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Janet Rickus, Artist

Minneolas & Blue Bowls, a still life oil painting created by Janet Rickus, adorns the cover of this issue.Janet was born and raised in Chicopee, MA. She graduated with a BS from Central Connecticut State

University in 1971, and began her 30-year career painting still lifes in 1983. She now resides in Great Barrington, MA.

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6 food & drink special feature EGGPLANT STEAKS RASPBERRY SALSA SHRIMP SALAD ANGEL FOOD CAKE CORN SOUFFLE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE QUARK BAVARIAN QUARK PANCAKES

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art, culture & entertainment

The Road Less Traveled-Creative DetoursAugust thru September 8

Open Fri thru Mon 11am - 5:30pm www.facebook.com/stfrancisgallery

Artist’s Reception on August 9 from 3-6pm

Route 102 (Next to the Fire Station)South Lee, MA ● (413) 717-5199

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About Face-Face to Face with ImaginationSeptember 12 thru October 19

Artist’s Reception on September 20 from 3-6pm

Lecture Series

August 5: Cassandra Albinson Edwardian Opulence: Your Day in “Court” or How to Dress to Meet the MonarchAugust 12: Francis Morrone The Lenox Five by Society Architects Rotch & TildenAugust 19: Robert Asplund WWI Breaks Out in Lenox: The Dumba AffairAugust 26: Jay A. Clarke The Manton Collection at the Clark: A Premier Repository of British Art

August 7: Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny KembleAugust 14: All This, and Heaven TooAugust 21: The Age of Innocence August 28: Ethan Frome

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M inneolas & Blue Bowls, the striking still life oil painting created by Janet Rickus, adorns the cover of this August-September issue of Our BerkshireTimes magazine.

Janet was born and raised in Chicopee, Massachusetts, then moved as a young girl to West Springfield, where her par-ents operated a grocery store. She graduated with a BS from Central Connecticut State University in 1971, and began her 30-year career painting still lifes in 1983. She now resides in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Janet�s still lifes are painted actual size, at eye level, and are of-ten arranged on a surface covered with crisply ironed or softly draped table linens. She always paints during the day in natural light. Whether she’s painting pears or squash, turnips or pep-pers, she precisely captures the color, shape, texture, and shadow of her subjects. She is meticulous and unhurried, selecting just the right specimens, arranging them just so, and painting them with great concentration and precision, demonstrating expert technique comparable to the Dutch and French still life masters. Although carefully selected and arranged by the artist, Janet’s fruits and vegetables seem to have developed relationships of their own. They interact in friendly harmony, sometimes leaning against one another, sometimes huddled together in a cluster.

Janet�s paintings are held in major public and private collections internationally and she has been featured in multiple group and solo exhibitions in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, and Florida. She was honored with an exhibition of her work at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts in 2001, and awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in Painting in 2006. Janet�s artwork is included in a number of private collec-tions, including those of television personality Jane Curtin and the late actor Jason Robards.

~ Contact or visit the Harrison Gallery in Williamstown, MA, for more in-formation. (413) 458-1700, www.theharrisongallery.com. You can also see more of Janet�s work at Gallery Henoch in New York, (917) 305-0003, www.galleryhenoch.com.

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Kushi Institute Macrobiotic Summer Conference

Date: Sun, Aug 3-17, 2014, 7am-9pmPlace: Kushi Institute, 198 Leland Road, Becket, MA - (413) 623-5741, Price: $93 This is a unique two-week educational program featuring lectures on health, wellness, and organic cooking through macrobiotic principles and offering more than 34 cooking demonstra-tions, yoga, tai chi, and lectures from doctors, nutritionists, and wellness experts. Enjoy some of the best vegan, macrobiotic meals in the country! Contact Marisa directly at (413) 623-5741 ext 102 or [email protected]. www.kushiinstitute.org/summer-conference

WeeMuse AdventureDate: Fri, Aug 8, 2014, 11-11:30amPlace: Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA - (413) 443-7171. Price: Free with museum admissions. Little ones can explore the aquarium and three museum galleries! Each week features songs, stories, scavenger hunts, play time, and more. This program is geared towards children 18 months to 3 years. Older and younger siblings welcome! www.berkshiremuseum.org

Butterfly & Bug Safari

Date: Sat, Aug 9, 2014, 10:30am-12noonPlace: Project Native, 342 North Plain Road, Housatonic, MA - (413) 274-3433, Price: Free. Join us on an adventure through the farm. We will go on a safari with nets, bug boxes, and magnifying glasses to find eggs, caterpillars, and butterflies to relocate into the Butterfly House. We will identify the butterflies we collect and in some cases release them into the Butterfly

House. All ages are welcome to participate. Please note, safaris do require walking on un-even ground, and children should be accompa-nied by a parent or guardian. Participants will gather at Project Native (weather permitting).

