Holyoke Community College’s Campus Center. Contributed Photo
GREENFIELD — The Community Health Center of Franklin County has awarded the 2022 Dr. Sarah Kemble scholarships — named in honor of its founder, who was a well-known advocate for health care for all — to four students. The recipients are:
■Paige Sulda from Turners Falls High School, who will be attending Emmanuel College in Boston.
■Jada Jurek from Turners Falls High School, who will be attending Greenfield Community College.
■Stella Clark from Mohawk Trail Regional School, who will be attending Merrimack College in North Andover.
■Kylie Lowell from Mohawk Trail Regional School, who will be attending Keene State University in New Hampshire.
All four recipients will be enrolled in nursing programs in the fall.
State Rep. Natalie Blais, D-Sunderland, will host both virtual and in-person office hours in the 1st Franklin District this month.
Blais will be at Montague Town Hall, 1 Avenue A, on Monday, July 25, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. These office hours are recurring on the fourth Monday of each month.
She will also hold virtual office hours, by request, every Friday from 8 to 9 a.m.
Constituents are welcome to drop in during in-person office hours or contact Legislative Aide Corinne Coryat at corinne.coryat@mahouse.gov or 413-362-9453 to schedule an appointment. To receive a link for virtual office hours, also contact Coryat.
Twenty Franklin County students were named to the Dean’s List at Holyoke Community College for the spring semester. They are:
Heather L. Amos and Jennifer Snow, both of Conway; Corbin Hall Blight, Breaunna Cathleen Garey, Mirasia Talay McGahan and John William McLaurin Jr., all of Greenfield; Sophie Margaret Dempster-Greenbaum and Laura Leigh ZiOliver, both of Leverett; Angela Lee Ramage, Raichelle Lynn Doyle, Lucinda Jordan and Tiffany Lenore Carner, all of Montague; Jillian Lee Gadreault of Northfield; Logan Edward Gamache, Devon Peterson, Brett Louis Robinson, David Williams and Jessica Paige Wrisley, all of South Deerfield; Sarah L. Wels of Sunderland; and Benjamin Bardwell of Whately.
A student is placed on the Dean’s List if their grade point average is 3.2 or higher.
NORTHAMPTON — With summer officially here, the Northwestern District Attorney’s Child Fatality Review Team is reminding everyone to keep children’s safety at the forefront when it comes to summer dangers involving swimming and water play, open windows and hot cars.
“We don’t want summertime to lead to tragedies that are preventable. We hope this campaign will remind people to take appropriate safety precautions,” Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan said in a press release. “Water and heat can lead to accidents, and vigilance is key to child safety.”
Child fatalities that occur within the jurisdiction of the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office are reviewed by the Child Fatality Review Team, which assesses whether they could have been prevented and issues recommendations for change. Last year, the team identified open windows, bodies of water and hot cars as particular dangers to children in the summer months, launching a public information campaign in an effort to prevent child deaths. Child Fatality Review Teams are mandated by state law.
“Those teams are proactive, not punitive, and part of our obligation to find ways to save young lives when deaths are preventable,” Sullivan said in the press release.
The full awareness campaign, “Keeping infants and children safe must be our top priority,” also targets infant sleeping safety. The campaign offers tips for working toward safer practices, including:
Sleep Safe: Always place babies on their back to sleep and never co-sleep.
Window Safe: Open windows from the top down and use stops to keep windows from opening more than 4 inches.
Car Safe: Actively use prompts like placing a bag or lunch in the backseat where an infant is buckled in to prevent accidentally leaving an infant in a car.
Water Safe: Test locks on pool fencing regularly, install pool drain covers and be wary of risks beneath the surface of natural bodies of water.
Public service announcement posters are available for posting in public places by reaching out to the DA’s office using the contact form at bit.ly/3oeomrj.
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