St. Stanislaus School benefit, 9 to 4 in Kolbe Hall, Adams. Bake sale, snack bar, games, Chinese auctions, money raffle, crafts, and pierogi.
Blackinton Union Church, 1373 Massachusetts Ave., North Adams; 10 to 2. Crafts table, bake sale, Chinese auction, the Christmas table, and kid's grab bag. Lunch $4, $2 kids.
First Congregational Church, North Adams, 9-2.
Nov. 28 Becket Federated Church, Route 8, holiday bazaar from 9-3. Lunch, crafts, baked goods, holiday and other items. Information: Mary Peltier, Parish House, 413-623-5217.
Dec. 5
Holiday Fair at First Congregational Church, 25 Park Place, Lee, from 10 to 3; handcrafted items, raffles, children's shop, bake sale, cut Christmas trees and lunch from 11 to 1. Includes angel-themed goods from SERRV. Information, 413-243-1033 or www.ucc-lee.org.
Dec. 12-13
North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Information: Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.
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Joan M. McMenemy the recipient of its 2008 Community Service Award
01:49PM / Thursday, February 05, 2009
The Massachusetts Bar Association has named Second Assistant District Attorney Joan M. McMenemy the recipient of its 2008 Community Service Award. MBA President Edward W. McIntyre presented the award to McMenemy on January 31, 2009, at the Berkshire Bar Association's Winter Ball at the Cranwell Resort and Golf Club in Lenox. She is the first prosecutor to receive this honor since the Bar Association began presenting the award in 1984.
This award is given annually to a member of each county bar association whose contributions to the community, outside of their professional obligations and duties, improve the county's quality of life. Among McMenemy's accomplishments, and the basis for her nomination, was her work with the Juvenile Fire setters Prevention Program, the Flash Point Anti-Hate Crime Program, and the Pittsfield Coalition for Cultural Diversity. She also voluntarily provides training to local agencies and police departments on the investigation of child abuse, sexual assault, and arson. In 2000, the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly named McMenemy one of the state's up and coming lawyers and she has continued to distinguish herself in a number of capacities in the District Attorney's Office, including serving as the Chief of the Child Abuse and Sexual Assault Unit.
McMenemy, a native of Worcester and a graduate of Vassar College and Suffolk University Law School, joined the Berkshire District Attorney's Office in 1994. She has prosecuted cases in every criminal court in the county. In 2005, District Attorney David F. Capeless named McMenemy his Second Assistant District Attorney.