West African Dance, Drum, and Textile WorkshopDate: Mon, Aug 11, 2014, 8:30am-1pmPlace: PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, 2980 Route 66, Chatham, NY - (518) 392-6121. Price: $175/$150 mem-bers for the week-long day camp program. Scholarships are available. For ages 8 to 18 exploring West African dance and drumming with the Jamal Jackson Dance Company and textiles with fiber artist Susannah White. www.ps21chatham.org/youth_workshops

Magic Show: Ed the Wizard!

Date: Mon, Aug 11, 2014, 6:30pmPlace: Cheshire Community Center, School Street, Cheshire, MA - (413) 743-4746Price: Free. To kick off the Cheshire Library�s summer reading program for 2014, Ed the Wizard will perform magic and share how reading made him the magician he is today. Sign up for “Fizz, Boom, Read!” summer reading at the event, and for our special Wednesday SummerTimes reading and craft program for children ages 4-8.www.cheshirepubliclibrary.wordpress.com

Third Thursdays at Berkshire MuseumDate: Thurs, Sept 18, 2014, 5-8pmPlace: Berkshire Museum, 39 South Street Pittsfield, MA - (413) 443-7171Price: FreeThe streets and sidewalks of downtown Pittsfield will fill with live music, street performers, great shopping, outdoor dining, new art, and thousands of people as 3rd Thursdays returns for 2014. Admission to the Berkshire Museum is free during the City of Pittsfield’s Third Thursdays celebrations. www.berkshiremuseum.org


food & drink special feature

eggplant steaksFROM THE WEST STOCKBRIDGE FARMERS MARKET

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eggplant recipes that abound during the summer!

ingredientsItalian eggplants, cut to form six to eight 1½” to 2” steaks6+ cups tomatoes, cored, deseeded, diced (sweet and fresh)½ cup basil leaves, shredded3 cloves garlic, minced (more or less, to taste)1 cup unseasoned bread crumbs1½ cups feta cheese, crumbled OR ¾ cup freshly grated pecorino romano – depending on your mood1 T balsamic vinegar1 shallot, diced (optional)extra virgin olive oilkosher salt & freshly ground black pepper to taste

instructionsCoat a roasting pan with olive oil. Salt the eggplant steaks and set aside. In a large bowl, mix the other ingredients well, ad-justing ratios to your taste. Let set for 20 minutes. Rinse the eggplant steaks and pat dry. Gently brown the steaks on both sides in a hot skillet. Arrange steaks in the roasting pan. Top with tomato mixture. Roast at 325°F until steaks are tender and tomato mixture is just starting to brown. Serve and enjoy!

ingredientsplain corn chips½ cup raspberries (or blackberries) halved⅓ of a medium sweet onion, diced and rinsed1 large jalapeno, diced small, seeds in if you like it spicy2 to 3 cups of fresh tomatoes, diced juice from ½ lime¼ cup cilantro, loosely choppedsalt & pepper to taste

instructionsMix all salsa ingredients together. Let sit for at least 15 minutes. Serve with your favorite corn chips.

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shrimp saladWITH ARUGULA AND ASIAN PEAR

FROM THE WEST STOCKBRIDGE FARMERS MARKETby Mary Thibeault

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The base of this recipe is the wonderful arugula we have at Colfax Farm at our Market, so it�s always as fresh as can be. If frozen precooked shrimp are used, there is

no cooking involved, and the combined tastes contribute to a lovely, light dinner salad for a warm summer night.

ingredients¼ cup grape seed oil1 tsp raw honey½ tsp Dijon mustard1 T apple cider vinegar8 cups arugula1 asian pear, cored and thinly sliced¼ cup pecanssea salt & freshly ground black pepper to taste

instructionsIn a small bowl, whisk together the grape seed oil, honey, mustard and vinegar. Season with salt & pepper. Set aside. On a large plate, arrange arugula. Top with pecans and pear slices. Drizzle the dress-ing over the salad when ready to eat. Top with shrimp and serve.

angel food cakeFROM GUIDO'S KITCHEN - SERVES 10-12

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ingredients1½ cups sifted confectioner’s sugar1 cup sifted cake flour¼ tsp salt1½ cup egg whites, from 12 large eggs1½ tsp cream of tartar1 cup granulated sugar1 tsp vanilla

instructionsPreheat oven to 350°F. In a medium size bowl, sift together con-fectioner’s sugar, flour, and salt. Using an electric mixer, beat the egg whites until frothy. Add cream of tartar and beat until the egg whites form soft peaks. Add granulated sugar slowly and continue beating until the egg whites are thickened and form soft, droopy peaks. Beat in vanilla. Add ⅓ of sifted dry ingre-dients to the egg white mixture. Fold in gently with a rubber spatula until well combined. Fold in remaining dry ingredients, one third at a time. Gently pour batter evenly into ungreased tube pan and bake until the top is golden and a tester comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Allow the cake to cool completely.

