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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Mammography Dispute The government's issued controversial new guidelines stating that women shouldn't get annual mammograms until age 50, rather than age 40.
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Latin America Scholar to Address U.S.-Cuba Relations
11:02AM / Tuesday, October 27, 2009
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Julia Sweig, the Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, will give a lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. in Griffin Hall, room 7 on the Williams College campus. This event is free and open to the public.
The talk, titled "U.S.-Cuba Relations in the Twenty-First Century," is the third lecture in a series on "The Cuban Revolution: 50 years later." The series is sponsored by the Stanley Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy and the Oakley Center.
Sweig is the author of numerous books; her most recent, "Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know," was published in June 2009. Sweig has also written numerous publications on Latin America and American foreign policy. Her book, "Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground," received the American Historical Association's Herbert Feis Award for best book of the year by an independent scholar.
Sweig serves on the international advisory board of the Brazilian Center for International Relations. From 1999-2008, Sweig served as a consultant on Latin American affairs for The Aspen Institute's Congressional Program.
She received her B.A. from the University of California and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
