outside a Massachusetts radio station demanding that the song “My Axe” be played and held off responding officers for three hours.

Witnesses and station employees say the man arrived at Kiss 108 in Medford on Monday with an ax in hand and unsuccessfully requested the station play the song by Insane Clown Posse.

Arriving officers found the 38-year-old man in his car in the station parking lot.

Police say he tossed sharp-edged weapons out of the car during the standoff, and officers unsuccessfully used a stun gun on him.

The man surrendered around 4:30 p.m.

WBZ-TV reports he had minor self-inflicted cuts on his arms.

Police say he will undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Kiss 108 bills itself as “Boston’s #1 Hit Music Station.”

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2017. There are 173 days left in the year.

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n July 11, 1767, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts.

ON THIS DATE: In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band.

ly) to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by President Jimmy Carter.

In 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.

In 1989, actor and director Laurence Olivier died in Steyning, West Sussex, England, at age 82.

In 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. (Hamilton died the next day.)

In 1991, a Nigeria Airways DC-8 carrying Muslim pilgrims crashed at the Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, international airport, killing all 261 people on board.

In 1922, the Hollywood Bowl officially opened with a program called “Symphonies Under the Stars” with Alfred Hertz conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

In 1995, the U.N.-designated “safe haven” of Srebrenica (sreh-breh-NEET’-sah) in Bosnia-Herzegovina fell to Bosnian Serb forces, who then carried out the killings of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys. The United States normalized relations with Vietnam.

In 1937, American composer and pianist George Gershwin died at a Los Angeles hospital of a brain tumor; he was 38.

In 1952, the Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president.

In 1955, the U.S. Air Force Academy swore in its first class of cadets at its temporary quarters at Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado.

In 1960, the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee was first published by J.B. Lippincott and Co. In 1977, the Presidential Medal of Freedom was presented to polio vaccine pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk and (posthumous-

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Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who’d championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, President Lyndon Johnson, died in Austin, Texas, at age 94. Pakistani army commandos completed an eight-day siege and storming of Islamabad’s radical Red Mosque; some 102 people were killed, including 10 elite troops and at least 73 suspected militants.

FIVE YEARS AGO:

Unflinching before a skeptical NAACP crowd in Houston, Republican Mitt Romney declared he’d do more for African-Americans than Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades.

Cookbook author Marion Cunningham, 90, died in Walnut Creek, California. Donald J. Sobol, 87, author of the popular “Encyclopedia Brown” series of children’s mysteries, died in Miami.

ONE YEAR AGO: Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that the United States would send 560 more troops to Iraq to transform a freshly retaken air base into a staging hub for a long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants.

Two bailiffs at the Berrien County, Michigan, courthouse were shot to death by a jail inmate during an escape attempt; the inmate was also killed.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actor Tab Hunter is 86. Actress Susan Seaforth Hayes is 74. Singer Jeff Hanna (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is 70. Ventriloquist-actor Jay Johnson is 68. Actor Bruce McGill is 67. Singer Bonnie Pointer is 67. Actor Stephen Lang is 65.

Actress Mindy Sterling is 64. Boxer Leon Spinks is 64. Actress Sela Ward is 61. Reggae singer Michael Rose (Black Uhuru) is 60. Singer Peter Murphy is 60. Actor Mark Lester is 59. Jazz musician Kirk Whalum is 59. Singer Suzanne Vega is 58. Rock guitarist Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi) is 58. Actress Lisa Rinna is 54. Rock musician Scott Shriner (Weezer) is 52. Actress Debbe (correct) Dunning is 51. Actor Greg Grunberg is 51. Wildlife expert Jeff Corwin is 50.

Actor Justin Chambers is 47. Actress Leisha Hailey is 46.

Actor Michael Rosenbaum is 45. Pop-rock singer Andrew Bird is 44. Country singer Scotty Emerick is 44. Rapper Lil’ Kim is 42. Actor Jon Wellner is 42. Rock singer Ben Gibbard is 41. Rapper Lil’ Zane is 35. Pop-jazz singer-musician Peter Cincotti is 34. Actress Serinda Swan is 33. Actor Robert Adamson is 32. Actor David Henrie is 28. Actor Connor Paolo is 27. Tennis player Caroline Wozniacki is 27.

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FEEDING HILLS — Sunday, August 6, 2017 Rain or shine at the Oak Ridge Golf Club, Feeding Hills, MA. Registration begins at 11:30am with the Shotgun start at 12:30. The cost is $100.00 per player and includes golf, cart, lunch, dinner, and prizes. Come for dinner for only $25.00. Hole Sponsorship— donation of $50.00 to become a hole sponsor your pet’s or loved one’s name. Register on or before July 15, 2017 return registration/sponsorship form with check or money order (payable to Marie Boccasile). Mail to Marie Boccasile 11 Second Avenue Westfield, MA 01085. For more information please contact Marie at (413) 564-0589 or marieboccasile@gmail. com

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BLANDFORD: Board of Health Meeting at 6 pm Fire Department Meeting at 7 pm Finance Committee at 7 pm

CHESTER: Municipal Electric Light Meeting at 7 pm THURSDAY, JULY 20

BLANDFORD: Library Trustees Meeting at 7:30 pm

50th Reunion Announced for Tech High Class of 1967 Technical High – Springfield, MA, Class of 1967 will hold its 50th Class Reunion from September 29 to October 1, 2017. A full weekend of exciting activities are being planned for this significant milestone with a dinner banquet and live entertainment set for Saturday evening September 30 at the Sheraton Monarch Place Hotel in Springfield, MA. If anyone is aware of classmates who may not have heard about the reunion, either send us their name and contact info or have them email Carolyn or Pam and the Reunion Committee will follow through. Names and information should be emailed to 1967Tech50th@gmail.com

Gateway Superintendent’s Corner weeks I’ve heard a common As we progress though the refrain that they didn’t like the first few weeks of summer, I am work given on Blizzard Bag beginning to see some addidays but the payoff in getting tional benefits to the district’s out early (especially those who use of Blizzard Bags this past had friends that were still in year. Given that the students school two weeks after Gateway were done with school on June students were done) was worth 14, the extra week of time has the effort. allowed our maintenance and I do know that despite getting custodial staff additional time out early, our staff that work to work on some improvement throughout the summer will still projects as well as the regular find time Is limited to complete deep cleaning and maintenance. all of their tasks before staff and More importantly however is students return in late August. the student response to summer ‘school’ that is usually little bet- Gateway Regional School What many of us still think of ter than acceptance since on a District Superintendent Dr. as the ‘traditional’ school year that ran from after Labor Day normal year this programming David B. Hopson. to late June seems to be less starts so soon after the regular and less prevalent given today’s school year ends. This year summer programming began on July 5 but this student needs. There is even much discussion was three weeks after school ended and the on changing the time for school with a later students appeared to be ready to participate start for middle/high school students being and enjoyed the structure and activities more advocated for in many locations. With more than on a usual year. Additionally this means online educational opportunities, more blendthat this programming will end early enough ed learning, and more education being indifor the students to enjoy a significant amount vidualized for students it’s somewhat surprisof time in late summer before returning to ing that more schools haven’t moved to a calendar and school day more reflective of school.

This of course may be the opposite for stu- current student needs and based more fully on dents not participating in summer program- research findings rather than tradition, i.e., ming for whom the summer is now a week changed school day, school week, and even longer than it would have been without school year. You can find some of these Blizzard Bags. We all know some students for changes throughout the country such as a which boredom sets in early during their sum- 4-day week, year-round schooling, and changmer vacation unless someone is scheduling ing the school day to reflect societal changes. some activities for them on a regular basis. In I don’t see such significant changes occurring speaking with several students over the past at the state or federal level, rather these are

happening mostly at the individual school level based upon local needs and the ability to change within the confines of state requirements when necessary to meet identified local parameters. I’m sure that as education and technology continue to change to meet the ever more diverse needs of students, the pressure to modify the traditional standards will increase and we’ll see more innovative and purposely planned schedules become more commonplace.

I also believe this change in education is inevitable over time just as we’ve seen the work place change so dramatically over the last 25 years to reflect the changing economy and the globalization of society. Those who

can adapt in a positive manner to these changes become the new success stories while many who resist changing become less important or even obsolete. I recognize that this may also reflect on the proposed changes to town financial governance as outlined by the DOR as these ideas are so different than what we’ve historically enjoyed for centuries in our little towns operated under the auspices of local town meetings, volunteer service, and commitment to the idea of individuality. In the end, whether changes come about or not, the choice remains with the individual who gets to weigh all of the options and to make decisions they feel is in their best interest.

Westfield Community Education Programs Do you need help developing a cover letter and resume? Do you know the best online job sites to search for employment? Do you know how to attach your documents to online job sites? Would you like to feel more confident when you are at a job interview?

If you need help with any of these, Westfield Community Education Programs can help!

When: August 15, 17 & 18 and August 22nd & 24th (August 18th class will be “Preparing for the Interview” and will be on a Friday from 11am-1pm.) from 11am-1pm on Tuesdays & Thursdays Where: 128 East Mountain Rd. in Westfield, Clark Tech Lab on the campus of Western Ma Hospital How: Please call Westfield Community Education Program at (413) 336-3100 to sign up How Much: Classes are FREE. Who: Open to the public, must be at least 18 years old OR a student of Westfield Community Education Program.

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Russian lawyer describes being summoned to Trump Tower

By CHAD DAY and NEKESA MUMBI MOODY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian lawyer said she was summoned to Trump Tower during last year's presidential campaign to meet with Donald Trump Jr. and asked if she had damaging information on Hillary Clinton, according to an interview aired Tuesday by NBC's "Today" show.

The lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, told NBC she received a phone call from a man she didn't know and was told to meet with Trump Jr. She says she didn't have information on the Clinton campaign and has never worked for the Russian government.

"All I knew was that Donald Trump Jr. was willing to meet with me," she said through a translator.

On Clinton, she said: "It's quite possible that maybe they were looking for information. They wanted it so badly."

The interview is Veselnitskaya's first public comment since Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged that he made time for the meeting hoping to get information on Clinton, his father's Democratic presidential opponent. The president's son has said the meeting was arranged by an acquaintance he knew through the 2013 Miss Universe pageant Trump held in Moscow.

On Monday, Trump Jr. tweeted sarcastically, "Obviously I'm the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent ... went nowhere but had to listen."

According to the NBC interview, Veselnitskaya suggested she didn't initiate the meeting; she says she was lobbying against U.S. sanctions affecting Moscow but wasn't acting on behalf of the Kremlin.

She said Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, also attended the meeting but left after a few minutes. Paul Manafort, then Trump's campaign chairman, was there too but never participated and spent much of the meeting on his phone, she said. It wasn't clear from the NBC report who in the meeting asked her for information on Clinton.

The circumstances surrounding the meeting, and a report by The New York Times late Monday that Trump Jr. was told ahead of time that the Russian government was the source of damaging information on Clinton, have fueled new questions about the Trump campaign's possible ties to Moscow, which are being scrutinized by federal and congressional investigators.

The Times reported that Trump Jr., who was a key campaign adviser to his father, was told the Russian government was behind the information on Clinton in an email from music publicist Rob Goldstone. The Times cited three unnamed people with knowledge of the email.

Goldstone spoke to The Associated Press earlier Monday to confirm he had set up the meeting on behalf of his client, Emin Agalarov, but he did not disclose the contents of the email described by The Times. Goldstone did not immediately respond to attempts to contact him Monday night.

In a statement, Trump Jr.'s New York-based attorney Alan Futerfas called the Times report "much ado about nothing," though he acknowledged his client had received an email from Goldstone to set up a meeting with the purpose of passing along damaging information on Clinton. His statement did not dispute the Times report on the email.

Futerfas said Trump Jr. was not told the specifics of the information and nothing came of the meeting. "The bottom line is that Don, Jr. did nothing wrong," Futerfas said in the statement, noting that the younger Trump hasn't been contacted by any congressional panel or Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office.

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White House criticizes Russia sanctions stalled in House

By RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new package of economic sanctions on Russia and Iran unacceptably constrains the president's authority, the White House says, as Democrats complain that the Trump administration is trying to weaken the penalties.