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corn soufflé FUN TO MAKE, DELICIOUS & SATISFYING by Rachel Portnoy, Chez Nous, Lee, MA

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ingredients3 oz butter | 2 oz (½ cup) flour | pinch of cream of tartar24 oz milk | 6 eggs, separated5 ears fresh corn | ½ onion or 1 bunch scallions

instructionsPrepare molds: coat with soft butter and then bread crumbs.

Mince onion and sweat in butter. Cut corn off the cob, roast in a smoking hot pan or grill until slightly browned. Pulse corn slightly

in food processor. Make béchamel with butter, flour, and milk: melt butter, add flour, stir 1-2 minutes to cook out the flour, then add milk gradually, bring to boil, whisking, and then simmer until thick and doesn’t taste floury. Whisk in yolks. Whip whites with cream of tartar to medium-firm peaks. Mix béchamel with onion and corn. Fold in whites, season to taste.

Portion into prepared molds. Bake at 375◦F in a water bath until firm. Can chill when cooked and reheat when you want to serve. Makes twelve 6 ounce souffles.

The beauty of having a seasonal menu is to enjoy foods at their peak, of course. Sweet corn is one of those things that, when it�s local and fresh-picked, really needs no embellishment. At the restaurant, though, we like to

play with the seasonal ingredients and show them off in new and fun ways. Sweet corn season is just coming up, and here is the perfect recipe to enjoy it in a new and delicious way. Usually there is a runaway hit each summer that gets the most re-quests for recipes at our restaurant and this summer it is our light and corn-packed Sweet Corn Soufflé. A variation on the ever-popular Twice-baked Cheese Soufflé, ours has no cheese, but can be baked once, and then a second time when you’re ready to serve it, making it a truly easy dish! We hope you enjoy this recipe many times this summer, before the last of the corn disappears for the season.

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YES, QUARK! A DELICIOUS GERMAN FRESH-MILK CHEESE Submitted by Hawthorne Valley Farm Store, Ghent, NY

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The following recipes are two easy ways to use Hawthorne Valley Farm’s Quark cheese. Quark, which literally means curd, is a traditional Ger-man fresh-milk cheese. Various cuisines, especially cuisines of German-

speaking countries and of Slavic peoples feature quark as an ingredient for appetizers, salads, main dishes, side dishes, and desserts. Quark is a delicious substitute in recipes calling for sour cream or ricotta cheese. You can buy Quark at the Hawthorne Valley Farm Store. www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org

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Easy Chocolate Mousse Quark

ingredients1 dark chocolate bar½ cup powdered sugar16 oz Hawthorne Valley Farm Quark

instructionsMelt chocolate in a double boiler. Let chocolate cool slightly before whipping all ingredients together.

note To make a lighter mousse add 8 oz whipped cream.

Bavarian Quark Pancakes

ingredients1¼ cups Hawthorne Valley Farm Quark2 cups flourdash of salt1 cup Hawthorne Valley Farm buttermilk4 eggs1 T sugar¼ tsp baking soda

instructionsMix well. Cook in frying pan. Makes 14 pancakes.


fashion & beauty

15 Main Street, Lee413-243-0508

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IS HERE!Fashionable clothing for women, teens, and men, jewelry, art, pottery, china, textiles, and furniture.

Come have a cup of tea by the river and browse our delightful collection.

Bring your own goods to consign!

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STORE HOURS: Fri-Mon 11am-5pm | Sun 12-4pm

C atwalk is a brand-new women’s upscale resale boutique that was founded to benefit Berkshire

Humane Society (BHS). The clothing is hip, fashionable, and affordable with all pro-ceeds going to help the homeless animals of Berkshire County. Shopping at Catwalk is the ultimate “guilt-free” shopping expe-rience that we’ve all been looking for!

The store is run by three animal-loving volunteers who are totally committed to doing whatever they can to alleviate the suf-fering of homeless animals in the county.

Leslie Weil has been a BHS board member since 2010 and is currently the vice presi-dent of the board. In addition to all of her volunteer hours for BHS, she works part time at Chez Pet in Lenox. Leslie has an extensive background in interior design, sales, fashion, and graphic design. She lives in Stockbridge with her husband, Mark Lee, and their two rescue cats Tetley and Mikey.

Marsha Weiner has lived in the Berkshires since 1996. She has been involved with Purradise, the South County feline adop-tion center of BHS, since its inception in 2010. Marsha lives in Great Barrington with her husband, Dr. Ed Weiner, and their two rescue cats, Munro and Tyrone.

Mimi Rosenblatt (me!) relocated to the Berkshires in 2004. I have been a passion-ate animal lover my entire life. I became involved with BHS in 2010 as an original member of the Purradise Advisory Board where I have been able to put my public rela-tions and fund-raising experience to good use. When I�m not working at Catwalk, I teach fitness classes at Berkshire Functional Fitness and host Cat Chat, a weekly radio program on WSBS. I live in Great Barrington with my husband, Mark Lefenfeld, and our three res-cue cats, Tallulah, Paulie, and Roxanne.

