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PAGE 10 A Turley Publication • www.turley.com I Thursday, May 10, 2012
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Bank donates $1,000
to Heart to Heart
NORTH BROOKFIELD - Eastern Bank’s
Charitable Foundation donated $1,000 to the Heart
to Heart Foundation. Susan Haslam of Sturbridge
who works for Eastern Bank’s insurance agency -
Eastern Insurance Group - presented the check to
Richard Fiske, founder of the Foundation and resident
of North Brookfi eld on Saturday, March 10.
Haslam also donated a new television to be used
as a raffl e prize at their upcoming fundraiser, which
is to be held Saturday, June 24 from noon to 9 p.m.
in North Brookfi eld on the ball fi eld. Donations can
be made to Heart to Heart Foundation, PO BOX
154, North Brookfi eld, MA 01535. Fiske says that
the foundation supports area families, especially
helping children with chronic diseases.
“The greatest part is just being able to help. I’m
just grateful to be able to do this work,” said Haslam.
“It’s because of the generosity of people that allow
me to do this.”
Fiske keeps up with the families and children that
the foundation has helped. He goes of his own accord
and drops off bunnies for Easter, gifts at Christmas
See HEART I PAGE 18
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
Brookfi eld
$200,000 – 4 Mel Lane – Dianne Lynn and Robert
T. Jefferson Jr., Trustees of the Jefferson Living
Trust to Robert T. Jefferson, Jr.
East Brookfi eld
$312,000 – 271 Howe St. – Heather L. Gianfriddo
and Jason Gianfriddo to Zhu Yan
Hardwick
$65,000 – 1776 Barre Road – Scott F. Campbell
and Ruth M. Campbell to Wheelwright, LLC.
New Braintree
$170,000 – 940 Barre Road – Federal Home
Loan Mortgage Corp. to Richard H. Forshay and
Karin Cooke
North Brookfi eld
$328,000 – 63 Brookfi eld Road – Amy J. Moulton
and Larry P. Moulton, Jr. to David R. Proulx
and Heidi L. Proulx
$172,000 – 23 Evergreen St. – Richard L. Powers
and Barbara R. Powers to Scott Allen Nishan and
See REAL ESTATE I PAGE 18
It’s easy being green in bloom
Plant sales to be held
May 10 and May 19
By Cristy Bertini
Reporter
WARREN – The greenhouse at
Quaboag Regional Middle-High
School is overfl owing with organic
plants – including cucumber, tomato,
basil, squash, zinnia, snapdragon,
zucchini, broccoli, and petunias, just
to name a few - thanks to the green
thumbs of the Green and Renewable
Energy Club.
The club – consisting of about 15
– 20 middle school students – met
on Thursday after school to go over
some last minute details for their
upcoming “Seeds to Market” plant
sales with advisor and math teacher
Christine Kiraly-Thomas, or as her
students affectionately call her, “Ms.
KT”.
Some of the students then headed
out to work in the greenhouse with
the group’s assistant advisor, Barb
Fellmeth.
Kiraly-Thomas, now retired from
the U.S. Air Force, tells the students
that their group is a “you” club. She
will walk down the hallways of the
school and pick out a club member
and ask them a question about the
club’s budget or inventory, and she
By Melissa Fales
Reporter
WEST BROOKFIELD – Kim
Welsh has been teaching at West
Brookfi eld Elementary School for
two years. She entered teaching later
than most do, going back to school for
her degree in Education after leading a
successful career in the business world.
“I waited until I was ready to be a teacher,”
Welsh explained.
Welsh grew up in Ware. As a child, she always wanted
to be a teacher. “When I was a little girl, I played
school all the time,” she said. “I always thought I would
be teaching as an adult.”
As her high school graduation approached, however,
Welsh decided that she wanted to take a different career
track. “I decided that what I really wanted was to make
money,” she said. “I learned that teaching wasn’t a ca-
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expects and accurate answer.
“It’s all about them. They each
have their own jobs in the group,
and it’s their responsibility to make
sure things are done,” she explained.
“I want them to own their group and
be proud of their accomplishments.”
The group started from a Green
in the Middle grant, in combination
with an Innovative School grant.
In June, Kiraly-Thomas and Fell-
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The Quaboag greenhouse is fi lled with plants, which will be sold at the Art Show and Asparagus Festival.
Harris Seed Company donated all the fl ower seeds, and the vegetable seeds were purchased at
a discount
meth, along with a group of students
will head to the Boston Museum of
Science to attend a Youth Summit.
“We are going to be presenting to
students that are coming from all
over Massachusetts,” Kiraly-Thomas
said. “We’ve been collecting photos
of our projects along the way,
and we will put them together and
Change of heart led Welsh into teaching
Inspired by the day-to-day
progress she sees in her students
TEACHER OF THE WEEK
See GREEN I PAGE 18
reer that you went into for the money.”
Instead, Welsh got a business degree
and then took a job at Wright’s in West
Warren working in sales and marketing.
She worked there for 12 years
until the company relocated. Welsh
then took a job as the executive
assistant for the CFO of a large
grocery chain. “That’s when I
started to rethink things,” she said.
“I decided I didn’t really want to
do that kind of work anymore. I
didn’t need to.”
By then, Welsh was married and
living in Hardwick with her husband
and three children. “My husband had
a good job,” she said. “Making money
wasn’t my focus anymore. I just wanted to
do something that I enjoyed. I was ready to follow
my heart.”
Welsh enrolled at the University of Massachusetts in
Amherst where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Early
Childhood Education. “I’m three classes away from my
Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education with a
concentration in English Language Arts from Anna Maria
College,” she said.
When she came to WBES last year, Welsh taught
sixth grade. “I was a little apprehensive about the grade
level,” she admits. “I always saw myself teaching the
younger grades.” However, Welsh said she enjoyed the
way she was able to interact with the older students. “It
was great being able to have a conversation with them,”
See TEACHER I PAGE 18
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