The legislation sailed through the Senate nearly a month ago in response to Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election and its belligerence toward Ukraine. But the bill stalled in the House with Democrats and Republicans blaming each other for the delay.

Marc Short, the White House legislative director, told reporters that the administration backs the new sanctions on Russia and Iran. But he appeared to object to a key part of the legislation that would give Capitol Hill a much stronger hand in determining Russia sanctions policy. The bill would require a congressional review if President Donald Trump attempted to ease or end penalties against Moscow.

"Our concern is that the legislation, we believe, sets an unusual precedent of delegating foreign policy to 535 members of Congress by not including certain national security waivers that have always been consistently part of sanctions bills in the past," Short said.

Following his lengthy meeting on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Germany, Trump said he wants to move forward "working constructively with Russia" Officials from the Treasury and State departments met last week with House congressional staff to voice their concerns over the congressional review section of the bill. The officials said the provision would infringe on the president's executive authority, according to an aide knowledgeable of the discussions.

But weakening that provision substantially could provoke resistance from Republicans and Democrats. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the Republican chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, heralded the review requirement as the proper exercise of congressional authority.

Corker told reporters Monday that it's not unusual for a White House to resist oversight of foreign policy. But he said the sanctions review requirement is a "very important" part of the legislation.

"Any administration would prefer to conduct foreign policy 100 percent without involvement from Congress," Corker said. But no Trump administration official has contacted him to say "we don't want this legislation to pass. That has never occurred," he said.

Trump tweeted Sunday that sanctions against Russia were not discussed at his meeting with Putin. But White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders contradicted Trump, telling reporters Monday that "sanctions specific to election-

meddling were discussed" in the meeting.

Ashley Etienne, a spokeswoman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, said that Democrats have been demanding for weeks, to no avail, that the House Republican leadership bring the sanctions bill to the floor for a vote.

"While Putin and President Trump meet privately, the American people are left to ask why Republicans are more concerned with Russia's interests than the integrity of our democracy," she said.

A key sticking point for Democrats is a proposed technical change to the bill made late last month by the Senate that Democratic aides said Monday would prevent rank-and-file House members from being able to challenge a president's decision to lift or ease the sanctions against Russia.

But AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul Ryan, blamed House Democrats for holding up the bill unnecessarily. She said House Republicans are fully prepared to coordinate with the Senate and move the bill forward, "but House Democrats are blocking that and demanding their own changes to the bill."

Separately, a Republican aide said House leaders were confident the sanctions package would be approved before Congress leaves for the August recess. The Republican and Democratic aides were not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity to discuss private talks.

While Congress was on its weeklong July 4 recess, a new wrinkle developed that could make approval of the legislation more difficult. The national trade association representing oil and gas companies said the bill could harm U.S. energy companies while strengthening the hand of Russian businesses.

The American Petroleum Institute said late last week that the bill would expand a prohibition on U.S. energy companies from being involved in oil projects located in Russia to projects around the world that include Russian energy firms. In trying to punish Moscow, the group said, the bill could instead penalize major American business, potentially costing billions of dollars in jobs and economic activity.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of Exxon Mobil, has declined to endorse the sanctions legislation. He said during congressional testimony that Trump needs to have "the flexibility to adjust sanctions to meet the needs of what is always an evolving diplomatic situation" with Russia.

The legislation cleared the Senate two weeks ago with 98 votes, an overwhelming margin that suggested the bill would speed quickly through the House and to Trump's desk. But progress on the measure slowed almost immediately. House Republican leaders said the bill ran afoul of a constitutional requirement that legislation involving revenue start in the House.

The necessary repairs were made, according to Corker, and approved by the Senate in late June.

Gay rights group launches $26M campaign ahead of midterms

By JULIE PACE AP Washington Bureau Chief WASHINGTON (AP) — The Human Rights Campaign, one of the nation's leading gay rights groups, is launching a $26 million political organizing effort ahead of next year's midterm elections.

While the effort is nationwide, the group is focusing its resources in particular on several key states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada. All six states are expected to have competitive Senate races next fall, and each is a presidential battleground.

HRC president Chad Griffin said the effort, which will include hiring at least 20 additional political staffers, aims to go "beyond resistance" — drawing from the phrase used by opponents of President Donald Trump's administration. He said the group will focus on fighting legislation curbing gay rights and backing "proequality candidates and initiatives."

"Resistance is really important — all of the marches and the rallies, that's

all important," Griffin said. "But it's also important to not only sustain that, but to take that to the next level."

HRC's announcement comes as Democrats and liberal organization grapple with how to rebound from devastating defeats across the country in November. Despite Trump's sluggish approval ratings, Democrats have failed to pull out victories in several special elections this year, and the party faces a difficult electoral map in 2018, with many competitive Senate races in Republican-leaning states.

Griffin said the Human Rights Campaign is drawing in part on its efforts last year in North Carolina, where Democrat Roy Cooper defeated incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, who signed the controversial ""bathroom bill" law. The measure required transgender people to use restrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates in many public buildings, but was rolled back as part of a compromise plan signed by Cooper after he took office.

HRC spent more than $3 million in

In this July 28, 2016, file photo, Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign gives a thumbs-up after speaking during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

HRC, one of the nation's leading gay rights groups, is launching a $26 million political organizing effort ahead of 2018 midterm elections. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) North Carolina ahead of last year's election.

"There weren't a lot of bright spots for our community in the last election but North Carolina was a milestone," Griffin said.

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WESTFIELD Major crime and incident report Monday, July 3, 2017 11:12 a.m.: Officer wanted, Dunkin Donuts, Southampton Road. Police received a report of a male allegedly attempting to “illicitly purchase gift cards,” according to log. The male had reportedly left the scene and police put out an alert to be on the look out of the vehicle that he left in. Police reported that it was a possible credit card scam.

2:27 p.m.: Accident, Russell Road. Police received a report for a two-vehicle crash involving a 2006 Toyota Tundra and a 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee. No injuries were reported and one vehicle was towed. There was also a puppy reportedly involved that had gone into some nearby woods.

Animal control was called and retrieved the puppy, who was returned to its owner.

Court Logs Westfield District Court July 3, 2017 Justin M. Crosby, 21, of 385 Steiger Dr., Westfield, was held in lieu of $5,000 cash bail pending an Aug. 1 hearing after being arraigned on charges of statutory rape of child and assault and battery, brought by Westfield Police.

3 brothers indicted for murder in assault victim’s death

Wrongful death lawsuit against ex-NFL star's estate in court BOSTON (AP) — A wrongful death lawsuit filed against the estate of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez is headed back to court.

A status hearing is scheduled for Tuesday in Suffolk County Superior Court.

Hernandez was accused of gunning down Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado in 2012. The former New England Patriots tight end was acquitted of the killings in April. Days later, he hanged himself in his prison cell. He was serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd.

After Hernandez's death, the families of de Abreu and Furtado said they would continue to pursue their wrongful death claims against Hernandez's estate.

Lloyd's mother has said she will continue to pursue a separate wrongful death lawsuit against Hernandez's estate.

Police: Man runs from traffic stop, hides in tree ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — Police say a Massachusetts man ran from a traffic stop and hid in a tree to avoid being arrested.

Police tell The Sun Chronicle they attempted to stop 36-year-old Paul Pereira, of Attleboro, for speeding Monday morning. Police say Pereira eventually stopped around 2 a.m. and ran from his car.

City and state police were able to locate Pereira in a tree with the help of a state police dog.

Police say Pereira was treated at a hospital for a sprained left ankle and scratches to his arms.

He is facing charges that include driving with a revoked license, failing to stop for police and speeding. Pereira has pleaded not guilty.

FACES OF CARSON

BHN The Carson Center Mental Health, Addictions and Developmental Services Close to home Kelvin was sick of his mother being sick all of the time. She hadn’t been out of the hospital for more than two months in a row in over two years. He was now eight years old. The Department of Children and Families had him staying with his Aunt Maria and cousins during the week and his Grandma Faith on the week-ends. He saw his mom a lot, whenever she was home, but the tubes she had and that little bag freaked him out. He just wanted her and everything to be normal again and he was really, really mad at her for ruining everything by getting sick. Kelvin was trying to make it all go away; that’s why he pulled the tubes out that time he was visiting her.

It didn’t make it all go away.

His Carson Center Home Support Worker was trying to get Kelvin to learn new ways to notice his feelings, to name them and describe them and then, to learn new ways to be with those feelings. He needed to learn these things so that he could be safe at home with his cousins and when visiting his mom. Kelvin had come pretty far noticing his feelings, naming them and describing them.

But he was overwhelmed with how else to be with his feelings of grief. His Home Support Worker started bringing Kelvin to Carson’s Therapeutic Recreation Program (“Rec”). Rec offers horseback riding, tennis, camping, canoeing, biking and many other activities.

There are also piano lessons.

After watching the piano teacher introduce the piano to them at Rec, Kelvin sat on the piano bench himself, sort of scandalized that there are two hands and two scales and both going on at the same time and all the pianists everywhere seemed okay with this preposterous set up.

The first time Kelvin played a chord, just three fin­gers from each hand, he pressed gently and caught his breath at what he heard. For a moment, the sound of the chords soothed the constant horror he felt at his moth­er’s condition. There were so many things to learn that he felt completely absorbed by it. Kelvin wanted to get it right, and would sit with his Home Support Worker, occasionally saying things like, “I’ve never used my left pinkie for anything before. Now it’s got a C Sharp Extension Job”. When he put his fingers in the wrong place, it just sounded wrong, and he would move them to the right places where it sounded right. “You know, it’s such an easy way to be wrong,” he told his Home Support Worker, “It’s not going to help to make a big deal about it; I just have to change what I’m doing.” They smiled at each other, knowing the lesson was not just for the piano.

Kelvin didn’t practice so that he would get better. He declined the chance to do a recital with Rec, but he kept coming to the lessons. He played because he loved being a child in music’s great house. He loved its end­less rooms, where in summer it is good to be barefoot and running through the cool stone halls and in winter there is room for him at the fire. He played because he felt that somewhere, across time, the people who wrote this music, and many who played it, knew exactly how he felt. They knew that this music was the place to say all those things that needed saying, it was the place to hear what others knew about the nature of loss and love and yet he couldn’t say them or hear them until he did his part. He took a deep breath, sat up straight, lined up his hands, and focused on the small black markings on the page.

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WESTFIELD — Saturday, July 29 (rain date TBD) from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Westfield Fair Grounds 129 Russellville Rd, Westfield, MA. All proceeds to benefit Homeward Vets Inc., a non-profit organization committed to “Filling a Soldier’s Home”. For more info, visit www. homewardvets.org. Show cars: $10, Spectator Admission: $3/car, Crafter/vendor spaces available for $10. Westfield Police Child Safety ID Program is free 10 am – 2 pm.

For more information please contact Gary @ 413-5621346 or Julie @ 413-454-5371 Or visit www.westfieldcruise.com

WESTFIELD — The YMCA of Greater Westfield is committed to serving individuals and their families living with, through and beyond cancer. LIVESTRONG at the YMCA is a free 12-week exercise program for adult cancer survivors who are currently in or have completed treatment and are physically deconditioned. Developed by Stanford University, this specially designed program has proven to help survivors regain strength, overcome fatigue, and enhance functional ability to do everyday tasks. Beginning September 19th, the class will meet twice a week, for 12 weeks on Tuesday & Thursday; 3:30AM-5PM to strength train and improve cardiovascular function. Currently enrolling for the fall, space is limited. For more information, visit www.westfieldymca.org or contact: Cindy Agan, Health & Wellness Director, at the YMCA of Greater Westfield 1.413.568.8631 or cagan@westfieldymca.org

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Due to the overwhelming popularity of our “Beat ‘The Putz’” pro football contest, we are about to give readers of The Westfield News something more. Area sports fans will have a chance to put their sports knowledge to the test with our brand new contest, “Putz’s Ultimate Sports Challenge.” Pick the winner from each of the four men’s PGA Tour Majors, NASCAR’s biggest races and the Triple Crown. Win prizes weekly and compete for our overall grand prize. Look for contest forms in The Westfield News.