Leslie, Marsha, and I are extremely proud of the success of Purradise, celebrating its

fourth anniversary in May with nearly 600 cats now placed in loving homes. Howev-er, fundraising is a full-time endeavor since Purradise (part of BHS) is supported solely by the generosity of many private donors.

Always looking for new and lucrative fundraising ventures, we decided to hold a weekend pop-up boutique in November 2013 to see if it could be a viable fund-raiser for BHS. Thus Café Chic was born in a mere two months. Women’s cloth-ing and accessories were gathered from far and wide, and by opening more than 2,000 items had been procured, cleaned, and tagged. It was a raging success, netting $10,000 in only a little over three days!

After we had time to rest and recuperate, we thought that it might be smart to change Café Chic from a pop-up boutique to an actual, year-round permanent endeavor. The BHS Board of Directors endorsed the idea as long as the name was changed. A brilliant volunteer came up with the name Catwalk, which all agreed was the perfect choice for this BHS venture.

Catwalk opened its doors Memorial Day Weekend and has been warmly and enthu-siastically embraced by the Berkshire com-munity. Donations are pouring in from all over the county and beyond. With new items arriving daily, there is truly something for ev-eryone! Donations of new and gently used current clothing may be dropped off at Cat-walk any time during business hours at 325 Stockbridge Road in Great Barrington, MA (behind Aegean Breeze). Hours of operation are Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from 10am-5pm; Saturday from 10am-4pm; Sunday from 12-4pm. Closed on Tuesday. All donations are tax deductible, and tax re-ceipts are provided upon request.

For more information, visit their web-site at www.catwalkboutique.org, go to the Catwalk Facebook page, or call (413) 717-4005.

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carton. Creatively ineffective packing, combined with violent handling, had transformed a set of beautiful hand-crafted masks into unrecognizable pieces of junk.

I looked at the stuff, assessing it for a moment, then said, “I can fix that.” Too quickly he replied, “Nobody can fix that!” Those were the words of a friend that started a hobby, which grew into a business. He stood there toting his losses while looking through boxes of broken things. They were newly arrived goods from his overseas buying trip, but the combination of foreign transport and the indifference of middlemen had taken their toll. I could see how beautiful they once were, and couldn’t stand to see them go in the garbage. The challenge was on. Like all of us, I was born with certain impulses that would later come to define my life, and two in particular combined that day: my desire to save beautiful things from the trash, and an innate instinct to best put something wrong to right.

Sooner or later, everyone winds up holding the broken pieces of a valued possession thinking it’s ruined – damaged beyond repair. It may be a piece of porcelain that belonged to your par-ents, or an old oil painting with a hole in it and a badly chipped gold leaf frame. Sometimes it’s damaged wooden furniture. I’ve done leather touch-up, stone table and marble mantelpiece repair. You name it, I’ve seen it, and I’ve fixed it. Once I even flew to Atlanta, Georgia to work on the painted ceiling of a custom motor home!

Everyone reacts differently when a valued possession is dam-aged. Some break out the glue and put the item together as best they can. Others think it’s the end of the line and throw that special something in the trash with a sad goodbye. Still others carefully gather all the pieces and put them in a box until they can find someone like me.

My joy is in their joy when I return a restored item back to its owner. Over the past twenty years, I’ve turned a lot of wreck-age back into works of art in a variety of forms – a missing fin-ger on a Hummel figurine, a chunk off a gilded picture frame, a hole poked clear through the canvas of an abstract painting, broken legs on a delicate chair, a scratch on a leather couch, a damaged marble fireplace, to name a few. I can honestly say that I love my work and I still enjoy the delight people express at seeing something they love looking “Good As Old” (my business name – clever, eh?). Following are some friendly tips you may find useful.

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Damage Prevention TipsNumber One: Moving It may be better to choose a mover from the area where you are moving to as opposed to where you are moving from. That way if there is an issue it will be more convenient to deal with it. Many moving companies hire temporary help and give them a tee shirt with their company name on it. You can guess the rest. I know some local movers in the Berkshire area who are a cut above the rest in terms of handling precious, fragile goods. Call me and I’ll tell you who they are!

Number Two: Pets I love cats. I have two of my own and I count them as dear friends. Many of you have dogs and I’m sure you feel the same way toward them. Consider your home environment. Is there an opportunity for your dog�s Godzilla-like tail to sweep objets d’art off their perch? Can your cat get between the objects on a shelf and a wall, knocking them down either accidentally, or, if you are not following kitty’s schedule properly, on purpose?

Number Three: Housekeepers Don’t set up your cleaning people to fail – place your objects where the accessibility is not perilous. If you expect to keep an object really clean, consider keeping it in a dust-free display case, and don’t crowd things or you risk a chain reaction!

Number Four: Shipping Do not underestimate the ability of shippers to break your valu-ables and wiggle out of insurance claims. When you ship some-thing and are asked if you want insurance, find out the following.

