Westfield State University

Downtown Art Gallery

105 Elm Street

World Peace Beads & Glass Emporium's

1st Annual Victorian Teas and Beads

     

Join us February 27, 2011: 1PM-4PM at 4 School Street, Westfield, and enjoy different teas and goodies while making a beaded bracelet or macrame necklace.

 

A $10 fee includes your choice of bead kit, food, drink, door prizes, and other surprises. Children are welcomed with an adult. Wear a fancy hat and get $2 off your entrance fee.

 

Space is limited so call or text Karen @ 413-627-8950 to reserve your spot today!

 

More classes are listed on the WBID website, http://www.thedistrictwestfield.com/category/westfield_events_calendar/ 

YMCA/Salvation Army
"Chili Cook-off"

 Do you make a mean chili, tasty chowder or sweet chocolate delight? Here's the opportunity to show and share your talent. You can even have your own crew help you represent one food dish. In other words, you can get help from your friends.

YMCA, 67 Court Street 

Date: Saturday,  March 5, 2011

Time: 11:30AM to 2:00PM   

Anyone and everyone can purchase a spoon for $5.00 on that day and sample all the treats and vote on the "Best" from each category. The YMCA will provide the room, tables and paper goods. Here's a great opportunity to have fun, eat for a great cause and discover whose the top chef in Westfield.

For more information, contact, Cindy Agan at 413-568-8631 x323 or cagan@westfieldymca.org

Other News...

Noble Hospital is pleased to announce a new partnership with Pioneer Valley Cardiology, expanding services for patients across western Massachusetts.

Pioneer Valley Cardiology physicians, Dr. James T. Buffum, Dr. Robert V. Chircop, and Dr. Yufeng Zhang - along with Noble Hospital cardiologist, Dr. Mehdi Pajouh - are now scheduling appointments for new and existing patients preferring to be seen at their new location in the Cardiac Center located in the Hospital at 115 West Silver Street in Westfield, Mass.

According to Robert P. Perry, FACHE, President and CEO of Noble, "We are pleased to partner with Pioneer Valley Cardiology, outstanding leaders in providing world-class cardiology care. Our unique continuum of services gives us-and our patients-everything needed to diagnose and treat a wide range of cardiovascular issues and conditions."

About the Noble Hospital Cardiac Center

The Cardiac Center is a dedicated facility designed to provide extensive cardiac care in one convenient location. Equipped with the latest, state-of-the-art diagnostic and monitoring tools, and staffed by highly skilled cardiologists, nurse practitioners, technicians, technologists, and nurses-all cardiac specialists-the Center provides a full continuum of all-inclusive, efficient, cardiac care.

The Cardiac Center begins by evaluating the level of current cardiac health. Your cardiologist may request one or more of the following tests:

• Echocardiogram
• Stress/Echocardiogram
• Nuclear Stress Test
• Exercise Tolerance
• EKG
• Carotid Ultrasound

 

Nuclear Cardiology

The Cardiac Center at Noble Hospital has, on site, the latest state-of-the-art Nuclear Gamma Camera available today. Considered the "gold standard" of diagnostic tools for superior cardiac testing, the camera is used as part of the two-part Nuclear Stress Test.

For additional information, call Allison Gearing-Kalill, Vice President

for Community Development, at 413-568-2811, ext. 5573.

Noble Hospital
115 West Silver Street

P.O. Box 1634
568-2811
www.noblehospital.org 

Welcome to our new Westfield State University interns:

Tina Mancini and Theresa Forte  

Both students are Communication majors who will be graduating this spring.  They will be using their education in marketing, public relations, and communications to help promote our downtown businesses.  We look forward to working with them!   

Meet our downtown businesses....

We would like to personally introduce some of our downtown merchants to you in our coming newsletters.  One of our WSU interns, Theresa Forte, recently sat down with the owners of The Seat Weaver and learned what makes their shop so unique!   

The Seat Weaver

Recently, my mother had received an old rocking chair from her mother, which had been passed down in the family from generation to generation. At the time, the chair had been sitting in a storage unit for years and served as more of an heirloom rather than a functional piece of furniture. I was surprised at the over joyous reaction of my mother when the chair came into her possession because it was tattered and in very poor condition. What I did not understand however was the significance behind the chair as she remembered it being in her grandmother's house on the family farm. The chair brought back bittersweet memories of her childhood. As I watched my mother, I thought, what a nice gift, to surprise her with its restoration so she could display this beautiful piece of artwork in our own home. This type of sentimental gift giving is one that the Seat Weaver fully understands! 

The Seat Weaver, owned by Mark Remaly and Alice Flyte, is located at 24 Arnold Street in downtown Westfield. What started as a hobby in 1965 and sprang from an idea Alice had after making and selling baskets during yearly craft fairs and meeting many talented craftspeople ultimately became this quaint little shop. While Mark and Alice offer services such as the caning and restoration of chairs they have also provided a year round opportunity for these talented local artisans to sell their handmade items. The Seat Weaver is proud to offer one of a kind items such as delicately woven scarves, eclectic pieces of jewelry, beautifully stitched quilts and quilted handbags, handmade wooden jewelry boxes, as well as bead products, beeswax candles, bird houses, hand cream, goat milk soap, and more! (Click here to read more...)    

The Seat Weaver

24 Arnold Street

Westfield, MA 01086

(413) 454-7822

 Above, Alice and Mark, center, join in the festivities of the  Dickens Day Village Stroll

Below, Alice displays some of the beautiful handmade crafts from local artisans for sale in their store. 

(any size, any color, no quantity limits!)

Buy Two Premium Cigars at full price, get the third half off!

Sweetheart Sale on Select Items!

10% Off Any Class