SOUTHWICK — North/South: 1st: Vi Martinell – Cindy Fullerton; 2nd: Terry Sunter – Helen Pawlowski; 3rd: Dottie Alexander – Ed Merrill East/West: 1st: Judy Matyseck – Ed Matyseck; 2nd: Sue Labucki – Marcel Jacques; 3rd: Ellie Siska – Betty Clare Duplicate is played Thursday afternoons from 1:00 – 4:00 at The American Inn in Southwick. All players are welcome.

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HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — Three brothers have been indicted for murder in the death of a man who was assaulted and robbed in Massachusetts.

Masslive.com reports 22-year-old Joseph Rivera and 31-year-old Roberto Rivera, both of Holyoke, and 32-yearold Edwin Rivera, of Mars Hill, North Carolina were indicted for murder on June 29.

The brothers had pleaded not guilty to murder in district court before the case was heard by a grand jury in May. The brothers were indicted in May on charges of assault and battery and unarmed robbery, but not murder.

Prosecutors have declined to say if they presented the case again for a grand jury indictment.

The victim, identified as 25-year-old Adam Rei, was found unconscious on a sidewalk in February. He died several days later on Feb. 14.

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HEALTHFITNESS Tumor gene testing urged to tell if drug targets your cancer

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Colon cancer.

Uterine cancer. Pancreatic cancer. Whatever the tumor, the more gene mutations lurking inside, the better chance your immune system has to fight back.

That's the premise behind the recent approval of a landmark drug, the first cancer therapy ever cleared based on a tumor's genetics instead of the body part it struck first. Now thousands of patients with worsening cancer despite standard treatment can try this immunotherapy — as long as genetic testing of the tumor shows they're a candidate.

"It's like having a lottery ticket," said Johns Hopkins oncologist Dr. Dung Le, who helped prove the new use for the immunotherapy Keytruda. "We've got to figure out how to find these patients, because it's such a great opportunity for them."

Today, doctors diagnose tumors by where they originate — breast cancer in the breast, colon cancer in the colon — and use therapies specifically tested for that organ. In contrast, the Food and Drug Administration labeled Keytruda the first "tissue-agnostic" treatment, for adults and children.

The reason: Seemingly unrelated cancers occasionally carry a common genetic flaw called a mismatch repair defect. Despite small studies, FDA found the evidence convincing that for a subset of patients, that flaw can make solid tumors susceptible to immunotherapy doctors otherwise wouldn't have tried.

"We thought these would be the hardest tumors to treat. But it's like an Achilles heel," said Hopkins cancer geneticist Bert Vogelstein.

And last month FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told a Senate subcommittee his agency will simplify drug development for diseases that "all have a similar genetic fingerprint even if they have a slightly different clinical expression."

It's too early to know if what's being dubbed precision immunotherapy will have lasting benefits, but here's a look at the science.

WHO'S A CANDIDATE? Hopkins estimates about 4 percent of cancers are mismatch repair-deficient, potentially adding up to 60,000 patients a year.

Widely available tests that cost $300 to $600 See Drug Targets, Page 7

Opioid prescribing is falling in the US, but not everywhere This Oct. 14, 2015 file photo shows the Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md. On Thursday, July 6, 2017, Endo International PLC, the maker of painkiller Opana ER, said it will pull the extended-release opioid drug off the market, a month after being urged to do so by U.S. regulators because of abuse. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Painkiller maker stops sales at FDA request because of abuse

By LINDA A. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The maker of opioid painkiller Opana ER is pulling the drug off the market at the request of federal regulators because it's being abused.

Endo International PLC said Thursday it will voluntarily stop selling the pills, approved for use in patients with severe, constant pain, after consulting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It's the first opioid drug that the FDA has sought to remove from the market due to abuse.

The drugmaker said in a statement that the extended-release opioid is safe and effective when used as intended, and that Endo still believes Opana ER's benefits outweigh its risks.

But last month, the FDA said it had concluded the drug is too risky. The agency said it had seen a "significant shift" from people crushing and snorting the pill to get high to injecting it instead. Besides contributing to overdoses, abuse of Opana ER was blamed for a 2015 outbreak of HIV and hepatitis C in southern Indiana linked to sharing needles, according to the FDA. Opana ER got U.S. approval in 2006. In 2012, Endo changed the drug's formulation to try to make it harder to abuse. The FDA approved sales of the new version but refused to let Endo market it as abuse deterrent.

The agency asked the company to stop selling Opana ER after its advisers, reviewing its safety at a March hearing, voted 18-8 against keeping it on the market.

Dublin, Ireland-based Endo, which has U.S. headquarters in the Philadelphia suburb of Malvern, said it will work with the FDA to try to minimize disruption for patients, who will need to switch to alternative treatments.

Endo primarily makes generic medicines, as well as a number of brand-name specialty drugs. Endo reported that Opana ER last year posted net sales of $159 million. The company said it will take a pre-tax charge of about $20 million to write off the drug's remaining value.

As of June, there were no generic versions of the reformulated Opana ER on the market, according to the FDA, but two generics of earlier versions are on sale, called oxymorphone.

The agency said it would also review other opioid painkillers and could take further action.

U.S.-traded shares of Endo fell 1.9 percent to $11.17 Thursday, more than twice the rate of decline on a down day for the broader markets. When the FDA urged Endo to pull Opana ER on June 8, company shares plunged 13.4 percent.

Science Says: Too early for forecast on Lyme disease ticks

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tick populations are exploding? Tick-borne diseases are on the rise?

Some recent headlines suggest Americans are facing a particularly bad year for tick bites and illnesses, but the evidence is patchy and the science complicated. What may be true in one part of the country — or even one part of a county — may not be true in another. And there are signs that the most common tick-borne illness — Lyme disease — may be occurring at roughly usual levels.

Here’s a look at the tick situation: THE HAZARD Ticks are small, bloodsucking parasites that feed on animals but will bite people, too.

Some are infected with germs that can cause illness, and they spread those germs when they bite. For people, the main worry is blacklegged ticks, which can spread Lyme disease and other illnesses. Nearly 30,000 cases of Lyme disease are reported to the federal government each year, but experts think it’s underreported and the actual number may be more like 300,000. Blacklegged ticks — also called deer ticks — were once found mainly in New England and pockets of the Midwest, but in recent years have been seen over a wider range .

When infected ticks bite, a “bulls’-eye” rash can appear a few days later. It can be followed by severe headaches, neck stiffness and pain in the joints or other parts of the body. People usually recover quickly and

completely when treated with antibiotics in the disease’s early stages.

Not all blacklegged ticks are infected.

Typically about half of the adult ticks that come in for testing at a University of Massachusetts lab carry the bacteria, and that’s about what the lab is seeing again this year, said Stephen Rich. He runs a project that tests around 10,000 ticks each year sent in by people who were bitten.

THE OUTLOOK U.S. health officials refuse to make predictions about ticks and tick diseases, and say it’s hard to even know how bad things are.

There are monitoring projects in some states, or some parts of states, but there’s not any comprehensive data to give a clear picture of what’s happening nationally, noted Rebecca Eisen, a tick expert at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Concern about blacklegged ticks recently amped up, largely because of a prediction made by Richard Ostfeld of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, north of New York City. Ostfeld, a respected tick researcher, says blacklegged tick populations can explode based on a boom-and-bust cycle of acorns and white-footed mice, which ticks like to feed on. He says conditions over the last two years bode for a boom this year in the Northeast.

But he acknowledges “it’s too early to tell just how bad a year it is.”

Thomas Mather, a University of Rhode Island researcher who’s considered a pro at surveying for ticks, hasn’t seen a jump in the

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This undated photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Lone Star tick, which - despite its Texas-sounding name, is found mainly in the Southeast. Researchers have found that the bloodsuckers carry a sugar which humans don’t have, and can make those bitten have an allergic reaction to red meat. (James Gathany/CDC via AP)

blacklegged variety. Even if blacklegged ticks are up this year, a change in conditions — like a dry heat wave — could knock the population way down, he added.

OTHER TICKS Other kinds of ticks can cause other diseases and health problems.

Perhaps the most unusual is caused by the Lone Star tick, which — despite its Texassounding name, is found mainly in the Southeast.

Several years ago, doctors began noticing a sudden increase in meat allergies in people bitten by Lone Star ticks. Researchers concluded that the bloodsuckers are carrying a sugar humans don’t have, which can trigger the bizarre immune system reaction that makes them react to red meat.

Blacklegged ticks also spread other infections including the rare Powassan virus. Only 75 cases were reported across the nation in the last decade, but more doctors are looking for it and other tick illnesses and that may affect future counts, experts said.

To protect against ticks, learn what kinds are common where you live. Avoid high grass. Use EPA-registered repellent. And check yourself and your children for ticks daily.

“It only takes one tick to make you sick,” said Rich.

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Overall opioid prescription rates have been falling in recent years, but the powerful drugs have become more plentiful in more than than 1 in 5 U.S. counties, a report released Thursday finds.

The amount of opioids prescribed fell 18 percent between 2010 and 2015. But researchers found local differences, with opioid prescribing six times higher in some counties than others.

Rates vary “as much from place to place as the weather,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It’s the latest to show a decline in opioid prescribing as regulators and others have pushed doctors to cut back on issuing narcotic painkillers. The CDC last year issued the first guidelines to doctors aimed at discouraging prescribing opioids except in cases where they are most needed, like cancer and end-of-life care.

Prescription opioids are behind the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in U.S. history. More than 52,000 Americans died of overdoses in 2015 — an all-time record — and experts believe the numbers have continued to rise.

More and more overdose deaths are from heroin and illicit fentanyl, but the epidemic was triggered by an explosion in prescriptions of powerful painkillers that began about 20 years ago.

The new CDC report analyzed prescriptions from 59,000 pharmacies around the country collected by QuintilesIMS, a pharmaceutical analytics company.

Because opioids come in different strengths, researchers came up with a standard measure to account for all kinds of opioids by comparing to morphine, one of the oldest opioids that’s not as powerful as some of the painkillers prescribed today.

Overall, the amount of opioids prescribed nationally peaked at the equivalent of 782 milligrams of morphine per person in 2010 and fell to 640 in 2015.

That’s an improvement, but it’s still three times higher than it was in 1999, Schuchat said.

Prescribing declined in about half of U.S. counties between 2010 and 2015, but rose in many others. Closing pill mills and other factors may have shifted rates from place to place, researchers said.

State policies designed to cut opioid prescribing may have also played a role.

For example, Ohio, Kentucky and Florida require doctors to check a drug history database before prescribing opioids to patients, the CDC said.

The report’s data reflect where people got their prescriptions and not necessarily where they live. Higher prescribing rates were seen in counties with more medical offices and pharmacies, sometimes serving surrounding rural areas.

Rates also seemed to be high in places with concentrations of people who are white, unemployed, and without health insurance or on Medicaid.

This Feb. 19, 2013 file photo shows hydrocodone-acetaminophen pills, also known as Vicodin, arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. A government report released Thursday, July 6, 2017, finds opioid prescription rates have been falling in recent years overall, but rising in more than 1 in 5 U.S. counties. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

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Summer’s Health Hazards - Exercising in the Heat EXERCISE IS HEALTHY. But, it can also become one of “Summer’s Health Hazards,” especially when combined with the heat.

“Don’t underestimate the power of exercise,” said Dr. Julio Martinez-Silvestrini, sports medicine specialist and medical director, Baystate Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, who noted it’s not just about controlling your weight.

Exercise makes you feel good “Exercise is one of the most important things you can do for your health from boosting your energy to reducing stress and from improving your mental health to helping prevent a variety of health problems, such as heart disease and some cancers. And, it just plain makes you feel good,” he added.

There can be no denying that the warmer weather months inspire many to hit the trails for a power walk or run, embark on a cycling adventure, or engage in sports like softball, basketball or tennis. But, it’s on days when the thermometer really begins to rise that trouble can set in risking heat-related illnesses such as heat exhaustion or heat stroke.

“Hot days with no breeze or cloud cover tend to be more concerning for heat-related illnesses,” said Dr. Martinez-Silvestrini.

“Your body generates heat when you exercise, and just like a car does when running, it begins to heat up. Sweating helps to decrease your body temperature through the process of evaporation. That is one of the reasons why on a still day, there is a high risk of heat-related illnesses,” he added.