• What constitutes proof of value? Just because you bought $3000 dollars worth of coverage doesn’t mean they will pay that much, or anything at all.

• If you packed the item yourself, be prepared to prove it wasn’t broken before it went in the box. (I’m not kidding!)

• Find out what standard of packaging is considered adequate. Usually this means double boxed with a certain number of inches of padded space between cartons. For breakage claims, often the recipient needs to save all the packing materials to return to the shipper. If the person on the other end of the transport doesn’t work with you on this, the claim may be denied. The real lesson here is: Don’t waste your money on insurance, spend it on really good professional packing instead.

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Hardly a day passes that I am not in con-versation with pet owners seeking nat-

ural solutions to their pets’ chronic illnesses. More often than not, pet owners arrive seeking simple nutritional solutions to their pets’ itchy skin, yeasty ears, and the chronic vomiting and diarrhea that can result from years of poor nutrition; however, increas-ingly those conversations reveal a deep-seated level of chronic disease that crosses the lines of breed genetics and manifests as autoimmune disorders resulting from the body’s abnormal immune response. Autoimmune disorders can include can-cers, epilepsy, thyroid disease, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, inflammatory bowel, and allergic responses to multiple carbohydrate and protein sources, as well as allergies to trees and grasses, what I have come to call allergies to life. Our pets, and especially our dogs, are suffering from an epidemic of autoimmune disorders that go well be-yond simple nutritional solutions, although a healthy, natural diet can certainly help in the battle against chronic disease. An ever-increasing number of veterinar-ians and veterinary researchers are ac-knowledging the likelihood that the rise of chronic autoimmune disorders in our pets is directly linked to vaccinations. At the forefront of studying that cause and effect, and establishing minimal vaccina-tion safety protocols, is the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, now in year seven of its vaccination challenge studies. More than ten years ago, the American An-imal Hospital Association Canine Vaccine Taskforce offered the following (JAAHA 39 March/April 2003): “Current knowl-edge supports the statement that no vac-cine is always safe, no vaccine is always protective and no vaccine is always indicat-ed . . . Immunological memory provides durations of immunity for core infectious diseases that far exceed the traditional

recommendations for annual vaccination. This is supported by a growing body of veterinary information as well as well-developed epidemiological vigilance in human medicine that indicates immunity induced by vaccination is extremely long lasting and, in most cases, lifelong.” And an open letter appearing in the Veterinary Times UK, January 2004, of-fered an across-the-pond follow up to that JAAHA article: “Further, the evi-dence shows that the duration of immu-nity for rabies vaccine, canine distemper vaccine, canine parvovirus vaccine, feline panleukopaenia vaccine, feline rhinotra-cheitis and feline calicivirus have all been demonstrated to be a minimum of seven years, by serology for rabies and chal-lenge studies for all others.” Every time you enter a veterinarian’s exam room or speak on the telephone to a veteri-narian or veterinary assistant, you are acting as an advocate for your pet. That advocacy should include asking your veterinarian to blood-titer your pet for disease immunity, rather than re-vaccinating your pet.

And now take the quantum leap from pet advocate to pet health activist. Send a donation to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine’s www.

rabieschallengefund.org, and give your fa-vorite veterinarian and veterinary clinic a digital and print gift subscription to Dogs Naturally magazine. Be a pet health activist one veterinarian at a time, one veterinary clinic at a time.

~ Kristina “Tina” Dow is sole proprietor of BensDotter’s Pet, a pet supply store in Great Barrington. www.bensdotters.com

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The Northern Berkshire County Animal Rescue was es-tablished in 2009. Their founder, Carrie Loholdt, is the

North Adams and Savoy Animal Control officer. The shelter is a subsidiary of Great Danes Around New England Rescue, Inc., a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charity. Volunteers consist of animal control officers, veterinary techs, and others animal advocates. Their mission is to educate the public on the importance of spaying and neutering pets, and to rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home animals in need. Each family member adoption includes spaying and neutering, rabies and distemper vaccinations, de-worming, flea treatments, and behavior testing.

For a rewarding experience, consider volunteering at the shel-ter, or fostering an animal in your home. Generally fosters have the animal for up to two months (shorter or longer depending on the animal). The shelter will take care of the vetting of the animal and if needed will supply the food.

Monetary donations are greatly needed and very much appreci-ated. Please visit www.nbcar.org to make a quick, easy, secure, tax deductible contribution through PayPal, or send your check for the Northern Berkshire County Animal Rescue to PO Box 611, Adams, MA.

The Eleanor Sonsini Ani-mal Shelter is Pittsfield’s

municipal shelter, managed by Friends of Eleanor Sonsini An-imal Shelter, Inc., a nonprofit,

501(c)(3) public charity. They are dedicated to reuniting stray animals from Pittsfield with their owners, providing shelter and veterinary care for animals in need, and finding loving homes for adoptable, homeless animals. You can support the shelter in many ways including monetary donations, sponsorship pro-grams, foster parenting, making donations toward veterinary bills and pet meds, and dropping off the following items.

