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Feed Your Mind, Feed a Family: NORTH ADAMS -- The Transcript and Stop & Shop Supermarkets presented 20 turkeys, averaging 12 pounds each, along with all of the "fixings" to the North Adams Salvation Army on Tuesday -- the first distribution of the "Feed Your Mind, Feed a Family" initiative.
"This is just wonderful," Maj. Ralph Hansen, of the Salvation Army, said. "We’ll be distributing about 400 take-out dinners [tonight]. We’ve been cooking turkeys for the last few days. We’ve also been preparing about 100 pounds of potatoes, sweet potatoes and carrots. These turkeys and boxes of food, will help us feed the stragglers who come in and will also supplement our emergency food pantry."
The "Feed Your Mind, Feed a Family " initiative, which runs through Jan. 15, is a circulation drive that aims to feed the needy during the holiday season
Jennifer Huberdeau is writing this story and can be reached at jhuberdeau@thetranscript.com, on Twitter @NAT_DigitalJen, or by phone at 413-663-3741, ext. 227.
Special demonstration for forensics class: NORTH ADAMS -- An off-duty North Adams Police officer was taken hostage by a woman in a black ski mask, demanding $100,000 in cash and a helicopter, outside of Sullivan Elementary School on Monday afternoon.
Holding a chisel to the neck of off-duty Police Officer Greg Onorato, the assailant barked orders at science teacher James Holmes and the 20 students in his after-school forensics class, as she waited for her demands to be met.
Within minutes, city officers assigned to the Berkshire County Special Response Team rolled onto the scene in its special armored vehicle and had the woman in custody.
Although the hostage situation wasn’t real -- it was a mock presentation put together for the after-school program -- officers Onorato, Tony Beverly and Zachary Wood treated it as if it were.
"The guys are really good to us," Holmes said. "We work with the North Adams police and fire departments and the State Police. They all volunteer their time when they’re here. We like to do one cool thing a year with the after-school program."
Jennifer Huberdeau is writing this story and can be reached at jhuberdeau@thetranscript.com, on Twitter @NAT_DigitalJen, or by phone at 413-663-3741, ext. 227.
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