TIPS TO STAY COOL Dr. Martinez-Silvestrini offers the following tips to stay cool and safe when exercising in extreme heat and humidity: • Get your physical activity in, such as walking or running, during the early morning hours before the temperatures really rise, avoiding the warmest part of the day, usually

between 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• Hydrate! Hydrate! Hydrate! The American College of Sports Medicine recommends drinking a minimum of 16-20 ounces of liquid one to two hours before your outdoor activity.

Once outside, they recommend consuming 6 to 12 ounces of fluid every 10 to 15 minutes.

Then, when you have completed your workout, drink at least another 16 to 24 ounces.

Signs of dehydration in adults include being thirsty, urinating less often than usual, darkcolored urine, dry skin, feeling tired, dizziness and fainting. There is a concern about overhydrating in low-intensity activities, when it is usually enough to drink fluids when you get thirsty. If you have been diagnosed with heart, lung or kidney problems, or you have a previous history of heat stroke, then you may need to call your primary care provider prior to engaging in exercise and aggressive hydra-

tion.

• What not to drink is as important as what you drink. Stay away from alcoholic and caffeinated beverages. For activities lasting less than an hour, water is enough to stay hydrated.

For more intense activities lasting longer than an hour, sports drinks, which include glucose and electrolytes, may be recommended.

• Wear light-colored, loose-fitting clothing.

If possible, try to avoid cotton fabrics.

Purchase a sweat-wicking synthetic shirt, which wicks sweat and facilitates evaporation for cooling.

• Start your summer activities slowly, then gradually increase your activity intensity and time. For example, start to walk, jog or hike for short time periods (5-15 minutes), then add 5-10 minutes each week. This is referred to as “acclimation” and will help you get used to exercising in a warmer environment.

BABY BOOMERS NEED TO GET MOVING According to the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, only 16% of individuals aged 65-74 years get the recommended 30 minutes or more of moderate physical activity five or more days a week.

As a result, the baby boomer generation is now exhibiting what the Academy called “an epidemic of sedentary lifestyle-related disease.”

“We know that exercise in the older population improves strength, endurance, and balance, as well as decreases the risk of falls and improves mood. You do not need to enroll in a club or gym to exercise.

Walking, jogging, yoga, Pilates, a stretching exercise program and hiking are activities that can be done without the need for any special equipment or a gym membership,” said Dr. Martinez-Silvestrini.

“We recommend a combination of endurance or aerobic exercise, stretching and strengthening exercises as part of a healthy exercise routine. Weight-bearing exercises, such as walking or running, may help to maintain bone mass and prevent falls and fractures. While biking and swimming are very good exercise, they are not considered to be weight-bearing exercises,” he added.

Most doctors recommend getting at least 150 minutes each week of moderate physical activity, such as brisk walking, enough to raise your heart rate and make you breathe faster, or at least 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity each week.

TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT To make an appointment with Dr. MartinezSilvestrini, who is also a sports medicine expert, call 413-794-5600.

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Georgia health commissioner named CDC director in Atlanta

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Georgia’s health commissioner was named Friday to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal government’s top public health agency.

Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald is an OB-GYN and has been head of the Georgia Department of Public Health since 2011. She succeeds Dr. Tom Frieden, who resigned as CDC director in January at the end of the Obama administration.

“I am humbled by the challenges that lie ahead, yet I am confident that the successes we’ve had in Georgia will provide me with a foundation for guiding the work of the CDC,” Fitzgerald said in a statement.

Fitzgerald was appointed by Dr. Tom Price, who was a Republican congressman from Georgia before he was selected

by President Donald Trump to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC. “Having known Dr. Fitzgerald for many years, I know that she has a deep appreciation and understanding of medicine, public health, policy and leadership — all qualities that will prove vital as she leads the CDC in its work to protect America’s health 24/7,” Price said in a news release.

The 70-year-old Fitzgerald has had strong ties to the Republican Party. She was an unsuccessful GOP candidate for Congress twice in the 1990s. She was also a health care policy adviser to Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker, and the late Sen. Paul Coverdell.

Fitzgerald is respected in the public health community, and her choice drew approval from Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association.

“From her work as a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist to her recent service as the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, Dr. Fitzgerald is more than prepared to face the health challenges of our time, including climate change, Zika, Ebola, and our growing burden of chronic disease,” Benjamin said in a statement.

The Atlanta-based CDC , with a budget of about $12 billion, investigates disease outbreaks, researches the cause and frequency of health problems and promotes prevention efforts. It is the only federal agency headquartered outside of Washington, D.C., and has nearly 12,000 employees and 10,000 contractors worldwide.

Fitzgerald has a bachelor of science degree in microbiology from Georgia State University and a medical degree from the Emory University School of Medicine. Her resume also includes being a major in the U.S. Air Force.

During her time as Georgia’s health commissioner, she won praise for campaigns against childhood obesity and to encourage language development in babies. She also led response efforts during the Ebola and Zika virus scares.

Her first day at CDC was Friday. A CDC spokeswoman said Fitzgerald was not available for interviews.

Former director Frieden wished her well, and noted she’ll be plunged into a continuing struggle to stop reductions in the

In this Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 file photo, Brenda Fitzgerald, Georgia Department of Public Health commissioner, left, and Gov. Nathan Deal respond to questions about Ebola victims at Emory University Hospital and efforts to screen for Ebola among travelers passing through Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport during the governor's visit to Georgia Tech, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Tulis) CDC’s budget and to fill hundreds of jobs that have been vacant. Trump’s budget proposal would cut $1.2 billion from the CDC and legislation to repeal and replace the Obama-era health care law would cut other funding.

“By listening to and supporting CDC staff, she can succeed,” he said via email.

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MUTATIONS AND MORE MUTATIONS Most tumors bear 50 or so mutations in various genes, Vogelstein said. Melanomas and lung cancers, spurred by sunlight and tobacco smoke, may have twice as many. But tumors with a mismatch repair defect can harbor 1,500 mutations.

Why? When DNA copies itself, sometimes the strands pair up wrong to leave a typo — a mismatch. Normally the body spell checks and repairs those typos. Without that proofreading, mutations build up, not necessarily the kind that trigger cancer but bystanders in a growing tumor.

THE PLOT THICKENS Your immune system could be a potent cancer fighter except that too often, tumors shield themselves. Merck's Keytruda and other so-called checkpoint inhibitors can block one of those shields, allowing immune cells to recognize a tumor as a foreign invader and attack. Until now, those immunotherapies were approved only for a few select cancers — Keytruda hit the market for melanoma in 2014 — and they work incredibly well for some patients but fail in many others. Learning who's a good candidate is critical for drugs that can cost $150,000 a year and sometimes cause serious side effects.

In 2012, Hopkins doctors testing various immunotherapies found the approach failed in all but one of 20 colon cancer patients. When perplexed oncologists told Vogelstein, "a light bulb went off."

Sure enough, the one patient who fared well had a mismatch repair defect and a "mindboggling" number of tumor mutations. The more mutations, the greater the chance that at least one produces a foreign-looking protein that is a beacon for immune cells, Vogelstein explained.

It was time to see if other kinds of cancer might respond, too.

WHAT'S THE DATA? The strongest study, published in the journal Science, tested 86 such patients with a dozen different cancers, including some who had entered hospice. Half had their tumors at least shrink significantly, and 18 saw their cancer become undetectable.

It's not clear why the other half didn't respond. Researchers found a hint, in three patients, that new mutations might form that could resist treatment.

But after two years of Keytruda infusions, 11 of the "complete responders" have stopped the drug and remain cancer-free for a median of eight months and counting.

Catherine "Katie" Rosenbaum, 67, is one of those successes. The retired teacher had her uterus removed when endometrial cancer first struck, but five years later tumors returned, scattered through her pelvis and colon. She tried treatment after treatment until in 2014, her doctor urged the Hopkins study.

Rosenbaum took a train from Richmond, Virginia, to Baltimore for infusions every two weeks and then, after some fatigue and diarrhea side effects, once a month. Then the side effects eased and her tumors started disappearing. A year into the study she was well enough to swim a mile for a Swim Across America cancer fundraiser.

"Nothing else had worked, so I guess we could say it was a last hope," said Rosenbaum, who now wants other patients to know about the option.

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Don’t hate your gut

It may help you lose weight, fight depression and lower blood pressure

By JASENKA ZUBCEVIC and CHRISTOPHER MARTYNUIK University of Florida (THE CONVERSATION) A universe of organisms living inside you may affect every part of your body, from your brain to your bones, and even your thoughts, feelings and your attempts to lose weight.

This is a universe of trillions of microorganisms – or what we biologists call microbiota – that live in your gut, the part of your body responsible for digestion of the food you eat and the liquids you drink.

As researchers, we have been looking increasingly into the effect these bacteria have on their host’s body, from obesity to mental illness and heart disease. With obesity, for example, these tiny organisms may play a big role by influencing what foods we crave and how our bodies hold onto fat.

In a recent study of the gut microbiome, we set out to determine whether the microbiota in the gut can be affected not only by our nervous system but also by an unsuspected source – our bone marrow.

Our hope is that, by understanding the interactions of the microbiome with other parts of the body, one day treatments could be developed for a range of illnesses.

The gut-brain-bone marrow connection The gut, which includes your esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, colon and other parts of your digestive system, is the first line of defense and the largest interface between the host – in this case, a person – and the outside world.

After birth, the gut is the first point of entry for environmental and dietary influences on human life. Thus, the microbiota in the gut play a crucial role during human growth, as they contribute to development and maintenance of our immune system throughout our lifetime.

While we initially thought of the microbiota as relatively simple organisms, the fact is that they may not be so simple after all. Gut microbiota can be as personal and complex as a fingerprint.

There are more bacteria in your gut alone than cells in your entire body. This vast bacterial universe contains species that combined can have up to 150 times more genes than exist in humans. Research suggests that the

bacteria in our gut predates the appearance of humans and that they may have played an important role in evolutionary separation between our ape ancestors and us.

Healthy bacteria actively interact with the host immune system in the gut. They contribute to the barrier between disease-causing microorganisms or infections introduced via ingestion. They also help prepare the host immune system to defend the body. The wrong mix of microbes, on the other hand, can contribute to many digestive, immune and mental health disorders and even obesity.

These tiny organisms work very hard in digestion. They help digest our food and can release nutrients and vitamins essential for our well being, all in exchange for the privilege of existing in a nutritious environment.

Researchers are actively exploring the many facets of this symbiotic relationship. Recent data show a link between gut microbiota diversity and richness and the way we store fat, how we regulate digestion hormones and blood glucose levels, and even what types of food we prefer.

This may also be a reason our eating habits are so difficult to change. Some research suggests that microbiota may generate cravings for foods they specialize in – even chocolate – or those that will allow them to better compete for resources against other bacteria.

A three-way call?

There’s growing evidence of a link between the brain and our microbiota as well. The brain is the equivalent of a computer’s main processor, regulating all physiological variables, including the immune system, the body’s defense against infection and illness.

All immune cells are “born” in the bone marrow. From our previous research, we knew that increased bone marrow inflammation, one of many consequences of high blood pressure, was driven by a direct message from the brain. The gut, too, plays an important role in preparing the immune system for battle.

So we wondered: Could the bone marrow immune cells be playing a role in signaling between the brain and the gut? We wanted to find out.

Using a novel experimental mouse model, we replaced the bone marrow that occurs naturally within a mouse with bone marrow cells from a different, genetically modified

mouse. This replacement marrow was deficient in a specific molecule called adrenergic receptor beta, which made the bone marrow less responsive to the neural messages from the brain.

In this way we could investigate how the host brain-immune communication will modify gut microbiota.

Indeed, by studying this new mouse model, we determined that our nervous system – directed by our brain – can modify the composition of gut microbiota by communicating directly with the bone marrow immune cells.

The brain, therefore, can change our gut microbiota indirectly by talking to the bone.

Fewer inflammatory cells in bone marrow resulted in fewer in the gut Based on our experiments, we observed that fewer inflammatory cells were present in the circulation of mice that received the special bone marrow replacement than in those that didn’t. This means there are fewer immune cells able to infiltrate the gut and influence the bacterial environment.