The shelter is located at 63 Downing Parkway in Pittsfield, MA, (413) 448-9800, www.sonsinianimalshelter.org

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In our daily lives, we participate in numerous activities to maintain our surroundings, as well as care for ourselves and others. As adults we take these activities for granted. Young

children, however, yearn to participate in practical matters.

Everything we do to care for the environment and ourselves makes up what can be called “practical life” activities. In a Mon-tessori home or school environment, practical life activities help a child learn about cultural norms, while also helping him develop internal motivation, intellect, and body coordination.

Practical life activities have two purposes: one is external and one is internal. The first purpose is to achieve something meaningful: Washing a table leads to a clean table. The second aim is to help the child develop internally.

As the child engages in purposeful work, he feels like an important part of the family or community. By beginning to help take care of his personal needs, he feels a sense of competence. Practical life activities help the child become psychologically and physically independent. By the time a 24-year-old begins life on his own, he should be able to provide for himself, be responsible for his actions, plan for his future, and perhaps even help support others. The little things we do early in a child’s life set him up for later success.

In a Montessori environment, the child has a place where practi-cal life activities are carefully prepared and presented to support emerging independence. The sink is at the child’s height. The faucet is easy to open and close. The soap container holds just enough soap to wash hands. The child can perform activities that previously were done to or for him.

The process of self-care can begin early in the child’s life by ap-proaching tasks with an attitude of collaboration. Even if a baby can’t do an action, he can have a sense of participating. We can invite participation, by saying things like, “I’m going to put on your shirt. Let’s put your arm through the sleeve.” As we allow for more and more collaboration, the child’s participation gradually increases. Op-portunities for collaboration can be as simple as offering something in front of the child, rather than actually putting it into his hands.

Eventually the child begins to imitate adult actions, which leads to the child performing tasks in his own unique way. This process is not com-pletely linear though, as some days a young child needs more support than others. At this point, we can offer loving support, while still up-holding a sense of the child’s involvement: “Let’s do this together.”

In addition to self-care, the Montessori environment provides numerous ways for the child to care for his surroundings. Through real and meaningful activities, the child develops a strong sense of community belonging.

In order for the child to be successful in this process of caring for his surroundings, the environment must be thoroughly prepared. Child-sized materials give the child an opportunity to participate in a purposeful way. The work must be real work, rather than an activity to keep the child busy, and the impact on the environ-ment must be clear. If the plants need water, the child can water the plants. If the floor is wet, the child can mop the floor. If a table is dirty, the child can scrub the table.

Parents often ask how to support their child’s practical life work at home. One easy and meaningful strategy is to create routines that help the child care for his home environment. He can clean up toys at the end of the day, set the table for dinner, or put dirty clothes in the laundry basket. The preparation for these activities isn’t elabo-rate and merely requires carefully selected items or furniture: a bas-ket in the room for laundry, special shelves for toys, or a low drawer prepared with items for setting the table. When thinking about how to create practical life activities, we can think about the following:

1. Will the activity help develop independence and coordination of movement?2. Can it be done independently?3. What skills are needed?4. Will this activity allow repetition?5. Is it culturally appropriate and necessary?6. Is it beautiful?7. Is the material child-sized?8. Is it logical?9. Is it safe?

In the process of learning how to care for himself and his sur-roundings, the child observes what is essential and makes the ac-tivity his own. As he internalizes the procedure, he starts to realize how capable he is. He puts his whole focus into his work, and then experiences great satisfaction in the process. Meaningful engage-ment in practical life activities allows the child to develop a strong sense of belonging and ultimately flourish into his fullest self. ~ K. Meagan Ledendecker is the Director of Education and cofounder of The Montessori School of the Berkshires. In addition to her Montessori teacher credentials, she is trained in Dunstan Baby Language and YogaEd. She has three children of her own. www.berkshiremontessori.org

practical lifeYOUNG CHILDREN YEARN TO PARTICIPATE IN PRACTICAL MATTERSby K. Meagan Ledendecker

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Come to Hancock Shaker Village’s Country Fair and Fall Festival!

Celebrate the bounty of the harvest on their spectacular grounds, September 27 and 28 from 10am to 5pm. Country Fair fills the Village with a bounty of fresh pro-duce and farm products, flowers, maple sugar treats, honey, artisanal cheeses, and

other locavore items. This classic New England harvest festival includes hayrides, chicken races, live music, and other fall fun!

Enjoy the food tent, live music, great shopping, agricultural dem-onstrations, and handmade gifts from dozens of regional craft vendors, including folk art paintings, hand-woven scarves and linens, jewelry, Shaker oval boxes, and other great gift items just in time for the holidays. Dozens of handmade quilts will be on display in the ell of the world-famous Round Stone Barn.

