HEALING CREATIVE HURTS
Creator invites other creators to online presentation
FITCHBURG » As a devoted, lifelong creator and a teacher of artists and writers, Kate Chadbourne has noted there are five main hurts that can derail and even stop us altogether from making what we most want to create.
“In my own life as a creator, I’ve experienced discouragement and real pain at times,”
Chadbourne said. “Honestly, I don’t know anyone who hasn’t. Over the years, I have learned some attitudes and practices to help me keep going and enjoy my creative work to the fullest, and that is something I want to share with the community.”
Chadbourne believes that your creative life can offer great excitement, interest and reward, but can also offer a
and AIS, a leader in welldesigned office furniture based on Leominster, Fitchburg Public Schools Superintendent Bob Jokela and Mayor Stephen DiNatale accepted a donation of 6,125 masks that will be distributed to staff and students upon their return to the classroom.
The masks, donated to Fitchburg Public Schools, include 1,600 small, 2,150 medium and 2,375 large, which carries a value of $24,500.
“We are grateful for this act of kindness from AIS, a local firm who cares about the health and safety of its community,” Jokela said. “We want to thank Bruce Platzman and Rick Marchand for making this donation possible.”
Over 1,000 seamstresses, including women and men from 45 states, have participated in sewing face masks in three different, age-appropriate sizes.
“It’s such heartfelt, meaningful civic engagement,” said AIS President Bruce Platzman. “We’re very proud as a company to be able to do this. To be able to help the kids, faculty and staff in the school districts of Leominster and Fitchburg is very important to us. It’s very humbling.”
Face masks, in addition to social distancing and hand washing, are one of the most effective forms of limiting the spread of virus, including COVID-19.