Thus, by suppressing the communication between the brain and the bone marrow, we observed a muted inflammatory response in the gut and a consequent shift toward a “healthier,” more diverse microbiome.

This appears to be mediated via specific changes in inflammatory genes in the gut.

However, this interaction between the host and the gut microbiota is very complex, and much more research is needed to pinpoint the exact mechanisms of their close communication.

This may also be protective against weight gain, due to the very important role that both microbiota and the immune system play in

obesity.

A key to heart health, mental health and weight loss?

This finding may also have implications in immune diseases as well as treatments either resulting in or employing immunosuppression. The latter may affect the gut microbiota, which in turn may cause unwanted effects in the body, including those associated with digestive and mental health conditions.

In the context of cardiovascular disease, this muted inflammatory response appears to be beneficial, as it leads to beneficial lowering of blood pressure in our experimental mice.

Most interestingly, a link between gut microbiota and our mental health has recently become clearer. In particular, some have suggested that gut microbiota influence the stress and anxiety pathways in the brain in a way that can alter mood and behavior both positively and negatively, giving a whole new meaning to the term “gut feeling.”

This could soon lead to a new class of drugs, called psychobiotics.

Much like the “chicken and the egg” scenario, however, this complex interplay warrants further investigation to fully understand the consequences (or benefits) of perturbing one single component of the gut microbiota.

This understanding is essential if we are to fully harness the power of manipulation of gut microbiota in health and disease, without negative side effects.

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article here: http://theconversation.com/dont-hate-yourgut-it-may-help-you-lose-weight-fightdepression-and-lower-blood-pressure-77453.

Dancing toward better physical rehabilitation

By LENA TING and MADELEINE EVE HACKNEY Emory University (THE CONVERSATION) To dance is human; people of all ages and levels of motor ability express movements in response to music. Professional dancers exert a great deal of creativity and energy toward developing their skills and different styles of dance. How dancers move in beautiful and sometimes unexpected ways can delight, and the synchrony between dancers moving together can be entrancing.

To us as a neuroscientist and biomechanist (Lena), and a rehabilitation scientist and dancer (Madeleine), understanding the complexities of motor skill in a ballet move, or the physical language of coordination in partner dance, is an inspiring and daunting challenge.

Understanding how dancers move has important real-world implications, too. In our work, we’re studying gait and balance in different populations, as well as how holding hands – such as in partner dance – can actually help people walk and balance better. The ultimate goal is to help better design and prescribe rehabilitation to those with reduced mobility, as well as to develop robots that can physically interact with people to help with both motor assistance and motor learning.

Ballet training affects walking and balance It’s easy enough to distinguish a dancer from a football player just based on the way they walk in everyday life – one glides like a liquid, the other is grounded and solid. That fits with our finding that ballet training alters how a person walks.

But it also counters the sports training principle that motor skill is specific to the practiced movement, such as such as swinging a bat or doing a cartwheel.

On the other hand, rehabilitation relies on the idea that motor skill generalizes across different tasks. It would be impossible to practice every possible scenario a person with mobility impairment will encounter in real life. Therapists hope that helping patients develop strength and skill in a few tasks in the gym will be generalizable to improvements out in the world.

In a study led by Andrew Sawers, now an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, we didn’t look at ballet dancing per se. Instead we took advantage of the dancers’ rigorous, years-long training regimen to test whether learning to move in a specialized context affects how we perform everyday tasks. We wanted to know whether ballet dancers actually differ from you and me in performing tasks that they didn’t explicitly practice.

It turned out that, when confronted with a challenging, narrow beam, ballet dancers still used the same preferred, habitual patterns of muscle coordination that they used when walking across a normal, level floor. These patterns are called “motor modules”; the nervous system uses them to construct movements, akin to the concept of “muscle memory”. To find each participant’s motor modules, we measured the electrical activity from many muscles in the leg and trunk as they walked across beams of varying difficulty.

In contrast to the ballet dancers, non-dancers who struggled to traverse the beam couldn’t rely on the same motor modules they used in normal walking. Why? Our research suggests that the long-term ballet training of the dancers refined a set of motor modules used for walking so that they could also be applied in more challenging related tasks; this in turn changed how dancers walk in everyday conditions.

Using dance training in rehabilitation settings The same principles of motor skill acquisition in highly trained individuals – like the ballet dancers – may also be at play in rehabilitation and motor skill reacquisition in people with mobility impairments.

Dancing can be effective rehabilitation for balance and gait impairments, particularly in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Madeleine developed Adapted Tango rehabilitation, in which participants learn a progressive series of tango dance steps specifically designed to address problems that people with PD have with balance, forward and backward walking, turning and navigating complex environments. It improves clinical metrics of balance function and walking. But how?

In a pilot study, we found that after an intensive three-week program of adapted tango rehabilitation, participants with PD became more like the highly trained ballet dancers. Lucas McKay, an assistant professor in Biomedical Engineering at Emory specializing in mechanisms of balance impairment in Parkinson’s disease, showed that participants improved muscle activity for balance after adapted tango. Jessica Allen, a soonto-be assistant professor at West Virginia University, and expert in human gait, further showed that their motor modules were also more consistent in walking and balance tasks.

Like the ballet dancers, adapted tango participants with PD could use the same motor modules across different motor tasks. That is, as they practiced their tango dancing skills, they developed motor modules that also helped them walk and balance in everyday situations. This mechanism may explain why practicing dance can beneficially alter gait and balance.

2017 Springfield Jazz And Roots Festival SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield Jazz and Roots Festival is a free event offering music, theater, dance, arts & crafts, educational workshops, and local culinary offerings in the heart of Springfield, Mass. taking place on Saturday, August 12, 2017 from 11:00 A.M. – 10:00 P.M. Court Square, Springfield, MA • rain or shine.

Created to bring people together and enrich the community through a celebration of jazz and roots music, the Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival features both rising-stars and legends of American music.

The Springfield Jazz and Roots Festival is produced by Blues to Green (www.bluestogreen.org), a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose goal is to harness the power of art and music (particularly jazz and blues) to celebrate community and culture, build shared purpose, and catalyze both social and environmental change.

The Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival was developed by Blues to Green Inc. in partnership with business, civic and nonprofit leaders in Springfield, to unite diverse communities in the urban center of Western Massachusetts to share the experience of music and art.

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Dance with me: physical cooperation between a human and a robot We also collaborate with Georgia Tech roboticist Charlie Kemp, who is interested in ways that robots can interact physically with humans in intuitive and beneficial ways. For instance, could rehabilitation robots some day dance with people with Parkinson’s disease to help them improve their motor skills?

Advancing the science of human physical interactions is critical to developing this kind of technology. Researchers are only just beginning to study the forces between two humans performing either cooperative (carrying a table together) or competitive (tug-of-war) tasks.

In partner dancing, the physical forces between the leader and follower are key to the two individuals being able to stay in sync with one another. Such complex coordination between people can happen even with their eyes closed.

We wondered if nuanced insights from partner dance could be used to develop intuitive physical interactions between humans and assistive robots. Roboticist Tiffany Chen had already developed a way for a humanoid robot, Cody, to be led by the hand by a human. The robot could follow a nurse through a complex environment simply by interpreting the forces from hand-holding.

Does holding a robot follower’s hand feel like interacting with a person? Tiffany tested Cody with partner dancer instructors in a simple, partnered stepping task. Our expert partner dancers were surprised at how well Cody followed their touch.

They felt that Cody could interpret subtle guidance through forces at the hands that signaled the direction and pace of movement. This type of physical guidance provided a much more intuitive way to direct the motion of the robot compared to the gaming pad that’s typically used.

But we still wanted to compare the force at the hand and body movements of the human-robot partnership to two people dancing. Did Cody and a partner look like two people doing the same task?

Our expert partner dancers headed back to the lab with Andrew. We found that the forces at the hands for coordinated movements in humans (even without vision) were less than a few pounds. That’s less than Cody needed to follow a person, so how we’d programmed the robot to respond to forces was less sensitive than a person.

We are only just beginning to understand how the subtle changes in forces at the hands of human partners is interpreted.

Since these forces were the only channel of communication between participants in our study, we know they contain information about motor intention (where we want to go), motor performance (how we are actually moving), as well the skill level of the partners. But the area of human-human physical interactions is ripe for guiding the design of assistive robots that interact safely and intuitively with humans.

Two steps forward…

Can a robot ever be an effective rehabilitative dance partner?

So far, we’re just starting to learn about the effects of dancing on human motor skill, as well as the physical interactions necessary to perform partner dance.

More fundamentally, we seek to discover how we learn and re-learn to move, and how physical interactions help us to move better. Answering these questions may help us stay light on our toes.

This article was originally published on The Conversation.

Read the original article here: http://theconversation.com/ dancing-toward-better-physical-rehabilitation-79539.

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Amherst vs Westfield Nationals 12-Year-Olds All-Stars District 2 Semifinal

Ryder Pieczarka started on the mound for the Westfield National All-Stars recording the first out of the game on a strikeout. (Photo by Bill Deren)

Cody Collins opened up the scoring for the Nats on a solo home run. (Photo by Bill Deren)

Mason Pereira came in to pitch in relief, here recording a strikeout. (Photo by Bill Deren)

Westfield Nats third inning hit parade featured hits like this screamer by Everett Stec up the middle past the Amherst pitcher. (Photo by Bill Deren)

Jesse Paroline places another hit up the middle and Nats Everett Stec...

- ...scores from second on a close play at home! (Photos by Bill Deren)

Nats rally, on to American

By CHRIS PUTZ Staff Writer WESTFIELD – It’s official – Wednesday, July 12 will be a night of All-Stars for the entire Whip City.

On Monday, the Westfield National 12-Year-Old All-Stars rallied from a one-run deficit with a 10-run, fourth-inning outburst to mercy Amherst 12-2 in a District 2 tournament semifinal game at Paper Mill Field.

The victory sets up an all-Westfield final – National (7-1) vs. American (5-2) – Wednesday night at Ralph E. Sanville Field on Cross Street at 6 p.m.

“It was a really good win,” Westfield National manager Shane Collins said.

Collins admitted that the young Nats were looking ahead to

the potential rematch well before the end of Monday’s contest.

“I asked our kids in the dugout after the game how many of them were looking forward to the rematch and playing the Americans during the game (against Amherst),” Collins said.

“All the kids raised their hands.”

Westfield’s bench took its game to the next level against Amherst.

Trailing 2-1, Everett Stec, Jacob Mello, Jesse Paroline, and Nick Goodwin came off the bench to deliver consecutive base hits. Paroline’s base knock tied the game 2-all. Several hits later in the inning, Ryder Pieczarka uncorked a grand slam.

Cody Collins hit a solo home run, his sixth dinger of the postseason.

Westfield Junior All-Star Emma Taryn Queenin (10) tacks on a LaPoint (7) scores during a four-run run for Westfield in the first first inning outburst. (Photo by Chris inning. (Photo by Chris Putz)

Westfield pitcher Katie Joyner (14) winds up. (Photo by Chris Putz)

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Pieczarka and Mason Pereira combined to shut down Amherst’s offensive attack, limiting the opposition to two runs (one earned) and piling up eight Ks. SOFTBALL Westfield 10-Year-Old All-Stars 4, Easthampton 2 Marleigh Monroe continued her sterling effort on the mound for Westfield (2-0). Monroe struck out 10 Easthampton batters Monday to bring her two-game total to 21 Ks. Westfield was coming off a 14-0, mercy-shortened drubbing of Easthampton in Game 1 of the best-of-five sectional series.

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Carina Franco scores another run for the Westfield Junior AllStars softball team in the first inning Monday night at Charlton.

Westfield Junior All-Star Erin Gour connects. Gour scored the team’s first run in the first inning. (Photo by Chris Putz)

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The Westfield Junior All-Star players listen to instruction from their coaches. (Photo by Chris Putz)

Westfield Junior second baseman Carly James, right, fires to first base for an out. (Photo by Chris Putz)

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13-YEAR-OLD ALL-STARS Winner vs. Seed 1, Bullens Field, 7:30 p.m.

Wed., July 12 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL 12-YEAR-OLD CHAMPIONSHIP Westfield American vs. Westfield

National, Ralph E. Sanville Field (Cross Street), 6 p.m.

LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL JUNIOR ALL-STARS (Best-of-5) Westfield at Worcester, Site/Time TBD 11-YEAR-OLD ALL-STARS (Bestof-5) Westfield at Easthampton, 6 p.m.

10-YEAR-OLD ALL-STARS (Bestof-5) Westfield vs. Easthampton, Sadie Knox, 7 p.m.

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Little League Softball Westfield vs Easthampton 11-Year-Olds

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Westfield vs Easthampton Softball 10-Year-Olds

Pitcher Shea Hurley launches one at Monday’s game at Nonotuck Park

Paige Hutkoski takes aim at a high one during Westfield’s game against Easthampton.

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Molly Monroe scores a run while Shea Hurley looks on.

Softball

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Westfield shortstop Kelsey Bouchard set the tone for Westfield in the opener, making a play from her knees and throwing the ball to first base for the first out.

Westfield will attempt to close out the best-of-5 series Wednesday night at home. First pitch is slated for Sadie Knox at 7.

Easthampton 11-Year-Olds 11, Westfield 1 Easthampton evened up the best-of-5 series with a convincing victory Monday night at Sadie Knox Field.

Lexi Sanchez manufactured Easthampton’s only run of the game with a bunt single and two stolen bases. Kara Dougherty made a fantastic grab in the outfield, Jalyn Almeida made a diving catch at first base, and pitcher Megan Cichonski pitched well.

The two teams will meet again Wednesday at Easthampton at 6 p.m.

Grace Burke lets one go by.

Westfield Juniors 12, Charlton 3 Westfield raced out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning and never looked back. The Whip City’s Junior All-Star team advanced to the sectional championship Wednesday at a site and time to be determined.

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It’s not a new idea. In fact, The Westfield News has been providing readers with “hyper local” news coverage of Westfield, Southwick, and the Hilltowns all along. Television, radio and regional newspapers only provide fleeting coverage of local issues you care about. TV stations and big newspaper publishers, after years of cutbacks and mergers, frankly aren’t able to provide in-depth coverage of smaller markets anymore.

But, day in and day out, The Westfield News provides consistant coverage of the stories you need to know about, that are important to your city, town, neighborhood and home.

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Dear Annie

By ANNIE LANE

Back Off, Friends Dear Annie: I have many close friends from different groups. My time with each of them is very important, and I don’t want to be tied down to one friend. My partner has many wonderful friends he enjoys spending time with, too.

Recently, we got acquainted with another couple at my young son’s football match. The newfound friendship is moving too fast. They are already talking about doing weekends away together, planning several weekend trips for us all. We’ve only known them for a few months and been friends for a month.

I’m a pretty easygoing, kind-natured woman; I fit in with all types of crowds. But I don’t like to be pushed into things or backed into a corner. I like things to take a slow, natural course, and I never rush the process of becoming close with someone.

I don’t believe friendships or relationships work well when they progress quickly. My partner and I were friends for seven years before we started dating!

I feel uncomfortable with what’s developing. I have this uneasy feeling about the progress of this new friendship.

My hunches are normally accurate, and I’m an OK judge of character. Am I being a little childish about this? What should I do? -- Too Fast for Me Dear Too Fast: What’s stopping you from pumping the brakes? There’s a simple solution here -- saying “No, thank you” or “We’re busy” to the weekend-getaway invitations.

As you don’t seem to have entertained that option, I’m guessing you’re the type of person who has a hard time saying no. I’d encourage you to do some self-reflection regarding why that is. Perhaps you value being seen as easygoing more than you value your own needs and wants. Work on setting boundaries.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Tired Loving Daughter,” who isn’t able to fully enjoy her life because of her caregiving duties. I use a camera in my mom’s retirement apartment to keep up with her. I bought a nest camera about three years ago, and I can monitor her from my phone and my computer. If there is anything suspicious, I notify the staff.

The camera is set up in her living room. I see when she leaves for her meals and when she comes and goes. I see what time the staff members come in to clean her room.

One time, I noticed that her dinner came two hours ahead of schedule; the evening chef hadn’t shown up for his shift, so the manager decided to use leftovers from lunch. That meant she would have gone hungry later that night. I and several other family members took food to the residence that night, and other patients were expressing how hungry they were, too. I was thankful we had the camera so we knew what was going on. Because of that footage, I was able to report this incident to the upper management.

The cameras will hold the footage for up to a month. I spend a small amount each month for the service, and it has been a great investment for me. -- GSP Smith Dear GSP Smith: What a great use of technology. Thank you for sharing the tip.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com. To find out more about Annie Lane and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

HINTS FROM HELOISE FAST FACTS Dear Readers: Here are some other uses for popcorn tins: * Paint the tin a color you like and label it for storage of small tools in the garage. * Reuse the tin the following year for a large or awkward-shaped gift. * Store dry pet food in one and keep the lid on it. Keeps out insects! * Wrap in pretty contact paper or wrapping paper and use to store sewing, knitting or crafting supplies.

-- Heloise DRESSING LIKE THE STARS Dear Heloise: What do all the celebrities do with their redcarpet clothing? Can I buy some of the gowns I see on the runway, or do they ever give them to friends? -- Ines M., Brattleboro, Vt. Ines, those beautiful gowns, the fabulous jewelry and even the evening purses usually are donated by designers for some big event and are returned promptly the next day. Some stars purchase something if they really feel they have to have it, but when they decide to clean out their closets, many items are donated to charities to be auctioned off. However, there are stores in and around Hollywood that specialize in clothing worn by celebrities.

You can find them online. -- Heloise

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TV Sports Tonight TUESDAY, JULY 11 CYCLING 8:30 a.m.

NBCSN — Tour de France, Stage 10, Perigueux, France to Bergerac, France GOLF 4 p.m.

GOLF — Legends Tour, Senior LPGA Championship, second round, at French Lick, Ind. MLB BASEBALL 8 p.m.

FOX — 2017 All-Star Game, at Miami NBA BASKETBALL 4 p.m.

NBA — Summer League, San Antonio vs. Portland, at Las Vegas 4:30 p.m.

ESPNU — Summer League, Utah vs. Memphis, at Las Vegas 6 p.m.

NBA — Summer League, Chicago vs. Washington, at Las Vegas 6:30 p.m.

ESPN2 — Summer League, Philadelphia vs. Boston, at Las Vegas

8 p.m.

NBA — Summer League, Miami vs. Dallas, at Las Vegas 8:30 p.m.

ESPN2 — Summer League, Golden State vs. Minnesota, at Las Vegas POKER 7:30 p.m.

ESPN — World Series of Poker, Main Event, at Las Vegas SOCCER 7:30 p.m.

FS1 — CONCACAF Gold Cup, Group Stage, Costa Rica vs.

Canada, at Houston 10 p.m.

FS1 — CONCACAF Gold Cup, Group Stage, Honduras vs. French Guiana, at Houston TENNIS 8 a.m.

ESPN — Wimbledon Championships, women’s quarterfinals (Centre Court), at London ESPN2 — Wimbledon Championships, women’s quarterfinals (No. 1 Court), at London

On The Tube

In this Feb. 28, 2016, file photo, Larry David arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. HBO has locked down October 1 to start a new season of the Larry David comedy "Curb Your Enthusiasm." HBO said Monday that the 10 episodes will bring back regulars Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman and JB Smoove, among others. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/ AP, File)

Get enthusiastic for ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ returning Oct. 1 NEW YORK (AP) — You can curb your skepticism. HBO has locked down Oct. 1 to start a new season of the Larry David comedy "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

HBO said Monday that the 10 episodes will bring back regulars Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman and JB Smoove, among others.

This long-awaited ninth season was announced in June 2016 for some time in 2017. The eighth season had aired in 2011, and, until a year ago, David remained tight-lipped about whether there would ever be more.

Premiering in 2000, the series was created by and stars David in a fictionalized version of himself as he stumbles through socially awkward situations.

Among David's projects since curbing this series: a hit Broadway play, "Fish in the Dark," and repeated appearances on "Saturday Night Live" impersonating Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Jenkins to adapt James Baldwin for ‘Moonlight’ follow-up NEW YORK (AP) — Writer-director Barry Jenkins’ feature-film follow-up to his Oscarwinning “Moonlight” will be an adaptation of James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.”

Annapurna Pictures announced Monday that Jenkins will start shooting the film in October.

Jenkins said adapting Baldwin’s 1974 novel about love and injustice in 1970s Harlem is “a dream I’ve long held dear.” He penned the screenplay in the same 2013 summer during which he wrote “Moonlight” from Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play.

The Baldwin estate has given its blessing to the film, which follows Raoul Peck’s Oscarnominated Baldwin documentary “I Am Not Your Negro.” ‘’If Beale Street Could Talk” will return much of the production team behind “Moonlight,” including producer Adele Romanski and Plan B. Jenkins is also developing a series for Amazon based on Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad.”

BARRY JENKINS

Temporary restraining order issued against Rob Kardashian LOS ANGELES (AP) — A court commissioner on Monday issued a temporary restraining order against Rob Kardashian in response to the reality television star's posting of explicit images of his ex-fiancee on social media last week.

Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner James E. Blancarte granted the order based on filings by Kardashian's ex Blac Chyna, who also claims he hit her in the thigh earlier this year, knocking her down and leaving her bruised.

"Rob has been violent with me in the past and I am afraid to be around him," Chyna, whose real name is Angela White, wrote in court documents filed Monday in Los Angeles.

The order bars Kardashian from contacting Chyna or coming within 100 yards of her home, car or workplace. The order also prohibits him from posting images online of Chyna or the infant daughter they share.

Chyna's attorney Lisa Bloom called the hearing "a complete and total victory."

"The judge gave us everything we asked for," she said.

The order will remain in effect until an Aug. 8 hearing.

Chyna sought a temporary restraining order on Monday, less than a week after Kardashian went on a tirade against her on Instagram and Twitter, including posting explicit images of her.

Blancarte sealed exhibits in the case, citing their explicit nature. Bloom has accused Kardashian of cyber bullying.

Blancarte said his primary concern was the former couple's

infant child. Bloom said in court that nannies would handle custody transfers while the order is in place.

Kardashian did not appear at Monday's hearing. His lawyer Robert Shapiro apologized on his client's behalf outside the courthouse.

"We apologize and have offered our regrets for what has taken place over the past couple of days," Shapiro said. "And now we move forward to do one thing and one thing only: Whatever's in the best interest of the child.

He said the former couple remains focused on their daughter, who he said is currently being cared for by Kardashian.

"They're working this out among themselves as good parents," Shapiro said.

He said Kardashian agreed to the issuance of a temporary restraining order.

Outside the courthouse, Chyna said, "First and foremost, I want to thank the judge for granting me this restraining order to protect me and I want to (get) back to co-parenting Dream."

Kardashian and Chyna announced their engagement in April 2016 and starred in an E! reality show about their relationship.

Their daughter, Dream, was born last November. The couple split up a month later.

Kardashian is the younger brother of Kim Kardashian and appeared on several seasons of the family's reality series, "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."

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DUSTIN By Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, July 11, 2017: This year you often are viewed as being private and preferring to relate on a oneon-one level. Whether you interact with an associate, a new friend or a long-time lover, the results are the same: an intense connection. If you are single, an important relationship could develop anytime, but it is especially likely after fall. If you are attached, the two of you often go off on special dates together. You love each other’s company. AQUARIUS accepts and understands your intuitive ability.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

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ONE BIG HAPPY Rick Detorie

ANDY CAPP Mahoney, Goldsmith and Garnett

ZACK HILL John Deering and John Newcombe

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You know how to ramp up the enthusiasm of those around you. As you cheerlead your way through the day, you’ll know that you have supporters. Get some expert advice before making a major decision; you will be a lot happier if you do. Tonight: Where the action is.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You know what you desire, and you’ll ask for just that. Others might respond to an idea differently from how you would. Dealing with finances could prove to be a bit touchy. Luckily, a discussion comes with a lot of mutual understanding. Tonight: Work late, play late.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You could hear information that will have your hair standing on end.

