Daily Hampshire Gazette By Rebecca Everett Created 08/20/201 Reprinted with permission from the Daily Hampshire Gazette EASTHAMPTON – A project to construct a greenhouse at Riverside Industries Inc. broke ground Friday after nearly a decade of planning and fundraising. The 1,440-square-foot greenhouse will enable the program’s clients, who have developmental and physical disabilities, to tend...
EASTHAMPTON – Tiffany Chappel of Amherst rubs pastels on paper. The shades of blue melt together to create an effect like the Monet painting beside her. Justin Kim, her art instructor, compares the two pictures. “Look, it’s almost exact,” Kim observes. “Yeah, it’s OK,” Chappel answers, modestly. Nearby, as Beatles music plays, Edie Oyola of...
Sibling devotion yields scholarship By NICOLE SEQUINO, Staff Writer Saturday, June 22, 2002 — EASTHAMPTON – Rebecca Hill, 18, shares her genes and birthday with her twin brother, Howie. For the last three years, she’s also shared his pain. In 1999, when the Hills lived in Poultney, Vt., with their father, Howie had a serious...
KARIN STEINBRUECK Steve Kennedy, 30, of Belchertown, who has cerebral palsy, now has an electronic device called a Dynavox that helps him communicate, thanks to Riverside Industries in Easthampton and several grants. Kennedy is sitting at his work station at Riverside, where he packages game pieces. By MEG A. FARRELL, Staff Writer Saturday, August 4,...
Daily Hampshire Gazette June 26. 2001 By MEG A. FARRELL, Staff Writer Riverside given highest award Tuesday, June 26, 2001 — (EASTHAMPTON) – Riverside Industries, Inc. was awarded the highest certificate given to a human service agency in western Massachusetts last week, for the third consecutive time. The state Department of Mental Retardation’s Office of...
Daily Hampshire Gazette June 7. 2001 By Meg A. Farrell, Staff Writer On Wednesday night, June 6, 2001, Elizabeth Dushane was announced as the first recipient of the Riverside Industries Scholarship. She will receive a $500 check after completing her first semester at Western New England College in the fall. After discussion with Easthampton High...
RSI from the Inside: A College Student’s Intern Experience Emily Corey is a student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has a BA in Psychology with a specialization in Human Services/Developmental Disabilities, and spent several months in Spring 2000 as an intern in Riverside Industries’ Day Habilitation Program. Below is a summary of her...
By MICHELLE AGUILAR, Staff Writer Saturday, January 16, 1999 – (EASTHAMPTON) – Because of his cerebral palsy and a severe developmental disability, Gregory “Scotty” Blanchard was never really able to use the spoken word to communicate with the people in his life. But that didn’t prevent Scotty, 31, who died of complications related to a massive...
By Suzanne Wilson (6/6/97) — At two company-wide meetings last winter, Richard Carlson, director of operations at Chartpak in Leeds, talked about a new group of people that would soon be starting work “We talked about what these people would be doing and the types of personalities involved — that some would be physically and...