All you bakers, get your rolling pins ready for the Pie Contest, too! Rules and entry forms available online. Hancock Shaker Village is lo-cated at the intersection of Routes 41 and 20 in Pittsfield, MA. Chil-dren ages 12 and under are always free. Adult admission required.

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The Multicultural BRIDGE mission is to integrate community by promoting mutual respect, cultural literacy, and inclusion

through training, fellowship, advocacy, and education. Our 2014 summer and fall education programs include community educa-tion with forums on citizenship and immigration, race dialogues, Spanish conversation, and cultural literacy classes. These classes are for community members at large or for professionals who can bundle for PDPs and CEUs.

Our current school collaborations provide youth leadership training, family education and engagement, and many types of literacy courses. These courses range from reading and writing, financial literacy, and cultural heritage to health and mental health (mindfulness training) for grades K-12. BRIDGE is also a proud partner on opioid use and abuse prevention, and sex health initiatives with local partners.

Our professional training serves the Berkshires and beyond into Boston, MA, Canaan, NY, and Burlington, VT. For current classes, training, and upcoming community events, visit our website www.multiculturalbridge.org. Facebook: Multicultural BRIDGE or Twitter: BRIDGE413. Please also visit our “On the Bridge” blog highlighting the diversity of the Berkshires.

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Since 1971, the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School in Great Barrington, MA,

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Now in its 13th year and located around the corner from Norman Rockwell’s famous Main Street in Stockbridge, MA, the Great

Barrington Waldorf High School is a coeducational college preparato-ry school for 9th through 12th graders providing education that seeks truth, develops imagination, nurtures growth, fosters responsibility, and honors inner freedom. A 2:1 ratio of students to faculty creates an atmosphere of academic excellence, artistic fulfillment, openness, and mutual respect, with a mission to be affordable to all admitted students, including home-schoolers. www.waldorfhigh.org

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PART 1 - THE GREAT IMITATORby Kathy I. Regan / Look for Part 2 Next Issue - Healing Body, Mind & Spirit

living well with lyme disease

To say that Lyme disease is a con-troversial, political, and sensitive subject is a grand understatement.

Often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, mistreated, and vastly underreported, Lyme and its many potential coinfections (now being dubbed as Multiple Systemic Infectious Disease Syndrome, or MSIDS, by Lyme expert Dr. Richard Horowitz) is the number one vector-borne epidemic spreading throughout the world (possibly by more than ticks). And you may not know that you have it.

The Quest In my quest to find out more informa-tion about Lyme for Our BerkshireTimes magazine, in July of this year my research brought me to a three-day conference called Living Well with Lyme Disease, at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, NY, presented by the follow-ing esteemed Lyme-literate professionals.

Richard Horowitz, MD, medical director of the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center in Hyde Park, NY, where he has successfully treated more than 12,000 chronic Lyme disease patients, and the author of Why Can’t I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease. www.cangetbetter.com.

Tom Francescott, ND, naturopathic doctor, teacher, and founder of Dr. Tom�s Tonics, a naturopathic health center and pharmacy in Rhinebeck, NY, specializing in science-based detoxifi-cation and natural approaches to treat-ment. www.doctortomstonics.com.

Katina I. Makris, CCH, CIH, recov-ered Lyme patient, host of the weekly talk show Lyme Light Radio With Katina, and author of Out of the Woods: Heal-ing Lyme Disease, Body, Mind, and Spirit. www.katinamakris.com

The conference was well attended (by many health care practitioners as well as those dealing with Lyme) and I found

it to be an extremely informative and inspiring experience.

The Omega Institute

The Omega Institute is a nonprofit organization founded in 1977 on a beau-tiful 195-acre campus that draws more than 23,000 people each year to their enlightened workshops and educational programs delivered by the visionaries of our time. Described as a place to explore the extraordinary potential that exists in all of us, their serene yet vibrant setting and programs nurture both the integra-tion of modern medicine and natural healing and the connection of science with spirituality and creativity.

Many programs and professional training courses are held at the institute each day (www.eomega.org) from April through October. For people who wish to stay on campus, several options of accommodations are available. Here in the Berkshires we are easily within driv-ing distance so we chose to travel daily.

Guests at Omega have free use of the campus library, sauna, Sanctuary, lake, tennis courts, basketball court, woodland trails, and tranquil gardens. Omega�s Wellness Center offers a wide variety of services to benefit overall well-being, and all guests have the option to attend daily yoga, tai chi, meditation, and dance classes. Three delicious local and (when pos-sible) organic buffet meals are included daily in the community dining hall, and the Omega Café offers an additional place to eat, relax, and socialize.

Excellent childcare services are avail-able for children age four to twelve. The Children�s Program is designed to give your children their own unique Omega experience while you enjoy the workshop of your choice. Our 9-year-old daughter, Brianna, had a wonderful time. We found the staff, environment, and activities well monitored, nurturing, and fun.