Fortunately, in this type of situation, you naturally detach until you feel that you have all the facts. Try to ask pertinent questions. A partner could be very somber. Tonight: Let your mind drift.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH One-on-one relating continues to jump from one important topic to another. Be more forward-thinking when handling a key situation. Look for a longterm solution. Take some time to wind down after work. Squeeze in some exercise. Tonight: Whatever makes you feel good.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Defer to others, as they seem more on target than usual. Your words will elicit a strong reaction from those around you. A child or loved one might not be as gleeful as usual. Let this person be; everyone has an off day from time to time. Tonight: Go along with a suggestion.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You might be somewhat tense about a matter surrounding your work or a community commitment. You will relax quickly after a discussion. The awareness that you can deal with whatever comes down the pike will soothe your nerves.

Tonight: Know when to call it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Your playfulness sometimes emerges as fun-loving, but other times it comes across as sarcasm. Others often are surprised by your choices. At the present moment, you are oozing with creativity.

No matter how down you might feel, you will lighten up. Tonight: Leader of the gang.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Pressure seems to build from various areas of your life. Your sense of what will work seems to be right-on.

Convincing others of that same fact could be challenging at best. Be willing to forge your own path. Ultimately, you will be much happier. Tonight: Opt for togetherness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Look at your priorities when making plans. Your sense of accomplishment is much higher than many others because they don’t have the same vision and ability to organize as you do. Your impression proves to be very important.

Tonight: All smiles, as long as you don’t cocoon.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Lady Luck seems to help you through any issues that might come your way. A parent or older friend might present you with many different possibilities.

You often choose not to share all of your thoughts, and today is no different.

Tonight: Try not to burn the midnight oil.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH The Moon in your sign highlights you and your capabilities. Once you see the big picture, you’ll be able to make an informed decision. A meeting could prove to be unusually important. Make it OK to feel off and give yourself some space. Tonight: You are the leader.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Slowing down and assessing a personal matter is important. Remember that everything you are looking at comes from your perspective. Make it OK to share your thoughts with a confidant or someone whom you consider to be wiser than you. Tonight: Get a good night’s sleep.

BORN TODAY Fashion designer Giorgio Armani (1934), boxer Leon Spinks (1953), former U.S. President John Quincy Adams (1767)

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THE WESTFIELD NEWS LEGAL NOTICES July 11, 18, 25, 2017 NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE Premises: 84 Ely Street, Westfield, Massachusetts By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Michael E. Coach to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Nominee for RBS Citizens, N.A. and now held by Citizens Bank N.A. f/k/a RBS Citizens, N.A., said mortgage dated June 6, 2011, and recorded in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds, in Book 18795 at Page 119, as affected by an Assignment of Mortgage dated December 18, 2014, and recorded with said Deeds in Book 20569 at Page 428, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions in said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction on August 1, 2017, at 11:00 AM Local Time upon the premises, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, to wit:

In this Thursday, July 6, 2017 file photo, Ronnie Millar, of the Boston-based Irish International Immigrant Center, addresses a "Here to Stay" rally at the Irish Famine Memorial in Boston, where immigration activists and labor groups gathered to oppose the president's crackdown on illegal immigration. Immigration and Customs Enforcement data provided to The Associated Press show that more than 1,300 Europeans were deported through June 24. About 1,450 Europeans were deported in 2016. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

US deportations of Europeans could exceed last fiscal year

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Europeans often hid in plain sight as Latin Americans, Asians and others living illegally in America were sent packing. But now they’re starting to realize they are not immune to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration, and they’re worried.

The number of Europeans deported this federal fiscal year from the United States could surpass last fiscal year’s total, according to figures provided to The Associated Press by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

From Oct. 2, 2016 through June 24, more than 1,300 Europeans have been removed, compared with 1,450 during all of federal fiscal year 2016 — the last under President Barack Obama. The agency didn’t provide estimates broken down by calendar year.

In San Jose, California, an HIVpositive Russian asylum seeker faces possible deportation after overstaying his visa. In Chicago, Polish and Irish community groups say they’re seeing inquiries about immigration and citizenship-related services surge as people seek legal protections.

And in Boston, John Cunningham, a well-known Irishman who had overstayed his visa by 14 years, was sent back to Ireland last week, sending shivers through the city’s sizeable Irish expat community.

“People are very, very concerned and lying low,” says Ronnie Millar, of the Boston-based Irish International Immigrant Center. “The message is that if it can happen to John, it can happen to anyone.”

Europeans comprise about 440,000 of the estimated 11 million people living illegally in the United States, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

Since just before Trump was elected last November, the U.S. has deported 167,350 foreigners, compared with 240,255 in all of fiscal year 2016.

Immigrants from Latin America make up the most by far, with Mexico leading the way at about 93,000.

Among Europeans, Romanians make up the largest share, with 193 deportations so far in fiscal year 2017. Behind are Spain at 117; the United Kingdom at 102; Russia at 81; and Poland at 74.

Those countries were also tops last fiscal

year; Romania had 176, United Kingdom 160, Poland 160, Spain 115 and Russia 94.

Immigrant advocates say they’ve been urging individuals to know their rights if they’re stopped and for parents to make arrangements for their children in the event they’re detained.

“The worst aspect of these numbers from our perspective is that our community organizations do not know who is being deported and why, and are unable to send immigration attorneys to assist them,” says Dmitri Daniel Glinski, president of the Russian-Speaking Community Council of Manhattan and the Bronx.

In California, San Jose resident Denis Davydov was detained for more than a month after returning from a vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

He was eventually released after his lawyer argued Davydov was legally allowed to re-enter because he’s currently seeking political asylum for being gay and HIV-positive. But he could be forced to return to Russia if his request is denied.

Davydov says the experience of being detained — and the uncertainty it has thrust into his asylum application — has left him feeling vulnerable.

“Before this, I thought I was a doing everything right, but I’m afraid now that doing everything right is not enough. I don’t know what else I can do,” he said.

“I feel like it can happen again to me anywhere. In the airport or in the street.”

At the Polish American Association in Chicago, executive director Magdalena Dolas said her organization has been asked to give talks about what residents should do if immigration officials show up at their doorstep.

“People are worrying about their rights,” she said. “It shows there is awareness but that there is also anxiety.”

The Chicago Irish Immigrant Support Center has been receiving triple the number of inquiries on immigration and legal service matters these days as it did a year ago, said Michael Collins, executive director.

There have been 18 deportations among Irish nationwide in the current fiscal year, compared with 26 in all of last fiscal year, according to the ICE data.

Cunningham’s case has still become a cautionary tale among Irish expats in Boston’s Irish community.

Comic Book Creation with Jack Purcellfor Teens at the Southwick Public Library Jack will be teaching basic drawing techniques and the process in which a comic book is created, using traditional and easily available supplies, such as fine-line sharpies, pen, pencil, ruler, copy paper and Bristol board. This program will take place on July 18th at 1 PM at the Southwick Public Library and all materials will be provided! This program requires registration, so call 413-569-1221 ext. 3 or stop by the library to sign up. Funding provided by the Southwick Cultural Council.

“The rumor has gone around, ‘Don’t go in any courthouses, and if you hear a knock on your door and you’re not expecting anyone, don’t answer it,” said Benny Murphy, a 32-year-old bartender in Boston who had been living in this country illegally until about three years ago, when he married a woman who is a U.S. citizen.

Many believe Cunningham simply forgot the golden rule of living in the shadows: Keep your head down.

Months before his arrest, he appeared on a national news show in Ireland to share his experience of living illegally in America.

Cunningham, who declined to comment for this article through his lawyer, also wasn’t squeaky clean. He had a warrant for his arrest for failing to show up in court over a $1,300 dispute with a customer of his electrical contracting business, and state records show he wasn’t a licensed electrician.

Advocates complain Trump, in taking a hardline against immigration scofflaws, is sweeping up many hardworking, taxpaying people, many of whom have raised children who are now U.S. citizens.

The Obama administration, in contrast, focused immigration enforcement on the most serious criminals.

Many of those living here illegally were lulled into a “false sense of security” by the Obama years, said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors more restrictive immigration policies.

“This is a return to more traditional immigration enforcement,” Vaughan said. “There needs to be some level of across-the-board, routine enforcement, in the same way your local police department doesn’t focus only on murder, robbery and rape. They also have traffic patrols.”

But Ali Noorani, executive director of the immigrant-rights group National Immigration Forum, argued the administration is overdoing it.

“It’s pretty clear ICE is removing anyone undocumented they come across,” he said. “The bigger issue is that the Trump administration is wasting really valuable law enforcement resources on many people who aren’t a public safety threat, whether they’re Irish, Latino, Asian or otherwise.”

Upcycling with Lou’s Upcycles for Teens at the Southwick Public Library This workshop will teach teens how to turn regular plastic bags into a new and functional upcycled material using just the heat and pressure of an iron. It will begin with a brief overview of environmental issues associated with plastic bags including which bags can be recycled at stores and which can instead be fused into fun, graphically appealing textiles! This program will take place on July 20th at 1:30 PM at the Southwick Public Library and all materials will be provided! This program requires registration, so call 413-569-1221 ext. 3 or stop by the library to sign up. Funding provided by Friends of the Southwick Public Library.

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The land located at 84 Ely Street, Westfield, in the County of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, bounded and described as follows: Being known and designated at Lot #27 (twenty-seven) as shown on plan entitled "Street and Lot Layout Haven Heights, Westfield, Massachusetts for Kay-Vee Realty Company, Inc., Section 2" dated September 1957 and recorded in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds in Book of Plans 65, Pages 53 and 54; said lot being more particularly bounded and described as follows:

LEGAL NOTICES July 11, 2017 Town of Southwick Conservation Commission The Southwick Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing under the Massachusetts Wetland Protection Act G.L.C. 131 § 40 and the Southwick Conservation Commission Regulations & Bylaw Chapter 182 and Chapter 450 for a Request for Determination. The project location is Right of Ways within the Town of Southwick, Southwick, MA 01077. The proposed clearing trees located between the edge of the existing cleared corridor. The Hearing will be held July 17, 2017 at Southwick Town Hall, 454 College Highway in the 2nd floor Land Use Hearing Room (rear entrance). The Conservation meeting starts at 7:00 PM. For further information please contact the Commission office at (431) 569-6907 between the hours of 10 to 2 Monday through Friday.

Christopher Pratt, Chair for the Commission

AUTO FOR SALE TIMOTHY'S AUTO SALES. Stop by and see us! We might have exactly what you're looking for, if not, let us find it for you! Bartlett Street, Westfield.

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NORTHERLY by Ely Street, One Hundred Eighteen and 71 /100 (118.71) feet; EASTERLY by land now or formerly of Keddy Builders, Inc. shown on said plan as"Haven Heights, Section 1", One Hundred Thirty and 0/10 (130.00) feet;

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SOUTHERLY by land now or formerly of Springfield Municipal Water Works as shown on said plan, Seventy Five and 86/100 (75.86) feet; and

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WESTERLY by land now or formerly of one Wilgus as shown on said plan, Ninety and 97/100 (90.97) feet. Subject to restrictions of record, insofar as the same are in force and applicable. Subject to rights of the City of Westfield Gas and Electric Light Department et al, as set forth in an instrument dated August 1, 1958 and recorded as aforesaid in Book 2635, Page 572, insofar as the same may be in force and applicable. The description of the property contained in the mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication. For Mortgagor's Title, see Deed dated May 31, 2011, and recorded in Book 18795 at Page 117 with the Hampden County Registry of Deeds.

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TERMS OF SALE: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid in cash, certified check, bank treasurer's or cashier's check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid in cash, certified check, bank treasurer's or cashier's check within forty-fifth (45) days after the date of sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale.

Marinosci Law Group, P.C. 275 West Natick Road, Suite 500 Warwick, RI 02886 Attorney for Citizens Bank N.A. f/k/a RBS Citizens, N.A. Present Holder of the Mortgage Telephone: (401) 234-9200 MLG File No.: 15-01174 A-4626105 07/11/2017, 07/18/2017, 07/25/2017

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Part time Position Available Outdoor yard and maintenance work. 10 -20 hours a week with flexible schedule. Must be energetic and self motivated call Denise at 568-6964

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So shoot us an email at melissahartman@thewestfieldnewsgroup.com or write to us at 62 School St, Westfield, MA 01085 and tell us what your carrier has done to make your day just a little bit better. (If you don’t have their name, that’s fine– we can always look it up by your address.)

