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Sharing Timely Info to Address Needs of CT's Sharon Hospital Maintaining Maternity Services

on Mon, 12/05/2022 - 04:50

The Following Is A Copy Verbatim of the Ways to Submit Personal Testimonies (can be both written and oral) on Dec. 5th and 6th, 2022. There is more coverage on 'both sides of the issue' in The Lakeville Journal of CT (with digital access via TriCornerNew.com) and many local NWCT libraries including North East in Millerton NY having a print copy of the paper.

Learn more About BerkShares.org (from their newsletter below) and

on Wed, 11/30/2022 - 21:38

Find our more about BerkShares.org to see how this effort is showing folks how to 'keep it local' and create meaningful connections and examples for others too! BerkShares in a local currency (based in the Berkshires of MA, in Great Barrington MA, the Southwestern part of MA and a bit beyond) Here's a bit from their newsletter!

Did you know that BerkShares can be spent at limited small businesses in New York and Northwestern Connecticut? One such establishment is Random Harvest, just five miles west of the Massachusetts border in Craryville, NY.

Random Harvest's vision mirrors much of what

Notes After a Toastmaster Contest Experience (more of those online now in the 2020s) Regular meetings too, many online to visit!

on Wed, 11/30/2022 - 21:27

Looking at The Berkshire Eagle Tuesday, Nov. 29th (a good friend's birthday so Happy 59th most dedicated petcare sitter I know whose helped hundreds over the decades!) I learned of 1Berkshire Entrepreneurs Networking (BEN may be what one group was called or maybe this one is similar...) They were offering an open house at CATA, Community Access to The Arts and it was held at their spectacular space at 420 Stockbridge Rd in Great Barrington MA. I saw a former Toastmaster friend who works at SBA in MA along with others, helping a few hundred people get their businesses up and running.

Timely Request for Info and Advocacy to Save Sharon Hospital Maternity Ward and Services

on Wed, 11/30/2022 - 18:44

 A Letter to Support the Maternity Ward at Sharon Hospital of CT (copied and shared without any edits)

Earlier this year, the corporate owner of Sharon Hospital, Nuvance Health, applied to Connecticut’s healthcare and hospital regulator, the Office of Health Strategy (OHS), to close the maternity unit at Sharon Hospital.

The maternity unit remains open at this time. We have been working alongside the non-profit community group, Save Sharon Hospital, to prevent this closure, and we are asking for your assistance in helping us to do everything we can to keep maternity open.

The decision on

After the Walmart tragic loss of workers to their leader's missed warnings of danger...

on Wed, 11/30/2022 - 15:46

Thousands of people are trying to process the sudden loss of people who worked together at Walmart and are seeking information as to whether there were warning signs. Apparently one woman had filed a report in September about him asking rudely if it wasn't time for her to think about having kids, and also commenting that she was short and such to a point her mother felt concerned for her safety. He had a review but was put back in his role of a leader. When sharing on the comments about what could be done not only by management, but also workers, I offered the following.

There should be a

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