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Lyme/MSIDS: The Great Imitator

Known in Lyme-literate circles as the Great Imitator, Lyme/MSIDS – those opportunistic and stealthy pathogens – can mimic many disease processes including chronic fatigue, arthritis, fibromyalgia, autoimmune conditions like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, Parkinson�s disease, general immune dysfunction, heart problems and palpitations, sleep disorders, thyroid disease, chronic pain, neurodegenerative disorders, severe anxiety and feelings of doom, gastrointestinal prob-lems, food allergies (dairy and grains in particular), unex-plained dental and eye problems, and the list goes on.

Newly infected individuals do not always display the “accept-able symptomolgy” of the well-known bullseye rash (less than 50 percent in fact) and testing remains notoriously inaccurate by most labs, leading to late stage or chronic Lyme. Even when treated, a percentage of people continue to exhibit ongoing disabling symp-toms. To add to the complexity of this issue, there are more than 100 strains of Lyme, and it often comes with a veritable cocktail of coinfections, including bacterial, viral, parasitic, and fungal in-fections that must be treated (differently than Lyme) and when overlooked, often account for a patient�s inability to get better.

Because so many doctors are inadequately trained, many pa-tients report seeing ten or more doctors and have suffered for months or years before being properly diagnosed. Once diag-nosed, there is much controversy over what is considered proper treatment, and patients are often left confused and depressed, fearful not only that they will not find a way to get better, but also that they will not be financially able to afford treatment.

But there is hope. People with chronic Lyme and Multiple Systemic Infectious Disease Syndrome can getting better with individualized treatment protocols, patience, and persistence. In the next issue of Our BerkshireTimes magazine, we will share our positive findings. In the meantime, following is some highly recommended material. Recommended Reading• Why Can’t I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease by Richard Horowitz, MD, www.cangetbetter.com• Out of the Woods: Healing Lyme Disease, Body, Mind, and Spirit by Katina I. Makris, www.katinamakris.com• Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, and You are the Placebo, by Dr. Joe Dispenza, www.drjoedispenza.com• Healing Lyme and Herbal Antibiotics by Stephen Harrod Buhner, www.buhnerhealinglyme.com• The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments and Lyme Disease and Rife Machines by Bryan Rosner, www.lymebook.com• The Salt/C Plus Protocol for Lyme Infection by M. Fett, www.fettnet.com/ lymestrategies/welcome.htm• The Lyme Disease Solution by Kenneth B. Singleton, MA, MPHRecommended Laboratory TestingIGeneX, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, (800) 832-3200. www.igenex.com

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six signs to watch forMULTIPLE SYSTEMIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE SYNDROME

MSIDS is a symptom complex of Lyme disease and multiple associated tick-borne coinfections that encompasses not only in-fections with Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiological agent of Lyme disease, but also other bacterial, viral, parasitic, and fungal infec-tions that can come from tick and potentially other insect bites. ~ The following information and more can be found in the book Why Can�t I Get Better? by Dr. Richard Horowitz, MD, an internationally respect-ed expert on Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. www.cangetbetter.com 1. You have more than one symptom (partial list).fatigue • joint and muscle pain or swelling • tingling, numbness, burning, twitching, or stabbing sensations • neck cracks or stiffness • headaches • light and sound sensitivities • dizziness • difficulty falling and staying asleep • memory and concentration problems • chest pain or palpitations • psychiatric symptoms like depression and anxiety • shortness of breath or cough • upset stomach • un-explained fevers, sweats, chills, or flushing • vision problems • eye/vision problems and floaters • increasing food allergies • nerve pain • gastrointestinal problems • ear pain and/or buzzing or ringing in the ears or head • unexplained facial or tooth pain • tremors

2. You have good days and bad days. A hallmark of Lyme disease is that the symptoms tend to come and go with good days and bad days.

3. The pain changes and moves around your body.A classic trait of Lyme is the migratory nature of the muscle and joint aches and pains, tingling, numbness, and burning sen-sations. They tend to come and go and move around the body.

4. Women�s symptoms worsen right around your cycle. Lyme disease symptoms are known to change with fluctuating levels of estrogen and progesterone.

5. Your symptoms may improve when you take medica-tion for other ailments. Patients taking antibiotics for an un-related problem may feel much better when taking the antibiotic, and worse when they stop. Conversely, some people have inten-sified symptoms and feel much worse (this is known as a Jarish-Herxheimer reaction when the bacteria are being killed off).

6. Blood test confirmation.The sixth point to determine if your symptoms are due to Lyme is to ask your health care provider to run a blood test called a Western Blot through a reliable laboratory like IgeneX labs, www.igenex.com. Note that there are more than 100 different strains of Lyme disease in the US and 300 strains worldwide, as well as many strains of each coinfection. Unlike most labs used by prac-titioners, IgeneX uses several strains to improve their testing. Yet still not all testing is accurate, so it is extremely important to find a Lyme-literate doctor who can properly diagnose symptoms.


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