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Repair and paint or restock Book Houses. To learn how, contact Brenda Petell at bpetell@berkshireunitedway.org.

Thank you to anyone who had donated books and to volunteers who have restocked Book Houses this month.

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Join Clean Up Crew 413 (a local grassroots organization) in cleaning up Pittsfield parks. See their monthly schedule on Instagram @cleanupcrew413.

Coming soon

Gladys Allen Brigham Community Center camp cleanup for Girls Inc. Details and sign up to follow here.

Thank you to UNICO of Pittsfield for cleaning up Conte Community School (see photos on our Facebook and Instagram pages) and to all the volunteers who spruced up Downtown Adams on April 10 (see photos on Northern Berkshire United Way's Facebook page).

Thank you to volunteers who helped Berkshire Natural Resources Council clean up the trail at Alford Springs on April 24 in honor of Virginia "Ginger" Smith and to volunteers with Construct Inc. who cleaned up roads in South County on April 25.

Thank you to Matthew Martin and The Outreach Program, and the more than 100 volunteers who made the food assembly event at St. Mary's School in Lee such a success. This included those who set up the gym on April 16, assembled 40,000 food packets on April 17, and delivered to food pantries and seniors on April 19.

In addition to many individuals from the community, several organizations were represented: 18 Degrees, Rotary Club of Pittsfield, Kiwanis Club of Pittsfield, UNICO, Lee Food Pantry, Town of Lee, Pittsfield High School, Lee Greener Gateway Committee, Girl Scout Troop 64557, Literacy Network of South Berkshire, Unistress, Lee Bank, and Williamstownies, as well as Berkshire United Way, Northern Berkshire United Way and Berkshire Bounty.

Thank you to the Berkshire Bank team for packing up bags on April 20.

Follow our social media pages to see photos from this event.

See volunteers in action

Thank you to the volunteers who joined Berkshire United Way and Northern Berkshire United Way at Berkshire Family YMCA in North Adams on April 22 to present a live StoryWalk™ and to the volunteers from Barrington Stage Company and Carr Hardware for joining BUW in Pittsfield on April 23 to present a live StoryWalk™ to the Boys & Girls Club of the Berkshires, Gladys Allen Brigham Community Center and Berkshire Family YMCA.

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Thank you to Lenox Memorial Middle and High School students, as well as parents and community volunteers, for planting trees on April 24 to replenish the school's paper usage.

Over 200 trees were purchased through a fundraiser by the Climate Crisis Control Club, led by teacher Scott Wade.