2008-2009 Berkshire Business and Professional Women’s Woman of Achievement

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The Berkshire Business & Professional Women’s (BPW) Woman of Achievement Committee has selected June Roy-Martin as the 2008-2009 Woman of Achievement. Roy-Martin is the Communications, HR & Business Development Manager at Quality Printing Company in Pittsfield where she has worked since 1985. June balances this with her other full time job of wife and mother of two children and her admirable commitment to community causes.

June is currently a board member of the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce, the Berkshire Visitors Bureau, and the Berkshire Compact for Higher Education. June serves as a steering committee member of the Berkshire Leadership Program, a marketing/events committee member of Downtown Inc, a school council member and PTO member at Williams Elementary School and Berkshire United Way employee campaign manager. She has chair the Berkshire BPW Scholarship committee for the last three years. She resides in Pittsfield with her husband and two sons.

In addition, June is a member of the Berkshire Management Association, the Human Resource Association of Berkshire County and Women Helping Empower Neighborhoods (WHEN). The Berkshire Business & Professional Women will host a banquet to honor June on Monday October 20, 2008 at the Country Club of Pittsfield.

Proceeds from the event allow the Berkshire BPW to award scholarships to workingwomen from Berkshire County for career advancement. This year, the Berkshire BPW was able to award $5000 in scholarships to workingwomen throughout Berkshire County.
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Force 16U Defends Home Field with Tourney Title

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – The Berkshire Force 16U travel softball team Sunday rallied for three runs in the top of the seventh inning to pull away for an 8-4 win in the championship game of their Battle of the Berkshires tournament at the Doyle Complex.
 
Ava McMahon struck out six and gave up just one run after the first inning as the Force completed a 3-0 run through the playoffs after going 1-2 in pool play.
 
Mollie Crawford, Amelia Polidoro and McMahon each drove in a run in the late rally that finally gave McMahon a little bit of breathing room.
 
The Force jumped on top early with three runs in the top of the first, but the Nor’Easters out of New Hampshire’s Lakes Region responded right away, tying the game.
 
In the second, Amaya Alger (3-for-3) singled, moved up on Mackenzie Biros’ sacrifice bunt and scored on a combination stolen base/errant throw to give the Force a 4-3 lead it never relinquished.
 
But Berkshire missed chances to add to that lead in the third, fourth and fifth, leaving runners in scoring positions in each inning.
 
Meanwhile, McMahon was brilliant in the circle after a rough first inning, striking out six, walking just one and allowing three earned runs in a complete-game effort.
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