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ers is great, and a lot of times we’re not great at taking care of ourselves.”
Overall, the foundation’s work with trauma is in its early, formative stages, said Mumblo, adding this is true of other initiatives as well, including the Inspired Speaker Series, which kicked off recently with an event at Spring- field Symphony Hall, where students from several area high schools had the opportunity to hear about careers in the military.
Future gatherings, and there will be many of them, will focus on different career paths, said Mumblo, including STEM, healthcare, law and govern-
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cal part of our identity. We see this as such an important moment for the city. There aren’t a lot of towns that can boast a community-owned, full-service grocery store on Main Street.”
Owners of three businesses cur- rently leasing space in the building were informed on Nov. 16 of the sale and told they needed to vacate by next spring, creating mixed emotions.
Kelly Archer, who has owned Lucky Bird on Main Street for five years, said she wasn’t sure yet what her next move
ment, law enforcement, and business. The broad goal is to introduce students to careers, inform them of what it takes to forge a career in these fields, and help put them on a path that will take them where they want to go.
There are several initiatives, most all of them still in the formative stages, that fall into this broad realm, said Ali- son Schoen, director of Administration for the foundation, listing mentoring and tutoring services, as well as after- school and summer programs, as other examples.
“We’re focused on helping to create pathways to graduation and then on to careers or college,” she said. “We’re starting young and getting students involved in their education, wanting
to go to school, and wanting to fur- ther their education or career goals. We’re working with local organizations that already have established mentor- ing and tutoring programs and help- ing to create ties that will bind them and enable them to learn from one another.”
This is just one example, said Bolduc, of those guiding principles he mentioned for this foundation — to be a convener, a facilitator, and a catalyst for positive change.
Bottom Line
Such change, as noted earlier, will not come quickly or easily.
That’s why, like that gardener men-
tioned at the top, those at the Hope for Youth and Families Foundation aren’t wasting any time planting that tree — or, in this case, trees.
The problems related to sustain- ability are deep-rooted, and addressing them will involve time, patience, per- sistence, imagination, and more.
Bolduc had those qualities in mind when he began the next chapter of what has been a remarkable career
in business and in giving back to the community.
He knew that they would be needed to build a foundation — figuratively, but also quite literally. u
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spot they want on Main Street to con- tinue the business that they have.”
MJ Adams. Greenfield’s director of Community and Economic Develop- ment, said she was glad that, after a year of working out the details, the city was able to reveal the partnership, add- ing that “it’s going to be transforma- tional to our downtown.”
Construction on the co-op is expected in 2023 and 2024, and the res- idential construction by 2025 and 2026.
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“We see this as such an important moment for the city. There aren’t a lot of towns that can boast a community- owned, full-service grocery store on Main Street.”
was. “My time here has been awe- some,” she said, but added that she needed time to process the informa- tion she’d been given earlier in the day.
Wedegartner said that the city and its partners will work with the busi-
nesses through the transition.
“We want them to stay in Green-
field,” the mayor said. “All of them
— they’re all really important to down- town Greenfield. I’m hoping we will find each and every one of them the
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