Who Does It?

Exercise Equipment & Weights.

GARAGE DOORS Sales • Installation Service & Repair

Residential & Light Commercial

Certified, Licensed, Insured • Free Estimates 413-289-6550 • 413-626-1978 • www.menardgaragedoors.com

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Serving Westfield and surrounding communities Brick-Block-Stone

New or Repair

SOLEK MASONRY

Chimneys • Foundations • Fireplaces Free Estimates

(413) 569-6855 (413) 569-3428

413-439-0883

Providing individuals & families access to Affordable, High Quality Home Care Services.

2 Mechanic St. • Suite #7 • Easthampton, MA • Aayllc.net

COMPLETE

since 1984

BATHROOM & KITCHEN

R E N O V AT I O N S

Fully Insured MA Lic #072233 MA Reg #144831

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Sullivan Siding & WindoWS, inc.

Kevin Sullivan

413-572-0900

Free Estimates • Fully Insured MA HIC LIC #158005

Carleton’s

Custom Lamp Picture Repair Framing 38 West school st. and and Restoration Westfield, MA Repair Appointments anytime

(413) 568-2339

(413) 537-5842

ress roo P e m Th Coffees • edibles • News 62 School St. • Westfield

TREE SERVICE Seasoned Hardwood

LOG LOAD

Clearance

Prices may vary, call for quote

413-569-6104 • 413-454-5782

LOTS CLEARED • TREE REMOVAL • EXCAVATION FULLY INSURED • FREE ESTIMATES

FREE ESTIMATES

FULLY INSURED

BAKER MASONRY Residential & Commercial BOBCAT SERVICES

FIREPLACES • CHIMNEYS • STEPS • SIDEWALKS • PATIOS CONCRETE DRIVEWAYS • BILCO HATCHWAYS

BRICK - BLOCK STONE - CONCRETE

(413) 569-3172 (413) 599-0015

David Rose Plumbing & Heating

Serving Westfield & Surrounding Areas • 25+ Years Experience

• thermal entry / storm doors • • General carpentry & repairs • • complete vinyl sidinG & repairs •

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ALL ABOUT YOU HOME CARE

• Debris, shrub & thick brush removal • all types of home lanDscaping consiDereD • mulch, stone, fill anD loam

(413) 562-6502

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C & C

Back Yard BOBCAT Service Mike Shaker

Please call our Circulation Dept. at 413-562-4181 Ext. 117 or

Veteran Owned & Operated Westfield, MA

Home Repair Services

(413) 579-4073

Safe, Guaranteed Repair and Maintenance

MA Lic # PL33191-J Fully Licensed & Insured

413-206-6386

Lorena sells Western Mass!

Lorena Sienko

J IM’S TRACTOR SERVICE A Division of JD Berry Contracting

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• Grading/Leveling - Trap Rock/Driveways • Loader/Backhoe • Mowing Fields/Lots • Equipment Transportation 413-530-5430 • Remove / Fill Old Pools • Trucking Available 413-569-6920

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Real Estate Specialist

(413) 896-7504 Hometown Associates

Each office is independently owned & operated

PLUMBING & HEATING Sewer & Drain Cleaning 413-782-7322 No Job

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ESTATE

$$ AUTOS WANTED $$

Top Dollar paid for your unwanted cars, trucks, vans.

Running or not. We pay and tow away. Sell your car TODAY. 413-534-5400

SALE Call (413) 562-4181 Ext. 118

Buying junk or wrecked cars and light trucks.

Call Mark's Auto Parts, E. Granby, CT 860-653-2551

LAWN & GARDEN

MULCH! MULCH! MULCH! ----------------Others try to match our price...but can't beat our quality.

Accepting most competitors coupons. We deliver. Run by veterans.

Green Meadow Lumber 568-0056

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.

CLEANING 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

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

Call Mike 413-821-8971. Free estimates.

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

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

FLOREK'S ELECTRICAL SERVICE Fully experienced for all your electrical needs, in your home or business. No job too small or too big. Electrical service upgrades, new construction or additions, emergency generators; New installation and maintenance service. Fully insured/licensed.

Call Jason, Master Electrician: 413-568-6293

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.

HOME IMPROVEMENT

A RON JOHNSON's Floor Sanding, Installation, Repairs, 3 coats polyurethane.

Free estimates. (413)569-3066.

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.

HAULING

A DUMP TRUCK Attic, cellars garages cleaned out. Wood and brush removal.

Handy-Man services plus painting.

(413)569-0794 (413)374-5377

HOME IMPROVEMENT AFFORDABLE BUILDING CONTRACTOR 21 Years experience.

Licensed & insured.

Repairs, Renovations & Construction. Specializing in Decks, Garages, Basement conversions. Additions, Log Cabins and Barn Repairs.

Veteran Owned & Operated 10% Sr. Discounts

Call Dave: 413-568-6440

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 !!

PIONEER VALLEY PROPERTY SERVICES 413-454-3366

FULLY INSURED (413) 626-6122 or visit: www.haggerscape.com _________________________

(413)330-3917

We are a family owned and operated, painting and home improvement company serving the Westfield area since 1986.

We specialize in residential/commercial, interior/exterior painting and staining, ceiling and drywall repairs, water damage repair, exterior home repairs, and carpentry of all types including roof repairs.

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"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

All your landscaping needs, Residential & Commercial ----Spring cleanups, seeding, plantings, mulching, topsoil, patios, walkways, lawn mowing and more!

----Now offering 5 step fertilizing programs! Sign up now for our program get the 5th application FREE!!

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ONE CALL DOES IT ALL!

Full Service Contracting

DAVE DAVIDSON: Bathroom & Kitchen Remodeling

Hagger's Landscaping Services LLC

LETOURNEAU & SONS PAINTING

JD BERRY GENERAL CONTRACTING

Call Jim: 413-530-5430 or 413-569-6920

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T&S LANDSCAPING Highest quality, lowest prices.

Lawn mowing. Residential & Commercial. Weekly/Bi-weekly No lawns too small

Call Bill for your FREE no obligation estimate (413) 977-9633 or (413) 562-5727

Framing, siding, windows, doors. Site work, additions, garages and decks.

Trim work.

Fully Insured CS 077728 H.I.C. 129700 37 Years Experience

LANDSCAPING & LAWN CARE

PROFESSIONAL PAINTING Low, low prices! Residential & Commercial. Interior/Exterior painting. Sheet-rock repair.

Ceilings, walls and Light carpentry.

Free Estimates 413-333-6321 or 860-741-5588

LANDSCAPING & LAWN CARE ACCURATE LAWNCARE Leaf & Brush Removal Gutter Cleaning Trimming & Mowing, Snow Removal with Sanding Family owned & operated Call (413)579-1639 accuratelawncare2013 @gmail.com

Plumley Landscape, Inc. Call us today for all your landscape needs. Design and planting, irrigation installation and repair, complete yard renovations. Drainage problems, stump grinding, chipper service, bobcat service, gravel driveways, excavation and demolition, including in-ground and above ground swimming pools.

LAWNMOWER REMOVALS FREE Removal of Junk Riding Lawnmowers Will remove any junk riding lawnmowers and will buy lawnmowers in running condition.

Call anytime: 860-216-8768

LOGGING 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

MASONRY 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 or (413)374-5377

413-862-4749

Complete Home Renovations, Improvements, Repairs & Maintenance. Kitchens, Baths, Basements, Decks, Siding, Windows, Painting, Flooring and more.

PAINTING & WALLPAPERING

MULCH! MULCH! MULCH! -----------------

Rental Property Management, Turnovers and Repair Services.

CSL Licensed, HIC Reg. Fully Insured - Free Estimates & References

Others try to match our price...but can't beat our quality.

Accepting most competitors coupons. We deliver. Run by veterans.

Green Meadow Lumber 568-0056

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

SAWMILL DIRECT BEST QUALITY

APARTMENT 3 & 4 Room, 1 Bedroom $750-$800 p/month. Includes heat & hot water, on-site laundry and storage unit.

1st/Last rent. 413-562-2295

WESTFIELD: 1 Room efficiency, No pets, $650 p/month includes utilities. First/last/security.

413-250-4811

floram@thewestfieldnewsgroup.com • PROFESSIONAL SERVICES • To Advertise call 413-562-4181 Ext. 118 FLOORING & FLOOR SANDING

WESTFIELD: 53 Carroll Drive, Thurs/Fri, July 13th/14th, 9AM3PM. ANTIQUE & YARD SALE! Sports, Collectibles, Furniture, Clothes, Man-Cave Items!

SAWMILL DIRECT BEST QUALITY

business DIRECTORY CHIMNEY SWEEPS

TAG SALES

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

RAIN GUTTERS RAIN GUTTERS CLEANED & REPAIRED Chimneys repaired and chimney caps installed.

Antennas removed. Roof leaks repaired, vent areas sealed.

Senior citizen discount. Insured.

Free estimates.

H.I. Johnson Services (413)596-8859 (before 9pm)

STUMP GRINDING K & B STUMP GRINDING Serving the Westfield Area Since 1988.

Clean-up Available.

Fully Insured; Reliable; Experienced & Professional.

(413) 562-9128

WESTFIELD: 2 bedroom townhouse apartment with 1 bath in quiet neighborhood near park.

Recently renovated kitchen and floors. Private basement with washer/dryer hookups. Private driveway. $975, no utilities. NO SMOKING! Available 8/1/17.

1st/Last/Security deposit required. Background Checks.

Call 413-454-7593

Westfield: 2 Room efficiency.

All utilities included. $170 p/wk. Single person occupancy only. Call for appointment. 413-262-3398

WESTFIELD: Large 1 bedroom, 1st floor. Heat/Hot Water included. Off-street parking.

Laundry on-site. No smoking.

Walk to down-town. $750 p/month.

413-237-3774

ROOMS

HUNTINGTON 1 room with heat, hot water, cable TV, air conditioning, refrigerator and microwave included. $110 p/week.

Call (413)531-2197 WESTFIELD: LARGE PARTIALLY FURNISHED ROOM: Heat, hot water, electricity, and cable included. Central location.

Parking, bus route. Nonsmoking. Male preferred. $95/weekly. 413-562-1973

TRUCK SERVICE TOP TRUCK SERVICES CORP. Family Owned Servicing Western Mass since 1998

Truck & Trailer Repair We repair Pick-ups, Vans, SUVs & Campers in addition to light, medium, and heavy duty diesel trucks.

NAPA Truck Service Budget Truck Rental Location 24-Hour Emergency Service Fleet Repair MA Inspection Station "No truck or job too big or too small" 165 Bliss St. West Springfield, MA

413-788-6787 top-truck.com

TREE SERVICE American Tree & Shrub: Removal, pruning, bucket/crane work. Stump grinding, light excavation and tree planting.

Firewood Available Fully Insured, Free Estimates.

24-hour Emergency Services.

Veteran Owned 40 yrs. Experience 413-569-0469

UPHOLSTERY 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.

WINDOW CLEANING CRYSTAL CLEAR WINDOWS Cleaned inside and out!

Including storms and screens.

Fully insured. Free estimates.

Call Paul NOW for your SPRING appointment.

413-237-2053

OFFICE SPACE COMMERCIAL SPACE Retail, 800 sq.ft. Five miles from Westfield High School. $800/month includes utilities.

413-977-6277

MONTGOMERY: 5 miles past Westfield High School. Spacious office in Montgomery Marketplace. $350 includes utilities and free Wi-Fi. 413-977-6277

WESTFIELD: Furnished office for rent, one room, 1st floor with private bathroom. $400 per month includes utilities, ample parking, security deposit required.

413-568-1957

MOBILE HOMES Ware -1980 3-Bedrooms. 14' x 67'. Many updates. Spacious.

Lots of cabinets, counter space, storage. $58,000 plus co-op fee.

413-593-9961 DASAP.MHVILLAGE.COM

SERVICES A DUMP TRUCK Attic, cellars garages cleaned out. Wood and brush removal.

Handy-Man services plus painting.

(413)569-0794 (413)374-5377

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