NEWS VIBER

SOUTH HADLEY — 1st responders, regulation enforcement officials and professional medical gurus have a probability to gain a new roof from Adam Quenneville Roofing & Siding.

Any individual at this time working as a firefighter, law enforcement officer, correctional officer, deputy sheriff, parole officer, doctor, nurse, paramedic or EMT can enter on-line via Jan. 31 at 1800newroof.net. Entrants should dwell in the home and get the job done in western or central Massachusetts or northern Connecticut.

Winners will be drawn at random from all entries and revealed in February. Do the job will be accomplished in 2023.

In 2021, Officer Thomas Dore of the Holyoke Police Office was the grand prize 911 Roof Giveaway winner, and his roof was set up on June 4. Officer Olivia Daly of the Pittsfield Police Office won a roof shampoo, and Northampton nurse David Shea received the roof procedure.

HCC welcomes new director of advertising and marketing

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Community Faculty has employed Jane Johnson Vottero of Wilbraham as its new director of marketing and advertising and strategic communications.

Vottero joins HCC just after 21 decades at Springfield University, in which she has worked as supervisor of editorial expert services, publications director, director of govt communications, and, most lately, editorial director. Her operate consists of award-successful publications, executive speech creating, supervision of inventive and volunteer groups, advertising strategies, newspaper reporting, freelance correspondence, advancement writing, website producing, movie manufacturing, and strategic communications for enterprises, nonprofits, and political and social problem campaigns.

At HCC, Vottero will oversee the operations of advertising, media relations, social media, graphic style, site administration, publications, and other inside and exterior communications.

Vottero retains a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a master’s diploma in psychology from Springfield Faculty. She has worked as a author, editor, and publicist in western Massachusetts, including at Baystate Health and fitness Systems, the Western Massachusetts Organization Journal (now Company West), the Westfield Night Information, and Barron’s Company and Financial Weekly.

Flexibility Credit score Union youngsters holiday offering campaign 

SPRINGFIELD — Independence Credit score Union is once again keeping its Cherish the Children 2022 marketing campaign with the local Massachusetts Division of Children and Families (DCF). As a result of Dec. 22, Flexibility invites its users, staff and the entire local community to pick a child’s want from the tree inside each and every of its branches and return to spot the requested reward beneath the tree.

DCF furnished Liberty with “wish lists” that provided children’s names, ages and reward ideas. Freedom personnel members produced a tag for just about every child’s wish and hung it on their branch’s Christmas tree. Associates of the general public are inspired to take a tag, purchase the reward the baby requested, and then provide it back — unwrapped and with the tag hooked up — to spot less than the tree.

The objective is to present gifts for 500 spot kids, the credit score union mentioned. The Hampshire County branch is positioned in Northampton.

Luther Belden named sustainable enterprise of the 12 months

HATFIELD — Luther Belden Inc. of Hatfield was named the 2022 Sustainable Small business of the Calendar year – Regional Farm by the Sustainable Enterprise Community of Massachusetts.

Luther Belden Inc. is a family-owned and operated farm that has been cultivating the land, caring for animals, and supplying sustainable dairy merchandise due to the fact 1661 throughout 13 generations of farmers. Currently, the farm and accompanying farm stand are run by Darryl and Lucinda Williams, their son, Jackson, and his spouse, Jill.

Environmental stewardship has been a central tenant all over the farm’s 360-in addition- yr heritage. Among its highlights are:

■Operating an anaerobic methane digester that has been manufacturing renewable electricity to electrical power the farm and the encompassing local community because 2019. The digester also assists to deal with foodstuff waste from community dining establishments.

■Using sustainable farming methods including no-till planting and deal with crops to boost soil well being.

■Participating in the Farmers Assuring Dependable Management (FARM) Environmental Stewardship method and the Sustainable Farms Committee via Agri-Mark, a farmer-owned cooperative.

This calendar year, Luther Belden Inc. is also a host farm for Discover Dairy’s Adopt a Cow plan. They’re welcoming above 25,000 Massachusetts students onto their farm pretty much to abide by a calf as she grows all over the university calendar year and study about her daily life on a New England dairy farm.

Luther Belden Inc. will be regarded at the Sustainable Organization Awards Celebration on Jan. 26.